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A cloth bound volume of 'Old Ship Prints' first edition by E. Keble Chatterton, dated 1927.

Gary Stranger (British), 'London (First Edition)', 2014, screen print in colours on 300 gsm Somerset Satin paper, signed and numbered from an edition of 60 in pencil, published by Global Street Art; sheet: 56 x 56cm ARR

Connor Brothers (British b.1968), ‘The First Thing I Do In The Morning Is Brush My Teeth And Sharpen My Tongue’, 2018, giclee with silkscreen varnish on archival paper, signed, dated and numbered from an edition of 60 in pencil; sheet: 41 x 26cm ARR

Connor Brothers (British b.1968), ‘We Must Be Careful About What We Pretend To Be (First Edition)’, 2015, giclee with silkscreen varnish on archival paper, signed, dated and inscribed AP in pencil, outside of the main edition of 125; sheet: 41 x 26cm ARR

Collectables Entertainment, 30 x 45 rpm records by artists inc Cliff Richard, The Searchers, Gene Pitney, The Tremeloes, Abba, Helen Shapiro, Lonnie Donegan etc, approx 75 lobby card posters for many various performances inc Evita, No Sex Please We're British, Jesus Christ Superstar, approx 60 1940s/50s theatre programmes for various performances in towns and provinces, 1954 programme for Bertram Mills Circus Summer Season, 1950's Snow White on Ice programme, 1978 flier and tickets for an Evening With Vera Lynn at the Guild Hall Preston sold together with First Edition 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' and 'Running Away' by Leslie Thomas signed by the author (mostly gd) (150+)

Arundell (Francis Vyvyan Jago). A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia; with an Excursion into Pisidia, 1st edition, John Rodwell, 1828, engraved folding map frontispiece (spotted and offset), approximately 50 lithographic inscriptions on 23 sheets (the inscriptions individually numbered, the numbering erratic, occasionally absent or amended in manuscript), occasional light spotting to text, bound with: [ibid.,] Some Notices on the Church of Landulph, by the Rector, Devonport: Ramsey and Carrington, 1840, 46 pp., errata leaf, spotted and browned throughout, contemporary half calf, spine refurbished, headcaps restored, 8vo (20.4 x 12.8 cm)First work: Atabey 36 (with 'numerous lithographed plates of inscriptions on 14 folding or 6 double-sheets'); Blackmer 48 (with '22 numbered lithographed plates of inscriptions on 14 folding sheets'). Arundell was chaplain to the English factory at Smyrna (Izmir) (Qty: 1)

Carpenter (William B., & Thomson, Charles Wyville). Preliminary Report, by Dr. William B. Carpenter, V.P.R.S., of Dredging Operations in the Seas to the north of the British Islands, carried on in Her Majesty's Steam-Vessel 'Lightning,' by Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Wyville Thomson, Professor of Natural History in Queen's College, Belfast, [from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 107, 1868], [London, 1868], pages 168-196, folding engraved map, ink stamp and reference numbers to title, bound with: Preliminary Report of the Scientific Exploration of the Deep Sea in H.M. Surveying-Vessel 'Porcupine,' during the Summer of 1869, conducted by Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys and Prof. Wyville Thomson, [being No. 121 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society], 1870, pages 397-492, a few diagrams to text, bound with Report on the Deep-Sea Researches carried on during the months of July, August, and September 1870, in H.M. Surveying-Ship 'Porcupine'..., [1870], pages 151-221, 6 folding engraved maps, scattered spotting, title excised at foot, bound with On the Undercurrent Theory of the Ocean, as Propounded by Recent Explorers, by Captain Spratt, [from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 129, 1871], pages 528-556, folding engraved map, blank inscribed with author's compliments, front free endpaper inscribed by Wyville Thomson, contemporary half calf, black leather title label, paper label at head of spine, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Moseley (Henry Nottidge) , Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger," being an Account of Various Observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" round the World, in the years 1872-1876, under the Commands of Capt. Sir. G.S. Nares ... and Capt. F.T. Thomson, 1st edition, 1879, 2 colour lithograph plates (including frontispiece), folding map, text illustrations, title with signature William Moseley to upper blank margin, endpapers renewed, top edge gilt, original brown cloth, spine faded and lining strengthened, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Thomson (Charles Wyville) , The Depths of the Sea. An account of the General Results of the Dredging Cruises of H.M.SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the Summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870, under the Scientific Direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and Dr. Wyville Thomson, 2nd edition, 1874, four double-page colour lithograph maps and one folding un-coloured map, illustrations and diagrams to text, spotting to first and last few leaves, bookplate of the Earl of Enniskillen, all edges gilt, contemporary dark blue calf by Bickers & Son, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label (spine leather faded), 8vo, plus one other related 20th century reference work (Qty: 4)

Henry (George Morrison Reid). Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon, with a Short Description of each Bird by W. E. Wait, 4 volumes, 1st edition, [Colombo:] Ceylon Government, 1927-35, 64 colour plates with tissue-guards, original card wrappers, contents of volumes 1-3 loose, volume 1 spine perished, volumes 3-4 wrappers damp-stained, 4to, together with: Woodhouse (Lionel George Ollyet, & George Morrison Reid Henry), The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon, 1st edition, Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942, 51 plates including frontispiece (most in colour), folding colour map, original card wrappers, slightly marked, 4toNissen IVB 965 and Wood 616 for the first item (both for volumes 1-3 only and listed under Wait); Nissen ZBI 4461 for the second item. Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon was published to supplement Wait's Manual of the Birds of Ceylon (1925), which was printed without colour illustrations owing to financial constraints.(Qty: 5)

Clüver (Philipp). Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, tam veterem quam novam, libri VI, Brunswick: printed by Balthasar Gruber for Gothofred Müller, 1641, engraved title-page vignette, engraved portrait constituting signature )(2, the leaf integral with signature )(3, engraved folding plate (called for in VD17 but not listed in the Index tabularum), and 33 engraved folding maps, variable browning, signature 2A2 abraded costing a few letters either side, marginal damp-staining to final index leaves, minor worming to lower margins of final 5 leaves and to rear endpapers, discreet 20th-century ink-stamps of Dr Ronald Ruprecht to front free endpaper, title-page verso and margin of p. 33, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, monogram 'M D S' to front board and date '164Z [sic]' to rear board gilt, yapp edges, slightly marked, 4to (18.4 x 15.5 cm)Sabin 13805 (erroneously dating this edition 1661); Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477-1650 , 507; ibid., The Mapping of the World, Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700 , 356; VD17 56:726046B. The first edition of Clüver's work to contain maps; the text was originally published by the Elzevirs in 1624. Rare: no copies in UK libraries, 14 world-wide; a handful of copies traced in auction records, all in Germany, and several of these incomplete.(Qty: 1)

