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Binding.- Genealogy.- Vitignano (Cornelio) Vera genealogia e discendenza della serenissima et invittissima prosapia d'Austria, first edition, collation: A-E4, title with woodcut arms recto and verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials and printer's device to final verso, sig. D lightly browned, some spotting or light staining, handsome 17th century red morocco richly gilt, with the arms of Cardinal Vidone, covers with central arms within various foliage, sawtooth or filet borders, spine in four compartments, each with a central star, the uppermost compartment with a later ink number 8, lacking ties, spine ends and corners skilfully restored, little spotting, 4to (binding 214 x 154; text block 208 x 136mm.), Naples, Giovanni Giacomo Carlino for Enrico Bacco, 1599.  *** Handsome binding for Cardinal Vidone on a work tracing the genealogy of the House of Austria. Vidone having studied at Pavia and Perugia arrived in Rome during the pontificate of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605). His rise through the church hierarchy was rapid, eventually earning the important post of Treasurer General of the Apostolic Chamber, and Commissary General of the papal army in 1625, thereby effectively running the entire administration of papal domains. He was made a cardinal on 30th August, 1627. His short period as a cardinal allows us to date this binding quite precisely to between 1627 and the year of his death in 1632. 

Lead sheeting.- Remond de Saint-Albine (Pierre) Mémoire sur le Laminage du Plomb, first edition, woodcut ornaments, Macclesfield copy with embossed stamp to title and South Library bookplate, contemporary vellum-backed boards, spine titled in manuscript, Paris, Pierre Prault, 1731; another edition, third edition (first illustrated edition), title with engraved vignette of foundry, 3 folding engraved plates by Dheulland, some light spotting or soiling, contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut, spine repaired, Paris, Jacques Guerin, 1746 § [Le Normant (A., suppliers of rolled lead sheeting)] Mémoire sur le Plomb Laminé qui se fabrique a Paris et a Déville-les-Rouen, ?first edition, half-title (soiled), stitched, Orleans, 1822, 4to & 8vo (3)*** An interesting group of works on rolled lead sheeting for roofing and gutters. Rolled lead had been in use in Britain since 1670 but there was resistance in France from the guild of plumbers. Remond de Sainte-Albine proposes the advantages of rolled sheet versus cast lead and explains the manufacturing techniques. The final work proves that the argument was still ongoing nearly a hundred years later. We have been unable to trace another copy of this edition although there are a few copies in libraries of an 1807 Parisian edition by Hénée.

British Isles.- Bayley (John) The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plates including double-page plan, some spotting, bookplate of Sir William Browne ffolkes, contemporary calf,  joints split, lacking labels, 1821 § Granville (A.B.) The Spas of England, 3 vol., plates and illustrations, folding tables, lacking folding map, frontispiece of vol.1 loose, original cloth, soiled, 1841 § Sawyer (A.R.) Accidents in Mines, in the North Staffordshire Coalfield, plates, many folding, original cloth, worn, lacking spine, London & Hanley, 1886 § R.C.H.M. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, 5 vol., maps and illustrations, original cloth, 1924-30, rubbed or worn; and 12 others, British topography, v.s.; sold not subject to return (23)

Petrarchan love poems.- Contile (Luca) Le rime di messer Luca Contile divise in tre parti, con discorsi, et argomenti di m. Francesco Patritio et m. Antonio Borghes, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, head-pieces and historiated initials, some worming in text, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 17th century sheep, gilt spine in compartments and with red morcoco label,  joints starting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and extensively scuffed, [Gamba 1333; Fontanini I, p. 498; EDIT 16 CNCE 13182], 8vo, Venice, Francesco Sansovino & Co., 1560.  *** Handsomely printed first edition of these love poems in the style of Petrarch, written by this Italian poet, playwright, historian and diplomat.   

