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MILL, JOHN STUARTON LIBERTY London: John W. Parker, 1859. First edition, 8vo, 4pp. advertisements at end, original maroon cloth, cloth faded

BANKING - [TENNANT, CHARLES]THE BANK OF ENGLAND: AND THE ORGANISATION OF CREDIT London: Longman, Green [&c.] First edition, 8vo, presentation copy "James Bibby Esq. from the Author", 2pp. advertisements at end, modern antique style quarter calf, spine giltNote: Very Rare. Only 1 copy recorded by COPAC: BL.

COMBE, WILLIAM [THOMAS ROWLANDSON]THE DANCE OF LIFE, A POEM London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition, 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece, additional coloured engraved title-page, 24 hand-coloured plates, advert leaf, contemporary half calf with renewed banded gilt spine, a little spotting to first 37 pages, one plate with some soiling [Abbey, Life, 264]

CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIAFINE SET OF 24 UNJOINED GLOBE GORES FOR 42 INCH (3 1/2 - FOOT) TERRESTRIAL GLOBE comprising 12 gores of the northern hemisphere and 12 gores of the southern hemisphere, plus the north and south polar calottes, one engraved "Venezia, 1688", one (of S. Sea) with 2 margins neatly added to lower section, each gore comprised of two sections neatly joined, 3 sections with Isolario text on versoNote: This beautiful set of gores present a remarkable large format depiction of the terrestrial world, based upon the monumental terrestrial globe constructed by Coronelli for the French King Louis XIV. They comprise 12 gores of the northern hemisphere and 12 gores of the southern hemisphere, plus the north and south polar calottes. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718) was apprenticed as a wood engraver and printer, before joining the Franciscan Brotherhood in 1665. In 1678, after studying Astronomy and Euclid, Coronelli began working as a geographer and was commissioned to make a set of Terrestrial and Celestial globes, 5 feet in diameter, for Ranuccio Farnese, the Duke of Parma. Coronelli was next invited to Rome to construct a similar pair of Globes for Louis XIV and from 1681 to 1683, he lived in Paris, where he constructed an even larger pair for the cardinal to present to Louis XIV. Fifteen feet in diameter, weighing nearly 4000 pounds and costing 100,000 francs, they were the largest, most accurate and beautiful globes the world had seen.Coronelli's globes for Louis XIV brought him fame throughout Europe. Returning to his native Venice in 1684, he obtained official support to set himself up as a publisher of maps and globes at the Convent of S. Maria Gloriosa de Frari, and within ten years Coronelli had established himself as the leading atlas and globe-maker of Europe. By 1697 he had published the first volumes of the atlas series, the Atlante Veneto, the Corso Geografico in two volumes, and the first part of the Isolario (1696). He described the Isolario on its title-page as being "supplementary to the XIV volumes of Blaeu", revealing his ambition to be recognised as the successor to the great Dutch mapmaking firm of Blaeu. Equally important as his maps was his role as a globe maker, the cartography of the gores being very similar to his maps. His first printed globes were the 3 ½ -foot (42 inch) terrestrial and celestial globes published in 1688, at the time the largest printed globes ever made, which were reduced versions of the globes he had made for Louis XIV. By 1697 when he published the Libro dei Globi he was offering for sale five sizes of globes, in diameter 3 ½ -foot, 1 ½ - foot, 6 inches, 4 inches and 2 inches. The 3 ½ -foot globes he claimed to be the most perfect ever made. Only a small number of complete examples have survived, mostly residing in major institutional collections around the world. Separate globe gore sheets from this famous globe periodically appear on the market, but rarely complete sets. There were 4 editions of the Libro dei Globi, all published in Venice, in 1688, 1692-3, 1699 and 1707. Although it has not been possible to ascertain with certainty the date of every gore one is dated "Venice, 1688", the date of the first edition, three have the text of the Isolario on the verso, dating them to 1696-97, and about 12 have watermarks of three crescent moons, which have been noted in copies of the Isolario. Individual Coronelli gores are very rare on the market. This set of 24 map gores has been assembled mostly from maps published in Libro Dei Globi with a few maps from the Isolario. This is an exceptional artefact, despite being assembled from at least two sources and will no doubt appeal to discerning collectors of cartography. Most have margins of around 20mm. from the edge of the printed area; a few are trimmed to the plate mark and two sections have had marginal additions. The paper patina overall is lightly age toned with little obvious remedial cleaning. Included in the lot is a bound facsimile copy of the folio Libro dei Globi, by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, Amsterdam, 1969, with introduction and biographical note by Dr Helen Wallis, former curator at the British Library.

ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIANA PRACTICAL TREATISE ON GAS-LIGHT, EXHIBITING A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas. London: for R. Ackermann, 1815. First edition, 8vo, [ii], iii, [v], [i],186; 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding), modern calf, red morocco labels, uncut, slightly spotted

ADAMS, JOHN; BOWDOIN, JAMES; HANCOCK, JAMES MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. First edition, 4to, volume 1, parts 1-3, 4to, 6 folding plates, original publisher's drab boards and paper spine, spotting & offsetting to spines (as often), [Sabin 1034] Note: First edition of the first volume of the Memoirs, one of the United States's most important and influential intellectual societies.

