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* Scrapbook. A Victorian scrap album, 44 leaves, each page with multiple neatly arranged colour lithographic and chromolithographic prints plus monochrome scissor cuts, some images with contemporary hand colouring, including travel, ethnographic, natural history, military, sport, juvenalia, mythology, Christmas, manuscript inscription in ink 'Proctors Scrap Book / Portsmouth Point' with partial wax seal to back cover, partially disbound, large folio (47 x 33 cm)QTY: (1)

Bellegarde (Jean-Baptiste Morvan de). L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, a? l'usage de la Maison du Roy. Conformement aux Breviaires & Messels Romain & Parisien: En latin & en franc?ois. Avec l'explication des ce?re?monies de l'Eglise..., Paris: Jaques Collombat, 1741, engraved frontispiece and engraved additional title (both cropped to lower margin and repaired), text mostly in double columns, woodcut initials and headpieces, slight worming to first few leaves, 19th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper, remanence of old bookplate removed from verso of free endpaper, bookplate of Anthony Godwin Hail to front pastedown, contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with gilt roll border, centre of covers with oval gilt coat of arms of Louis XV, darkened, some staining, head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped, 8vo, together with:Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629, lacking title, ¶1-¶6, E2-E4, CC1-CC6 inclusive, all replaced in facsimile, new testament title present, Apocrypha present, few woodcut initials, woodcut device above colophon and dated 1629, water stains to last few gatherings, small paper flaws affecting a few leaves, some closed tears, some repairs, some early marginalia to a few leaves, modern quarter black morocco, gilt title labels, folio (Darlow & Moule 324; Herbert 424; STC 2285)Bennet (Thomas). The Rights of the Clergy of the Christian Church; or, A Discourse shewing that God has given and appropriated to the Clergy, Authority to Ordain, Baptize, Preach, Preside in Church-Prayer, and Consecrate the Lord's Supper; Wherein Also The Pretended Divine Right of the Layety to Elect, either the Persons to be Ordained, or their own particular Pastors, is Examin'd and Disprov'd, London: James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1711, wormhole affecting first few gatherings, minor loss to boarder of title, lacking all leaves after S4, contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, 8voRobertson (William). Phraseologia Generalis..., A Full, Large, and General Phrase Book..., Cambridge: John Hayes, 1681, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Wm. Peele and Gal: Peele to title page, some space toning, contemporary calf rebacked preserving boards, bumped and worn, 8voQTY: (4)

Beardsley (Aubrey). Under The Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse, published by Bodley Head, London 1904, The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley, first edition, published by The Bodley Head, 1925, The Song of Songs, published by The Folio Society, 1967, The Best of Beardsley, Salome by Oscar Wild, Aubrey and The Dying Lady, published 1972, together with a Folio Society book, Folio Twenty One, bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1967, published 1968, and a book on the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Antique sculpture.- Perrier (François) [Segmenta Nobiliarum Signorum et Statuarum], etched frontispiece, lacking title, with index, and 99 etched plates (of 101) only, including two folding, on crisp 17th century laid paper, frontispiece with ink additions filling in wear to the plate, additional early ink inscription to verso of index, heavy soiling and surface dirt, notably to the frontispiece and first section, contemporary calf, lacking spine with some sections of book coming loose from binding, very worn with losses, folio, 1638 § After Callot (Jacques) De Droeve ellendigheden van den oorlogh, etched title and 17 plates only by L.Schenk, trimmed within platemarks,  Amsterdam, Gerret van Schagen, [circa 1730] (2)

Snakes.- Topsell (Edward) The Historie of serpents; Historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of living creatures, first edition, title with woodcut illustration, thereafter numerous woodcut illustrations within text and two whole-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, lacking initial blank and Aa5, title with paper repairs to fore- and bottom margins, P1 re-margined (no text loss), Hh6 inner margin paper repair with minor text loss, and a few other leaves with small paper repairs to blank margins, later vellum and red endpapers, upper cover a little warped, [STC 24124], folio, by William Jaggard, 1608. *** A first edition copy of the first major natural history of serpents in English. Conceived to follow his 'The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts (1607), this volume actually stands alone as a work in its own right, and commonly appears as such. As with most bestiaries of the time, Topsell's account includes real species - snakes, lizards, frogs, other reptiles and amphibians - as well as mythical creatures, such as dragons and the Herculean Hydra. The book is well known for its engaging illustrations, including for example, a chameleon and the boa constrictor eating a human baby (title). Provenance: Alfred Barnard, possibly the British historian who specialised in the history of brewing and distillation (1837-1918) [bookplate]. 

Vigerius (Marcus) Decachordum Christianum, collation: aa8 a10 b-z8 &8 A10 B-E8 F10 AA BB8, aa8 blank, title and author's arms within woodcut border signed F.V., 10 full-page metalcuts, that of the Nativity signed 'L' and that of Pentecost signed 'F.V.', all within one of two repeated woodcut borders, 33 smaller metalcuts illustrating the life of Christ, all but two criblé, initial spaces with guide-letters, repair to upper margin of title, the odd small marginal repair, some spotting (or occasional foxing) and staining, water-stained at end, mostly to lower inner gutters and lower margins, but just encroaching on text on occasions, lightly browned, late 19th / early 20th century vellum, leather title label to spine (rubbed), upper joint just starting, but holding firm, folio (304 x 204mm.), Fano, Hieronymus Soncinus, 1507.  *** A wide-margined copy of the first edition of what is considered to be the finest book from the press of Soncino, the first printer at Fano. Vigerius joined the Franciscan order while his great uncle (the future Pope Sixtus IV) was general of the order, and it was to Sixtus IV that he owed his advancement. He was made bishop of Senigallia in 1476, Governor of Castel Sant'Angelo, and a cardinal in 1505. Vigerius returned to his studies in 1506, producing the Decachordum, a treatise on asceticism following the life of the Holy Family, which he dedicated to his cousin Pope Julius II. Our copy with foliation correct on f. lxxix (unlike the Harvard copy) and incorrect on f. lxxxix (reads lxxxiiii (corrected by hand in ink), as in the Garden copy); and with seventh and eighth chorda incorrectly headed sixth and seventh (corrected by hand in ink).Provenance: Leo Samuele Olschki (1861-1940), Italian antiquarian bookseller and publisher (book label to front pastedown ‘N. 17818 (ms.); Ecrin. H9 (ms.)’); early 20th century German book label to front pastedown ‘Bibliothek Nr: E. 2087 (ms.); Bandanzahl :1 (ms.); Abteilung: Alte Drücke (ms.)’.Literature: Adams V746; De Marinis, Livres à figures italiens 214; Mortimer Italian 537; Sander 7589; EDIT 16 CNCE 32811. 

Interior decorator's design book.- Turner Lord and Co. (W., decorator, upholsterer and cabinet maker, fl. 1872-1886)) Album of 75 original designs for fireplaces, ceilings, interiors, a pipe organ and various furniture, by various hands, many on Turner Lord and Co. headed paper with design number, pen and black ink, on various papers, many on thin tracing papers, two with hand-colouring, various sizes, all neatly tipped onto thick card leaves, slightly acidic, numerous losses, splits and handling creases throughout, leaves loose, covers detached, very worn, folio, [late 19th century and later]

Officina Serpentis.- Bible, Hebrew. Chamishah Chumshei Torah, 2 vol., one of 850 copies on Van Gelder paper, from a total limitation of 856, type designed by Marcus Behmer, decorative woodcut title in blue, brown and black, each Book with ornamental first word printed in brown and black, few verses and single words printed in red, order form and prospectus in German loosely inserted, small ink number to vol. 1 front free endpaper, vol. 1 half-title and endpapers spotted and browned, very occasional light spotting elsewhere, gutter cracked at points with some leaves starting to work loose, vol. 1 upper hinge weak, original boards, printed paper spine labels, vol. 1 lacking majority of backstrip, spotting, browning to spines and some covers, vol. 2 joints split at ends, folio, Berlin, Officina Serpentis for Soncino Gesellschaft, 1931-33.  *** Deemed by many to be the finest Hebrew Bible printed in the 20th century. 