Wild (John James) Bookbinding in the Library of All Souls College, 6 facsimile titles and 12 plates including 6 fine chromolithographs heightened with gold, loose as issued in original wrappers (browned & frayed at edges), preserved in cloth folder with ties, 1880 § Foucquet (Jean) Facsimiles of Two "Histoires" from vols. I and II of the Anciennetés des Juifs...in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson, 2 fascicules, [one of 20 copies], signed presentation copy from Thompson to Allan H.Bright inscribed at head of titles, 5 photogravue and 4 colour plates, small tear to lower edge of larger fascicule, original cloth-backed wrappers, uncut, lightly browned, together in original cloth-backed folder with ties, privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1903 § Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plates, illustrations, handsome contemporary tree calf, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spines gilt, g.e., joints split with one cover loose, 1838, a little rubbed; and c.25 others, bibliography, including some old book sale catalogues, v.s. (c.30)

Blake (William) The Book of Los, deluxe hos commerce copy i with a set of progressive plates & other additional material, from an edition limited to 538, with additional plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process and a guide-sheet & stencil bound at end and original copper plate mounted on inside rear cover, original tan morocco, t.e.g., 1976; Milton a Poem, number U of 26 copies for the William Blake Trust etc., from an edition limited to 426, 1967; The Book of Ahania, one of 808 copies, 1973; Visions of Albion, one of 446 copies, light spotting, 1959, all with collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil, the last three original morocco-backed marbled boards, the last slightly rubbed, the first three with marbled board slip-cases, Trianon Press; and 3 other earlier Blake facsimiles, 4to & folio (7)

Uranians.- [Cory (William Johnson)] Ionica, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858; Ionica II, [Cambridge, at the University Press], 1877, together 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, a few pencil corrections, later blue morocco, rebacked, covers soiled, g.e., 8vo*** Regarded as the first published work by the Uranians, a group of homosexual poets. William Johnson (later Cory) was a master at Eton who was forced to resign in 1872 following the interception of an indiscreet letter to one of his pupils. This copy inscribed in Latin to W.R.I[nge] (the 'gloomy Dean' and Professor of Divinity at Cambridge) by Hugh MacNaghten. They were both schoolboy contemporaries and rivals in College at Eton. 

Canada.- Hardy (Capt. Campbell) Sporting Adventures in the New World; or, Days and Nights of Moose Hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia, 2 vol., first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece to both vol. (that in vol. 2 a little foxed, and loose), contemporary green half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt, spines a little toned, some small scuffs, t.e.g., 1855; Forest Life in Acadie. Sketches of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion, chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous plates (one torn), original cloth, spine faded, 1869, 8vo (3) 

Athenian Law.- Petit (Samuel) Leges Atticæ, first edition, Roman and some Greek type, title printed in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, é4 blank, some foxing, occasional staining, mostly lightly browned, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, short split to vellum at head of upper joint, very small tape repair to lower cover, little staining, folio, Paris, Charles Morel, 1635.  *** First edition of Samuel Petit’s important and handsomely printed study of ancient Athenian law, dedicated to Francis Auguste de Thou, the son of Jacques. Petit was a distinguished classical scholar and orientalist, and professor of Greek and later principal of the Collège des Arts at Nîmes. 

Salmon Clubs.- Moisie Salmon Club, Canada.- [A Group of 6 Unpublished Reports on the Water and Other Conditions in the Upper Reaches of the Moisie River 1914-53], one original typescript, four carbon copies and one photocopy facsimile, text verso only, all between 5-10ff, one with manuscript illustration (copy of original), one folded, housed loose within custom-made folding portfolio and morocco-backed slipcase, 1914-53 § Weeks (Edward) The Moisie Salmon Club. A Chronicle, from an edition limited to 1500 signed by the author, colour frontispiece, plain photographic illustrations, original cloth, silver gilt, original slipcase, Barre (MA), 1971, [together Wood BSS 153 & 145], 4to (2) *** First mentioned: four reports written by Club members, and 2 by the Club manager in 1952-53; they investigate not only conditions affecting the salmon, but also wildlife observations more broadly, naming of pools, regional transportation and other matters of pertinence to members of a club well-known for its monitoring of the river's water conditions. Second mentioned: described by Wood as 'the finest book ever written on a salmon club, and one of the best in the entire literature of salmon fishing'. 

Economics.- Engels (Friedrich) Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky, first authorised English edition, small pencil ownership name to pastedown, one or two short marginal tears, lacking front free endpapers, upper hinge broken, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine lightly sunned and with fraying to ends, lower cover bumped with and cloth puckered at lower corner, some light surface marking, lightly rubbed, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892; and another by the same, the first English edition of Socialism Utopian and Scientific (1892), 8vo (2) *** The first mentioned in a variant cloth binding, blocked entirely in black and with the publisher's name and logo of George Allen & Unwin. Scarce, this translation was first published in American in 1887, an unauthorised edition on American sheets appeared in England in 1888. This edition includes a new preface by Engels.