CURIE, MADAME PIERRE TRAITÉ DE RADIOACTIVITÉ Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1910. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, 7 plates, diagrams, contemporary three quarter brown cloth, green morocco labels, brown morocco-backed cloth box

FIVE WORKS INCLUDING DARWIN, CHARLES THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION London: J. Murray, 1875. Sixth edition (Fifteenth thousand), original green cloth, folding diagram, corners slightly rubbed, newspaper clippings announcing Darwin's death tipped in; Fleming, Sir Alexander Penicillin its Practical Application. 1946. First edition, first impression, original pale blue cloth, spine slightly faded, slight rubbing to corners; Wittels, Fritz Sigmund Freud, His Personality, His Teaching & His School. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1924. First UK edition, 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth, some spotting; Duncan, David Douglas The Private World of Pablo Picasso. [New York], Ridge Press, [1958]. First edition, 4to, original stiff photographic wrappers, inscribed "Margery Lewis Smith"; Pepys, Samuel Diary and Correspondence. 1848, 5 volumes, 8vo, frontispieces, modern blue half morocco gilt (9)

HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRYPHYSIOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF NATURE London: Macmillan & Co., 1877. First edition, 8vo, 3 double-page folding maps, 2 folding colour plates, autograph envelope to Sir John Skelton, signed by Huxley tacked to flyleaf, contemporary green quarter morocco gilt

RUSSELL, BERTRANDTHE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS Cambridge: University Press, 1903. First edition, volume 1 [all published], 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, small ownership signature to free-endpaper, a little initial foxing, occasional small, light dust-marks, hinges slightly weak

WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSELDARWINISM, AN EXPOSITION OF THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION London: Macmillan, 1889. First edition, 8vo, photogravure frontispiece port, folding colour-tinted map, 19 wood-engraved illustrations in text & 18 diagrams, graphs & tables, original green cloth

WATSON, JAMES D. THE DOUBLE HELIX. A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE STRUCTURE OF D.N.A. New York: Atheneum, 1968. First American edition, signed "James D. Watson" on blank leaf before half-title, 8vo, original blue cloth, original dustwrapper, red morocco-backed cloth clamshell box

2 SPORTING WORKSCOMPRISING SOMERVILE, WILLIAM The Chase, a poem. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1796. First edition, 4to, thick paper copy, with woodcuts by John & Thomas Bewick, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, from the library sale of John Mitchell Marshall, a little internal foxing [ESTC T108434]; The Sporting Magazine a bound collection of 56 engravings from The Sporting magazine, contemporary half calf gilt, bookplate (2)

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND SPORT, 5 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGPENNANT, THOMAS The Journey to Snowdon. London: H. Hughes, 1781. First edition (first part only), engraved title and plates, contemporary diced calf, bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson-Eden; Warner, Richard A Walk through some of the Western Counties of England. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1800. First edition, 8vo, half-title, 2 sepia aquatint plates, original blue boards, uncut, rebacked; [Apperley, C.J.] The Life of a Sportsman. G. Routledge, [n.d.], hand-coloured title & 34 hand-coloured plates, red half morocco by Hatchards, t.e.g., spine lightly faded; Kipling, R. Kim. 1951. 8vo, modern green morocco; Somerville, William Hobbinol, Field Sports, and the Bowling Green. London: W. Bulmer for R. Ackermann, 1813. 4to, 15 wood-engraved vignettes by Nesbit & Thurston, contemporary half calf, slightly worn (5)

WETHERED, JOYCE & ROGERTHE GAME OF GOLF - THE LONSDALE LIBRARY London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped but spine a little darkened; Chapman, A.P.F. The Game of Cricket. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1930. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped but spine a little darkened (2)

ABYSSINIA - PEARCE, NATHANIELTHE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NATHANIEL PEARCE... DURING A RESIDENCE IN ABYSSINIA from the years 1810 to 1819. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition, 2 volumes, large 12mo, [ix], 348; [viii], 349, original boards, some spotting and slight soiling, neatly rebacked with buckram, paper lettering pieces, RARE

ADAIR, F.E.S.A SUMMER IN HIGH ASIA London: W. Thacker & Co., 1899. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to Duncan Graham, "Larbh Dhonn", from the author, frontispiece, folding map, numerous illustrations in text, publisher's catalogue bound at rear, original pictorial cloth, some slight soiling

AFGHANISTAN - YATE, MAJOR C.E.NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN OR LETTERS FROM THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1888. First edition, 8vo (222 x 140mm.), 2 folding maps in pocket at rear, original cloth, extremities rubbedNote: Yate was a member of the Afghan Boundary Commission, and in an ideal position to focus in the events of 1885 to 1887, during which time the Afghan frontier was demarcated, negotiated, and finally settled.

[ALPS, MONT BLANC, MOUNTAINEERING] BROWNE, JAMES D. HOWETEN SCENES IN THE LAST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC, including Five Views from the Summit. London: Thomas McLean, 1853. First edition, large folio (555 x 374mm.), lithographed pictorial dedication (printed on card), and 10 lithographed plates, errata slip, original pictorial boards with original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, somewhat spotted, 2 plates with short marginal tear, lacks title, bookplate of Charles Thurston Holland, [Abbey Travel 65], binding slightly rubbedNote: One of the rarest mountaineering books. Abbey (65) calls for a lithographed title-page: "Incorporated in design of alpenstocks and ropes with vignettes, the letters of the words 'Mont Blanc' composed of vignettes, human figures, etc." Although the title-page is ostensibly missing the above description exactly correlates with the lithographed pictorial upper cover, and it is possible that this copy was originally sold with only a pictorial title on the upper cover.

