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(Signed and Inscribed) John Fowles Shipwreck Signed and inscribed to ffep 'Dear Dick Larn, I remember, as a very green young second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines, getting into trouble with a sailing cutter in the Solent and having finally to come alongside a moored destroyer; and I haven't forgotten the look of gleeful contempt in the eyes of the officer on watch, who leant over to ask what the hell we thought we were doing. I do hope this doesn't produce a same look in your eyes; all I can offer to counter it is Rex's and my own very sincere gratitude for being allowed to moor alongside your own scholarship and hard work. We'd never have reached land without it....,' first edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, London, 1974.

(Shipwrecks) Hampshire to the Thames Twenty four works A mix of hardbacks, limpbacks and booklets all vg to fine.Catalogue of the Archives of the Confederation of the Cinque Ports and of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports = Kent Council Archives Office revised edition 1979. 2nd edn (no date). Kent: Kent Archives Office; Renno, D. (2004) Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th century: (Pevensey - Eastbourne - Newhaven). Sevenoaks: Amherst; Renno, D. (2002) East Sussex Shipwrecks of the 19th century: (Pevensey, Hastings, Rye). Lewes: Book Guild; Street, S. (1992) The wreck of the Deutschland. 1. publ. London: Souvenir Press; Bingeman, J.M. (ed.) (2010) The First HMS Invincible: 1747 - 58), Her excavations (1980 - 1991. Oxford: Oxbow Books; Mew, Fred. (1962) Back of the Wight. Reprinted with Further Additions. IOW, the County Press; Waugh, M. (2003) Smuggling in Kent and Sussex 1700-1840. Revised and updated 2003. Newbury: Countryside Books; Chamberlain, David (1993) Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Downs, Kent. Deal, Kent: David Chamberlain; Perkins, D.R.J. (no date) The Great Storm Wrecks - on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Ramsgate, Kent: East Kent Maritime Trust; Hamilton, E.P. (no date) The Wreck of the Indian Chief - on the Long Sand, Thames estuary. Ramsgate: East Kent Maritime Trust; Holland, Sarah + (1982) Warship HMS Hazardous - investigating a Protected Wreck. Southampton: Hampshire & Wight Trust; Lane, A. (1999) Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: Tempus; Carpenter, E. (1985) Wrecks and Rescues off the Romney Marsh Coast. Lydd: Margaret F. Bird and Associates; Brummell, J.R. (no date) Ballards of the Wight (1 vol). Ryde, Isle of Wight: Lightbowns Ltd, Ryde; Hancock, Peter. (2008) Sunk on the Sunrise Coast. 400 Sole Bay Shipwrecks. Stroud. The History Press; Lane, A. (2000) Maritime Kent. Stroud: Tempus, Stroud, Glouc; Marsden, P. (1987) The Historic Shipwrecks of South-East England. 1st edn. Norwich: & Son Ltd, Norwich; Four copies of Volume 2-Section 5 of the Larn's 'Shipwreck Index of the British Isles....Kent (Downs). (24)

John Clare, The Rural Muse Poems, London: Whittaker & Co., First Edition 1835, engraved frontispiece of the poet's home, title vignette of Northborough Church; An Itnerary of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in Northamptonshire., around 1825.Qty: 2

Robert Taylor,Hurricane,first edition colour print, signed by R R Stanford Tuck,50x60cm,and two other signed first edition colour prints, Memphis Belle and Spitfire.

Illustrated Books - "Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Illustrated by Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) published by Art Union, London, 1863. Large landscape folio. First Edition. Burgundy buckram covers with gilt lettering. Marks, wear and bumping to covers and boards. Hinges split. Neat Victorian gift card mounted to front free endpaper. Discolouration to first page, minor spotting within, Very good engravings in the Pre-Raphaelite style.

Zerah Colburn. Locomotive Engineering and Mechanism of Railways, two volumes, first edition, 64 engraved plates, numerous further illustrations in text, original publishers cloth, folio, [London & Edinburgh: William Collins, 1871.]

Books. Antique English ceramic and silver reference, 20th c, comprising Jewitt (Llewellynn, FSA), The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, two volume set, first edition, London: Virtue and Co., 1878, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, 8vo; Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals, two volume set, first edition, London: John Lane, 1911, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, 8vo;  Gilhespy (F. Brayshaw), Crown Derby Porcelain, signed and numbered 417/600 by the author, Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1951, illustrated, original dustjacket over blue cloth, tipped-in presentation plate, 4to; Blackwood's three-part work on the white wares of the King Street Works; Blackwood & Heath, The King Street Factory, 1849-1935, illustrated, dj, hb, 4to; loan exhibitions of Derby porcelain; Quaker Pegg; Gabszewicz & Jellicoe's Isleworth Porcelain, n.d., original wrappers, 4to; Delft, Chaffers, F.S. Mackenna, Moore Binns, provincial Newcastle and York silver, Hall-Marks on Plate, etc

European Literature. Hirsch (Charles-Henry), Le Tigre & Coquelicot, first edition thus, Paris: Librairie Universelle, 1905, in-text illustrations after original lithographs, half-title, contemporary morocco over marbled boards, 8vo; Goethe, Gedichte, Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1859, finely bound in contemporary English black quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 8vo; fifteen volumes of belles-lettres uniformly bound, mixed imprints and dates, in French, including Tolstoy's La sonate à Kreutzer, fourth edition, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1890, Boccaccio, Dumas, Flaubert, etc., late 19th/early 20th c green cloth bindings, gilt-lettered morocco pieces, top edges gilt, foliate endpapers, 8vo; Villon (François) & Lacroix (Paul, editor), Œuvres, Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles/E. Flammarion, n.d. [late 19th/early 20th c], contemporary morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Pellisson's La Lecture en Classe et dans la Famille, 1900, morocco over marbled boards, 4to, etc., (20)

