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HANGING CORNER CABINET, 18th Century oak framed hanging corner cabinet with cross banded blind panel door enclosing 3 shaped shelves and 3 small drawers below, 31"

MAHOGANY FRAMED WALL CABINET, with blind panel door, 16"

ANTIQUE HANGING CORNER CABINET, stained oak hanging corner cabinet, blind panel door with carved decoration in relief

Edwardian mahogany inlaid break front wardrobe, having central bevel plate mirror flanked by two blind panelled doors.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: 1 meter, 87 cm wide. 54 cm deep. 2 meters 4 cm high approximately. General wear and tear, scratches, minor losses etc. as expected with age. No serious damage.

After Sir William Russell Flint, landscape, with a castle on a hill, colour print, limited edition No.205/500, with blind stamp, 44cm x 64cm.

Colour print, A Cricket Match at Rugby School, published 1889 by Dickinson & Foster, blind stamp and pencil signatures, 39cm x 51cm; and four other prints of Rugby School. (5)

Jazz / Blues 78s approximately twenty 10" 78s of mainly Jazz and Blues on various labels including Queen, Tempo, Swing Time, Theme, Temple and others and with artists including Blind Wille Johnson, Bull Moose Jackson, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and others - various years and conditions

With blind stamp. Framed and glazed. Approx. 28cm x 29.5cm.

After Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914), a mezzotint depicting lovers on a balcony, probably Romeo and Juliet, signed in pencil 'E R Hughes' and with Fine Art Society blind stamp, published 1901, in moulded mahogany frame with tongue and dart carving to top and reeded columns

SALVADOR DALI 'SNCF Paris', lithograph on BFK Rives paper, with artist's blind stamp, signed and dated in the plate, hand numbered ed. 1387/1700, 67cm x 51cm, framed and glazed. (Subject to ARR - please see Buyers Conditions)

Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray, signed limited edition.Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1983, first American edition, 86pp. 8vo, green cloth blind embossed, gilt, in publisher's slipcase. Number 327 of 350 copies, signed to the colophon page by the author. Illustrated by Barrie Cooke.

Joyce, James. Exiles. A Play in Three Acts.The Egoist Press, London, 1921, first Egoist printing, 12mo, green cloth gilt and blind embossed.

Mac Gialla Meidhre, Briain. (Brian Merriman) Mediae Noctis Consilium, a heroic comic poem.M.H. Gill, Dublin, 1879. first edition, 16mo, (2) 32pp. original wrappers bound in, full blind and gilt embossed calf. First edition published by Gill after death of John O'Daly who had published a private publication under a false imprint & date in 1879.

Walker, Dorothy. Louis le Brocquy, signed, limited edition.Limited edition print, Samuel Beckett, (no. 43 from an edition of 125); signed, dated 1981 and numbered, laid in frontis. River Ward Press, Dublin, first edition, 1981, 4to, quarter tan calf, gilt with blind embossed buckram boards. In slipcase.

TOM DODSONFigures in a back yard preparing for May DaySigned in pencil and numbered 810/850 with blind gallery stamp, limited edition colour print, 47.5cm x 36cm. Condition Report Good condition. Studio Arts Gallery 'SA' stamp. Colour print framed under non-reflective glass.

A circa 1900 Continental rosewood and marquetry inlaid sofa table, the four quarter veneered top with centre leaf and flower marquetry inlay within a border, matching fall leaves, over a blind frieze drawer, with gilt brass chutes and sabots, w.72cm (leaves down), d.56cm, h.74cm

BLIND DATE (1959) - UK Quad Film Poster - HARDY KRUGER - Jock Hinchcliffe artwork 30" x 40" (76 x 101.5 cm) - Folded (as issued) - Very Fine

Paul Henry, Signed Print of Irish Rural Scene with Cottages signed in pencil with blind stamp

