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† LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); colour print, ‘The Cart’, signed in pencil lower right and with Fine Art Trade Guild blind lower left, initialled ‘BKD (184)’, 52 x 41cm, framed and glazedProvenance: From a private Cheshire vendor, believed purchased in the 1970s.Condition Report: The print appears to be clean and bright, the blue mount is closely mounted to the bottom edge and part of the Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp is slightly obscured, frame with light wear.

Two pairs of lined and interlined blue gingham style curtains, one pair approximately drop 239cm, gather 162cm, the other pair approx drop 207cm, gather 112cm, with three matching Roman blinds, a pair of pink floral curtains, a pair of blue and green curtains, a pair of yellow curtains and a pair of beige curtains (Quantity)Provenance: A collection of two pairs of lined and interlined blue check curtains, one approx drop 213 x 115cm, the other approx drop 235cm, gathering 170cm, with two Roman blinds, matching, each 175cm long approx, a smaller blind, with a pair of beige curtains, a pair of yellow curtains, a pair of yellow and blue patterned curtains and a pair of pink and blue floral curtains.Condition Report: General wear through use but essentially fair.

Three pairs of lined and interlined Country House curtains, machine decorated with an all over scrolling floral design in gold, comprising a pair with drop 224cm, gathering 112cm, a pair with drop 221cm, gathering 137cm, a pair with drop 220cm, gathering 112cm, a pair drop 220cm, gathering 148cm, with four pelmets, approx 272cm, 187cm, 217cm and 273cm, and a Roman blind, width 58.5cm.Condition Report: Linings with some spotting here and there but nothing serious, minor wear to the bottoms of the curtains but overall good.

After Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne, 1884-1967), 'Merry England', signed with studio blind stamp, the plate 27x26cm

After Snaffles (Charles Johnson Payne, 1884-1967), 'Foxcatchers, For the love of it', signed with studio blind stamp, the plate 23x26cm

A 20th century partners desk, the shaped top with gadrooned edge, one side with the traditional arrangement of nine drawers, the other with three blind drawers over cupboards, 153x91x77cmH

A 19th century mahogany linen press, the two panelled doors opening to reveal a converted deep hanging interior, with three blind drawers over a single bottom drawer, on bracket feet, 125x61x213cmH

A gilt framed 19th century oil on canvas of people playing blind man's bluff, unsigned. H.46 W.53cm.

An early 20th century oak side cabinet, carved with blind fretwork in the 17th century taste, 105.5cm high, 152.5cm wide, 55.5cm deep

A William IV mahogany library table, rounded rectangular top with inset tooled and gilt writing surface above a pair of frieze drawers, blind to verso, turned stretcher, bun-capped brass casters, 73.5cm high, 107cm wide, 60.5cm deep, c.1835

[Percy, Thomas]. The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland Balad. In Three Fits or Cantos, London: T. Davies and S. Leacroft successor to C. Marsh, 1771, half-title, title with engraved vignette, disbound 4to, together with:Hoccleve (Thomas), Poems..., never before printed: selected from a MS. in the possession of George Mason, London: Leigh and Sotheby, 1796, half-title detached, blind library stamp to one leaf, occasional spotting, disbound 4to,Crowe (William), Lewesdon Hill, A Poem, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1788, early ink note to title, scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, disbound 4to, plus other 18th-century poetry etc., all disbound, including Armine and Elvira, A Legendary Tale. In two parts, by Edmund Cartwright, 1771, Variety. A Tale for Married People, by William Whitehead, 1776, and The Project. A Poem. Dedicated to Dean Tucker by Richard Tickell, 3rd edition, 1778, etc.QTY: (24)

Isherwood (Christopher). Lions and Shadows, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1938, half title, portrait frontispiece, light spotting and toning to endpapers, all edges gilt, recent fine russet morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, upper cover lettered 'Lions' in gilt within gilt bands, repeated in blind beneath, contained in a cloth solander box, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "For Madame Cheuret from secretary, with all my love - March 1947", with a note of provenance tipped-in. From the library of Olive Mangeot, her pencil signature 'Olive' to front endpaper.In the book Isherwood substituted the Mangeots for the 'Cheurets'.

