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Bronte (Charlotte).- Macaulay (Thomas Babington) The History of England, 2 vol., third edition, Arthur Bell Nicholls' copy with his signature on front free endpaper, vol. I half-title, original blind-stamped cloth, slightly faded, 8vo, 1849.

Brewster (Margaret Maria) Sunbeams in the Cottage or What Women May Do, first edition, half-title, slightly browned, bookplate of Lord Farnham on front pastedown, original blind-stamped cloth, Edinburgh and London, 1854; and 6 others, 8vo (7).

Pipe Roll Society (The), vol.3-26 only, with a duplicate of vol.9, library stamps, occasional very light soiling, original green cloth, gilt, most with library blind-stamps, some with extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, 1884-1905. (25).

---. Layard (Sir Austen Henry) The Monuments of Nineveh. From Drawings Made on the Spot, 2 vol., additional chromolithograph title, 172 plates, 11 colour, some tinted, some folding, printed title and vol.II preliminaries repaired, 20th century half morocco, 1 corner slightly damaged, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind stamps, most marginal, folio, 1853.

Lysons (Samuel) A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, 110 plates, 11 hand-coloured, slight foxing, marginal dampstain few ff., 19th century half morocco, g.e., extremities worn, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind stamps, folio, 1804.

Aristotle. Problematon [graece], 116 ff., Alexander Aphrodisaeus. Iatrikon Aphorematon kai Physikon Problematon [graece], 42 ff., Aristotle. Mechanika [graece], 12 ff., first edition, part only of the collected Aldine edition, printed in Greek throughout, occasional spotting, bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College, Cambridge, contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, covers elaborately decorated in blind, 2 rolls, one including putti (one playing a lute), vases and foliage, the other including birds, animals and foliage, surround a central panel made up of 6 more rolls, worn, rebacked, corners with some repairs, folio, [BMC V 556-7; Goff A 959; GW 2334], [Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1 June, 1497].*** Part of vol. 4 of the great Aldine Aristotle, the editio princeps of 'the first major Greek prose text to be reintroduced in the original to the western world by the intervention of the printing press'. [PMM 38].

Davy (Sir Humphry) The Collected Works ... , edited by John Davy, 9 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait, folding facsimile, frontispiece and 36 plates on 29 sheets, some folding, errata slips tipped into vol.4 & 5, some foxing, upper hinge of vol.1 split, bookplate of John Lancaster on front paste-downs, original blind-stamped cloth, spines a little faded, 8vo, 1839-40.*** Vol.1 contains Memoirs of the Life ... by John Davy.

Wolff (Julius) Das Gesetz der Transformation der Knochen, first edition, 12 plates, small stamp on title, blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, rebacked, folio, Berlin, 1892.

A pair of Mintons porcelain 'Blind earl' plates with shaped rims, the leaves enriched in shades of ochre, reserved on a black ground, 18cm wide, printed and impressed marks, retailer's mark for John Mortlock, late 19th century (one restored)

Dibdin (Thomas) Extracts Explanatory of the Dresses, Habits & Costume of all Ages and Countries, manuscript, title and 159pp., signed at head: "Thos Dibdin", ruled in red, ex-library copy with blind stamp on title, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern half brown morocco, sm. 4to, The Sadleir's Wells, 1798. ***Signed at head: "Thos Dibdin" we have been unable to trace this title. The contents include extracts from Captain Cook (South Sea Islanders, Timor), America (Indians, Boston etc.), England, Ancient Greece, Europe etc.

Napoleon I (Emperor of France, 1769-1821) Budget 1818-1819. [Expenses sheet for the years 1818 & 1819], autograph manuscript, 2pp., blind-stamped "Bath Superfine" in corner, folds, one edge cut away, sm. 4to, [St. Helena], 1818. ***A rare document. Napoleon refused to write much on St. Helena due to the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe's insistence that he read all of his correspondence. This document's importance lies in the payments made to various members of his household which includes Count Bertrand, Count and Countess de Montholon, Baron Gourgaud, and his servants Baring (banker), Pierron (butler), Gentilini (footman), Cypriani (servant), Louis Marchand (first valet), St. Denis (second valet), Noverraz (third valet) and Archambault (coachman).

