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After Pablo Picasso"Tete D'une Jeaune Femme",limited edition giclee,with blind stamp,41 x 34cms; 16 x 13 1/2in.Artist's Resale Rights may apply, please refer to our Terms & Conditions.

Robert Oscar LenkiewiczPortrait of a girl (and portrait of a man verso),bearing the Artist's studio auction blind stamp,ink on lined paper,23 x 16cms; 9 x 6 1/4in.Artist's Resale Rights may apply, please refer to our Terms & Conditions.

An 18ct gold, key wound, open-faced pocket watch,by Alfred Russell & Co. 41mm diameter. Gold engine turned and enamelled dial, black Roman numerals, blued spade hands with hand engraved case, blind cartouche to the back cover. 52.38g

A French gold hardstone cameo bar brooch,with a cameo of a classical lady in white to a dark tan ground, rub set to the centre. A raised bead border to tapering bars at each side with blind fretwork. Plain pin, visor catch and easel safety catch. French poinçon for 18ct gold standard. 72mm long, 17.96g

A cased sterling silver desk seal,by Child and Child, of tapering cylindrical form. Stained green ivory handle with scalloped edge strapwork to a blind base. Maker's mark and fitted case, tatty, with named silk interior lid, 65 x 18.3mm

An 18ct gold, key wound, open-faced pocket watch,by J W Benson, London. The case 47mm diameter with a white enamel dial, black Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial. Milled case sides to an engine turned back case with blind cartouche. Gold cuvette, movement signed 'J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, London, No. 22332'. Inlaid outer wooden box. 66 x 47mm, 83.55g

A pair of mahogany library open armchairs of Gainsborough type in the Chippendale taste:, with blind fret carved geometric ornament, having serpentine stuff over backs and seats upholstered in gros-point needlework, the padded arm supports on square chamfered legs, united by plain chamfered stretchers.

Edwards & RobertsA 19th Century carved mahogany urn table:, of serpentine outline, in the Georgian taste, with a pierced brass gallery, having a blind fret frieze fitted with a drawer on blind fret square chamfered tapered legs, united by shaped pierced fret stretchers with central cup, on spade feet, 36.5cm (14 1/2in) across, 66.5cm (2ft 2 1.4in) high. The drawer stamped Edwards & Roberts.

AN OAK WALL MOUNTED CABINET WITH BLIND CUT PANEL DOOR the interior with shelves on moulded base 70cm X 54cm X 24cm

A PAIR OF CONTEMPORARY TEAK CHESTS, each of rectangular form with glazed front drawer above four blind drawers on crome tapering legs, 82 x 100 x 50cms

Edwardian mahogany wall fitting small display cabinet of rectangular design, the broken pediment with pierced scrolls and central urn above blind cut frieze and two bevelled glazed doors, 26ins wide x 10ins deep x 25ins tall (max)

Aristophanes. Facetissimi Comoedie novem, edited by Jean Chéradame, 9 parts in 1, titles in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, titles within handsome woodcut historiated borders by Geoffrey Tory, woodcut historiated initials and printer's devices (the latter to 4 final ff.), 3 parts with early ink inter-linear notes, occasional spotting, particularly to final part, light marginal water-staining at head, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps, 19th century paper label to foot of spine, some soiling and staining, [Adams A1707; Mortimer, French, 38], small 4to, Paris, Pierre Vidoue for Gilles de Gourmont, 1528. ⁂ A very good copy of the handsomely printed first edition of Aristophanes to be printed in Paris. The editor Jean Chéradame was professor of Greek at the Collège du Roi. Each of the nine plays has a striking woodcut title by Geoffrey Tory, each incorporating the Adoration of the Magi, Gourmont's name and arms. There are separate dedicatees to each play, including Pierre Danes (first professor of Greek at the Collège Royal), Jean Ruel (botanist and physician and author of De Natura Stirpium, 1536), John Clerk (Bishop of Bath and Wells, chaplain of Cardinal Wolsey) and Thomas Winter (Wolsey's son). Provenance: 'Joh Jacobi...Linden...' (17th century ink inscription at head of title); Joseph von Lassberg (18th century ink inscription to front free endpaper); The Donaueschingen copy (shelf mark to foot of spine and head of inner pastedown).

[Macchiavelli (Niccolo)] De migrationibus populorum septentrionalium, translated by Hieronymus Turler, collation: A-M8, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials, rather browned and stained, title frayed at upper edge, modern calf ruled in blind, [Adams M13], 8vo, 165 x 100mm., Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1564. ⁂ Scarce; first edition in Latin of the first book of the Istoriae Fiorentinae.