Macoun (John). Manitoba and teh Great North West, 1st edition, Ontario: The World Publishing Comapny, 1882, folding panarama frontispiece, 3 folding maps plus monochrome plates, front endpapers partially detached, front & rear gutters cracked, blind stamp to the foot of the title page, some light toning & spotting throughout, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine partially detached, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Yriarte (Charles), Florence, l'histoire, les médicis, les humanistes, les lettres, les arts, 2nd edition, Paris: J. Rothschild, 1881, numerous monochrome plates & illustrations, previous owner inscription to the half-title, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, folio, plusAngelo (Sydney & Anthony Wagner), The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, a collotype reproduction of the manuscript, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968, 23 monochrome plates, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, 8vo/oblong 4to, and other 19th-century & modern North American & European travel reference & related, mostly original cloth,some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Reproduction walnut two door blind panelled cabinet above three long drawers on bracket feet. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

After Russell Flint "The Mairie Mamosque" artists proof with blind stamp, signed in pencil, published by Frost and Reed, framed and glazed, 48cm x 65cm

S.G. 138 1873 2½ d ROSY-MAUVE, plate 1, mint (hinge remain), one blind perf.

* Laurence Stephen Lowry [British, 1887-1976]The Meeting Pointlithograph in colourssigned in pencil bottom right, the paper bearing blind stampsight size 49 x 72cm.After the circa 1965 painting of the same name on display at Museums Sheffield.

* Martin Ware [b.1946]Blue Blind; Yellow Carpet; Two Bottles; Two Bowlsfour, colour printseach signed and dated inscribed and numbered, largest 60 x 48cm. (4)*The property of the late Ann Meyrick.

Antiquarian Calamy, Edmond "An Account of the Minsters, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges and Schoolmasters who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration in 1660 by, or before, the Act for Uniformity ...", 2nd edition, vol 2 only, London printed for J. Lawrence in the Poultry, etc 1713, contemporary ink inscription dated 1713 on ffep and on verso another dated 1812(?), remains of what appeared to have been a wax seal on ffep, front hinge cracked, contemporary full leather binding, with blind tooled panel and speckled calf Johnson, Samuel"A Dictionary of the English Language ... Abstracted from the Folio Edition", vol 1 only, printed for J Knapton 1756, hinges cracked, some foxing, front board and initial pages detaching, full contemporary leather, backstrip leather cracked, the whole rather wornBailey, N"A Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...", London printed for E Bell, J Darby ..., etc, 1721, woodcut header to the preface which is in Latin, front board and back boards detached, full calf with blind tooled panel to front and back board (3) 

Ezra Pound: 'Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir by Ezra Pound including the published writings of the sculptor, and a selection from his letters', London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916, 1st edition, 1st issue, 38 b/w plates as called for comprising portraits and mainly photographs of the artist's sculpture, 4to, original green cloth gilt, professionally recased, replenished EP's/pastedowns, embossed in blind with a reproduction of a green stone charm by Gaudier-Brzkska on front cover (denoting first issue). One of only about 450 first issue copies

Dylan Thomas: 'Under Milk Wood', London, J.M. Dent, 1954, 1st edition, ownership signature "John R.H. Yeoman March 1954" to front pastedown, m/s note in his hand verso title page "The name of the town, as written by Dylan Thomas, was Llaregub.", original cloth gilt (generally VGC), dust wrapper (slightly worn, 8s 6d price intact); W.S. Graham: 'The Nightfishing', L, Faber, 1955, 1st edition, tipped in typed page of beginnings of poems by W.S. Graham, this signed & inscribed by Graham at foot "Dear John Yeoman, It's good to believe in good beginnings WS Graham C.W.", the page with typed heading "WS Graham First Lines of poems - 1940.", but with "First Lines" crossed through and amended in pen & ink by Graham to "Beginnings", beneath are nine typed opening stanzas of poems, these ranging from between one and five lines, with manuscript ruled lines between, including "As if in an instant parapets of plantsWould squander the tricks of summerAnd sprout in a madman's enterprise,My leashed pigeon in theatres of hawksCreeps down the bowback rafters to my hair."etc etc, ownership signature of John R.H. Yeoman to front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (worn with part losses); George Barker, 3 titles: 'A Vision of Beasts and Gods', L, Faber, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Collected Poems 1930-1955', L, Faber, 1957, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The View from a Blind I', L, Faber, 1962, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Vernon Watkins, 3 titles: 'The Death Bell', L, Faber, 1954, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'Cypress and Acacia', L, Faber, 1959, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Breaking of the Wave', Ipswich, Golgonooza Press, 1979, 1st edition, original printed wraps. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (8)