Ray (John). Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta, 2nd edition, 1st issue, London [i.e. Leiden]: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford [i.e. Waasberg], 1703, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding tables (browned), contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, 8vo (19.1 x 11.5 cm), together with: Three Physico-Theological Discourses, concerning I. The Primitive Chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The Dissolution of the World, and Future Conflagration, 3rd edition ('much more Enlarged'), for WIlliam Innys, 1713, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, browning, marginal spotting, contemporary panelled calf, front board detached, 8vo (20 x 11.8 cm), and A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs; also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages, 3rd edition ('augmented'), 3rd issue, for H. Slater [and others], 1742, title-page and section-title spotted, occasional faint spotting elsewhere, 19th-century ownership inscription of one Arthur Rawdon to title-page and p. 1, bookplate (with withdrawn stamp) of Oldham Free Public Library, associated faint blind-stamps to final quire, early-20th-century half sheep by Cedric Chivers of Bath, 8vo (19.8 x 11.2 cm)Keynes 42, 85, 14; Henrey 317 for the first item (recording 1100 copies printed). Ray's Methodus plantarum nova was first published in 1682; both the first edition and this second edition are uncommon. The second item ( Three Physico-Theological Discourses ) contains a description of 'two late remarkable' earthquakes in England and Jamaica.(Qty: 3)

Redouté (Pierre-Joseph). Les Roses..., décrites et classées selon leur ordre naturel, par C.A. Thory, 3 volumes, 3rd octavo edition, Paris: P. Dufart & St. Petersburg: J.F. Hauer, 1835, half-titles present, 2 lithograph portraits and 184 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, occasional spotting (particularly to preliminary leaves of each volume), top edge gilt, early 20th century rose pink half morocco by Hatchards, gilt & onlay rose motif to spine compartments, joints of first volume slightly cracked and extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo Nissen BBI 1599. The last and most comprehensive edition of one of the greatest of all flower books, published under the direction of L.J. Pirolle, the collector of roses and tulips who had supplied Redoute with many of the specimens. It includes the famous frontispiece of a floral wreath, 23 new plates, portraits of Redoute and Thory, and a biographical note on Thory, none of which had appeared in either of the previous octavo editions, nor the first folio edition of 1790. Provenance: Henry W. Poor and Helen Janssen Wetzel (1895-1980), with gilt embossed leather book labels to upper pastedowns. Henry William Poor (1844-1915) was a prominent American banker, stockbroker, and author. He was a keen book collector and patron of the arts. In 1908 he had to liquidate his business following some major losses and his collection was dispersed by the New York based Anderson auction company in a series of sales from December 1908 - April 1909 and comprised some 5,427 items in total. Helen Janssen Wetzel (1895-1980) of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania was the daughter of textile industrialist Henry K. Janssen (1866-1948). She graduated at Smith College with a degree in botany, and was an authority on numerous species of flowers and plants. (Qty: 3)

White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, 2 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, 1877, vignette half-titles, all plates as called for including 5 engraved plates on india paper, mounted (some of these offset), top edges gilt, 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, royal 8vo (25.6 x 15.8 cm) , together with: [Carraccioli, Charles], The Antiquities of Arundel; the Peculiar Privilege of its Castle and Lordship ... by the Master of the Grammar-School at Arundel, 1st edition, for the author, 1766, half-title discarded, engraved presentation plate from Sir David Dundas of Ochtertyre to Charles W. G. Howard dated 1878, earlier monogram bookplate to front pastedown and related ink-stamps to title-page, contemporary polished calf, rubbed, joints cracked, 8vo (20.9 x 12.4 cm), Dally (Richard), The Arundel Guide; containing the History and Antiquities of Arundel Castle: also Account of Amberley Castle, and of the Roman Remains at Bignor and Lancing, and a few particulars relating to Littlehampton, 2nd edition, London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830, bound with: Lysons (Samuel), An Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa discovered at Bignor, in the County of Sussex, in the Year 1811, 1st separate edition, T. Bensley, 1820, 2 works in 1 volume, Dally's work extra-illustrated with 14 engraved plates, Lysons's with 8 hand-coloured engraved plates (6 called for in list; 2 folding, variably spotted), near-contemporary half calf, small 8vo (17.5 x 10.5 cm), and 4 others including 18th-century French works , 8voWhite: Freeman 3976.15; Mullens & Swann p. 641; Wood p. 625. Copac traces three copies of Dally's work, four of the first edition (printed at Chichester, 1828), and four of Lysons's account of the Roman villa at Bignor, which is illustrated with vivid coloured reproductions of mosaics, and was first published as part of the author's Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae (1813-17).(Qty: 9)

Cronstedt (Axel Frederic). An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy..., Translated from the Original Swedish, with Notes, by Gustav von Engestrom..., 2nd edition, with an Appendix... by Prof. M.T. Brunnich, 1772, two folding engraved plates, one with 5mm hole centrally at right side (associated with paper flaw), scarce spotting, intermittent light dampstain at tail, hinges strengthened, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, original gilt-lettered label reused, 8vo, together with Kirwan (Richard) , Elements of Mineralogy, 1st edition, 1784, title with pale remnant of ink stamp, title verso with library ink stamp, first and last few leaves spotted, front hinge slightly cracked, contemporary tree calf, some wear to extremities, gilt-lettered spine label, front cover with ink stamp remnant, 8voWard and Carozzi 554 and 1261 respectively.(Qty: 2)

Darwin (Charles; King, Philip Parker and Fitzroy, Robert). Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe, 3 volumes in 4 (including Appendix to volume 2), 1st edition, 1839, 58 engraved plates, maps and charts (including eight loose folding maps contained in pockets, map of 'Southern Portion of South America' lacking in volume 1 and replaced with later folding map of whole country), half-titles to volumes 1, 2 & 3, without publisher's adverts at rear of Appendix, few folding maps with short closed tears to folds, some occasional spotting, endpapers renewed, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, all rebacked, preserving original spines, 8vo, together with a duplicate of volume 2, with 24 plates only, lacking frontispiece and two loose charts, some fraying to plates and dust-soiling, original cloth gilt, upper joint split, 8vo, plus a duplicate of volume 3 lacking both maps, bookplate of Merthyr Guest, in variant light purple/blue plain cloth binding with Fitzroy name on spine rather than darwin, spine faded to light green, 8voFreeman 10, variant a; Sabin 37826. The first volume of the narrative contains Captain King's account of the expedition in the Adventure between 1826 and 1830, which surveyed the coast of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second volume and Appendix describe the second voyage of the Beagle under Captain Fitzroy between 1831 and 1836, which visited Brazil, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. The third volume is Darwin 's "first published book [and] is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the origin of Species as the most often printed" (Freeman p.31). This volume was published under two different titles: the first issue (as here) with the title starting Narrative of the Surveying Voyages..., and the second issue with the title Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History.... The second issue was also available as a separate work. The additional third volume in this lot with variant cloth was unknown to R.B. Freeman.(Qty: 6)

