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A George III mahogany and tulip wood crossbanded bowfront commode with four blind drawers with ring handles to front, box and ebony chevron banding and on bracket feet, 26in. (66cm) wide

A 19th century walnut and rosewood marquetry serpentine Bureau plat with a single blind drawer and ormolu mounts on cabriole legs 2'10" wide

A Chinese Chippendale style mahogany open armchair ex-Hilborough Hall Christies Sale with open lattice work back and sides above a drop in seat and blind fret frieze raised on fret carved legs

A mahogany serpentine fronted Georgian style chest with a brushing slide above four graduating drawers flanked by blind fretwork canted sides on shaped bracket feet 3' wide by 2'9" tall

Balzac, Honore de, Works, London, Caxton Publishing Company, 1896-1898, 4o, 53 volumes, photographic plates, contemporary green calf gilt, front covers and spines blind stamped in gilt with Caxton edition motif, t.e.g., a few of the volumes slightly damp-stained.

A late Victorian mahogany chiffonier with shelved mirror back, 2 blind fret drawers over 2 glazed doors, shaped base with cabriole legs and undershelf, in the Chippendale manner. 48" wide, 82" high.

An early 20th Century walnut cased grandmother clock, having a brass dial with silvered chapter ring and Roman numerals, brass spandrels and engraved centre, of 8-day chiming movement, the hood with dentil and cavetto cornice above blind fret frieze, turned pilasters, the rectangular door with 2 inset panels and blind fret panel, on bracket feet.

International Exhibition. Record (The) of the International 1862 Exhibition, plates, some folding, illustrations, a little foxing at beginning, original blind decorated sheep, rubbed, 4to, Glasgow, Edinburgh & London, n.d.

Russell (William Howard) The Atlantic Telegraph, chromolithograph pictorial title, hand-coloured chromolithograph chart and 24 chromolithograph plates by Robert Dudley, all mounted, marginal repair to few ff. and 7 plates, occasional slight foxing, later binder's cloth, ex-library copy with bookplate, stamp and blind-stamp in margin of plates, folio, n.d. [1866].

Bewick (Thomas) A History of British Birds, 2 vol., wood-engraved vignettes, bookplates on front pastedowns, hinges a little weak, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, gilt spines, faded, 8vo, Newcastle, 1847.

Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., second edition, chromolithographed plates, plate guards, ink stamps and bookplates on front pastedowns, original blind-stamped gilt pictorial cloth, 4to, 1875.

Briggs (L. Cabot) Bullterriers, the Biography of a Breed, number 285 of 500 copies, illustrations, original buckram, morocco label, ex-library copy with classmark, bookplate and blind-stamp and cancellation stamp on title, 4to, New York, The Derrydale Press, 1940.

Justinian I, Emperor. Institutionum libri IIII, edited by L.Russard, 2 parts in 1, second part with folding table and 2 final blanks, 1566 ~ Lancelotto (Giovanni Paolo) Institutionum iuris canonici libri IIII, privilege leaf at end, 1566 ~ Damasus. Burchardica, lacking all after E8 (?8ff.), 1566, together 3 works in 1 vol., titles with woodcut device, first gathering of first work with wormhole causing slight loss, light marginal water-staining at beginning and end, contemporary alum-tawed pigskin stamped in blind, lacking ties, rubbed, [Adams J642, L99 & D7], 8vo, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin.

Dickens (Charles) Oliver Twist, 3 vol., first edition, issue without "Boz" on title, half-titles in vol.I & II, vol.III without half-title but with Bentley's advertisement as issued, 24 engraved plates, with the "Church" plate rather than "Fireside", by Cruikshank, 4pp. advertisements at end of vol.I, all before titles loose, minor marking to some plates, 1 plate torn at foot without loss, original brown diaper cloth with blind-stamped decoration on covers, rubbed, upper joints broken, spine of vol.1 torn with loss to ends, spine of vol.III with loss to head, 8vo, 1838.

Muller (Max, editor) Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans; together with the Commentary of Sayanacharya, 6 vol., text in Sanskrit, occasional slight soiling, few hinges cracked, 20th century binder's buckram, morocco labels, ex-library set with classmark on front covers and occasional blind-stamps, 4to, 1849-74.