ANSON, GEORGEVOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, FAIT DANS LES ANNÉES 1740,41,42, 43 & 44 Paris: Quillau, Quillau, Delormel, Le Loup, 1750. First French edition, 3 volumes in 4 volumes [vol. 2 being in 2 parts], 12mo, titles printed in red and black, 35 folding engraved plates and maps, contemporary calf, spines gilt, half-titles, early ownership inscription at foot of titles, a few plates and maps with short tear at fold

BRUEHL, CARL F.M.P., COUNT, AND S. H. SPIKER (EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS)LALLA RUKH. EIN FESTSPIEL MIT GESANG UND TANZ Berlin: L.W. Wittich, 1822. First edition, 4to, [vi], 28, 23 hand-coloured lithographs by Laurens and Jügel after von Stürmer and von Klöber, (1 folding), modern red quarter morocco, lettered in gilt on spineNote: A musical entertainment based on Thomas Moore's Indian romance Lalla Rookh (published in 1817), organised at the Court of Berlin to celebrate the visit of the Russian Crown Prince, later Tsar, Nicholas and his bride Alexandra on 27th January 1822. The whole court participated in the festival, with the dancers played by the cream of the Russian and German aristocracy and the role of Lalla Rûkh played by Crown Princess Alexandra. The occasion was so enjoyable that it was repeated on the 11th February. The programme and decorations were by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the music by Gaspare Spontini, who later transformed it into a full-length opera. The costumes were designed by August von Klöber, who drew the folding plate for this book. A French edition of the work was published by Wittich in the same year. Lipperheide Sbb 25 (lacking two plates) and Sbb 26 (French edition); Vinet 777 (with 4 additional plates).

COXE, WILLIAMSKETCHES OF THE NATURAL, CIVIL, AND POLITICAL STATE OF SWISSERLAND IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO WILLIAM MELMOTH London: Dodlsey, 1779. First edition, 8vo., contemporary calf, spine decorated gilt, rebacked, title page a little discolouredProvenance: From the Library of the Late John Bernard Bury Note: The letters include descriptions of an attempt upon Mont Blanc by residents of Chamouny, a visit to the glacier at Montenvers, and the use of mountaineering equipment such as crampons and 'a long pole spiked with iron'.

DUBLIN - POOLE, ROBERT & JOHN CASHVIEWS OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND OTHER EDIFICES IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN Dublin: for J. Williams, 1780. First edition, 4to, [2 (engraved title)]; xii, [2 (contents)]; 118; engraved title, 29 engraved plates (1 folding) and 2 folding plans, 19th century half calf with green cloth boards, a few small spots or stains, head of spine slightly rubbed, upper joint split at base

[EGYPT] - VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANÇOIS, COMTE DEOEUVRES COMPLÈTES Paris: Bossanges Frères, 1821. First collected edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, 14 plates (including frontispiece in vol.1), 8 folding maps, 15 folding tables , contemporary tree calf, gilt rule borders, red morocco labels, lacks the portrait

FALKLAND ISLANDS - BOYSON, V.F.THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. WITH NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY by Rupert Vallentin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. ii, [xiii-xvi], 13-414, frontispiece, 35 illustrations, map, original blue cloth, signed by Rupert Vallentin on title page, bookplate of Milton S. Ray

FINE BINDING BY LAWSON & LEWIS - KENILWORTH, WARWICKSHIRE - DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAMKENILWORTH ILLUSTRATED; OR THE HISTORY OF THE CASTLE, Priory, and Church of Kenilworth. Chiswick: printed by C. Whittingham, for Merridew and Son, Coventry [&c], 1821. First edition, 4to, large paper copy, 18 Proof plates on India Paper, 1 on ordinary paper, half-title, contemporary blue morocco gilt by Lawson & Lewis, 5 Richmond Buildings, Dean Street Soho, with their ticket, g.e., gilt morocco doublures, elaborate gilt arms (unidentified) on sides, joints a little cracked, small repairs at head of joints

FITTLER, JAMES AND JOHN CLAUDE NATTESSCOTIA DEPICTA London: W. Miller [&c.], 1804. First edition, oblong folio, additional engraved title and 40 of 48 engraved plates (plates 25-28 and 36-40 never bound into this copy), bookplate of Sir John Stuart Forbes Bt. of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, contemporary green half calf with binder's ticket of Robert Seton, Edinburgh, rubbed

FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, FISHERIES, SPORTING ANECDOTES,FROM DRAWINGS BY MESSRS. HOWITT, ATKINSON, CLARK, MANSKIRCH Containing One Hundred Plates, with a Supplement of New South Wales. London: E. Orme, 1814. First edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to, 281 x 215mm., 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates, armorial bookplate of Mr Robert. Maxwell, contemporary green morocco gilt, spine in compartments gilt, index leaf at end, small stains to one plate, one text leaf with 3 cm closed tear, occasional light dust-soiling

HAUGHTON, CAPT. H.L.SPORT & FOLKLORE IN THE HIMALAYA London: E. Arnold, 1913. First edition, 8vo, 17 photographic plates, original pictorial maroon cloth gilt, slightly rubbed

JOHNSON, SAMUELA JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND London: W. Strahan, 1775. First edition, first issue, 8vo, attractive later calf gilt with red morocco label to spine, a little foxing and slight browning

LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUSA YEAR AMONG THE CIRCASSIANS London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 7 lithographed plates, contemporary red calf, rubbed, armorial bookplates of Charles James Monk

ORDNANCE SURVEY OF EDINBURGHSHIREFINELY BOUND SIX INCH FIRST EDITION MAP OF THE EDINBURGH AREA Southampton: Ordnance Map Office & Lt. Col. H. James, [1853-1855]. Elephant folio, with index sheet, double page maps showing battle sites, another view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with 24 (of 25) sheets (sheet 21, mostly blank, lacking; sheets 8, 17, 20 & 24 each lacking one half which is usually blank); [bound with] Kerr, R.E. Ordnance Plan of the Parishes of Dalmeny and Cramond. Southampton: The Ordnance Map Office, 1856. Comprising a selection of 12 double-page hand-coloured sheets from the map; impressive brown morocco gilt by Wiseman with a gilt acanthus border and the arms of Trinity College Cambridge to the upper cover, and a scallop shell and cross border overlaying the acanthus motif border on the lower cover, with scallop shell motifs and arms depicting scallop shells within a St Andrews cross to the lower coverProvenance: Given to A. Pringle of Trinity College Cambridge in 1858 as a Latin declamation prize

NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA - SIDNEY, SAMUELTHE THREE COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece and 54 woodcut illustrations (of which 12 full page), contemporary mottled calf, finely rebacked to match, red morocco lettering pieces, a few spots, a very finely bound copy

PARRY, WILLIAM EDWARDJOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC to the Pacific. London: J. Murray, 1821. Second edition, 4to, [8], xxix, [2], 310, [2], 179; 20 engraved charts and plates (4 folding); Parry, W.E. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: J. Murray, 1824. First edition, 4to, [8], xxx, [2], 571, 31 plates and plans, 4 folding charts, 4 folding coastal profiles, uniform modern half calf gilt, red morocco lettering pieces (2)

SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST HENRYTHE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 3 folding maps and folding panorama in rear pocket, original blue cloth, a little fading to spines, some light foxing, previous ownership inscriptions to endpapers, endpapers browned, closed tear to a leaf in volume 2 (2)

SPAIN, A COLLECTION, INCLUDING[AULNOY, MARIE-CATHERINE, COUNTESS D'] The Lady's Travels into Spain. London: T. Davies, 1774. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, early inscription to endpaper of John Joliffe, rubbed; Borrow, George Lavengro. London: J. Murray, 1851, First edition, 3 volumes, engraved portrait; The Romany Rye. 1857, First edition, 2 volumes, neatly rebacked retaining original spines, The Zincali or the Gypsies of Spain. 1843. Second edition, 2 volumes, one cover nearly detached, contemporary half calf (9)

TRAVEL, NATURAL HISTORY & FINE BINDINGS, 31 VOLUMESINCLUDING BURNABY, FRED A Ride to Khiva. Travels and Adventures in Central Asia, 1877. 8vo, folding maps (1 in pocket at end), contemporary red half calf gilt; Beckford, Peter Thoughts upon Hunting. 1879. plates, red half morocco by Bickers, spine gilt, g.e; Bates, H.W. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 1876. 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt; Hogarth, D. & Others. Great Britons. 1978, maroon half morocco gilt, g.e.; White, Gilbert The Natural History of Selborne. 1850. 8vo, green half morocco gilt; Trevelyan, G.O. The Early History of Charles James Fox. 1881. 8vo, red half morocco gilt, Andrew Carnegie bookplate, g.e.' Putnam, R. William the Silent, Prince of Orange. 1895. 2 volumes, 8vo, red half morocco gilt, Andrew Carnegie bookplates, g.e.; Shipton, Diana The Antique Land. 1950. Number 91 of 150 de luxe copies, plates, maroon morocco gilt, t.e.g.; Morton, H.V. In Search of Ireland. 1930. First edition, 8vo, green half morocco gilt; Longfellow, H.W. Poetical Works. 1910. 8vo, quarter vellum, spine gilt; Napier, Sir W. English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula. 1893. 8vo, red morocco gilt, g.e.; Sketchley, A. Mrs Brown and King Cetewayo. [n.d.]., red half calf gilt; Teichman, Sir Eric. Journey to Turkistan. 8vo, plates, dustwrapper frayed; Woolf, Virginia A Letter to a Young Poet. 1932, original wrappers; 2o others in The Hogarth Letters Series (Peter Quennell and Rebecca West); Dante La Divina Commedia. Milan, 1828. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spines gilt; Bell, Currer (Charlotte Bronte) The Professor. London: Smith, Elder, 1860. original orange cloth, hinges weak' and 11 others (31)

WYVILLE THOMSON, SIR CHARLESTHE VOYAGE OF THE 'CHALLENGER'... London: Macmillan, 1877. 2 volumes, first edition, portrait, 43 charts, maps and plates, original green cloth gilt, covers slightly rubbed, with bookplates and gilt stamps of The Cruising Association; Markham, Captain Albert Hastings Life of Sir John Franklin. London: George Philip & Son, 1891. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt (3)

YORKSHIRE - MARSHALL, WILLIAMTHE RURAL ECONOMY OF YORKSHIRE London: T. Cadell, 1788. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding maps, contemporary tree calf gilt, slightly rubbed