Darwin (Charles). A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripidia, with Figures of all the Species, 2 volumes, first edition, Ray Society, 1851 & 1854, forty engraved plates (three partly coloured), plus two additional plates (one at p.3 in each volume), top edge gilt, original blind stamped cloth gilt, some wear to spines, 8voFreeman 339; Curle p.48-49. Darwin spent much of his time for eight years (his 'Barnacle period') on this work, beginning in 1846. Curle states that the number of copies printed may not have been more than 800.(Qty: 2)

Darwin (Charles). The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, first edition, John Murray, 1881, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear, letterpress illustrations and diagrams, occasional minor spotting to first & last few leaves, ink signatures to verso of front free endpaper, original blindstamped green cloth gilt, 8voFreeman 1357, together with Insectivorous Plants, 2nd thousand, 1875, illustrations to letterpress, errata slip present, few leaves sprung, original blindstamped green cloth gilt, frayed at head of spine and board corners, 8voFreeman 1357 & 1218 respectively.(Qty: 2)

Darwin (Charles). On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing, first edition, 1st issue, 1862, letterpress illustrations and one folding plate, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated December 1861 at rear, ink stamp removed from title with some thinning of paper (not affecting text), endpaper removed from front pastedown with some dampstaining, original blind & gilt blocked plum cloth, frayed to joints and head & foot of spine, 8vo (Freeman 800, variant a.), together with The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 2nd thousand, 1876, oval blind stamp to title, first & last leaves and free endpapers spotted, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, 8vo (Freeman 837) (Qty: 2)

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, third edition, with additions and corrections (Seventh thousand), John Murray, 1861, half-title present, folding diagram at page 123, with publisher's advert leaf at rear, some light toning, hinges cracked, original blind embossed green cloth gilt, frayed at head and foot of spine and to board edges, 8voFreeman 381, binding variant b. (no full point after Murray at foot of spine). 2000 copies printed. The first edition to include the author's expanded historical sketch which was written to satisfy complaints that Darwin had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution.(Qty: 1)

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, fifth edition, with additions and corrections (Tenth thousand), John Murray, 1869, half-title reguarded and with early signature and short tear to upper margin, folding lithographed plate, without any adverts as frequently issued, light dust-soiling mostly to first & last leaves, endpapers renewed and with cloth hinges, original green cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, board edges repaired, 8voFreeman 387, binding variant c. 'The fifth edition of 1869 was 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "survival of the fittest"... for the first time' (Freeman).(Qty: 1)

Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, 1871, 2nd issue with 'When' for 'transmitted' first word of page 297 in volume I, wood-engravings, bound without half titles and advertisements, some light spotting, contemporary olive straight-grained morocco, three covers detached, volume I spine torn with losses, rubbed, 8voFreeman 937.(Qty: 2)

Hardy (William). The Miner's Guide: or, Compleat Miner, 1st edition, Sheffield: Francis Lister, 1748, bound with An Appendix to the Miners Guide: Chiefly Consisting of Plain and Accurate Tables..., Birmingham: Tho. Warren, [1762?], numerous figures and tables to text, some full-page, toned and spotted throughout, intermittent dampstaining, first leaf of Preface with early ink annotation, blank leaves bound at rear, seven of which have detailed early ink manuscript notes, front free endpaper with early ink calligraphic inscription 'Charles Walker. His Book. 1790', blank at rear with early ink name 'Charles Walker, Matlock', front hinge cracked, contemporary blind panelled calf, worn, front joint cracked, 8vo, together with Tapping (Thomas) , A Treatise on the Derbyshire Mining Customs and Mineral Court Act, 1852..., Shaw and Sons, 1854, title edge frayed at head, some spotting to first few leaves, front free endpaper with two ink ownership incriptions, original printed boards (soiled), front board nearly detached, the whole in an additional late 19th century binding of cloth-backed boards, partly detaching, 8vo, plus Hardy (William) , The Miner's Guide or Complete Miner..., Wirksworth: J. Cotes, 1810, two engraved plates (one offset to title), light spotting to first few leaves, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Allen Potter, mostly unopened, front hinge cracked, original boards, rebacked, some marks and stains, front cover with ink publisher's stamp 'Miner's Guide, (Price 4s 6d in Boards)' within typographical border, 8vo, and another copy of the same edition, one plate with early ink title, the other plate with early ink annotations to blank reverse, some dampstaining at head, mainly affecting first few leaves, bound with Manlove (Edward) , A Poem, on the Liberties and Customs of the Lead Mines, within the Wapentake of Wirksworth, in the County of Derby..., Wirksworth: J. Cotes, 1809, ten pages, title within typographical border, modern quarter calf gilt to style, 8vo (Qty: 4)

Mawe (John). Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology, Explaining the Easiest Methods of Discriminating Minerals..., 2nd edition, 1820, hand-coloured frontispiece, three plates (one hand-coloured), plates lightly offset, stitching broken in first gathering, front free endpaper adhered to pastedown, rear pastedown with adhered author's advertisement, front hinge cracked, original boards, front joint cracked, spine partly deficient, small 8vo, together with another copy of the same, 4th edition, 1822, four hand-coloured plates, including frontispiece, each lightly offset, title, frontispiece and first plate each strengthened at gutter, hinges strengthened, original boards, rebacked with vellum, extremities worn, small 8vo, plus The Mineralogy and Geology of Derbyshire..., Subjoined is a Glossary of Terms and Phrases used by Miners, reissue, [1816], three engraved plates (including spotted frontispiece) and single-page map, each lightly offset, front pastedown with bookplate of Peter Arkwright, front hinge strengthened, rear hinge cracked, contemporary half calf gilt, hinges cracked, some wear to extremities, 8voWard and Carozzi 1528 (for the first item).(Qty: 3)

Drummond (Alexander). Travels through Different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and Several Parts of Asia, as far as the Banks of the Euphrates, 1st edition, printed by W. Strahan for the author, 1754, 35 engraved plates (several folding) including frontispiece, faint toning, occasional light spotting and offsetting, damp-staining in gutter of quires S-2A, map of Cyprus (p. 191) with old repairs verso, a few other folding plates with short closed tears at inner folds, later French manuscript annotations on slips mounted to pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked and recornered, scuffed, folio (36 x 22.8 cm)Atabey 363; Blackmer 497; Cobham-Jeffery p. 12. 'First edition of this important work which displays an intimate knowledge of Cyprus' (Atabey). 'The plates include views, maps, and antiquities, the antiquities particularly from the island of Cyprus' (Blackmer). Drummond travelled through Europe, Asia Minor, Cyprus and Middle East between 1744 and 1750; from 1754 to 1756 he was British consul at Aleppo.(Qty: 1)

