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* Book/linen press. A book or linen press on integral stand, by Army & Navy C.S.L., circa 1900, of hardwood construction, central screw thread with acorn-shaped finial, platen approximately 57 x 35 cm (22.5 x 14 ins), opening to 19 cm (7 1/2 ins), stand with single drawer, press blind stamped A. & N. C.S.L. Makers and with serial number 14989, total height approximately 133 cm (52 1/2 ins)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the bindery of Trevor Lloyd MBE.The press is in excellent condition.

Montgomery (Lucy Maud). Anne of Green Gables, London: printed in U.S.A., Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, circa 1908, 429 pp., ink name stamp to upper pastedown, original reddish-brown cloth, blind embossed upper board with inset pictorial panel, title in gilt to spine and upper board, rubbed and some light wear to extremities, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:This volume is possibly an early reprint, with no illustrations or catalogue.

China. Wyld (James), Map of the Country between the Gulf of Pe-Tch-Li & Pekin shewing the Operations of the Allied Forces, circa 1860, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight dust and finger soiling, 380 x 525 mm, publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with printed label with a manuscript title to the upper cover, boards fadedQTY: (1)NOTE:A separately-published map detailing events and locations of the 1858-60 campaign by a British and French expeditionary force culminating in the capture of the Taku Forts, 21st. August 1860, and Lord Elgin's entry to Peking on 24th October, bringing an end to the Second Opium War.Only on institutional copy recorded (British Library).

Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de). Elles, London: Toulouse-Lautrec Circle of London, 1969, 12 colour lithographs, blind stamped & numbered in pencil to the bottom right corners, original boards in slipcase, large folio, limited edition 89/1250, together with:Pinter (Harold), The Homecoming, London: Karnac.Curwen, 1968, colour illustrations by Harold Cohen, signed to the limitation page by the author & illustrator, original cloth in slipcase, spine & boards lightly faded, large folio, limited edition 159/200, plus other miscellaneous literature & reference, including bibliography, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some ex-library copies with associated marks, G/VG, 8vo/folio QTY: (6 shelves )

Fore-edge Painting. Scripture Harmony, or Concordance of Parallel Passages; being a Commentary on the Bible, London: Samuel Bagster, 1823, front pocket to pastedown containing related letter of gift, all edges gilt with fore-edge painting consisting of decorative ownership signature 'Richd. Holden, Liverpool, August 1825' with image of cross, winged heart, and anchor, contemporary blind decorated black morocco with overlapping flap, 8vo, together with Bible [English], The Old and New Testaments; being the English version of the Polyglott Bible, London: Samuel Bagster, 1819, all edges gilt with fore-edge ownership inscription 'Richard Holden, Liverpool, December 1821', contemporary blind decorated black morocco with overlapping flap, 8vo,QTY: (2)

Ward (Humphrey & W. Roberts). Romney, a Biographical and Critical Essay, with a catalogue raisonné of his works, 2 volumes, London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1904, numerous monochrome plates, later endpapers, ex-library blind stamps to the title pages, gutters cracked, some toning & light wear, top edges gilt, later blue library cloth, lightly rubbed, large 4to, together with:Waanders Uitgevers, publisher, Old Master Paintings, an illustrated summary catalogue, [Riksdienst Beeldende Kunst], 1st edition, Zwolle, 1992, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplate to the front pastedown, some very minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plusConisbee (Philip, et al), In the Light of Italy, Corot and early open-air painting, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, numerous colour illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot with a minor tear to the head of the soine/front cover, large 4to, and other Old Master & Renaissance art reference, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some previous owner marks, overall condition is generally fair to very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves )

Spenser (Edmund). [The Works of the Famous English Poet, Mr Edmond Spenser. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepheardes Calendar, The History of Ireland, & c. Whereunto is added An Account of his Life; with other new additions never before in print], London: Printed by Henry Hills for Johnathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1679, lacking engraved frontispiece and title page, with later facsimile title page inserted in its place (The First Part of the Fairy Queen...), text begins on A1 (A Summary of the LIfe of Mr. Edmond Spenser), B1 with lower blank margin replaced, separate titles to several parts, some old underlining and annotations, first leaf soiled, marbled endpapers, 19th-century blind-decorated full calf, rubbed and scuffed, a little wear to upper joint and head and foot of spine, with minor loss at foot, folio, together with:Dryden (John). The Poems of John Dryden, edited by James Kinsley, 4 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1958, original dark blue cloth with gilt spine, 8vo, plusMalory (Sir Thomas). The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Eugène Vinaver, 3 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1947, original dark blue cloth, gilt spine, 8vo andSaintsbury (George). Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, 3 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1905-21, original rust-brown cloth, paper label to spine of each volume (darkened), 8vo, and others similar including The Essays of Montaigne done into English by John Florio edited with introduction by George Saintsbury, 3 volumes, London: David Nutt, 1892, The Works of Thomas Deloney...by Francis Oscar Mann, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, England's Helicon edited by A. H. Bullen, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, The Poems of Patrick Cary edited by Sister Veronica Delany, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, The Odyssey of Homer edited by Maynard Mack, 3 volumes, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967, etc., 8voQTY: (27)NOTE:Wing S4965; Pforzhermer 980.Third collected edition, and the first to contain the texts of Brittain's Ida, the View of the State of Ireland, and the latin version of The Shepheardes Calendar.