Antiquarian Books and Pamphlets, early 17th c and later, comprising [William Camden] Oratio in memoriam clarissimi viri Guilielmi Camdeni [...], [London]: s.n., [1623], 4pp, disbound, 4to; The Netherlands and the Dutch Republic, The Trial of Oldenbarnevelt, Hugo Grotius and Hogerbeets: Anon, Sententie uyt-ghesproocken ende ghepronuncieert over Hugo de Groot, ghewesen Pensionaris der Stadt Rotterdam, den achthienden May, anno sesthien-hondert neghenthien, first edition, second impression?, Graven-Haghe [i.e. The Hague]: By Hillebrant Iacobssz, 1619, title-page vignette of the Union of Utrecht's States Lion, [18]pp, later marbled wrapper over limp cloth boards, later collectors' book labels to pastedown, 4to; Politics: Morris (William), How I Became a Socialist. With some account of his connection with the Social-Democratic Federation. London: Printed and Published by the Twentieth Century Press, Limited, October, 1896, title-page with portrait of the author, the tract loose from the original wrappers, the latter chipped in places, 8vo; Shakespeare (William), Hamlet, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859, later wrappers, 8vo; another two plays, Otway (Thomas), Titus and Berenice, a tragedy. With a Farce call'd The Cheats of Scapin, two parts in one, [London]: J. Tonson, 1734, frontispiece, disbound, 8vo; Brough (Robert R.), Alfred the Great, London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, n.d., [1860], later wrappers, 12mo in 6s; Anon, A Letter from a Curate of Suffolk to a High-Church Member [...], first edition, London: s.n., 1712, disbound, 8vo; Johnson (The Late Rev Samuel), An Answer to the History of Passive Obedience, just now reprinted under the Title of a Defence of Dr. Sacheverell, London: Printed by John Darby, 1700, disbound, 8vo; Anon, Some Short and Plain Directions For the Spending of One Day well [...], seventh edition, London: T. Trye, 1741, disbound, 8vo; Scottish chapbooks: The Village Curate, An Interesting Tale; To which is added, The Country Clergyman, A Poem. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1828, anachronistic woodcut portrait vignette to upper-cover, 12mo; History of The Cathedral Church, Glasgow, fourth edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1871, original publisher's printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 8vo; Dryburgh Abbey, its Monks and its Lords, fourth edition, s.l.: Printed for the Proprietor, 1873, original publisher's pink wrappers, 8vo; Scott (Sir Walter, Bart), Description of the Regalia of Scotland, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Anderson, 1876, original publisher's blue wrappers, 8vo; An Historical Account of the Life of St. Margaret, (Queen of Scotland); with a Description of St. Margaret's Chapel, and of Mons Meg, Edinburgh: Robert Anderson, 1876, original publisher's pale blue wrappers, 8vo; & Americana; Early American Female Ownership. Philips (Ambrose), The Poetical Works. With the Life of the Author, Bell's edition, Edinburgh: [Printed] at The Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1781, engraved frontispiece and additional allegorical Neoclassical title, contemporary sheep, gilt-lettered red morocco piece, some light wear, minor chips, split joints but without movement, 12mo in 6s, (15)  Provenance: 15th: Francenia Sitgreaves (née Allibone; 1763-1794), first wife of Samuel Sitgreaves (1764-1827), Federalist Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (1795-97) and later trustee of Lafayette College; her ownership stamp to verso of frontispiece.

Miscellaneous Antiquarian Books. Abolitionism & Slavery: Hoare (Prince), Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq. Composed from his own Manuscripts, and other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of The African Institution [...], first edition, London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1820, portrait frontispiece engraved by Henry Meyer after George Dance, lower gutter of frontispiece and title-page with stain, both and prelims foxed, later calf back, lettered in gilt, over 19th c cloth, 4to; and two miscellaneous books, Dunois (The Countess of), Memoirs of the Court of England, [...], To which is added, The Lady's Pacquet (sic) of Letters, two parts in one, London: Printed, and Sold by B. Bragg, 1707, black-ruled title-page, contemporary panelled two-tone calf, worn, upper-cover detached, speckled edges, 8vo, & Classics: [Cellarius (Christoph) & Walch (Johann Georg, editor)], Christophori Cellarii Dissertationes academicæ, varii argumenti in summam redactæ, Lipsiæ: Io. Lud. Gleditschii, 1712, portrait frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, contemporary English panelled two-tone calf, gilt-lettered morocco piece, some minor wear, verso pastedown with contemporary manuscript inscription, 8vo, Military: Mauvillon (Jakob), Essai sur l'influence de la poudre à canon dans l'art de la guerre moderne, Leipsie: Jean Philip Haug Veuve, 1788, 7 folding engraved plates of maps/plans, occasional contemporary marginal notes, early 19th c English quarter-russia over marbled boards, split, disbound and worn, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; [&] Perrinet d'Orval (Jean-Charles), Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre, first edition, Paris: Coustelier, 1745, 12 engraved plates of diagrams, later cloth over marbled boards, red edges, 8vo, (5)  Provenance: 2nd: George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), of  Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire, and Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire; the spine gilt with his monogrammed supralibros. 4th: Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy FRS, FLS (1785-1851), of Lambeth, sometime MP and book collector; his bookplate to recto pastedown.

