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A late Victorian mahogany side cabinet, the upper part with shaped and scroll carved cresting, fitted one cloth covered shelf enclosed by a single glazed door with shaped glazing bars, flanked by open shelves, on slender turned supports and inset with bevelled mirror panels, the serpentine fronted base with moulded edge, fitted one frieze drawer with blind fret carved panels, on four square tapered and moulded legs with reeded square toes, 33ins wide x 19ins deep x 66ins high

A 19th century printed and hand highlighted fan decorated with figures dancing in blind man`s buff type scene, with painted end blades and floral highlights, in gilt painted frame (illustrated)

THE GREAT EXHIBITION. "The World`s Fair or Childrens` Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851." hand col fronts & title page, other illus 106pp, 21pp ads, orig blind stamp gilt cloth, 12mo, Dean & Son Ackermann, 1851. (See illustration)

PHOTOGRAPHY. Album of 28 portrait carte-de-visit size photos, mostly by Gibson & Sons & Beringer. orig blind stamped leather & brass clasps with hinges c1870, good.

Film Posters - Cry Freedom, Kevin Costner - No Way Out, Bruce Willis - Blind Date, Debra Winge - Black Widow, Masters of the Universe plus others, all original, all quad size (7) plus one similar (8) Mixed condition

Cameras: ten, including mahogany and brass whole-plate field camera, with brass-bound f/8 lens in roller-blind shutter, Shoei Ruvikon folding camera, Semflex Standard TLR, in maker`s ever ready case, Voigtlander Vito BR, two light meters, two pairs of binoculars and Carl Zeiss Jena f/2.8 180mm lens no. 102235192 (a lot)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) `A Bona Fide Foxchaser`, colour print laid down on support sheet, blind stamp, signed, 47 x 43cm (18 x 16in)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) The finest view in Europe, chromolithographic print highlighted with body colour laid down on support sheet with vignettes, signed with blind stamp, 41 x 65cm (15 x 25in)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) `A stone faced faceder` chromolithographic print laid down on support sheet, signed with blind stamp, 46 x 43cm (17 x 16in)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) `A gent in ratcatcher - i have my man cleaning my `osses not my breeches`, chromolithographic print laid down on support sheet, signed with blind stamp, 39 x 36cm (15 x 14in)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) `Bon Voyage`, chromolithographic print, signed with blind stamp, 41 x 32cm (15 x 12in)

Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne) `Wipers`, chromolithographic print, blind stamp, 42 x 32cm (16 x 12in)

19th Century oak cabinet dresser, the upper section fitted three shelves enclosed by a pair of glazed doors each with decorative tracery, two short drawers below with blind panelled doors to the base and standing on bracket feet, 118cm wide

Early 20th Century mahogany breakfront cabinet bookcase, the top having a carved edge, fitted four central shelves enclosed by a pair of astragal glazed doors flanked each side by a blind panel door, the base with gadroon decoration and standing on six cabriole ball and claw supports, 183cm wide

AFTER MICHAEL LYNE Huntsman jumping the hedge, signed in pencil lower right margin and with blind stamp lower left, 25 1/2" x 36 1/2"

Le Clerc/Manget.Bibliotheca Anatomica 2 vol. second edition lacking half-titles titles in red and black with engraved vignette 123 engraved plates some folding a few engraved and some woodcut illustrations in text vol.1 with tabs to fore-edge holes in title vol.1 causing slight loss (repaired) a few other marginal repairs one or two folding plates torn browned final leaf vol.2 laid down ex-library copy with small ink stamp at foot of titles contemporary blind-stamped alum-tawed pigskin with clasps soiled vol.2 lacking clasps a few wormholes folio Geneva J.A.Chouer & David Ritter 1699.

Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing first edition issue with `The right of Translation is reserved` and with white endpapers dated 1860 hinges pulled with split endpapers small blind-stamp to front fly-leaf original cloth splits to joints [GM 1612] 8vo [1859/60].