Verne (Jules). Les Voyages Extraordinaires. La Jangada; huit cents lieues sur l'Amazone ... Dessins par Benett. De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht “Saint-Michel.” Par P. Verne. Dessins par Riou, Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Rècréation J. Hetzel et cie, [1881], wood engraved frontispiece, illustration to title and throughout text, publisher's catalogue ('Catalogue AP') at rear, some toning, all edges gilt, original red cloth with blocked in gilt, black and blind, large 8vo, together with:Verne (Jules), Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant: Voyage autour du monde..., Illustrés de 172 vignettes par Riou Gravees par Pannemaker, Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Rècréation J. Hetzel et cie, [1868], 624 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, illustration to title and throughout text, damp staining to lower outer corner of initial leaves, some toning and marginal browning, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco-backed cloth, upper joint split and board attachment weak, covers faded, extremities rubbed and few marks, large 8vo,Verne (Jules), Les Voyages Extraordinaires couronnés par l'Académie. L'ile Mystérieuse..., illustrée de 154 dessins par Férat, gravés par Barbant, Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Rècréation J. Hetzel et cie, [1870?], 616 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, illustration to title and throughout text, some toning and marginal browning, contemporary red quarter sheep gilt, extremities rubbed, large 8vo QTY: (3)

A Houghtons Triple Victo Mahogany & Brass Camera, triple extension, bellows G, some tarnishing to brass, crude replacement brass knobs to front standard, focus screen intact, with Ensign f/8 symmetrical lens, G, in Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter, shutter fires, G, Aldis Anastigmat f/7.7 No. 8 lens, F and three DDS

A Mahogany & Brass Half Plate Camera, tarnishing to brass, missing securing bolt to r/hand side of back, bellows F, with Thornton Pickard Beck Symmetrical f/8 lens, G, in roller blind shutter, shutter not working and tripod

A Group of Brass Lenses and Roller blind Shutters, a Beck f/8 Symmetrical lens, The King 6½ f/8 lens, The Aldis Anastigmat f/7.7 lens, three unmarked f/8 lenses, all would benefit from a clean, F, with a large Thornton Pickard shutter for Ross, two smaller examples, AF and six brass mount rings

A Mahogany & Brass Half Plate Camera, no visible maker's/retailer's mark, bellows G, no focus screen, some tarnishing to brass, with Ensign 7.2 inch Series IB No 2 Anastigmat aluminium lens, barrel F, elements F, in Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter, no lens mount ring, shutter not working

SALEROOM ANNOUNCEMENT - camera has a triple extension, not double as previously described. Estimate has changed to £100 - £150A Thornton Pickard Half Plate Camera, triple extension, bellows F-G, some tarnishing to brass, focus screen intact, with three DDS and damages roller blind shutter

A Mahogany & Brass Half Plate Camera, retailed by Spiers & Ponds Stores Queen Victoria ST E.C, double extension, bellows P, no focus screen, some tarnishing to brass, with f/11 brass lens, elements F-G, in Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter, shutter cocks, sticking

Rowland Langmaid,Naval scene,monochrome etching, signed and with Academy Proof blind stamp,18x35cm.

Canteen of electroplated cutlery, mahogany case with blind fret panels flanking the three fitted drawers, the knives with handles removed, width of case 58cm, depth 37cm, height 30cm.

Foulis Press. [Theocritus] & [Heinsius (Daniël, translator)] , Ta tou Theokritou sesōsmena. Theocriti quae extant, sole Foulis edition, Glasgow: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1746, a well-margined copy, Greek text with Latin translation, half-title, erroneous pagination, yet text and register continuous and complete, collating: [12], 32, 45-192, inner-gutter margins of D-E4 wormed with no loss of text, some foxing in places, later 18th/early 19th c morocco gilt, the covers panelled gilt to a geometric design, within blind-rolled foliate borders and a single-fillet gilt, preserved and repaired spine, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, [Gaskell 78; the first appearance of Andrew Foulis's name as University Printer] Provenance: William Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (1812-1835), of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire; recto flyleaf with his monogram and crested ink stamp, another recto blank inscribed in ink MS: W.W. Fan July 30th/1826 from/W. C. Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

Music, the Oxford Movement and Evangelicalism. Double Chant[s], [13]pp of ink MS music ?composed and/or transcribed by Charles Kemble of Wadham College, Oxon, dated 25 Sept. 1840, partially-filled contents, contemporary limp black roan, embossed in blind, all edges gilt, blue endpapers, oblong 12mo, [&] Benda (Georg), Ariadne auf Naxos, n.d. [early 19th c], 21ff, MS notation and libretto, contemporary papered boards imitating straight-grained morocco, some light losses, oblong 4to, (2) Provenance: 1st: The Reverend Charles Kemble, M.A. (1819-1874), Rector of Bath and Prebendary of Wells.