8 CHILDREN'S BOOKSINCLUDING GREENAWAY, KATE A Day in a Child's Life. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881?] 8vo, original boards over quarter cloth; [Idem] Under the Window. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]. First edition, 8vo, original boards over quarter cloth; Caldecott, Randolph The House that Jack Built. [London:] George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, original covers; [Idem] The Diverting History of John Gilpin: [London:] George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, original covers; [Idem] R. Caldecott's Second Collection of Pictures & Songs. London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., [n.d.] Oblong 8vo, original cloth; [Idem] A Sketch-Book of R. Caldecott. George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.] Oblong 8vo, original covers; Ewing, Juliana Horatia Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. London, [n.d.] 8vo, illustrated by R. Caldecott, original pictorial boards; Pearce, Hilda The Navy Book of Fairy Tales. London, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue cloth gilt (8)

FOREMAN, MICHAEL, AND OTHERSA LARGE COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED WORKS, MANY IN FIRST EDITION including Morpurgo, Michael War Horse. London: Egmont Books, 2010. 8vo, with bookplate signed by Morpurgo, illustrated by François Place; [Idem] Kensuke's Kingdom. London: Egmont, 2002. 8vo, with bookplate signed by Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman; [Idem] Kaspar Prince of Cats. London: Harper Collins, 2008. First edition, 8vo, signed by the author, illustrated by Michael Foreman; [Idem] Little Albatross. London: Doubleday, 2004. First edition, 4to, signed by the author, illustrated by Michael Foreman; [Idem] Beowulf. London: Walker Books, 2006. First edition, 8vo, signed by Morpurgo to bookplate, illustrated by Michael Foreman; Beetles, Chris Michael Foreman Telling Tales, 2017. 4to, paperback, signed by Michael Foreman and Terry Jones; Jones, Terry Animal Tales. London: Pavilion, 2011. First edition, 8vo, illustrated by Michael Foreman; Huxley, Aldous After Many a Summer. London: Folio Society, 1980. 8vo, illustrated by Michael Foreman; Moore, Clement The Night Before Christmas. New York: Viking, 1988. Oblong 8vo, illustrated by Michael Foreman; Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de The Little Prince. London: Pavilion, 1995. 8vo, illustrated by Michael Foreman; and 120 others, including 22 signed (130)

GARNER, ALANTHE STONE BOOK QUARTET The Stone Book. London: Collins, 1976. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Granny Reardun. London: Collins, 1977. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, dust-jacket price-clipped; The Aimer Gate. London: Collins, 1978. First edition, 8vo, signed by the author to the title-page, original brown cloth, dust-jacket price-clipped; Tom Fobble's Day. London: Collins, 1977. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped (4)

MILNE, A.A.FOUR WINNIE-THE-POOH BOOKS When we Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. Third edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Idem] Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] Now we are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; [Idem] The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original pink cloth gilt; all with a little wear and soiling to covers, some splitting to hinges (4)

POTTER, BEATRIX10 WORKS The tale of two bad mice. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition, [first or second printing (grey boards rather than red], 16mo, ownership signature to half-title; The tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [N.D.]. Later printing ("How Keld" name not present in picture on p.20) 16mo, original green covers, gift inscription dated 1919 to endpaper; The tale of Tom Kitten. London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1907. First edition, [first-third printing], original beige brown boards, gift inscription and small doodle to endpaper; blindstamp to rear free-endpaper; The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1908. First edition, [one of the first 3 printings], 16mo, original grey boards, owner's small signature to half-title; [The tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1909. First edition, second[?] printing (with noticeboard present in picture on p.14' Evans imprint present on final page verso), 16mo, original green covers, owner's small signature to half-title; The tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, [first or second printing], 16mo, original dark green boards; The Roly-Poly Pudding. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1908]. 8vo, probably first edition, lacking title-page, original cloth; The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910. First edition but in tan boards, 16mo; 2 later editions of The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse and Ginger & Pickles

RANSOME, ARTHURWE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA London: J. Cape, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, not price-clipped, dust-jacket with very slight loss at head of spine

SENDAK, MAURICETHREE PRESENTATION COPIES Higglety Pigglety Pop! New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author with sketch of a little boy ("Oct. '67 | For May Lowen - | in memory of a most | lovely hospital afternoon! | Maurice Sendak | [sketch of a little boy]") on front free endpaper, original cloth, dustwrapper ("$4.95" and "1067" on upper flap with five Sendak titles listed on lower flap), some minor fraying to extremities of dustwrapper; Minarik, E.H. A Kiss for Little Bear. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition (no ISBN or zip code on publisher's imprint page), 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the artist with a sketch of Little Bear ("Oct. '68 | For May - | [sketch of Little Bear with speech bubble "Happy Birthday | for the 22nd!!"] | and all my love! | Maurice Sendak") on front free endpaper, original illustrated boards, dustwrapper ("$2.50 | Ages 4-8" on upper flap with four little bear books listed on lower flap), slightly bumped at head of spine; Sendak, M. In the Night Kitchen. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition, 4to, presentation copy inscribed by the author with sketch of Mickey ("For May on her Birthday, | the 22nd of October, 70 | [sketch of Mickey] | With love, | Maurice Sendak") on front free endpaper, original cloth, dustwrapper ("$4.95" and "1070" on upper flap with seven Sendak titles listed on lower flap), head of spine slightly bumped, minor browning to dustwrapper (3)