Smith (Adam).- Philological Miscellany (The), vol.1 only [all published], containing: Adam Smith's 'Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages', pp. 440-479, first edition, a little foxed and browned, small paper flaw tear to lower margin of 2H1, ex-Board of Education Library copy with blind and ink stamps on title, modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, [Alston III 271, 823], 8vo, for the Editor; and sold by T,.Beckett and P.A.Dehondt, 1761. ⁂ Very rare; including the first appearance in print of Smith's influential essay on language and 40pp. of miscellaneous essays by Maupertius. Smith's essay was an expanded version one of his university lectures on rhetoric given at the University of Glasgow in 1762 and was included as an appendix in the third edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments published in 1767. ESTC lists 6 locations in the UK (BL, 3 Cambridge colleges, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford) and 3 in America (Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, and University of Kansas). COPAC lists a further 5 locations. We have been unable to find any record of it having been sold at auction.

English binding.- Meffret. Sermones [De Sanctis], 1 part only of the 3 vol. 'Sermones', collation: A10 B-N8 NN8 O-Y8 Z6 §6 double column, 198 ff., 55 lines and headline, Gothic type, initials, small woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red, A1r the bull's head watermark picked out in red by the rubricator, the odd instance of contemporary ink marginalia, K2 tear at head within text, but without loss, some staining and spotting, final f. outer margin little frayed, ornately blind-stamped 16th century English calf over wooden boards, comprising tudor rose, floral and foliage tools, the lower cover divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, each with a tudor rose or foliage ornament, remains of original metal clasps, corners little worn, rubbed, sympathetically rebacked, later ink marginalia, folio (sheet 310 x 199mm.; binding 317 x 220mm.), Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1487. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of this part of Meffret's sermons, which were published between January, 1487 and May, 1488. All parts of this work are rare at auction. Literature: BMC III, 764; Goff M-442; HC 11005.

Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native, 3 vol., first edition in book form, first issue without quotation mark after 'A Pair of Blue Eyes on title, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, with map frontispiece by Hardy in vol.1, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, some foxing, mostly at beginnings and ends, some hinges weak, bookplate of Nigel Ronald, original brown cloth blocked in black on upper cover and with 2-rule border in blind on lower (primary binding), spines gilt, cream endpapers, a little rubbed and marked, slightly cocked, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.24], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. ⁂ First published in monthly instalments from January to December 1878 in Belgravia but issued in book form with several alterations, particularly in Book III Chapter 8 and Book IV Chapter 1. Despite now being regarded as one of his most important novels, with its brooding setting of the menacing Egdon Heath, it was poorly reviewed, probably because of its controversial themes, and was later remaindered.

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Grammaire Égyptienne, ou Principes Généraux de l'Écriture Sacrée Égyptienne..., first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, a few hand-coloured (causing light offsetting), occasional foxing or soiling, pp.11/12 torn affecting text but no loss, rather brittle and chipped at edges, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp to title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1836 [-41]. ⁂ Champollion's monumental work, published posthumously and edited by his brother Jacques-Joseph Champollion.

Vardy (John, publisher) Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent, engraved throughout with decorative title by Kent, 2 leaves Table of Plates and 53 plates by Vardy after Jones or Kent, title soiled, some water-staining, mostly marginal but extending within platemark on plates 5 7 33, some other soiling and small stains, plate 5 loose, modern calf ruled in blind, [Berlin Kat 2279; Harris 881], folio, John Vardy, 1744. ⁂ Comprising 17 designs by Jones, mostly for chimneypieces, the rest by Kent of a variety of subjects: urns, candelabra, garden buildings etc. including Merlin's Cave at Richmond.