Trissino (Giovanni Giorgio) La Italia Liberata da Gotthi, vol.II only (of 3), folding engraved map, lacks final blank Zz10, Aa8 marginally repaired without loss, slight browning, printer's device slightly stained, contemporary vellum, [Adams T954], Venice, per T.I. da Bressi, 1548 ~ Bible, English. Novum Testamentum. Studio et labore S. Curcelli, contemporary vellum, [Willems 1239], Amsterdam, Louis and Daniel Elzevier, 1658 ~ Justinus (Marcus Junianus) Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio Lib. XLIV cum notis I. Vossii, engraved pictorial title, ownership signature on reverse of title, front free endpaper restored, lower hinge cracked, contemporary blind-stamped calf, [Willems 1484], Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1673 ~ Justinian, Emperor. Institutiones sive Elementa D. Justiniani, additional engraved architectural title, printed in red and black, contemporary calf, Amsterdam, ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1710 ~ Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Tusculanarum Disputationum Libri V. cum Commentario J. Davisii, Chatsworth bookplate, contemporary vellum, morocco label, Cambridge, Typis Academicis, 1738; and 7 others, 17th and 18th Century, 12mo & 8vo (12).

Hogarth (William).- Clerk (Thomas) The Works of William Hogarth, 2 vol., additional engraved vignette title, 91 engraved plates after Hogarth, foxed, contemporary russia decorated in gilt and blind, joints split, 8vo, 1810.

Nicholson (James Bartram) A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding, frontispiece, 7 specimens of marbled paper, text illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1887.

Donders (F.C.) On the Anomalies of Accomodation and Refraction of the Eye, first edition, text illustrations, inscription on front free endpaper, original blind-stamped cloth, spine worn, joints cracked, 8vo, New Sydenham Society, 1864.

Pritchard (Andrew) Microscopic Illustrations of Living Objects, their Natural History, &c. &c., new edition, emended and enlarged, text illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, extremities worn, 8vo, 1838.

South Kensingtom Museum. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, double-page plan, 6 plates, 1 folding plate, 2ff. and 1 plate creased and loose, ownership signature on front free endpaper, original blind-stamped cloth, 8vo, 1877.

A continental Gothic chair, the back with a low relief image of a lady helping a blind man, above a drawer below the seat

A Chinese hardwood 'Altar' sidetable, with a pierced apron, applied panels and blind fretwork, 115cm

AN GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY BOOKCASE OR CABINET, the upper part with dentil cornice and blind fret frieze above astragal glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves and flanked by blind fret pilasters, the projecting lower part repeating the upper, the whole raised on a plinth. Height 86".

THE UPPER HALF OF A GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY BOOKCASE OR CABINET, with moulded cornice and blind fret frieze above a pair of glazed doors with lattice glazing bars enclosing adjustable shelves. Width 30". Height 37".

A late Victorian rococo revival standing mahogany corner cupboard, the top section enclosed by glazed barred door over a blind cupboard door the cabriole legs united by a triangular shelf, stands 175 x 56

A George III mahogany 'cockpen' armchair, circa 1760, in the Chinese Chippendale style, the saddle shaped back enclosing a trellis work design of diagonally set bars, flanked by a pair of down swept arms enclosing a similar pattern of bars, the drop end seat now inset with a later solid panel, above a blind fret carved seat rail and square chamferred legs decorated with ogee shaped lozenges tied by rings, with an H shaped stretcher on four wood castors (minor losses and faults)

J.F.PIMM (b.1900) unframed etching with aquatint "Durham Cathedral" signed artist's proof, with blind stamp, 13.75 x 8.75ins

PLATINA (BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI DE) DE VITIS PONTIFICUM ROMANORUM, numerous woodcut portraits, some water-staining and light soiling, small tear to G2, lacks ff. Y3-6, R and AA misbound, early ink annotations throughout, title frayed and with tear across repaired with tape, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, lacks ties, soiled, 8vo, Cologne, Mater. Cholinus for G. Cholinus, 1600.