Sixteen A & C Black colour books, including 'Kashmir', 1909, 70 colour plates by Major E. Molyneux + sketch map at end as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, orig. prospectus for 'Burma' by R. Talbot Kelly loosely inserted; 'India', 1905, 75 colour plates by Mortimer Menpes as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Australia', 1910, 75 colour plates by Percy F.S. Spence + sketch map at end as called for, "presentation copy" blind stamp to title page, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'California the Land of the Sun', 1914, 32 tipped in colour plates by Sutton Palmer + sketch map at end as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Northern Spain', 1906, 75 colour plates by Edgar Wigram + map at end as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'The Riviera', 1907, 75 colour plates by William Scott + folding map at end as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Morocco', 1904, 74 colour plates by A.S. Forrest as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Constantinople', 1906, 63 colour plates by Warwick Goble + folding map at end as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; plus others 'Japan', 'World Pictures', 'South America', 'The Savage South Seas', 'Venice', 'Naples', 'France' & 'From Sketch Book & Diary' by Elizabeth Butler (16)

(Fine Binding, Gardening), Clare Leighton: 'Four Hedges. A Gardener's Chronicle', L, Victor Gollancz, 1935, 2nd impression, 88 wood engraved illustrations, of which 6 full page, as called for, 4to, finely rebound in full green morocco, onlaid panel with decorative gilt floral design to front cover, lettering for author and title creatively alternating in blind and gilt to spine

Creative Masters Scania Omnicity code 3, finished in Potteries Livery with Stafford 10 destination blind, in very good to excellent condition in original Bullocks box. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Rapido trains 90004 Birmingham Transport New Look Guy Arab Bus no45, MOF34, West Heath destination blind, in near mint condition. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

A SMALL QUANTITY OF PICTURES AND PRINTS ETC, to include a Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1936) lithograph 'Sous Les Fleurs' with blind stamp to lower margin, approximate size 40cm x 30cm, Jacques Edouard Evenpoel lithograph 'At the Square', an unsigned charcoal sketch heightened with white depicting the front of an Italian? Church with a figure near a bus stop, 19th century prints heightened with watercolour depicting soldiers, early 20th Century Freemasons photograph and New York Lodge membership certificate etc

After George Baxter (1804-1867) A pair of portrait prints 'The Emperor Napoleon I' and 'Lord Nelson', both blind stamped, 10.5cm x 7.5cm, framed and glazed; together with the Duke of Wellington, 10.5cm x 7.5cm, framed and glazed (3)

A fine Chinese rosewood, fruitwood and mother of pearl inlaid cabinet, 19th century, the panelled top over two twin cupboard doors pierce-carved with arabesques, and a drawer to centre, flanked by two cupboards and two drawers, with red lacquered interior, above a blind fret carved and shaped apron, multiple panels to each end, raised on scrolled bracket supports. H114cm, W123cm, D40.5cm. Provenance: a note within the cabinet inscribed ".....Bought at auction from Dunglass Mansion House in 1945 for 21 guineas". 

1960s Bolton Corporation Transport DESTINATION BLIND. A lengthy, complete linen blind in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

1949 (dated) Ramsbottom UDC DESTINATION BLIND. Printed Dec 49. A complete, linen blind in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

1948 (dated) Leigh Corporation DESTINATION BLIND. Printed Nov 1948. A complete, linen blind in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

Glasgow Corporation TRAM DESTINATION BLIND from Newlands depôt and for the lower box. A complete, linen blind in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

1950s/60s Wolverhampton Corporation TROLLEYBUS DESTINATION BLIND. A complete, linen blind mostly in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

c1950s/60s East Midland Motor Services DESTINATION BLIND. A complete, linen blind generally in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