Numismatics.- Budé (Guillaume) Libri V de Asse, collation: aa8, bb4, a-t8,u6, A-N8; [12], 262 [i.e. 260] ff., Aldine device on title and at end, blank space for capitals with printed guide letters, gutter and lower margin water-stained and spotted throughout, heavier at beginning and end, repairs to lower blank margin of title and final leaf, early shelfmark 'I.II.21' in ink on title, contemporary Venetian binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo (the Mendoza Binder) of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within blind and gilt fillet border, small Aldine leaves and rosettes at corners, central gilt panel of single fillet with cornerpieces and three tools in knotwork pattern, titled in gilt 'Guil. Budaei De Ass' at top, rebacked preserving original spine with three double raised bands alternating with three single bands, tooled in gilt, gilt gauffered edges, pastedowns and endpapers renewed, 4to (214x130 mm), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, September 1522. ⁂ The Aldine edition of the pioneering treatise by the antiquarian, and Royal secretary Guillaume Budé (1468-1540) in a fine contemporary binding by the Mendoza Binder. This is one of the earliest works devoted to the study of ancient coins and measures, and more generally to the economics of antiquity. The first edition of De Asse (the 'as' or pound is a Roman bronze coin) was published in March 1515 by Josse Bade in Paris, and the publication achieved a wide success, as evinced by its numerous editions and translations. This copy is in a strictly contemporary morocco binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo, called the 'Mendoza Binder'. There was a close relationship between this Venetian binder and the Manutius-Torresano partnership. Until c.1525 Andrea di Lorenzo seems to have mainly worked for the Anchor and Dolphin bookshop near the Rialto Bridge, decorating the bindings with characteristic features such as rectangular frames of fillets, rosettes, arabesque leaves, fleurons, and lozenges. For distinguished customers he added, at the head of the upper cover, the author and title in gilt lettering, or their names at the foot of the same cover. Literature: Renouard, 94.3; Ahmanson-Murphy 212.

Isocrates. Orationes tres, collation: A4, βb-νn4; 51, [1] ff., text in Greek and Latin, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut animated initial on verso of title, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, minor soiling, a few water-stains, numerous marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary blind-tooled calf, covers within fillets and frame decorated with dots and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, central panel divided into compartments and decorated in knotwork pattern, traces of ties, spine with two raised bands, 2 corners worn, some worming to covers, preserved in suede-lined drop-back box, 8vo (148 x 100mm.), Venice, Heirs of Pietro Ravani, 1555. ⁂ The first bilingual edition of Isocrates' Orationes to be printed. The Greek texts of the three orations is supplemented with their Latin translation, and the edition was widely used as a schoolbook, as declared on the title-page ('ad discentium utilitatem'). The publishing initiative of Ravani's heirs had an immediate success, and was imitated by other printers, such as Giovanni Varisco in Venice and Orazio Salviani in Naples. Provenance: 'Nicolai Iani' (early ownership inscription on title); Carlo Chiassa (ex-libris on front flyleaf). Literature: G. Rosa, La fortuna di Isocrate, no. 117; Traduzioni umanistiche, p. 803, no. 2

Bewick (Thomas).- Aesop and others. The Fables..., with Bewick's signed thumb-mark receipt before title, wood-engraved illustration to each fable and vignette tail-pieces by Thomas Bewick, occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary calf, borders in gilt and blind, rubbed, rebacked, [Roscoe 45c; Tattersfield TB 1.35], Demy 8vo, Newcastle, 1818.

Ruskin (John) Letters on Art and Literature, [one of 33 copies on paper], 1894; Letters...to Ernest Chesneau, [one of 33 copies on paper], facsimile leaf, 1894; Letters...to Rev. F.A. Malleson, M.A., "limited to a few copies", 1896; Aratra Pentelici. Six Lectures on Sculpture, vol.III of 'The Works...', signed and inscribed by the author "Henry Acland with John Ruskin's love, and gratitude, 29th January 1872" on front free endpaper, for the author, Keston, 1872; Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on Tuscan Art, inscribed to S.A.Acland by various other Aclands, Orpington, 1882, the first three all edited by Thomas J.Wise, device of Ashley Library at end, original cloth, uncut, very slightly rubbed, [Todd 212d, 213d & 217d], privately printed [for T.J.Wise], the last two with plates and bookplate of Sarah Angelina Acland (daughter of Henry), original blue calf ruled in blind, g.e., rubbed; and 7 others by or relating to Ruskin (mostly pamphlets), and a photogravure of Ruskin with Sir Henry Acland from a photograph taken by Sarah Acland at Brantwood in 1893 (foxed), 8vo & 4to (13) ⁂ Sir Henry Acland (1815-1900) was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church in 1845 and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary. He met Ruskin while a student at Oxford and they became life-long friends. Acland also encouraged the study of art at Oxford and was instrumental in Ruskin's appointment as the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1869.

Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., pagination: I. [4], 24, 181, [1 blank] ll.; 108 ff., II. [3], [1 blank], 184 ff.; 106 ff., Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf. III. [4], 106 ff.; 155, [1] ff., IV. [4], 113, [1 blank] ff.; 74, 6, 57, [1] ff., V. [4], 346, [6] ff., final quire AAA bound between quires Τττ and Υυυ, Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf of all volumes (Fletcher f4; A3c), capital spaces, all blank leaves present, vol.2 stain at top of a2 and a3, repair to b1 and in blank gutter of n1, wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text, 20th-century brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton, folio (314-318 x 218-224mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April-August 1525. ⁂ Editio princeps of Galen of Pergamum, one of the 'biggest' books printed by the Aldine Press, directed by Aldus's father-in-law Andrea Torresano. It is one of the rarest of all Aldine editions, "only two or three complete sets have been sold during the past 30 years [...] It is so rare and consequentely so expensive because of the limited number of originally printed copies. Being an exceptional case for Aldus- editions, the initial print run remained the only one." (L. Perrilli, A Risky Enterprise. The Aldine Edition of Galen, p. 447). The works of Galen appeared for the first time in Latin translation in 1490 (Goff G, 37), and only a few of his writings were available in Greek, e.g. the Περὶ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας, printed in the second volume of the Aldine Aristotle Corpus, and the Θεραπευτικά published in Venice by Zacharias Kallierges and Nicolaos Vlastos (Goff G, 38). The delay was due to the partial disappearance of the written heritage of Greek medicine, and the great difficulty in finding Greek medical manuscripts, "and then there was a gap of a generation until the Aldine firm put out a series of medical authors, Galen in 1525, Hippocrates in 1526, Paul of Aegina, and the first half (only) of Aetius in 1534" (V. Nutton, Greek Science in Sixteenth Century, p. 20). Literature: Adams G, 32; STC Italian 285; Renouard Alde, pp. 101-102; Ahmanson-Murphy, 231-233, 235-236; Cataldi Palau, 95; Finazzi, 51; PMM 33; Wellcome I, 2507; Durling 1748; Grolier-Norman, n. 5B; Hoffmann II, 122; V. Nutton, John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge 1987, pp. 39-42; Ead., Greek Science in the Sixteenth-century Renaissance, in Renaissance and Revolution, ed. J.V. Field-F.A.A.J. James, Cambridge 1993, pp. 20-24; P. Potter, The editiones principes of Galen and Hippocrates and their Relationship, in Text and Tradition. Studies in Ancient Medicine and its Transmission, ed. K.D. Fischer-D. Nickel-P. Potter, Leiden 1998, pp. 243-261; V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine, London 2004, pp. 230-247.

Mendoza Binder.- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum..., collation: *8, **8, a-k8, l4, m-z8, A-G8, H10; [16], 245, [1] ff., complete with blank leaf **8 blank, Aldine device on title and at end, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, some light foxing, title slightly water-stained, early Latin and Greek marginalia, contemporary Venetian binding by Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the Mendoza Binder, of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within multiple blind and gilt fillets, rosettes at each corner, central gilt corner-pieces and large fleuron, upper cover lettered in gilt 'm.t.c. rhetoricor.', spine with three double raised bands alternated with four single bands underlined by dotted fillet in gilt (widely restored), compartments decorated with blind-tooled floral frieze, 19th-century endpapers and pastedowns, blue edges, 4to (212 x 123mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, October 1521. ⁂ The second Aldine edition of the rhetorical writings of Cicero, in a copy with a distinguished provenance, and marvellously bound by one the best and most sought after Venetian binders, Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the 'Mendoza Binder' after his principal client Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. He was active in Venice between 1518 and 1555, and his decorative patterns and innovative style were very influential, inspiring generations of binders in France and Germany. The binding can be dated back to the Mendoza Binder's first years of activity and the decoration is identical to another copy of the Aldine Cicero of 1521, now preserved in the John Rylands Library in Manchester. This is a binding with a decorative scheme used by the Mendoza Binder almost exclusively for editions issued by the Aldine press between 1518 and 1526, "made either for display and sale in the bookshop employing him or to be ordered through it" (A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, p. 99), most of them commissioned by Jean Grolier, the 'Prince of Bibliophiles'. "The commonest pattern [...] consists of a gilt rectangular frame, rosettes and leaves at the corners, often a smaller leaf in silver at the outer corners, with the title gilt at the headcap of the upper cover. Customers might have their name or initials added at the foot of the same cover. Other stock patterns involved massed arabesque leaves, fleurons, bud-tools, large open fleurons, or a circle containing a title. Of the fifty-two recorded instances of these stock bindings on books printed before 1526, all but five, or over 90 per cent, are on Aldine Press books, mostly printed by Aldus Manutius' successor" (ibid.). Literature: Renouard 93.13; Ahmanson-Murphy 207; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting. Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings, Cambridge 1999, pl. 48 (for an identical binding). Provenance: Joaquim Gomez de la Cortina, Marquis de Morante (1808-1868; Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Charles Filippi (ex-libris of each on recto of front endpaper).