Children's Books. Four shelves, mid-20th c and later, including 1947 and later Rupert annuals, mixed bindings; Eagle Annuals; Richards (Frank), Billy Bunter Among the Cannibals, first edition, London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1950, publisher's cloth only, 8vo; further Billy Bunter books, 1950s and later, principally hardbacks, some with pictorial dustjackets, the latter often torn or fragmentary; Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles books, later impression, hardbacks; etc

Lawrence (D.H.), The White Peacock, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1911, half-title with publisher's advert to verso, issued without censored pp. 225/226 as per, some foxing in places, rear pastedown split but holding, original publisher's cloth, top edge cut only, somewhat worn, slight twist, 8vo; idem., Love Poems and Others, first edition, original review copy, London: Duckworth and Co., 1913, half-title, title-page ink stamped: TO BE PUBLISHED ON 20 FEB. 1913, original publisher's blue cloth, top edge gilt, ffep with indistinct MS ownership inscription, the rear with indistinct MS inscription or annotations, upper-cover with one soiled spot, 8vo, (2)

Pomology. Langford (Thomas), Plain and Full Instructions To raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees That prosper in England [...], Together with an Addition of two intire (sic) Chapters of Greens and Green-houses, second edition, London: Printed by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1696, black-ruled title-page, with the one-leaf letter to the publisher from John Evelyn praising the work, collating: [xxx], 180, [185]-220, [6] (publisher's adverts), 2 engraved plates as called, the first with explanatory letterpress leaf, some later 19th c annotations and marginalia, a respectable reading copy, some soiled grime, stains and wear in places, contemporary sheep, worn but holding, lacking endpapers, 8vo, [Wing L389; Henrey 216]; & Science: Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van), The Paradoxal Discourses [...], Concerning the Macrocosm and Microcosm, or the Greater and Lesser World, And their Union, two parts in one, first English edition, London: Printed by K.C. and Freeman Collins, for Robert Kettlewel, at the Hand and Scepter near S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1685, defective black-ruled title-page, collating: [viii], 127; 194, 197-215, [1] (erratum), 2 plates, an imperfect but respectable copy, some browning and soiled stains in places, but perfectly legible, some chipped leaves, yet marginal and without loss of text (but for the lacking leaf N2 as catalogued), disbound, 8vo, [Wing H1393], (2) Provenance: 1st: 1) R Copley; contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. 2) Early 18th c Jacobean armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. The first lacking one leaf, i.e. pages 195-196; the second lacking two leaves, i.e. pages 181-184.

Books. Polar Exploration & Travel. Three shelves of general stock, late 19th c and later, some Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including Elias (E.L.), The Book of Polar Exploration, first edition, George G. Harray & Co, 1928, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; explorers, Captain Cook, Ranulph Fiennes, Nansen, Franklin; other printed books; a collection of research, comprising Polar Relics I-V, late 20th c scrapbooks, wrappers, folio; Polar Portfolio I-V, late 20th c scrapbooks, wrappers, folio; another late 20th scrapbook, Captain Cook Country: Polar (and a few other) Relics, wrappers, folio; late 20th c manuscript transcript of the Diary of Lieut. Wyatt Rawson, RN, of the British Arctic Expedition 1875-76, two parts, modern ring binder; early 20th c typed transcript of Thomas Griffith Taylor's Antarctic Diary: Headquarters, 1911, From the holograph manuscript in the National Library of Australia (ms 1003/2/79), loose sheets; & the Diary of Harry McNish: Carpenter with Shackleton's expedition, 1914-1916, now in three parts, a photocopy of the manuscript in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, modern ring binders

Poland. Zahorska (Stefania), Smocza 13: Dramat w 3 aktach, first edition, first impression?, London: Nakładem, "Ńowej Polski", May 1945, 71pp, original publisher's pictorial wrappers designed by W. Machan, chipped, spine perished but holding, split pastedown gutter holding, title-page with two contemporary World War Two related stamps: REFERAT KULTURALNO-OŚWIATOWE: Polskeigo Czerwonego Krzyża [PAPER CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL: Polish Red Cross], & BIBLIOTEKA OFICERSKA [Officers' Library], 8vo  Provenance: 1st) an unknown Polish Armed Forces officers' library, based in the UK contemporary to publication; ink stamp and with associated MS library numbering. 2) Wn. 18/I. Kom* Wart; MS ownership inscription. 3) Ex Libris G.J. Szwarc-Bort/Varsavia-Londinium [Warsaw-London]; mid-20th c pictorial bookplate to pastedown. Another copy of this title traced in commerce, of the same date, but printed in Rome, is probably the second impression - given the author's exile and residency in London at the date of publication. Stefania Zahorska (1890-1961), also known by her pseudonym Pandora, was a leading Polish Jewish author, art historian, and intellectual, who, after fleeing the German invasions of both Poland and then France, settled in London, where she co-founded The Polish Writers Associated Ltd. The title of this her wartime play is taken from the eponymous Smocza, a street in the Warsaw Ghetto; the location of heroic acts by the Jews and horrific deeds by some German, Polish, Ukrainian, and other gentiles, as recorded in this drama.

