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Kent - Excursions in the County of Kent, 8vo, blind stamped morocco gilt, with 50 engravings and 2 folding maps of Kent and Canterbury, each with small tears, maps and plates spotted and darkened throughout, London 1822; Cooke, George Alexander - Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Kent, 12mo, with folding map, calf joints split, spine cracked and with loss, London [c.1800] and Miller, William - Jottings of Kent, being a Series of Historical, Ecclesiastical, Topographical and Statistical Sketches, 3rd edition, illustrated paper covered boards, Thomas Hall, Gravesend 1871 together with Rambles in Kent, 8vo, embossed boards, illustrated with 62 engravings on wood and 6 elegant steel plates, J. Mead, London [c.1845]

Comines, Philippe de Seigneur d'Argenton - The Historie ..., folio, contemporary blind panelled calf, engraved titled, John Bill, London 1614

Tacitus, Cornelius Publius - Gli annali di Cornelio Tacito cavalier romano de'fatti, translated by Giorgio Dati, quarto, blind stamped vellum, Bernardo Giuntie Fratelli, Venice 1582

Framed limited edition Lowry print 248/1500 with blind stamp

Framed & glazed Abstract Watercolour Landscape with Gallery blind stamp, marked "Solitude" and signed "Alice Harfield 2000", image approx 69.5 x 53cm

Tony Forrest Wildlife interest signed ltd edn print of elephants having blind stamp, numbered 49/500

AFTER SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT (1880-1969) - 'Balance', photographic reproduction, signed in pencil, bears Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, framed, 41cm x 59cm, also one other signed print 'Rosa and Marissa' and five unsigned reproduction prints after the same hand (7)

Freek van den Berg (Dutch 1918-2000): Portrait of a Young Woman, watercolour over pencil with artist's studio blind stamp 74cm x 49cmProvenance: through the artist's family. DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Freek van den Berg (Dutch 1918-2000): Mending Nets on the Beach, watercolour with Studio Blind Stamp 40cm x 50cmProvenance: through the artist's familyDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

London Grand Panorama of London, From the Thames. Published by I Whitelaw, 188 Fleetstreet: Sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1849. Eighteen-foot concertina-folded engraved leporello panorama between cloth boards (front board detached), boards with centrally blocked with St Paul's and title (upper in gilt, lower in blind); title printed in green and red on verso of upper board. Whilst not uncommon, this is a striking and impressive view of a bygone London from perhaps its most famous angle - Thames-side. Stretching from the Western Wharf to the Royal Victualling Office, it encompasses solid unchanging architecture (such as Somerset House and St Dunstan's-in-the-East) along with the vanished (the Perseus Receiving Ship) and unfinished (Hungerford Suspension Bridge). A tour-de-force of both historical reference and artistic achievement.. Upper board detached, panels a little dusty with occasional foxing (mostly not affecting text), small variable tears on some of the folds but all attached.

Jerusalem Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land. Jerusalem, [c.1890s]. Oblong 4to, olive wood boards, upper board with central repeating Cross of Jerusalem motif, lower board with cross outline enclosing stamped word 'Jerusalem', leather-spine lettered and decorated in blind; 12 monochrome photographs of scenes of the Holy Land, 12 recreations of local flowers using the flowers. A strange and attractive tourist piece, although no publisher is listed we have traced other examples produced by Boulos Meo at his antique shop at the Jaffa Gate.. Some head and foot wear to spine, whilst the tissue guards are heavily spotted the photographs are generally clean, bar marginal toning, and the flowers appear intact, if a touch dulled.

Hume and Smollett The History of England. George Virtue, [c.1880s]. 4to (3 vols). Full plum calf, boards bordered in blind, spines lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; numerous plates.. Spines faded, boards a little rubbed and scuffed but still a solid binding, variable, occasional, but generally slight foxing, creasing, marking etc internally but a very good set.

Charles II Warrant signed (''Charles II'' at head), appointing Thomas Preston Ensign to the Holland Regiment under Sir Walter Vane Whitehall, counter-signed [Lord] Arlington, 24th September 1669, one sheet folded, paper with blind stamped seal in upper left corner affixed with wax. Sir Walter Vane originally entered the service of the Netherlands United Provinces and fought against the Spanish during the 80 Years War. When these regiments were disbanded he, along with most of the officers and men, refused to swear the oath of allegiance to the Dutch States and returned to England. When Colonel Robert Sidney died suddenly in 1668 Sir Walter was appointed Colonel of the Holland Regiment (The Buffs), serving mostly on ships engaged against the Dutch. It is into this Regiment that Preston is being commissioned. Interestingly, he would later die in Dutch service, having rejoined their forces. During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch negotiated to allow the English to enlist in their service and Sir Walter was given permission to do so. He died fighting the French at the battle of Seneffe in 1674.