Paré (Ambroise) The Workes 1st Eng. 1634 translated by Thomas Johnson first English edition fine engraved title with portrait and scenes of trepanning a herbalist at work distillation apparatus surgical instruments monsters etc. numerous woodcuts in text of similar subjects engraved title soiled and frayed at edge with very slight loss to border (repaired) dedication and To the Reader leaf defective at upper outer corner and fore-edge with loss of a few letters (repaired) Ff 3-5 and final two leaves also repaired light water-staining at beginning and end slight worming to lower margin modern calf ruled in blind [STC 19189] folio Th.Cotes and R.Young 1634. ***”Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey...He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery for his revival of podalic version his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments. He was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurysm. He popularized the truss introduced artificial limbs and (in dentistry) re-implantation of the teeth.” GM.

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species... second edition second issue with “fifth thousand” on title W.D. Chowne`s copy with his bookplate on front pastedown folding lithographed chart half-title 32pp. publisher`s catalogue dated January 1860 at end N1 & N2 small tears in margins margins slightly browned some corners creased presentation inscription from Chowne to “J. Magrath MD” and another later inscription hinges weak a few pencil notes original blind-stamped cloth corners bumped gilt spine dulled and slightly creased edges uncut [Freeman 376] 8vo 1860. ***William Dingle Chowne (1791-1879) physician and lecturer on Medicine and Midwifery at Charing Cross Hospital; author of Experimental Researches in the Movement of Atmospheric Air in Tubes... abstract... Royal Society [1855]. In 1851 Chowne examined Madame Ghio “the celebrated Swiss Bearded Lady” and issued the following statement: “I have this day seen professionally Josephine Clofullia and... hereby certify that although she has beard and whiskers large profuse and strictly masculine on those parts of the face (the upper lip excepted) occupied by the beard and whiskers in men and although on her limbs and back she has even more hair than is usually found on men she is without malformation. Her breasts are large and fair and strictly characteristic of the female. W.D. Chowne M.D. Charing Cross Hospital Sept. 22 1851.”.

Boole. Investigation of the Laws of Thought first edition ?first issue errata leaf at end occasional light spotting original black blind-stamped cloth covers a little damp-marked [Norman 266; Origins of Cyberspace 224] 8vo London & Cambridge 1854. ***Presumably the first of the three issues identified by Norman: the first with Walton and Maberly imprint errata at end and binding as described above; the second still with imprint as above but with errata after preliminaries an additional “note” leaf at end publisher`s catalogue at end and differences to the binding; and a third (as in the Norman copy) with cancel title new imprint and green cloth binding with Boole`s name on spine for the first time. A landmark of science. “Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding. Boole`s work led to the creation of set theory and probability theory in mathematics to the philosophical work of Peirce Russell Whitehead and Wittgenstein and to computer technology via the master`s thesis of C. E. Shannon (1937) who recognized that the true/false values in Boole`s two-valued algebra were analgous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. This invention of the binary digit or “bit” made possible the development of the digital computer” (Norman). Today nearly everyone who uses a computer is familiar with Boolean Logic but the book that launched the theory is scarce.

Carion Chronici...A Friderico Secundo 1567 woodcut initials remains of a medieval manuscript used in binding contemporary calf central blind-stamps to covers later gilt lettering to spine a few minor wormholes rubbed [Not in Adams] 8vo no place or printer 1567.

Cardanus De Subtilitate LIbri XXI 1580 woodcut ornament to title and illustrations blank Y8 present title with ink library stamp and biro and ink number lightly browned occasional light foxing contemporary blind-tooled vellum-backed boards minor split to lower corner of upper cover soiled and rubbed [cf.Adams C675 (variant); Caillet I 2017; Duvenn pp.116-117; Ferguson I 142] 8vo Lyon Stephanum Michaelem 1580. ***A scarce edition. As well as chapters on metals gemstones plants and distillation it contains the first description of a flour-sifting machine..