John King, 'The Cheshire Beagles' 1975, No 44/250; with a Ruth Gibbons signed print 'The Cheshire Forest hunt Belmont Hall 1986'; a Snaffles print 'The Finest view in Europe' 99/500; a SL Crawford signed print 'Lipizzana mares, No 212/300, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp; and other hunting and sporting prints (13)

A George III carved mahogany eight day longcase clock with case in the manner of Gillows, the brass dial with Roman numeral chapter ring, engraved centre with pagodas and named 'Eden Liverpool', with subsidiary seconds dial and below a painted moon phase 'Time shews the way of lifes decay', with movement striking on a bell, the door verso stamped '1767 clock and cakes cost of this', the elaborate hood with broken swans neck pediment, central finial and blind fret detailing, above a trunk with fluted corner pilasters with elaborate Prince of Wales type capitals, the base with egg and dart detailing, on ogee bracket feet, 228cm H CONDITION REPORT: The lock and the hinges to the trunk door are not original and the handle to the hood door is. It has been suggested that the case may be a Manchester case with a Liverpool movement. The seat board for the movement appears original however, there does appear to be some none original timbers to the sides (under the sea board) which support the hood when sliding into condition. When looking at the inside of the hood and the back of the hood door, they appear very clean, as does the movement - this suggests that the clock may have been services / cleaned but not recently. The back board is not in one piece. The clock sits leaning backward and to one side a little. General light age wear throughout externally but overall of a good appearance and colour. Please see extra images uploaded. There are two weights and a pendulum. We can not guarantee that the clock is in full working order.

A George III style mahogany scroll end window seat, early 20th century, with floral red upholstery and blind fret detailing, on chamfered legs, 72cm H x 160cm W x 50cm D

A chinoiserie dark stained hardwood altar style Side Table having a pair of frieze drawers, pierced work detail and nicely carved drawer fronts depicting figures in garden landscapes and standing on square legs with blind fretwork detail, 46 3/4" long x 15 3/4" deep x 31 5/8" high (some distress).

After Dickinson, The Entry into Pretoria, an extremely large photogravure print depicting the entry of British forces under Lord Roberts into the capital of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, pencil signed by the artist, published by Dickinson & Foster, 1903, Print Sellers' Association blind impressed proof stamp, in period gilt frame under glass, 86 cm x 116 cm

Sydney Ernest Wilson (b.1869) Portrait of a young lady, mezzotint, signed by the artist, with Printsellers Association blind stamp, framed and mounted under glass, 32 x 26 cm

After Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) Blind Man's Buff, offset lithograph, in velvet passe-partout and frame, 55 x 42 cm

French Algeria Brothel Token, brass d.29.5mm: 'AU CHAT NOIR' (The Black Cat) "2.R. Rene-Caille Blind Alley, Algiers, early 20thC, VF

Georgian mahogany bureau with blind fretted gothic detailing on interior and exterior, original gilt brass handles and fluted quarter columns, the fitted interior with hidden compartments, c.1770

Edwardian Chippendale Revival ebonised bijouterie cabinet, blind fret decorated hinged glazed top on slender square supports joined by a shaped galleried undertier, W49cm, H76cm, D42cm Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Early 20th century Chippendale style serpentine chest, brushing slide above four graduated drawers, blind fret canted corners, bracket feet, W75cm, H86cm, D44cm Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Freek van den Berg (Dutch 1918-2000): Continental Harbour Scene, watercolour, initialled verso with artist's studio blind stamp 40cm x 50cmProvenance: through the artist's family. Freek belongs to the group of Fauvists and was one of the last Dutch painters who worked in this expressive and colourful manner. He was a member of the "Onafhankelijken" and also an art critic. Several books appeared about his work.DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

George Clark Stanton (British 1832-1894): 'The Blind Beggar' Medieval Tableau, watercolour signed, original title label verso with artist's address '1 Ramsey Lane', 34cm x 65cm Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

A George III mahogany serpentine fronted chest, of four graduated long drawers with original foliate gilt brass handles and pierced escutcheons, the ogee moulded top over a brushing slide and blind fret carved frieze between canted angles with blind fret carving, raised on shaped bracket feet, 37 x 21½in. (94 x 54.5cm.), 34in. (86.5cm.) high. * Provenance: The Le Pelley family, Guernsey, the previous occupants of Beaucamps de Haut for several generations.