Decorative Photograph Albums including: Flower & Feather Album, Marcus Ward, 4to, full leather with blind decoration, watered silk endpapers, a.e.g.; portrait photographs mounted recto and verso on 12 chromolitho leaves and recto on 12 plain leaves with legend to bird illustrations on verso. British Marine Album. 4to, full leather, lacking clasp, decorative endpapers, a.e.g.; portrait photographs mounted recto and verso on 10 chromolitho and 6 plain leaves. Album. 4to, full leather gilt with clasp, watered silk endpapers, a.e.g; portrait photographs on 20 chromolitho leaves, mounted recto and verso. plus 3 others. [6]

The Holy Bible [KJV] bound after the Book of Common Prayer. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and by the Assigns of Henry Hill, deceas'd, OT: 1728; NT: 1729. 12mo, full blue crushed morocco, boards with double gilt-ruled fillet borders enclosing central gilt panels with floral cornerpieces, spine richly gilt panelled in compartments, gilt roll-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; unpaginated, signed: BCP: A4-8 (lacking first leaves); OT: A12-2C12, 2D10; Apocrypha: A12-G12; NT: 2D11-12, 2E12-2M12; provenance: Thomas Greaves 1734/5 (owner's ink inscription to fly) -- Martha Greaves from her Aunt 1764 (owner's inscription to fly) -- Stones (armorial bookplate upper pastedown). This appears to match Herbert 997 (with the Three Shilling price, final leaf signature and different title-page dates for Testaments). Herbert though records the Apocrypha as mentioned in the list of books, but not required by signatures. He questions 'Wants Apocrypha?'. From this copy it would seem the Apocrypha was separately supplied if desired (it has no separate title-page, only a heading), and is not integral by design. Herbert 997 (though with Apocrypha present) with The Holy Bible [KJV] with the Psalms of David in Metre. Edinburgh: Assignes of Alexander Kincaid, 1783 [NT and Psalms, lacking OT title]. 12mo, full contemporary calf, boards with blind roll-tooled borders, blind stamped 2 on spine, marbled endpapers; unpaginated, signed: 2A12-2X11 [lacking previous signatures but vide infra, also 2X12]; provenance: Miss Euphemia Howden 1786 (owner's pen inscription to ffep). Given the clean start at 2A and the 2 on the spine, it seems likely the Bible was deliberately split into 2 volumes. Herbert 1290. Binding a little worn and rubbed but still tight and handsome, some pages toned, with variable foxing throughout but still a nice copy. 1783 binding worn, with cracking to joints, but boards still attached, internally generally good, 2M5 torn affecting text, 2Y3 with small loss to lower corner slightly affecting text, loss of lower sections of 2X6-7, lacking 2X12.

Winston Megaran? 'Evening Shadows' etching, signed, titled and blind backstamp to border, 24.5 x 35cm; James Pridy 'Snowdon from Near Nentlli', etching; C. Fitzgerald after Corot, aquatint, signed. (3)

A 19th century Victorian Apprentice piece mahogany Scottish chest of drawers. Raised on a plinth base with bun feet having a bank of 3 drawers with knob handles. Above a blind fronted further drawer. Finished with shaped columns with flared top above. Measures 45cms x 40cms x 28cms

JOSEF VÁCHAL 1884 - 1969: RUCE ("HANDS") 1943 Woodcut on paper 20 x 14,5 cm Signiert auf der Druckplatte, letzter Druck darunter in Bleistift „J. Váchal“ Thirteen color wood engravings for the verses of Otakar Březina. Published in a limited edition of 1,001 copies by ELK, akc. Spol., Prague in 1943. Of the total edition, the first 100 were printed on Hodomura paper at Müller a spol. Book printers as copies not intended for sale. In Turnov; this copy is numbered 44.List of prints:I. Chvíle slávy jsem mìl (Moments of Fame)II. Vedra (Heat)III. Hudba slepcù (The Blind Men)IV. Ruce (Hands)V. Zpívaly vody (Thus Sang the Waters)VI. Kolozpìv srdcí (Roundelay of Hearts)VII. Dithyramb svìtù (Dithyramb of the Worlds)VIII. Stráž nad mrtvými (Guardian over the Dead)IX. Šílenci (The Madmen)X. Čisté jitro (Pure Morning)XI. Místa harmonie a smíření (Places of Harmony and Reconciliation)XII. Jarní noc (The Spring Night)XIII. Èas (Time)