Folio Society Jane Austen book set and Folk Tales set

[BOOKS]An Antiquarian Miscellany. An interesting and large lot of approximately seventy-five various antiquarian books being individual volumes and small sets, first and later editions. Includes some books on Russian and Egyptian travel topics including a three volume set in calf of Tooke's Russia, a copy in publisher's cloth of Oliphant's Russian Shores of the Black Sea, a nicely rebound copy of Irwin's Voyage to the Red Sea, and a nicely rebound copy of Sonnini's Travels in Egypt; two books illustrated by Gustave Dore including Poe's The Raven; Arthur Szyk's The New Order in dust jacket; a vellum bound folio printed in Greek; a nicely bound three-volume set of Boxiana; an early (18th-19th century) collection of seals in an old wooden case; a fine copy of The Iconography of the First Duke of Wellington in publisher's cloth; a later issue of The Horse in Motion; Dulac's Arabian Nights; The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; a few of medical interest on asthma and gout; Gay's Fables; folders from an autograph collection with a few 17th century documents in German; a first or early American edition of Orwell's Animal Farm in jacket; Djuna Barnes' The Antiphon in jacket; a two-volume set of The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland in publisher's cloth and a two volume leather bound set of Bartlett's Ireland Illustrated; a nicely bound volume on European Butterflies & Moths; a work on Russian Cinema; a book on art deco design; etc. Worn with covers detached, internal stains or markings, some fine, not collated but some known to be incomplete, sold as is. No condition report? Click below to request one. *Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.Request a condition report

Milton, John Paradise Lost A Poem in Twelve Books. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. London: by Miles  Flesher, for Richard Bently, and Jacob Tonson, 1688. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), [4] 343 [7] pp., contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, list of subscribers at rear, engraved bookplates (Charles Sharp of Hoddom and Murray of Crieff), binding worn, front board and frontispiece detached, frontispiece with closed tear to foot and small chip to gutter affecting image, fraying to fore edges up to quire H, short closed tear to foot of plate for Book XI, small spill-burn in pp. 317/18 [Pforzheimer 720; Wing M2147] From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. First illustrated and first folio edition of one of the greatest poems in the English language, published in the year of the Glorious Revolution, an event which might be viewed as a posthumous fulfilment of Milton's life's work as one of the principal opponents of monarchical absolutism in the 17th century. 'The first three editions of Paradise Lost sold in modest numbers, but the fourth edition, a sumptuous gilt-edged folio published in 1688, was bought by subscription by many of the most influential readers in England, and thereafter the poem came to be widely regarded as England's national epic' (ODNB).

Antiquarian literature Collection of English and French books, 16th-18th century William of Tyre. Histoire de la guerre saincte, dite proprement, la Franciade orientale … traduite en françois, par Gabriel du Preau. Paris: Nicols Chesneau, 1573. Folio, contemporary calf, gilt strapwork lozenges and monogram ‘R R’ to covers, title-page near detached, lacking free endpapers, a6 working loose [not in Adams]; Sandys, George (translator). Ovid's Metamorphosis. Englished, Mythologiz'd, and represented in FIgures. An Essay to the Translation of Virigl's Aeneis. Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632. Folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title-page, 14 engraved plates (of 15, lacking the plate for Book 9), spine defective, marginal fraying to first two quires including frontispiece and engraved title, a few plates similarly frayed [Sabin 57984; STC 18966]; Knolles, Richard. The Generall Historie of the Turkes. London: Adam Islip, 1603. Folio, contemporary calf, prelims incomplete, engraved title-page torn with loss, final leaf torn with loss, several leaves crudely repaired; Bion, Nicolas. The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments. London: by H. W. for John Senex, and William Taylor, 1723. First edition in English, folio, contemporary panelled calf, lacking several plates; and 5 other folios including Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works, [London: Bernard Linton, 1721] (folio, contemporary calf, covers detached, engraved portrait frontispiece, incomplete, title-page replaced in manuscript) (9) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Bible; English; Authorised Version The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with ye Former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall command. Appointed to be read in Churches. Cambridge: printed by Tho. Buck, and Roger Daniel, Printers to the University of Cambridge. And are to be sold by Roger Daniel, at the Angell in Lumberstreet, London, 1638. Folio in sixes (35.6 x 22cm), c.1700 calf rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt, engraved architectonic general title-page by William Marshall, New Testament with separate dated title-page, binding worn with evidence of old refurbishment, variable spotting to contents, frequent old repairs to lower margins throughout, engraved title spotted and with small section of loss to fore margin, OT with paper disruption to gutter of E5 affecting small area of text, 2P3-5 (Psalms) and 3S3 (Apocrypha - Baruch) torn with loss, spill-burn to 3T6 (I Maccabees), 3U6 shaved at foot, NT A4 chipped at upper inner corner, lacking A5-6, B4 with small section of loss to foot and with old repairs to extensive closed tear, C5 and I5 also torn with loss, R6 (final leaf) with loss to corner affecting headline only, contemporary editions of the Book of Common Prayer Psalms bound in at front and rear respectively (both defective) [Herbert 520] From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Engraved bookplate of Murray Esqr of Crieff to front pastedown, with slip annotated ‘Anthony Murray Esqre, from Miss Munro with her best wishes’ pasted below; ownership inscription ‘Mr Robert Monro His Book’ to verso of general title-page; old marginalia to I Maccabees and II Maccabees. ‘In this edition … favourably noticed by Kilburne, the work of correction begun in the folio Cambridge Bible of 1629 was carried further. The revisers took special pains to render uniform the use of italics; and they also introduced a certain numbers of new readings … This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris’ Cambridge edition of 1762' (Herbert).