Scotland. Jacobites and Jacobitism, three pamphlets, comprising Finch (Richard), A Defence of a Vindication of The Revd. Mr. Foster's Account of the late Earl of Kilmarnock: In Reply to The Rev. Mr. Samuel Wilson's Remarks [...], first edition, London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746, [ii], 109pp, slightly split with some moment, later wrappers, 8vo in 4s; Anon., Vindication of the Reverend Mr. Foster's Account Of the Late Early of Kilmarnock [...], second edition, London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746, 20pp, upper-margin cut close, later wrappers, 8vo in 4s; [&] Whitelock (Methuselah, pseud.), The Peace-Offering: An Essay, Shewing (sic) the Cession of Hanover [...], London: Printed for L. Raymond, and sold by A. Moore, 1746, 36pp, pp. 13-14 with chipped lower margin, with no loss of letters, later wrappers, 8vo in 4s; further Scottish interest, comprising Scot (Sir John, of Scotstarvet, Director of the Chancery), The Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen, For one hundred Years, viz. From 1550 to 1650, first edition, Edinburgh: Wal. Ruddiman jun. and Company; et al, 1754, [ii], xxxiv, 190pp, later 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, split and chipped, but holding, 12mo; a defective Dalkeith printed chapbook, split, original printed wrappers, chipped and disbound, 8vo; two theological works, Aberdeen and Edinburgh imprints, mixed bindings and sizes; [Keddie (Henrietta)], A Simple Woman, first edition, [London]: Smith, Elder & Co., 1865, pictorial title-page, contemporary quater-roan over marbled boards, 16mo; further unrelated 19th c books, mixed genres, bindings and sizes, (13)

Antiquarianism, Palaeography and Bibliography, Topography & History. Cheshire: Ormerod (George) & Helsby (Thomas, editor), The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, three volume set, bound in six parts, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882, double-column, plates and in-text illustrations, later 20th c institutional red over grey cloth, uncut, folio (48.5 x 33.5cm); Architecture: Birch (George H., FSA), London Churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries [...], London: B.T. Batsford, 1896, illustrated with 64 plates, contemporaneous green quarter-morocco over cloth, uncut, folio (49 x 39cm); Foster (J.J.), Concerning the True Portraiture of Mary, Queen of Scots, Illustrated by numerous examples selected from Famous Collections, de luxe edition copy no. 53/175 signed and numbered by the author, London: Dickinsons, 1904, original red morocco over cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, folio (44 x 34cm); Yorkshire: Whitaker (Thomas Dunham, FSA) & Morant (A.W., FSA, editor), The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, third edition, Leeds: Joseph Dodgson, London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878, additional architectural aquatint title-page, lithograph plates and folding pedigrees, contemporary tan morocco over bevelled boards, blocked in blind and gilt, rubbed, split at inner-gutter, folio (37 x 29.5cm); Hewins (W.A.S.), The Royal Saints of Britain, London: Privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1929, original publisher's cloth over boards, uncut, 4to; Brindley's & Weatherley's Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, London: Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1887, illustrated, later cloth, folio (38.5 x 28.5cm); Oliver Cromwell; Keynes (Simon, editor), Anglo-Saxon Charters: Supplementary Volume I, Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Charters, Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1991, folio (58.5 x 43.5cm); Douglas (David C., editor), The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury, London: Offices of The Royal Historical Society, 1944, original cloth, folio (43.5 x 34cm);  Colgrave (Bertram, editor), The Paris Psalter, MS. Bibliothèque Nationale Fonds Latin 8824, Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1958, later cloth, folio (47.5 x 36.5cm); Book of Common Prayer: Facsimile of the Black-letter Prayer-book of 1636 [...], Published for The Royal Commission on Ritual, et al, 1870, photo-zincographed, original publisher's cloth, worn and torn, folio (41.5 x 28cm); Studies in the Script of Tours, I: A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Volume II, Plates, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1929, later cloth, folio (42 x 32cm); Studi e Testi: Il Papiro Vaticano Greco 11, Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1931, later cloth preserving original wrappers, folio (43.5 x 32.5cm); Kenyon (Frederic G., editor), Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900, original green quarter-morocco over cloth, folio (40 x 29cm); incunabula: Facsimiles from Early Printed Books in The British Museum, 1897, original cloth over papered boards, folio (39.5 x 29cm); Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in The British Museum, Part I: Hiberno-Saxon and England to A.D. 1100, 1914, bound en suite to the latter as issued, folio (40 x 29cm); The Worshipful Company of Stationers, 1903, folio (38 x 28cm); Architecture, Italy: Medieval: Jacobi (C., photographer), Dettagli di altari, monumenti, scultura ecc. Della Basilica di San Marco in Venezia, part VIII only, [Venice]: Ferdinando Ongania Edit., 1881, plate volume of approx. 60 plates of heliotypes only, miscellaneous un-sequential numbering, some with two numbers to a plate, loose gatherings in original publisher's wrappers enclosed in a portfolio of cloth over printed papered boards, folio (42 x 34cm); & Roman: Moretti (Giuseppe), Ara Pacis Augustae, two parts: text volume and plate portfolio, Roma: La Libreria Dello Stato, 1948, double-column, the first part with in-text illustrations, the second with loose plates as issued, original cream cloth gilt over boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, folio (42.5 x 31cm); etc., (29) Withdrawn ex-library stock, with their bookplates and labels, stamps &/or stickers, and in cases their institutional bindings. Some stamps might affect letterpress or plates. Unexamined and sold with all possible faults and not subject to return.