A quantity of Portmeirion Pomana pottery, together with a Roy Kirkham 'Redout‚ Roses' teapot, cup, stand and milk jug; and two Royal Worcester 'The Blind Earl' reissued plates. (24)

A mid-Georgian carved giltwood cartel clock, with eight day single fusee movement, ho-ho bird surmount and pierced scrolling rocaille surround decorated with flowers and fruit, the 8½in. circular glazed silvered dial signed 'Geo. Langford, London', with single winding hole and blind pendulum with paste decoration, 39 x 20in. (73.75 x 50.75cm.), glazing loose, regilded. * Provenance: Great Brampton House Antiques. ** G. H. Baillie, in 'Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World' records two George Langfords (a father and son), working in London c.1749.

Beken of Cowes - a photograph of the yacht White Heather IV, c.1950, numbered 15624 and titled in white pen, Beken blind stamp to lower right corner, 11 x 9in. (28 x 22.8cm.), in a modern black frame.

An early George III mahogany window seat or long stool, the drop-in seat covered in buttoned pale blue cotton with nailed border, the blind-fret frieze within bead and reel moulding, raised on six square chamfered channelled legs with similar carving and foliate brackets, on leather barrel castors, 50 x 18in. (127 x 45.75cm.), 18½in. (47cm.), frame possibly extended. * Provenance: Christie's, unknown sale.

2 rolls of blind material. One approx. 10m long, the other approx. 1.5m long

Festival of Britain Commemorative Poster Stamps 1951, sold in aid of The Greater London Fund for the Blind, together with two Peter Rabbit 50p's, 2016, 2017 (3)

Le Cras, Abraham Jones, The Laws, Customs, and Privileges, and their Administration, in the Island of Jersey; with notices of Guernsey, pub. London, Longman & Co./Butterworth, 1839, original green blind-stamped calf leather, printed paper label to backstr, scarce.

Ross, Sir John, 'Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez', pub. Richard Bentley 1838, two vols., 440pp and 438pp, publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, gilt title, index to both volumes at end of vol.II, Vol. I spine taped. (2)

NO RESERVE Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979) Gary Cooper; Greta Garbo, 1930sTwo gelatin silver prints, printed under the supervision of the Kobal Fine Art Collection, each with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, with Kobal Fine Art Collection label affixed on frame verso, each approximately 35 x 28cm (13 3/4 x 11in)

NO RESERVE δ Colin Jones (b.1936) The Black House, London, 1973-1976Gelatin silver print, with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, signed, titled and dated with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 33 x 49cm (13 x 19 1/4in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Cardano (Girolamo). De Rerum Varietate libri XVII. Post alias omnes editiones, nunc recogniti, castigati, infinitisque mendis repurgati, Lyon: Barth‚lemy Honorat, 1580, [16], 883, [48]pp., woodcut printer's device on title, folding plate and folding table, woodcut illustrations to text including full-page palmistry illustration, final blank of preliminary leaves present, several careful old ink (?editorial) deletions, each mostly of one or two sentences but including diagonal strikethrough for whole of pages 85 & 87, some spotting, recent blind-stamped antique-style tan calf with string ties, 8vo (165 x 105mm) First published in 1557 this is Cardano's second great encyclopaedia of natural science, the first being De Subtilitate (1550), and like it a dazzling display of polymathic learning. 'The two works, written in elliptical and often obscure Latin, contain a little of everything: from cosmology to the construction of machines; from the usefulness of natural sciences to the evil influence of demons; from the laws of mechanics to cryptology', (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). The cryptology element referred to is a description of what is now known as Cardano's Grille, which consisted of a sheet of stiff material with excisions for masking written text and, though somewhat crude, was used by some countries for diplomatic correspondence in the 16th and 17th centuries. (1)

