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Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His sacred Maiestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, [London: printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston], 1648 [i.e. 1649], [8], 269, [3]pp., first two words of title in Greek characters, with final blank leaf, without portrait and folding plate, some light dust-soiling, late 19th century/early 20th century sheep, rubbed, 8vo, together with [Hickes, George], The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life. In Three Parts. Written for the Instruction of a Young Nobleman. To which is added, a Word to the Ladies, by way of Supplement to the first part, 5th edition, 1713, light dampstaining, contemporary panelled calf, joints split, 8vo, with Bible [New Testament], The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ..., London: Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, 1694, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1693, titles and borders red ruled throughout, some browning and dust-soiling, lacking front free marbled endpaper, contemporary blind decorated black morocco, extremities rubbed, 8vo, and Chamberlayne (Edward), Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England, with divers remarks upon the Ancient State thereof, 21st edition, 1704, engraved portrait frontispiece, some spotting, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, joints split and worn at head & foot of spine, 8vo, plus other antiquarian, mostly 18th century For first work see F.F. Madan, New Bibliography of the Eikon Basilike, 2; Almack, 4 and Wing E272. Identified by Madan as the "second edition", with two square blocks added to title page and text reset; epigram has mis-spelling "mali" for "mala" on title page. (13)

Congregational Church. A Declaration of the Faith and Order Owned and Practised in the Congregational Churches in England; Agreed upon and consented unto by their Elders and Messengers in Their Meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658, 1st edition, printed for John Field, 1659, title in typographical border, generally lightly toned, some minor staining, mainly affecting upper margins, minor worm damage to some upper corners, front free endpaper with ink ownership name 'R.W. Dale' on verso, front pastedown with ink stamp of Mansfield College Oxford, and leather label with 'From the Library of Robert William Dale, 1895' in gilt lettering, 19th century quarter sheep, both boards detached, with some fading, losses to spine and joints, small 4to Robert William Dale was a Congregational Church pastor who served as Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1868 and President of the International Congregational Council in 1891. Mansfield College, Oxford, was founded in 1838 as Spring Hill College, Birmingham, a college for Nonconformist students, including Dale. In 1886, largely due to Dale's initiative, the college was moved and renamed, becoming Oxford's first Nonconformist college, where he became chairman of the council. (1)

Defoe (Daniel). A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man. Corrected by himself, 1st authorized edition, 1703, engraved portrait frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Tavener, contemporary signature J. Anstruther to title and with the bookplate of Sir John Anstruther to verso (overlaid on leterpress notice), contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached and lower board near detached, lacking title label to spine, some wear, 8vo, together with Paley (William), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2nd edition, corrected, 1786, half-title, armorial bookplate of F. Luard to upper pastedown, contemporary tree calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label, joints cracked and slight wear to extremities, 4to, with Gray (Thomas), Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems, London: J. Dodsley, 1789, engraved vignette to title, engraved plates and vignette illustrations, some dust-soiling and occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and with a series of autograph letters signed by the poet and artist Laurence Whistler (1912-2000) relating to the volume, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked, board edges worn, 4to, and Scott (James & Green, Charles and others), A General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, a Complete System of Literature, 2 volumes, 1765, engraved frontispiece to each, volume 1 title in red & black with repair to fore-edge, numerous engraved plates including some folding, slight toning, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, 4to, plus other antiquarian including Arithmetick; or, the Ground of Arts..., by Edward Hatton, 1699, and Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa... in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, by Mungo Park, 2 volumes, 5th edition, 1807 For first title see Furbank & Owens 1. A second volume was issued in 1705. This work was issued in response to a pirate edition of Defoe's works published in the same year by John How. (20)

Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1st edition, 1837, etched frontispiece, additional title and 41 plates by H.K. Browne, R. Seymour and R.W. Buss, some spotting and browning, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, together with Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1840-41, illustrations by George Cattermole and H.K. Browne, a little light spotting, contemporary half morocco, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus American Notes for General Circulation, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1842, half titles, advertisements at end of volume II, signature erased from titles, later calf-backed boards, spine ends slightly rubbed, 8vo, with other Dickens including first editions Martin Chzzlewit, 1844, Dombey and Son, 1848, Bleak House, 1853, Our Mutual Friend, 1865 and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870 (16)

Dickens (Charles). Works, Chapman and Hall, Limited, [circa 1880], 21 works in 14 volumes, half-title with Dickens's facsimile signature to each, etched frontispieces with tissue-guards, numerous etched plates (mostly 8 to each work), sporadic light spotting, damp-staining to plate margins in volume containing The Old Curiosity Shop and Oiver Twist and to rear free endpapers in the Christmas Books and Christmas Stories volume, contemporary ownership inscriptions to initial blanks, all edges gilt, contemporary hard-grain purple morocco, spines lettered and deocrated in gilt, gilt and blind fillets to covers enclosing geometric blind centrepieces, mild rubbing to extremities, spines slightly sunned, small section of wear to spine of Our Mutual Friend, scattered pale markings to covers, 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm) Cf. Gimbel D54. An attractive complete set of the Charles Dickens Edition, which first appeared in 1867. (14)

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1858, half-titles present, occasional light spotting, volume 1 with tips of a few corners and blank fore-margin of X4 and X5 slightly creased, front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Albert Gilbey, front free endpapers with contemporary ownership name of Mrs. W.P. Goode, original blindstamped maroon cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnants, with binder's ticket on rear pastedown of first volume, faded spines rubbed to extremities and frayed at ends with slight loss, lower joint of volume 2 with short split, 8vo Sadleir 818; Wolff 2062. This, the author's first book, comprises three tales which first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story' and 'Janet's Repentance'. The stories were widely praised for their domestic realism, pathos and humour, and Dickens himself was full of admiration for Eliot's writings, prompting much speculation about the identity of the author, who was widely supposed to be a clergyman or a clergyman's wife. George Eliot's rarest book and particularly so in the original cloth. (1)

Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, 1st edition, 1st issue, printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G., 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, 9 pp. index bound in at rear (see Pforzheimer), bound without the initial blank; mild browning, occasional spotting and staining, small chip in upper inner corner of frontispiece, ownership inscription to title page 'Robert Newton, 1772'), near-contemporary ink annotations to pp. 242-3, closed tears in signatures P3 and [superscript 3]3R1, small hole in I4 affecting a few letters recto, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with early gilt spine laid down, rubbed overall, board-corners worn, folio, together with: Felltham (Owen), Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, with several new additions both in Prose and Verse, not extant in the former Impressions. In this Eleventh Edition, References are made to the Poetical Citations, heretofore much wanted, printed by M. Clark, for Charles Harper, 1696, with initial 'The Face of the Book Unmasked' leaf, additional engraved title page, letterpress title printed in red and black, occasional browning, 18th-century bookplate of one Richard Law to front pastedown, his ownership inscription and lengthy autograph poem titled 'To Mr Felltham on his Booke of Resolves' to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio; Ashburton (Charles Alfred), New and Complete History of England, from the First Settlement of Brutus, upwards of One Thousand Years before Julius Caesar, to the Year 1795, printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, [1795], engraved frontispiece, 45 plates (of 80), chip to lower margin of frontispiece, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription to initial blank, contemporary reversed calf, wear to extremities, short tear to foot of spine, folio; Bible [English], An Illustration of the Holy Bible, containing the Sacred Texts of the Old Testament and the New, together with the Apocrypha, Birmingham: printed by Brown and [Bentley], 1789, first few leaves ragged and creased affecting imprint, possibly lacking an index leaf at rear, contemporary reversed calf, worn, folio; and 1 other Pforzheimer 391, Lowndes p. 847, Wing F2440 for Fuller; Wing F658 for Felltham; cf. Darlow & Moule 892 for An Illustration of the Holy Bible. The index in this copy of Fuller does not conform to either of those noted by Pforzheimer, lacking a decorative headpiece on the first page. Ashburton's work is 'a reissue of the 1791-94 edition with the last two gatherings of the text reset and updated to 1795' (ESTC). (5)

[Godwin, William.] The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1st edition, for the author, 1783, with the final blank (T8), contemporary ownership inscription 'Robert G. Ayerst' on slip mounted to front pastedown, title page slightly browned, contemporary sprinkled tan calf, red morocco label, joints cracked but holding, 8vo, together with Hamilton (Robert), The Progress of Society, 1st edition, John Murray, 1830, spotting to blanks and outer leaves, ownership inscriptions including that of agricultural writing A. W. Menzies Kitchin (dated 1924) to initial blank, gilt edges, contemporary calf, gilt spine, broad decorative frames in gilt and blind to sides, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo Rothschild 1015 for the first work, which was Godwin's first published book. (2)

[Gurney, Anna.] A Literal Translation of the Saxon Chronicle, 1st edition, Norwich: printed by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson; for John and Arthur Arch, London, 1819, very light spotting to outer leaves, 19th-century green half morocco, slightly rubbed, large 12mo in 6s (18.7 x 10.8 cm), together with: La Motte Fouqu‚ (Friedrich de), Sintram and his Companions: a Romance, from the German, 1st edition in English, C. and J. Ollier, 1820, half-title, mild spotting and soiling, small hole in D7, top edge gilt, 19th-century blue half morocco, slightly rubbed, large 12mo; [Smith, Horace], Brambletye House; or, Cavaliers and Roundheads. A Novel by one of the Authors of the "Rejected Addresses", 3 volumes, 1st edition, Henry Colburn, 1826, sporadic light spotting, bound without advertisements in volume 3, contemporary ownership inscriptions of one John Lawford and faint blindstamps to title pages, near-contemporary blue half calf by Edmund Worrall of Birmingham, very slightly rubbed, spines faded, large 12mo; and 1 other Lowndes (1864) p. 2197 for Gurney; Sadleir 3098 for Smith. Gurney's work was 'the first translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle into modern English to be printed' (ODNB), and according to the leaf bound after the title was printed in a 'very limited impression ... for private circulation'. (7)

Hermes Trismegistus. The Divine Pymander in XVII books, translated formerly out the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the Original into English; by that Learned Divine Doctor Everard, 1st edition, by Robert White for Thomas Brewster and Gregory Moule, 1650 [1649], woodcut title border, headpieces and initials, several blank leaves bound in to front and rear and annotated circa 1900, browning, crude tape-repair and resultant staining to binder's blanks, leaves C3-4, D1, E2, F2-3, and rear inner hinge, the text remaining generally legible, contemporary sheep, worn, spine cracked, front board detached, 8vo (14 x 8.5 cm) DSB VI p. 306; Ferguson I p. 389; Wing H1565. First edition in English of 'the first and chief work of the Corpus [Hermeticum]' (DSB). (1)

Musculus (Wolfgang). Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfgangus Musculus, for the use of suche as desire the knowledge of Godly truthe. Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Hereunto are added two other treatises, made by the same Author, one of Othes, and an other of Usurye. With a moste perfecte and plentifull Table, London: [printed by Reginalde Wolfe], 1563, title in red and black and with printer's woodcut device (strengthened to width of gutter margin and manuscript note to lower right corner), woodcut armorial to verso of title, main body of text in black letter, few decorative woodcut initials, occasional early marginalia, some light dampstaining mostly at foot of leaves, rust holes to final three leaves, final leaf (d6) torn with loss of text and repaired, some peppered worm holes mostly towards rear of volume, later endpapers with old adhesive tape strengthening to hinges, later 18th century half calf, morocco title label to spine, joints split and covers worn, folio STC 18308. Variant 1 with first colophon, 4D2v, "Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe. Anno Domini. 1563.". Colophon, b9v, "Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe. Anno Domini. 1563.". This edition is a translation of "Loci communes sacrae theologiae". The additions are translated excerpts from his: In Davidis Psalterium sacrosanctum commentarii. (1)