[Cocceius (Johannes)]/Coccei (Johannis), Opera Omnia, volumes I-III, V-VI, VIII only, Amsterdam: Johannis à Someren [Johan van Someren], 1675-[73], printed in double-columns, contemporary Dutch vellum, tooled and outlined in blind, seven-compartment spines of raised bands, the first and second compartments inscribed in contemporary MS, some bindings with worn losses, 4to, [&] [Bibliography], The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature [...], London: J. Whitaker & Sons, 1889, contemporary calf gilt over cloth, worn with light losses, some movement, substantial 8vo, (7) Provenance: 1st: Thomas Hog, Gent., [c. 1830], armorial bookplates to each pastedown. Sold uncollated.

Royalty, the Court Theatre and Queen Victoria's Windsor Theatricals. Royal Entertainment./By Command./Her Majesty's Servants will Perform, at Windsor Castle./On Wednesday, January 28th, 1857,/A Drama, in two acts (from the French of Messrs. Mélesville and C. Duveyrier)/By Mr. J.R. Planché, entitled/Secret Service [...], After which, a Burletta, in two acts, by Mr George Dance, entitled/Hush Money [...], Director, Mr Charles Kean./Assistant Director, Mr. George Ellis./The Theatre Arranged and the Scenery Painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. [London]: Chapman & Compy., n.d. [1856/7], mixed font printing, the cast of servants and their roles in bold, the sheet blind-embossed with the Royal Arms, the whole within an ornate scrolling 'lace' frame, 4to  When a French theatre company performed The Count of Monte Cristo at Drury Lane there was a violent outcry at the slight to English drama. To show her support for English theatre Queen Victoria instituted the Windsor Theatricals, which were performed by Charles Kean and company at Windsor Castle over Christmas between 1848 and 1861, and in this case, - and perhaps others - the servants played a leading role.

Early English Printing. [The Kalender of Shepherdes (sic)], a series of 24 woodcuts, (15.1 x 12.8cm), incorporating the Signs of the Zodiac, s.l. [?London], s.n., n.d., probably facsimiles taken from an early English edition of an almanac first published in French in 1493 by Guy Marchant as Le compost et Kalendrier des bergiers, trimmed to the black-ruled margin, Gothic Black Letter to verso, mounted two to a leaf, browned, collected and bound in 19th c tan morocco, chipped and split, upper-cover lettered in gilt: The Shepherd's Kalendar (sic), 1580, blind-ruled borders, 4toThe binding's attribution to the 1580 Elizabethan narrative poem is erroneous: neither the type employed nor the illustrations in our series of prints conform to that title, itself Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work.These woodcuts closely accord with the illustrations in a 1500 French edition of the Compost (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Douce 161), but differ from those in an English edition of 1556. However, the text on the verso of a conforming set of 12 woodcuts in the Royal Collection (RCIN 809372), to which ours also conform in part (here we have 24 rather than 12), is in English.

Derek Carruthers (1935-2021) - Mirage from Edfu Temple; The Blind Leading the Blind, fibreglass resin and paint on canvas, both signed and dated 1982-3 or Feb-March 2006 and March 2007 verso, 124 x 121cm and 122 x 123cm (2) Good condition

Ireland, Female Education; Possible Royal Presentation Copy. Simple Direction in Needle-Work and Cutting Out; Intended for the use of the National Female Schools of Ireland. To which are added, Specimens of Works Executed by the Pupils of The National Model Female School [i.e. the Quaker-established Kildare Academy/Kildare Place Society], ? a royal presentation copy for Queen Victoria, Dublin: Published by Direction of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, et al., 1846, [5], 6-84pp, 85-106ff (Specimens), first part (i.e. text) signatures collating: ¶², B-L⁴, the paginated and unpaginated interleaved green printed specimen leaves 'illustrated' with 60 cotton, linen, wool, lace, further needlework, and printed textiles, comprising samplers, frocks and dresses, hosiery, patchwork, etc., all of which are prefaced by an extra-illustrated silkwork leaf embroidered with the message: The Queen Reigns In the Hearts of Her People Aug. 1849, the cresting and apron embroidered in gilt threads with a royal crown and the Irish harp or clarsach, within a meandering green shamrock border, finely bound in contemporary purple morocco over boards, somewhat bowed, the upper-cover blocked in gilt and centred by the VR cypher within an unlettered garter and crested by St Edwards Crown, each cover outlined with a blind double-fillet border, the white paper printed leaves with all edges gilt, gilt-rolled anthemion dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to  There are several tantalising indications that this finely bound copy of a usually more restrained volume, two of which have been sold in these rooms before (a c. 1836 edition, July 2022, & the 1853 edition, January 2023), might have been a copy presented to Queen Victoria during her 1849 visit to Ireland. As well as the dated needlework samplers corresponding to the imprint date, i.e. 1849, the extra-illustrated sampler, with its eulogy addressed to the sovereign, is not called for and its uniqueness hints at presentation. The fine binding, again uncommon on such a practical book, strongly indicates a presentation copy. The University of Toronto's database British Armorial Bindings show only one further example of this supralibros, Victoria Stamp 9, on an 1851 Dublin imprint now in the Penes Philip Maddock library.  Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin.

