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Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, first edition, five volumes, numerous engraved plates/plans/folding genealogical tables + numerous engravings in the text, folio, volumes I & II in uniform contemporary calf gilt worn, volumes III, IV and V in a different but uniform contemporary calf gilt worn, some boards detached but present (5)

John Nalson: 'An impartial collection of the great affairs of state : from the beginning of the Scotch rebellion in the year MDCXXXIX. to the murther of King Charles I. Wherein the first occasions, and the whole series of the late troubles in England, Scotland, and Ireland, are faithfully represented', London, S. Mearne et al, 1682-83, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces + engraved portrait of Thomas Earle of Strafforde as called for, contemporary calf gilt worn, volume II with large losses of backstrip (2)

Jane Austen: 'Works - Sense & Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey & Persuasion', illustrated Hugh Thomson (Pride & Prejudice illustrated C.E. Brock), Macmillan, 1908-1914, reprints, 5 volumes, contemporary half calf gilt (worn), plus 'Love & Freindship and other Early Works, now First Printed from the Original MS. by Jane Austen', Chatto & Windus, 1922, 1st edition, original quarter cloth, decorative paper covered boards gilt, dust wrapper, and 'Sanditon: Fragment of a Novel, written by Jane Austen, January - March 1817, now first printed from the Manuscript.', Ocford, 1925, 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, printed paper label to spine (7)

A.A. Milne, nine titles, including: 'Once on a time', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917, 1st edition, coloured frontis, original cloth, printed paper label to top board; 'The Holiday Round', Methuen, 1912, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'Once a Week', Methuen, 1914, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (worn and soiled, backstrip near detached); 'The Red House Mystery', Methuen, 1922, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (worn, backstrip near detached); plus first editions of 'First Plays', 1919, 'Second Plays', 1921, 'Three Plays', 1923, 'Four Plays', 1926, each published Chatto & Windus, each original cloth, printed paper label to spine; plus one other (9)

Arthur Conan Doyle, three titles: 'The Valley of Fear', London, Smith, Elder, 1915, 1st edition, frontis by Frank Wiles, 306,[6]pp adverts at end, original cloth gilt, first edition of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel; 'The Stark Munro Letters', London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1895, 1st edition, frontis, 24pp adverts at end dated July 1895, original bevelled edge cloth gilt worn, contemporary 'Borough of Leicester Fire Brigade' library printed label to front paste down; 'A Study in Scarlet', Ward Lock, 1898 reprint, original two tone cloth gilt, inner joint split (3)

Twenty six titles poetry, literature, modern firsts etc, including Anthony Powell: 'Casanova's Chinese Restaurant', London, 1960, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; Anthony Burgess: 'The Right to Answer', London, 1960, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; Dorothy Sayers: 'The Zeal of Thy House', London, Gollancz, 1937, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Henry Williamson: 'Genius of Friendship T.E. Lawrence', London, Faber, 1941, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (slightly soiled top edge of top board), dust wrapper (worn); Muriel Spark: 'The Only Problem', Franklin Library, 1984, first edition signed, original full decorative leather gilt, all edges gilt; White: 'Voss', 1957 1st in wrapper; Huxley: 'Island', 1962 1st in wrapper; Hyde: 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde', Hodge and Co, 1948, 1st edition, Hugh Brogan (1936-2019) bookplate to front paste down, original cloth gilt; William Kean Seymour: 'The Cats of Rome', Linden Press, 1970, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to Wynne-Tyson and manuscipt numbered 1 to verso of half title, original boards, dust wrapper; Beerbohm: 'Lytton Strachey', 1943, Hugh Brogan book plate and ownership signature, original boards, printed label top board; Patric Dickinson: 'This Cold Universe', London, 1964, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, original cloth, dust wrapper; Kingsley Amis 'Collected Poems 1944-1979', 1979 1st, Hugh Brogan book plate, dust wrapper; Harling: Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious', Faber, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth; 'Henry and Eliza', Kit-Cat Press, 1984, Edward Bawden frontis; two Fortune Press limited editions, etc etc (26)

ROWLING, J K, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998. First paperback edition, first issue, signed by J K Rowling on the dedication page

11x Vintage books including Enid Blyton including 4 First Edition examples which are The Mystery Of Tally-Ho Cottage, Five Have A Mystery To Solve, The Famous Five Special and Five Go To Demon's Rocks.

Woman's Book of Homemaking - First Edition

Medicine - Petit [(Jean-Louis)], A Treatise of the Diseases of the Bones; Containing an Exact and Compleat (sic) Account of the Nature, Signs, Causes and Cures thereof, in all their various Kinds, with Many new and curious Observations concerning the Venereal and other Distempers; with the newest and best Methods of Practice, in each respective Case, As Also The Figures representing the several Dressings, Machines and Instruments here described, Translated from the French [...], first English edition, London: Printed for T. Woodward [...], 1726, pp: [4] (binder's blanks), xvi, 490, [6] (contents and advert), [2] (blank), in-text illustrations generally of medical and scientific instruments, a few anatomical and skeletal, contemporary calf, the covers with a gilt double-fillet, six-compartment spine of raised bands, fragmentary gilt-lettered red morocco piece within the second, the remaining five gilt-tooled with foliage, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [1] Provenance: 1) John Couraud 17*0-1, ink MS ownership inscription on title-page, probably the clerk of the same name in the Northern Department during the early 18th century and, later, who died in 1751 while clerk of the Navy Office in the then British colony of Virginia, USA; 2) Thomas Sherry's Book 1794 (and sometimes 1795), various ink MS ownership inscriptions to pastedown, endpapers, etc.