Raspe (Rudolph Erich). An Account of some German Volcanos, and their Productions. With a New Hypothesis of the Prismatical Basaltes; Established upon Facts. Being an Essay of Physical Geography for Philosophers and Miners. Published as Supplementary to Sir William Hamilton's Observations on the Italian Volcanos, 1st edition, Lockyer Davis, 1776, half-title, two folding engraved plates (first plate with small paper fault & hole to lower blank margin), light offsetting, modern tan sheep gilt, 8voScarce.(Qty: 1)

Ray (John). Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World..., 1st edition, Samuel Smith, 1692, title annotated to upper blank margin, final leaf with publisher's book list to verso, lacking imprimateur leaf, fraying to margins of first & last leaves, some dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining red morocco title label, some wear to board edges & corners, 8voWing R397.(Qty: 1)

Baedeker (Karl) . Egypt. Handbook for Travellers, Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1878, maps and plans, several folding, some with closed tears, original red cloth, contemporary ownership inscription ‘W I F Ramsden, Coldstream Guards, Aug 1882’ and printed label reading ‘Fasque’ to front board, rubbed and mottled, small 8vo, together with ibid., Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol, 17 th edition, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1897, maps and plans, several folding, original red cloth, slightly marked, splitting to rear joint, small 8vo, plus Murray (John, publisher), Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland; including the Crimea, Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia, 3 rd edition, revised, John Murray, 1875, folding maps, lacking the map in the end-pocket, inner hinges cracked, original maroon cloth, rubbed and marked, 8vo, and 1 similarSold not subject to return. This copy of Baedeker’s Egypt appears to have belonged to a soldier who served the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.(Qty: 4)

Walcott (John). Descriptions and Figures of Petrifactions, Found in the Quarries, Gravel-Pits, &c. Near Bath, 1st edition, Bath: Printed for the Author by S.Hazard, [1779], 16 engraved plates, (offset), first few leaves lightly spotted, pictorial bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, rebacked, two corners recovered, 8vo, together with Edwards (George) , Elements of Fossilogy: or, an Arrangement of Fossils..., 1776, some toning, title with perforated library stamp, advertisement leaf with ink library stamps, front pastedown with pictorial bookplate of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, hinges strengthened, contemporary cloth , rebacked, original spine relaid, front cover with minor mark, corners showing a little, small 8vo, and one other relatedWard and Carozzi 2273 (for the first item).(Qty: 3)

Walcott (John). Descriptions and Figures of Petrifactions, Found in the Quarries, Gravel-Pits, &c. Near Bath, 1st edition, Bath: Printed for the Author by S.Hazard, [1779], 16 engraved plates, lightly offset, bound with Forster (John Reinhold) , An Introduction to Mineralogy: or, an Accurate Classification of Fossils and Minerals..., 1st edition, Printed for J. Johnson and T. Cadell, 1768, lightly toned throughout, endpapers renewed, pictorial bookplate of J.C. Thackray, Chiswick, contemporary tree calf gilt (rubbed), rebacked, rubbed with some wear, 8voWard and Carozzi 2273 (for the first part).(Qty: 1)

Walsh (Dr. Francis). The Antediluvian World; or, a New Theory of the Earth: Containing a Clear Account of the Form and Constitution of the Terrestrial Globe before the Universal Deluge..., 1st edition, Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1743, woodcut illustrations to text, subscribers list present, first page of Preface with contemporary ink signature of Robert Bray, first gathering strengthened, scarce light spotting, hinges strengthened (after title and before final leaf), endpapers renewed, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with some wear, 8vo, together with Whitehurst (John) , An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, 3rd edition, Revised and Corrected, Printed for W. Bent, 1792, lacking portrait fontispiece (as often), seven engraved plates at rear (some folding), final plate lightly toned/offset, contemporary mottled half calf gilt, rubbed, rear joint splitting, 4to, plus Welch (W. ) , Religiosa Philosophia; or a New Theory of the Earth..., with an Appendix on the Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, 1st edition, Plymouth-Dock: Printed for the Author, by W. Byers, 1821, engraved frontispiece, three engraved plates, half-title, generally spotted, pictorial bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid, hinges strengthened, contemporary boards, rebacked with cloth, some wear in places, 8vo, and three others similarFirst item: a rare title not in Ward and Carozzi. Robert Bray, who has inscribed the Preface, is listed as a subscriber 'in Dublin and other parts of Ireland'. Approximately 410 books were printed for the subscribers, which included Dr. Jonathan Swift.(Qty: 6)

Walsh (Dr. Francis). The Antediluvian World; or, a New Theory of the Earth: containing a clear account of the form and constitution of the Terrestrial Globe before the Universal Deluge..., 1st edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, 1743, red ink library stamp to title and few other leaves, 20th century library buckram with classification markings, 8vo, together with Greenough (George B.) , A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology; in a Series of Essays, 1819, armorial bookplate of Brown of Waterhaughs to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, joints cracked and spine worn, 8vo, with Brande (William Thomas) , Outlines of Geology; being the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the theatre of the Royal Institution in the year 1816, London: John Murray, 1817, hand-coloured etched sectional diagram frontispiece (closed tear to central fold), perforated library stamp to title, light dust-soiling and few marks mostly to final leaf, modern library cloth with usual marking, 8vo, plus other geology reference related including 19th & 20th century publications (Qty: 10)

Watson ( White ). A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire , Forming the Surface from Bolsover in the East to Buxton in the West, by a Plate, Designed from a Tablet, Composed of the Specimens of each Stratum within the Above Line, with an Explanatory Account of the same; Toge the r with a Description of the Fossils found in the se Strata ; and also of the Nature and Quality of the Respective Soils, 1st edition, Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd, 1811 , folding engraved frontispiece of a section of the strata in Derbyshire from Esat to West (offset to title), one engraved plate, page 71/72 cropped to fore-edge blank margin, list of names of different strata and two leaves of index provided in facsimile, some browning and show through, rear free endpaper replaced, original printed boards, rebacked, slim 4to, together with Aikin (Arthur) , Journal of a Tour through Wales and Part of Shropshire; with Observations in Mineralogy, and other Branches of Natural History, 1797, folding engraved frontispiece with light dampstain at head, edges untrimmed, modern half calf, 8vo, with Hurtley (Thomas) , A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire, 1786, half-title present, two folding engraved plates, modern brown half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus Adam (W.) , First Lessons in Geology; with a Special Article on the Toadstones of Derbyshire..., Derby: J. & C. Mozley, 1857, folding engraved frontispiece and two folding plates, slight browning, armorial bookplate of the Bateman family of Middleton Hall, Derbyshire to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints rubbed, 12mo in 6s (Qty: 4)

