We found 106056 price guide item(s) matching your search

Japan.- Morse (Edward S. ) Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, first edition, illustrations, attractive modern half calf, spine gilt, Boston, 1886 § Ayrton (M. Chaplin) Child-Life in Japan, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, splitting to upper joint, light wear to spine ends and corners, 1879 § Fortune (Robert) Yedo and Peking. A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved folding frontispiece, 8 plates, and illustrations, folding map at end, frontispiece a little browned and creased at folds, modern bookplate of Cliff Parfit and with ink ownership stamp on half-title and final leaf, modern black morocco, by Coleman, t.e.g., 1863, 4to & 8vo (3)

Woodcroft (Bennet, translator) The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the original Greek, first edition in English, additional decorated title, illustrations, occasional light foxing, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped and chipped, some splitting to lower joint, 4to, Charles Whittingham, 1851.

NO RESERVE Willdenow (Carl-Ludwig) Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis..., first edition, half-title, library label of Madame la Duchesse d'Ursel to front pastedown, a few pencil inscriptions, a very little faint soiling, hinges splitting a little, contemporary half sheep, a little worn, [Pritzel 10285], Berlin, 8vo, 1809.⁂Bound with Willdenow's 1813 supplement.

Books - Mark Twain - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, published by Chatto & Windus, London, first UK edition 1886, blue cloth bindings Condition: Please telephone department for further details

Books - Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, published by Rapp & Whiting, first UK edition 1969, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

Books - Joseph Heller - Catch 22, published by Jonathan Cape, first UK edition, third impression 1962, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

Books - John Steinbeck - East Of Eden, published by William Heinmann, first UK edition 1952, with dust jacket Condition: Please telephone department for further details

Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, first edition

[ARCHITECTURE]. BRISTOL Dening, C.F.W. The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol, first edition, Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1923, two-tone cloth, tipped-in black and white plate illustrations, quarto (lacking spine strip).

[MISCELLANEOUS] Forty-five Pan paperbacks; together with a further seven paperbacks by Corgi (4) and Fontana (1); and chevalier, Gabriel. Clochemerle Babylon, translated by Edward Hyams, first British edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1955, boards, dustjacket, octavo, (53; box).

The Immortal 2.9 Alfa-Romeo 8C2900 by Simon Moore, first edition 1986, published by Parkside Publications.

*Calvert (Edward, 1799-1883). The Ploughman, 1827, wood engraving, printed in black ink on pale cream/grey wove paper, the third (final) state, from the edition of 350 impressions published in Samuel Calvert's A Memoir of Edward Calvert by His Third Son, 1893, image size 82 x 127 mm (3.25 x 5 ins), sheet size S 260 x 367 mm (10.25 x 14.5 ins), hinge-mounted Lister, Edward Calvert (1962), 6b, iii/iii. Highly self-critical as an artist, Calvert printed very few proofs during his lifetime, the blocks remaining in his studio until first published by his son in the edition of 1893. (1)

*@Drury (Paul, 1903-1987). Canal Scene, Bishop's Stortford, 1936, etching on pale cream wove paper, plate size 16 x 19.7 cm (6.25 x 7.75 ins), sheet size 23.7 x 28 cm (9.3 x 11 ins), framed and glazed, with handwritten inscription to verso 'Bishops Stortford by Paul Drury. Exhibited at Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers first show at their new Bankside Gallery, 17th January to 12th February 1981' Garton 46 (probably 5th state). No published edition. This work was created from a drawing made at Bishop's Stortford in the summer of 1936 when the artist was staying with William Larkins, and first exhibited at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1937. (1)

Leighton (Clare, 1898-1989). The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, written and engraved by Clare Leighton, 1st edition, Collins, 1933, 12 wood engraved plates, printed from the original blocks, sheet size 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 ins), bound in original green cloth gilt, faded to extreme edges and minor fraying to extreme foot of spine, with repaired dustwrapper, oblong folio, together with a copy of the 1992 re-issue of the same work by the Sumach Press, with an afterword by Patricia Jaffe The Farmer's Year was the first book Clare Leighton wrote, engraved and designed, including the 12 full-page designs, the title vignette and tail-pieces to each of the 12 chapters. The artist wrote that the experience of making the work gave her 'a delicious sense of complete oneness'. (2)

*Ravilious (Eric, 1903-1942). Children in a Park, wood-engraving on hand-made Japanese vellum paper, from the edition of 100 printed by Ian Mortimer from the original block at I.M. Imprimit, published by Merivale Editions, numbered in pencil 69/100, sheet size 29.3 x 20.7 cm (11.5 x 8.2 ins), loose in original printed wrapper First printed in an edition of 20 and exhibited at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1926. (1)

*Ravilious (Eric, 1903-1942). Boy Bird's Nesting, wood-engraving on Zerkall wove paper, from the edition of 500 printed by Ian Mortimer from the original block at I.M. Imprimit, published by Merivale Editions, numbered in pencil 90/500, sheet size 29.3 x 20.7 cm (11.5 x 8.2 ins), loose in original printed wrapper First printed in an edition of 15 and exhibited at the Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1927. (1)