Antiquarianism and Miscellaneous - [Neale (John Mason) and Russell (John Fuller)], A Few Hints on the Practical Study of Ecclesiastical Architecture and Antiquities, For the Use of The Cambridge Camden Society, fourth edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1843, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Owen (The Rev. Elias, M.A.), Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and Neighbouring Parishes, together with some Account of the Ancient Manners and Customs and Legendary Lore, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1866, 20th century blue buckram, 4to, (1); Botany, Tyas (Robert, editor), Popular Flowers [...], With Twelve Coloured Portraits [...], Third Series, London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1854, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Fellowes (W.D.), Historical Sketches of Charles the First, Cromwell, Charles the Second, and the Principal Personages of that Period [...], London: John Murray, 1828, illustrated with lithographs, ex-lib, institutional buckram, 4to, (1); The British Numismatic Journal, five volumes: Volumes 55, 1985; 57, 1987; 63-65, 1993-1995, green buckram, 4to, (5); Maple & Co. Ltd., an early 20th century antiques trade catalogue, Illustrations of Old Furniture, China and Stoneware, Glass and Enamel, Oriental Porcelain and other Rare, Curious and Interesting Objects, London: [n.d., c. 1925], 4to, (1); early 20th century and later antique reference; The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853, two-volume set, 8vo, (2); English Historical Society's publications, including volumes of Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici; British Royal Court history, politics; etc., [39]

Antiques and Aesthetics - Macquoid (Percy), A History of English Furniture, four-volume set, including another volume, first edition, comprising: The Age of Oak, two copies of The Age of Walnut (2), The Age of Mahogany, and The Age of Satinwood, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1904-1908, the 1904 prospectus en suite, illustrated, contemporary red cloth gilt, folios, (5); Jourdain (M.), English Decoration of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650) [...], London: B.T. Batsford, 1924, illustrated, red cloth gilt, Golden Age Armorial bookplate: Lieut.-Col. Leopold C.D. Jenner, folio, (1); Little Books About Old Furniture, four volumes: Tudor to Stuart, The Period to Queen Anne, The Period of Chippendale, and The Sheraton Period, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926, illustrated, cloth, 8vo, (4); etc., [11]

Automobilia, Science and Engineering - Provincial Imprint, Urquhart (J.W., Electrician), Electro-Motors: A Treatise [...], with Numerous Illustrations, first edition, Manchester: William T. Emmott, 1882, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Clark (Daniel Kinnear), A Manual of Rules, Tables, and Data for Mechanical Engineers [...], fourth edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1889, in-text illustrations, contemporary three-quarter purple morocco over cloth, all-edges marbled, endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1); Schmitto (F.), Automobilets Histoire, København: Chr. Erichsens Forlag, 1938, illustrated, contemporary blue leather pictorial gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, (1), [3]

Bindings - Theology, Scotland, Bonar (The Rev. Andrew, editor), Letters of Samuel Rutherford, With Biographical Sketches of His Correspondents, With Sketch of His Life, first and only edition, two-volume set, Edinburgh: William P. Kennedy, 1863, uniformly bound in contemporary Gothic Revival black morocco, the bevelled boards panelled in blind with a double-fillet border, the angles enclosing quatrefoils gilt, the spines gilt-lettered and tooled within raised bands, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [2]

Caricature and Satire - Lancaster (Osbert): Progress at Pelvis Bay, fifth printing, London: John Murray, July 1950, b/w illustrations, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, small 8vo, (1); All Done from Memory, first public edition, London: John Murray, 1963, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, pictorial d/j, yellow cloth, 8vo, (1); With An Eye to the Future, first edition, London: John Murray, 1967, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, pictorial d/j, yellow cloth, 8vo, (1); Fulford ([Sir] Roger), The Right Honourable Gentleman: A Satire, With Illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, second impression, first edition, London: John Murray, 1945, printed on War Economy Standard paper, b/w frontispiece, pictorial d/j, yellow cloth, small 8vo, (1); Sutherland (Douglas), Debrett's The English Gentleman Series, Illustrated by Timothy Jaques, three-volume set, London: 1980, pictorial d/j, hardback, pictorial slipcase en suite, Upper Class Rhyming Slang, London: 1985, pictorial h/b, 8vo, (1), [8]

Cartography - [Toms (William Henry) & Badeslade (Thomas), Chorographia Brittaniæ., Or, A Set of All the Maps of the Counties in England and Wales [...]], first edition, [London: W.H. Toms, 1742], copperplate printed, lacking title-page, pp: engraved dedication double-page, 46 b/w double-page maps and 5 double-page tables, 20th century crimson morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, spine incorrectly dated 1741, 8vo, [1]Provenance: James Wyld, Junior (1812-1887), the British geographer and map-seller, best known for Wyld's Great Globe. His Plain Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Cartography - Armstrong (Mostyn John, Geographer), An Actual Survey of the Great Post-Roads Between London and Edinburgh, first edition, London: Printed for, and Sold by the Author and the Booksellers, 1776, pp: [2] (blank), frontispiece, [iv], 6, [2], 44, and illustrated with 44 accompanying road maps as called for, [1] (errata, clipped and mounted on a bound-in leaf, 20th century red morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, [1]