Woodward (John). Fossils of all Kinds, Digested into a Method, Suitable to their Mutual Relation and Affinity..., 1st edition, 1728, folding table and seven engraved plates (one folding), some offset, one with small dampstain, woodcut initials and decorations, the two unpaginated leaves (often missing) containing the preface to 'Brief Directions...' are found between pages 92 & 93, bound with [Naturalis Historia Telluris, 1st edition, 1714], lacking all before page 1, lightly toned with some spotting, front hinge cracked, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint spltting, some wear to extremities, 8vo, together with An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; in a Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1729-1728, occasional ink library stamps, volume 1 with faint dampstain to lower margins of first 2 gatherings, volume 2 with minor worm trail to fore edge of title and following leaf, hinges cracked, contemporary speckled calf gilt, extremities lightly worn, volume 2 front joint splitting, 8vo, plus An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth, and Terrestrial Bodies..., 2nd edition, 1702, imprimataur leaf at front, title with early ink ownership name at head, A3 lacking (torn away, as often), publisher's catalogue at rear, occasional ink library stamps, some light spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints splitting, some wear to extremities, 8vo, with another copy of the same, 3rd edition, and two others by Woodward (one defective)Ward and Carozzi 2363, 2364 and 2360 (for the first three items).(Qty: 7)

Woodward (John). An A ttempt Towards a N atural H istory of the F ossils of England, in a catalogue of the English fossils in the collection of J. Woodward, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, London: F. Fayram, J. Senex, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1729–1728, light dampstain to upper outer corners of initial leaves, few minor spots, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, recent morocco title label, 8voThe first volume is divided into two parts; the second volume is divided into five parts, each of which has separate pagination, although the signatures are continuous throughout. This is Woodward ’s last work, published posthumously, in which he catalogued his extensive collection using a “more elaborate and rational” system than ever seen before. “ Woodward was the first British author to publish a systematic classification and description of minerals based on his own observations; and he emphasised the importance to his country of its mineral wealth. His classification of fossil organic remains was one of the earliest of its kind” (DSB).(Qty: 1)NB: We trace one auction copy with a folding letterpress table, but none is called for by ESTC.

Gimlette (George Hart Desmond). Nepal and the Nepalese, 2nd edition ('for private circulation'), H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928, 5 photographic plates, one plate and quires C-D creased at lower outer corners, original green cloth, damp-staining to bottom edge of each board, 8vo, together with: Forty (Cecil Heber), Bangkok: its Life and Sport, with Some Account of Siam's Coastal and Island Game Areas, 1st edition, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1929, 6 photographic plates, original orange cloth, 8vo, Ainsworth (Leopold), The Confessions of a Planter in Malaya, 1st edition,1933, 7 tinted photographic plates, original green cloth, spine sunned, 8vo, Holdich (Thomas), Tibet, the Mysterious, 1st edition, Alston Rivers, Limited, [circa 1906], 33 plates (mainly from photographs), folding map, half-title spotted, plates toned, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, and 9 others, Himalayan or South-East Asian exploration, Witherby imprints, original cloth, 8voGimlette's work is rare, with Copac tracing one copy only of this edition, and one of an apparent first edition published the previous year, both in the British Library. Copac additionally locates eight copies for each of Forty and Ainsworth. Provenance (Witherby imprints): from the publisher's archive, with their ticket to front pastedowns.(Qty: 13)

Gordon (Charles). The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon at Kartoum, printed from the Original MSS. Introduction and Notes by A. Egmont Hake, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1885, etched portrait frontispiece, folding map, map in text, together with: Dickson (Wiliam Kirk), The Life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901, photogravure portrait frontispiece, Glover (Elizabeth Rosetta), Life of Sir John Hawley Glover, 1st edition, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897, 2 photogravure plates, 3 folding maps, Moore (John), The Diary of Sir John Moore, edited by J. F. Maurice, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1904, photogravure frontispiece, 7 folding maps, errata slips, Atkins (John Black), The Life of Sir William Howard Russell, the First Special Correspondent, 2 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1911, photogravure frontispieces, lending library labels removed from rear pastedowns, Funston (Frederick), Memories of Two Wars, Cuban and Philippine Experiences, 2 volumes, 1st UK edition, Constable & Co., Limited, 1912, photogravure frontispiece, 32 plates, Ogston (Alexander), Reminiscences of Three Campaigns, 1st edition, Hodder and Stoughton [circa 1920], frontispiece, folding plate , Melville (Charles Henderson), Life of General the Right Ho. Sir Redvers Buller, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1923, photogravure frontispieces, 2 plates, 2 folding maps, 1 text map, Rodd (James Rennell), Social and Diplomatic Memories (Second Series) 1894-1901, Egypt and Abyssinia, 1st edition, Edward Arnold & Co., 1923, photogravure portrait frontispiece, and 1 other work, all titles in original cloth, Gordon's with faded spines, Rodd's with dust jacket, very good condition, 8vo (Qty: 15)

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 woodcut illustrations in text including an armillary sphere, astronomical diagrams and a vignette of Proclus teaching, Honter's work with 12 double-page woodcut maps each with additional single-page woodcut map to conjugate leaf verso (these all mounted on guards), light browning, old oil-staining to first 2 quires (alpha-beta), faint damp-staining to quire M, complete with the final leaf (blank except for publisher's woodcut device verso), later inscription to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, 8vo (15.6 x 10 cm)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 ncluding 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 (as well as the Persian Gulf), India, Java, Sri Lanka ('Taprobana') and elsewhere.(Qty: 1)

Keppel (Henry). The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke of Sarawak, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Chapman and Hall, 1846, 11 lithographic plates (all but one tinted), 6 folding maps, folding table, plates and maps variably spotted and offset, small chip to lower outer corner of volume 1 list of plates, original purple blind-stamped cloth, spines sunned, pale marks, 8voHill 918; not in Abbey. After the end of the First Opium War 'K eppel was sent to Singapore as senior officer on that part of the station. There he made friends with Sir James Brooke , with whom he returned to Sarawak. For eighteen months he co-operated with Brooke for the suppression of Borneo piracy, and, after many engagements, the Dido , together with the East India Company's steamship Phlegethon , destroyed the chief stronghold of the pirates, together with some 300 prahus' (ODNB). There was a second edition the same year.(Qty: 2)