[Broughton (Hugh)] A treatise of Melchisedek, proving him to be Sem, first edition, title within woodcut border, a few tiny marginal nicks or tears, occasional passage-marking in pencil, most leaves water-stained at head, lacking morocco spine label, upper joint split and cover loose, [STC 3890], [Richard Watkins] for Gabriel Simson and William White, 1591; Daniel His Chaldie Visions and his Ebrew: both translated after the originall, [second edition], woodcut printer's device to title, K3&4 with Hebrew characters printed in red and black, woodcut tailpiece to final f., lacking plates, B1 small loss to blank upper corner, a few neat and subtle marginal repairs (repair just obscuring a few letters of printed side-note to B3v), very small marginal worm trace to first and last few leaves, just within text to P1&2 but no loss of sense, most leaves with water-staining, mainly to margins, morocco spine label, [STC 2786], Gabriell Simson, 1597, partly in black letter, uniformly bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, chipping to spine ends, corners rubbed, small 4to (2) *** Both rare; we cannot trace a copy of the first mentioned at auction since 1973. The second mentioned was first published the year before in 1596. 

Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim's Progress, seventeenth edition, woodcut illustrations, ink notes in early hand to final blank, lacking engraved frontispiece, first gathering a little frayed at edges including a couple of tears and A11 defective at foot (loss of text), heavily browned throughout, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 12mo, for N. Boddington, 1710.

Norway.- Thomas-Stanford (Charles) A River of Norway, being the Notes and Reflections of an Angler, first edition, 10 photogravure plates and a map in colour, publisher's advertisements to rear, occasional light foxing (including to plates), ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth, richly gilt, very light bumping to spine ends, [Wood BSS 33], 8vo, 1903.*** An attractive book on salmon fishing in Norway, primarily on the Gaula river that empties into the Sunnfjord which the author fished every year from 1898-1903, and is best known for the Osen Pool between the first foss and the fjord (depicted on cover). The final chapter focuses on the early pioneers of salmon fishing in Norway. 

Wagner (Johann Martin) Bassorilievi antichi della Grecia o sia fregio del tempio di Apollo Epicurio in Arcadia, first edition, 25 engraved plates by Ruschweyh after Wagner, one folding, foxing, old ink library stamp to title and foot of one plate, contemporary boards, rubbed, [BAL 3561; Blackmer 1756; not in Cicognara], Rome, F.Bourlié, 1814 § Visconti (E.Q.) Mémoires sur des Ouvrages de Sculpture du Parthénon..., first French edition, 1818 bound with Clarac (F., Comte de) Mélanges d’Antiquités Grecques et Romaines...du Musée du Louvre, 1830, 2 works in 1 vol., half-titles, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ends worn, Paris § [Carcacno (G.)], "Signora Petralba". Origine della Greca Architettura..., first edition, 3 folding plates, some loss to lower outer margins at end, original printed wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, upper wrapper almost detached, lower defective and repaired, Milan, 1818, the last two volumes Blackmer copies with book-label; and 4 others, Greek antiquities, v.s. (7)*** The first item is the earliest illustrated record of the celebrated sculptured marbled frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae, dating from c.400 BC and portraying Lapiths fighting against Centaurs and Amazons. The sculptures were purchased at auction by the British Museum, where they remain in a designated gallery. 

Norway.- [Belton (William)] Two Summers in Norway, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 folding maps (that in vol. 1, torn cleanly along fold with the upper portion loosely inserted), publisher's advertisement leaf at end, a few faint scattered spots, orginal green cloth stamped in blind, spines gilt, rebacked preserving original back-strip, spines toned, a few faint stains, [Wood BSS 4], 8vo, Saunders and Otley, 1840.*** A key, early book on salmon fishing, and the earliest work in English to describe fly fishing for salmon in Norway (as known to Wood), which set the trend for the Namsen River as the most popular Norwegian river for English anglers in the 19th century.  