Savile (Sir Henry, editor). Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi, 1st edition, G. Bishop, R. Newbery, and R. Barker, 1596, 5 section titles with woodcut architectonic borders, woodcut head- and tailpieces and figurative initials throughout, variable spotting and browning, 2 small worm-tracks in lower margins never affecting text, marginal restoration to leaf Z5, quire 4E supplied from a shorter copy, closed transverse tear in final 3 leaves, occasional later marginalia, manuscript catch-title to fore edge, contemporary calf, blind panels to sides enclosing central strapwork lozenges, rebacked, restoration to corners, folio (32 x 19 cm) STC 21783; Cobham-Jeffery page 27 refers (Roger of Hoveden mentions Cyprus in the context of the Third Crusade). First edition of this important compilation of medieval chronicles, containing texts from William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Roger of Hoveden, Aethelweard, and pseudo-Ingulf. A second edition appeared at Frankfurt in 1601. (1)

Stukeley (William). Itinerarium Curiosum. Or, an Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observ'd in Travels thro' Great Britain. Illustrated with Copper Prints. Centuria I, 1st edition, 1724, engraved frontispiece and 100 engraved plates, including four double-page (plate 53 cropped to plate number), closed tear to gutter margin of title at head, occasional light spotting and toning to plates (generally in very good condition), all edges gilt, contemporary diced calf, elaborate gilt and blind decorative border to boards and gilt decoration to spine, upper joint cracked, folio Upcott xxx. (1)

Borlase (William). The Natural History of Cornwall, 1st edition, Oxford: for the author, 1758, engraved folding map, 28 engraved plates, errata leaf, faint spotting and offsetting, engraved bookplate of Paul Panton to front pastedown and contemporary annotation to front free endpaper (see note), contemporary reversed calf, blind panels to sides, joints superficially split but firm, light stripping and wear, a few small marks, folio (35.5 x 22 cm) Provenance: Paul Panton (1731-1797), Welsh barrister and antiquary, one of the subscribers to the work, with his armorial bookplate and annotation to front free endpaper. Paul Panton was educated as Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Through marriage, he inherited the estate of William Jones as Plas Gwyn, Anglesey. He took a keen interest in the development of local lead mines and collieries at Holywell, and became Sheriff of Flintshire in 1770, and of Anglesey in 1771. Like his friend Thomas Pennant, he was a keen antiquarian, and student of early Welsh literature. His extensive collection of Welsh manuscripts were contained in nearly 100 volumes, and included those left to him by the Welsh poet and antiquary Evan Evans. Upcott 86-8. (1)

[Clver, Philipp]. Respublica et status imperii Romano-Germanici, Leiden: Elzevir, 1634, 2 volumes in 1, engraved title, volume 2 with woodcut title device, final privilege leaf, a few letters abraded in volume 1 p. 21, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, 24mo, together with Burch (Lambert van der), Sabaudiae respublica et historia, Leiden: Elzevir, 1634, engraved title (laid down, a small worm track in imprint continuing in lower margin of next few leaves), a word on p. 77 scored through by a contemporary hand, marginal spill-burn to I5-6, contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine, 24mo, and Justinus (Marcus Junianus), Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio lib. XLIV, cum notis Isaaci Vossii, Leiden: Elzevir, 1640, engraved title page, some early initials hand-coloured and offset (showing through in engraved title), portion of front free endpapers excised, ownership ink-stamps to initial blank, contemporary blind-panelled calf, gilt spine, 12mo Willems 408, 411, 502 (note). (3)

Book of Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, London: Printed by Robert Barker, and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1634, general title (dated 1634) printed in red & black within decorative woodcut border, calendar also in red & black, single-column black letter text with woodcut decorative initials, title to Psalter dated 1633, printed in black and with decorative woodcut border, single-column black letter text, with worm trails to blank fore-edge margin, without final blank leaf (2I8), occasional dampstains mostly to margins, marbled endpapers with modern cloth hinges, late 18th/early 19th century blind panelled calf, neat modern reback, 4to in 8s STC 16397 (a later state or reissue of STC 16392.5); ESTC S122865. State prayers on D8v-E1r include "and the rest of the Royall Progenie". (1)