RAINE (JAMES) Saint Cuthbert: With an Account of the State in Which his Remains were Found upon the Opening of his Tomb in Durham Cathedral, in the Year MDCCCXXVII, Durham, 1828 ~ Bingham (Rev. Joseph) Origines Ecclesiasticae; or, the Antiquities of the Christian Church, 9 vol., modern binder's cloth, London and Oxford, 1840 ~ Andrews (William, editor) Bygone Church Life in Scotland, illustrations, 1899 ~ Fraser (Brother Alexander) An Account of the Proceedings at the Festival of the Society of Freemasons, at Their Hall... 1813, folding engraved frontispiece, 3 plates, 1813 ~ Oliver (Rev. George) Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence, 1859, first mentioned 20th century half morocco, rest modern binder's cloth, ex-library copies with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps; and c.43 others, Theology, Church History, Freemasonry, 4to & 8vo (c.56).

STATE PAPERS.- KING HENRY THE EIGHTH, 11 vol., folding pedigrees, some slight spotting, ex-library copy with bookplates, all but 1 vol. original blind-stamped cloth, 1 vol. original cloth-backed boards, tears affecting spines and joints, 1831-52; and 13 others including 8 vol. of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution, and 5 vol. of Royal Geographical Society, 4to & 8vo, v.d. (24).

DICKENS (CHARLES) The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2 vol., illustrations by H.K.Browne, 1875; Oliver Twist, illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1874 ~ Galt (John) Annals of the Parish, 2 vol., frontispieces, 1895; The Provost and The Last of the Lairds, 2 vol., frontispieces, 1896 ~ Goldsmith (Oliver) The Works. Edited by Peter Cunningham, 4 vol., 1854, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamps; and c.29 others, Literature including 13 by and about Dickens, 8vo & 4to (c.40).

JAENISCH (C.F. DE) JAENISCH'S CHESS PRECEPTOR: A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE OPENINGS OF GAMES, 1847 ~ Pardon (George Frederick), "Captain Rawdon Crawley". Cricket, Its Theory and Practice, text illustrations, n.d. [c.1866] ~ Hutchinson (Horace G.) The Book of Golf and Golfers, plates, 1899 ~ Beldam (George W.) and P.A.Vaile. Great Lawn Tennis Players: Their Methods Illustrated, plates, 1905, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with occasional blind-stamps; and 22 others, Sports and Pastimes, v.s. (26).

MELVILLE (HERMAN) OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece, publisher's catalogue at end, original blind-stamped cloth, slightly soiled, tear on spine, spine chipped at head, 8vo, 1842. *** The English edition preceded the American edition by a month.

CATTERMOLE (Rev. RICHARD) THE GREAT CIVIL WAR OF THE TIMES OF CHARLES I AND CROMWELL, additional engraved vignette title and 28 steel-engraved plates, n.d. [c.1850] ~ Tyrrell (Henry) The History of the War with Russia, 3 vol., steel-engraved plates, n.d. [c.1860] ~ Maurice (Maj.-Gen. Sir F.), W.J.Long and A.Sonnenschein, translators and editors. The Franco-German War 1870-71, plates, text illustrations, n.d. [c.1875], occasional slight foxing and soiling, third mentioned modern binder's cloth, rest 20th century morocco-backed cloth, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates; and a small quantity of others, Military, v.s. (sm. qty.).

Bible, English. St. John's Gospel, in embossed type for the blind, newspaper cutting, slightly browned, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, spine creased, oblong 4to, 1866.

BOYDELL (JOHN) ILLUSTRATIONS OF HOLY WRIT, 100 engravings by Boydell after Isaac Taylor on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, 1820 ~ Lytton (Lord Edward George Bulwer) The Pilgrims of the Rhine, steel-engraved vignette title and 25 steel-engraved plates to The Pilgrims of the Rhine, occasional slight foxing, 1834 ~ Sermon on the Mount (The) Illuminated by W.G.Audsley, Illustrated by Charles Rolt, Chromolithographed by W.R.Tymms, 2 titles and 25 illuminated ff. of text printed in chromolithographed and gilt, n.d. [c.1850] ~ Doyle (James E.) A Chronicle of England B.C.55-A.D.1485, colour text illustrations by the author, 1864 ~ Hood (Thomas) [Poems], 9 steel-engraved plates by Gustave Dore, slight soiling, 1870 ~ Bell (Charles Dent) The Four Seasons at the Lakes [Poems], chromolithograph pictorial borders throughout by Blanche de Montmorency Conyers Morrell, n.d. [1878], modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamps; and c.74 others, Illustrated, v.s. (c.70).