Bible, King James Version. D'Oyly (The Rev. George, editor) & Mant (The Rev. Richard, editor), The Holy Bible, two-volume set, Oxford: Printed for the Society at the Clarendon Press, by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, Printers to the University, et al., 1818, double-column, folding maps and plans, full-page plates, [&] Mant's Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, et al., 1820, double-column, finely bound by F. Kile, St. Clement's, Oxford, ticket to pastedown of volume I, in uniform Regency grey calf, gilt and blind, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, (3) Provenance: The Reverend Edward Ward Wakeman (1801-1855), of Coton Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire; early 19th c crested bookplate to each recto pastedown.

Travel. Willyams (The Rev. Cooper, A.M., et al.), A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, One of the Squadron Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. [...]. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798 [...], first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White, 1802, complete, pp: xxiii, [1] (errata), 309; illustrated with 43 plates as called for, mostly executed in sepia, including an engraved dedication leaf to Admiral Lord St. Vincent (Willyams' patron), a map of the Mediterranean, and a plan of the Battle of the Nile, very good ex-library copy, ink numbers to verso of title and dedication and blind-stamps (inoffensive), mostly marginal but within image of around 18 plates, else generally clean with some occasional spotting or light staining, small repair to inner margin of title, 20th century quarter-calf gilt over cloth, preserving an earlier gilt-lettered label, contemporary marbled edges, royal folio (49cm x 35.5cm), [Abbey, Travel, 196; Blackmer 1813] Provenance: Bath Public Library, The Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles bequest 1920; bookplate to pastedown, their blindstamps within as catalogued.

Derek Carruthers (1935-2021) - Colour Blind or Cosmic Circle, signed, dated 1998-Jan 2002-Oct 2003 and inscribed, oil on canvas and painted wood (?), 91 x 121cm, unframed Good condition

Yeats (William Butler), The Wild Swans at Coole, first edition thus, "Presentation Copy" blind-stamp to half-title and title, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919, rare in publisher's original dustjacket, now tatty in places, spine scuffed and worn, over blue pictorial cloth designed by Sturge Moore, gilt upper-cover, uncut, 8vo

Wales. The Reverend Francis Taynton (1799-1869/70), his manuscript pocket book cum diary, records and extracts dated from 1811-1870, approx. [105] ff of MS, compiled and inscribed while incumbent of the parishes of Ystradowen and Talygarn, Vale of Glamorgan, and later resident of Cowbridge, Taynton seems to have been an obsessive chronicler, as well as his clerical chronology 'Dates respecting my Profession', which includes being thwarted in a living by Bishop Copleston of Llandaff, further records pertain to his horse dealings, the dates and locations of his tours, operas, concerts, and plays attended and watched, as well as more mundane matters, e.g. his height and weight over his lifetime, the weather, his various crops and his income, as well as his mother's, more interesting financial details include the cost and employment of workmen, builders, painters and wallpaper. In 1853 the dreaded cholera strikes, which the vicar puts down to the impure air from the drains at the supper rooms at the Bear over the Stables [?pub], etc., some blank leaves, early 19th c sombre roan, blind-rolled anthemion border, some splits and losses, but holding, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, 12mo

The Peninsular War. Papers Relative to Spain and Portugal. [London]: [Printed by Order of the House of Commons], 1810, various pagings, c. 370pp, contemporary russia calf gilt over papered boards, blue-speckled edges, folio (35 x 21.5cm) Provenance: Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), armorial binding, his supralibros blocked in blind on each cover, (Toronto Armorial, Stamp 5)