EMBROIDERY, & OTHERS, COMPRISINGBARBER, MARY. SOME DRAWINGS OF ANCIENT EMBROIDERY. THIRTY SPECIMENS London: H. Sotheran, 1880. First edition, folio, 30 chromolithographed plates, original decorative buff cloth gilt, g.e.; Farren, R. Cambridge and its Neighbourhood. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1881. Folio, etched title and plates, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, t.e.g., lightly rubbed; Grigson, G. and H. Buchanan Thornton's Temple of Flora. 1951. Folio, colour plates, original half cloth (3)

FONSECA, FRANCISO, DAEVORA GLORIOSA Epilogo dos quatro tomos da Evora illustrada, que compoz o R. P. M. M. Fialho ... Escritta ... e amplificada pello P. F. da Fonseca. Rome: na officina Komarekiana, 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, edges worn, with the book stamp armorial of Rodrigo Andrade Pereyra at the head of the dedication pageProvenance: From the Library of the Late John Bernard Bury

GUICHARD, CLAUDEFUNERAILLES ET DIVERSES MANIERES D'ENSEUELIR DES ROMMAINS, GRECS ET AUTRES NATIONS Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1581. First edition, 4to., fine woodcut initials, engraved architectural title page, numerous wood engravings in the text of coins, grave markers, medals, ancient Roman chariot races, and an illustration of a body being prepared for burial, the dedication to Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, printed in civilité type, mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, edges rubbed, wear at head and tail of spine, water staining to the title page and first few signatures and to some signatures elsewhere in the book, early ownership inscription on the title page scored out and lower outer corner cut awayProvenance: From the Library of the Late John Bernard Bury Note: USTC 1603. Chapter 9 of the third book provides one of the earliest known accounts of the funeral practices of Native Americans. (Des funerailles & sepultures des peuples des terres descouvertes de nostre temps, ausquelle on a donné le nom Nouveau monde). It also contains an account of the destruction of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum and the discovery of the sarcophagus of King Mausolus.

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON SPENCERMY AFRICAN JOURNEY London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, 3 maps, 46 leaves of plates with 60 photographs, original red pictorial cloth gilt, gift inscription to front free-endpaper, a little foxing, slight fading and some minor dampstaining to covers and spine, endpapers a little dampstained at inner margins

Cook (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, engraved portrait frontispiece, 63 engraved plates and charts, many folding, folding letterpress table, extra-illustrated with folding 'Chart of the Island of Otaheite, by Lieut. J. Cook, 1769' from Hogg's omnibus edition of Cook's voyages (1784-6) bound to face volume 2 p. 1 (this extra chart nicked, rumpled, browned, and with loss to upper outer corner), slight toning, a few portrait plates closely trimmed shaving imprint or text, volume 1 initial blank and portrait frontispiece damp-stained (barely visible in the image), faint shallow tide-mark to upper margins of a few other plates in volume 1, plates 1 and 2 ('Chart of the Southern Hemisphere' and 'Chart of the Southern Extremity of America', respectively facing volume 1 p. 1 and volume 2 p. 198) tape-repaired verso, concomitant darkening to the recto of plate 2 and further tape-repair to gutter of facing text-leaf 2C2, plate 3 ('Chart of Discoveries', facing volume 2 p. 25) with short closed tears to one fold and at gutter both touching frame only, similar closed tear to gutter of plate 4 ('Chart of the Discoveries' facing volume 2 p. 210, contemporary reversed calf, rebacked and relined at an early date, worn, volume 2 front joint partially split, 4to (28.5 x 22 cm) (Qty: 2)Provenance: presentation copy to James Furneaux, brother of Tobias Furneaux, inscribed 'Presented by the Author to J. Furneaux, my Father, 1777' on the initial blank in a contemporary hand, with a further inscription, 'The James Furneaux, of Swilly, to whom Capt Cook presented this book, was an elder brother of Capt. Tobias Furneaux', in a later hand below; thence by descent to the present owner. Cook had set out on his third and final voyage on 12 July 1776, by which time Tobias Furneaux was in North America. His ship, the Syren, was lost off Rhode Island the following year: he was taken prisoner and did not return to England until at least 1778. In Furneaux's absence, his elder brother James (1725-1785), himself a naval officer, would have been a natural recipient of any presentation copy sent on Cook's behalf. The inscription conceivably admits of the possibility that the 'author' referred to is in fact Tobias, whose narrative is also printed, in which case the date would have been recalled inaccurately by James's son (also James, 1752-1802, clergyman; another son, William, died in infancy). James Furneaux's naval career suggests a talented if unlucky sailor. He entered the navy in 1738 and after initial service in the Mediterranean was by February 1743 fourth lieutenant on HMS Burford, which that month served in the defeat at La Guaira with the loss of its own captain Edward Lushington. He was later promoted first lieutenant and is found in temporary command of the Antelope, cruising off Toulon, before returning to the Burford. In 1755 he was appointed to the Vanguard at the personal request of its captain John Byron, grandfather of the poet, and in 1757 followed him to the America, which participated in Edward Hawke's 'futile' expedition against Rochefort, cruised with success on the French coast, and later joined the fleet off Brest under Anson (ODNB). He is known to have referred to Byron for a testimonial in 1758, after which point he does not appear to have served. (See Henry Furneaux, Pedigree of the Family of Furneaux, Paignton, Paignton and Buckfastleigh, Devon; aftewards of Swilly near Plymouth , privately printed, 1876, p. 13). Beddie 1216; Hill 358; PMM 223.