*After Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (circa 1455-1508). Portrait of Beatrice d'Este, 1490, 19th century oil on wood panel, a copy of the famous portrait in the Pinacotheca Ambrosiana, Milan (and previously believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci), some minor surface scratches to lower edge, and several old wormholes, 19th century (or early 20th century) Florentine wood frame with egg-and-dart (ovolo moulding) inner border, decorative Florentine-style painted outer border, with dentil carved outer border and stepped outer edge in gilt, with contemporary small printed label of Alfonso Dori, Corso, Borgo SS. Apostoli 14-16 Firenze to verso A good quality copy after the famous portrait of Beatrice d'Este often ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, but now given to Ambrogio de Predis. Recent research by Martin Kemp and others has also suggested that the sitter is not Beatrice d'Este but Anna Maria Sforza (1476-1497), the first wife of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Alfonso Dori is listed in a 1930 edition of the Annuario Toscano as a Florentine leather worker and bookbinder, founded in 1891. (1)

*@Kennington (Eric, 1888-1960). False Quiet, 1922, watercolour on paper, signed and dated E.H. Kennington 1922 lower left, 14.5 x 33.5 cm (5.75 x 13.25 ins), period frame, glazed, with handwritten description of the work (probably by the artist's son Christopher Kennington) '"False Quiet" by Eric Kennington. This is the original of the first illustration to the 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' subscribers' edition, 1926', original framer's label of Rowley, 160-2 Church St., Kensington W8, older printed label dated December 1960 giving details of the work with an inventory number 197, and more recent printed labels for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition 'Lawrence of Arabia', and a further handwritten label referring to the Gillian Jason Gallery dated January 1985 to verso Provenance: Family of the artist (Christopher Kennington); thence by descent. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries Sculpture and Other Works by Eric Kennington, October 1924, probably as Storm Cloud. Gillian Jason Gallery, Drawings and Sculpture by Eric Kennington, January-February 1985. National Portrait Gallery, Lawrence of Arabia, 9 December 1988-12 March 1989, 225. The original watercolour used as the tail-piece at the end of page xviii of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom (the last leaf of the preliminary pages). Kennington's crucial role in the preparation and production of T.E. Lawrence's masterpiece Seven Pillars of Wisdom is recognised. Over a five year period the artist became Lawrence's guide in all matters of design and illustration for the work and they remained life-long friends. In a letter from Lawrence to Kennington of 27 October 1922, the author described the effect Kennington's drawings had on him: 'Your drawings are wonderful... there's a hypnotic suggestiveness about your work, which makes me give into it, when I stare at it.' See A.J. Plotke, Eric Kennington and 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom': A Reassessment, in Biography, Volume 7, No. 2, Spring 1984, pages 169-181. (1)

Baring, Maurice (1874-1945): A Year In Russia - Published by London: Methuen, (1907). Hardcover first edition - First printing. Red cloth covers, with gilt titles and lettering to spine. 

RACKHAM, Arthur ( illustrator ) - The Wind in the Willows : 12 colour plates, org. cloth in edge torn d/w, 8vo, Methuen, first edition thus, 1950.

BECKETT, Samuel - Waiting for Godot : first edition in edge worn dust wrapper, with age discolouration, 1956.

LAWRENCE, D H - Pansies : original glassine covered wrappers, 8vo, LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies signed by D. H. Lawrence, first edit, 1929. With a collection of other Lawrence titles, all first editions in VG condition.(9)

Fleming (Ian) The man with the golden gun, published by Jonathan Cape, thirty Bedford Square London, First Published 1965, © 1965 by Glidrose Productions Ltd, in Richard Chopping dust jacket, together with Octopussy and The Living Daylights, First published 1966, Octopussy © 1965, 1966 by the literary executors of Ian Fleming deceased The Living Daylights © 1962 by Ian Fleming, in Richard Chopping dust jacket, Goldfinger, second impression 1959, in facsimile Richard Chopping dust jacket, For Your Eyes Only, second impression 1960, in facsimile Richard Chopping dust jacket, Thunderball, First published 1961, © 1961 by Gildrose Productions Ltd, in facsimile Richard Chopping dust jacket, Dr No,copyright © 1958 by Glidrose Productions Ltd edition issued by the Book Club, in original dust jacket, You Only Live Twice Second impression April 1964, in original Richard Chopping dust jacket, From Russia, With Love, reprinted 1958, in facsimile dust jacket, Live and Let Live, First published 1954, this edition first published by the reprint society Ltd, by arrangement with messrs. Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1956, in facsimile dust jacket, The Spy Who Loved Me, sixth impression March 1964 in facsimile dust jacket and On Her Majesty's Secret Service,second impression, frontispiece portrait missing