Cartography - Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of England Wales [...], sixth edition, London: Printed for Leigh and Son, 1837, pp: [2] (blank), Table of the Price of Posting frontispiece, vi, stipple engraved allegorical half-title, 55 full-page county maps, 511, [1] (errata), fold-out map with contemporary hand-colouring, 4 (adverts), [1] (blank), contemporary green roan boards, the upper-cover gilt-lettered, rebacked in green morocco gilt by Graham Bloodworth, Leciester, his ticket, later marbled endpapers, indistinct contemporary ink MS ownership inscription, 12mo, (1); Provincial Imprint, Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, or, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway, with the Topography of the Country [...], Illustrated with Numerous Wood Engravings and Maps, first edition, Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne [...], 1838, fold-out maps and plates, full-page plates, various advertisements, the text incomplete, 20th century black morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, indistinct contemporary ink MS ownership inscription, 12mo, (1), [2]

Chess - Renaud (Georges) and Kahn (Victor), The Art of Checkmate, first English edition, London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1955, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); others, various, all h/b, (5), [6]

Children's and Juvenile Books - O'Connor (Daniel), The Story of Pan, Retold from Sir J.M. Barrie [...], Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by Alice B. Woodward, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Smith-Masters (Margaret), How the King's Scout Fared in the Great War, London: Wells Gardner [...], 1918, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); J.R.R. Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings, various studies, mostly h/b, including The Individuated Hobbit, 1980, &, The Inklings, (11); Verne (Jules), Dropped from the Clouds, Coloured Frontispiece, London: Sampson Low, [n.d.], contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Rudyard Kipling (2); Jerome (Jerome K.), Three Men in a Boat, first edition, Bristol: 1889, original blue cloth (upper-cloth detached), 8vo, (1); Jackanapes, [n.d., c. 1910], original boards, 8vo, (1); Stucley (E.F.), The Pennyfeather Family, first edition, London: Nicholson & Watson, 1947, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Wilfrid Noyce first edition; Hogarth Press; various illustrators; etc., [qty]

Children's Book - Carroll (Lewis) [pseud. Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)] and Steadman (Ralph, illustrator), Alice in Wonderland, signed and dedicated by the illustrator, first edition thus, London: Dennis Dobson, 1967, illustrated throughout, pictorial white boards, d/j, folio (34cm x 24cm), [1]

Children's Book - Carroll (Lewis), [pseud. Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Being a Facsimile of the Original MS Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", with Thirty-Seven Illustrations by the Author, first edition thus, London: Macmillan and Co., 1886, pp: [2], [3], vi-[xiv], [90], page 51 bound-in upside down, page 89/90 repaired, rebacked contemporary red cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, refreshed endpapers stiffening text block, 8vo, [1]

Children's Books - Nesbit (Edith): The Story of the Amulet, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906; The Story of the Treasure Seekers [...], second impression, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900; New Treasure Seekers, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904; The Magic City, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910; The Wouldbegoods, third impression, London: T. Fisher Unwin, [n.d.], each illustrated, and bound in contemporary red cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, [5]

Children's Books and Others - Haggard (H. Rider), Jess, first cheap edition, London: 1934, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Montgomery (L.M.), Kilmeny of the Orchard, first edition, Boston: 1910, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Ruth Chatterton, signed first edition, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (2); John (Captain W.E.): Biggles Fails to Return, first edition, London: 1943, h/b, pictorial d/j, [&], Biggles Works it Out, first edition, London: 1951, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (2); Saville (Malcolm), Mystery Mine, signed first edition, London:1972, pictorial h/b, 8vo, (1); Billy Bunter, various; etc., [40]

China, Late Qing Dynasty - Tea, Kung-Fu, Taoism, and Medical Interest - Chinese Imprint, Dudgeon (John), The Beverages of the Chinese/Kung-Fu or Taoist Medical Gymnastics: The Population of China/A Modern Chinese Anatomist and a Chapter in Chinese Surgery, first and only edition, Tientsin: The Tientsin Press, 1895, printed in English with some Mandarin characters, b/w in-text illustrations, pp: [2], 291, [1] (blank), 19, [1] (blank), 12, 13, [1] (blank), [6] (diagrams with characters), 3, [1] (blank), [5] (anatomical and figural diagrams), [1] (blank), fragmentary wrappers (upper-cover detached), 8vo, [1]

Cookery - Gironci (Maria), Recipes of Italian Cookery, fourth edition, London: Gaskill & Webb, 1900, b/w decorative headers, contemporary red cloth, floral endpapers, 8vo, (1); Clarisse, or The Old Cook, first English edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926, black buckram over block-printed boards in magenta, 8vo, (1); Bullock (Mrs. Helen), The Williamsburg Art of Cookery [...], 1938 facsimile of the 1752 Colonial imprint, printed floral boards, 12mo, (1), [3]