Sclater (Philip Lutley) . A Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1857-[58], map frontispiece, 45 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Oudart, heightened in gum arabic and with pale blue background wash, plates 1-11 with laid-in tissue guards, isolated marginal spotting, browning to background wash in plates 20, 22 and 23, but the images remaining very bright, contemporary tan calf, rebacked to style, wear to extremities, 8vo (21.6 x 14 cm) (Qty: 1)Anker 448; Nissen IVB 839; Wood p. 557; Sitwell p. 139; Zimmer p. 559. The author’s first monograph, ‘a discussion of all the tanagers belonging to the genus Calliste as then understood … all but four of which are figured on excellent plates’ (Zimmer).

Swann (H. Kirke). A Synopsis of the Accipitres (Diurnal Birds of Prey), 2nd edition (‘revised and corrected throughout’), extra limited issue, privately printed for the author, [1921-2], half-title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece signed by the author on the mount, 55 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans and others, 22 colour plates of eggs, 5 leaves of errata and addenda to rear, plates toned, several with amended captions on mounted slips, original part wrappers bound in, bookplate of C. J. Coldewey and bookseller’s ticket (Wheldon & Wesley) to front pastedown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary red crushed half morocco, large 4to (31.8 x 24 cm) (Qty: 1)Anker 497 (for the limited issue of 28 copies); Nissen IVB 916; Wood p. 589; Zimmer pp. 618-19 (also for the limited issue). Number 11 of 12 copies ‘privately printed on large hand-made paper, each having 55 coloured plates of birds, and 22 coloured plates of eggs’; there was another limited issue of 28 numbered copies with the 22 plates of eggs only, and an octavo trade issue without plates. The work was first published as A Synoptical List of the Accipitres (1919-20), also in octavo and without plates. The fine lithographs in this copy are strikingly bright and fresh.

Sweet (Robert). The British Warblers. An Account of the Genus Sylvia, 1st edition, for the author, 1823, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by E. D. Smith, gutta percha perishing, first few leaves and plates loose, bookplate of Joseph Whitaker, possibly the English naturalist (1850-1922), pencil annotations to plate margins, similar annotations to title-page attributing these to ‘Yarrell’ (presumably the naturalist William, 1784-1856), original pictorial cloth gilt, tall 8vo, together with: White (Adam), A Popular History of Birds, comprising a Familiar Account of their Classification and Habits, 1st edition, Lowell Reeve, 1855, 20 hand-coloured lithographic plates, text-leaves largely unopened, original pictorial cloth gilt, expertly recased, 16mo, Gosse (Philip Henry), Popular British Ornithology, containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Birds of the British Isles, 2nd edition, Reeve and Co., 1853, 20 hand-coloured lithographic plates (plate 14 bound after plate 9 as issued), original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, pale mottling to covers, mark to front), 16mo, and 8 others, all 19th-century popular accounts, original pictorial cloth gilt, bright copies, various formats (Qty: 11)Freeman 3642 (Sweet), 3965 (White), 1375 (Gosse); Mullens & Swann pp. 571 (Sweet), 239 (Gosse); Nissen IVB 919 (Sweet), 984 (White), 367a (Gosse); Wood pp. 590 (Sweet: ‘a rather rare work’), 625 (White), 363 (Gosse: ‘a well-written, popular little book, with a few excellent diagnostic plates’); Zimmer pp. 620-1 (Sweet: ‘rather rare’), 672 (White). Gosse is best remembered as the author of The Birds of Jamaica (1847).

[Syme, Patrick]. A Treatise on British Song-Birds, 1st edition, Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1823, half-title, advertisement leaf, 15 hand-coloured engraved plates, toning, half-title dust-soiled, offsetting, marginal finger-marks and light smudging to most plates, edges untrimmed, modern green half leatherette, 8vo (22.1 x 13.6 cm), together with: [Albin, Eleazar], A Natural History of Singing Birds ... by a Lover of Birds, Edinburgh: for J. Wood, 1776, half-title, 23 engraved plates including frontispiece, tide-mark to lower margins of later plates, small hole to plate facing p. 87, 19th-century cloth, 12mo (18 x 10.6 cm), Watters (John J.), The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, Indigenous and Migratory, 1st edition, Dublin: James McGlashan, 1853, half-title, ownership inscription of John Henry Gurney Jr (British ornithologist, 1848-1922) dated 1888, contemporary tan half calf, 8vo (16 x 10 cm), Knox (Arthur Edward), Game Birds and Wild Fowl: their Friends and their Foes, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1850, 4 tinted lithographic plates by Wolf, contemporary half calf, 8vo (18.2 x 12 cm), Swann (H. Kirke, editor), The Ornithologist: a Magazine of Ornithology and Oology, First Series [all published], 1st edition, John Bale & Sons, 1897, half-title, halftone plates, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (21.3 x 14.8 cm), and 5 similar works (including a copy of Albin's English Song-Birds, 1779 edition, lacking a text-leaf), contemporary leather bindings, 8vo (Qty: 10)ESTC T111973 (Albin); Freeman 3646 (Syme), 48 (Albin), 3922 (Watters), 2139 (Knox); Mullens & Swann pp. 572 (Syme), 9 (Albin), 619 (Watters), 335 (Knox), 568 (Swann, 'the first British bird journal'); Nissen IVB 920 (Syme), 17 (Albin), 514 (Knox); Wood pp. 590 (Syme), 621 (Watters), 420 (Knox); Zimmer p. 666 (Watters). Wood describes Syme's work as 'a rather rare, well-written account of 33 species, with excellent plates'. It was also issued with the backgrounds to the plates uncoloured: they are coloured in our copy. ESTC traces three copies only for this pirated edition of Albin's work, which first appeared in 1737 as A Natural History of English Song-Birds (British Library, Cambridge, and the National Library of Scotland).