Photios I. Myriobiblon e Bibliotheke [Greek title] ... Graece edidit David Hoeschelius ... Latine vero redidit et scholiis auxit Andreas Schottus, [Geneva:] Paul Estienne, 1612, title page printed in red and black, large woodcut title device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, Greek and Latin text in double column, faint browning to margins, light spotting to a handful of quires, ownership inscription 'Ed. Reynolds do. Braunston, 1643' to title page (see note) contemporary sprinkled calf, spine relaid, label renewed, covers scuffed and scored, corners worn, small section of front board and corners of rear board sympathetically restored, folio in 6s (34.5 x 20.5 cm) Renouard 197.21 (also noting copies dated 1611; further copies traced dated 1613). First bilingual edition of the Myriobiblon, with the ownership inscription of English clergyman Edward Reynolds (1599-1676), dated 'Braunston, 1643' to the title page: Reynolds was rector of Braunston in Northamptonshire from 1631 until his appointment as bishop of Norwich thirty years later. The Myriobiblon is valued for preserving several classical texts otherwise lost. (1)

Rowning (John). A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy, for Samuel Harding, 1752, 4 parts in 2 volumes, collective title page to each volume dated 1743 (stated 'second edition'), separate title pages to each part, respectively dated 1752 ('fifth edition, with additions'), 1751 ('fifth edition'), 1752 ('third edition') and 1742 (no edition stated), 44 folding plates, worming in lower margins of volume 2, affecting title imprint and a few words in first few gatherings, a few mild spots, contemporary sprinkled calf, phoenix and flower devices gilt to spines, rubbed, wear to corners, volume 1 headcap chipped, 8vo, together with 3 others (incomplete sets of Brookes's Natural History, Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, and Watson's Chemical Essays, 18th-century editions, plates, contemporary calf) 'One of the most popular texts throughout the eighteenth century ... Chiefly distinguished for its clarity, the work should also be noted for its explicit rejection of Newtonian ether, its explanation of forces as the continuing action of God upon matter, and its proposal of alternating spheres of attraction and repulsion some twenty years before Boskovic's Philosophiae' (DSB XI pp. 579-80). (12)

[Salmon, William.] The Works of Aristotle, in four parts, containing, I. His Complete Masterpiece ... to which is added The Family Physician ... II. His Experienced Midwife ... III. His Book of Problems ... IV. His Last Legacy ... a new and improved edition, printed for Miller, Law, and Carter, [1821], engraved portrait frontispiece dated 1821, 8 woodcuts to the text, sporadic light spotting, contemporary sheep, slightly rubbed, front joint split at foot, 12mo, together with: Gay (John), Elegant Edition of Fables, with the Life of the Author, T. Heptinstall, 1796, 2 volumes in 1, engraved title page and frontispiece, numerous vignettes by Rothwell and others, lacking engraved title and frontispiece of volume 2, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, slightly front, foot of front joint split, 12mo; Cowper (William),[Poems, comprising:] Table Talk, and Other Poems; The Task; Minor Poems, 3 volumes, for John Sharpe by C. Whittingham, 1822, 21 engraved vignette titles after Westall, some slightly spotted and offset, gilt edges, contemporary buff calf, richly gilt spines, twin morocco labels, elaborate blind panels to sides enclosed by gilt and blind rolls, 12mo; and 10 others, 18th- and 19th century English and French literature, mainly leather-bound, 12mo Later London edition of the infamous manual of sex and pregnancy usually attributed to William Salmon (1644-1713). Sharpe's attractive edition of Cowper, with plates after Westall, first appeared in 1817-18. (15)

Shakespeare (William). The Plays and Poems, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, by Edmond Malone, 21 volumes, 1st edition, printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [and others], 1821, engraved portrait frontispieces to volumes 1 and 2, 7 further plates (found in volumes 2, 3 and 16), spotting to endpapers and prelims, very occasionally to text, typescript contents slips tipped to initial blanks, bookplates of J. Denham Smith and L‚opold Dor (see note), later 19th-century tan half calf, marbled endpapers, edges and sides, spines richly gilt in compartments, twin red and maroon morocco labels, extremities and joints slightly rubbed, light wear to corners, shallow chip to volume 19 spine label, 8vo Jaggard p. 514, Lowndes p. 2262. Third variorum edition, and the first edited by James Boswell the younger (1778-1822): it is as such known as 'Boswell's Malone'. Provenance: Joseph Denham Smith (1816/7-1889), Congregationalist minister and hymnodist; L‚opold Dor (1881-1960), French jurist and amateur archaeologist (bookplates). (21)

Smollett (Tobias). The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. By the Author of Roderick Random, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book-form, for J. Coote, 1762, together with: The History and Adventures of an Atom, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, for Robinson and Roberts, [1769], half-titles; The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, 4 volumes, 4th edition, for R. Baldwin [and others], 1769, engraved frontispieces, small hole in that of volume 2; The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, for W. Johnston, 1771, half-titles; The Adventures of Roderick Random, 2 volumes, 8th edition, W. Strahan [and others], 1770, engraved frontispieces; The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the Author of Roderick Random, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, for W. Johnston and B. Collins, 1772, half-titles; Fielding (Henry), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 4 volumes, for A. Millar, 1763; Richardson (Samuel), Pamela ... a new edition, being the fourteenth, with numerous corrections and alterations, 4 volumes, for J. Johnson [and others], 1801; and 4 similar (incomplete); all works with some spotting and browning, mainly to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscriptions of one Thomas Hodges (many dated 1773; Tom Jones dated 'Holm's Chapel, 1789'), all in uniform contemporary half calf (except Tom Jones, in similar contemporary half sheep, and Pamela, contemporary tree sheep), red morocco spine-labels, marbled sides, rubbed overall, some minor wear (heavier on spines of Tom Jones), some soiling, 12mo Rothschild 1923 for The History and Adventures of an Atom; the first issue is erroneously dated 1749 on the title pages. (32)