Children's Books - Kipling (Rudyard), The Second Jungle Book, second impression, first edition, With Decoration by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., Macmillan and Co., London 1895, pp: [vi], 240, contemporary blue cloth gilt as issued, S. Bush & Son, Booksellers, Bromley, Kent, their ticket to verso pastedown, 12mo

Scout Movement - Baden-Powell (Lieutenant-General Robert, 1st Baron): The Downfall of Prempeh: A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895 - 1896, first edition, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia 1896, pictorial gilt green buckram, 8vo; The Matabele Campaign, 1896: Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, first edition, Methuen & Co., London 1897, pictorial gilt green buckram, 8vo; Indian Memories [...], first edition, Herbert Jenkins Limited, London 1915, colour plates, pictorial cloth as issued, 8vo; Adventures and Accidents, first edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd, London 1934, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Lessons from the 'Varsity of Life, fourth impression: cheap edition, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London 1934, terracotta cloth, 12mo; Hampton (Lord), Scouting Sketches [...], first edition, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London 1925, green cloth, 12mo; etc

Local Interest - Provincial Imprint, Mander (James), The Derbyshire Miners' Glossary; or, An Explanation of the Technical Terms of the Miners, which are used in the King's Field, In the Hundred of the High Peak, in the County of Derby, and in the Open Customary Lordships within the Same; Of those also within the Soc or Wapentake of Wirksworth or Low Peak, in the Same County; together with the Mineral Laws and Customs within those Districts, to which is subjoined an Appendix, Containing the Customaries or Bye-Laws, Made and Confirmed at the Barmote Courts, Held within the Manors of High and Low Peak, first octavo edition, Printed at The Minerva Press, For the Author, By Geo. Nall (sic), Bakewell 1824, pp: [xvi], 131, title-page with a full-page engraved plate by Orlando Jewitt (1799 - 1869) of The Miners' Standard-Dish, for the Wapentake of Wirksworth, later 19th century black buckram,the spine preserving the original gilt lettered title-label, 8vo

Botany and Horticulture - Countess of Lonsdale's Copy, Miller (Philip, F.R.S.), The Gardenders Kalendar (sic); Directing what Works are neceffary (sic) to be performed Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleafure-Gardens (sic), As alfo (sic) in the Confervatory (sic) and Nurfery (sic) [...], With a List of the Medicinal Plants [...], A fhort (sic) Introduction to the Science of Botany, illuftrated (sic) with Copper Plates, fourteenth edition, Printed for the Author [...], London [n.d., 1765], pp: xv, [i], 50, 376, [21], advert [i], 5 engraved plates (losses & faults), contemporary calf, raised bands to spine, gilt lettered oxblood morocco title label to spine, Festoon, Wreath and Ribbon Armorial bookplate to verso of title-page: The Right Hon.ble Lady Mary Lowther, 8vo Condition Report: Old worming to front prelims and first part of book with some faults and loss to text; plates incomplete and with faults, various; binding original with some wear.

Miscellaneous - Romany/Gypsy Interest - Evens (G. Bramewell): Out with Romany Again, signed by the author, first edition, University of London Press Ltd, 1938, h/b, d/j, small 8vo; others, Out with Romany: Adventures with Birds and Animals, first edition, 1937, h/b, 12mo; Out with Romany Once More, first edition, 1940, h/b, d/j; Out with Romany by Meadow and Stream, first edition, 1942, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Out with Romany By Moor and Dales, first edition, 1944, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Through the Years with Romany, first edition, 1946, h/b, d/j, 8vo; The Spirit of Romany, first edition, 1949, h/b, d/j, 16mo; Illustrators and Illustrations - Gibbings (Robert): Sweet Thames Run Softly, first edition, 1940, h/b, 8vo; Lovely is the Lee, first edition, 1945, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Over the Reefs, first edition, 1948, h/b, d/j; The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with Some Recollection by the Artist, first edition, 1959, h/b, 4to; other wood engravers' works, including Lennox Paterson & Agnes Miller Parker; Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, first public edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1935, contemporary buckram as issued, 4to; Forester (C.S.), The Good Shepherd, first edition, 1935, h/b, pictorial d/j by David Cobb, small 8vo; late Victorian and early Edwardian pictorial bindings; John Buchan, fiction and non-fiction, various; qty

Modern First Editions - Science Fiction, Wyndham (John): The Chrysalids, first edition, Michael Joseph, London 1955, pp: 239, h/b, pictorial d/j designed by Brian Wildsmith, 12mo, &, The Midwich Cuckoos, first edition, Michael Joseph, London 1957, pp: 239, h/b, pictorial d/j designed by Dick Hart, 12mo, (2); Lewis (C.S.), Till We Have Faces, first edition, Geoffrey Bles, London 1956, pp: 320, h/b, pictorial d/j by Biggs, 12mo, [3]