A fine mahogany pedestal sideboard by Sopwith & Co. Ltd., Newcastle, the back with arched centre decorated with applied carved acanthus scrolls and foliate motifs, fitted two short and two long graduated drawers with blind fret carved decoration, fitted heavy reeded brass handles, an ornate panel door to each pedestal, raised on carved cabriole legs with claw and ball feet, 81in. x 59in. high.

A Waring & Gillow Ltd Serpentine Front Display Cabinet. The glazed upper section having a dentil moulded top above a frieze of blind fret carved grecian waves and a central glazed door flanked by glass side panels displaying internal shelves, with pendant garlands of bellflowers running down the door divides headed by carved paterae. The lower section having a moulded and gadrooned edge above a frieze of carved waves echoing the cornice, and three central cockbeaded drawers flanked by side cupboards with flame veneered oval panels to the doors framed in beading. Standing 60 ins (152 cms) wide and 81 ins (206 cms) tall on square moulded feet with palmate carving. The metal label to the drawer interior stamped; "Guaranteed designed & manufactured at our Lancaster Factory Eastablished 1695, Waring & Gillow Ltd.".

A Late 19th Century Gilt Metal Mounted Ebonized Amboyna Marquetry Inlaid Side Cabinet, the single blind door enclosing velvet lined shelves, raised on a plinth terminating in raised feet. Width 36". Height 45".

A Late 18th Century Welsh Oak Cardiganshire Press Cupboard, in two stages, the upper with moulded cornice and blind fret freize above a pair of doors, each with six fielded panels, enclosing hanging space and flanked by canted angles, the lower part with an arrangement of five drawers with brass swan neck handles, the feet being continuations of the stiles. Width 52". Height 70".

An Early 19th Century Welsh Oak Long Case Clock, with thirty hour movement, the square enamelled dial with roman numerals and calender aperture inscribed "Harvey, Abergavenny", the square hood with dentil cornice and blind fret frieze, the angle pillars lacking capitols and plinths, the trunk with long shaped door, the plain base on bracket feet. Dial Width 10.5. Height 75". Width 11".

A Victorian walking cane with carved ivory knop handle, carved with a blind cartouche amidst floral frame and having a silver band.

A mahogany blind carved and parcel gilt cheval mirror with urn finials on raised square supports

An early 19th century mahogany wine cooler with brass carrying handles and escutcheon, the canted sides with blind fret carving, metal fitted interior, 47cm (18 1/2in) wide, on later cabriole leg stand

Forbes (James D.) The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa, 2 folding maps, one with short tear, illustrations, occasional foxing, original blind-stamped cloth, spine decorated in gilt, slightly rubbed, [Neate F45; cf. Meckly 73], 8vo, Edinburgh, A. & C. Black, 1855.

Americas. – California: Its Past: Its Present Position: Its Future Prospects, first edition, frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 1 plate, map, (of 3 plates?, but as British Library, Yale & Streeter copies), all coloured, original blind-decorated cloth, a little rubbed & faded, [Sabin 9973; Streeter 2623], 8vo, 1850.

[Bonaventura (Saint) Quaestiones super IV libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi cum textu eiusdem], pt. 3 only (of 5), 217ff. (of 218, lacking blank A1), 65 lines, 22-line illuminated capital D in blue, brown, green & burnished gold with decoration extending into margin, other capitals, initial strokes & paragraph marks supplied in red, early manuscript notes on endpapers & in some margins, contemporary blind-decorated calf over wooden boards, incorporating a roll border of hounds & deer & central panel of flower heads & leafy tendrils, rather rubbed, head & foot of backstrip defective, lacking 2 clasps, [BMC II, 433; Goff P486], folio, [Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, after 2 March, 1491].