Starkey (George). Liquor Alchahest, oder ein Discurs von den unsterblichen Dissolvente oder der aufl”senden Materie des Paracelsi und Helmontii, 1st edition in German, Nuremberg: Johann Zieger, 1686, bound after: Amelung (Heinrich Christian), Chymische Untersuchung, von dem Unterscheid des Philosoph. und Mineralischen Antimonii, wie auch des Mercurii Philosophorum & vulgaris, 1st edition, Dresden: Michael Gnther, 1690, 2 works in 1 volume, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, spotting and browning, closely trimmed throughout, partially cropping pagination, running heads and the first line of the title in Starkey, and the last letter of each line in leaves B6 recto and C3 verso of Amelung, Starkey title page with additional chip in fore margin not affecting text, Amelung title page laid down and with the blind stamp of the British National Association of Spiritualists, contemporary sheep, gilt spine, worn overall, spine-label chipped, headcaps restored at an early date, 12mo (12 x 7 cm) Ferguson II p. 402 for the first edition of Starkey's text (London, 1675) and I pp. 30-1 for Amelung; DSB VI pp. 616-7 for Starkey. Sammelband of two rare 17th-century alchemical treatises, three copies of this edition of Starkey's work (BL, Glasgow, Manchester) and four copies of Amelung's (Sheffield, Strathclyde, UCL and Wellcome) found in UK libraries; neither traced in auction records. Starkey (1628-1665) was born on Bermuda but raised in North America, and studied at Harvard College before emigrating to London and joining the circle of Samuel Hartlib. His works 'became classics of alchemical literature' (DSB). Ferguson was unable to provide a biographical notice for Amelung, though his work is dedicated to nobleman Friedrich Adolph von Haugwitz (1637-1707) and contains over 30 extracts from Bernard Trevisan, Nicolas Flamel, and others. (1)

Ogilby (John). Asia, the First Part, being an Accurate Description of Persia, and the Several Provinces thereof. The Vast Empire of the Great Mogol and other Parts of India: and their Several Kingdoms and Regions, 1st edition, printed by the author, 1673, additional engraved title page, letterpress title page in red and black, dedication leaf, 14 engraved folding maps or views, 15 full-page engraved plates (of 17), numerous engraved vignettes in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; bound without leaves 2K4-2M4 (index), toning, variable dust- and finger-soiling, occasional contemporary ink-splashes and other marks, tiny intermittent worm-track in upper outer corners, engraved title trimmed and mounted, old repairs to closed tears in letterpress title, text-leaves B3, B6, T3 and 2K3, and to versos of a few plates in lower margins, 2G1 with a closed tear in gutter and a small spill-burn in text, 2I2 with a repaired chip in fore margin just touching a few letters verso, last few leaves frayed and damp-stained, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio in 4s (38 x 24 cm) Cox I p. 275 ('Although the title page reads "First Part," this volume is complete in itself'); Wing O166. (1)

Pugin (Augustus Charles, 1769-1832). Pugin's Gothic Ornaments, selected from Various Buildings in England and France, drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding, 1st edition, [1828-]1831, bound with: Ornamental Gables selected from Ancient Examples in England, drawn on Stone by his Pupil B. Ferrey, 1st edition, 1831; and Examples of Gothic Architecture, consisting of Plans, Sections, Elevations and Details, Vol. 1 [of 3], 1st edition, [1831], 3 works in 1 volume, first work with lithographic title page, 2 letterpress leaves, 98 lithographic plates of 99 (lacking number 84; plates numbered 1-100 as 1 plate double-page), second work with lithographic title, 21 lithographic plates (of 30), lacking text leaves, third work with engraved title and 53 engraved plates (of 73; 2 plates double-page; 1 coloured), lacking text leaves, spotting and soiling throughout, near-contemporary dark green half morocco, rubbed and worn, 4to, together with: Day & Son, publisher, Nature and Art, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1866-7, 68 chromo- or photolithographic plates, mild spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered, 4to; Street (George Edmund), Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, 1st edition, 1865, engraved frontispiece, 50 similar plates, 25 lithographic plans (several folding), spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, ownership blind stamps to blanks, bookplate, later calf over bevelled boards by Nutt of Cambridge, 8vo Fowler 258-60 for the works in the Pugin sammelband, which has the bookplate of Laurence A. Turner (1864-1957), master mason and woodcarver, whose commissions included the tomb of William Morris in Kelmscott churchyard. (4)

Richardson (Jonathan, the elder). Two Discourses. I. An Essay on the Whole Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting ... II. An Argument in behalf of the Science of a Connoisseur ... 1st edition, W. Churchill, 1719, bound without advertisement leaf; from the library of the earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, with bookplate and blind stamps as usual, contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine (slightly rubbed), front joint split but firm, 8vo, together with Reresby (Sir John), The Memoirs, containing Several Private and Remarkable Transactions, from the Restoration to the Revolution inclusively, 1st edition, [no publisher], 1734, spotting to first and last few leaves, 20th-century half calf to style, 4to Provenance: both works ex libris Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014); for Richardson's see The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, removed from Shirburn Castle, Part VI, Sotheby's, London, 25 October 2005, lot 1745. 'Richardson was the most important and prolific English writer on art of the first half of the eighteenth century' (ODNB). (2)