Lull (Ramon). De secretis naturae sie quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt, Alberti Magni... De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinq[ue], [edited by Walther Ryff], 1st edition, Strasbourg, Balthasar Beck, 1541, [4] + 183 + [4] leaves, with 8 woodcut illustrations to text of chemical apparatus (one of which is full-page), without blank leaf at end, title relined and with slight loss of blank fore-edge and foot of inner margin, early two-tone blind-decorated French full calf, with gilt coat-of-arms of an unidentifid French bishop to upper cover, 8vo Provenance: Alfred Scott Gatty (1847-1918), with gift inscription to him dated 1882 to front blank, when he was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms In Ordinary, and with his bookplate to front pastedown. B. E. J. Pagel (1930-2007), astrophysicist, with his handwritten label tipped-in to verso of front endpaper. Duveen 369. Wellcome 3897. Ferguson II, 54. Thorndike II, 862-873 & 517-592. Adams L1703. Rare first edition of Strasbourg physician Walther Herman Ryff's presentation of alchemical tracts. The attribution to Lull of De Secretis Naturae is disputed (generally now accepted as pseudo-Lull) but it was a standard work in early modern alchemy. With it is published Albertus Magnus' De Mineralibus & Rebus Metallicis, on metals and minerals with essays on stones, gold and silver, the assaying of metals, their colours, on nitre, salt, lead and other substances and their properties. The tract by Albertus Magnus belongs to the authentic writings of this author. Thorndike devotes much space to a thorough analysis of this remarkable work and points out the stress laid by Albertus on personal investigation and experiment.Lull's metaphysics worked a revolution in the history of philosophy. He invented an "art of finding truth" which centuries later stimulated Leibnitz' dream of a universal algebra, and the development of modern scientific method. (1)

Picinelli (Filippo). Mundus symbolicus, in latinum traductus a Augustino Erath, Cologne: Hermann Demen, 1687, 2 volumes in 1, half-title, engraved allegorical title page, engraved vignette to letterpress title, 41 further vignettes in the text, with the final blank, light browning, marginal spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, rubbed and dust-soiled, folio (35.5 x 21.5 cm Landwehr, German Emblem Books 480, VD17 23:000499N. First published in Italian as Mondo simbolico, in 1653. (1)

Racinet (Auguste). Polychromatic Ornament ... comprising upwards of Two Thousand Specimens of the Various Styles of Ancient, Oriental, and Medieval Art, and including the Renaissance and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1st edition in English, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1873, 100 chromolithographic plates, many heightened with silver or gold, light spotting to initial text leaves, a few plates faintly oxidised or marked in margins, all edges gilt, contemporary crushed red morocco by Francis Bedford, titles and decorative quatrefoils gilt to spine compartments, foliate cornerpieces gilt to boards within gilt and blind frames, small section of wear to top edge of front board, folio (38.5 x 26 cm) An exceptionally bright copy of Racinet's magnificent pattern book, in full red morocco gilt by Francis Bedford (1799-1883), the leading English bookbinder of his time. (1)