Baker, Richard A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles & others. London: for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his shop, 1643. First edition, folio (33.5 x 21.5cm), [10] 181 [1] 163 [1] 108 163 [37] pp., contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page by William Hole, errata leaf present, printer's waste from a contemporary edition of the Bible (containing the Apocrypha) used as printer's waste, ownership inscription ‘A M’ (i.e. Anthony Murray of Dollerie) to head of title-page, early manuscript marginalia from pp. 1-42, early pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war to rear free endpaper, marginal loss to F1, damp-staining to index [Wing B501]; Camerarius, Philippius. The Living Librarie, or, Meditations and Observations Historical, Natural, Moral, Political, and Poetical. Done into English by John Molle. London: Adam Islip, 1621. Folio in sixes (29 x 19cm), [12] 403 [5] pp., contemporary calf with gilt armorial lozenges to covers (rubbed), title-page with woodcut strapwork border, initial and terminal blanks possibly original, vellum manuscript waste spine-lining, ownership inscriptions ‘Ex libris Jacobi Murravii 1701’ and ‘This book was read by Alexander Murray anno 1702’ to title-page and initial blank respectively, Hebrew annotations to front free endpaper, title-page slightly marked and with small hole to lower margin, closed tears to foot of A6 and Z1, a few other minor blemishes [STC 4529]; Douglas, Gawin (translator). Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish Verse. A New Edition. Edinburgh: Andrew Symson, and Robert Freebairn, 1710. Folio (31 x 18cm), later calf, ownership inscription (Anthony Murray) to title-page, bookplate (Murray Esqre of Dollerie) to front pastedown, 1553 title-page bound after list of subscribers instead of in first gathering, bound without pi4 (blank), small hole to head of title-page, intermittent damp-staining (stronger to index); [Estienne, Charles]. Dictonarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum … Editio novissima, recensuit, supplevit, locisque pene infinits emaculavit Nicolaus Lloydius collegii Wadhami … socius. Oxford: ex typographeo Gulielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, et Guilielmi Downing. Prostant Amstelodami, 1670. Folio, [8] 830 pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, yapp edges, ownership inscription ‘A M’ to title-page, damp-staining, front free endpaper and initial blanks working loose; Calvinus, Johannes (c.1550-1614). Lexicon Juridicum Juris Caesaeri simul, et canonici. Geneva: apud Petrum Balduinum, 1622. Folio, 1047 pp., contemporary vellum (textblock loose in binding), ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray, Leyden 22 Feb 1700’ to initial blank, light marginal worming, damp-staining (5) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Speed, John The Second Book: containing the Principality of Wales [extracted from "The Theatre of the Empire..."] London: Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet Street, and Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1676. Folio, extracted from Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great-Britain…, comprising section title-page, 14 hand-coloured maps of Wales and pp.97-126 of the work, finely bound in eighteenth-century (1750s) speckled calf gilt with the arms of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, K.G. to the covers, spine sympathetically renewed, a little restoration to covers, a few neat repairs to lower margins, mounting guards renewed With the arms of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, K.G. 

Scottish Prayer Book The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments And other parts of divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland [part 2: The Psalter, or, Psalmes of David … pointed as they shall be said or sung throughout all the Churches of Scotland]. Edinburgh: printed by Robert Young, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majestie, 1637. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (27.4 x 18cm), collates a-b8 A-Q8 R6 2a-2i8 2k6, contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in blind, text mainly in black letter, title-page and calendar printed in red and black, type-ornament border and woodcut device to title-page, type-ornament headpieces and woodcut factotums and initials throughout, short cracks to joints-ends, title-page slightly soiled in fore margin, closed marginal tear in Q9, 2h3 apparently a cancel (the leaf shorter and tipped to 2h2 v.), quires 2h-2k with light damp-staining and concomitant softening to fore margins, a few marks elsewhere From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. Ownership inscription ‘Ex libris Jacobi Murray 1709’ to head of title-page and engraved bookplate (Murray Esqr. of Crieff) to front pastedown. First edition of Archbishop Laud's version of the Book of Common Prayer for Scottish churches, the imposition of which provoked Scotland into open rebellion against Charles I, leading to the drawing up of the National Covenant and the epochal conflagration of the British Civil Wars. Known to posterity as ‘Laud’s Liturgy', its first reading at St Giles's Cathedral Edinburgh on 23rd July 1637 was met with rioting by the congregation, ignited according to legend by market-trader Jenny Geddes, who is reputed to have thrown her stool at the presiding dean. Another copy was sold in these rooms on 19th September 2024 (lot 92).

Caxton, William (printer) Original leaf from his edition of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon [Westminster: William Caxton, 1482]. Folio 193, 25.5 x 18cm, lettre bâtarde, 40 lines and headline, 2 rubricated paraph marks, text begins ‘may not be withoute drede’ and ends ‘made clement bisshop in his stede. Also at’, spotted, closed tear and a few shallow nicks and chips to top edge, verso with old mounting-tabs along inner edge [STC 13438] Caxton's 1482 edition of the Polychronicon was the first complete edition of the text, and followed his 1480 edition of the part relating to Britain only. This leaf contains part of chapter nine of the fourth book, describing the death of Seneca and the Acts of the Apostles. The lot sold with the Scolar Press facsimile edition of The History and Fables of Aesop translated and printed by William Caxton, 1484 (1976, one of 500 copies).

Ecole spéciale militaire de St-Cyr Portfolio of sketches and manuscript exercises by officer cadet Camille de Caix, Baron de Chaulieu, 1876-1877 15 diagrams of fortifications and geometric and topographical exercises, pen and ink, pencil and watercolour, mainly approx. 50 x 32cm, several smaller, one ('Attaque des places') larger (47 x 63cm) and folding, together with manuscript title-leaf ‘Album des travaux graphiques de topographie exécuté par l’elève de Caix Camille né le 5 mai 1857 à Caen (Calvados)', most with Ecole spéciale militaire oval blind stamp annotated with de Caix's name and date and several signed presumably by a supervising officer;3 large hypsometric colour maps of the eastern frontier of France, pen and ink and watercolour, 54.5 x 43cm;‘Cours de Fortification, Cahier de Croquis’, folio exercise book, 36 x 23cm, 8 ff., stitched in wrappers, manuscript title to front cover, containing annotated diagrams in ink and pencil,9 leaves of pencil sketches of landmarks (trees, hills, cottages, a ruin, etc.), various dimensions;4 engraved exercise sheets from the ‘Cours de topographie’ with details added in manuscript;large charcoal sketch of a nude man unsheathing a sword, signed ‘De Caix’, 56 x 29.5cm, with a large pencil sketch of a Greek soldier and lover (mounted);3 albumen-print photographic group portraits of schoolboys (quantity) An interesting collection of material providing an insight into the rebuilding of the French military establishment after the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War.

Music Collection of volumes of engraved music including Scottish Highland music, 18th-19th century Gow, Niel, of Dunkeld. A Collection of Strathspey Reels with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord. Edinburgh: printed for the author, c.1800. 36 pp., engraved throughout, bound with other works including: A New and Complete Collection of Scots Songs. Edinburgh: Corri & Sutherland, c.1790; A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs never hitherto published … by Patrick McDonald, Minister of Kilmore in Argyleshire, Edinburgh: for the publisher, c.1790; Urbani, Peter. A Selection of Scots Songs. Harmonized, improved with Simple and Adapted Graces. Book 1st [-2nd]. Edinburgh: printed for the author, [1792-4]. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio, contemporary half calf, book 1st list of subscribers repaired, bound with at rear, A Select Collection of Original Scotish Airs for the Voice, London: Preston & Co., c.1800, and a fragment. Together with: 5 further volumes of music, including a volume containing Beethoven's Egmont Overture (Mainz: B. Schott, 19th century) and similar pieces, and a volume of manuscript music, a few covers detached; and 2 large-format 19th-century Murray family photograph albums (10) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.

Sussex - Shermanbury Estate - Ewhurst Manor Six vellum-bound estate ledgers and cash books Belonging to the Challen family, and dating variously from 1757 to 1837, comprising a ledger of approx 280 pages, folio, 1757-1793; Day book, 1757-1786, folio, approx 349 pages; Account book, 1798-1812, folio; Cash book of approx 166 pages, 1757-1794, small 4to; Tenants' book, 1821-1832, small 4to; Farming account book, 1832-1837, 4to, between Dr. Challen and Thomas Page of Ewhurst Farm (6) Sold in these rooms on the 11th January 2012.

Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Grant of William Creichie Stylorum voterum ac recentiorum collectio a me Guilielmo Granteo juniore de Creichie fideliter conscripta Manuscript legal book, 1695, folio, 179 manuscript pages, contemporary calf, foot of spine worn Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff; Sold in these rooms on the 4th February 2009.