Firbank (Ronald), Caprice, With a Frontispiece by Augustus John, first edition, London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1917, pp: 141, [3] (blanks), contemporary black cloth as issued, gilt-lettered upper-cover and spine, top-edge stained green, 8vo, [1]

Geology - Palaeontology, Mantell (Gideon Algernon, Esq., LL.D.., F.R.S.), A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, Consisting of Coloured Illustrations Selected from Parkinson's "Organic Remains of a Former World", and Artis's "Antediluvian Phytology", With Descriptions, first edition, London: H. G. Bohn, 1850, 74 hand-coloured full-page plates, gilt-lettered morocco over buckram, Pictorial bookplate: Frederick A. Wood, Highfields, Chew Magna, Somerset, good ex-lib, 4to, [1]

Geology, Local Interest - Local Provincial Imprint, Watson (White, F.L.S.), 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 [...], Together with A Descriptions of the Fossils found in these Strata; and also Of the Nature and Quality of the respective Soils, first and only edition, Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd, 1811, pp: viii, [2], iii, [1] (blank), 76 (two leaves bound out of sequence), [2], illustrated with the fold-out strata and 1 full-page plate of a fluorspar vase, contemporary boards as issued, upper-cover printed in the Neoclassical taste, rebacked spine, 4to, [1]

Geology, Local Interest - Provincial Imprint, Martin (William, F.L.S.), Petrificata Derbiensia; or, Figures and Descriptions of Petrifications Collected in Derbyshire, first and only edition, volume I (all published), Wigan: Printed by D. Lyon [...], 1809, pp: [2] (blank), [2], ix, [1] (blank), ii, ii, [2], 54 hand-coloured engravings with accompanying letterpress leaves, [3], 28, inserted ink MS notes and printed notices at recto flyleaf, contemporary Neoclassical calf gilt boards (chipped), later tacked-on calf spine and corners (worn), marbled edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, 19th/20th century tipped-in bookseller's catalogue clipping, 4to, [1]Provenance: George R. Alexander, 19th century Plain Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Geology, Local Interest - The Mercian Geologist: Journal of the East Midlands Geological Society, 1964-1978, bound as six volumes, red buckram, 4to and folio, (6); Provincial Imprint, Glover (Stephen), The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby [...], first edition, two-volumes (all published): volumes I & II: Part 1, Derby: Printed for the Publisher by Henry Mozley and Son, 1831-1833, the second volume with fold-out hand-coloured county map, contemporary cloth boards, second volume with contemporary crested bookplate: Thomas Langhorne, 4to, (2), [8]

Gilpin (William, M.A.): Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, On several Parts of England; Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland, second edition, two-volume set, London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1788, full-page aquatint engravings and maps, volume I in contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, volume II in 20th century black morocco by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers, slip cased, all edges yellow-stained, 8vo, (2); Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, On several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, first edition, two-volume set, London: R. Blamire, 1789, illustrated, fold-out table, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, yellow-stained edges, 8vo, (2); Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty)/Illustrated by the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, volumes I & II, various orange-tinted, sepia, and hand-coloured aquatints, contemporary binding en suite to the latter, 8vo, (2); Observations on the Western Parts of England, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. To which are added, A Few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight, first edition, London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798, full-page illustrations, contemporary binding en suite to the latter, 8vo, (1), [7]Provenance: 1) William Stanley Goddard, D.D. (1757-1845), Headmaster of Winchester College, his Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown; 2) eventually, William Garnett (1818-1873) of Bleasdale and Quernmore Park, Lancashire, his later 19th century Plain Armorial bookplates.

J.R.R. Tolkien and Lord of the Rings - Rateliff (John D.), The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr Baggins only, first and only edition, London: Harper Collins, 2007, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Carpenter (Humphrey, editor), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, London: 1981, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Tolkien (J.R.R.), Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, London: 1987, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); Caldecott (Stratford), Secret Fire: The spiritual vision of JRR Tolkien, London: 2003, p/b, 8vo, (1); Harvey (David), The Song of Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths, London: 1985, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Tolkien (J.R.R.) and Tolkien (Christopher, editor), The History of Middle-Earth: Part II, The Book of Lost Tales, third impression, 1987, [&], Part IV, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and the Annals, together with the earliest 'Silmarillion' and the first Map, first edition, 1986, London: Guild Publishing, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (2); etc., [11]

Johnson (Dr Samuel), A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, first Irish edition, Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1775, PP: [3], 4-268, 20th century dark blue morocco gilt by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, the covers gilt with a single-fillet border, six-compartment spine of raised spines, lettered and numbered in the second, fourth and sixth compartment, the remainder with leaves, the horizontal bands framed in gilt, marbled endpapers, the binding with a custom black-baize slipcase en suite, 12mo, [1]