Barrough (Philip) The Method of Phisick third edition woodcut device on title F3-6 probably supplied from another copy F5 torn and with paper flaw causing some loss of text sig.2F and 2G misbound some slight worming affecting text and some sidenotes mostly at beginning a couple of burn-holes affecting text later blind-stamped sheep joints and extremities worn [STC 1510] 4to Richard Field 1596.

Heister.Medical Chirurgical Anatomical Cases translated by George Wirgman first English edition engraved title-vignette of putti playing with a ball and racquet 8 folding engraved plates contemporary ink inscription on front free endpapers title and front endpapers soiled and frayed at edges (repaired) lightly browned staining to lower margin affecting some plates ex-British Medical Association library copy with faint ink stamp on title and front endpaper modern morocco tooled in blind 4to by J.Reeves... 1755.

Berners (Dame Juliana) A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, 1880, Elliot Stock facsimile, 4to., blind-stamped vellum

After Sir William Russell Flint, `Flowers in the Cloisters`, limited edition colour print, no: 395 of 850, with Michael Stewart Fine Art blind stamp, 53 x 59cm

A George III `Strawberry Hill`-type mahogany bookcase, three adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of panelled doors, each applied with a series of gothic arches, on bracket feet, the frieze and bracket feet with blind-fret gothic detail, 3ft. 10in. - modified SEE ILLUSTRATION

A pair of late Victorian mahogany side tables, George III style, late 19th century, the moulded oval top above a blind fretwork frieze upon conforming square cut tapering legs with c-scrolled brackets, 74 x 92 x 56 cm, (2).

A Central European ivory and ebony mounted calamander sideboard, possibly Austrian, late 19th century, the dentil moulded cornice over a dragon, scrolling foliage and cherub frieze, the angles mounted with dragon masks above Corinthian pilasters flanking an arched mirror, the frame encircled by patera and scrolling dragon panels, the pilasters with gargoyle, tapering caryatid and fruit issuing urn strapwork, the blind galleried wings surmounted with recumbent dragons and urns, upon a stepped plinth, the base comprising a central recess flanked by a pair of doors enclosing two shelves, 215 x 186 x 32 cm.

* John Walker b.1939- "Forge"; published by Advanced Graphics, London, c.1990, twelve examples contained within boxed folio, screenprint with embossing, on heavy handmade cream wove, with margins, each signed and numbered 2/20 in pencil, blind stamped, contained loose as issued, 74x56cm, ea., (12) (bound folio) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

* Bisson Freres, an albumen print of a saddled donkey, early 20th century. Mounted on card, stamped in black ink on the card `BISSON FRERES PHOTOG`, also bearing blind stamp `A. Morel Boiteur Paris`. 15x20.5cm Also another albumen print mounted on card, of the front of the Louvre c.1890, signed on the image bottom left Bisson - Freres, 33x43cm. (2)

After William Russell Flint (1880-1969): `Retreat from the Sun`, lithograph signed in pencil Ltd Ed blind stamp pub Frost and Reed 1962, 49cm x 63cm

After William Russell Flint (1880-1969): `Three Idlers`, lithograph signed in pencil Ltd Ed blind stamp 52cm x 68cm

After William Russell Flint (1880-1969): `Studies of Cecilia`, lithograph signed in pencil Ltd Ed blind stamp pub Frost and Reed 1959, 41cm x 73cm

A Victorian inlaid mahogany bow front display cabinet with blind fret carved freeze and raised on carved cabriole feet, 72" wide.

An early XX century mahogany display cabinet with blind fret frieze

AFTER PABLO PICASSO - `Girl With A Mandolin`, colour print with Pallas Gallery blind stamp in the margin, 28 1/2" x 21".

AFTER CHARLIE JOHNSON PAYNE `SNAFFLES` (1884-1967) - `Tonnage`, lithograph, signed in pencil and with Snaffles bits blind stamp, hand coloured, 15" x 12 3/4" (see illustration).