JOSEF VÁCHAL 1884 - 1969: A BOX Early 20th century Ceramic, colorized 7,5 x 12 cm This unique ceramic box is a part of a collection of ritual and applied art objects (statuettes of gods, ceramics) that Josef Váchal created during his lifetime. The surface of the box is painted with colorful symbolic motifs and figures in nature. Along the sides are depictions of three animal heads, their snouts forming the feet of the box.Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and poet Josef Váchal excelled as an original artist especially in the technique of color woodblock prints, which earned him acclaim at exhibitions in Cologne and Florence. He trained as a bookbinder and attended a private school, where he was a student of Antonín Kalvoda. He spent most of his life in seclusion and poverty, always fearlessly forging his own path regardless of the ridicule and blind eye he got from art critics. This distinctive Symbolist-based artist was the co-founder of Sursum, an art group whose artists also addressed Expressionist impulses. His original skill as a visual storyteller arose from anxiety, fear of the unknown and diary records of visual and auditory hallucinations at night. Throughout his life he fluctuated between faith and heresy, reflecting his captivation with spirituality, the occult and theosophy in his art.

JOSEF VÁCHAL 1884 - 1969: THE WITCH Early 20th century Color woodcut on paper 210 x 210 mm Signed lower left in block: "Váchal" An identical print is in the collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and poet Josef Váchal excelled as an original artist especially in the technique of color woodblock prints, which earned him acclaim at exhibitions in Cologne and Florence. He trained as a bookbinder and attended a private school, where he was a student of Antonín Kalvoda.He spent most of his life in seclusion and poverty, always fearlessly forging his own path regardless of the ridicule and blind eye he got from art critics. This distinctive Symbolist-based artist was the co-founder of Sursum, an art group whose artists also addressed Expressionist impulses. His original skill as a visual storyteller arose from anxiety, fear of the unknown and diary records of visual and auditory hallucinations at night. Throughout his life he fluctuated between faith and heresy, reflecting his captivation with spirituality, the occult and theosophy in his art.

Euclid.- Barrow (Isaac) Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV. breviter demonstrati..., ?fourth edition, bound with Lectio Reverendi et Doctissimi Viri..., first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces, and initials, peripheral ff. a little browned, contemporary ink ex libris inscription to front pastedown, some scattered foxing, hinges splitting a little, contemporary calf, ruled and tooled in blind, rebacked, [Wing B936 and E3394 respectively], 8vo, by J.Redmayne, 1678.⁂The second being Barrow's lecture on the theory of indivisibles.

Ackermann (Rudolph) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments, 2 vol., first edition, second issue, half-titles, engraved portrait and architectural plan, 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacking plate 5 'Interior View of Westminster Abbey, From the West Gate', plate 3 trimmed and tipped-in, list of subscribers, ex-library copy with labels and blind stamps, several of latter encroaching on images, vol.I ink ownership inscription to free endpaper, offsetting and foxing, some soiling, contemporary calf, stamped in blind and gilt, worn, boards and backstrips detached taking with them some endpapers, crude tape repair [Abbey, Scenery 213], 4to, for R.Ackermann, 1812.

Beryl Cook, OBE (British, 1926-2008), Ladies in the loos, signed lower right 'Beryl Cook' and with FATG blind stamp lithograph, published by Alexander Gallery Publications Ltd., Bristol, 48.5x40cm

After JMW Turner, Venice The Bridge of Sighs, with studio blind stamp

‡Callum Innes (b.1962)UntitledSigned and numbered 9/140, paper blind stamped ARTISTICO + FABRANOPhotopolymer intaglio with chine collee, published Tate St. Ives, 200527 x 26cm (print size), 48 x 44 (sheet size)Created in 2004++Very slight rippling to the paper, otherwise good condition

A 1920/30's light oak bureau bookcase, blind fretworked frieze, two glazed doors enclosing shelving to top, fall front enclosing pigeonholes over two short and one long drawer, cup and cover supports.