Local Interest. Deering (Charles, M.D.), Nottinghamia vetus et nova, or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham [...], first edition, Nottingham: Printed by and for, George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751, lacking title, otherwise unexamined, contemporary reverse calf, split and repaired, 4to, two Nottingham election Poll Books, Nottingham: R. Sutton, 1830 & 1855, some repairs and institutional stamps, 20th c morocco over cloth, 12mo in 6s, [India & the 1857 Mutiny] Meek (The Rev. Robert, of Sutton Bonington), The Martyr of Allahabad, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1857, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, some blind-stamps, 8vo, three volumes of Robin Hood's Garlands, 1792, 1800 and n.d. [c. 1800], each chapbook defective &/or repaired, cloth, mixed sizes, Creswell's History of Printing, 1863, original wrappers, repaired, 4to, two of Sir Joseph Bright's scrapbooks of newspaper, journal and periodical clippings, c. 1890, repaired contemporary bindings, 4to, Terrier of the Chamber & Bridge Estates, Corporation of Nottingham, 1871, contemporary floppy roan, oblong folio (33.5 x 44cm), Pendock Barry Barry versus James Butlin, 1836, defective, lacking all prelims, unexamined thereafter, 20th c black cloth, folio (45 x 28.5cm), two volumes of Chaworth's Hunting Songs & Poems, the Belvoir Hunt, Sherwood Gazetteer volume I, some local imprints, etc,. (24) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Derek Carruthers (1935-2021) - The Blind Leading the Blind; Untitled (lay figures), two, both signed, both signed again and dated March 1997 or Feb - March 2006 verso, watercolour, 107 x 76cm and 76 x 111cm, unframed (2) Both in good condition, not creased, never framed, in Secol packet

Food and Drink in Early 19th c Yorkshire. The Harrisons of Tibthorpe's manuscript accounts, presumably grocers or provision merchants, dated July 21st, 1827 to April 14th, 1830, approx. [27]ff only, verso with [14]ff of mercantile arithmetic by Master John Harrison of Hull, contemporary vellum, blind-ruled borders, split and loosening, but OK contents, foolscap folio (41.5 x 17cm)

Miscellaneous. [Justinian, Corpus Juris Civilis] Institutiones, Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevier, 1676, engraved frontispiece, printed in black and red, rear lacking 3 pages, 18th c English vellum, spine chipped, yellow-stained edges, book label contemporary to binding: Dr G S Jenks/Circus/Bath, 8vo, defective Elsevier imprints of Livy, [Provincial Imprints] Salmon (W., translator), Memoirs of [Frederick the Great] [...], Nottingham: Sam. Creswell, and sold by J. Deacres, 1759, lacks frontispiece, archive repairs, 20th c institutional morocco over boards, uncut, 8vo, [&] Dr. Watt's Historical Catechisms, Nottingham: E.B. Robinson, 1817, stained and repaired, institutional cloth binding and markings, 12mo, [Australia] Howitt (William), Tallangetta, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1857, original publisher's cloth over boards, now split and disbound, uncut, 8vo, [India & the 1857 Mutiny] Meek (The Rev. Robert, of Sutton Bonington), The Martyr of Allahabad, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1857, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, some blind-stamps, 8vo, Wakefield (Gilbert), Silva Critica, parts I & II bound as one, Cantabrigiensis: typis academicis excudebat J. Archdeacon, et al., 1789-90, 20th c half-calf over green cloth, 8vo, odd volumes of Wakefield's other works, classics, harlequin volumes of Dodsley's poems, mixed bindings and sizes, etc Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

A mid-19th c manuscript notebook, tipped-in and inscribed pharmacopoeia receipts for cough medicines and dealing with rheumatism, loosely-inserted letterpress receipt: A Certain Cure for an Inveterate Cough, notes on scrofula, aka the 'Kings Evil', choler, others, biblical and devotional notes and commentary, some prayers, further typically inscribed with commonplace verse and maxims, including lines On the late W Hancock of Nottingham/Died 1805, loosely-inserted and tipped-in Victorian mourning cards, disbound contemporary sheep, perished spine, 8vo, Westmorland, a mid-18th c commonplace book, [15]ff only of manuscript and printed leaves viz. to the antiquities, history, topography, and ancient families of the county, interleaved blank leaves throughout, contemporary reverse calf, blind-rolled, chased clasps, chipped with some losses and movement, red-speckled edges, 8vo, The Polite Remembrancer, for 1797, kept and annotated by a Miss Ann Maria Langton, inscribed with her daily engagements, including walking to and/or taking tea at Wanley Hall, [?Leicestershire], some accounts, including for silk and the binding of her shoes, some entries blank, the 'diary' prefixed with a printed almanac as issued, original limp green morocco gilt, contemporary ticket to pastedown: J. New, Stationer, No. 8 Aldgate, 12mo, [&] The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas For the Year 1811, partially-inscribed, some torn losses, the internal sleeve with some loosely-inserted contemporaneous and later ephemera, including pencil sketches and University of Oxford papers, contemporary limp morocco, restrained by a white metal clasp, all edges gilt, marbled edges, contemporary ticket to pastedown: Staunton & Son, Stationers and Booksellers, 474 Strand, 12mo, (4)  Provenance: 2nd: Edmond Lamplugh Irton (1761-1820), of Irton Hall, Cumbria; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, below a note citing the College of Arms. Presumably sold at the dispersal of his "fine library" at Irton, c. 1853.