AFTER FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT - A French town scene with artist sketching overlooking river bridge, colour print, pencil signed in the margin and with `FATG` blind stamp.

A Victorian walnut library table, the figured top with moulded edge above two frieze drawers opposite two dummy drawers, each with turned knob handles, raised on baluster turned and blind fretwork carved end column supports in the Gothic Revival taste, united by a barley-twist and blind fretwork carved centre stretcher to cabriole legs and petal carved feet on castors, 143 cm x 68 cm (ILLUSTRATED)

PIETRO ANNIGONI (1910-1988). Signed with monogram, sanguine on paper, figurative study `The Blind Man, En Route To Toledo`, Thomas Agnew and Sons label verso. 8" x 8.1-2"

An Edwardian mahogany side table on square supports, fitted two drawers with blind fret and open fret carved decoration.

Lynn Chadwick (British, 1914-2003), Cloaked standing figure, lithograph, signed lower right "Chadwick `71", blind stamped `Erker Presse St Gallen`, 76 x 56cm (unframed)

Lynn Chadwick (British, 1914-2003), Two Seated Figures, lithograph, signed lower right "Chadwick `71", blind stamped `Erker Presse St Gallen`, 76 x 56cm (unframed)

A 19th century Naval Journal, circa 1834-1838, written by Able Seaman Charles Woods on HMS Winchester, a First Class Frigate built in 1822, numbered manuscript pages including 5pp of introduction detailing the ship`s dimensions and 113pp detailing travels including Madeira, Tenerife and the Cape of Good Hope, with 10 watercolour paintings, 28.5 x 19cm overall, mostly disbound in cloth cover (edges creased and torn, paper discoloured). Sold with a folder of letters from the 1930s when the vendor`s father sought to have the journal published. Henry Walker Ltd agreed to publish the journal as `A Frigate on the High Seas` with a foreword by Admiral Mark Kerr but production was stalled because of the economic climate. Also included is a 55pp transcript of part of the journal, publisher`s flyers advertising the book and a manuscript letter from Admiral Kerr. Included in the journal is a description of a ceremony performed on December 1st 1834 upon crossing the Equator in which the oldest man on board impersonated King Neptune and the sailor with the most `feminine visage` impersonated Queen Amphitrite. The youngest crew members were then given an initiation before the King and Queen and the crew `ÉHe is escorted from below by a round dozen of Constables being at the same time blind-folded with a wet Swab. On his reaching the Deck, he is Saluted in the face by a Strong body of water delivered from the Pipes of the fire engine, which renders him totally forgetful of whatever is about to be done to him. He is then conducted to the Secretary of his Majesty, who questions him as to age, where born, how long at Sea, etc. to any of which should he attempt a reply, a bucket of salt water is conveyed through a Speaking trumpet into his mouth. He is then desired to be seated on a form Slung for the Purpose, and now the Ceremony of Shaving is about to commence. The barbers mate has a bucket filled, not with Suds, but a composition of tar, grease, soot and many other ingredients offensive to taste and Smell, and with this he lathers him all over the face, head and neck. This being done he is then considered fit for the manual operation of the Barber. This Knight of the Razor is equipped with a long piece of iron hoop, notches are filed on one edge of this awful weapon, and woe to him who is in the Slightest degree Stubborn and behaves unruly in any shape while the shaving part is going on, for he is certain of coming off with a lacerated face, and many bear the marks for months afterwards...`

MARCHANTIUS (Jacobus) Hortus Pastorum, in quo Continetur Omnis Doctrina Fidei et Morum, Cologne: Petri Henningii 1658, 4to, engraved title, each tract neatly tabbed, 1360pp, double column, some pale browning to text, blind stamped full vellum with brass clasps, old paper label to head of spine; with companion `tomus secundus`, Horti Pastorum, I. continens Rationale Evangelizantium, II. Vitem Florigeram, III. Opuscula Pastoralia..., IV. Mariale de BM Virginis Encomiis, Cologne: apud Joannem Busaeum 1661, 4to, similar age-staining and in similar blind stamped vellum with clasps (2)