India Collection of Indian imprints and manuscripts [Indian big-game hunting]. Two manuscript hunting diaries kept by one M. W. Selby Lowndes, 1924-6. The first 4to, contemporary roan-backed boards, approx. 100 pp., titled on first page ‘2 months leave - a shoot in the Himalayas, 1924’, describing a journey from Nowshera via Lahore and Dehradun to various Himalayan stations including Mandali, species taken including red bear (i.e. Himalayan brown bear), tahr, bharal, etc., binding shaken, the second 8vo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, approx. 90 pp., titled on front pastedown ‘Diary of a month’s shoot in the Central Provinces India, April & May 1926', full-page sketch-map, species taken including bison, wild dog, sambar, tiger, etc. Together with related ephemera including a lengthy draft letter written from the Royal Artillery camp at Meerut apparently by the author; [Princely State of Hunza]. The Autobiography of Sir Mohomed Nazim Khan, K.C.I.E., Mir of Hunza, c.1950?. Copy typescript, 4to, 145 pp., 16 photographic plates, wire-stitched in buff card wrappers, ownership inscription ([C. […] Biscoe') dated 1956 on front wrapper, inscribed on the title-page ‘With best wishes to … ?Biscoe, the Khan’; Jyotishi, T. P. [Bengali title.] Ascension of Edward VII to Heaven. (A Dirge.) With Illustrations. Calcutta: K. P. Mookerjee & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, introduction in English, main text in Bengali, 11 halftone photographic plates with green tissue-guards; Karna, Lalchand Nawalrai. Western World Travels. Hyderabad: printed by Kethmal Parsram Gulrajat at the Blavatsky Press, and published by Mr. Lalchand Navalrai Karna, 1927. First edition, 8vo, xiv 120 xxxv pp., original wrappers (spine reinforced), inscribed on the front wrapper ‘With regards from [author’s printed name], To Balak Ram Esqr I.C.S'; [Lawrence, Sir Walter]. Ruling Princes and Chiefs of India. Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1930. First edition, folio, recent library cloth, 2 portrait frontispieces in colour (George V and Lord Halifax), photographic illustrations throughout, cancelled library stamp and withdrawal stamps to front endpapers; [India]. [Pamphlet volume, including:] Foreign Travel and Hindu Shastras. Judgment in the Benares Caste Case, 1911, Allahabad: Leader Press, 1912, 105 pp.; Social Reform on Shastric Lines … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1909, xxiii 104 pp.; Appreciation of the Author's Essays on “Vedi Law of Marriage” and “Vedic Religion and Caste” [drop-head title], 12 pp.; Vedic Religion and Caste … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1908, 71 pp.; and 3 others similar. 8vo, contemporary cloth, backstrip perished, rear board detached; Sanyal, Ram Bramha. A Hand-Book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal. Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1892. First edition, one of 1,000 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards; [Indian postal history.] Smith, Stephen. Indian Air-Ways. Part I [II … III]. Calcutta: Kuntaline Press, 1926-30. First edition, 3 volumes, small 8vo, original wrappers, part 2 inscribed on the title-page by the author; Ward, William. A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology, of the Hindoos. Serampore: Mission Press, 1818. Second edition, volume 1 only (of 2), 4to, near-contemporary half calf, restored paper-loss to head of title-page just touching one letter, damp-staining to rear; and 5 others, all Indian imprints (15)

Southwell, the Reverend Henry "The Universal Family Bible......." Printed J. Cooke, embellished with copper plates..., contemporary inked name on second ffep 'Mary Hanks Her Book 1799', marbled endpapers, full tooled leather, the front board is detaching, all rubbed, large folio

Erotica Elmer Batters,"  Legs that Danced to Elmer's Tune", Taschen, n.d., text in English and other languages, pictorial ep, pictorial boards, small folio Weston, Edward "The Form of the Nude", Phaidon 2005, black and white photographs throughout, black boards, d-w  Kern, Richard "Model Release", Taschen  Naz, Dave "Panties", 2002, text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, pictorial boards, white d-w Newton, Helmut "White Women", Stonehill 1976, d-w  Newton, Helmut "Playboy", Chronicle Books 2005, photographic boards, d-w  Swannell, John "Fine Lines", Quartet Books 1982, black cloth, d-w  Lagranges, Marc "Lost", published by Spectrum 2008, pictorial boards  Jonvelle(s) "Ipso Facto, New York", pictorial ep, black cloth, d-w and other volumes to include a book on Led Zeppelin (12) 

Theatre d'Ombres du Pere Castor, Representation de Gala au Programme, decors et costumes de H de Renaucourt, Flammarion, Impresario 1935, oblong folio, first edition, colour pictorial wraps, spine is torn away from the internal book, all the scenes and characters remain uncut, (the shadow theatre has COPIED inserted scene, for display purposes), Fair Plus to Excellent. 

A large folio containing various loose works such as bookplates, prints - Aberdeen Architectural Association Sketch Book Vol 1, Charles Turner ARA (1774-1857) after Benjamin Marshall (1768-1835) Mr John Jackson print, portrait of Luisa Fernanda Duquesa de Montpensier, sculpte par Marie d'orléans, portrait of S.A.R.M. Le Comte de Paris, Breaking up for the vacation published August 11th 1840, various other portraits and artwork prints etc. (alot)

Folio Society - collection of 67 folio society hardbacks (63 w/slip-cases, 4 without) to inc. copy of the Jubilee Years signed by Members of the Wakefield Civic Society at the Millennium Dinner 16th June 2000, Memoirs of a British Agent with authors signature glued in to front cover fly-leaf page, England Their England signed by members of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society and Sir Lawrence Byford, other signatures to some books, small number have newspaper articles glued into book

Folio of various antique loose watercolours & prints, and scrap book pages

Dinosaurs.- Hawkins (Thomas) The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, first edition, mezzotint frontispiece by John Martin and 29 lithographs, of which one folding, frontispiece with tears, including one touching image, and neat repairs, scattered spotting, original upper cover trimmed and pasted in, modern endpapers, modern antique style half morocco, folio, 1840.

Ware (Isaac) The Plans, Elevations, and Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings of Houghton in Norfolk, first edition, engraved title and dedication leaf, 5ff. letterpress with ink prices, double-page geometrical plan and 27 plates/plans numbered 1-35 mounted on stubs, 8 double-page, also with engraved bookplate of the Earl of Orford and illustrated slip "Published by I.Ware" on pastedown, occasional foxing and soiling, a few plates shaved, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, rubbed, corners worn, folio, [Harris 912; Millar II 88; cf.Berlin Kat. 2332, 1735 edition], Sold by C.Fourdrinier [&c.], 1760.*** Another copy, sold by Bloomsbury in 2011, had the same Orford bookplate and Ware slip; this copy also with later bookplate of Thomas Weld-Blundell. A manuscript note on front blank reads "The prices of the paintings as marked in this catalogue is taken from the European Magazine for February 1782 which observes that these prices was paid to the Earl of Orford by the Empress Catherine of Russia, exactly as they stand in this book, and that the Editor was favor'd with the account by Alderman Boydell."

Golding family of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex.- A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes..., concernyng chiefly the messages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584, title and 58ff., manuscript on paper in a neat secretary hand, final f. (59) torn away along with two following blanks, 11 blank ff., some light damp-staining to lower margin, the odd spot, morocco book label of William Foyle, original vellum, remains of tie, "Essex" in manuscript to upper cover, portion excised from head of lower cover, preserved in morocco chemise, folio, 1584.*** An extensive 16th-century record, in a fine legal hand, of deeds in Latin and English dating from 1297 to 1586 relating to Belchamp St Paul in Braintree, Essex. The Golding family feature prominently; William Golding (d.1587) was the brother of Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (1526-68) who would marry John deVere at the church in Belchamp St Paul in 1548, giving birth to the poet and courtier Edward deVere (the subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship) in 1550.Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was the half-brother of William and best-known as a translator, especially for his translation of Ovid a book much-prized, and used, by Shakespeare. 

Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Epigrammata Libri xiiii, collation: A10 B-R8 S-T6 complete, title within woodcut border and with vignette of St. George slaying the dragon signed FV (?Floria Vavassor), full-page woodcut of the author presenting his book to the Emperor on A10v, woodcut illustrations and initials, some worming affecting text, mostly at beginning and heaviest on title with loss to several words, water-staining, some foxing and browning, 18th century mottled calf with central panel onlaid, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, rubbed, small folio, Venice, Georgius de Rusconibus, 1514.*** An attractively illustrated edition with commentary by the Italian humanists G. Merula and D. Calderino.Provenance: Stewart of Glassertoun (armorial bookplate); C. Lucy Hulbert-Powell (ex libris sticker).Literature: Adams M693; EDIT 16 CNCE 46785.

Earlom (Richard, engraver) A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece and title, 49 aquatint or stipple engraved plates, occasional faint marginal spotting, occasional faint marginal water-staining, new endpapers, modern antique style half-calf, morocco label to upper cover, richly gilt spine, [Abbey Life 199], folio, John & Josiah Boydell, 1789. *** "The first book in England in which aquatint is to be found as a method of rendering wash drawings, with plate in imitation of ink and chalk drawings." (Abbey)

Napoleon.- Andrieu (Bertrand, 1761-1822) Workshop of. Cased set of ten circular patinated lead 'Napoleon Medals', comprising two large medallions presented in one velvet-covered and glazed section, and a removable section with 8 medallions, comprising 6 small and 2 medium, diameters between approx. 70 mm (2 3/4 in) and 135 mm (5 1/4 in), dark crimson coloured velvet-lined book-style case, gilt-tooled green morocco, spine titled 'Medals of Napoleon', spine with minor splitting and nicks, some signs of wear, small scuffs and losses, folio, [early 19th century]

Fireworks.- Babington (John) Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works: in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe... Whereunto is annexed a short Treatise of Geometrie, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, numerous full-page engraved illustrations and 2 folding plates, woodcut initials and diagrams, part 1 lacks engraved title, title small piece of corner repaired, one folding plate torn with loss along lower image and corner, other folding plate repaired, F4 small tear in lower margin, part 2 lacks last f., browned throughout, very light staining in many margins, a few other marks, ink signature of Marianne Babington Keyes at head of title, bookplate of William Mitford, Exbury, Hampshire on front pastedown, new endpapers, modern calf, [Philip B010.1; STC 1099], folio, Thomas Harper for Ralph Mab, 1635; sold not subject to return.*** The first English treatise to deal exclusively with fireworks. "This book is without doubt the most important in Firework bibliography." - Philip. Soldier and mathematician Babington was a gunner in the service of the Earl of Newport, to whom he dedicates the present work. The first part comprises detailed descriptions and instructions concerning firework displays with much on firework automata. The second part was intended for the use of artillery officers and includes extensive early logarithmic tables.

Berkshire, Aldermaston.- Keyser (Charles Edward, stockbroker and authority on English church architecture, 1847-1929) & Mary Emma Keyser. Aldermaston Court Visitors Book, 2 watercolour plans of Aldermaston Court bound before title, watercolour title, 2 watercolour and calligraphic preliminary pages and 101 pages of accomplished watercolours and signatures, of views and interiors of Aldermaston Court and its surrounding countryside, Aldermaston Mill, Aldermaston Village and church, some signed by the architect Brightwen Binyon or his initials (also signed as a guest), Amelia A Henning and Frederick E Robertson, signatures of visitors, including:  Agnes Keyser (mistress of Edward VII, 1852-1941), other members of the Keyser family, members of the Sperling family, Shand, Bagnall, Holland-Hibbert, Phipps, Ricardo etc., 2 calligraphic items commemorating the Golden Wedding of Charles Edward & Mary Emma Keyser loosely inserted, later bookplate of Peter West on front free endpaper, handsomely bound in full straight-grained brown morocco with gilt decoration and lettered direct "Aldermaston Court Visitors Book 1894" with red onlays on the initials on upper cover, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., folio (340 x 272mm.), 1894-1929.*** Aldermaston Court was built for Daniel Higford Davall Burr and designed by the architect Philip Hardwick. The estate was bought by Charles Keyser in 1893 for £160,000, a stockbroker with an interest in church architecture. Keyser's attention was drawn to Aldermaston by his sister Agnes Keyser, a long term friend of Edward VII who said that the court reminded her of her stay at Sandringham House. Part of the grounds later became RAF Aldermaston and today houses the Atomic Weapons Establishment.

Sailing interest: Book '20x20 Twenty Years in Focus' by Kos Productions c2001. Limited edition 198/1000. Large folio size (according to one reference this is the second largest book ever published), carbon fibre covers, 148pp, forward by His Highness Aga Khan, felt tip pen autograph to front sheet. W 51cm, H 63cm. Kos Evans is a noted marine and sailing photographer. This book currently retails for £2500 via the author's website.

The Book of Cricket Edited by C.B. Fry, half-bound in maroon calf, folio  Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895 Together with a quantity of further loose portrait photographs of famous cricketers of the early-20th century Condition Report:Available upon request

Zacuto (Abraham). De Medicorum Principum Historia opus Absolutissimum..., volume 1 only (of 2), Editio postrema, Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan, 1644, engraved frontispiece portrait on verso of half-title, title-page printed in red and black with engraved illustration, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, initial three leaves with blind armorial stamp of the Earl of Macclesfield, short worm trail to foremargins of several leaves, some toning and scattered spotting, upper pastedown with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Macclesfield of Shirburn Castle (North Library), contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with defective morocco title label, joints slightly cracked, lightly rubbed, folio, together with:Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the sacraments..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: printed by the University Printers, 1712, title with faint ownership signature to upper margin, red-ruled to title and borders throughout volume, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated red morocco, old reback with elaborate gilt decoration, joints splitting, worn, lacking ties, folio,British Museum. A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum; with engravings. Part I., London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1812, half-title, engraved vignette to title, 17 plates (one double-page), edges untrimmed, modern boards preserving original printed paper title label to upper board, upper joint slightly worn at head, large 4toQTY: (3)NOTE:1. This work is volume one of the two-volume Opera omnia of Zacuto (the second volume contains four shorter treatises).

Sammelband. A Few Plain Reasons why a Protestant of the Church of England should not turn Roman Catholick, by a real Catholick of the Church of England, London: printed for R. Clavel, 1688, title page detached, Mr. Claudes's Answer to Monsieur de Meaux's Book, intituled, A Conference with Mr. Claude. With his Letter to a Friend..., London: printed for T. Dring, 1687, A Discourse Shewing the Protestants are on the Safer Side, notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgement of their Adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to Heaven, London: printed for Richard Chiswell, 1687, plus 2 further untitled, 18th Century ink inscriptions to the original front endpapers, some toning, marks & light wear, lacking original rear endpapers, modern quarter calf to marbled boards, 4to, together with:Bull (George), Nuper Episcopi Menevensis, Opera Omnia Latine conscripta: quibus Duo praecipui Catholicae Fideo Articuli, de S. Trinitate & Justificatione, Orthodoxè, Perspicuè, ac Solidè explanantur, illustrantur, confirmantur...., London: Guil. Bowyer, M. Smith, 1721, engraved portrait frontispiece, front gutter cracked, some light toning, contemporary embossed full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss, tear to the head of the spine, folio, plusEvelyn (John), Kalendarium Hortense, the Gard'ners Almanac..., edited by Rosemary Verey, Hackney: The Stourton Press, 1983, some minor spotting, contemporary custom green & brown morocco binding depicting a garden & flowers, 8vo, and other 17th to early 20th Century ecclesiastical literature & history reference, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, overall condition is generally fair to good, 8vo/folioApproximatley 130 volumesQTY: (4 shelves)