Aiken (Joan). Collection of inscribed first editions, 1953-82, comprising: All You've Ever Wanted, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1953; Black Hearts in Battersea, 1st UK edition, Jonathan Cape, 1965; Night Birds on Nantucket, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1966; The Smile of the Stranger, 1st US edition, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978; A Touch of Chill, 1st edition, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979; The Weeping Ash, 1st US edition, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980; The Girl from Paris, 1st US edition, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982; All You've Ever Wanted inscribed by Aiken 'For Peggy & Dick, from Joan, A minor gift but I hope the title will bring you luck' on the front free endpaper, remaining works all with similar personalised inscriptions by Aiken to the recipient Peggy Robinson and various members of her family, light spotting to All You've Ever Wanted and to edges of a few other volumes, all in original boards or cloth-backed boards, with the dust jackets, a few minor nicks to jackets, All You've Ever Wanted and The Weeping Ash jackets toned, 8vo Peggy Robinson appears to have worked at Jonathan Cape in the 1950s and 1960s; Aiken's inscriptions suggest that she became well acquainted with Robinson and her family. (7)

Awdry (Rev. W.). Tank Engine Thomas Again, Edward Ward, 1st edition, [1949], full-page colour illustrations throughout, a few minor marks to blank margins, contemporary pencilled inscription on front free endpaper dated 1949, stitching strained, original blue cloth gilt, very lightly marked, spine with some fading and loss to ends, in torn dust jacket, with some losses (affecting lettering on spine and clipping title on front panel), oblong 12mo, together with an early (circa 1948) edition of Thomas the Tank Engine, plus 17 Railway Series 1st editions by the same author, occasional minor marks or finger-soiling, Four Little Engines with pale dampstain to first few lower corners, Duck and the Diesel Engine lacking front free endpaper, The Twin Engines with some light creasing to leaves, Duke the Lost Engine with vertical crease to one leaf, all but one (number 26) in dust jackets (most not price-clipped), varying conditions, plus five Railway Series 1st editions by Christopher Awdry, all oblong 12mo Comprises Railway Series numbers 2, 4-6, 9 (two copies), 10-11, 13-15, 19-26, 28-29, 31-32, 36. (24)

Beaton (Cecil). The Book of Beauty, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1930, 28 plates including colour frontispiece, illustrations to text, original white cloth, gilt-titled spine, slight dust-soiling and marks, 4to Deluxe issue of Beaton's first book. Signed limited edition 47/110 copies. (1)

Bodkin (M. McDonnell). Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective, 1st edition, 1898, publisher's advertisements at rear (toned), occasional minor marks, one leaf with 4cm closed tear, endpapers spotted and toned, front pastedown with ownership name removed, front hinge nearly split, original pictorial cloth, mottled, some wear to extremities, spine darkened, 8vo The first collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the detective Paul Beck. His later book, The Capture of Paul Beck (1909), is credited with inventing the first detective family in fiction. A rare find as a first edition. (1)

Brod (Max, editor). Arkadia: Ein Jahrbuch fur Dichtkunst, 1st edition, Leipzig: Wolff, 1913, title printed in red & black, endpapers lightly spotted, front free endpaper with pencilled name 'Pasley', original pictorial boards, toned in places, foot of spine slightly torn at front joint, with minimal wear, original publisher's promotional leaflet loosely inserted, 8vo Believed to be from the library of Malcolm Pasley. This edition of collected works contains the first appearance of Franz Kafka's Das Urteil. (1)

Dirac (Paul Adrien Maurice). The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930, a few annotations, mainly in pencil, first and last few leaves with some very light spotting, front pastedown with ink signature 'C.W. Kilmister' and bookplate of Clive Kilmister, original cloth, lightly rubbed and marked, front cover with two small dents, faded spine a little frayed at ends, 8vo The English theoretical physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. He formulated the Dirac equation, which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. In 1933, Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schr”dinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Clive W. Kilmister was a British mathematician who specialised in the mathematical foundations of physics, especially quantum mechanics and relativity, and published widely in these fields. (1)

Farleigh (John, illustrator). Pindar's Odes of Victory, with an Introduction and a Translation... by C.J. Billson, Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 2 volumes, Oxford: Blackwell, 1928-1930, numerous black & white woodcut illustrations, partially unopened, untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, a little soiled and faded, some wear to extremities, spines with printed paper labels (one with small loss over front joint), 4to, together with Ravilious (Eric, illustrator), The Country Life Cookery Book, with a Few Hints and Reminders about the Kitchen Garden, by Ambrose Heath, 1st edition, [1937], black & white wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth, lightly spotted dust jacket, spine toned and rubbed, some edge-fraying with minor loss to rear joint at head (two small repairs to verso), 8vo, plus Sainsbury (Hester, illustrator), Eve's Legend, written in 1824 by Lord Holland, Haslewood Books series, 1928, hand-coloured wood engravings, some toning to endpapers, untrimmed, original decorative boards, some wear to extremities, spine a little toned, 4to, First item: limited edition - Olympian and Pythian Odes 78/250 copies, Nemean and Isthmian Odes 105/250 copies. Third item: limited edition, 127/300 copies. (3)

Harbou (Thea von). Metropolis, The Reader's Library, [1927], small horizontal split to upper blank margins of first few leaves, hinges cracked and final four leaves detached, original mauve cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket (designed by Aubrey Hammond), minor marks and a few tiny splits at upper and lower margins of rear panel, small 8vo First edition in English, first issue (with no mention of Metropolis in adverts on page [7] or the list on the lower flap of dust jacket. The first leaf is used as the front pastedown. An excellent copy of the book of the eponymous and iconic futuristic film of the same year. (1)