D [DRYDEN (John)] Alexander`s Feast; Or, The Power of Music, The Essex House Press 1904, 8vo, limited edition No.80 of 140 copies on vellum, hand coloured frontispiece and colophon, blind stamped vellum

[DOYLE (John)] `H B` Political Sketches & C., Volumes I to V, London: L T McLean circa 1836-37, folio, 500 window mounted plates, with numbered contents leaf to each volume, some plates blind-stamped `Subscribers Copy`, occasional slight staining otherwise good, half calf (rubbed and cracked) (5)

D OLDHAM (J Basil) English Blind-Stamped Bindings, CUP 1952, folio, limited edition of 750 copies, half title, blue cloth (lacking dust wrapper)

ANDREW WATSON TURNBULL (BRITISH 1874 - ) View of Edinburgh Castle; View of the City from Calton Hill, a pair, etchings, signed in pencil to margin with blind stamp, plate size 20 x 33cms

ANDREW WATSON TURNBULL (BRITISH 1874 - ) Canongate Clock - Edinburgh, etching, signed in pencil to margin with blind stamp, 28 x 18cms

A Large Carton containing an assortment of world stamps in albums and loose, covers etc. Also a bottle of Bellet Vermouth. Sold on behalf of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Please bid generously

A Glory Box. Contains all world in albums and loose, postcards, coins etc. Sold on behalf of Guide Dogs for The Blind. Please bid generously

A Large Schwanberger Album housing a range of all world issues. Also unused PHQ cards number 1 -6, other world albums, coins, loose stamps, covers, old catalogue and misc. Sold on behalf of Guide Dogs for The Blind. Please bid generously

An 18th Century oak cabinet on stand, fitted with a blind frieze drawer, later adapted interior, raised on a single drawer stand terminating in spiral turned columns united by a wavy stretcher on club feet, 106cm wide x 153cm high, AF

A William IV mahogany side table, fitted a pair of blind frieze drawers, and raised on turned tapering fluted supports, 120cm wide

An early 20th century oak cupboard enclosed by a pair of blind fret carved doors raised on spirally turned supports

Knowles (C. Laura) The swallow`s tour title 12 double openings of verse facing full page illustration the 13th with a dead swallow facing “The End” coloured by hand throughout versos blank original blue cloth gilt g.e. neatly recased folio blind stamp on title of Cundall & Fleming photographic publishers 168 New Bond St. [c. 1870]. ***Unrecorded and perhaps unique; not in World Cat or Copac. Brown has C&F in New Bond St. 1866-71..

Rea (John) Flora: seu de florum cultura second edition additional engraved title and 8 plates 3 engraved vignette head-pieces printed title in red and black Mind of the Front present at beginning some ink scribbling to one plate contemporary blind-stamped calf rebacked [Henrey 326; Wing R422] folio by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for George Marriott 1676. ***A very good crisp copy. “It seems that Rea undertook the writing of his book for the following reason. He had found that Parkinson`s Paradisus now needed `the addition of many noble things of newer discovery and that a multitude of those there set out were by time grown stale and for unworthiness turned out of every good garden`. Rea therefore considered preparing a new edition but afterwards decided that it would be better to write an entirely new work. This when it appeared proved to be the most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century” (Henry). .

Darwin (Charles) On the Origin fifth thousand 1 folding plate half-title 32pp. publisher`s catalogue at end slightly foxed and browned 2 ink signatures on title ink inscription on verso of half-title and pencil signature Edward Chichester Earl of Belfast on front free endpaper hinges a little weak original blind-stamped cloth corners a little bumped gilt spine edges uncut [Freeman 376] 12mo 1860. ***With the first use of the phrase “survival of the fittest” by Darwin in an edition of Origin of Species..