Baronio (Cesare). Martyrologium Romanum, 3rd edition ('emendata et compluribus aucta'), Rome: ex typographia Vaticana, 1598, engraved allegorical frontispiece, terminal register leaf, spotting and browning, damp-staining to corners of outer leaves, old Italian ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript spine-title, folio (32.2 x 21.6 cm), together with: Roman Law. Selecti tractatus iuris varii, vere aurei, de successione tam à testato quam ab intestato, 2nd edition, Venice: Senensi, 1570, woodcut title device, ink-stamp, 19th-ownership inscription and mild soiling to title-page, occasional spotting, intermittent worming in upper margins, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, shelfmark label to spine, slightly marked overall, minor wear to extremities, folio (30.5 cm), Vossius (Gerardus), Etymologicon linguae Latinae, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1662, title-page printed in red and black with woodcut device, worming and browning, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, covers wormed, corners bumped, folio (36.6 x 22.2 cm), Giliberto (Vincenzio), Il torchio del purgatorio, 1st edition, Florence: Giunti, 1620, woodcut title device, marginal damp-staining, occasional browning, Italian institutional ink-stamps to title-page and 2 text-leaves, front inner hinge split but holding, shallow erosion to fore edges of front cover and quires A-D, contemporary limp vellum, slightly marked, 4to in 8s (21.8 x 15.4 cm) , and 3 similar works, vellum bindings, various formatsAdams B243 (Baronio), T871 (for the first edition of the Tractatus, printed in Cologne, 1569); Willems 1295 (Vossius). Giliberto's work, a collection of sermons, is a scarce Giunta imprint, with six copies traced in libraries world-wide; a second edition was printed in Brescia the following year.(Qty: 7)

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes, mixed editions, 1776-1788 , volume I 2nd edition, the others first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, three folding engraved maps, last leaf of volume I repaired, some spotting and light toning, hinges reinforced, contemporary tree calf, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 6)

Montagu (Mary Wortley). Letters... , Written, During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa... , 3 volumes bound in 2, 2nd edition, T. Becket & T.A. de Hondt, 1763, half-titles, some occasional spotting, marginal browning to first and last leaves from turn-ins, bookplates of Henry Yool, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, small 8vo, together with The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu..., 5 volumes, Richard Phillips, 1803, two stipple-engraved oval portraits including frontispiece to volume 1, both offset to facing titles, 10 leaves folding facsimile letters bound in at rear of volume 1, half-titles to volumes 3-5, some occasional spotting or soiling, contemporary half vellum gilt over mottled boards, slightly rubbed, small 8vo, plus The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by Great Grandson Lord Wharncliffe, 3 volumes, Richard Bentley, 1837, half-title and portrait frontispiece to each volume, some spotting and light browning, leaf d1 (XLI-XLII) from volume 1 detached and slightly frayed at edges, modern bookplates and book tickets to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, 20th-century green half morocco gilt by Bayntun, a little rubbed and darkened on spines, 8vo (Qty: 10)

Vico, Aeneas. [Augustarum Imagines Aeris Formis Expressae; Vitae Quoque Earundem Breviter Erratae...], Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1558, 63 full-page engravings, mounted slip cancels on: C2 verso, C4 verso, G3 verso, G4 verso, all leaves before b1 lacking, numerous woodcut illustrations, D4 with loss to lower margin and with fore-edge tear (extending 18mm into engraving), some signatures supplied from another copy, variable spotting (mainly to margins), disbound, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Stirling, rear pastedown with book label 'Arts of Design, Keir', loosely contained in 18th century vellum gilt, monogram of William Stirling on front cover, spine ends worn, 4toAdams V-634; Mortimer, Italian 533. The first edition of Natale Conti's Latin translation of Vico's 'Le imagini delle donne auguste', printed in 1557.(Qty: 1)

Wolveridge (James). Speculum Matricis; or, the Expert Midwives Handmaid, catechistically composed, 2nd edition, printed by E. Okes ... to be sold by [Rowland] Reynolds, 1671, 6 engraved folding plates (of ?9: lacking frontispiece and 2 other plates; most torn with partial loss of image), 22 engravings in the text, browning, lacking text leaves D1, L3-6 and M1-4, title-page chipped at lower inner corner affecting imprint, closed tears extending into text of A3-4 and *3-4, A3 with large chip in fore margin, crudely mended closed tear in I2, leaves L7-8 loose and frayed, disbound retaining old rear board (sheep), 2 leaves of old printer's waste used as front endpapers, small 8vo (14.5 x 9.5 cm)ESTC R231964 (calling for seven plates only); Wing W3319A; not in Garrison-Morton or Norman. Extremely rare, Wolveridge's work is considered 'the oldest work on midwifery in the English language' (Gillespie & Hadfield, eds., The Oxford History of the English Book , volume 3, p. 452); written while the author, a graduate of the University of Dublin, was resident at Cork, it is also 'the first printed medical textbook written in Ireland' (Carpenter, ed., Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland , 2003, p. 418). ESTC traces three copies only for the first edition, printed the previous year (with the title Speculum matricis hybernicum ), and eight copies for this second edition, which is the only iteration traced in auction records, the last copy appearing in 1989.(Qty: 1)

Austen (Jane). Emma, a Novel, 2nd edition, Richard Bentley, 1833, engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page (both tipped to front free endpaper), letterpress series-title, lacking letterpress volume title (signature A2), preliminaries spotted and browned, variable spotting throughout the text, intermittent damp-staining in upper margins, short closed tears in gutter of B1 and 2 lower margins of F8 and G6, contemporary green half calf, later labels, small 8vo (16.1 x 10.3 cm)Gilson D2; Keynes 123. First Bentley edition, and the second overall.(Qty: 1)

Ortelius (Abraham). Epitome du Theatre du monde ... Reveu, corrigé, et augmenté de plusieurs cartes, pour la derniere fois, 2nd edition in French, Antwerp: Christofle Plantin for Philippe Galle, 1590, allegorical engraved plate and 94 engraved maps in the letterpress, mild browning, spill-burn in textl-leaf *3, quire F misbound, tide-mark in quire M only significantly visible in Palestine map, a few other trivial marks, circa 1800 green half roan, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, oblong 16mo in 8s (10 x 14.2 cm)Koeman III Ort 54; Shirley World 161; cf. Sabin 57688 for the first edition in French and Adams O346 for an edition of 1598. A complete copy of this rare pocket edition of the Theatrum .The preliminary matter is identifical with the first edition, published by Plantin in 1588, 'but the text is reset' (Koeman).(Qty: 1)

Laplace (Pierre Simon). Mecanique Celeste. Translated, with a Commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch, 1st edition in English, 4 volumes, Boston, 1829-39, half titles, three engraved portraits, some light spotting, Wigan Public Library blindstamps front and rear, contemporary half morocco, library stamp in gilt to upper covers, joints cracking, a few repairs to spines, edges rubbed, 4toLimited edition, one of 250 copies printed. Bibliotheca Mechanica 198; PMM 252 (for the first French edition 1799-1825). The first edition in English with a substantial commentary by American astronomer and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838). "In his moumental 'Treatise on Celestial Mechanics', published over a period of twenty-seven years, he [Laplace] codified and developed the theories and achievements of his predecessors, notably Newton, Euler, d'Alembert and of his contemporary Legrange, whose Mechanique Analitique had been published in 1788." (PMM).(Qty: 4)