1963 (dated) Western National DESTINATION BLIND from Plymouth Depôt. Dated 3.10.63 (manufactured November 1963), reference no 23F for single-deckers. A complete, linen blind in very good, ex-use condition. [1]

London Bus DESTINATION BLIND from Metrobus' Orpington garage for a Volvo Olympian. Dated 2000 and a complete blind manufactured by McKenna Brothers in Tyvek material. In excellent, ex-use condition. [1]

London Bus DESTINATION BLIND from Croydon (TC) garage. Coded NN for the ultimate box of a DMS or L type and dated 6/89. A complete blind, manufactured by McKenna Brothers in Tyvek material. In very good, ex-use condition. [1]

Mahogany side table, rectangular top with blind fret carving and raised on straight square legs, 71 x 91 x 45cm

David Bowie: Limited Edition B£10 Brixton Pound Print, 2016 & Two First Day Cover Presentation Packs, 2017..- the print, offset lithograph, limited edition, 245/300, printed in orange fluorescent ink with die-cut metallic and holographic foiling on security watermarked banknote paper, titled ( 2016) in pencil, individually numbered in black and metallic ink, blind stamped 'This Aint RocknRoll', A3 sheet, 42 x 29.8cm; both sides of the note displayed, featuring Duffys iconic photograph of David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust guise from the cover of Aladdin Sane and detail from the Nuclear Dawn mural on Brixtons Coldharbour Lane; with an accompanying certificate of authenticity from the Brixton Pound, blind stamped and signed by Tom Shakhli and designers,Olive Russell and Charlie Waterhouse; together with Two Presentation First Day Cover Presentation Packs, Edinburgh: Royal Mail, 2017, comprises: the first - David Bowie Live, four postal stamps loosely inserted within original promotional card, 11.5 x 21.5cm and a printed white envelope with Aladdin Sane flashes franked in two places on 14.3.2017, four postal stamps and further image of David Bowie from the promotional card tipped-on the envelope with an image of Bowie seated lower left, 12.5 x 22cm; the second David Bowie, six postal stamps loosely inserted within original promotional card, 11.5 x 21.5cm, and a printed white envelope as above, six postal stamps tipped-on and the Aladdin Sane flashes franked in two places on 14.3.17. (4)David Bowie (1947-2016) The post office's first day covers, a celebration of Bowies life and work, were issued in the year after his death.Condition Report: Brixton Pound B£10 Print - mint condition.First Day Covers Presentation Packs - mint condition.

Royal Letters and related ephemera, 1995-2006.- a collection of twenty-two typescript letters, 141 lines, 22 single leaves, all sent to Mrs Reeve, twenty of which are mostly written on behalf of members of the British Royal family sent from Clarence House and St. James Palace, London, comprises: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (5); HRH. The Prince of Wales, (King Charles - 1); HRH. Diana, Princess of Wales (2); Princes William and Harry (7); Earl and Countess of Wessex (1); Camilla Parker-Bowles, four typescript letters, signed by the Queen Consort, 19 lines, 4 single leaves, sent from her Wiltshire residence, Raymill House, one dated July 29, 1997; Mohammed Al-Fayed, typescript letter, signed, 5 lines, a single leaf sent from Harrods, Knightsbridge, London, August 28, 1998, . . a year has passed since the tragic accident stole the lives of my son Dodi and Diana Princess of Wales . .; a related TLS. from The Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, 1995 and a newspaper cutting of a related published photograph; four photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, one depicted with Mrs. Reeve, on the occasion of the Princesss visit to the Royal School for the Blind, January, 1995, various sizes, the largest 6 x 8 ¾ inches; together with, Diana Frances, Princess of Wales 1961-1997, a signed Memorial card from her mother, Frances Shand Kydd [1997]. The letters mostly thanked Mrs. Reeve for her cards, gifts, and letters of condolence sent to Princes William and Harry following the death of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, those written on behalf of the Royal family signed by Ladies-in Waiting, including Angela Oswald, Frances Campbell Preston, Elizabeth Scarborough, Margaret Rhodes and Elizabeth Grimthorpe, others signed by Henrietta Rolston, Stephen Lamport, Claudia Holloway, Jean Pike, and Caroline MacMillan, many letters with original envelopes postmarked Buckingham Palace with Royal crests on versos. (25+)Condition Report: overall good condition.