Walker (John), Elements of Geography, and of Natural and Civil History, second edition, [&] The Universal Gazetteer [...], two volumes, London: Printed and Sold by Darton and Harvey, et al, 1795, the first illustrated with 30 folding engraving plates, most of which are maps and one of which is a hand-coloured didactic chart, the second double-column, bound en suite in contemporary calf gilt, rubbed and tired, 8vo, (2)

Books. Four shelves of general stock, 19th c and later, including pre-First World War propaganda: Offin (T.W., Jun.), How The Germans Took London. Forewarned, Forearmed, first and only edition, Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant & Co., 1900, original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, 8vo; travel: Planta's New Picture of Paris [...], thirteenth edition, London: Samuel Leigh, 1822, folding frontispiece and plates, some with repairs, original publisher's black roan, lettered in gilt, split though holding, 12mo in 6s; further 19th c books, including decorative pictorial bindings; Gladstone; literature and non-fiction; a 20th c vellum accounts book; periodicals; harlequin volumes; etc

Cookery. Collingwood (Francis) & Woollams (John), The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper [...], fourth edition, London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman, et al, 1806, lacking portrait frontispiece, half-title, [xxviii], 383, [1]pp (publisher's advert), 13 plates, some foxing and stains in places, first 5 leaves creased &/or somewhat tatty, contemporary sheep covers, very worn and chipped, lower-cover off, perished spine holding, 8vo

Antiquarian and Later Books. One and a half shelves, early 19th c and later, including leather and part-leather bindings, Sitwell (Constance), Smile at Time, tipped-in presentation ALS from the author, first edition, s.l., s.n., n.d. [privately printed, c. 1945], original cloth, 8vo, Maurice Baring and other Modern Firsts, Decadent Literature, Folio Society, etc., mixed sizes

Palaeography. Wales: The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry, The First Duke of Beaufort through Wales in 1684. By Photo-lithography From the Original MS. of Thomas Dineley, with a Preface by Richard Banks, London: Blades, East & Blades, 1888, original publisher's red cloth gilt, slight twist, uncut, contemporary presentation to title, slightly later crested book label: John Henderson, 4to; Burgoyne (Frank J., editor), Northumberland Manuscripts. Collotype Facsimile and Type Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript Preserved at Alnwick Castle [...], Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, original green cloth, top-edge gilt, pastedown with Cheltenham Public Library bookplate, 4to; Sullivan II (Ernest W., editor), The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and others, a Facsimile Edition, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988, dustjacket over boards, 4to; Flower (Robin, editor), The Parker Chronicle and Laws (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. 173), Published for The Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1973, original brown cloth, pictorial cloth, folio; [&] Clephan (R. Coltman, FSA), The Tournament, its Periods and Phases, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919, original publisher's red cloth, pictorial gilt, armorial bookplate: John Gretton, Stapleford [Park, Leicestershire, later Baron Gretton], 4to, (5)

Bindings & Periodicals. European belles-lettres and miscellaneous non-fiction, late 18th c and later, including Lettres de la Marquise du Deffand à Horace Walpole, four volume set, first edition thus, Paris: Chez Ponthieu, Libraire, 1824, contemporary English quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, red speckled edges, 8vo; [music] Laub (Thomas), Om Kirkesangen, first edition, København: C.A. Reitzels, 1887, half-title, contemporary speckled calf gilt over cloth, 8vo; [bibliography & bibliophily] Koenig (Robert), Deutsche Litteraturgeschichte, Bielefeld & Leipzig: Delhagen & Klasing, 1883, colour and monochrome folding or full-page plates of medieval manuscripts, incunabula and other books, in-text illustrations, contemporary brown quarter morocco over cloth, 4to; Periodicals. Cruikshank (George, illustrator), The Comic Almanack for 1835, London: Charles Tilt, black-ruled, illustrated, split but holding, original publisher's cloth, twist, 12mo; Dickens (Charles), The Household Narrative of Current Events, London, 1852, black-ruled double-column, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Pearson's Magazine, volumes I-II, January-December, 1896, & volume VIII, July-December, 1899, original publisher's cloth, the last volume including the first appearance in print of Cutcliffe Hyne (C.J.), The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; The Strand Magazine, July-December, 1893 only, including five of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, contemporary red roan gilt over cloth, 8vo; The Imperial Journal, two volume set, Manchester: James Ainsworth, n.d. [1850], black-ruled double-column, plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary calf over cloth boards, worn, 4to; The Sunday Magazine, Christmas 1872: One New-Year's Night and other Christmas Stories, illustrations and adverts, original pictorial wrappers, 8vo; [newspaper] The London Gazette, Number 19093, Tuesday, October 15, 1833, duty stamps, 4to, others, mixed bindings and sizes, (38) Sold as a collection of bindings and as such not subject to return. Some volumes are ex-lib, with their corresponding bindings, numbering to other bindings, internal stamps, and/or bookplates & labels.

Modern Firsts & Signed Books. Rushdie (Salman), Haroun and the Sea of Stories, signed by the author, London: Granta Books in association with Penguin Books, 1990, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket designed by James Marsh, 8vo; seven further works autographed by their authors, Stanley Middleton, Maie Casey, Diana Souhami, John Hosfall, James Herriott, & Dan Cruickshank; Orwell (George), The Collected Essays Journalism and Letters, volume IV only: 1945-1950, first edition thus, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, dj over blue cloth as issued, 8vo; [Americana] Hemingway (Ernest), Across the River and into the Trees, first edition in book form, New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1950, original cloth only, 8vo; [Russia] Paustovsky (Konstantin), his autobiography Story of a Life, five volumes only (of six), Childhood and Schooldays, A Slow Approach of Thunder, Years of Hope, Southern Adventure, & The Resltess Years, first UK editions, London: Harvill Press, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, & 1974, original publisher's pictorial dustjackets over cloth boards, varying degrees of wear, 8vo; Pasternack's Doctor Zhivago, first English edition, sixth  impression, 1958, chipped original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo; Hope (Anthony), The Prisoner of Zena, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, n.d., original cloth, worn with slight losses, 8vo; others, (20)

Minton - The Arthurian Legend - A limited edition 1993 bone china figure MN1 'Arthur The Once & Future King', the first in a collection of Three Figures by John Ablitt, no. 101/250. Housed within the original box, with certificate and sword. Measuring approx. 46cm x 30cm x 30cm.