Soldier in India.- Langford (Frank, of 85th Light Infantry, fl. 1872-80) Diary, autograph manuscript, 79pp. excluding blanks, in ink and pencil, some ff. excised, a few ff. loose or working loose, a few cut, slightly browned, inner hinges split, original blind-stamped calf, rubbed, original brass clasp, upper cover corner creased, edges and corners worn, 155 x 90mm., 1872-80; and an oil on board portrait of Langford, v.s., v.d. (2). ⁂ "May 12 Wed [1880] Went for a walk after breakfast as far as the village with Sitwell a Joori thief shot at the fort": "Jan 13 Thurs [1880] Reached Lahore 5 am very cold had some tea and bread, went on by train to rest camp, very down all day called on the 8th, all were out, drove to fort in the evening &c... ." Notes on life as an officer in the British Army in India, with some notes from a correspondent in British Columbia, Canada. Devlali, or Deolali, Nashik district, Maharashtra. Deolali was a British Army camp, the original location of the Army Staff College. It is also the source of the British slang noun doolally tap, loosely meaning "camp fever", and referring to the apparent madness of men waiting for ships back to Britain after finishing their tour of duty.

Alberti (Leon Battista) The Architecture...Of Painting...Of Statuary, edited by James Leoni and translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, 3 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.Picart, titles and text in English and Italian with woodcut device, printed in double column, 75 engraved plates, some by Picart, contemporary ink signature at head of title, frontispiece defective at inner edge and laid down with ink hatching filling missing area, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind stamp at head of title and first leaf of each vol., some light spotting and browning, modern half calf, [Harris 14; Millard, British 5], folio, Thomas Edlin, 1739.

Orosius (Paulus) Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum, edited by Aeneas Vulpes, collation: a8 b-m6 n4, 77 ff. (of 78, lacking initial blank), 42 lines and headline, Roman type, initial spaces, early ink marginalia throughout, repair to head of e1, within text, but with no loss, some water-staining, mostly marginal, washing out some of the ink marginalia and occasionally causing small loss to margins, these repaired, new endpapers, later blind-stamped sheep, sympathetically rebacked and repaired, rubbed and scratched, [BMC V, 278; Goff O-98; Hain 12102], folio (290 x 207mm.), Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 30 July, 1483. ⁂ Profusely annotated in an early hand. Paulus Orosius (c.375-418AD) was a Christian historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine. Here he argues that the world has improved since the introduction of Christianity rather than declined as argued by others.

Philo Judaeus. In libros Mosis De mundi opificio, Historicos, De legibus. Eiusdem libri singulares, collation: α6, Α-Ζ8, a-y8, z4; [12], 736 [i.e.720], [48] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, occasional foxing, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine and repeated on later paper label, edges violet, tears to spine and yapp edges, lacking leather ties, folio (342 x257mm.), Paris, Adrien Turnebe, 1552. ⁂ Rare and estimeed editio princeps of the works of the hellenistic philosopher Philo Alexandrinus, also called Philo Judaeus. His attempt to reconcile Greek philosophy and Judaism was greatly influential in early Christianity. The volume was edited and magnificently printed by the outstanding philologist Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), responsible for the Typographia Graeca established by François I, King of France. The texts are set in the famous type known as Grec du Roi, designed by Claude Garamond in 1541. "Turnèbe was not a professional printer, but a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Royal College at Paris who abandoned his teaching in order to promote Greek literature through the printing press" (K. Sp. Staikos, Greek Philosophical Editions in the First Century of Printing, Athens 2001, p. 87). Provenance: 'Ex libris Johannis Baptistae' (partly erased ownership inscription on title); ex-libris 'Principis Burghesii' and 'Louis Grossmann Cincinnati' on front pastedown; Hebrew Union College Cincinnati (blind-stamp on title and duplicate stamp on front pastedown). Literature: Adams P1033; Pettegree-Walsby, French Books III & IV, 82807; J. Lewis, Adrien Turnèbe, Genève 1998.