Tucker (Andrew G. C.). Ornithologia Danmoniensis, 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, for the author, 1809, 7 engraved plates (of which 6 hand-coloured), original wrappers for volume 1, numbe 2 bound in, small spot to title-page, quires G-H moderately browned, plates toned, guarded, a few marginal marks, stab-holes visible in margins not affecting images, tape-repair to upper inner corners of woodlark and male sparrowhawk plates, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, modern green crushed half morocco gilt, large 4to (29.6 x 22.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Mullens & Swann pp. 590-1; Wood p. 603. All published of the first local English avifauna. 'It is an ambitious work, the text of which ends abruptly at p. 88 of the Introduction.The two parts printed show the author to have been an educated naturalist' (Wood).

Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.). Birds of Arabia, Henry Sotheran Limited, 1980, additional half title, nineteen tipped-in colour plates, tipped-in photographic illustrations, folding map, ownership signature to first front blank, book plate of D. Keningale, top edge gilt, original green half morocco by Morrell, spine with raised bands and gilt bird and palm vignettes in compartments, 4to, (Qty: 1)Edition de Luxe, 28/295.

Topham (Thomas). A New Compendius System on Several Diseases, incident to cattle. Wherein the disorders are orderly described, and the symptoms of each disease obviously laid down: together with a complete number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof..., an essay on the diseases incident to calves, printed for J. Scatcherd & J. Whitaker, T. Scollick & J. Todd, 1788, xvi, 421, [7], a2 with minor waterstain to extreme fore-margin, 19th century green half-calf gilt, a little rubbed and some marks to edges, 8vo, together with [ Feijoo y Montenetro, Benito Jeronimo]. The Honour and Advantage of Agriculture. Being the twelfth discourse of the eighth volume of Feijoo's works, translated from the Spanish. By a Farmer in Cheshire, 1st English edition, printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760, iv, 79, [1], disbound without covers, slim 8vo (Qty: 2)Topham: ESTC N41779. The second issue (first London edition) of this scarce work (ESTC locates six copies in the UK of either issue), and one of the first publications on the diseases of cattle. Feijoo: ESTC T166297 (only 3 copies in the UK, Cambridge, Rothamsted, and John Rylands). According to Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, volume II, page 336 'Mr Benjamin Stillingfleet was the editor, if not the translator'.

Honter (Johannes, & others). Procli, De sphaera liber I. Cleomedis, De mundo ... Arati Solensis Phaeonomena ... Dionysii Afri, Descriptio orbis habitabilis. Omnia Graece et Latine ita coniuncta ... una cum Ioan. Honteri Coronensis De Cosmographiae rudimentis, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1585, 5 parts in 1 volume, Proclus's work with 2 full-page woodcuts ( armillary sphere and a vignette of Proclus teaching) and several woodcut diagrams in text, Honter's work with 12 folding woodcut maps each with additional single-page woodcut map to conjugate leaf verso (all mounted on guards), spotting and browning, most maps with marginal restoration to upper inner corners, repairs to the first 3 sheets (containing 6 maps), later vellum, manuscript spine-title, 8vo (15.4 x 9.8 cm) (Qty: 1)Adams P2135 (under Proclus); Houzeau & Lancaster 767; Sabin 65491; Shirley, World 108 & British Isles 69; VD16 P 4973; not in Cobham-Jeffery. Second Basel edition of this important compendium of treatises on astronomy and cosmography, including Johannes Honter's De Cosmographiae rudimentis , which contains Honter's double-page cordiform world map and maps of Malta, Mallorca, Cyprus, southern Africa, Madeira, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula (including the Persian Gulf), India, Java, Sri Lanka ('Taprobana') and elsewhere. Another copy of this edition was sold in these rooms on 10 April 2019 (lot 30).

Irving (Washington). A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 4 volumes, Paris, A. & W. Galignani, 1828, large folding engraved map of the West Indies and South America to first volume, and folding engraved map of the North Atlantic Ocean to second volume (small repair without loss to inner margin), some light scattered spotting, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines with black morocco title and volume labels, small 8vo, together with [Exquemelin, A.O.]. The History of the Bucaniers of America, 2 volumes, 5th edition, printed for T. Evans and W. Otridge, 1774, occasional marks, first and last few leaves with some marginal browning, contemporary calf, with Signet Library gilt stamp to covers of each volume, heavily rubbed and marked, 12mo, plus Folsom (George). History of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements, and of the proprietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia, Saco, printed by Alex C. Putnam, 1830, single lithographic view, single-page map, and one facsimile plate, some light browning and occasional staining, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear to joints and extremities, and two others related: [Thomas Peregrine Courtenay], Letters of Decius, in answer to the criticism upon the political account of Trinidad; and upon the defence of the crimes of Governor Picton, in the Anti-Jacobin Review, under the title of the "Pictonian Prosecution", printed and sold by John Morton, 1808, & E. Montule, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies, in 1817, printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821, both 8vo (Qty: 9)