---. HETLEY (G.B.) THE NATIVE FLOWERS OF NEW ZEALAND, 36 chromolithograph plates, 3 black and white plates of dissections, later binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp at the corner of plates, folio, 1888.

MILLS (ALFRED) NATURAL HISTORY OF 48 BIRDS, WITH ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS, engraved frontispiece, plates, publisher's red morocco, blind-stamped fillets on sides, gilt-tooled lines on spine, edges and extremities rubbed, [Spielmann 366], 6cms x 5.5cms, 1816 ~ May (W.) The Little Book of British Quadrupeds, engraved plates, original embossed buckram, gilt, evenly faded, g.e., [Spielmann 359], 7.3cms x 5.9cms, [c.1830] (2).

AMERICAS.- BIDWELL (CHARLES T.) THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, tinted lithograph frontispiece, 1865 ~ Cumming (C.F.Gordon) Granite Crags, folding map, plates, 1884 ~ Manning (Rev. Samuel) American Pictures, plates and text illustrations, n.d. [c.1880] ~ Lorne (John George Campbell, Duke of) Canadian Pictures, folding map, illustrations, n.d. [c.1880], first mentioned later half morocco, corners worn, rest modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamps; and 27 others, Americas, 8vo & 4to (24).

---. WILLIS (NATHANIEL PARKER) AMERICAN SCENERY, 2 vol., steel-engraved additional vignette titles, portrait and plates, 20th century morocco-backed cloth, spines worn, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates, 4to, 1840.

---. WILLIS (NATHANIEL PARKER) CANADIAN SCENERY ILLUSTRATED, engraved portrait, map and 117 plates after W.H.Bartlett, portrait stained, 20th century binder's morocco-backed cloth, spines faded, ex-library copy with blind-stamp on plates, 4to, 1842.

---. CUMMING (CONSTANCE F.GORDON) FROM THE HEBRIDES TO THE HIMALAYAS, 2 vol., 27 woodcut plates, 1876 ~ Oldmixon (John) Gleanings from Piccadilly to Pera, 4 tinted lithograph plates, 1854 ~ L[eveson] (H.A.) The Forest and the Field. By H.A.L. the "Old Shekarry." Second Edition, photographic frontispiece portrait, 8 wood-engraved plates, 1867 ~ Playfair (Lieut.-Col. R.L.) Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis, folding map, plates, 1877 ~ Lane-Poole (Stanley) Social Life in Egypt, additional engraved vignette title, 5 engraved plates, woodcut text illustrations, n.d. [c.1880], occasional slight soiling, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamps; and c.44 others, Travel, v.s. (c.50).

---. MARRYAT (FRANCIS S.) BORNEO AND THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, FIRST EDITION, additional lithograph title and 21 tinted lithograph plates, woodcut text illustrations, 20th century binder's morocco-backed cloth, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates, 4to, 1848.

---. PARDOE (JULIA) THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS, additional engraved title view, portrait, map and 78 plates after W.H.Bartlett, tissue guards, 4 plates damp-stained, modern binder's buckram, covers slightly soiled, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates, 4to, 1838.

---. WALSH (Rev. ROBERT) CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SCENERY OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR, 2 vol. in 1, additional engraved vignette title, folding map, town plan and 94 steel-engraved plates, tissue guards, occasional slight marginal damp-stain, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp in margin of plates, 4to, n.d. [1839].

ATKINSON (Capt. GEORGE FRANCKLIN) "Curry and Rise," or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India, additional pictorial chromolithograph title and 39 chromolithograph plates, 1 plate with loss of blank corner and slight dust-soiling, later half morocco, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates, n.d. [1859].

AUSTRALASIA.- GARRAN (ANDREW, editor) AUSTRALASIA ILLUSTRATED, 3 VOL., wood-engraved illustrations, many full-page, binder's morocco-backed cloth, ex-library set with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps, folio, Sydney, &c., 1892.