19th Century Burr walnut dentist cabinet, the top section having shaped gallery with turned finials either side and decorative moulded carving at the centre, the panelled cylinder opening to reveal a mirror and pink and white marble, twelve burr walnut drawers below with original turned walnut knob handles, the top sitting on marble base, pull out slide below lined with a leather writing surface decorated with blind and gilt tooling, under the slide there is a oak lined frieze drawer with the original brass drop handles and escutcheon, the cupboard having two burr walnut arched panelled doors opening to reveal two shelves inside, either side of the doors are fluted and carved columns, standing on a plinth base with original castors. Measures approx; 175cm x 82cm x 43cm.

An 18th Century George III mahogany chest on chest of drawers. Carved dentil work pediment top with pierced blind fretwork banding. Good series of drawers with ornate brass swing handles and pull out reading slide all raised on bracket legs. Measures approx; 184cm x 107cm x 54cm.

Attributed to Sir David Wilkie (1785 - 1841), study for blind man's bluff, watercolour, unsigned, 16cm x 19cm, framed, provenance: Abbott & Holder LondonGood condition, possibly very slight paper discolouration

Valerius Maximus (Gaius) Factorum dictorumque memorabilium libri novem, collation: []8 []4 A-Z a-n8 , title in red and black with woodcut device, another woodcut device on verso of otherwise blank final leaf, small marginal repair to the latter, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, 8vo (149 x 97mm.), Mainz, Ivo Schoeffer, 1544.⁂ Provenance: contemporary ownsership inscription in red ink on title "Sum Joannis Ottonis Franci" dated 1579; another inscription on front pastedown dated 1592.

Demosthenes & Aeschines. Principum Graeciae oratorum opera, cum utriusque autoris vita, & ulpiani commentariis, novisque scholiis, edited by Hieronymus Wolff, 6 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition, parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., large woodcut diagram to α6v, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, penultimate colophon f., title all but neatly detached, some spotting and staining, the latter most pronounced in final part, but not obscuring text, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later black leather label, lacking metal clasps, spine with split to pigskin at head and worn at foot, outer edges worn, soiled and marked, but solid, [Adams D268; Schweiger 87; VD 16 D 486], folio, Basel, Eusebius Episcopius, 1572.⁂ Fourth and best edition, which won for Wolff an excellent reputation among contemporary scholars. Contributors include Guillaume Morel and Johannes Oporinus.

Bible (German).- [Luther (Martin)] Biblia das ist die gantze H. Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments, lacking front free endpaper, lacking engraved portrait and engraved title, title in red and black, wood engraved illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, one or two short tears, tiny worming affecting odd letter, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown and title, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, contemporary decorative calf over wooden boards, 7 metal corners only (of 8), metal clasps, lacking one, modern spine label, rubbed and worn, folio, Nurnberg, Christoph Endters, 1670

Mythology.- Bindings.- Demoustier (Charles-Albert) Lettres à Emilie sur la mythologie, 2 vol., 2 engraved frontispieces and 2 plates after Desenne, foxing, lightly browned, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, handsome contemporary cerise panelled calf by Pierre Dauphin of Lyons (signed in gilt at foot of spine of Vol.1), covers with single gilt filet outer border enclosing in turn a wide blind-tooled border and a central panel cross-hatched in black with triple gilt filet border, spines in compartments, richly decorated in gilt and blind and with double black leather labels, some fading to spines, g.e., an attractive set, 8vo (bindings 222 x 142mm.), Paris, Charles Froment, 1828.