Doyle (Arthur Conan), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first collected edition, John Murray, London 1927, pp: 320pp, contemporary scarlet cloth, upper-cover gilt lettered, spine lettered in black, 12mo

Miniature Children's Books - Trimmer (Mrs [Sarah]), A Description of a Set of Pirnts (sic) of English History; Containing in a Set of Easy Lessons, first edition?, Part II only, Printed by John Marshall [...], London [n.d., c. 1792?], pp: [ii], 247, marbled paper covers, contemporary printed paper title label to upper cover, 48mo

Ornithology - Morris (Beverley R.), British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Illustrated with Sixty Coloured Plates, first edition, Groombridge and Sons, London 1855, pp: iv, 252, hand-coloured lithographs with tissue guards, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (disbound), small square folio

The Hackness Hall Copy, Whitehurst (John), An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth; Deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature, to which is added an Appendix, Containing some General Observations on the Strata in Derbyshire [...], first edition, Printed for the Author, By J. Cooper [...], London 1778, pp: [xvi], ii, [ii], 199, Plates I - VIII on two fold-out and two full-page engravings as called for, contemporary mottled calf, gilt lettered red morocco title-label to spine, Plain Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown: Sr Rd Bempde Johnstone, Bart., verso pastedown with early 20th century bookseller's ticket pasted in, later with Thomas C. Godfrey, inserted paid receipt dated 1947, £1:2, 4to

Buchan (John), The Casual and The Casual in History, The Rede Lecture 1929, signed by the author, first and only edition, The University Press, Cambridge 1929, pp: 46, [ii], printed publisher's boards as issued, 12mo

Children's Book - Haggard (H. Rider), Allan Quatermain: Being an Account of His Further Adventures and Discoveries in Company with Sir Henry Curtis, Bart., Commander John Good, R.N., and One Umslopogaas, first edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1887, pp: [x], 278, [ii], illustrated with 20 wood engravings by James Cooper (1823 - 1904) after drawings by Charles Henry Malcolm Kerr (1858 - 1907), contemporary black cloth, upper-cover and spine lettered in gilt, 12mo

Local Interest - Mawe (John), The Mineralogy of Derbyshire: with a Description of the Most Interesting Mines in the North of England, in Scotland, and in Wales; and an Analysis of Mr. William's Work, Intitled (sic) "The Mineral Kingdom", Subjoined is A Gloffary (sic) of the Terms and Phrafes (sic) ufed (sic) by Miners in Derbyshire, first and only edition, Printed and Sold by William Phillips, London 1802, pp: xv, 211, illustrated with one full-page engraved map and three-full page engraved geological plates, later buckram boards, 8vo

Breweriana - [Ellis (William)], A Supplement to the London and Country Brewer [...], By the Author of the Three former Parts, first edition, Printed for the Author, and fold by Meff. J. and J. Fox (sic) [...], London 1740, pp: viii, 60pp, disbound but apparently complete, 12mo

Kipling (Rudyard), Kim, first edition, Macmillan and Co., Limited, London 1901, pp: [viii], 413, [i], adverts [ii], 10 full-page b/w plates, contemporary red cloth as issued, gilt device to upper cover, lettered spine, 8vo

Greene (Graham), The Lost Childhood and other essays, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1951, pp: i - viii, [9-12], 191, h/b, d/j, by Stein, The Times Bookshop stamp to verso pastedown, 8vo

Topography - Robinson (William, Gent., F.S.A.), The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex; comprising an Account of the Manors, the Church, and Southgate Chapel, with other Interesting Matter [...], first and presumably only edition, Printed for the Author [...], London 1819, pp: xiii, [i], 331, thirteen engravings as called for: title-page with fold-out thirty-fold [...] Map of the Parish [...] Shewing (sic) the Allotments in the Common Fields & Common Marshes as divided by Act of Parliament in the Years 1801 & 1802, engraving with contemporary hand-coloured cartographic delineations, 53cm x 73cm, further Plan of the Orsett Estate, and further topographical and antiquarian studies and reproduced portraits, contemporary Regency calf gilt lettered and tooled spine with plain calf boards, the upper board with ironic MS label: Keep in the Family, repeated to top margin of recto endpaper, inscribed in pencil Baron Platt with additional tipped-in ink MS letter from Newnham Lodge, Hook, Hans, indistinctly signed and dated 1942, citing the book was the his grandfather's Sir Thomas Joshua Platt [KC], "most commonly known as Baron Platt", [1788/90 - 1862, British judge who served as Baron of the Exchequer], 8vo

Local Interest - Wirksworth: The Riber Castle Copy, Provincial Imprint, Hackett (Richard R.), Wirksworth and Five Miles Round: An Historical Sketch of the Principal Events of Interest Connected with the District, with Brief Notices of its Remarkable Personages, first edition, J. Buckley, Wirksworth [n.d., 1863], illustrated with full-page line engravings, contemporary buckram, gilt lettered upper cover, crested and monogrammed yellow bookplate to recto pastedown: John & Caroline Smedley, Riber Castle, Matlock, Derbyshire, family library stamp to verso endpaper: J. Smedley, Lea Mills, Matlock, 12mo; the later and larger limited second edition, numbered 2/75, F.W. Brooks, Wirksworth 1899, tipped-in b/w photographic plates, 8vo, [2]