A pair of giltwood wall mirrors, late 19th or 20th century, probably Continental, each with an oval beveled plate surrounded by a blind fret scroll band and outer foliate tongue and dart rim to shank acanthus and bead moulding, the back with gilt scroll and leaf decoration within a beaded band, castellated corners, 97cm high, 86cm wide

A folio of various prints, pictures After Wendy Reeves, The Best of The Day, artist signed limited edition print no. 602/850 with blind stamp, 36cm x 51cm, various other prints, pictures, etc. (a quantity)

A good Victorian walnut piano-top Davenport desk with counterbalanced elevating stationery compartment triggered by a switch in the drawer, surmounts a green tooled leather adjustable writing slope over twin wrythen columns, the base with blind drawers to the left and bank of four mahogany carcass quadrant-lined drawers, height 92.5cm. CONDITION REPORT Some lifting veneer to the sides of the piano fall, caps missing from the front of the columns. Some bubbling to veneer, lower-right of leathered writing stand, polish requires reviving. Evidence of small amount of previous worm to the base.

A George III mahogany longcase clock the broken scroll swan neck pediment centred by an urn finial above an arched glazed door flanked by blind fretwork canted angles and glazed side windows enclosing a 12” arched brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and matted foliate engraved centre the silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals and foliate cast spandrels rolling moon phase in the arch and inscribed ‘Benjamin Bell, Uttoxeter’ eight day movement striking on a bell above a narrow ogee arched top full length trunk door flanked by fluted quarter pilasters over a concave border and ribbed indented panel base and raised on a shaped plinth and bracket feet, 231cm high.

A Victorian boxwood and ebony strung break front triple wardrobe, the dentil moulded ogive cornice above a blind fret carved frieze and two indented panel cupboard doors spaced by faux fluted leaf capped half pilasters enclosing four slides over two short and two long drawers flanked by full length cupboard doors enclosing hanging spaces and further half columns and raised on shaped bracket feet, 246cm wide, 70cm deep, 214cm high Provenance: Coton Hall

Two Edwardian blind panelled pot cupboards - one mahogany, one pitch pine. (2)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

Barnard, Frederick"Charles Dickens, a Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters", 6 vols, with 18 full page character sketches (reproduced in photogravure) and other illustrations by well-known artists, Cassell & Co Company Limited, 6 elephant folio vols with card covers, vignette of Gadshill Place on front boards,Copping Harold ' Character Sketches from Dickens'  Raphael Tuck & sons Ltd., frontis portrait with tissue guard loose, colour plates with tissue guards, blue cloth with blind stamped decoration and portrait with gilt titles to front board and gilt titles to back strip, teg, some foxing on edges and tissue guards. (7)

An Edwardian stained mahogany freestanding corner cabinet, having blind fret side panels with two astragal glazed doors above two panelled cupboard doors

Autographed "The Sorcerers three Apprentices" European Footballers of the Year print,George Best 1968, Sir Bobby Charlton CBE 1966, Denis Law 1964, signed in ink by all three, Limited Edition Print no.146 of 350, bears blind stamps, 64 x 45 cm, unframed.

Autographed "Barcelona" print of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's winning goal in Manchester United's 1999 UEFA Champions League Final victory,fully signed by the complete Manchester United Squad, Limited Edition Lithograph Print no. 25 of 500 by Stewart Beckett, bears blind stamps, 45 x 63.9 cm, unframed.

Emblemata et Aliquot Nummi Antiqui Operis by Johannes Sambucus published in 1569 and containing one of the earliest illustrations of real tennis,Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569, Third Edition, woodcut depiction of the game of real tennis on p.121, includes a woodcut portrait of the author Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584) and illustrated profusely with woodcuts throughout, blind tooled vellum binding, generally good

Four Tennis Silk Screen Prints,comprising Jan Van Diemen (Dutch, b.1954) featuring a tennis player at the net, Limited Edition 27 of 200, signed lower margin in pencil with blind stamp dated '90, 66.7 x 76.6 cm; Ronald Sales featuring tennis feet with racquet and ball, Limited Edition 11 of 25, signed lower margin in pencil, dated '82, 70 x 50.5 cm; Michel Poort (Dutch) Drop Shot, Limited Edition 63 of 75, signed in pencil lower margin dated '93, 67.5 x 51 cm; Jan Van Diemen (Dutch, b.1954) featuring an abstract tennis player, Limited Edition 32 of 140, signed upper margin dated '95, mounted, (4)