Firuzabadi (Majd al-Din al-). Al-Qamus al-muhit wa'l-qabus al-muhit, Ottoman territories, early 19th century, Arabic manuscript in black ink on glazed laid paper, 543 leaves, 2 parts in 1 volume, part 1 with countermarks HB and GB bisected by single rods bearing trefoils, part 2 on thicker paper stock mainly countermarked S [second initial cropped] and transcribed by a different copyist possibly at a slightly later date, part 1 with various naskh script, 33-6 lines to the page, illuminated headpiece to folio 1b, text within polychromatic frames throughout, keywords and headings in a larger thuluth script and frequently rubricated, many headings in part 2 in green, inner hinges cracked but holding, opening bifolium soiled and repaired with paper disruption along frame of folio 2, repaired tear in folio 148 obscuring a few words, a few other marginal repairs, moderate spotting and staining but generally a fresh copy with wide margins, contemporary red goatskin, decorative blind frames to boards enclosing vegetal filigree lozenges in blue, envelope flap front board gilt-lettered in Arabic 'matn al-Qamus ['text of the Qamus'] 'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq', remains of labels to spine, matching red morocco slipcase with flap and marbled paper onlays to sides (worn), folio (29 x 19 cm) An attractive copy of the great Arabic dictionary compiled by Iranian polymath al-Firuzabadi (d. 1414). 'The Qamus ... has become the most widely used of all the dictionaries and has exercised considerable influence in the West' (Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, volume 2, page 468). The countermark GB is recorded as belonging to Treviso papermaker Giovanni Berti (c. 1789-1828. See Biddle, 'New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts', page 31, in Friedrich et al., eds., Studies in Manuscript Cultures, volume 12. (1)

Ibn al-Jawzi. Mawlid al-'arus, probably Syria: colophon signed Ibn Yahya, 25 Sha'ban 1217 AH [i.e. 20 December 1802 CE], Arabic manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 46 leaves (+ 20 leaves to front containing the copyist's rough draft for the same text + 4 annotated fly-leaves to rear), naskh script, 10-12 lines to the page, sections with headings in decorative panels or demarcated by stylised rules, text and decoration frequently rubricated, folio 8 chipped in lower outer corner to loss of a few words, a few mild smudges, ink-staining in fore margin, one other intermittent stain in lower margin, contemporary blind-stamped leather over limp pasteboards, 8vo (19 x 14.5 cm Provenance: Private Collection, England. Brockelmann, History of the Arabic Written Tradition, Supplement Volume 1, page 954. The Mawlid al-'arus is a collection of poetry and hadith concerning the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. Some authors have attributed it to the great Arab poet al-Hariri of Basra rather than orthodox jurist Ibn al-Jawzi (1126-1200), probably on account of its popular character. In the colophon the copyist describes himself as a native of al-Tawani, which is the name of a village in modern-day Hebron and of a larger Syrian settlement near Damascus. (1)

Henry VII Year Books. [Anni Regis Henrici Septimi. Quibus accesserunt annus primus et secundus de noua et valde bona collatione. Ac etiam, annus decimus, undecimus, decimus tertius, decimus sextus, et vigesimus, nunquam ante hac ‘diti. Anno Domini 1555, Richard Tottell, 1555], [i.e. 1563?], law reports from 1-16, 20 and 21 Henry VII, separate paginations with continuous register, black letter, woodcut initials, lacks title-page, occasional contemporary and later ink marginalia and underscoring, peppered wormholes (mostly at front and rear), a few mostly marginal closed tears, some light old damp-staining, 23 lines of manuscript verse quotations [from William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence] in brown ink in an unidentified contemporary hand to first front free endpaper recto (watermark of hand with a flower on laid paper), contemporary blind-stamped calf over boards, with central lattice panel of diamonds within a rolled border of repeated motifs of female heads within roundels and floral decoration, ownership monogram blind stamp of 'F.B.' to centre of both covers, remains of one brass clasp only, some rubbing and wear with scattered worm holes, neatly rebacked with remains of spine relaid, folio (280 x 190mm) Provenance: An unidentified 16th century English collector, here quoting from William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever. Beale R408; STC 9223.5. The Year Books are the earliest law reports of England, forming a continuous series from 1268 to 1535, and covering the reigns of King Edward I to Henry VIII. Richard Tottel produced the majority of sixteenth-century printed Year Books, a great many being published between the years 1556 and 1572. William Bullein (c. 1515-1576), physician, published his last and most popular work, A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence, in 1564. 'This work saw him move away from the overwhelmingly medical concerns of his previous writing, and extend his use of dialogue beyond the didactic to a more lively style in which he mixed medicine, morality, and entertainment. Like the authors of many plague tracts, Bullein takes the epidemic as his starting point for a broad criticism of the sins of society, attacking engrossing and enclosure in the countryside and the sudden charity of the afflicted, and parodying hypocritical and atheistic physicians and apothecaries, and the desperation of usurious merchants when faced by death.' (Oxford DNB). The manuscript verses begin: 'How the cardinal came of nought / and his prelacie sold and bought / And where such prelate be, springe of love degree, / And spirituall dignitee / farewell begninitee, / farewell simplicitee, farewell humanitee, farewell good charitee'. The final two lines are: 'but or thei enter if they have lerned nought / afterward is vertue the least of theyr thought'. The quotations are taken from one long speech by the character Crispinus who recounting his visit to Parnassus, repeats some verses he heard spoken by a number of famous poets from the previous two hundred years. The four poets 'quoted' here are John Skelton (an attack on Cardinal Wolsey), Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Bartley. The small variations in wording between the early editions suggests that this, if not copied from a manuscript, was transcribed from the first edition of 1564, rather than the later editions of 1573 or 1578: See Mark W. Bullen & A.H. Bullen (editors), A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence by William Bullein, from the Edition of 1578, Collated with the Earlier Editions of 1564 and 1573, Trbner, 1888, pages 16-18. All editions are rare and only three copies of the first edition are located: two imperfect copies at the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and a possibly unique complete copy at the Huntington Library, California. That copy, used by the editors of the (fourth) 1888 edition had been part of the Britwell/Heber Collection, acquired by Huntington from the Britwell Court library sale in 1919. (1)