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell." The Professor, a Tale, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, ownership inscription on front endpaper of vol.I, inner hinges cracked, original cloth, floral design inside diamond-shaped patterns stamped in blind to boards and inside two sets of small panels to spine, unevenly faded, spine ends and edges slightly frayed, corners bruised, in modern half morocco drop-back box, 8vo, 1857.

Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy, first edition, vignette illustrations by Samuel Palmer, markings of removed sticker on verso of front cover, inner hinges cracked, original variant blue vertical fine-ribbed cloth, embossed, blocked in blind on boards with central ornaments, and in blind on spine with gilt lettering, tanned at edges and spine, spine ends frayed, corners bruised, in modern cloth slip-case, 8vo, for the author, Bradbury and Evans, 1846.

Maund (Benjamin) The Botanic Garden, edit. James C. Niven, 6 vol., 250 hand-coloured plates, tissue guards, 2 plates in vol. 1 with very slight foxing, largely unopened, advertisement at end all vol., original cloth, decorated in gilt & blind, spines faded, forecorners rubbed, 8vo, 1878.

-. Drinkwater (G.) and others. Sydney, an album commemorating the Royal Tour of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1868, 30 carte-de-visite albumen prints comprising 24 views of Sydney including a "welcoming pavilion" at Circular Quay, three illuminated arches, Macquarie Street and prominent buildings, one view of New Zealand, two portraits of Prince Alfred, one of his wife Marie, daughter of Czar Alexander II and a group portrait of Queen Victoria and the Royal family, several mounts with credits of G.Drinkwater and C.Pickering of Sydney, inserted in 15 card leaves, contemporary red calf, edges rubbed, blind-stamped covers, metal clasps, small 4to, [1868].

-. Plate & Co. Tea Planting, a group of 7 platinum prints, each 235 x 285mm., five with publisher's blind stamps at bottom corners, two with publisher's ink stamps verso, pencil titles and stock numbers on versos, light spotting and minor defects to a couple, c.1895 (7). *** Planting, pruning, picking, weighing and a general view of fields and factory, with a study of "Singhalese Women pounding Rice" (illustrated) and two figures.

-. Tristram (H.B.) Pathways of Palestine, A Descriptive Tour through the Holy Land, First and Second Series, 2 vol., 44 (of 45) mounted carbon prints, each 130 x 195mm., printed titles below, each with library blind stamp across one corner, library cloth, 4to, n.d.

-. Gokhale (R.S. sub-overseer, Public Works Department, Poona) Roman Corinthian Order; Grecian Ionic Order; Composition of a Roman Building, the first two including enlarged details, highly accomplished student pieces, pen and ink, with watercolour washes, over pencil, two each c.520 x 695mm., the third 630 x 505mm., this with some marginal loss, just through the ruled border, all with a B.A.E. blind-stamp, Poona, 1917 (3).

-. Gokhale (R.S. sub-overseer, Public Works Department, Poona) A Hindu Temple at Poona, 5 sheets, being General Elevation, Section and Plans, and 3 sheets of Details, pen and ink, with watercolour washes, over pencil, each c.605 x 510mm., Intermediate Architecture student exercises, all bearing the B.A.E. blind-stamp, Poona, 1917 (5).

-. Gokhale (R.S. sub-overseer, Public Works Department) A Design for a Public Free Library, Poona, 6 drawings, being Elevations, Sections and Plans, and 4 sheets of Details, pen and ink, with watercolour, over pencil, each c.685 x 495mm., Intermediate Architecture student drawings, all with the B.A.E. blind-stamp, Poona, 1917 (6).

Garden Architecture.- Delagrive (Jean) Plan de Versailles, plan of the palace and gardens, engraving, with large decorative cartouche, 615 x 930mm., blind-stamped Calcolgraphie du Louvre, creasing and a few tears into image, some marginal losses, dampstain along bottom border, a few pencil markings to scale, Paris, first issued 1746, but later issue ~ Le Jolivet. Elevation Perspective du Palais des Etats ... la Place Royale de la Ville de Dijon, by Varin fratres, engraving, 290 x 960mm., spotting, a few tears just into engraved surface, one short tear inside engraved surface, small marginal loss to bottom right corner, dampstain far right, surface dirt, 1784; with one mid 18th century engaved plan of Rouen (2).