Travel/Exploration - Signed & Dedicated Copy, Campbell (W.W.), East Africa by Motor Lorry: Recollection of an Ex Motor Transport Driver, first and only edition, with Photographs, Sketches, and a Map by the Author, John Murray, London 1928, pp: xii, 318, adverts [iv], recto endpaper autographed and inscribed by the author in ink MS: To my friend Mr "Dick" Ba*in with best wishes from the Author "Will" Campbell [...] Nottingham, original blue cloth gilt as issued, 8vo

Local Interest - Mining Sammelband, two works in one volume: [Steer (George)], The Compleat (sic) Mineral Laws of Derbyshire, Taken from the Originals: I. The High Peak Laws, with their Cuftoms (sic); II. Stony Middleton and Eame (sic), with a new Article made 1733; III. The Laws of the Manour (sic) of Ashforth-i'-th'-Water (sic); IV. The Low Peak Articles, with their Laws and Cuftoms (sic); V. The Cuftoms (sic) and Laws of the Liberty of Litton; VI. The Laws of the Lordfhip (sic) of Tideswell; And all their Bills of Plaint, Cuftoms (sic), Crofs-Bills (sic), Arrefts (sic), Plaintiff's Cafe (sic), or Brief; with all other Forms neceffary (sic) for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour (sic), Lordship, or Wapentake, first and only edition, Printed by Henry Woodfall [...], London 1734, pp: vii, 172, bound with, Provincial Imprint, New & Additional Customs, Articles, Rules & Orders, For the District, Under the Provisions of The High Peak Mining Customs and Mineral Courts Act, 1851, Made Under the 56th Section of the Same Act, By the Steward & Grand Jury, at a Great Barmote Court, Held at Monyash on the 5th April, 1859, [Printed by] Messrs W. and W. Pike, Derby, Roberts, Chesterfield, and J. Goodwin, Bakewell, 1859, pp: 18, 20th century brown half-morocco and marbled paper boards, gilt lettered spine, 12mo

Hemingway (Ernest), A Moveable Feast, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1964, pp: 192, h/b, d/j, designed by Hans Tisdall, small 8vo

Spark (Muriel). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Macmillan & Co publishing 1961, in green cloth, with dust jacket, first edition.

“Historical Records Of The First or Royal Regiment of Dragoons” . Original EditionWritten by General De Ainslie published 1887. A history of the Regiment covering 266 pages with a large index. Complete with colour illustrated plates. Original scarlet and dark blue cloth cover with gilt tooled regimental device. GC minor age wear and foxing.

225th Parachute Field Ambulance D-Day 6th June “Top Secret” Landing Maps, Photograph Archive. Pegasus Bridge Interest.This is the archive of Douglas Protheroe a medic with the 225th Parachute Field Ambulance unit which on the night of the 6th June dropped in the vicinity of Pegasus Bridge and he then served in the Advance Dressing Station in the Café Gondrée at the bridge. Comprising: Map “Defences Troarn” classified as Top Secret until issued then secret. This shows detail of the area, bridge lengths, flood areas etc. ... Aerial Photograph, possibly of Drop Zone. ... Issue Map 7F/2 1:80,000 (1943) Sheet including the reference area of the drop zone and Pegasus Bridge. ... Map 7 F/1 Caen. ... Map Sheet 153 NW (May 1944) 1:25,000 Bonnebosq. Map Sheet 7F 1:100.000. ... Military Issue Map Case. ... Original printed Journal of the 225 Para Field Amb Normandy Edition (July 1944). ... An number of original editions of “Pegasus Goes To It” including 1 to 6 (June 1944) (10 total). Large fragment of silk parachute stamped “National Automotive Fibres Inc Dec 18 1943”. ... Far East Silk Map. ... etc. A digital image of Douglas Protheroe is also available.Mr Douglas Protheroe enlisted into the Army as a conscientious objector, transferred to the RAMC, he like many of his fellow thinkers wanted to do his part and volunteered for the dangerous duties with the Parachute Field Ambulance with the 6th Airborne Division, 5th Parachute Brigade, 225th (Parachute) Field Ambulance, which had formed at Castle Cary on 7th June 1943. It was in this capacity in the early hours of the 6th June his aircraft lifted into the night sky, to be one of the first units to land in France. His aircraft was unable to find the drop zone at 01.05 hrs and the pilot went around again locating the Zone the unit dropped at 01.20 hrs, their RV being a copse shown on map 7 F/2. near Bénouville Bridge for ever now known as Pegasus Bridge. He was selected and help set up medical aid post at Café Gondrée with Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce Harvey. The unit served in France for 77 days before shipping back to the UK. Douglas Protheroe remained with the unit and saw action in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944 and then took part in Operation Varsity the “Rhine Crossing”. Following VE day the unit prepared for the Far East. He remained with the Army until 1951. The biographical information is supplied by the vendor.