Four Tennis Prints,comprising: Jan Van Diemen (Dutch, b.1954) featuring an abstract tennis player at the net, Limited Edition 60 of 140, signed upper margin with blind stamp dated '95, 47 x 39.5 cm; Ronald Sales featuring tennis net, Limited Edition 42 of 125, signed lower margin in pencil, dated '84, 56.6 x 74 cm; Michel Poort (Dutch) featuring a tennis player at the net, signed in pencil lower margin, 75.2 x 52.7 cm; and Michel Poort "New Balls Please", lithograph signed in pencil lower margin, 69.8 x 50 cm

silver tennis spoons, medals and other collectibles,comprising a silver photograph frame, with crossed tennis racquet motif, hallmarked London 2004, 23.2 x 16.5 cm; sold together with six silver teapsoons, four with enamelled emblems for Surrey County 1939, Kent County, Middlesex 1946, Inter-county Hard Court Championships 1939 and two others; seven silver tennis fob medals, including British Cups medal to Miss L Saunders, Veterans Singles hard court finalist 1936-39 medal, 1952 Winter Tournament medal, 1909 B.B S.L.B.A.S medal; a silver the National Institute for the Blind Lawn Tennis Fund Aug 13th 1923 and 1897 Berlin Lawn Tennis Turner Club pin and another, (17)

A 19th century carriage clock of French design having brass pillar and blind fret case, stamped 250, in fitted box

A print after William Russell Flint, Carmelita, signed and blind stamped, 17in x 22in

A late 19th century mahogany bookcase/display cabinet having blind fret frieze over Gothic display, with three frieze drawers and slender legs

GEORGES BRAQUE 'Tete de Femme', lithograph suite 'Les Bijoux' with 23 carat, gold and blind stamp, 40cm x 60cm, framed and glazed.

'The Tweed in the Channel 1875', Steven Dews limited edition lithograph pub. Chelsea Green with blind stamp signed and numbered 475/600 in pencil 58cm x 80cm

PETER BLAKE (born 1932) British (AR)Studio Tack - Board 2Limited edition print, signed and numbered 302/350 in pencil to margin and with Curwen Chilford blind stamp, unframed. 53 x 74.5 cm. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally good, with expected wear.

RICHARD HAMILTON (1922-2011) British (AR)Kent StateLimited edition print, signed and numbered 2835/5000 in pencil to margin, blind stamp with title and Edition Munchen International Dorothea Leonhardt Munchen and Printed by Dietz Offizin on Schoeller Turm blind-stamped paper, unframed. 102 x 73.5 cm. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally good, with expected wear, some slight staining/fading.

A Victorian bronze model of a jockey, possibly a watch standModelled standing in racing attire, mounted on a ebonised plinth base. 19 cm high. CONDITION REPORTS: Some patination wear, blind hole to post at hand level, screw thread and blind hole to other hand indicating some element lacking, general wear.

Africa.- Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 vol., first edition, engraved title-vignettes and coat-of-arms at head of dedication, 3 folding engraved maps, 58 engraved plates (most of natural history but including 3 engraved battle plans, each with explanatory leaf of text), 4 letterpress leaves of Ethiopian dialects between pp.400 and 401 in vol.1, list of plates at end of vol.5, lacking all half-titles and final blank in vol.2, water-staining to some upper margins affecting a few plates, some foxing (heavy to some leaves in vol.2) and browning, a2 in vol.3 with short tear to lower margin (repaired) and defective at upper margin, light offsetting from some plates, engraved Leigh bookplate, handsome contemporary russia with borders in gilt and blind, a little rubbed at edges, rebacked preserving old gilt spines (rather rubbed and darkened), [Blackmer 221; Nissen ZBI 671], 4to, Edinburgh, J.Ruthven, 1790. ⁂ Description of Bruce's search for the source of the Nile. Much of the work concerns Egypt and Abyssinia, the latter being where he found the source of the Blue Nile although this was disputed on his return to Britain.