Derek Carruthers (1935-2021) - In the World of the Blind the One-Eyed is King, signed and inscribed, oil on canvas, 69 x 68.5cm, unframed Good condition

Illustrated Books. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Walton's The Compleat (sic) Angler, Philadelphia: David McKay Co., n.d. [1931], colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations, contemporary green morocco, gilt and blind, worn, bowed and bumped, some staining, top-edge gilt, 8vo, idem., another edition, London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., 1931, original pictorial dustjacket, conserved and repaired, over blue cloth gilt, 8vo, idem., Lamb (Charles) & (Mary), Tales from Shakespeare, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909, original publisher's pictorial cloth, top-edge gilt, 8vo, [&] idem., The Ingoldsby Legends, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898, original green cloth, pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (4)

Bible, KJV. [Fine Gothic Revival binding] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments [...], London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, n.d. [c. 1850], black-ruled and printed in double-columns, illustrated with steel-engraved plates and maps, finely bound in Gothic Revival gilt-metal mounted sombre black morocco over bevelled boards by [Charles] Courtier, London, stamped, blind-ruled fillets enclosing foliate bosses and trailing foliage, all edges gilt, C-scroll corners and clasp, 4to

Bibles. [Binding] The Holy Bible, with a Complete Commentary [...], Nottingham: Printed & Published by R. Dowson for the Proprietors, 1811, engraved title-page and frontispiece, printed in double-columns, plates, uncollated, mid-20th c black sombre morocco over boards, upper-cover with a crucifix onlay, c. 1811 red-speckled edges, title with ex-lib blind-stamp, otherwise apparently free of other institutional markings, pastedown with mid-20th c ecclesiastical presentation plate, folio (43 x 27cm), further Dowson printed Holy Bibles, all local Nottingham imprints, 1811-1818, unexamined, mixed contemporary bindings with faults, folio, (5)

Art. Du Fresnoy (Charles-Alphonse), Dryden (John), & Graham (Richard), The Art of Painting [...], second edition thus, London: Printed for B.L. [i.e. Bernard Lintott] and sold by William Taylor, 1716, engraved frontispiece, black-ruled title-page, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, blind, split but holding, red-speckled edges, 8vo Provenance: 1) Payd (sic) the 23th of May for this book *3sh: 6d to Mrs Shipton, verso pastedown with contemporaneous ink MS inscription. 2) Francis Hall, 19th c armorial bookplate, printed on pink paper.

Ure (Andrew), A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines [...], bound as two volumes, London: Longman, et al., 1839, in-text illustrations & tables, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, edges and endpapers marbled en suite, 8vo, The Imperial Journal of Arts, Science, Mechanics and Engineering, two-volume set, Manchester: James Ainsworth, n.d. [1850], printed in double-columns, folding & full-page plates & diagrams, in-text illustrations, contemporary green quarter-calf over cloth, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 4to, Partington (Charles F.), The British Cyclopædia, two-volume set, London: Orr & Smith, 1835, plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-calf bindings over marbled boards, H.T. Cooke of Warwick, ticket, Hutton Estate labels, 8vo, Tomlinson (Charles, editor), Cyclopædia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, eight-volume set, London: James S. Virtue, n.d. [c. 1850] steel-engraved plates, in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt and blind, some wear and bumped corners, 8vo, [The Great Exhibition, 1851] The Illustrated Exhibitor [...], London: John Cassell, n.d., repaired folding frontispiece, folding plates, contemporary quarter-calf with faults, cover split and loose, etc., 8vo Mitchell (James), The Portable Encyclopædia [...], London: Thomas Tegg, 1839, illustrated, contemporary half-calf over cloth, 8vo, Pepper's Cyclopædic Science Simplified, author's presentation copy, n.d., chromolithograph frontispiece, original cloth, 8vo,  (17)

Topography. [Photographically-illustrated], Harker (B.J.), Rambles in Upper Wharfedale, first edition, Skipton: Edmondson and Co, 1869, half-title, original publisher's cloth, gilt and blind, all edges gilt, 12mo, Grainge (William), Nidderdale, Pateley Bridge: Thomas Thorpe, 1863, chromolithographic plates, original publisher's cloth, gilt, some wear, all edges gilt, 8vo, Phillips (John, FRS), The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire [...], subscribers' edition, London: John Murray, 19853, 36 plates, original publisher's cloth, worn and split, but good, uncut, contemporary crested bookplate: Arthur Maude, 8vo, Jenkinson's Lake District, 1872, folding hand-coloured maps, original publisher's cloth, worn and split, gutter holding, 8vo, Abraham's Motor Ways in Lakeland, second edition, 1913, cloth, 8vo, Mackintosh's Scenery, 1869 , 8vo, etc., (13)