Local Interest - Fishing, [Marston (Edward)], Dove Dale Revisited, with Other Holiday Sketches by The Amateur Angler [...], numbered edition 26/250 printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, London: 1902, illustrated, vellum over green cloth, contemporary armorial book label: Daniel Dougal, 8vo, (1); Adam (W.H.), Dales, Scenery, Fishing Streams, and Mines of Derbyshire, and Surrounding Counties, Historical and Geological, first edition, London: W. Kent & Co., 1861, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); The Court Guide and County Blue Book of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Northamptonshire, London: Charles William Deacon & Co., 1908, contemporary red cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); Stevens' Directory of Derby and Neighbourhood, including All Villages within 8 Miles, 1893-4, various adverts, contemporary red cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Gallichan (Walter M.), Fishing in Derbyshire and Around, London: F.E. Robinson & Co., 1905, contemporary green cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, (1); Bradbury (All About Derbyshire), London: 1884, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Croston (James), On Foot through the Peak [...], Manchester: [n.d. 1880], cloth, 8vo, (1); further early 20th century walking/rambling guides, original wrappers, (4); Dr Robertson's Guide to Buxton and the Peak of Derbyshire, eleventh edition, Buxton: 1886, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire, second edition, Edinburgh: 1857, green cloth, 12mo, (1); Haddon Hall, 1904, (1); Thompson's Chatsworth, various, (2); etc., [approx. 35]

Local Interest - Hill (The Rev. Arthur du Boulay, M.A., Rector), East Bridgford, Notts.: The Story of an English Village, first and only edition, Oxford: University Press, 1932, illustrated with b/w plates, a handful of in-text illustrations and a loosely inserted fold-out facsimile of a 1612 manorial map, contemporary green cloth gilt, dustjacket with pictorial vignette, 8vo, [1]

Local Interest - Rhodes (E[benezer]), Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire [...], Illustrated with Engravings [...], first edition, Parts I, II, & IV only, bound as one, London: Printed for the Author, 1818-1823, full-page b/w plates, contemporary roan gilt rebacked and relaid, red-speckled edges, refreshed endpapers, 4to, (1); Rhodes (E.), Peak Scenery; or, The Derbyshire Tourist, first edition thus, London: Printed for Longman [...], 1824, three-fold county map as frontispiece, slightly later 19th century half-calf gilt over cloth boards, red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Adam (W. ), The Gem of the Peak; or Matlock Bath and Its Vicinity [...], third edition, London: Longman & Co., 1843, fold-out county map as frontispiece, illustrated with full-page chromolithographs or wood engraved plates, further in-text illustrations, contemporary calf, all-edges gilt, slightly later 19th century ink MS ownership inscription: H.W. Langley, 1877, 8vo, (1); Robinson (Joseph Barlow, Sculptor, Derby), Derbyshire Gatherings [...], London: J.R. Smith, 1866, full-page plates, contemporary Gothic Revival red cloth gilt as issued (worn), all-edges gilt, 4to, (1); Leyland (John), The Peak of Derbyshire, Its Scenery & Antiquities, with Illustrations by Alfred Dawson and Herbert Railton, London: Seeley and Co., 1891, named-view monochrome etchings, contemporary green cloth pictorial gilt, floral endpapers, 8vo, (1); English Dialect Society, No. 78, Pegge (Samuel), Two Collections of Derbicisms [...], London: 1896, original wrappers (repaired), 8vo, (1), [6]

Miniature Books - Dickens (Charles): four works of the Oxford India Paper Edition, comprising The Chimes: A Goblin Story [...], A Christmas Carol [...], The Battle of Life: A Love Story [...], The Cricket on the Hearth [...], London: Henry Frowde, 1904-1906, each with eight b/w illustrations, contemporary cloth pictorial gilt, green-stained edges, 64mo (5.4cm x 4cm), (4); The Finger Prayer Book, Common Prayer [...], from the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908, Oxford: University Press, [n.d.], contemporary red roan gilt, all-edges gilt, 96mo (9cm x 3cm, (1); Browning [(Robert)], Golden Leaves, Collins: [n.d., c. 1910], velvet binding, 64mo, (1); other miscellaneous books, Cheshire, Lawrence (C. Fredk.), History of Middlewich and Neighbourhood, in the County Palatine of Chester, and Vale Royal of England, first and only edition, Sandbach: Eachus & Son, 1895, red-ruled througout, contemporary pictorial boards, 8vo, (1); Letters of Matthew Arnold, volume I, London: 1895, 8vo, (1), [8]

Miscellaneous - Chalmers (George, F.R.S. S.A.), An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain; and of the Losses of Her Trade, from Every War Since the Revolutio [...], London: John Stockdale, 1804, contemporary marbled boards with a later 19th century rebacking, 8vo, (1); Botany, Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, A Catalogue of All the Plans Indigenous, Cultivated In, or Introduced to Britain [...], Second Edition, with Additional Supplement to February 1832, London: Printed for Longman, [1832], contemporary boards (upper-cover detached), 8vo, (1); Trollope (Frances), The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy, first edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1840, b/w plates, contemporary boards by T.W. Maddox, Launceston, his ticket, 8vo, (1); Almanac, Rider's British Merlin [...], London: 1797, title printed in red and black, and with paper duty stamp, contemporary calf (worn, faults), contemporary ink MS inscriptions to pastedown, 12mo, (1); [Calabrella (Baroness de)], Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time, with Illustrations by George Cattermole, first and only edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853, contemporary green roan gilt, early 20th century pictorial bookplate: Ex Libris Willoughby Statham Smith, Benchmans, Devon, 8vo, (1); Stafford School prize binding, [6]