Voyages.- Harris (John) Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, [edited by John Campbell], 2 vol., second edition, licence leaf, titles in red and black, 22 engraved maps (15 double-page and/or folding) and 39 portraits, plates and plans, some light foxing or browning, a few stains, vol.1 with small tear to 6A2, stain to plate of Chinese prostitute and tear to foot of map of Africa at fold, vol.2 with a few plates/maps slightly shaved at edges (map of North Pole also a little damp-stained at upper edge), plate of Siberia/Skamansky waterfall soiled and frayed at edge with slight loss to lower outer corner, contemporary blind-stamped reversed calf, rather worn and scuffed, joints broken and frayed, [Hill 775; Sabin 30483], folio, T.Woodward [& others], 1744-48.⁂ The second and best edition of this important collection of voyages including Emmanuel Bowen's map of Georgia and the first English map of New Holland (Australia). "This is the revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition ...[This] edition, especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of Tasman's original map and two short articles printed on the map ...". HillAs well as important accounts of voyages the plates include a view of Macao, plans of Canton and Peking, the Pharos at Alexandria, Cortes and Moctezuma, Bering's expedition, whaling and a portrait of Sir Francis Drake.

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, fourth edition (eighth thousand), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated January 1865, folding diagram, occasional light spotting, ink ownership stamp to half-title and bookplate to pastedown of Thomas Kennedy Macdonald, lacking front free endpaper, original blind-tooled green cloth, variant 'b', spine a little darkened with 2/ price added by hand in white, spine ends and corners a little bumped, very short split to head of spine, covers a little rubbed and marked, but an attractive copy overall, [Freeman 385 and p.79], 1866.⁂ Thomas Kennedy Macdonald (1817-1914), New Zealand Liberal MP.

Lovelace (Ada).- [Byron (Augusta Ada, married name Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1815-52)].- Lacroix (Silvestre François) An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, translated from the French [by John F.W. Herschel, Charles Babbage, & George Peacock], first edition in English, Ada Lovelace's copy with East Horsley Tower blind-stamps on front free endpaper and title and gold initials AAL at tail of spine, 5 folding engraved plates at rear, very small hole in Advertisement leaf text, a few ff. with slight staining in upper margins, some foxing and browning throughout, with 42 pages of ink and pencil corrections (mostly mathematical corrections) and including a few notes in pencil in a contemporary unidentified hand possibly by ?Ada Lovelace, contemporary half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge, for J. Deighton and Sons, 1816.⁂ Ada Lovelace's copy of Babbage's first important publication, exposing English students to 'continental mathematics'. "... Charles Babbage, George Peacock and John Herschel... translated Lacroix Treatise on Calculus and touted the superiority of Leibnitz's differential notation over Newton's (then widely regarded in England as sacrosanct)." - Dictionary of Scientific Biography.With a pencil inscription at end of the Advertisement leaf: "How vain are the affectations of Man! Four years later this book was printed." Also, seemingly random pencil note at tail of page 635, perhaps a draft of a note or letter: "You must not trouble yourself - I shall not read the one or the other - and I'll be - A?--."Ada Byron, the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron was solely brought up by her mother, Anne, after her parents separated. Determined that her daughter should not become a poet, she was trained as a mathematician and scientist, eventually leading to a close friendship with Charles Babbage. "In 1843 she translated a paper by General L. F. Menabrea, later to be prime minister of Italy, describing Babbage's main attempt to implement this notion, the projected analytical engine (which was to supersede the aborted difference engine but which was never built). She added extensive notes to Menabrea's paper which contain not only what is regarded as one of the earliest computer programs but also prescient comments about the future of such an engine, which have stood the test of time." (Oxford DNB). She married, in 1835, William King, eighth Baron King of Ockham, Earl of Lovelace, and they had two sons and a daughter. In she went to live in East Horsley Tower which the above books were bound.

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, third edition (seventh thousand), half-title, folding lithographed plate, advertisement leaf at end, 1861; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World, tenth thousand, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, illustrations, Contents leaves lightly browned and spotted, one or two small stains, 1860; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms..., eighth thousand (corrected), illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, light foxing to title, a few pencil markings, 1883, original green cloth, stamped or ruled in blind, the first two a little rubbed and lightly damp-stained, the first with another small stain to upper cover and short tear to head of spine, the second slightly spotted, [Freeman 381, 20 & 1366], 8vo (3) ⁂ On the Origin of Species has several alterations from earlier editions and contains a leaf listing the "Additions and Corrections to the Second and Third Editions"; it is also the first English edition to include 7pp. 'Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species'. The Journal of Researches is the final definitive text, with new preliminaries and a postscript on p.vii.