Malton (Thomas). A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in theory and practice, on the true principals of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams: and reduced to practice in the most familiar and intelligent manner, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, corrected and improved, with large additions, 1778, engraved frontispiece, title and preliminary leaves to first volume, with some light overall browning, list of subscribers to first volume, 48 folding engraved plates (in the second volume), 5 plates with folding moveable flaps, a few plates with some browning and minor spotting, mostly to first and last plate and margins of several others, contemporary full calf, later reback with endpapers renewed, rubbed and scuffed, edges somewhat worn, folioNot in Millard, Fowler or Harris. Malton's Treatise on Perspective was designed as a guide for painters and artists, most famously J.M.W. Turner who in later life wrote that 'my real master was Tom Malton'.(Qty: 2)

Piacenza (Francesco). L'Egeo redivivo, o' sia chorographia dell' archipelago ... con la breve descrittione ... della Grecia, Morea, o'Peloponnese, di Candia, e Cipri, 1st edition, Modena: Soliani heirs, 1688, additional engraved title page, engraved portrait, 4 engraved maps bound as plates (3 folding, including the map of Cyprus), 59 full-page engraved maps in the text, light marginal spotting, a few other marks (including a stain along fold of folding Crete map), repaired closed tear to engraved title, map at p.146 faintly printed, map at p. 452 printed upside-down, old repairs to lower outer corners of front free endpaper and signatures A4-8, B5 and C8, repaired marginal worm-tracks in F6 and quires P-R and 2C-D, signatures M3-4 transposed, Trevisani bookplate to letterpress title verso, 18th-century vellum, slightly marked, 4to in 8s (21.2 x 15.5 cm)Blackmer 1305; Cobham-Jeffery p.50. First and only edition, rare, especially in this condition with all maps present. Copac traces six copies in UK libraries. 'This work was probably inspired by the Venetian conquests in Greece in the 1680s. It includes a very thorough and systematic description of the Aegean Islands, Crete, [and] Cyprus, and brief descriptions of Roumeli and the Peloponnesus ... The four separate maps are of the Aegean, the Peloponnesus, Crete and Cyprus' (Blackmer).(Qty: 1)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, William Heinemann, 1919, fifty tipped-in colour plates (one double-page), with captioned tissue guards, stitching slightly strained, all edges gilt, original brown sheep, rubbed, gilt lettered spine faded, upper cover gilt lettered and decorated, 4toRiall, page 69. The first Rackham edition of 'Rip Van Winkle', published in 1905, was issued as both a trade edition in cloth and a deluxe edition in vellum. It wasn't until December 1919 that this special edition in leather was published, aimed at the Christmas gift market.(Qty: 1)

Warner (Richard). An History of the Abbey of Glaston; and of the town of Glastonbury, 1st edition, Bath, Richard Cruttwell, 1826, copper engraved plates, including one with hand-colouring, some spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary tree calf, somewhat worn, rebacked with portions of original spine laid down, large 4to, together with Milton (John). Joannins Miltoni Angli de Doctrina Christiana libri duo posthumi, quos ex schedis manuscriptis deprompsit, et typis mandari primus curavit Carolus Ricardus Sumner, Cambridge, 1825, 2 lithographic facsimiles, title stamped to verso Museum Britannicum and 1831 duplicate for sale, some spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary half brown morocco gilt, ownership bookplate of Reverand J.W. Reeks, St. Peter's, Woolwich to front pastedown, heavily rubbed and marked, 4to, plus other mostly 19th century history and theology, House of Commons Commissioners Reports, Feller's Biographie Universelle, 8 volumes, 1847, Henry Spelman, Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones, in re ecclesiarum orbis Britannici, 2 volumes, 1639, etc., leather and cloth-bound, some wear, many large format (approximately 200 volumes) (Qty: 11 Shelves)

Ptolemy (Claudius). Geografia, tradotta di Greco nell'idioma volgare Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli, et hora nuovamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio, Venice: Melchior Sessa heirs, 1598, 3 parts in 1 volume, 69 double-page engraved maps, woodcut vignettes, damp-staining, mainly to margins but encroaching on text of title-page and on approximately 20 maps towards rear, old marginal repairs to first quire, ink-stamps, effaced ownership inscriptions and marginal worming to title-page, quire 2 L duplicated, side-note on 2 M4 recto imperfectly printed , worming in gutter of quires 2 2A- 2 2C (some of these leaves mounted on guards) and to rear pastedown, lacking final blank (f4), title-page verso with ownership inscription 'Giulio Ronconi da Colbordolo' dated 1739, occasional marginalia in Italian, later vellum, slightly marked, rear board repaired, 4to (23.5 x 17 cm)Adams 2237 (for a re-issue dated 1599); Sabin 6650; Shirley, World 110. 'The fourth edition of Ruscelli's Ptolemy, revised, enlarged, and edited by Gioseppe Rosaccio' (Sabin), containing five maps not found in previous editions. 'Ruscelli's double-orb map was reprinted in the subsequent editions of his work in 1562, 1564 (twice) and 1574. Nearly twenty-five years later the plate was amended by the addition of a soutehrn continent and the two editions by Rosaccio in 1598 and 1599 contain this state 2 in company with Rosaccio's own world map' (Shirley).(Qty: 1)

Spelman (Henry). The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. published in his life-time; together with his posthumous works, relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England; and the life of the author, by Edmund Lord Bishop of London, to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, 2nd edition, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece (slight loss to extreme lower outer corner), title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, worn, folio, together with Burnet (Gilbert) , Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Dulbin, 1724, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, somewhat worn with covers detached, folio, plus Wharton (Henry) , Anglia Sacra, sive Collectio Historiarum..., de Archiepiscopis & Episcopis Angliae... ad Annum MDXL, 1st edition, 2 volumes, Richard Chiswell, 1691, engraved frontispiece to first volume, engraved vignette to title of each volume, contemporary panelled calf, worn, folio, and other theology and history, 17th and 18th century, many in latin, but including some in French and English, all leather-bound, worn, mostly folio (58 volumes) (Qty: 4 shelves)

Marshall (H. Rissik) . Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1751-1783), 1954, Newport, 31 colour plates & numerous black & white illustrations, some very minor spotting, original blue cloth, 4to, together with, Houfe (Simon) , The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914, 1st edition, 1978, Antique Collectors' Club, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and, des Fontaines (Una) , Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre, the work of Daisy Makeig-Jones, 1975, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus other modern antique, art & book reference, including publications by Oxford, Antique Collectors' Club, Batsford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)