Miscellaneous - Children's, Collins [John], The Chapter of Kings, London: J. Harris, 1818, illustrated throughout with in-text monochrome stipple engravings, contemporary printed boards (disbound), 16mo, (1); [Steele (Sir Richard)], The Englishman: Being the Sequel of the Guardian, first edition, London: Sam. Buckley, 1714, contemporary panelled calf, ink MS ownership inscription: John Sykes, 12mo, (1); Thornton (Colonel T.), A Sporting Tour [...], London: Edward Arnold, 1896, contemporary half-vellum over marbled boards, Shield Shaped Armorial bookplate: W.B. Thornton, 8vo, (1); Clark (F. Le Gros, F.R.S.), Physiology, London: 1873, contemporary roan-backed cloth, 12mo, (1); Ansted (Professor D.T.), Geology, Mineralogy, and Crystallography [...], London: 1855, in-text illustrations, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Byron (Lord), Don Juan, In Sixteen Cantos, London: G. Nodes, 1845, additional title engraved with Newstead Abbey, contemporary cloth, 16mo; early 18th century and later works, various imprints, bindings, sizes and states; 19th century Holy Bible, gilt-tooled leather binding, folio; 19th century and later chemistry and science works; The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente, New York: 1942; etc., [59]

Miscellaneous - Medicine, Culpeper (Nicholas), The English Physitian (sic) Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty, and Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this: The Epistle will Inform you how to know This Impression from any other./Being an Astrologo-Physical (sic) Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation: Containing a Compleat (sic) Method of Physick (sic), whereby a man preserve his [...] Health; or Cure himself, being Sick, for three pence Charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies [...], rare and early posthumous edition, 'Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology' impression, [London: Printed by Peter Cole [...], 1656], title-page printed within a double fleur-de-lis border, pp: [3] (torn losses affecting title-page imprint and Cole's advert), [xvi], complete but incorrect pagination: 1-173, 284- 398, [16] Table of Diseases, [4] (blanks), page 396 illustrated with an astrological figure of heaven, rebacked and relayed contemporary calf boards, traces of blind tooling and fillets, refreshed endpapers, 12mo, (1); Hagiography, Cave (William, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty), Apostolici [...], first edition, London: Printed by A.C. for Richard Chiswel, 1677, title-page printed in black and red within double-line borders, half-title/imprimatur leaf but lacking engraved title, some plates also lacking, elaborately blind-tooled Provincial Regency brown calf over marbled boards, indistinct ink MS ownership contemporary to rebinding, folio, (1); Theology, Owen (The Late Reverend John, D.D.), Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ [...], London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Benjamin Alsop, 1684, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, 18th century lettering piece and ink MS ownership inscriptions, 8vo, (1); [Patrick (The Right Reverend Simon, Lord Bishop of Ely)], A Commentary upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, third edition, London: Richard Chiswel, 1704, title-page supplied in facsimile, some repairs and marginal loss, rebacked contemporary blind-tooled reverse calf, 4to, (1); [Ovid] and Burman (Pieter the Elder, editor), P. Ovidii Nasonis Operum Tomus III [...], Trajecti Batavorum [Utrecht]: Apud Guilielmum Vande Water, 1713, contemporary calf gilt boards, marbled edges, rebacked to style, early 19th century crested bookplate to verso of title-page, probably Charles Cameron (1745-1812), 12mo, (1), [5]

Miscellaneous - Rasputin (Maria), My Father, first English edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1934, black cloth only, 8vo, (1); Anon, [Butler (William Allen)], Nothing to Wear: An Episode of Fashionable Life, first and only edition, London: Sampson Low [...], 1858, contemporary orange pictorial wrappers, owner's label: Mrs. Drummond Dunlop, Monasterboice House, retailed by W.H.Smith, their blindstamp, 12mo, (1); Michelsen (Rev. Oscar), Cannibals Won for Christ [...], London: Morgan and Scott, [n.d. 1893], in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); The Observer's Book of Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [n.d. 1958], h/b, d/j, 12mo, (1); Smith (James Walter), A Handy Book on the Law of Husband and Wife [...], London: Effingham Wilson, 1904, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); etc., [8]

Miscellaneous - Travel, Exploration and Natural History - Peel (C.V.A., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.), Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides, first edition, London: F.E. Robinson, 1901, contemporary red cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, (1); Buller's Birds of New Zealand, 1967, h/b, d/j, slipcase en suite, folio, (1); further ornithology; Meakin (Budgett), The Moorish Empire: A Historical Epitome, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., 1899, illustrated, contemporary pictorial cloth, ex-lib, 8vo, (1); The Story of the Nations: Bohemia, &, Moors in Spain, mixed dates, contemporary pictorial cloth, ex-lib, 8vo, (2); Stockenstrom (Sir Andries, Bart), The Autobiography [...], two-volume set, facsimile, Cape Town: 1964, brown leather, 8vo, (2); Beauties of Nature: A picture-book by Niklaus Stoecklin, 1943, oblong folio; Spirit of America, 1930, folio; Deeside; botany; etc., [15]

Modern First Editions and Miscellaneous - Sassoon (Siegfried), The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, first edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1937, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); Mitford (Jessica), The American Way of Death, first edition, London: Hutchinson, 1963, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); Sean O'Casey; J.B. Priestley; Noel Coward; Biggles; etc., [24]