Seebohm (Henry). Siberia in Europe: A Visit to the Valley of the Petchora, in North-East Russia [and:] Sibera in Asia: A Visit to the Valley of the Yenesay in East Siberia, 2 works, 1st editions, John Murray, 1880-2, half-title and folding map to each work, Siberia in Europe map spotted, light spotting to outer leaves of Siberia in Asia, green moir‚ silk doublures, inner dentelles gilt, bookplates of J. Hamilton Leigh, top edges gilt, uniform near-contemporary green crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf (dated 1900 on turn-ins), gilt arabesque lozenge to sides, spines sunned, 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm), together with: Dresser (Henry Eeles), A Manual of Palaearctic Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, by the author, 1901-3, frontispieces, engraved bookplates of William Henry Radcliffe Saunders, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary blue crushed half morocco for Hatchards, pale marks to sides, 8vo (23 x 15.8 cm), [Wheelwright, Horace William,] A Spring and Summer in Lapland, by an Old Bushman, 2nd edition, Groombridge and Sons, 1871,6 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, later red half sheep by R. Ackrill of Harrogate, slightly rubbed, 8vo (19 x 12 cm), Gurney (John Henry), The Gannet, a Bird with a History, 1st edition, Witherby & Co., 1913, colour and halftone plates, bookplate of Samuel Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857-1914), top ege gilt, contemporary crushed half morocco by Riviere & Son, 8vo (21.2 x 14.5 cm), and 2 others, both leather-bound, 8vo Mullens & Swann pp. 516 (Seebohm: 'two of Seebohm's most charming works'), 180 (Dresser), 625 (Wheelright); Wood pp. 561 (Seebohm, both works), 324 (Dresser), 624 (Wheelwright), 372 (Gurney); Zimmer pp. 567 (Seebohm, both works), 179-80 (Dresser), 671 (Wheelwright), 279 (Gurney: 'a detailed account'). This is the first edition of Wheelwright's work with coloured plates; the first edition proper (1864) was uncoloured. (8)

Smythies (Bertram E.). The Birds of Burma, 1st edition, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1940, 31 colour plates after A. M. Hughes including frontispiece, captioned tissue-guards, folding map to rear, original green cloth, dust jacket with pictorial onlay to front panel (restoration to extremities), 8vo, together with: The Birds of Burma, 2nd edition, revised, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953, later gift inscription, bookplate of J. F. D. Tutt, original cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped, tape-reinforcement verso along top and bottom edges), 8vo, and The Birds of Borneo, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960, tipped-in compliments slip inscribed by the author, original cloth, dust jacket (tape-reinforcement along top and bottom edges verso), 8vo Nissen IVB 882 (first item). The first edition of Birds of Burma is today scarce in any condition, and especially so in the dust jacket. According to Smythies's introduction to the second edition, the first was printed in a run of 1,000 copies, most of which were 'bought by Europeans living in Burma, and left behind by them when they evacuated before the Japanese invasion in 1942 ... The Japanese collected as many as they could and shipped them off to Tokyo, where they housed them in the library of the Royal Veterinary College, later destroyed in an air raid'. (3)

Thompson (William). The Natural History of Ireland, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve [-Henry G. Bohn], 1849-56, half-titles to volumes 1-3, lithographic portrait frontispiece (mounted) to volume 4, advertisement leaf to rear of volume 1, spotting to half-titles, endpapers and volume 4 frontispiece, title page and edges, engraved bookplates of Robert Leslie Ogilby, original green cloth, spines sunned, repairs to headcaps, faint marking to volume 1 front board, 8vo Freeman 3691; Wood p. 596; Zimmer p. 632 ('A comprehensive discussion'). 'The first three volumes of this work are devoted entirely to a systematic description of the birds. It was the evident intention of the author to issue similar volumes on all the zoological groups. His death, however, defeated the project, but his notes were bequeathed to Robert Patterson, who, with others, completed this most valuable contribution to natural science' (Wood). The fourth volume, issued by a different publisher, is often lacking. (4)

Robertson (William). The History of America, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1777, four folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, folding engraved plate of Aztec symbols, some light offsetting and spotting, bookplates of Robert George Wyndham Herbert (1831-1905, first Premier of Queensland, Australia), contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to Sabin 71973. (2)

Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1915-16, 80 chromolithographic plates, spotting to text-leaves adjacent to plates, free endpapers browned, bookplates of Herbert and Ethel Reynolds, top edges gilt, original red cloth (colouring enhanced), large 4to, together with: Frohawk (Frederick William, illustrator), British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs, 6 volumes, 1st edition, Brumby & Clarke, Limited, [1896-8], 24 chromolithographic plates of eggs, numerous uncoloured plates, ownership inscriptions to initial blanks, all edges gilt, original yellow-green pictorial cloth gilt (headcaps re-coloured), large 4to, and Lydekker (Richard), The Royal Natural History, 6 volumes in 12, Frederick Warne & Co., 1894-6, 72 chromolithographic plates, all edges gilt, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt (extremities re-coloured in places), large 8vo Anker 508 (Thorburn: 'beautiful coloured sketches'), 88 (Frohawk); Mullens & Swann pp. 581 (Thorburn), 224 (Frohawk), 364 (for the six-volume edition of Lydekker, 1893-6); Nissen IVB 938 (Thorburn), IVB 167 (Frohawk) ZBI 2612 (Lyddeker); Wood pp. 597 (Thorburn, mixed editions), 274 (Frohawk: 'A systematic but popular account), 444 (Lydekker). The plates in Frohawk's work 'supply for the first time a coloured reproduction of the eggs of the Great Auk' (Anker). (22)

White (Gilbert). Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with Notes by Frank Buckland, 2 volumes, Macmillan and Co., 1876, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispiece to volume 1, chromolithographic frontispiece to volume 2 (listed to face p. 252), map and 4 wood-engraved plates number 2-5 to rear of volume 2, wood-engraved illustrations in text (many full-page), 24 mounted carbon prints (including photograph of a letter at volume 1 p. xxiv, apparently as issued), folding manuscript facsimile, extra-illustrated with 49 lithographs after J. G. Keulemans on india paper, mounted on wove blue paper, 24 lithographs after Herbert Railton on india paper, mounted, 11 etchings by Edmund J. Sullivan, mounted, and 1 folding manuscript facsimile (these all published in Bowlder Sharper's 1900 edition and all but the facsimile accompanied by a mounted caption leaf), 14 engraved and other plates mainly from the first edition of 1789 (including vignette title and the folding 'North East view of Selborne', some of these spotted and offset), and a mounted fragment of an autograph letter signed from Gilbert White to his sister-in-law 'Mrs White, at the Vicarage, Blackburn, Lancashire' with wax seal, newspaper cuttings mounted to volume 1 endpapers, bookplates of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, all edges gilt, c.1900 red crushed morocco gilt by Ramage, dove motifs to spines and covers, 4to (29.2 x 21.2 cm) Freeman p. 364; Mullens & Swann p. 640. A generously extra-illustrated copy, with a bound-in fragment of an autograph letter signed from White to the wife of his brother John (1727-1780), vicar of Blackburn, which includes a transcript of his short poem 'On a bad road ill-mended', eventually published in Marcus Woodward's White's Selborne for Boys and Girls (Oxford, 1927). The original illustrations for this edition were by P. H. Delamotte (1821-1889). Provenance: HRH Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974, bookplates); 'The Sporting Library of H.R.H The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester', Christie's London, 27 January 2006, lot 742. (2)

Wright (Magnus, Wilhelm & Ferdinand von). Svenska f†glar efter naturen och p† sten ritada, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, Stockholm: F”rlaget Svenska F†glar, 1927-9, 364 chromolithographic plates, a handful with minor spots or marks to margins, original marbled calf, gilt vignettes to front boards, slightly rubbed and scuffed, large 4to (37.7 x 27.2 cm), together with: Salomonsen (Finn, & Gitz-Johansen), Gronlands Fugle, the Birds of Greenland, 1st edition, Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1950-1, 52 colour plates from paintings, original blue pictorial cloth, 4to (32.6 x 22.8 cm), and 2 others, Scandinavian ornithology, folio Wright: Anker 544; Nissen IVB 1026 & pp. 54-5; Sitwell p. 158 for the first edition; Wood p. 637. Greatly expanded second edition of 'the most important work on the subject' (Wood); the first edition, published in 1828-38, had 179 plates. 'The illustrations of Swedish birds by the von Wright brothers were so superb that it was deemed necessary to produce a new edition a century later' (Nissen). (6)

Yarrell (William). A History of British Birds, 5 volumes (including the 2 supplements) in 3, 1st edition, large-paper issue, John van Voorst, 1843-56, half-titles to volumes 1-3, numerous wood-engraved vignettes, without the 'Temporary Index to English Names' (volume 2 pp. 671-2; listed separately to the main pagination by Mullens & Swann and not mentioned by Zimmer) and the 4 pp. adverts to the first supplement (mentioned by Zimmer but not Mullens & Swann), all edges gilt, later 19th-century red morocco gilt by Francis Bedford, rubbing to joints and a few spine-bands, a few trivial marks to covers, large 8vo (27.2 x 17.5 cm) Anker pp. 57-8; Freeman 4177; Mullens & Swann pp. 670-1 (providing a collation for the ordinary-paper issue only); Nissen IVB 1029; Wood p. 639; Zimmer pp. 697-9. 'The standard work in this field' (Anker). Provenance: Frank Charles Minoprio (1870-1951; bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (1906-1988; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 December 1989, lot 1973; bookplate). (3)