Howard Hodgkin poster: Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center, 1989, including 'Venetian Glass (1989)', first edition serigraph, 97 x 87 cm, unframed (Protective sleeve not included in this lot)

Literature to include T E Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Oriental Assembly, 1939 first edition in original dust jacket), Graham Greene, Tennyson etc (20+) together with a limited edition (1653/2000) Shades of Jane Austen (1975) and two copies of a David Osborn script "The Scent of Danger" which was based on a novel by Donald MacKenzie and made into the 1960 film "Moment of Danger" starring Trevor Howard.

Mixed library to include Sphere Magazines (1953), a folio of Redoute Roses, a 1934 map of Madeira, Mrs Gaskell's Cranford (1891) a first edition Dick Francis and others (10+)

An extensive collection of novels by "BB", the pen name for Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) who won the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature with his book The Little Grey Men, of which there are two copies in this lot (1952 & 1959). Further stories include 10+ first editions and a limited edition of one of BB's last books Fisherman's Folly (49/600) signed by the publisher Tom O'Reilly (2003)d etc

H.M. Bateman - 'The man who missed the ball on the first tee at St. Andrews', limited edition print, numbered 1/980 with artist's watermark below, 26 x 40 cm, framed

A library of late 19th and early 20th century works by R L Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling (30+) including Thy Servant a Dog by Kipling published by MacMillan (1938) in its original dust jacket and an early Collected \verse of Rudyard Kipling (first edition Royal Octavo printed in September 1912)

Flora Thompson - Lark Rise, first edition 1939, in fine modern tooled calf binding by Bayntun-Riviere

Thomas Hardy - Major of Casterbridge, 1886 first edition in book form, two Vols. Finely rebound in tooled calf with original binding retained to rearBindings are in generally very good condition, a few time stains, fox marks to interior, otherwise contents are good, advertising pages to rear and original bindings retained to rear of each book. Binder anonymous, foxing is sporadic but only occasional

Complete deck of 52 cards by Willis & Co. - Deakins's 1st circa 1886 depicting political characters associated with Home Rule for Ireland campaign. Cartorama 84, item 205. From the WOPC website, by Barney Townsend:1st edition of Deakin's Political Playing Cards, printed by W.H. Willis & Co., London, 1886. The packs were printed in three editions by Willis and Co., and the first edition sold 60,000 packs in three months. The slogan "Home Rule for Ireland" was popularised by Isaac Bath and Parnell (King of Clubs), leaders of the Movement. Other political personages can be seen depicted in the remaining court cards.After the Conservatives lost the 1880 election and Disraeli's death the year after, Salisbury (King of Diamonds) emerged as Conservative leader in the House of Lords, with Sir Stafford Northcote leading the party in the Commons. He became Prime Minister in June 1885 when the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone resigned, and he held the office until January 1886. When Gladstone ('Grand Old Man', King of Hearts) came out in favour of Home Rule for Ireland, Salisbury opposed him and formed an alliance with the breakaway Liberal Unionists and the won the subsequent general election. He remained Prime Minister until Gladstone's Liberals formed a government with the support of the Irish Nationalist Party, despite the Unionists gaining the largest number of votes and seats in the 1892 general election. Provenance: Estate of Christopher Rayner, long-standing member of the International Society of Playing Cards and at various times Secretary, Chairman, Vice-President and President of the Society.

Clare Leighton - Country Matters, 1937 first edition and Four Hedges, 1935 first edition. Both in fine modern binding. (2)

Arnold Bennett - The Clayhanger Family, Methuen and Co, 1st Edition, 1925, 27 of 200 numbered and signed copies, in fine Sangorski and Sutcliffe full calf binding, together with Clayhanger, 1910 first edition, signed by the author, in fine full calf binding by Riviere-Bayntun; The Bright Island, 1924, printed in red and black, full vellum, 4to, signed by the author and numbered 70 of 200, in fine slip case. (3)

Jane Austen - The Works of Jane Austen, illustrated by Charles E. Brock, 6 books in 5 volumes, Macmillan & Co. 1901-1904, numerous colour plates, later bound in red quarter leatherNot first editions of this edition, binder is anonymous, good overall condition

Jane Austen - The Works of Jane Austen, illustrated by Charles E. Brock, 6 volumes, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. & New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1950, numerous colour plates, later bound in red quarter leather by ZaehnsdorfFirst editions in this edition (1950) bindings by Zaehnsdorf, excellent condition just minor wear, occasional slight time-staining - spotting to fore-pages

A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner, 1928 first edition, together with Now We Are Six, 1927 first edition. (2)

M. R. James - Suffolk and Norfolk, 1930 first edition, in good modern binding

H. E. Bates - A Threshing Day, one of 300 signed copies, 1931, together with 'Charlotte's Row', one of 107 signed copies; The Spring Song, 1927, first U.S. edition, with illustration by William Roberts, in fine Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding. (3)

Lionel Edwards (illustrator). Shires and Provinces; More Shires & Provinces, by "Sabretache", 2 volumes, London 1927, 1928 (Shires and Provinces is 2nd edition), folio, in tooled cloth and fragmentary dust jackets, together with My Scottish Sketch Book, 1929 first edition. (3)

Beatrix Potter - The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition, first printing with "All rights reserved" to foot of title, 4to, 1908, together with The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1905, and The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1911. (3)Roly-Poly Pudding, binding is in nice condition, minor damage to spine, colours are bright, some time stains to contents (see images) binding is securepatty-pan - binding is good, minor marks to contents, overall good Timmy Tptoes - loss to spine, otherwise binding good, some staining to contents (see images)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure, first edition in book form, etched frontispiece (now detached), original green cloth, together with A Changed Man, 1913 first edition and two others - Human Shows Far Phantasies, 1925, Winter Words, 1928. (4)