NO RESERVE Sartre (Jean-Paul) Œuvre Romanesque, 5 vol., limited edition, colour plates by Walter Spitzer, tissue-guards, original paper wrappers, original chemise, tape strengthening to spines, original slip-cases, soiled, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, 1964-65 § Le Livre des Mille Nuits et une nuit, 3 vol., translated by J. C. Mardrus, colour plates by Kees van Dongen, original decorative boards, original slip-cases, tape repairs to edges, rubbed, Paris, 1955 § Boccace. Le Décaméron, 5 vol., limited edition, plates by Jean Gradassi, tissue-guards, silken endpapers, original decorative morocco, gilt, slipcases, Nice, 1976; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and other sets, 4to & 8vo (36)

NO RESERVE China.- Japan.- Oliphant (Laurence) Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 chromolithograph frontispieces and 18 plates, 4 engraved folding maps only (of 5), 1 with split to fold and old repair to verso, illustrations, vol. 1 with small pencil donkey to margin p.201, publisher's catalogue at end vol. 1, ex-library with bookplates and occasional blind-stamps, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, vol. 2 with small tear to spine head, shelfmark to spine foot, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, 1859.⁂ Oliphant served as Lord Elgin's private secretary on his mission to China and Japan between 1857 and 1859, which saw the end of the Second Opium War with the signing of the Treatise of Tianjin in 1858.

Chronicle.- Carion (Johannes) The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche Iohn Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine, translated by Gwalter Lynne, first and only edition in English, black letter, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, contemporary ink inscriptions to title ('In the 74 leafe of the holy booke [Bible] there you ?will find the begininge of the anabaptisine...', and 'the anabatiste are called first...'), and occasional marginalia or pen trials, lacking A2&8, C8, P1&8, R1&2, 4&5 and 7, S8, 2A1&8, 2B1, 2E6-8, 2F1&2, 4&5 and 7&8, 2N8, 2O1-8, and 2P1-4, title soiled, E6 torn at upper corner, with considerable loss of text, R8 trimmed at foot (affecting a few letters at lower inner corner) and detaching, 2D2 chipped at head (with loss of part of a few letters of headline), with horizontal tear through text (without loss), and crude marginal repair (obscuring some printed side-notes), 2N7 little frayed (with loss of a few letters) and detached, water-stained, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, lacking endpapers, contemporary blind-ruled calf, small remains of paper label to upper cover, some worming, corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, but solid, [STC 4626], small 4to, [[by S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, dwellynge on Somers Keye, by Byllinges gate], [1550]. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Rare at auction. Johannes Carion (1499-1537) mathematician and court astrologer to Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg. He wrote his history in Latin and it was 'corrected' (i.e. virtually rewritten) by Philipp Melanchthon, who gave it a Lutheran viewpoint, thus making it a popular work of the Protestant Reformation.

Welsh ownership.- Du Moulin (Pierre) The Buckler of the faith: or, A defence of the confession of faith of the reformed churches in France, against the obiections of M. Arnoux the Iesuite, initial f. blank, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink notes in Welsh and Latin to verso of front free endpaper, occasional contemporary ink marginalia in English, lacking advertisement to reader f. after A8, 2O1 (first f. of Table), and final blank, trimmed at head, affecting the occasional headline, 2B6v and 2B7r heavily ink stained, but text legible, some water-staining, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments, head of spine and corners worn, joints splitting, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, spine especially so, [STC 7313], small 4to, Printed by R[ichard] F[ield] for Nathanael Newbery, 1620.⁂ Rare at auction. Provenance: Owen Davies; Robert Parry, 1665; Richard ?Hartley (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper recto).

Bible (English).- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, 2 additional engraved titles, small tears and loss to edges, Oxford, by John Baskett, 1726, bound after The Book of Common Prayer, additional engraved title, tears, old repairs to verso, small loss at gutter, Oxford, 1726, bound before, The Whole Book of Psalms, by A. Wilde, 1725, 51 engraved plates, occasional tear or small loss to edges, some old repairs verso, spotting and staining, occasional tiny rust-hole affecting odd letter, contemporary crushed morocco, rebacked retaining original backstrip, gilt, rubbed and worn § The Book of Common Prayer, by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills ..., 1711, bound before, The Whole Book of Psalms, by William Pearson, 1711, ?lacking engraved title, scattered spotting, trimmed, early ink ownership inscription, near contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others similar, v.s. (34)