De Vivo (Giancarlo). Catalogue of the Library of Piero Sraffa, Milan: Fondazione Raffaele Mattioli, 2014, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, slipcase, together with:Spinazzola (Dora Franceschi). Catalogo della Biblioteca di Luigi Einaudi, 2 volumes, Turin: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 1981, colour illustrations, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedowns, original blue cloth gilt, dust jackets, spines toned, folio, slipcase, plusCollison Black (R. D.). A Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects, published between 1750 and 1900 and now housed in Irish libraries, Belfast: The Queen's University, 1969, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, with 16 others including Goldsmith and Kress QTY: (20)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Holinshed (Raphael). [The First volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, containing, The description and Chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting unto the conquest. The descriptions and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scots nation, till the year of our Lorde 1571. The description and Chronicles of Ireland, likewise, from the first original of that Nation, until the year 1547, faithfully gathered and set forth by Raphael Holinshed] [&] The last volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande with their descriptions, conteyning The Chronicles of England from William Conqueror until this present tyme faithfully gathered and compiled by Raphaell Holinshed, together 2 works bound in 3, 1st edition, London: John Hunne, 1577, titles for Scotland and Ireland present, each with woodcut borders, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (several images duplicated), volume 1 lacking ¶1 (general title) and Ee7 in England, E7 in Scotland, E6, E7, E8 cancelled leaves, G4, G5, H2, H3, H4, H5, and final 3 leaves from Ireland, volume 2 lacking ¶1, ¶2, t2, u6, u8 and volume 3 lacking index leaves M1-M4 & N1-N2, duplicate of E1 tipped into volume 2, facsimile folding engraved map of Edinburgh bound after Yyyy6 in volume 3, some contemporary marginalia and underlining, erroneous page numbering and some leaves misbound, some leaves torn with minor loss and some with repairs mostly to volume 1, minor marginal worm holes to Y-SS gatherings in volume 3, some pages with short closed tears and lightly shaved with minor loss to printed marginal notes, areas of light water staining and dust soiling, Gloucestershire County library ink stamp to pastedowns, modern calf with gilt lettering to spine, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:STC 13568b; Pforzheimer 494. This work is considered the single most important chronicle written in English in the 16th century and is perhaps best known as one of the primary sources for the plays of William Shakespeare, who used it extensively for Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Cymbeline. The first edition of Holinshed's great narrative history of the British Isles 'is of great importance not only because the illustrations were omitted in the second but also because of the variant texts. It is, moreover..., the rarer book' (Pforzheimer).

Ward (H. G.). Mexico in 1827..., 2 volumes, London: Henry Colburn, 1828, engraved plates (some folding), folding engraved map (detached and torn), spotting throughout, bound in gilt leather, worn and rubbed with loss, 8vo Hurd (William). A New Universal History of The Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of The Whole World: Or a Complete and Impartial View of All The Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe, London, Alexander Hogg, circa 1780, engraved frontispiece, lacking all other plates, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, folio Heron (Robert). The Comforts of Human Life; or Smiles and Laughter of Charles Cheerful and Martin Merryfellow, London: Oddy & Co 1807, folding coloured frontispiece, contemporary calf with gilt decoration, a little stained and scuffed, 16mo Lear (Edward). Book of Nonsense, London: Frederick Warne & Co, circa 1900, coloured illustrations, lacking a few leaves, publisher's original blue boards, rubbed and worn, 4to Bartlett (W. H.). Canadian Scenery Illustrated, 4 volumes, London: George Virtue, circa 1840, numerous engraved plates, publisher’s quarter roan, worn and boards detached, 4toQTY: (10)NOTE:Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Hippocrates. Octoginta volumina, 1st edition, Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525, 410 leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (faint library stamp at upper margin), table of contents in two columns, index in three columns, printed shoulder notes, two large woodcut initials, roman, italic and gothic type, initial spaces with printed guide letters, colophon and final blank present, old marginal pen mark to 2L5v and marginal note to 3M3r, archival closed tear repairs to upper margins of leaves H3-5 not touching text, small tear with loss to lower outer corner of leaf P2 not affecting text, a little spotting and light browning and old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, occasional faint ink library stamps to lower blank margins of nine text leaves, very minor worming to lower margins towards rear and a few trivial single wormholes to upper margins of last few leaves including colophon and final blank, armorial bookplate of Johnstone to front pastedown, marbled endpapers, early 19th-century morocco, lettered gilt, spine darkened and some dark staining to covers, joints cracked and tender, slightly rubbed and a little wear to extremities, folio (280 x 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Provenance: 1. Johnstone, armorial bookplate, either Edward Johnstone [1757-1851], physician, first President of the provincial Medical & Surgical Association, one of the original physicians of the Birmingham General Hospital; or his brother John Johnstone [1768-1836] physician at the General Hospital. Gifted to: 2. Birmingham General Hospital, founded 1779, whose books were gifted to: 3. Birmingham Medical Institute Library founded 1875; 4. The BMI Library sold through these rooms in 2012, this book sold on 18 April, lot 201. Adams H567; BMI I, 201; Heirs of Hippocrates 10; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177. First complete Latin edition of the works of Hippocrates, printed a year before the Editio princeps was published in Greek. Calvo wrote out his own version of the Greek text, drawn from a number of sources, and then made his Latin translation from the compiled Greek text. ‘This historically important book ... must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates’ (Heirs of Hippocrates). An excellent large copy, with interesting provenance, and, uncommonly, with the woodcut title-page border entirely unshaved.

[Stevenson, William]. [Book-Keeping by Double Entry: reduced, in its theory, to one simple rule; and applied, in its practice, to all the variety of accompts necessary to be kept by The Shop-Keeper, Merchant, Banker, Landed Gentleman, Steward or Factor upon a Landed Gentleman's Estate, and Farmer: All exemplified in Sets of Books adapted to each Kind of Business; with Specimens of the most necessary Subsidiary Books in Business. By William Stevenson some Time Merchant in Rotterdam, And present Teacher of Book-Keeping, authorised by Act of Council of the City of Edinburgh], 1st edition, [Edinburgh : printed by R. Stirling for the author, 1762], [4], v, [1], 18, [178] pp., lacks the first two (title and dedication) leaves and final three leaves (B132, C131-2), 4 pp. subscribers’ list (torn with small loss affecting a few letters of final three lines of recto and verso), final leaf (B131) torn with loss affecting text of lower inner margin, some spotting, scattered contemporary ink marks and minor stains, ink ownership inscription of ‘W. Gordon, 1801’ to front and read free endpapers, contemporary calf-backed boards, cracked on joints, worn, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Very rare. ESTC T113297.