Zinanni (Giuseppe). Delle uova e dei nidi degli uccelli ... aggiunte in fine alcune osservazioni, con una dissertazione sopra varie spezie di cavallette, 1st edition, Venice: Antonio Bortoli, 1737, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 22 plates of eggs, 3 engraved section titles, 8 plates of grasshoppers, leaves of quire A strengthened in gutter, occasional light finger-soiling to lower outer corners, small marginal stain to final plate, Italian institutional ink-stamps to frontispiece recto and title page, 20th-century half vellum, patterned paper sides, 4to (26.8 x 19 cm) Anker 161; Nissen IVB 1031; Wood p. 359. 'The first separate work on oology' (Nissen p. 42). (1)

Costa (Emanuel Mendes da). Elements of Conchology: Or, an Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells, 1st edition, 1776, seven folding engraved plates, two folding tables, title and last index leaves with some soiling and small marginal chips and tears, first few leaves with red marginal stain, later half calf, 8vo Nissen ZBI 2784. (1)

Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, by H.W. Longfellow and H.A. Acworth, Novello's Original Octavo Edition, 1896, first two leaves including title-page somewhat creased, composer's signed presentation inscription written diagonally upwards across lower half of title-page, 'Edward Elgar: For Mrs Somerton. Very pleasant memories of many choral performances, Oct:31:1899', some spotting, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth, gilt title to upper cover, heavily rubbed, a little soiled, 8vo (1)

[Loudon, John Claudius]. An Immediate, and Effectual Mode, of Raising the Rental of the Landed Property of England; and rendering Great Britain independent of other Nations for a supply of Bread Corn. With an Appendix, containing hints to Commercial Capitalists, and to the Tenantry of Scotland. By a Scotch farmer, now farming in Middlesex, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1808, 157,[3]pp., includes two page publisher's list at rear, first & last leaves dust-soiled and occasional spotting, bound with Turner (Nicholas), An Essay on Draining and Improving Peat Bogs; in which their Nature and Properties are fully considered, 1784, [2],86,[2]pp., errata leaf present at rear, bound with Aiton (William), A Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss-Earth, Glasgow: Niven, Napier & Khull, 1805, [4],178,[2]pp., bound with A Treatise on Labouring, Manuring, and Cropping, of Moss-Earth; with Directions for Converting it into Manure, Air: Printed by J. & P. Wilson, 1809, 56pp., bound with two other agriculture related pamphlets, occasional light spotting and minor dust-soiling, early 19th century half calf, boards detached, 8vo, together with Sinclair (George), Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or, an Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses and other Plants used as the Food of the more Valuable Domestic Animals: Instituted by John, Duke of Bedford, 2nd edition, 1825, hand-coloured etched plates., occasional spotting, contemporary diced calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, worn, 8vo, plus Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables. Translated from the Italian of the Abb‚ Spallanzani, 2 volumes, new edition, corrected and enlarged, 1789, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, joints cracked, some labels lacking to spines, 8vo The first title is a rare work by Loudon; inspired by a trip to Pinner whilst convalescing, he "was impressed by the inferiority of English to Scottish farming. He accordingly persuaded his father to join him in taking a lease of Wood Hall, near Pinner, and published a pamphlet entitled 'An Immediate and Effectual Mode of Raising the Rental of the Landed Property in England' [published in 1808]. In 1809 he rented the large farm of Tew Park, Oxfordshire, where he took pupils in agriculture, and by 1812 he had made a profit of 15,000l. He then threw up his farm, dismissed his pupils, and started on a continental tour." - DNB. (1)

Blackstone (William). Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 volumes, 11th edition, 1791, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, one folding plate, recent cloth hinges, endpapers to volume 2 renewed, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and title labels renewed, board corners worn and showing, 8vo, together with Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 volumes, 7th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1775, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, folding engraved plate, modern brown buckram, 8vo, with Bacon (Matthew), A New Abridgment of the Law, 7 volumes, 5th edition, 1798, half-titles present (except to first volume), bookplate of James Topping to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, contrasting morocco labels to spines and red morocco label of 'County of Chester, Knutsford Sessions' to upper boards, joints split and some wear, 8vo, with Comyns (John), A Digest of the Laws of England, 6 volumes, 3rd edition, considerably enlarged and continued down to the present time by Stewart Kyd, 1792, edges of each volume sprinkled in red with 'Chester Circuit Library Pool' written to red, contemporary sheep, contrasting morocco spine labels, some joints split, rubbed and some wear, 8vo, plus The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, by John Lord Campbell, 7 volumes, 1845-1847, and Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham, by John Lord Campbell, 1869, original cloth gilt, some spines faded and extremities frayed, 8vo, plus an early 20th century photograph album containing 23 mounted images of judges, some signed, lacking covers, oblong folio (30)