Johnson (B.S.). Everyone Knows Somebody Who's Dead, Covent Garden Press, 1973, original stiffened wrapper (slight marginal toning), 4to, limited signed edition 56/100, together with House Mother Normal, 1st edition, 1971, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, plus See the Old Lady Decently, 1st edition, 1975, original cloth, dust jacket (spine slightly faded), 8vo, with others related, some edited by Johnson including London Consequences, 1972 (inscribed "1/20th for Michael, from Bryan"), Street Children, 1964 (stamped 'Specimen Copy, not for resale), The Evacuees, 1968, All Bull: The National Servicemen, 1973, You Always Remember the First Time, 1975, B.S.J. A Monody to the plan of Milton on the death by suicide of B.S. Johnson in November 1973, by Alan Tucker, Keepsake Press, 1974 (limited edition of 125) and others, paperbacks, pamphlets and a quantity of duplicates of A Dublin Unicorn, Byron Press Pamphlet Series (limited editions of 250) From the Collection of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud. (approx 50)

Kafka (Franz). Die Verwandlung [in Die weissen Blatter: Eine Monatsschrift], 1st edition, Leipzig: Verlag der Weissen Bucher, 1915, 10 photolithographed caricatures, marginal stain to first few leaves, original printed wrappers, front cover with stain to fore-margin, joints splitting (rear cover nearly detached), worn spine lifting in places, 8vo This edition of Die Weissen Blatter contains the first edition of Kafka's Die Verwandlung (Metamorphosis), preceding its first appearance in book-form. (1)

Lang (Andrew, editor). The Brown Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1904, eight colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous black & white illustrations to text, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated brown cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Potter (Beatrix), The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1908, colour and black & white illustrations, half-title with contemporary ink ownership inscription, first four leaves (including free front endpaper) in incorrect order, some soiling and intermittent spotting, stitching strained in a couple of places, original red cloth, front cover with inset illustration, extremities a little rubbed, a few minor marks, small 4to, plus The Pink Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1897, numerous black & white illustrations, frontispiece with early ink ownership inscription to blank reverse, half-title and title with minor spotting at head of gutter, front hinge splitting after endpapers, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated pink cloth, faded, especially to spine, minor fraying to tail of spine, 8vo, with three other Fairy Books: The Blue Fairy Book, 8th edition, 1897; The Yellow Fairy Book, 3rd edition, 1897; The Orange Fairy Book, new impression, 1928, all 8vo (6)

Shaw (George Bernard). Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch, 1st edition, Constable and Company Ltd., 1921, inscribed by the author 'G. Bernard Shaw, Prior's Field, 27/6/21' on the front free endpaper, below a contemporary gift inscription, inner hinges cracked, front joint split, marked overall, 8vo, together with: Jones (Henry Arthur), Mrs. Dane's Defence. A Play in Four Acts, New York: Samuel French, 1908, bookplates of playwright Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), annotations in pencil and ink, original cloth, spine perished, 8vo; Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur), The Ship of Stars, 1st edition, Cassell and Company Limited, 1899, inscribed by the author 'Mrs Daintrey with best wishes from A T L Q.C., Christmas 1899' on the half-title, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, mild spotting, original red cloth, spine slightly faded, pale mottling to covers, corners bumped, 8vo; Masefield (John), Good Friday, A Play in Verse, William Heinemann, 1921, inscribed by the author 'For Sybil Jackson, from John Masefield, May 14. 15. 1926', laid-in typed letter signed, original blue cloth, dust jacket (slightly nicked), 8vo; Younghusband (Sir Francis) Within, Thoughts during Convalescence, 1st edition, Williams & Norgate, 1912, inscribed by the author 'From Francis Younghusband, Nov. 1912' on front free endpaper, autograph letter signed by the author and dated 1913 tipped to title page, later collector's bookplate to front patedown, endpapers spotted, original green cloth, front board ink-stained, 8vo; Bibesco (Marthe), The Eight Paradises, Travel Pictures in Persia, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, 1st edition in English, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923, inscribed by the author 'to dearest L‚onie, from Marthe, London 1924', with the bookplate of the recipient Leonie Leslie (1859-1943), maternal aunt of Sir Winston S. Churchill, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo; and approximately 40 others, including some 20 other inscribed works, and 20 assorted modern first editions, including Clarke (Arthur C.), A Fall of Moondust, 1st UK edition, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961, original red boards, slightly sunned along top edges, dust jacket slightly frayed at extremities, 8vo The Prior's Field of Shaw's inscription is the name of a school in Surrey founded in 1902 by Julia Huxley, which on several occasions hosted the Fabian summer school. (a carton)

Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, 1st edition, 1st issue, Cassell, 1883, frontispiece map in three colours, four-page publisher's catalogue at rear (coded 5G-783), a little spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, ink ownership inscription at head of title 'Master T.T. Middleton, Christmas 1883', inner hinges cracked, original brown cloth, slightly cocked, rubbed and marked, a little fraying to spine ends, some corner wear and a little frayed along upper joint, 8vo Prideaux 11, with the first issue points on pages 2, 7, 40, 63, 83, 127, 178 & 197. (1) NB: Amendment - revised estimate - now £2000-3000 (was £1500-2000)

Wodehouse (P.G.). My Man Jeeves, 1st edition, 1st impression, George Newnes, [1919], 1st impression printed by Butler & Tanner, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, light marginal toning, endpapers renewed, original blindstamped cloth, spine neatly restrengthened, some fading, 8vo McIlvaine A22a. The first appearance of Bertie Wooster and his more than capable valet Jeeves. (1)

Cobbett (William). Rural Rides..., new edition, 1853, colour folding map to front, some water damage, bookplate to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated red full morocco, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Gough (John), A History of the People called Quakers, from their first rise to the present time, 3 volumes, printed for Robert Jackson, Dublin, 1789, bookplates and period inscriptions to front endpapers, some light spotting, uniform contemporary full calf, boards and spines rubbed, hinges cracked, 8vo, and Smedley (Frank E.), Frank Farleigh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil, 1850, Lewis Arudel; or The Railroad of Life, 1852, numerous black and white illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light spotting and toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf bound by Riviere & Son, boards and spines water damaged, hinges cracked, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century literature and theology reference, some foreign language, some odd volumes, all leather bindings, condition is generally good, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