Bibliothèque Nationale. En Français dans le texte, Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1990, full-page colour illustrations, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original black blindstamped cloth, dust jacket, folio, together with:Cinti (Dino). Biblioteca Galileiana, Florence: Sansoni Antiquariato, 1957, black and white illustrations throughout, uncut, original paper wrappers, dust jacket, 4to, contained in original box, plusIrish Books. A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge, 3 volumes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 1916, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedowns, near-contemporary black cloth gilt, 8vo,withRay (Gordon N.). The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout, original blue cloth gilt, small folio with approximately 45 other volumes of bibliographical reference QTY: (approx. 50)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, Oxford: John Baskett, 1717/1716, additional engraved general title by Du-Bose representing Moses writing the first words of Genesis (torn with image loss and lined to verso), general letterpress title and calendar printed in red and black, general title with engraved illustration by G. Vander Gucht depicting view of Oxford (torn to lower outer blank corners and lined to verso), engraved vignette to New Testament depicting the Annunciation (imprint dated 1716), with numerous engraved head & tail-pieces and initials after Thornhill, Cheron, Laguere and others, generally illustrating incidents from the Bible, Apocrypha present, occasional toning, few leaves repaired to margins mostly at front and rear of volume, front flyleaf with pasted-in manuscript note 'The Bible of the Parish Church of Ardleigh begun to be used Feb 12th 1726. ... Ralph Creffeild & ... Wm. Lugar, Churchwards', marbled endpapers, front pastedown with red morocco ownership label with 'St. Mary, Ardleigh, 1847' in gilt within decorative gilt border, contemporary blind panelled reversed calf, brass corner pieces and central boss to both boards, rebacked preserving original spine and morocco title label, folio (49.5 x 30.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 736; Herbert 943.This edition is commonly known as the 'Vinegar Bible'. Unfortunately the book contained many misprints, and earned the nickname A Baskett-ful of Errors. From the misprint The parable of the vinegar (for vineyard) in the headline above Luke XX. (Herbert).

Bible [Latin]. Biblia cu[m] co[n]cordantiis veteris & noui testame[n]ti, [Lyon: J. Sacon for A. Koberger, 17 December 1516], title printed in red and black with large woodcut of Christ within elaborate architectural border, black letter text in double-column, full-page woodcut of the 6 days of creation before folio I, 2 large woodcuts and smaller woodcuts illustrating scenes and prophets, 3 leaves of Canons printed in red and black, lacking R6 blank at end of Book of the Apocalypse, 'Sanctus Ioannes Baptista' in ink at foot of title, and 'Celestmoru de Macconssiaco(?). 855.' early ink inscription at end, title and following leaf with small area of biopredation to right side blank margin, occasional light water stains and spotting, modern calf, folio 34.7 x 24.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams B993.

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language…, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852, half-title, triple column, some spotting, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards with morocco spine label, rubbed, large thick 8vo, together with:Murray (David), Memories of the Old College of Glasgow. Some Chapters in the History of the University, 2 copies, Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie, 1927, both with colour frontispiece, monochrome plates, uncut, original burgundy cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus Murray (John), A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent: being a Guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Northern Germany…, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, London: John Murray & Son, 1838, folding map and 12 pp. adverts, some old ink notes and inscriptions to front endpapers, several leaves creased, original cloth gilt, rubbed, faded and slightly soiled to upper cover, 12mo, and Norfolk. A Victoria History of the County of Norfolk, 2 volumes, Westminster, 1901, black and white plates and illustrations including some folding, some spotting, original red cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, faded on spines, small folio, plus other miscellaneous books including modern biographies and reference, including a set of Dictionary of National Biography, 22 volumes, reprint, 1973, original cloth in dust jackets, slightly rubbed and soiled, large 8voQTY: (5 shelves)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites & Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form & Manner of Making, Ordaining & Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, London: printed by His Ma:ties Printers, 1669, engraved title within architectural border by P. Williamson, with manuscript signature to upper margin C. Coliner and two other scribbled out signatures, separate letterpress title to Psalter with imprint 'In the Savoy, printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Anno Dom. 1669', woodcut decoration to initials, head and tailpieces, black letter text, red-ruled titles and borders throughout volume, occasional early annotations and markings, general title and following five leaves with short worm trail to fore-margin, some light scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885) to upper pastedown, endpapers with cloth hinges, gilt gauffered edges, 19th-century gilt panelled and elaborately decorated morocco, fading to spine and boards, joints rubbed, folio (34.3 x 22 cm), with loosely inserted folded folio sheet with 19th-century manuscript genealogical entries relating to the Feilden family QTY: (1)NOTE:Griffiths 1669.1 (page 118); Wing B3635.The second folio edition after the restoration and 1662 prayer book.Provenance: George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885). George Blomfield was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the youngest son of Charles Blomfield, schoolmaster, and Hester Pawsey.George was educated at Bury and later studied at Cambridge obtaining his B.A. in 1824 and was ordained deacon for the diocese of Chester. His older brother Charles was also appointed Bishop of Chester in the same year. In 1827 he married Frances Maria Massie, by whom he had seven children. She died in 1837 and in 1847 he married Mary Anson, daughter of the Dean of Chester. She died in 1852 and in 1854 he married Elizabeth Feilden of Mollington Hall, near Chester. After his ordination, Blomfield was appointed curate and then rector to a number of parishes in the diocese. From 1827 he was a canon of Chester Cathedral, a position he held until his death in 1885. He was also rector of Stevenage, Hertfordshire from 1834 until 1874. Blomfield published several sermons including three series adapted to country congregations. He collected early printed books and fine bindings, primarily bibles and theology-related. After the death of his widow, Elizabeth, in 1897, Mollington Hall and its library reverted to members of the Feilden family, where on the instructions of Guy Feilden, Blomfield’s collection was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in 1906.

Gell (William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity; Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated, by Permission, to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, 1st edition, London: printed by C. Whittingham for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, title with hand-coloured engraved vignette, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps, 28 fine hand-coloured etched and aquatint plates by Thomas Medland after William Gell, including 3 folding (a couple of short closed tears to one folding plate at head of folds), 13 illustrations of which 11 hand-coloured, occasional light offsetting, contemporary armorial bookplate of Matthew Lewis and late 19th-century ownership label of Lord W[alter]. Kerr, G.C.B. (1839-1927), contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco labels, gilt rule border to boards with ornamental decoration to corners, joints split and some wear at head and foot of spine, rubbed, folio (42.3 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 399; Blackmer 660.'Gell visited the Troad in December 1801 in company with Dodwell. He used the camera lucida to produce very accurate sketches. Gell fixed the site of Troy at Bounarbashi, in agreement with le Chevalier's theories.' (Blackmer). 'Certainly the most beautiful book on Troy ever published.' (A. K. Lascarides).

Mellon (Mary & Paul). Alchemy and the Occult, a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon, given to Yale University Library, volumes 1 and 2 (of 4), 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Library, 1968, volumes 1 and 2 relating to printed books, black and white illustrations throughout, original grey and blue cloth, black leather labels lettered in gilt to spines, 4to, contained in original blue slipcase, together with:Kepler (Johannes). Bibliographia Kepleriana, 1st edition, Munich: C. H. Beck' Sche, 1936, original oatmeal cloth, dust jacket, small folio, slipcase, plusDunthorne (Gordon). Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries, London: Dulau & Co, 1938, full-page illustrations throughout (some colour), a few spots, original grey buckram gilt, faintly marked, folio with 14 other volumes of bibliographyQTY: (18)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