Lilford (Lord). Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, R.H. Porter, 1895, photogravure plates after Archibald Thorburn, and wood engraved illustrations by G.E. Lodge, one or two plates loose, a few leaves with some spotting, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, rubbed and minor fraying to head of spine of first volume, 8vo, together with Chalmers (Patrick), Birds Ashore and Aforeshore, illustrated by Winifred Austen, 1st edition, 1935, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks to spine, large 4to, plus Thorburn (Archibald), A Naturalist's Sketch Book, 1st edition, 1919, 60 plates, including 24 in colour, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, rubbed and some staining and covers slightly bowed with some wear to top margin of upper cover, 4to, and other ornithology and natural history interest, including Arthur G. Butler, Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, 2 volumes, Caxton, circa 1920, numerous chromolithograph plates, after Gronvold and Frohawk, Charles Robert Bree, A History of the Birds of Europe, 5 volumes, 1875-76 (second volume damaged with loss towards rear of volume and rear cover missing), David A. Bannerman, The Birds of the British Isles, illustrated by George E. Lodge, 12 volumes, 1953-63 (all in dust wrappers), W.F. Kirby, A Hand-Book to the Order Lepidoptera, 3 volumes, 1896, etc., mostly in original cloth, 8vo/4to (approximately 120 volumes) (Qty: 6 shelves)

Stark (Freya). Baghdad Sketches, 1st edition, Baghdad: The Times Press, Ltd., 1932, 12 plates from drawings by E. N. Prescott, original red cloth, slightly marked, spine-label chipped to no loss of text, 8voThe author's first book.(Qty: 1)

Sykes (Mark). Through Five Turkish Provinces, 1st edition, Bickers and Son, 1900, photogravure frontispiece, 20 halftone plates, folding map, spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth, gilt titles, pictorial onlays to boards, spine rolled, 8voFirst edition of the first book by the traveller and politician now notorious as the architect of the Sykes-Picot agreement, which describes the author's journey from Damascus to Batumi (modern-day Georgia) via Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Lake Van and Tbilisi. Scarce: Copac locates seven copies in UK libraries; a handful traced at auction. For the author's second book see the following lot.(Qty: 1)

Sykes (Mark). Dar-ul-Islam, a Record of a Journey through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey, 1st edition, Bickers & Son, 1904, 76 plates including frontispiece and 3 unlisted plates at pp. 38, 40 and 80, 21 maps (of 22: lacking 'Essengeli to Shaykhli' map as usual), many folding, spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, short closed tear to General Map, ownership inscription 'J. S. Chubb, Sledmere' (Sledmere in Yorkshire was Sykes's ancestral home) to front pastedown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth, pictorial onlay to front board, spine rolled and marked, headcap refurbished, corners bumped, tide-mark to upper outer corner of front board, 8vo, together with: Cheesman (Robert Ernest), In Unknown Arabia, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926, 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, folding colour map (closed tear to stub), spotting to half-title and edges, original green cloth, gilt vignette to front board, pale mottling to extremities, 8vo, and St John (James Augustus), Egypt and Nubia, their Scenery and their People, being Incidents of History and Travel, from the Best and most Recent Authorities, including J. L. Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay, Chapman and Hall, [circa 1800], wood-engravings in text, gilt edges, original cloth, 8voFirst edition of Sykes's second book (for his first see the previous lot), and a bright copy of Cheesman's work (see Macro 711).(Qty: 3)

Thomson (Charles Wyville & Murray, John). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, 44 bound volumes (of 50), 1st edition, London, Edinburgh, etc.: HMSO for Longman & Co. [and others], 1880-95, approximately 3,000 plates, charts and maps, mostly lithographed, many tinted and many hand-coloured, some double-page and folding, largely unopened, some inner hinges cracked, bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow to pastedowns, original publisher’s green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4toNissen BBI 2381; Nissen ZBI 4554; Spence 1198; Wood, p. 596. A largely complete and handsome set of the official accounts of the most important nineteenth-century circumnavigation of the globe. It was bound up in a complex way, the complete set originally comprising 50 bound volumes with many volumes bound in more than one part. The six volumes missing here are all from Zoology section which was originally published as 32 volumes bound in 40. This set lacks the Zoology volumes 5, 6, 12, 14, 16 & 18 (Text, Part II), each bound as one volume.The missing Zoology reports therefore are Parts 14-17 (Ophiuroitea; Actiniaria; Anatomy of the Thylacine, Cucus and Phasgogale; Tunicata), 34 (Annelida Polychaeta), 38 (Tunicata. Second part), 39 (Holothurioidea. Second part), 40 (Radiolaria, concluding part) and 44-47 (Nemertea; Cumacea; Phyllocarida; Pteropoda. First part - Gymnosomata). HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872 under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thomson and his Canadian-born assistant and naturalist John Murray. This was the first time that physicists, chemists and biologists collaborated with expert navigators to map the sea. During the four-year voyage they circumnavigated the globe, travelling 69,0000 nautical miles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans. They sounded the ocean bottom to a depth of 26,850 feet, discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, including many deep-sea specimens. Among their discoveries were many of the fish and marine creatures thought at that time to be of legend. Numerous specimens from the voyage are on view in one of the largest collections in the Natural History Museum. The fifty-volume, 29,500-page, report took twenty-three years to compile and publish.(Qty: 44)

Thomson (Sir C. Wyville). The Voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic, a Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan & Co., 1877, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume (with gift inscription note tipped onto verso), folding colour lithograph map frontispiece to second volume, forty-two plates, maps, etc., including some folding, ink ownership name stamp to titles, some very light spotting mostly to preliminaries and some light marginal toning, original blind decorated green cloth, gilt decorated spines, few spots to upper board, generally in bright condition, 8voSpence 1197. Thomson was scientific director on board HMS Challenger during its three-year circumnavigation of the globe under George Nares.(Qty: 2)

Wolff (Joseph). Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Connolly, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for the author by John W. Parker, 1845, half-titles, 9 lithographic plates, 16 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear of volume 1, spotting to half-titles, plates and endpapers, volume 1 largely unopened, contemporary ownership inscription of Lady Emily Ponsonby to front free endpaper and bookplate of Henry and Mary Ponsonby to front pastedown (see note), original green blind-stamped cloth, a few pale marks overall, spine-ends neatly refurbished, volume 1 spine darkened and with small abrasion to one compartment, streaking to front board, volume 2 upper outer corners bumped, remains a bright copy, 8voBlackmer 1833 for the first American edition; in the UK alone the work reached a seventh edition by 1852. 'In 1839 Stoddart had been sent to Bokhara to negotiate a treaty against a background of Anglo-Russian rivalry in central Asia. In 1841 Connolly tried to joint Stoddart, who had apparently been under confinement for some time. Both officers were beheaded, probably in 1842. This was what the intrepid Wolff eventually discovered after an amazing series of of adventures in which he barely escaped with his life' (Blackmer). Provenance: Lady Emily Ponsonby, novelist (1817-1877); Henry Ponsonby (1825-1895), army officer and private secretary to Queen Victoria, and his wife Mary (née Bulteel, 1836-1916), maid of honour to Queen Victoria (bookplate).(Qty: 2)