Isocrates. Orationes, Basel, Michel Isengrin,1550; bound with Camerarius (Joachim) Libellus scolasticus utilis et valde bonus, Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1551, together 2 works in 1, I. collation: α-γ8, a-z8 A-N8, O4; [48], 563 [i.e. 583], [1] pp., II. collation: A-M8, N10, O4; 214 [i.e. 212], [8] pp., both with woodcut decorated initials, slightly browned, pale water-stain to first leaves of first work, fine contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled and decorated with plaque, lower cover with letters 'NV' and date '1551' stamped in blind, spine with three raised bands, metal clasps intact, 8vo (173 x 107mm.) ⁂ This fine miscellaneous volume, in its strictly contemporary German binding, opens with the edition of Isocrates' Orationes printed by Isengrin, supplemented as an introduction by the Isocratous bios by Plutarch. The present copy is complete with the final leaves containing the Index (often lacking) and belongs to the issue bearing the place and date of printing on the title-page. The second work is a very rare schoolbook edited by the outstanding philologist and editor of Greek classics Joachim Camerarius. It includes a collection of short Greek texts extracted from Theognis, Phytagoras, Simonides and Callimachus. Provenance: ownership inscription barely legible, but dated '28 Aug. 1559' on recto of front free endpaper; engraved ex-libris of Pope Pius VI (1717-1799) on front pastedown. Literature: I. VD16 ZV 8607. II. VD16 C 451.

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Dictionnaire Égyptienne en Écriture Hiéroglyphique, first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, title lightly soiled, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp on title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1841-43. ⁂ Lithographic reproduction of Champollion's manuscript, published after his death, with an index at the end of the hieroglyphs sorted by type including celestial, anatomical, animal, architectural, household objects etc.

[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], "Ellis and Acton Bell". Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, 1 vol. as issued, second English edition, second issue with title dated 1851, half-title, 1f. advertisements at front, 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated April 1851 at rear, occasional scattered spotting, small blind-stamp to front free endpaper, Cardigan Book Society form loosely inserted, original cloth, sympathetically rebacked retaining original backstrip, backstrip faded, covers a little rubbed and faded, [Smith 3 pp.63-69], 8vo, 1851 [but 1850]. ⁂ Around September 1850 Smith, Elder & Co. wrote to Charlotte to suggest that they take over publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from Thomas Cautley Newby. Charlotte agreed and included a biographical preface regarding Ellis and Acton Bell in order both to clear up the confusions surrounding the authorship of the Brontë novels as well as to reveal the true identity of the Bells. The Cardigan Book Society was likely a circulating library, the form includes a list of members with manuscript dates of lending and their remarks.

Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, in Eight Parts, 8 parts in 1, first edition, with general title dated 1656 and 8 part titles, 17 engraved plates of Greek philosophers, with Tables and errata leaf but lacking advertisement leaf, browned, a few ink or rust spots, P2 in Part I lacking corner not affecting text, plate of Aristippus in Part IV with holes (mostly to lower margin but one affecting image), modern calf ruled in blind, a little rubbed, a few small scratches, [Wing S5237 & 5238a], folio, for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring, 1656.

Hardy (Thomas) The Woodlanders, 3 vol., first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, presentation copy "With the Publishers' Compliments" stamped in ink at head of titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, light foxing at beginnings and ends, original dark green buckram-grain cloth with rounded-corner panel and 2-rule border in black on upper cover and in blind on lower (primary binding), dark brown endpapers, uncut, slightly rubbed and cocked, corners bumped, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.54], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1887. ⁂ The author's favourite of his novels, it was first published in Macmillan's Magazine between May 1886 and February 1887.

Hardy (Thomas) The Trumpet-Major, 3 vol., first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], all with initial blank and half-titles, occasional spotting, original red cloth, upper cover blocked in black with title and two vignettes of encampment and mill after the author, lower cover with 3-rule border in blind (secondary binding), pictorial spines in gilt and black, cream endpapers, spines a little rubbed and faded, otherwise a very good copy, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy 31], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. ⁂ First published in monthly instalments in Good Words, from January to December 1880. Purdy notes that this secondary binding is scarcer than the primary with 2-rule border on lower cover.

Bickham (George) The British Monarchy..., engraved throughout with frontispiece after Gravelot, title, 2pp. list of subscribers and 190 numbered leaves on British counties and territories including 2 additional titles (no.39 &164) and a folding table (no.162-3), many with vignettes, maps and illustrations, and an unnumbered folding engraved map, printed on rectos only, some foxing and soiling, no.34 & 106 torn and laid down, several marginal tears or defects, some repaired, contemporary calf, border in gilt and blind, rubbed and stained, rebacked with gilt spine, corners repaired, new endpapers, folio, G.Bickham, 1748. ⁂ The additional titles are: A Description of the several Counties in South Britain, dated 1744, and A Short Description of the American Colonies, dated 1747.