British Museum. Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum, 9 parts bound in 10, plus Facsimiles for parts I-III & IV-VII, Lithographic Reprint (except Part IX, 1st edition, 1962), London: British Museum, 1963, holland-backed printed boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio QTY: (12)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Creswell (K. A. C). A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cairo: The American University at Cairo Press, 1961-73, original red buckram gilt, spine of first volume faded, folio, together with:Grube (Ernst J.). Islamic Paintings from the 11th to the 18th Century, in the collection of Hans P. Kraus, New York: H. P. Kraus, [1972], full-page illustrations throughout (some colour), original green cloth gilt, spine faded, folio, limited edition, 454/750 copies, plusArberry (Arthur J.). The Chester Beatty Library, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, 5 volumes, Dublin: Emery Walker, 1955-62, black and white illustrations throughout, edges untrimmed, original red buckram gilt, a few spines faded, small 4to, with approximately 30 volumes of related reference on Islamic books and artQTY: (approx. 35)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Tho. and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, [1629], engraved general title by Jo. Payn (short closed tear to gutter margin), letterpress New Testament title with woodcut device (imprint date 1629), few woodcut initials, Apocrypha present, verso of New Testament title with early 18th-century manuscript entries 'Ann ye wife of Tho: Birch departed her life October ye 30 day 1725 aged 44 years' and 'Thomas Birch married Eliz. Pamer(?) July ye 11th 1726', woodcut device above colophon and dated 1629, lacking final blank leaf 4B4, bound with at rear The Whole book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title, lacking final 3 leaves, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title (closed tear to lower margin), lacks 6 leaves (B2-B5, F3 & F4), titles and borders red-ruled throughout volume, occasional scattered spotting, front flyleaf with early 19th-century genealogical entries for Philip Beddall and Elizabeth (née Toller, married on June 25th 1821 at Southill Church, Bedfordshire) and their children and verso of leaf with 20th-century bookplate of Ranulph Brocas Hunter (1880-1954), all edges gilt, hinges split with old cloth repair to upper hinge split, early 19th-century calf with raised and recessed borders to boards, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, gilt and blind decorated turn-ins, folio (28.5 x 19.3 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 324; Herbert 424; STC 2285.Book of Common Prayer - Griffiths 1629.2 (page 93). The first edition of the King James' version of the Bible printed at Cambridge. Cambridge began to print the Bible in the Geneva version in 1588 under a charter granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the charter was ratified by Charles I in 1628 and this edition if the first production of the new charter. Though the issue was resisted by the King's printers the accuracy of the text gained general support. Lea Wilson (p. 104) says: 'For this beautiful edition the text appears to have undergone a complete revision, although I can find no record of such having been done by authority. Yet the errors in the first and intermediate editions are here corrected, and considerable care appears to have been exercised as to the words printed in italics, punctuation, etc.' This seems to be the earliest edition in which occurs the error: 1 Tim. iv. 16, Take heed unto thyself and unto thy doctrine (for ... the doctrine). (Herbert, Darlow and Moule)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, general and New Testament titles present both with woodcut borders, Apocrypha present with manuscript inscription to verso of final leaf 'This book was bought at Mr Badgers sale Armscott by James Wilkes Oldborough September 27th 1859', Kalendar printed in red and black with first leaf of Kalendar torn to loss to lower third, decorative woodcut initials, bible in double-column black letter (72 lines to full column), ink splash mark to R2 (diameter approximately 2.5 cm), text with repaired closed tear to fore-margin of 3I2, 4M6 torn to lower outer blank corner and margin and repaired, 4N1 torn with loss to lower third of leaf, lacking final 3 leaves which are provided in early 19th-century manuscript written on 5 leaves, few leaves at rear with minor worm holes at head of gutter margin, light damp-stains to last few leaves, bound with (between Kalendar and Genesis) The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, according to every Family and Tribe..., by J[ohn]. S[peed]., title with woodcut border, woodcut genealogies, recent free endpapers, contemporary calf, neat modern reback with red pink calf title label, remnants of woven ties to boards, folio (41 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 249; Herbert 322; STC 2226. 'The true 1613 folio edition of King James' Bible; easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type ... The preliminary leaves are set up as in the other large folio editions, but the text is printed in smaller type with 72 instead of 59 lines to the full column.' (Herbert; Darlow & Moule). Ruth 3:15 reading 'She went into the citie',

Mansell (publisher). Historical Accounting Literature, London: Mansell, 1979, black and white illustrations, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original beige cloth gilt, a few marks, 4to, together with:Edwards (John, preface). The Herwood Library of Accountancy, Chippenham: Anthony Rowe, 1994, black and white illustrations at rear, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original green cloth gilt, folio, plus Dunlop (Anna, introduction). An Accountants' Book Collection 1494-1930, 3rd edition, Edinburgh: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, 1976, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, laminated paper wrappers, folio, with 9 other volumes of bibliographical reference on accountancy QTY: (12)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

New Testament [English]. The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated out of the vulgar Latine by the papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes. With Arguments of Bookes, Chapters, and Annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to clear the controversies of these dayes. Wherunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a Confutation of all such Arguments, Glosses, and Annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason and slander, against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the Translations used in the Church of England: Both by auctoritie of the holy Scriptures, and by the testimonie of the ancient fathers. By William Fulke..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589, title within woodcut border, few woodcut initials, double-column text in Bishops' version and Rheims New Testament, preface with some marginal annotations and underscoring, small hole to G5 with loss to few letters of text, few ink spots to L3, lower outer blank corner of Hhhh4 torn, final four leaves of index tables at rear (Xxxx1-Xxxx4) provided in facsimile, occasional light damp-stains mostly to outer corners, modern blind panelled and decorated calf, folio (26.2 x 18.7 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 156; Herbert 202; STC 2888.'The title given in full above, and the description below, sufficiently indicate the nature of this book. It was the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to refute the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582. Many partial replies had been already published by T. Bilson, G. Wither, E. Bulkeley, and others, including W. Fulke himself'. (Herbert, Darlow and Moule).

Herrlinger (Robert). History of Medical Illustration, from antiquity to 1600, New York: Editions Medicina Rara, 1970, illustrated throughout (a few in colour), original oatmeal cloth gilt, folio, slipcase, together with:O'Malley (C. D.). Andreas Vesalius of Brussels 1514-1564, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964, frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust jacket, 8vo, plusMorton (Leslie T.). A Medicial Bibliography (Garrison and Morton), 3rd edition, London: Andre Deutsch, 1970, bookplate of Riley-Smith to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, frayed with some loss, 8vo, with approximately 25 other related medical bibliographical referenceQTY: (approx. 30)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Bible [English]. [The Bible in English, that is to say: The content of all the holy Scripture, both of the Olde and Newe Testament. According to the translation that is appointed to be read in the Churches, [London: J. Cawood], 1569], double-column black letter text, lacking 30 leaves (being 15 preliminaries - general title, 7 leaves of Kalendar etc., first 7 leaves of Book of Common Prayer Ai-Avii; folio 36 from Apocrypha; New Testament title & leaves B5, D7, H6, Q7, Q8, & R1-4, and final 2 leaves of table/colophon S1-S2 and 2 internal blanks at end of Parts 2 and 4), several leaves holed and/or with text loss, fully repaired with facsimiles provided for 19 of 29 leaves (including general and New testament titles, preliminaries and several text leaves), some dust-soiling throughout and few marks, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf over wooden boards, diamond-shaped blind roll decoration to boards, brass corner pieces and central boss to boards, modern morocco title label to spine, repair at foot of spine and upper joint, some cracking to joints, lacking clasps, 4to (18.5 x 13 cm), contained in modern slipcaseQTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 90; Herbert 127; STC 2102.There are at least three editions of the Great Bible version 'printed by Cawood, and ascribed to this date, which while generally agreeing so closely as to read together page for page, nevertheless differ in many small points, and are distinct issues. No doubt some copies are mixed'. (Herbert, Darlow & Moule)This example is version A. This volume contains a facsimile New Testament title from version B. No known example of the general title from this version. A & B agree closely but differ mainly in separate foliation of each part and the New Testament title. With repaired text to Part 1 leaves 1, 58, 94, Part 2 leaves 7, 101, Part 3 leaves 93*, 147, 172, Part 5 leaves 5*, 6*, Q6*, plus holes to o5, o6. 4 leaves (marked *) with significant loss to text.