Shakespeare (William). The Norton Facsimile, The First Folio of Shakespeare..., 2nd edition, 1996, numerous black and white facsimiles, original gilt decorated red quarter morocco, foli, together with Ridpath (George), The Border History of England and Scotland..., facsimile edition, The Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1979, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly faded and marked, large 4to, and Leroy-Beaulieu (Anatole), The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, 3 volumes, reprint edition, New York, 1969, black and white folding map to front of volume 1, uniform original cloth, 8vo, plus other modern Shakespeare reference, Russia history, and other historical reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Boston (L.M.). The Children of Green Knowe, 1st edition, 1954, 6 black and white illustrations by Peter Boston, some minor spotting, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Finney (Charles G.), The Circus of Doctor Lao, 1st UK edition, Grey Wall Press, 1948, black and white illustrations by G.N. Fish, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Coe (Jonathan), Expo 58, 1st edition, 2013, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus Wolfe (Tom), The Painted World, 1st edition, USA, 1975, originl cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head, 8vo, and other modern first editions and fiction, including Nicholas Freeling, Anita Brookner, Graham Greene, Joan Fleming, Flying Officer X, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo From the Collection of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud. (3 shelves)

Wyndham (Henry Penruddocke). A Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, made in the Months of June, and July, 1774. And in the Months of June, July, and August, 1777, 2nd edition, Salisbury: E. Easton, 1781, engraved frontispiece and 16 plates (frontispiece bound after Preface, plate 11 bound in its place), extra-illustrated with approximately 150 additional plates, including numerous steel-engraved Welsh views (trimmed and mounted), 11 coloured aquantints from Sotheby and Smith's Tour Through Parts of Wales (1794), 1 double-page hand-coloured aquatint titled Conway Castle (imprint: Richard Godfrey, 1783), and approximately 15 lozenge-shaped woodcuts of Welsh towns (trimmed and mounted, dated 1610 on mount in manuscript), original plates variably spotted and offset, laid-in letter dated 1916 on Pen Moel, Chepstow letterhead discussing 'the word grangerize', all edges gilt, later green half morocco, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to (29.5 x 23 cm) A lavishly grangerised copy. (1)NB: Should read : approximately 15 mainly lozenge-shaped engravings of Welsh towns excised from a copy of John Speed's map of Wales (first published 1611)

Aldam (W.H.). A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," by An Old Man well known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published... with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies, and Samples of the Materials for Making Each Fly, 1st edition, John B. Day, 1876, half title, two mounted chromolithograhed plates by James Poole, twenty-two recessed oval mounts (on six thick leaves) with mounted flies and materials (most captioned in neat contemporary manuscript) printed in red and black throughout, lacking front endpaper, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, small light dampstain to lower cover, edges a little rubbed, 4to Westwood & Satchell, page 3. It is believed around 220 copies were printed. (1)

Bolten (Joachim Friedrich). Nachricht von einer neuen Thierpflanze, 1st edition, Hamburg: Herold, 1770, bound with, as issued: Epistola de novo quodam zoophytorum genere, 1st edition in Latin, Hamburg: widow of Herold, 1771, 2 works in 1 volume, 12 and 11 pp., engraved hand-coloured folding plate, first title page slightly soiled and with contemporary ink inscription 'No. 274', contemporary marbled paper wrappers, spine chipped, small section of loss to corner of front wrapper, 4to (28 x 21 cm), together with Winterschmidt (Adam Wolfgang), Beobachtung einer Stuben-Mke mit sehr viel kleinen Insekten, Nuremberg: [Winterschmidt], 1765, woodcut title vignette, engraved hand-coloured plate, modern marbled paper wrappers, 4to (23.5 x 18.5 cm); Sch”rg (Franz), Abbildungen und Beschreibung eines eisernen Back-Ofen, 1st edition, Munich, 1844, 2 lithographic text leaves, 7 lithographic plates, original lithograph wrappers, spine worn, edges nicked in places, folio Nissen ZBI 458 for Bolten (erroneously dating the Latin edition to 1770; despite the different dates in the imprints the two texts were apparently issued together). Bolten's work is an account of what is now known as the phylum cnidaria, and the Latin translation is dedicated to Linnaeus. Winterschmidt's describes the housefly (Musca domestica). Two copies of Sch”rg's work traced in libraries (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Sachsische Landesbibliothek). (3)

McIntosh (Charles). The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Thomas Kelly, 1828-9, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 15 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 16, lacking plate facing p. 1076), 15 uncoloured engraved plates, wood-engravings to text, coloured plates with tissue-guards, occasional spotting and browning, damp-staining to first few leaves in volume 2, effaced contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary morocco bookplate to volume 1 (the name effaced), contemporary streaked half calf, rubbed and worn, volume 2 front joint split but firm, 8vo, together with Jekyll (Gertrude), Wood and Garden, Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899, photographic frontispiece, 48 plates, spotting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, edges untrimmed, original blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with [Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland], The Little Flower Seekers, being Adventures of Trot and Daisy, in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight, 1st edition, Marcus Ward & Co., [c. 1880], 12 mounted chromolithograph plates, scattered light spotting, gift inscription dated 1888 to initial blank, original pictorial purple cloth, faded, spine-ends frayed, cloth split on rear joint, 4to; and 4 other 19th-century illustrated botanical books (11)

Margaret Gilmour, "Trying Toby and the Punch & Judy Show", first edition, 1925, illustrated by Jack Orr, in decorative boards.

Robin Hopper, "Functional Pottery", second edition, 2000; Victoria and Michael Eden, "Slipware", first edition, 1999; Paul Scott, "Painted Clay", first edition, 2001, and Michael Cardew, "Pioneer Pottery", 2002, all complete with dust jackets.

A A Milne, "The Christopher Robin Birthday Book", first edition, 1930; Robert Louis Stevenson "A Child's Garden Book of Verses", 1919, illustrated, and Sara Cone Bryant, "The Gingerbread Man and Other Stories", first edition, 1926.