Hyde (Thomas) Veterum persarum et parthorum et medorum religionis historia, second edition, 20 engraved plates on 19 leaves, some folding, folding letterpress table, some characters in Arabic, Hebrew or Chinese, occasional foxing, some offsetting, contemporary manuscript notes on rear endpapers, blind library stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red roan label, a little rubbed, joints split, 4to, Oxford, Clarendon, 1760. ⁂ The second and best edition of this work on the religions of the ancient Persians, particularly Zoroastrianism. Plate VII opposite p.316 includes a depiction of a dodo.

Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice..., 2 vol., third edition, half-title in vol.1 but lacking in vol.2, vol.1 lacking final blank, occasional spotting, old ink signature of H.A.Maxwell at head of titles and with engraved bookplate of Maxwell of Polloc, contemporary polished calf with border in gilt and blind, spines gilt in compartments with red roan labels, a little rubbed but a handsome set, [Gilson A5], 12mo, T.Egerton, 1817. ⁂ No publishing details are known of this edition, even whether it was published before or after the author's death in July 1817. There is no mention of it in any letters from Austen but she was presumably not consulted as she had sold the copyright to Egerton.

Hardy (Thomas) A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys, 3 vol., first English edition in book form, [one of probably 1000 copies], half-titles, vol.3 with final blank rather than 32pp. catalogue, some foxing and soiling, browned at beginnings and ends, vol.1 with note in purple crayon to p.77, p.203 of vol.2 slightly defective at fore-edge not affecting text, vol.3 with with pencil notes to front free endpaper and final two leaves frayed at fore-edge, hinges weak or split, original grey-green sand-grain cloth (primary binding), covers with 3-rule border and central publisher's monogram in blind, cream endpapers, rather worn and stained, traces of labels removed from upper covers, [Purdy p.36], 8vo, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. ⁂ First published serially in the European edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine from December 1880 to December 1881, and in America in Harper's from January 1881 to January 1882. The first edition in book form was published in America by Harper & Brothers in November 1881, with the English edition (with final revisions) appearing a week later in December. Hardy was ill and confined to bed for much of the composition of the novel, dictating the majority to his wife; he later burned the manuscript.

Hardy (Thomas) Two on a Tower. A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, first impression, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, vol.1 lacking R4 (final leaf, blank apart from imprint), some foxing, mostly to beginning and end of vol.1 & 3, vol.1 shaken with one gathering becoming loose, bookplate of Henry James Charles Leishman, original dark green cloth, both covers with 3-rule border and central publishers' monogram in blind, yellow endpapers, rubbed and a little stained, labels removed from upper covers of vol.2 & 3, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.41], 8vo, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882.

[Brontë (Anne)] "Acton Bell". The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, first American edition, 2pp. advertisements, foxing, contemporary review from Graham's magazine loosely inserted, contemporary blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine slightly faded, some light rubbing and marking to covers but still an excellent example overall, [Smith 4 pp.105-106], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ Scarce in the original cloth and in such good condition.

Bible, Greek.- Novum...Testamentum [graece], collation: A-Z8, AA-ZZ8, 2AA-DD8; 796, [4] pp., woodcut device on title, decorated initials, occasional marginal browning, stamp erased from title, a few ink underlinings, bound at end seven later blank leaves bearing a few early annotations in Greek and Latin, fine contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers within fillets and frame decorated with foliate motifs, bearing the date '1564' and the letters 'G.P.N.', centre of upper cover with a plaque depicting the sacrifice of Isaac, a different plaque on lower cover depicting the Resurrection, spine with three raised bands, metal clasps intact, 16mo (139 x 87mm.), [Geneva] Jean Crespin, 1553. ⁂ Rare first edition, in its original German binding, of the New Testament in Greek issued from the well-known printing house established in Geneva by Jean Crespin, a native of Arras forced to leave France in 1548. Crespin had a pivotal role in the dissemination of Calvinism in Europe, and published several editions of the Bible in various languages. This volume is finely printed with Crespin's small but easily legible Greek font, and the text closely follows the New Testament issued in 1550 by Robert Estienne. Literature: Adams B1664; Darlow & Moule 4626.

A Georgian style mahogany longcase clock, early 20th Century With a domed pediment above a blind fretwork frieze, the hood with four fluted tapering columns flanking the break arch gilt metal 8" dial with silvered bezel, with a three train movement striking on rods, the case with canted fluted corners above a beaded lower panel, raised on bracket feet, 170cm high.