Rea (John). [Flora: Seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, Furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III books, 1st edition, 1665], lacks letterpress title following 'The Mind of the Front', 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on 8 plates (plates 4 and 5 close-trimmed at head), woodcut initials throughout, separate dated title-page to 'Pomona. The third book', errata at foot of final page of index, a little worm tracing and some small worm holes to gutter margins not affecting text, minor spotting, old ink ownership name of 'Eliz: Yorke' at head of first leaf verso, later ownership inscription of Mrs Ann Parker to front free endpaper and bookplate of Christopher Rowe to front pastedown, recent period-style blind-stamped calf with red morocco spine label, folio (305 x 190 mm) Henrey 325; Hunt 301; Wing R421 or R422. 'The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century'. (1)

Giuseppe Constantini (Italian, 1843-1893) Blind Man's Bluff signed lower right "G Constantini 1892" oil on panel 26 x 36cm (10 x 14in) Provenance: MacConnal-Mason and Son Ltd., 15 Burlington Arcade, London, W1 and 14 Duke Street, St James's, London, SW1.Condition : Paint layer stable. Bubbling of the paint surface top left corner.  Retouchings throughout. A woodworm hole lower right corner. 

A George III mahogany bureau, with a finely inlaid interior of pigeon holes and small drawers carved with a 'brickwork' and blind fret carved decoration, enclosed by a fall, above four long graduated drawers, brass handles, on ogee bracket feet 105 x 90 x 53cm (41 x 35 x 21in) Good interior and patination, with a wonderful interior. Replacement handles

§ Sir Alfred Munnings, KCVO, PRA (British, 1878-1959) Gypsy Life published 1953 by Frost and Reed Ltd., Fine Art Publishers Bristol and London signed in pencil lower right "A J Munnings"; bears Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp lower left lithograph 53 x 62cm (21 x 24in)

A George III mahogany stick barometer by 'N. Greenwood, Halifax' the brass register engraved with a ship and river landscape within a scroll mask border, sliding vernier, the case with a blind fret cornice and patterned line banding, hinged moulded cistern cover below and fretwork base 114cm (44in) tube probably a replacement. Broken fretwork.

A George II mahogany card table, with a blind frieze drawer, with a baize lined playing surface and counter recesses, on carved legs and claw feet 72 x 80 x 39cm (28 x 31 x 15in) The colour and condition are both good