-. Bouvier (A.) Tableaux de Fleurs et de Fruits, a pheasant surrounded by raspberries, hollyhocks, roses and peaches, hand-coloured lithograph, 345 x 445mm., with publisher's blind-stamp, a few marginal defects, well outside image and title, Paris, Goupil & Cie., 1856 ~ Grebon (F. Frederick) [Fruit and Game], a brace of pheasants surrounded by melons, raspberries and plums, hand-coloured lithograph, 500 x 643mm., browning, slight spotting and damp-staining, Paris, L. Descodets, c.1860 ~ Lambert (E.) L'Automne; L'Hiver, seasonal still lifes, 2 mixed-method engravings by Jazet, printed in sepia, finished by hand, each c.430 x 580mm., laid down, a few minor surface defects, mostly marginal, Paris, F. Delarue, c.1860 (4).

Simmons (W.H.) The Departure (Second Class); The Return (First Class), a pair depicting very different railway journeys, reflecting the change of circumstance of a youth before and after seeking his fortune in Australia, after Abraham Solomon, mixed method engravings in original hand-colouring, each c.585 x 750mm., unexamined out of frames, good impressions, publisher's blind-stamps, slight browning and spotting, one with a few slight surface abrasions, in ornate, but damaged, 19th century gilt frames, glazed, E. Gambart & Co., 1857 (2).

Fishing.- Simmons (W.H.) Steady, Johnnie - Steady, a Highland angling scene, after Erskine Nicol A.R.A., engraving with hand-colouring, 760 x 595mm., publisher's blind-stamp, lower left, surface dirt, mostly marginal, slight uneven browning, other minor marginal defects, Pilgeram & Lefevre, 1874 ~ Pratt (J.B.) Chien de Chasse (On the Scent), after Rosa Bonheur, engraving with hand-colouring, 595 x 695mm., publisher's blind-stamp, lower left, slight surface dirt, mostly marginal, a few minor defects at sheet edges, Lefevre, 1884 ~ Posselwhite (James) The Youthful Queen of the Hop Garden, after William Witherington R.A., line and stipple-engraving, printed in bistre, with original hand-colouring, 605 x 475mm., with engraver's address, lower right, light surface dirt and slight uneven browning, a few cracks along the platemark, [?by the engraver], mid 19th century (3).

-. Herring (John Frederick) Fox-Hunting Scenes, the set of four, The Meet; Breaking Cover; Full Cry; The Death, by J. Harris, 4 aquatints, with original hand-colouring, each c.557 x 865mm., unexamined out of frames, The Meet, only, with publisher's blind-stamp, light spotting to Breaking Cover, only, other 3 plates with occasional cuts and abrasions, a few other minor surface defects, framed and glazed, [Siltzer p.152], first issued by Evans, 1854, three plates Brooks & Son, 1864, one G. P. McQueen, 1874, (?later 19th century issues) (4).

Brue (Adrien Hubert) Atlas Universel de Geographie, title and 35 (of 36) double-page engraved maps, with a folding map of France replacing one map of Western France and one map of Eastern France, but with 22 additional to list, (57 in total), each c.400 x 560mm., most in original outline hand-colouring, each blind-stamped with Brue's mark, additional titles added to table of contents in a contemporary hand, slight browning, surface dirt and some damp-staining, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, worn at edges, octagonal title label to upper board, spine defective, folio, Paris, by the author 1822 [1820-27].

-. Colston (Marianne) Plates Illustrative of a Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy, views of mountains, lakes and waterfalls, including several views in the Pyrenees, title and 46 plates only, of 50, lithographs, each c.270 x 355mm., or 370 x 250mm., library blind-stamps to one corner throughout, title browning, spotting, some surface dust, one plate torn in the lower margin, not affecting the image, roan-backed red cloth, back-strip worn, folio, G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823.