A Georgian mahogany glazed bookcaseThe moulded dentil cornice above a blind fret work frieze over two astragal glazed doors enclosing three shelves, 90x110x35cm.

An impressive William IV rosewood credenza The shaped top above an arrangement of four cupboard doors each with blind fret work panels and the central doors flanked by C scroll foliate brackets above similar lower brackets, raised on a shaped plinth base, 172x94x56cm.

A mahogany Chippendale revival sideboard, early 20th CenturyOf turreted form with a gadroon border over two central drawers flanked by two cupboard doors each with blind fretwork canted corners, raised on six shell carved cabriole legs with ball and claw feet and two plain rear cabriole legs, 182x117x61cm.

After Terence Cuneo, Duchess of Hamilton, a limited edition print with blind stamp and signed in the margin by the artist and by Robert A Riddles, principal assistant to William Stanier, together with another Terence Cuneo print of a steam locomotive, King George V (2)

A 19th Century mahogany hanging corner cabinet with blind fret carving and astral glazed door

Peter Ustinov signed TLS typed signed letter 1973 on Geranium Day for the Blind letterhead regarding the charity appeal. English actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter. He was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. A respected intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95.

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003), Reclining Figure, 1971, lithograph, signed, numbered 143/150, with Erker Press blind stamp, 76cm x 56cm. DDS

Elizabeth Frink (1930-1993), Cormorant, lithograph, signed in pencil, numbered **7/150, Curwen studio blind stamp, 60cm x 49cm. DDS

Richard Bawden NEAC (1936 -), Flowers and Patchwork, aquatint, signed in pencil and numbered 50/150, blind stamp, 50.5cm x 40.5cm. DDS

* Christopher Penny (British, 1947-2001), Castle Rigg, print, signed, inscribed and numbered 121/150, studio blind stamp possibly to bottom right, 30cm x 33cm. Vat on the hammer DDS P330- 312

* Keiki Minami (Japanese 1911-2004)), Bird in Flight, coloured etching, signed, numbered 22/100 and with studio blind stamp, 36cm x 28cm. Vat on the hammer M400- 284

* Richard Smith CBE (British, 1931-2016), Everglad, signed and dated '69, with studio blind stamp, 31cm x 39cm, and Sun Curtain, lithographs, signed and dated '71, 48cm x 85cm, (2). Vat on the hammer DDS S608- 384, S609- 385

* Paul Hogarth (British, 1917-2001), two lithographs, Louisburg Square, Boston (36cm x 59cm), and George Town, Colorado, signed, inscribed and numbered 51/150 and 127/150 respectively, with studio blind stamp, (2). Vat on the hammer DDS H500- 225, H501- 226

** Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Watercolor paint kit with brushes (Feldman & Schellmann II.288) Offset Lithograph, 1984, signed in black felt-tip pen, numbered from the edition of 500, on Carnival Felt Cover wove paper, printed by Kordett Color Graphics and Rupert Jasen Smith, published by the New York Association for the Blind, with full margins, 229 x 305mm (9 x 12in) ** This lot has been imported from outside the EU to be sold at auction under temporary importation, and therefore the buyer must pay the import VAT at a rate of 5%. On proof of export outside the European Union, this duty can be refunded.Please note this print is an artist’s proof numbered from the edition of 75 aside from the edition of 500, and not as stated in the printed catalogue. 

A Georgian mahogany serpentine fronted chest, fitted with four graduated long drawers below and brush slide, with blind fret carved canted corners, raised on bracket feet, width 36ins Condition report: Probably pre-1800, but undergone alterations and repairs. Brass handles probably original.

[MISCELLANEOUS] Shaw's Guide to Carlingford Bay, Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor, Newcastle, and the Mourne Mountains, The Graphotyping Company Limited et al., London / Newry / Dublin, no date, blind-stamped green cloth gilt, folding map frontispiece, colour plate and black and white text illustrations, period advertisements, small octavo; and S. Beaty-Pownall, editor, The 'Queen' Cookery Books No.2: Ices, second edition, Cox, London, 1902, cream cloth, text illustrations, small octavo, (2).

Chairman MaoFour portraits Offset lithograph 29/30With blind stamp 37 x 39cm

Photographs, a collection of approx 75 b/w photo's, various sizes, showing interior furnishings, chairs, lighting, clocks, etc, many with 'Warings' blind embossed stamps or rubber stamp mark to reverse, mostly Edwardian (mixed condition)