EUROPE.- ALLAN (JOHN H.) A PICTORIAL TOUR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, addition lithograph pictorial title and 40 tinted lithograph plates, 20th century binder's cloth, ex-library copy with blind-stamp on plates, folio, 1843.

---. BATTY (Capt. ROBERT) GERMAN SCENERY FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN 1820, engraved pictorial title, 60 engraved plates, large vignette view, occasional slight foxing and soiling, ownership signature on title, 20th century binder's buckram, ex-library copy with blind-stamp on plates, folio, 1823.

---. CARR (JOHN) THE STRANGER IN FRANCE, 1803 ~ Batty (Captain Robert) French Scenery, 1822 ~ Collection de 28 Vues de Paris prises au Daguerreotype, n.d. c.1860 ~ Paris and its Environs... from Original Drawings taken under the direction of A.Pugin, Esq., vol.I only (of 2), 1833, first mentioned aquatint plates, rest steel-engraved plates, second mentioned modern morocco-backed cloth, rest modern binder's cloth, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates, v.s.; sold not subject to return. (4).

---. HAKEWILL (JAMES) A PICTURESQUE TOUR OF ITALY, additional engraved title and 63 plates, slight foxing, contemporary half morocco, worn, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamp at corner of plates, folio, 1820.

---. HOARE (Sir RICHARD COLT) A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLAND OF ELBA, steel-engraved map and 8 plates, 1814 ~ Bell (John) Observations on Italy, 9 steel-engraved plates, 1825 ~ Nash (Frederick) Panorama of Paris, 39 steel-engraved views on 34 plates, n.d. [c.1830] ~ Ormonde (John Butler, Marquis of) An Autumn in Sicily, folding map, 16 plates, Dublin, 1850, first mentioned later binder's cloth, second mentioned contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, rest modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates; and c.61 others, Europe, v.s. (c.65).

---. SWINBURNE (HENRY) PICTURESQUE TOUR THROUGH SPAIN, engraved vignette title, map and 20 engraved plates, occasional slight marginal foxing and dust-soiling, 20th century binder's morocco-backed cloth, spine worn and slightly defective, ex-library copy with marginal blind-stamp on plates, folio, 1823.

---. WRIGHT (Rev. GEORGE NEWENHAM) THE RHINE, ITALY, AND GREECE, 2 vol., additional engraved vignette titles and 71 steel-engraved plates, slight foxing, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with blind-stamp on plates, n.d. [1841]; and another, Steel-Engraved Views, 4to (3).

---. USSHER (JOHN) A JOURNEY FROM LONDON TO PERSEPOLIS; including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia, FIRST EDITION, 18 chromolithograph plates, occasional slight soiling, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with blind-stamp on plates, large 8vo, 1865.

---. WILSON (Col. Sir CHARLES WILLIAM) Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, 4 vol., steel-engraved plates and woodcut text illustrations, modern binder's buckram, ex-library set with bookplate and blind-stamps, 4to, n.d. [1880-84].

SIMPSON (Sir GEORGE) NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, DURING THE YEARS 1841 AND 1842, 2 vol., portrait, folding map, 1847 ~ Elwes (Robert) A Sketcher's Tour Round the World, 21 tinted lithograph plates, 1854 ~ Seeman (Berthold) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the Years 1845-51, 2 vol. in 1, tinted chromolithograph frontispiece, 1853 ~ Campbell (J.F.) My Circular Notes... Round the World, 2 vol., woodcut illustrations, 1876, occasional soiling, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with blind-stamps; and 29 others, Voyages, 8vo & 4to (35).

WILD (JOHN JAMES) AT ANCHOR. A NARRATIVE OF EXPERIENCES AFLOAT AND ASHORE DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "CHALLENGER" FROM 1872 TO 1876, double-page colour chart, 12 chromolithograph plates by the author, all mounted, many text illustrations, occasional soiling, later binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplate and blind-stamps, folio, 1878.

LEWIS (SAMUEL) A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND, 5 vol. including Atlas vol., mixed edition, 45 engraved maps (16 folding), Atlas vol. 57 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline (15 folding), a few folding maps with tears, some browning, original cloth and blind-stamped cloth, slightly rubbed, all but vol. IV and Atlas vol. lacking spines, folio, 1831-45.