Modern First Editions and Others - Mallet (Françoise), Into the Labyrinth, first English edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1953, h/b, d/j by Stein, 8vo, (1); Wodehouse (P.G.): Heavy Weather, first edition, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1933, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1), others, Psmith in the City and Bill the Conqueror, both h/b, d/j, 8vo, (2); Hall (Radclyffe), The Well of Loneliness, first edition, The Falcon Press: 1949, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Needham (Violet), The Emerald Crown, Illustrated by Anne Bullen, second impression, London: 1944, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Wallace (Edgar): The Clue of the Twisted Candle, London: George Newnes, Limited, [n.d.], h/b, pictorial d/j (chipped, losses), 8vo, (1), [&], The Green Archer, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Russell (A.J.), Christ Comes to Town, first edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1935, h/n, d/j, 8vo, (1); The New [Dorothy] Sayers Omnibus [...], London: 1957, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Wolfe (Lawrence), Sabotage, first edition, London: Nicholson & Watson, 1942, h/b,d /j, 8vo, (1); Humphrey Lyttelton, signed, (1); Agatha Christie, (2); A.A. Milne; Colin Dexter; others, various, [21]

Natural History, Lepidopterology- Frohawk (F.W., M.B.O.U., F.E.S., etc.), Natural History of British Butterflies: A complete, original, descriptive account of the life-history of every species occurring in the British Islands, together with their habits, time of appearance, and localities All illustrated/With sixty full-page plates in colour, and four in black and white, first and only edition?, two-volume set, London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d., 1924], contemporary blue cloth, folios (38cm x 26cm), [2]

Ornithology - Bannerman (David Armitage) and Lodge (George E., illustrator), The Birds of the British Isles, twelve-volume set, first edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953-1963, full-page colour plates, contemporary green cloth, pictorial d/j, 8vo, [12]

Ornithology - Local Imprint, Seebohm (Henry) and Sharpe (R. Bowdler, editor), Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptive Notices, first edition, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, b/w portrait frontispiece and full-page colour plates, contemporary red cloth gilt-lettered, large 8vo, [1]

Ornithology - Local Imprint, two copies: Seebohm (Henry) and Sharpe (R. Bowdler, editor), Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptive Notices, first edition, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, b/w portrait frontispiece and full-page colour plates, contemporary red cloth gilt-lettered, large 8vo, [2]

Politics, Economics, Trade Unionism, the Soviet Bloc and the Cold War - Russia: The Official Report of the British Trades Union Delegation to Russia and Caucasia, Nov. and Dec., 1924, London: Co-Operative Printing Society Ltd., 1925, contemporary green cloth, 4to, (1); etc., [11] Einzig (Paul), Economic Warfare, 1939-1940, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Zhukov (Yuri), The Steep Steps: A Journalist's Notes, first edition, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Victor Kravchenko;

Postal History - Robertson (Alan W.), A History of the Ship Letters of the British Isles/(An Encyclopaedia of Maritime Postal History), signed limited edition numbered by the author 377/600, first and only edition, three-volume set, Bournemouth: Printed by Pardy & Son Ltd., 1955, b/w illustrated, blue binders as issued, gilt-lettered spines, volume I with City of Liverpool Public Libraries allegorical bookplate, ex-lib but good, 4to, [3]

Supernatural Fiction and Non-Fiction - Feversham (Countess of, editor), Strange Stories of the Chase: Stories of Fox Hunting and the Supernatural, first and only edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1972, illustrated after drawings by Peter Biegel, pictorial dustjacket after the same hand, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Price (Harry): Poltergeist over England: Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts, first edition, London: Country Life Ltd., 1945, &, Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter, first edition, London: Putnam, 1936, both contemporary black cloth, 8vo, (2); Asquith (Cynthia, editor), When Churchyards Yawn, Fifteen New Ghost Stories, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1931, contemporary black cloth, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, (1); Forman (Joan), The Mask of Time, first edition, London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1978, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Tremayne (Peter), Aisling, and other Irish Tales of Terror, first and only edition, Kerry: Brandon Book Publishing, 1992, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Lethbridge (T.C.), five hardback works, (5); The Ghosts of Versailles, London: 1957, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1), [12]

The Henham Park Copy, Provincial Imprint, Betham (The Rev. William), The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables [...], five-volume set bound as three, first and only edition, Ipswich: Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805, 12 engraved armorial plates only, contemporary mottled calf, gilt Neoclassical spines, 4to, [3] An interesting Suffolk association copy, the Reverend William Betham (1749-1839) was resident in Stradbroke village, and it was where his son Sir William (1779-1853), later Ulster King of Arms, was born. Provenance: 1) John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (1750-1827), of Henham Park, Suffolk, his Spade Shield Armorial bookplates as Baron Rous (1796-1827) and the later library stamp of an earl's coronet above Stradbroke in Gothic Black Letter; 2) by descent at Henham Park until a house sale by local auction c. 1953?, lot stickers of that date numbered 1178 on endpapers; 3) eventually with Heraldry Today, their tickets.