France.- Alphand (Jean Charles Adolphe) Les Promenades de Paris, 2 vol., text with numerous wood-engraved illustrations to vol. I, with copper-engraved pictorial title and 126 plates of plans, views, garden architecture and plants from the parks, gardens, avenues and squares of Paris, 104 steel engravings, the views on laid india paper, various sizes, some double plates, with 22 botanical chromolithographs, each c.435 x 305mm., library blind-stamps to the margins throughout, just affecting the corner of some images, occasional surface dust, modern half morocco, slightly rubbed, folio (615 x 450mm.), Paris, J. Rothschild, 1867-73.

Greece.- Beresford (George de la Poer, Capt.) Twelve Sketches in double-tinted Lithography, of Scenes in Southern Albania, title and 12 plates, tinted lithographs, each c.250 x 325mm., the images generally clean and bright, library blind-stamps to the margins throughout, just affecting the corner of one image, only, marginal surface dirt, the last three plates with a repaired tear in the right margin, none affecting the images, these also with creasing to the lower right corners and reinforcement to the reverse of the lower margin, upper margin of the first plate similarly reinforced, roan-backed brown cloth, back-strip worn, folio, [Abbey Travel, 46], Day and Son, 1855. *** Views of the Çamëria region of Albania, ceded to Greece after the First Balkan War in 1912, returned to Albania by the Axis powers and finally restored to Greece after the Second World War.

India.- Atkinson (James) Sketches in Afghaunistan, pictorial title, dedication, and 25 plates, tinted lithographs, each c.290 x 390mm., or the reverse, library blind-stamps to upper left corner throughout, some confined to the margins, most through the border line, a few just affecting the image, varying degrees of spotting and marginal surface dust to most plates, small loss to lower right corner of title, not affecting image or lettering, a repaired tear to the last plate, just through the border line, half roan, worn at edges, spine chipped, folio, [Abbey Travel 508], Henry Graves & Co., 1842.

-. Mecham (Clifford Henry) Sketches & Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, illustrated title with 8 full plates and 18 oval views on 9 further plates, 17 plates in total, tinted lithographs, full plates each c.260 x 360mm., each pair of ovals on a tinted ground, 400 x 250mm. overall, library blind-stamps in the margins throughout, not affecting images, some spotting and surface dust, a few short repaired tears to the margins, only, a few sheet edges with reinforced sections, modern red cloth, folio, Day & Son, 1858. *** This series depicts the heavy toll suffered by the British, including a scene of Havelock's grave, during the twelve week siege of Lucknow, early in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-59.

-. Swarbreck (Samuel Dukinfield) Sketches in Scotland, pictorial title, dedication and 21 plates only, of 24, lacking plates 2, 5, and 7, tinted lithographs, printed by Charles Hullmandel, each c.300 x 425mm., or the reverse, library blind-stamps to upper right corner throughout, surface dirt, some spotting, a slight marginal damp-stain to most plates, roan-backed red cloth, rubbed, spine chipped, folio, [c.f. Abbey Scenery 492], by the author, 1845.

A Dutch .800 standard beaker the straight tapering sided embossed with a scene of blind man's buff, and a late Victorian silver round sweet dish by retailed 'Barraclough & Sons, Leeds', Sheffield 1894

A 19th century mahogany rectangular display table, with glazed sides and hinged top on cluster column legs headed by blind fret panels, with a concave sided shelf and turned legs, 75cm high, the top 74 x 49.5cm

A George III mahogany elbow chair, the leaf carved back with a bow shaped crest and pierced and interlaced splat, shaped arms and supports, a leather upholstered seat above a paterae carved and veneered seat rail on straight chamfered legs with geometric blind fretwork, (the crest repaired, the front legs spliced, the back legs re-tipped)

George III mahogany gentleman's travelling dress cabinet, circa 1810-20 folding top opening to reveal covered well with two blind drawer front with two real drawers beneath, all raised on square section legs, width 80 1/2"

Late Victorian oak and inlaid wardrobe, ogee moulded cornice over twin bevelled glass doors flanking a central section with three inlaid panels in satinwood, harewood and boxwood, all raised on blind base, width 66", height 85"