JAZZ - LP COLLECTION (FREE/ AVANT/ IMPROV). A fine collection of 33 jazz LPs. Artists/ titles include Maurice McIntyre - Humility In The Light Of Creator (DS-419, record Ex+/ sleeve Ex+), Pharoah Sanders - Deaf Dumb Blind (SPB 1019, Ex+/ Ex+), Jimmy Lyons - Riffs (Hat 3503), Don Cherry - S/T (SP-717), Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv - Leichenschrei (SER02), Dudu Pukwana & Spear - In The Townships, Roscoe Mitchell Sextet, Anthony Braxton, Don Pullen, Dewey Redman, David Thomas, Grachan Moncur III, Leroy Jenkins, Steve Lacy, Oliver Lake, Philip Wilson Quartet, Sunny Murray Sunshine, Evan Parker, The Ganelin Trio, THe World Saxophone Quartett, The Bracknell Connection, Lester Bowie, Ronald Shannon, McCoy Tyner, James Blood Ulmer. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.

ART BLAKEY/JAZZ MESSENGERS - LP COLLECTION. Fantastic collection of 8 x LPs featuring Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers including many original/early US and UK Pressings. Titles are At The Cafe Bohemia Volume 1 (mono BLP 1507, 1960 crossover pressing with 47 West side 1 and Lexington address side 2, deep groove both sides, RVG and Plastylite P both sides - VG+/VG copy, sleeve with 43 West 61st street address), A Night In Tunisia (mono og mono, BLP 4049, variant with deep groove side 2 only - VG+/VG+), Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers (BLP 4003, second US press circa 1959 with Blue Note Records Inc 47 West 63rd address both labels, deep grooved both sides and RVG and Plastylte P both sides - VG/VG), The Big Beat (BLP 4029, og pressing - G+/VG), A Night At Birdland Vol 1 (BLP 1521, crossover pressing circa 1962 with New York/West 63rd labels - Ex/Ex) and Vol 2 (BLP 1522, crossover pressing circa 1957 with Lexington/West 63rd labels - VG+/Ex), Ritual (UK LAE 12096 - VG+/Ex) and 3 Blind Mice (SULP 1017 - Ex+/Ex+). Please see all images for labels and sleeve designs.

BLUES - LP COLLECTION. A fine collection of around 33 blues LPs. Artists/ titles include Skip James - The Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers (670 185), Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues Singers (ALB 1001), Lucille Bogan/ Walter Roland - Jook It, BB King - The Best Of, Blind Willie McTell inc Trying To Get Home, Atlanta Twelve String. Various inc Jackson Blues 1928-1938, On The Road Again: An Anthology Of Chicago Blues 1947-1954, Blues: Southside Chicago, Chicago Blues: The Early 1950's, Favourite Country Blues Guitar-Piano Duets 1929-1937, Rope Stretchin' Blues 1926-1931. Big Bill Broonzy - Big Bill's Blues, Sonny Williamson - One Way Out. Memphis Minnie - 1930-1941. Elmore James, Casey Bill Weldon. Condition is generally VG to Ex. Records are all stored in heavily smoke-damaged plastic wallets, this will have transferred to some sleeves but will not affect the playback of the records.

BLUES/ R&B - JAPANESE LP COLLECTION. A super collection of 39 blues/ R&B LPs, all Japanese pressings. Artists/ titles include LaVern Baker - S/T (P-4581), Chuck Willis - The King Of The Stroll (P-4587), Otis Rush - Right Place Wrong Time, BB King inc Blues Is King, THe Feeling They Call The Blues, Love Me Tender, 1949-1950, Live At The Regal. John Lee Hooker - The Best Of, Elmore James - Best Of, Champion Jack Dupree - Blues From The Gutter, Blind Lemon Jefferson - Best Of, Buster Brown - The New King Of The Blues, Albert King - Live Blues, Larry Williams - Here's, Various - Atlantic Do Wap Special, Chuck Berry, Smiley Lewis, The Moonglows, Joe Tex, Jimmy McCracklin, Imperial Singles Collection Vols 1 & 2. Condition is generally Ex to Ex+.

Five fruit trays with approx 500+ CDs to inc some CD boxsets. All major artists represented and most are well kept. Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Blind Willie Johnson, Sun Ra, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Slim Harpo, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters.. Miles Davis Trilogy boxset. All shown in photographs.