The Holy Bible, the first quarto edition of the King James' version printed in roman type, London: Robert Barker, 1612, printed in double-columns throughout, incomplete: lacking all before A2 including general title-page, wood engraved New Testament title-page dated 1612, finishes on [M 2], the contents in-between unexamined, some decorative ornaments, foliated and historiated initials, contemporary blind-tooled calf over boards (fragmentary, worn), 4to (22.5cm x 19cm), [1]

The Unexplained - Vallée (Jacques), Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, first edition, London: Neville Spearman, 1970, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Shuttlewood (Arthur), The Warminster Mystery, fist edition, London: Neville Spearman, 1967, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Bender (Gray), Flying Saucers and the Three Men, first edition, London: Neville Spearman, 1963, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); other works on flying saucers, UFOS and extra-terrestrial life; Fyleman (Rose), Fairies and Chimneys, London: 1923, blue cloth gilt, 12mo, (1); Spence (Lewis), The History of Atlantis, with Sixteen Full-Page Plates, third edition, London: [n.d., c. 1920], red cloth, 8vo; further Atlantis interest; Bell (William Dixon), The Moon Colony, Chicago: 1937, contemporary Art Deco design cloth, 8vo, (1); Forbidden Archeology (sic): The Hidden History of the Human Race, San Diego: 1993, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Darwinism, evolution, etc; mid-20th century pictorial dustjackets, various; etc., [38]

Theology - Local Provincial Imprints, two titles bound as one: Cantrell (Henry, M.A., Vicar of St. Alkmund's Derby), The Invalidity of the Lay-Baptisms of Dissenting Teachers [...], With a Letter from the Reverend Mr Harris, first and only edition, Nottingham: Printed by William Ayscough for the Booksellers of Derby, 1714, [bound with], Anon, An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entituled (sic) The Validity of Baptism Administered by Dissenting-Ministers [...], By a Lay-Man, first and only edition, Nottingham: Printed by Will. Ayscough, and Sold by John Hodges Bookseller in Derby, 1713, both titles printed within outlined black double-line borders, pp: [2] (fore-edge attached to verso flyleaf), 8, 136, 8, 137-142; 27, [2] (blank), stamped ex-lib copy in 20h century institutional cloth, 8vo, [1]

Topography - [Hermannides (Rutgerus)], Rutgeri Hermannidæ Britannia Magna, Sive Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ & adjacentium Insularum, Geographico-Historica Descriptio, first edition, Amstelodami: Sumptibus Ægidii Jansonii Valckenier, 1661, title-page with printer's device, pp: [2] (blank), additional engraved title-page by Jan Veenhuysen (c. 1631-1685), [32], fold-out map, 645, [38], [5] (blank), the text illustrated with 32 fold-out birds-eye urban maps, foliate initials and some decorative headers, 17th century Dutch pastiche binding of yapped vellum by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, plain endpapers, 12mo, [1]

Topography - Cooke (William): A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, Illustrated with Thirty-Six Plates, of the Most Beautiful and Interesting Views throughout the Island [...], To which is prefixed, An Introductory Account of the Island, and a Voyage Round Its Coast, first edition, London: Printed by W. Wilson, 1808, pp: [2] (blank), xiv, 171, [1] (blank), [4] (index), [2] (blank), illustrated with 36 b/w full-page plates inclusive of frontispiece and a three-fold engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, as called for, 20th century black morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, two-tone green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1); Provincial Imprint, the second edition, with Twenty-Six Plates, Southampton: Printed by and for T. Baker [...], 1812, pp: xiv, 158, [4] (index), illustrated with 26 b/w full-page plates inclusive of frontispiece and a two-fold engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, as called for, 20th century tan morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 12mo, (1), [2] Provenance: 1) probably Charles Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte (1822-1891), Plain Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown and the title-page with the owner's initials at each angle in ink MS.

Topography - Lancashire, Provincial Imprint, Bamford (Samuel), Walks in South Lancashire and on its Borders; with Letters, Descriptions, Narratives, & Observations, Current and Incidental, first and only edition, Blackley, Near Manchester: Published by the Author, first edition, pp: [2] (MS half-title), 290, [2] (blank), contemporary black roan and boards (lacking spine), 12mo, (1); Head (Sir George), A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England, in the Summer of 1835, second edition, London: John Murray, 1836, contemporary boards, 8vo, (1); Wadsworth (A.P.), Rochdale's Main Roads: the History of Turnpikes, Rochdale: J.D. Howarth, 1909, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); other similar monographs, Harrison (William F.S.A.), The History of a Turnpike Trust (Manchester and Wilmslow), Manchester: Richard Gill, 1917, &, Tupling (G.H.), The Turnpike Trusts of Lancashire, Manchester: [n.d.], each in original wrappers, 8vo, (2), [5]

Topography - The Beauties of England Wales: or, Original Delineations [...], eight harlequin volumes, London: 1810 and onwards, full-page plates, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, Jacobean Revival Armorial bookplates: I: Hungerford Esqr., 8vo, (8); Hardy (W.J., editor), The Home Counties Magazine [...], Volumes VI-VIII, 1904-1906, quarter-calf over cloth (rubbed), 8vo, (3); Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1912, 8vo, (1); Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, With Maps, 1925, large 8vo, (1); Morris (The Rev. F.O., editor), A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats [...], volume IV only, first edition, London: William Mackenzie, [n.d., 1870], chromolithograph plates, contemporary cloth, 4to, (1); early 20th century works, British mythology, the Cotswolds, the Downes, Warwickshire and Wiltshire, mixed imprints and dates, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (5); etc., [20]