Vedder (Elihu).- Fitzgerald (Edward, translator) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, number 75 of 100 copies on Japanese paper and signed by Vedder, decorative title and 56 mounted plates by Vedder, decorated silk endpapers, original brown morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, inner gilt dentelles, corners bumped, some moderate rubbing, g.e., large 4to, Boston, Riverside Press, 1884.⁂ A lavish production and Vedder's masterpiece, The Rubaiyat was a great success and helped establish Vedder as a major American artist.

Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book, 2 vol., first editions, vol.1 with book club ink stamp to title, vol.2 with presentation blind-stamp to title and bookplate to pastedown, occasional light foxing or minor marking, frontispiece and illustrations by J.L.Kipling and others, 2pp. advertisements, original gilt pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, light rubbing to extremities, some minor marking to covers, but a remarkably bright and sharp set overall, g.e., 8vo, 1894-95.⁂ An excellent set of this classic children's work, rare in such bright condition.

Wallace (Alfred Russel) Palm Trees of the Amazon and their uses, first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed "George C.Silk from his sincere friend The Author" on front free endpaper, lithographed map & 47 plates by W.Fitch, some water-staining to plates (mostly marginal but affecting images of last few plates), original blind-stamped cloth, a little rubbed and affective by damp, [Nissen BBI 2097], 8vo, 1853.⁂ The author's first book, of which only 250 copies were printed, and the result of four years' exploring and collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. Unfortunately the ship on which he was returning to England in 1852 caught fire and his specimens were lost; he managed to save only a few notes and sketches. George Silk was Wallace's closest childhood friend. They met when Wallace's family move to Hertford when Wallace was five years old and remained friends all their lives.

Angling.- S[mith] (J[ohn]) The True Art of Angling, second edition, woodcut frontispiece of angler, woodcut illustrations of fish, 3pp. advertisements at end, worming to upper margin of frontispiece, a little soiled, final leaf frayed at fore-edge affecting a couple of letters, contemporary sprinkled calf with double rule border in blind, rubbed, rebacked, corners and small hole to upper cover repaired, [Westwood & Satchell p.181; Wing S4108f], 24mo, for George Conyers...and John Sprint, 1697.⁂ First published in 1696 all editions of this little book are rare but, according to Westwood and Satchell, "this is even rarer than the first edition". Only a few copies have been sold at auction, most defective; ESTC records only 3 copies (BL, and 2 in America - New York Public Library and Yale).

Emblemata.- Heyns (Zacharias) and Gabriel Rollenhagen. Emblemata, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved additional architectural title, engraved title within frame to part 2, 2 engraved portraits of Rollenhagen, 200 engraved plates of emblems, text of part 2 browned, some water-staining at head, mostly in part 2, some spotting in both parts, recased in contemporary blind-stamped vellum, later neat ms. title to spine, a few small stains, Arnhem, Jan Ianzen, 1615; and another Dutch emblem book by Cats, small 4to & 8vo (2)

Emblemata.- Montenay (Georgette de) Stamm Buch, Darinnen Christlicher Tugenden Beyspiel, Einhundert auszerlesener Emblemata, text in French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English and Dutch, engraved architectural title by Peter Rolos, portrait of the author, and 100 half-page emblems by Pierre Woeriot, A1&2 detached, some staining and foxing, 19th century blind-stamped panelled calf, covers detached, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Landwehr, German, 445; Praz p.431], 8vo, Frankfurt, Johann-Carl Unckels, 1619.⁂ The first polyglot edition of the emblems of Georgette de Montenay (1540-1571), poet and Protestant lady in waiting to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, to whom there is dedicatory verse at the end. 'The book was intended as [an] album amicorum, with a blank for entries at the end of each emblem' (Landwehr).

Sombre Binding belonging to Jane Austen's great-great aunt.- Apocrypha, ruled in red, lightly soiled, contemporary ink inscription "Emma Brydges her Booke August ye 20th 1687 in Constantinople" on front free endpaper, with several other ink inscriptions of the Leech family up to 1719 on front and rear endpapers, endpapers a little water-stained, contemporary black morocco sombre binding elaborately tooled in blind with cottage roof design against a hatched background of narrow rules and decorated with tulips, rosettes, circles and dots, spine in panels tooled with rosettes and five raised bands, black edges, a little rubbed at edges, corners slightly bumped, 8vo, n.p., [1680s].⁂ Emma Chamberlayne, neé Brydges (1669-1738) was the daughter of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, who was elected by the Levant Company as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1681-87. She was the older sister of James Brydges, the 1st Duke of Chandos, and younger sister of Mary Brydges, the great-grandmother of Jane Austen.