A 19th century mahogany Scottish chest with a blind drawer above three drawers over three long drawers flanked either side with carved scroll columns on a plinth base 4'3" wide x 3'11" tall

A Flight Worcester Blind Earl plate, moulded in relief with a rosebud and leaves, and painted in coloured enamels with flowers, within a gilt 'C' scroll band, 20.5cm diameter (8"), circa 1790 (rim chip restored)

Combe (William) The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque [- Consolation; a Wife], 3 vol., 57 hand-coloured plates only (of 78) 2 engraved titles (of 3), some leaves loose, front endpaper and title of vol.I detached, original blind-embossed cloth, faded, gilt spine, faded, spine ends creased, 8vo, Nattali and Bond, [1855].

Crabtree (Chris N.) The Doge and the Dolphin. Impressions of Venice, number 19 of 50 copies, signed by the author, 34 hand-printed etchings, slightly offset to right edge, manuscript titles with limitation and date in pencil, dolphin emblem blind-stamped on each, original calf, gilt, slip-case, Goolwa, Dolphin Studios and Victor Arbor, Ambrose Press, 1990; and another, Private Press, oblong folio & small 4to (2).

Maugham (William Somerset) The Magician, blind-stamped ''presentation copy'', first edition, half-title, 4pp. advertisements, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, 1908 § Wodehouse (P.G.) The Code of the Woosters, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed and chipped, affixed to cloth with adhesive, New York, 1938, 8vo (2).

Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, first edition, engraved frontispiece, additional title, plates and illustrations by the author, slightly foxed and browned, new endpapers, original blind-stamped cloth, recased, rebacked with the original spine laid down, 1848 § Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 3 vol., original cloth, gilt, London and New York, The Nonesuch Press, 1963; and another, 8vo (5).

Hesychius (of Alexandria.) Lexicon cum Notis Doctorum Virorum Integris, , 2 vol., half title, title in red and black, worming affecting text, contemporary vellum, blind stamped, rubbed, soiled, corners bumped, folio, Leiden, Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans, 1746.

Wright (John and Horace J.) The Vegetable Grower's Guide, 4 vol., colour plates, text illustrations, ownership stamp on front free endpapers, n.d. [c.1880] § Bonavia (E.) The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon, plates, 1890 § Myrick (Herbert) The Hop, text illustrations, Springfield, 1899 § Darrow (George M.) The Strawberry, colour plates, New York &c., 1966 § Roach (F.A.) Cultivated Fruits of Britain, 1985, first mentioned original blind-stamped cloth, vol.I spine faded, rest original cloth, fourth and fifth mentioned dust-jacket; and 42 others, Fruit and Vegetables, v.s. (50).

A NARROW OAK CORNER CUPBOARD the upper part with a key and blind fret cornice, enclosed by a pair of fielded panel doors, the lower part enclosed by a single fielded panel door, 89 3/4in. (228cm.) high x 26 1/2in. (67cm.) wide

Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London John Murray, 1846, 8vo, six volumes, thirteen maps, two coloured in outline, three hand-coloured, eleven folding, contemporary calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering pieces, spine in four gilt compartments, spines rubbed in places, verso of front cover blind stamped with 'W H Dalton, 28 Cookspur Street,' second edition, With: Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Critical and Historical Essays, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1848, 8vo, three volumes, contemporary calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering pieces, spine in four gilt compartments, spine scuffed in places, With: two other works in three volumes, both by Charles Knight, 'Half Hours with the Best Author', 1867 and another edition of the same work in a single volume, all three volumes bound in contemporary calf gilt

A small mixed lot, including a 'A Peepshow Book - The Birth of Jesus' illustrated by R T Cower in excellent condition, with original ties, also included a folio 'The Times Atlas' of 1897 and a few Potter's including 'The Tale of Two Blind Mice' (later edition)

A Chippendale style blind fretwork Centre Table, the leather inset top with a moulded lip and a blind fret chinoiserie frieze inset with three concealed drawers, on square chamfered legs with block toes, 87cm wide, 52cm deep, 71cm high.