Chris Wadsworth, "The Painted Lives of Percy Kelly", first edition, 2004, and "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Drawing", first edition, 2011, signed, both with dust jackets.

Gillian Naylor "Bloomsbury - The Artists, Authors and Designers by Themselves", 1990; Jane Renouf, "Alfred Heaton Cooper, Painter of Landscapes" 1997; Richard and Hilary Myers, "William Morris Tiles" 1996, and Jude Burkhouser, "Glasgow Girls, Women in Art and Design 1880-1920", first edition, 1990, all with dust jackets.

Robert Musil, "Tonka and Other Stories", first Englis edition, 1965; Racey Helps, "Two from a Tea-Pot" 1954, both with dust jackets, and Carine Cadby "The Dolls' Day", first edition, 1915.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) : The Princess Nobody, A Tale of Fairyland, illustrated by Richard Doyle, Longman's Green and Co, First Edition.

Pair Jack Vettriano prints, Robert Heindel print and limited edition print 'First Dance' (4)

A mixed collection of books including first editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Michael Jackson first edition Moonwalk, etc, a quantity of Beatrix Potter books, Beatles books, etc

A quantity of children's books including a 1926 first edition of Winnie The Pooh by AA Milne, illustrated by EH Shepard, with green cloth gilt decorated covers, (displayed in cabinet)together with a small collection of Beatrix Potter books and Summer Songs with music from "Flower Fairies of the Summer"

A Bound Volume, Life on Earth - A Natural History, Signed by David Attenborough with Dust Cover, First Edition 1979

A Vintage First Edition Bound Volume with Dust Cover, The Beatles, The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies, 1968

FIRST TRADE EDITION OF RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYAM TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD, ILLUSTRATED BY EDMOND DULAC 1909 AND ONE OTHER COPY

A box of mixed ephemera to include two first day edition Harry Potter books, postcards, sports annual / programme etc.

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) – a 30 line typed letter on Gipsy House headed paper dated 23rd August 1983 in which the author replies to a letter from a Mrs J M Bowen, a teacher by profession, in which she doubts the suitability of some of the morally questionable situations and characters appearing in his children's stories. Dahl begins 'I don't really know what to say to you because the points you make are essentially valid ones, but please remember that my job as a writer for YOUNG children (and by this I mean those who have not yet acquired the habit of reading) is to entertain them and not to teach them morals. Children below the age of eight or nine, as I am sure you know very well, are not fully civilized and have a different standard to the older ones. My feeling is that they treat the kind of fiction and fantasy that I write as pure entertainment and the only way in which they are influenced by it is that they begin to love books.' The lot includes a handwritten copy of Mrs Bowen's letter to Dahl, also a signed hardback copy of the 1960 Knopf edition of 'Kiss Kiss' (no dust cover), a 1980 first edition 'Tales of The Unexpected' and two other Dahl titles.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire First Edition, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows First Edition together with a set of wooden painted Russian dolls (3)

Schneider Cup related books and ephemera collection. The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, commonly called the Schneider Trophy or Schneider Prize was a trophy awarded annually (and later, biannually) to the winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats. The race was held twelve times between 1913 and 1931. It was intended to encourage technical advances in civil aviation but became a contest for pure speed with laps over a (usually) triangular course (initially 280 km, later 350 km). The contests were very popular and some attracted crowds of over 200,000 spectators. The race was significant in advancing aeroplane design, particularly in the fields of aerodynamics and engine design, and would show its results in the best fighters of World War II. This collection includes: Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda No. 1300, 1927 Schneider Trophy Contest: Collected Reports on British High Speed Aircraft, with an introduction by W.L. Cowley (London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1931). Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda No. 1575, Collected Reports on British High Speed Aircraft for the 1931 Schneider Trophy Contest, with an introduction by H.M. Garner (London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1934). T.S. Denham, Speed!, with an introduction by Professor A.M. Low, first edition (London: The Pilot Press, 1929). Four volumes of collected photographs, newspaper clipping and other related ephemera to include: The First Contest (1913 Monaco), Deperdussin (designed by Louis Becherau and flown by the winner Maurice Provost), Nieuport (Designed by Edouard Nieuport), The Second Contest (1914 Monaco), Sopwith Tabloid (Designed by H. Smith, T.O.M. Sopwith, F. Sigrist and S. Burgoine), Sopwith signatures, Herbert Smith and C. Howard Pixton signatures, The Third Contest (1919 Bournmouth), Supermarine Sea Lion (Designed by Reginald J. Mitchell), Failrey Illa (Designed by Richard Fairey), Sopwith Schneider (Designed under the general direction of W. George Carter), Spad (Designed by Andre Herbemont), The Fourth Contest (1920 Venice), Savoia 3.12. (Designed by Alessandro Marchetti), The Fifth Contest (1921 Venice), Macchi M.7. (Designed by Mario Castoldi, The Sixth Contest (1922 Naples), Supermarine Sea Lion 11 (Designed by Reginald J. Mitchell), The Seventh Contest (1923 Cowes), The Curtiss Racers, Supermarine Se Lion III (Designed by Reginald J. Mitchell), Blackburn Pellet (Designed by Major Frank A. Bumpus), Gloster 11 (Designed by Henry P Folland), The Eighth Contest (1925 Baltimore USA) …and much more

A Triang Minic ships, Original Series 1959-64, M860 first edition catalogue (1959) and a second edition catalogue (1960)

A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning. London: Printed for Samuel Speed, at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, near the Inner Temple-Gate, 1664. First and only edition, quarto, engraved portrait opposite title; rare; no auction sales since 1965; six U.S. copies in ESTC; bound in modern full calf, 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. A-L4, M2. http://estc.bl.uk/R12756 Estimate $3,000-4,000 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.