Hot Wheels - 40 factory sealed blister packed vehicles to include #FJY00 McLaren P1, #FJY03 Lotus Esprit S1, #L9923 2008 First Edition Corvette Grand Sport and others. Items appear Mint in very good-excellent packaging. Some storage wear to the backing cards (This does not constitute a guarantee) RG

THE IMPERIAL CITY OF PEKING, CHINA VOL. II; THE DECORATION OF THE PALACE BUILDINGS IN PEKING1906Photographs of Palace buildings of Peking compiled by the Imperial Museum of Tokyo. Collotyped from the negatives taken by K. Ogawa, with explanatory captions in Japanese, Chinese and English, Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1906, limited edition to 500 copies, 107 (plates 65-172) collotype plates, text in original wrappers and loose plates (as issued) housed in publisher's original gilt titled and decorated covers, leather ties, (lacking 2 plates (nos. 70 and 85)); and K.Ogawa, Decorations of Palace Buildings of Peking, Imperial University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1906, limited edition to 1000 copies, English and Japanese texts, together with 80 plates, and 81 loose plates (as issued), comprising 80 numbered, of which 20 hand-coloured and tipped-onto black card, and 2 folding colour printed plans of Peking, and one unnumbered plate, publisher's decorative brown silk portfolio with gilt decoration on upper cover, cloth ties, (lacking 15 plates (nos. 23-28, 37-39, 42, 47-48, 54, 56, and 68)).48.7cm (19 1/8in) x 37.5cm (14 3/4in) (2).Footnotes:一九零六年 小川一真《清代北京皇城寫真帖第二卷》及《北京皇城建築裝飾》Provenance: Arthur Probsthain bookshopFollowing the Boxer Rebellion the Imperial University of Tokyo commissioned an investigation to record the architecture and decoration of the Forbidden City and Palace grounds. This work represents the first complete photographic survey of the Forbidden City. Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) was considered as a pioneer in the development of photography and photomechanical printing in Japan and was appointed as the official photographer and editor. The project was also overseen by architectural scholar Ito Chuta (1867-1954) who was given unprecedented access to the palace.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

° ° Baskerville Noble, Mark – Two Dissertations upon the Mint and Coins of the Episcopal-Palatines of Durham, 4to, 1780, later cloth. Charles, Earl of Liverpool. A Treatise On The Coins Of The Realm In A Letter To The King, University Press, Oxford, 1805, tooled calf, first edition. (2)

° ° Ducarel, A.C. A series of about 200 Anglo-Gallic, or Norman and Aquitain coins of the ancient Kings of England, London 1757, first edition, bound with Pegge, S. An essay on the coins of Cunobelin...London 1766, 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked leather spine. Another copy, bound with Lindsay, J. A View of the Coinage of the Heptarchy..., Cork 1842, 4to, quarter morocco. (2)

° ° Cooke, William. The Medallic History of Imperial Rome From the first Triumvirate, under Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar, To the removal of the Imperial Seat, by Constantine the Great,.. London 1781, first edition, 4to, 2 vols, contemporary gilt calf.

° ° Humphreys, Henry Noel. Ancient Coins and Medals. London: Grant and Griffith, 1850. Octavo, original elaborately embossed full brown calf, marbled endpapers with 114 relief facsimiles of coins and medals on ten thick mounts, plated in the historically accurate metals; a second edition, 1851 (2) 1850 first edition all ten plates complete with coin reliefs; occasional grafiti, both shown; some damp-damage, an example shown. Images 5/6/7/10//12/13/14/15 all 1850 edition.1851 edition - without marbled endpapers; all ten plates complete; less corrosion than 1850 copy; images11/16/17.

° ° Vertue, G. Medals, Coins, Great-Seals, Impressions, From the Elaborate Works of Thomas Simon, Chief Engrvaer of the Mint to K.Charles the 1st..., first edition, London 1753, 4to, later quarter calf Simon, Thomas – Medals, Coins, Great Seals, Edward, E. The great seals of England from the time of Edward the Confessor to the reign of his majesty William the Fourth : illustrated by thirty-eight plates, containing exact fac-similes of the seals in their present condition / engraved by the process of Achilles Collas, with historical and description notices, London, Henry Hering, 1837, folio. (2)

Designed by Roy Lichtenstein in 1988 exclusively for Rosenthal. Glazed porcelain service plate showcasing fragments of comic strips and pop art style with dots, bold lines and a color scheme of yellow, blue, black, and white. First introduced in Germany on March of 1990. A rare limited edition, 1075 of 3000. Artists signature printed on the back. This item has its original box. Box dimensions: 13.5"L x 13.5"W x 1.25"H. Artist: Roy LichtensteinIssued: 1990Dimensions: 12.25"WEdition Number: 1075 of 3000Condition: Age related wear.

An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection. 192-pages oversize paperback book. A collection of prints by major contemporary American artists. ISBN: 9780520227637. Artist: Karin BreuerIssued: 2000Dimensions: 12"L x 1"W x 13"HEdition Number: First EditionManufacturer: University of California PressCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.