Dumont (Jean) The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black, 51 engraved double-page maps and plans, 32 engraved plates, 3 folding, engraved initials and head-pieces, both vol. lack A1, vol. 2 lacks front free endpaper and B2-2E2, 2F2-2G1, 3K1, 4A1-4D2, 4M1, 4N1-4O2 and 4R1-4T1, occasional tears into text, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, by John Bettenham, for Claude du Bosc, 1736-37 § Theuriet (André) La Vie Rustique, half-title, plates and illustrations, scattered spotting, original wrappers bound in, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, Paris, 1888 § Dostoïevski (Fedor) Le Joueur, frontispiece and illustrations by Grau Sala, faint off-setting, contemporary decorative morocco, sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, n.d.; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others leather bindings, v.s. (c.70)

Field of Mars (The): being an alphabetical digestion of the principal Naval and Military Engagements, 2 vol., half-title, 24 engraved plates, 32 engraved maps, 2 folding, list of subscribers at end vol. 2, previous owner's ink signature, scattered spotting, occasional off-setting, one or two small marginal holes, bookplate, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, ontemporary calf, upper covers becoming detached, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 4to, 1781.

NO RESERVE Forster (Edward, translator) The Arabian Nights, 5 vol., half-titles, 24 engraved plates by Robert Smirke, occasional faint spotting, bookplate of Sir James Gomer Berry, contemporary blind-stamped calf, gilt, rebacked, corners and hinges repaired, worn at extremities, g.e., 1802 § Carlyle (J.D.) Specimens of Arabian Poetry, second edition, text in English and Arabic, half-title, some light foxing and toning, contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with black morocco label, 1810, rubbed, 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Alaux (Jean-Paul & Gustave) L'Histoire Merveilleuse de Christophe Colomb, number 30 of 20 on Japon with an original signed illustration and an additional suite of illustrations, from a total edition of 950, plates, illustrations, original wrappers bound-in, scattered faint spotting, most to fore-edges, bookplate, contemporary half-morocco, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, 4to, Paris, 1924.

NO RESERVE Arnoux (Guy).- Kerdyk (René) Les Femmes de ce Temps, one of 500 copies, 10 colour plates, 1 becoming loose, scattered very faint marginal spotting, original pictorial boards, light spotting, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, folio, Paris, 1920.

NO RESERVE India.- La Touche (Sir James John Digges) Gazetteer of Ajmer-Merwara, in Rajputá'na, title foxed and with library blind-stamp, inner margins wormed, some spotting or foxing, lightly browned, gutta percha perished, original cloth-backed printed boards, spine faded and worn, but holding firm, some worming, Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1875; and an unrecorded issue of a rare work on revenue orders, Lahore, 1855, small 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ Rare. Provenance: Pandit Sandar Lal, Advocate High Court, Allahabad (bookplate).

Dutry (Marc).- Renassia (Daniel) & Joseph Ben Aaron. Le Livre du Job, Letter 'D' from an edition of 4, from a total edition of 230, 16 full-page plates by Dautry, illustrations, 2 additional suites of 13 plates, 1 sepia and 1 black and white, 2 mounted copperplates, 1 loose, lacking original gouache, all loose as issued, faint marginal spotting, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, housed in original paper wrappers, housed in original pictorial vellum drop-back box, a little rubbed, fractional bumping to corners, folio, Nice, Joseph Pardo, 1961.

Erotica.- Bretone (Nicolas Edmé Restif de la) Duchesse ou la Femme Sylphide, one of 240 copies, 20 colour plates, faint spotting to fore-edge, loose as issued, original pictorial wrappers, light staining to spine, original slipcase, rubbed and soiled, Aux Dépens de Quelques Bibliophiles, [1948] § Feydeau (Ernest) Mémoires d'une Demoiselle de Bonne Famille ..., limited edition, colour plates, loose as issued, original paper wrappers, original glassine dust-jacket, original cloth chemise, lightly sunned spine, original slipcase, a little rubbed, Paris, n.d. § Servigné (Jean-Baptiste Guiard de) Les Sonnettes ou le Carillon Libertin, limited edition, 12 colour plates, scattered spotting, loose as issued, original wrappers, original cloth chemise, original slipcase, Paris, 1961 § Lelong (Pierre) L'Art D'Aimer, number 123 of 100 from a total edition of 290 signed by artist, plates and illustrations by Lelong, loose as issued, original paper wrappers, original glassine dust-jacket, original clamshell box, rubbed and worn, Paris, 1973; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others similar, v.s. (28)