BLUES - LP COLLECTION. Another smashing collection of around 35 blues LPs. Artists/ titles include Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues (DL-612, record VG/ sleeve VG+), Blind Willie McTell - King Of The Georgia Blues Singers (RL-324), Robert Lockwood Jr - Steady Rollin' Man. Various inc New Deal Blues, The Voice of The Blues: Bottleneck Guitar Masterpieces, The Georgia Blues 1927-1933, The Rural Blues, Tex-Arkana-Louisiana Country 1929-1933, St Louis Town 1927-1932, Ten Years In Memphis 1927-1937, Texas Country Music, Memphis Blues. John Little John, JB Hutto, Freddy King, Bumble Bee Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Bo Carter. Condition is generally VG to Ex. Records are all stored in heavily smoke-damaged plastic wallets, this will have transferred to some sleeves but will not affect the playback of the records.

JAZZ LP PACK (FREE/ AVANT/ POST BOP). A super selection of 9 jazz LPs. Artists/ titles include Duke Pearson - The Phantom (BST 84293, Liberty address labels. 729 New York sleeve address. Record is strong VG+/ sleeve strong VG+), Pharoah Sanders - Deaf Dumb Blind (SPB 1019, side 1 is Ex/ side 2 has some inner sleeve transfer sheen VG/ sleeve is strong VG+), Art Blakey - Roots & Herbs (BST 84347, Liberty labels. Ex/ VG+), Archie Shepp - Fire Music (AS-86, Ex/ sleeve strong VG+, has some minor laminate peeling on the back cover), Roland Kirk - Hip (FJL 114, VG+/ VG+), The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out Of The Cool (IMPL 8040, white label promo. Ex/ VG+), Ralph Towner With Glen Moore - Trios Solos (ECM 1025 ST, Ex/ VG), Don Cherry - "Mu" First Part (529.301, VG+/ VG+) & Gil Evans - The Individualism Of (2683 045, VG+/ VG+).

Terrance cuneo limited edition signed print with blind stamp titled stabling for giants the locomotive depo Boulogne

° ° Dickens, Charles - Bleak House. First Edition, pictorial engraved and printed titles, frontis and 38 plates (by Hablot Brown). contemp. blind ruled and gilt decorated calf, rebacked preserving original panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps. 1853

° ° Morris, Rev. Francis Orpen - A History of British Birds (Cabinet Edition), 8 vols. 358 hand coloured plates (with guards); publisher's blind pictorial cloth, cr. 8vo. Groombridge and Sons, (ca.1870)

° ° Lambarde, William - A Perambulation of Kent: conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shyre ... (second edition) now increased and altered ... title within generously decorated border, heptarchy map, folded 'carde of the beacons', decorated initial letters, black letter; old blind-ruled calf, panelled spine with maroon label, gilt-lettered 'RB' on covers. by Edward Bollifant, 1596

° ° Houghton, Rev. William - British Freshwater Fishes, 2 vols. 41 coloured plates (with guards); publisher's gilt and blind pictorial leather cloth, ge., roy. 4to. (1879)

° ° Malcolm, Sir John - A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa, and Adjoining Provinces ... 2 vols, large folded map and another (folded and coloured); newly rebound calf backed marbled boards, gilt-ruled and blind decorated panelled spines with maroon and black labels, 1823

° ° Erman, Adolph - Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards to the Chinese frontier ... 2 vols. folded map; newly rebound half calf and marbled boards, blind-decorated panelled spines with red labels, marbled edges and e/ps. 1848

° ° [Maule, Henry - The History of the Picts: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, government, religion, bounds and limits of their Kingdom ...] i.e. lacks title, old calf backed boards, sm.8vo. (Edinburgh, 1706]; Done, I. - The Ancient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since ... headpiece decorations and decorated initial letters; old blind ruled calf, sm.8vo. by N.Okes, 1633 (2)

Fanch Ledan (French, b.1949), three pencil signed limited edition colour prints, one with embossed blind stamp, one titled Parc Monceau, largest 66 x 50cm

° ° Fortune, Robert - Three Year's Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries ... 2nd edition. pictorial engraved and printed titles, a map, three lithographed plates and some text engravings (2 full page); original gilt pictorial and blind decorated cloth, 1847

° ° Ellis, Rev. William - Three Visits to Madagascar ... including a journey to the capital ... 15 plates (1 folded) and a map, text engravings; original blind-ruled gilt pictorial cloth. 1858; Hack, Maria - Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers ... 4 vols., frontispieces; contemp. roan-backed marbled boards, 12mo. 1818-24; together with other antiquarian natural history and related (41)

° ° Horsfield, Thomas & Moore, Frederic - A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 2 vols. original blind decorated cloth, gilt lettered on spines. 1856-58; Preiss, Paul - Abbildungen hervoragender Nachtschetterlinge aus dem Indo Australischen und Sudamerikanischen Fanngebiet. 12 lithographed plates, old cloth, sm. folio. Coblenz, 1888; together with other older natural history (24)