3 first edition books by Alistair MacLean 'HMS Ulysses' 1955, 'The Guns of Navarone' 1957 and 'The Last Frontier' 1959, all with dust covers

David ANDREW (1934) Remembrance of things past Limited edition print 9/20 Signed, titled, numbered and dated '75 71.5cm x 58.5cm Postage is available on this lot from £42.50 to a UK address. internationally renowned artist, represented by Messums, David Andrew received enormous encouragement from the august Ben Nicholson during his lifetime. He was born in Redruth, and initially trained at the Falmouth School of Art and later at the Slade in London in 1958/59. During this period, he drew inspiration from artists like Ben Nicholson and Piet Mondrian and delved into the psychology of perception. He had his own personal connection with Nicholson; although Nicholson was not associated with Falmouth School of Art but, he became David's most important mentor, mainly during his fourth year at Falmouth, and his first year at the Slade. This good fortune came about when he sent Nicholson a copy of an essay which he had entered for a competition on 20th Century Painting, - in which David had referred to Nicholson. Ben invited David to his house, and with the brio of youth, he asked if he might bring a painting of his own along to show him. Nicholson, once shown David's work, talked obliquely around painting, making associations with expressive hand movements, influencing him more by enthusiasm for the “feeling” he valued in paintings, than by any facts or theories attaching to them. David found Nicolson’s energy and enthusiasm were as inspiring as his paintings, which stayed with him over the course of his lifetime. From time to time, Nicholson would drop David a card out of the blue, inviting him to come and see what he had been doing. He always asked for David's comments. He was never dismissive, whatever thoughts David happened to express about what he, Nicholson, was doing. He reciprocated with critical feedback on the paintings that David had lugged along with him on his motorbike. Following his student years, David taught at Bournemouth and Portsmouth Colleges of Art while spending summers painting in the vibrant Mediterranean light and along the coasts of the USA and Canada, using a converted recreational vehicle as a mobile studio. In 1971, he assumed a teaching position at Queen's University in Canada, where he served as Associate Professor until 1995. In 2004, David Andrew returned to Cornwall, where he continued his artistic pursuits in Mousehole. Internationally renowned, and represented by Messums, David received enormous encouragement from the august, Ben Nicholson during his lifetime. Born in Redruth, David Andrew initially trained at the Falmouth School of Art and later at the Slade School in London in 1958-59. During this period, he drew inspiration from artists like Nicholson and Piet Mondrian and delved into the psychology of perception, which is evident within his works. Indeed, he had his own personal connection with Nicholson; Nicholson was not associated with Falmouth School of Art but, none the less, he turned out to be David's most important mentor, mainly during his fourth year at Falmouth, and the first year at the Slade School, London. This good fortune came about when he sent Nicholson a copy of an essay which he had entered for a competition on 20th Century Painting, - in which Andrew had referred to Nicholson. Ben invited David to his house, and with the brio of youth, he asked if he might bring a painting of his own along to show him. Nicholson, once shown David's work, talked obliquely around painting, making associations with expressive hand movements, influencing him more by enthusiasm for the “feeling” he valued in paintings, than by any facts or theories attaching to them. His energy and enthusiasm were as inspiring as his paintings, which subsequently stayed with Andrew from then on. From time to time, Nicholson would drop David a card out of the blue, inviting him to come and see what he had been doing. Visits from then on were always made from Nicholson's invitation. He always asked for David's comments. He was never dismissive, whatever thoughts David happened to express about what he, Nicholson, was doing. He reciprocated by looking at the paintings that David had of course lugged along with him on his motorbike and reciprocated with critical feedback. Following his student years, he taught at Bournemouth and Portsmouth Colleges of Art while spending summers painting in the vibrant Mediterranean light and along the coasts of the USA and Canada, using a converted recreational vehicle as a mobile studio. In 1971, he assumed a teaching position at Queen's University in Canada, where he served as Associate Professor until 1995. In 2004, David Andrew returned to Cornwall, where he continued his artistic pursuits in Mousehole. This piece is in good condition overall, with some marks present to the frame.

Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne 'House At Pooh Coner 1928 First Edition + Winnie The Pooh AAM Leather Bound Edition

IWC Schaffhausen Aquatimer Chronograph "Laureus", Ref. IW379507. Full Set 2019. Edelstahl, kautschukbeschichtet, einseitig drehbare Lünette, limitierte Auflage Nr. 107/1000 Stück. Automatic-Werk Kal. 89365, sehr gute Gangwerte (+7s/d, 283°). Dunkelblaues Zifferblatt mit Leuchtindizes und Datumsanzeige, Leuchtzeiger. Originales Kautschukband mit Stiftschließe in Edelstahl. Guter Zustand, leichte Gebrauchsspuren an Gehäuse und Armband. Original Box, Garantiekarte, Anleitung und Kaufrechnung aus 05/2022 von Watchgold und IWC-Reparaturbeleg aus 07/2022 anbei, Erstkauf 09/2019. Durchmesser ca. 45mm ohne Krone.| IWC Schaffhausen Aquatimer Chronograph "Laureus", ref. IW379507. Full set 2019. Stainless steel, rubber coated, unidrectional turnable bezel, limited edition no. 107/1000 pieces. Automatic movement cal. 89365, very good working order (+7s/d, 283°). Dark blue dial with luminous indices and date display, luminous hands. Original rubber strap with pin buckle in stainless steel. Good condition, light signs of wear on case and strap. Original box, warranty card, manual and purchase invoice from 05/2022 by Watchgold and IWC repair letter from 07/2022 enclosed, first purchase 09/2019. Diameter approx. 45mm without crown.

Robert Harrop 'The Camberwick Green Collection' figurines comprising Limited Edition and First Edition CGS01 Mickey Murphy in his Bakery, CG87 The Mayor 'Tidy Up Trumpton' cup, Limited Edition CGEV05 The foreman, plus others as shown. Height 10.5cm, all are in mint boxed condition with inner packaging and leaflets. (10)

Ten Exclusive First Edition 1:76 scale model coaches, boxed

Three volumes, A Reproduction of The First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica in slip case