Oliphant (Mrs. [Margaret]) A Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, some light spotting or foxing, mainly to endpapers and fore-edge, modern red half calf, upper covers with central gilt arms of Epsom College, spines gilt but a touch darkened, vol. 3 light stain to foot of upper joint, little rubbed, heavier to fore-edge of covers, t.e.g., Macmillan and Co., 1882 § Thomson (James) The Seasons...with the Life of the Author by Patrick Murdoch, third edition, half-title, numerous illustrations, contemporary ink ownership inscription laid down to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, near contemporary red morocco, gilt, some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., Longman, Green &tc, 1863; and others, literature, several sets incomplete, 8vo (c.145)

Hussey (Christopher) English Country Houses: Early [Middle & Late] Georgian 1715-1760 [1760-1800 & 1800-1840], 3 vol., vol.1 second edition, vol.2 with dust-jacket, 1967-56-58 § Steele (H.Rooksby) & F.R.Yerbury. The Old Bank of England, London, 1930 § Crook (J.Mordaunt) Victorian Architecture: A Visual Anthology, New York & London, 1971 § Cole (David) The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott, 1980 § Wragg (Brian) The Life and Works of John Carr of York, York, 2000 § Hart (V.) Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders, New Haven & London, 2002, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but vol.1 & 3 of the first and the second with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.50 others on architecture, all from the library of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate or book-label, a few inscribed, v.s. (c.60)

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, second impression, original pictorial yellow cloth, dust-jacket rubbed and soiled, front flap detached, 1939 § Bridges (Robert) The Tapestry, Poems, one of 150 copies on Japon, printed in Arrighi type by Frederic Warde and Stanley Morison, bound in green morocco ruled in gilt & black, uncut, rather worn, privately printed [at the Fanfare], 1925 § Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, first edition, original cloth, stained, 1932 § Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, illustrations by Norah McGuinness, original pictorial cloth, 1927 § Tagore (Rabindranath) The Crescent Moon, colour plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by T.Sturge Moore, 1913 § Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1960 § Powell (Enoch) First Poems: Fifty Short Lyrics, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title in 1951, original wrappers, label to upper cover, uncut, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1937, most a little rubbed; and c.30 others including several by Norman MacCaig, 4to & 8vo (c.35)

Hume (David) Histoire d'Angleterre...[Maison de Plantagenet], 6 vol., Amsterdam, 1765; Histoire de la Maison de Tudor..., 6 vol., Amsterdam, 1763; Histoire de la Maison de Stuart..., 6 vol., titles in red & black, "Londres" [?Amsterdam], 1763, together 18 vol., half-titles, near-uniform contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with floral motifs, a little rubbed, lacking some labels, a few wormholes to spines or joints § [Holbach (P.H.D, Baron)] Tableau des Saints, ou Examen de l'esprit..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, "Londres" [Amsterdam], 1770 § [Bosc du Bouchet] Le Conseil de Momus..., no title as issued, 3 engraved plates including the one of the farting god, disbound, [Paris], [1730] § Chevalier (Michel) Lettres sur l'Organisation du Travail, first edition, half-title, foxing, modern half calf, Paris, 1848, rubbed; and c.15 others, continental, 8vo & 4to (c.35)

Botany.- Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, second edition, lacking initial and final blanks, with engraved pictorial title and numerous woodcut illustrations, old ink inscriptions of John Symond to title and dedication, first few leaves loose and slightly frayed at edges, engraved title also browned and slightly stained, occasional light damp-staining, final leaves (Table 6Z onwards) frayed/defective at corners with slight loss, old ink inscription of Andrew Moss 1828 to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, worn, covers detached, [Henrey 155; Hunt 223; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11751], folio, by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633; sold not subject to return*** The preferred edition of the greatest English herbal, expanded and improved by Thomas Johnson from the 1597 first edition.

Naval & Maritime.- Mahan (Capt. A. T.) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol., first edition, 1898; The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution, 2 vol., second edition, 1893; The Influence of Sea Power upon History, n.d.; Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812, 2 vol., 1905; Naval Strategy, 1911, plates, maps and illustrations, original cloth front cover and spine bound in at end of each vol., modern dark blue morocco, gilt, t.e.g., 8vo (8)*** A handsome set of Mahan's great works of naval history.

Canada.- [Henry (Walter)] Trifles from My Port-Folio or Recollections of Scenes and Small Adventures during Twenty-Nine Years' Military Service..., first edition, hinges starting, original cloth-backed boards with paper labels to spines, vol. 2 with gauge mark to top edge, spines sunned, a little soiled and rubbed, housed within modern custom-made slipcase, 8vo, Quebec, William Neilson, 1839.*** Rare: only one copy at auction in last 50 years. Believed to be the first book to discuss salmon fishing in North America, with several chapters devoted to Henry's fishing trips to the Malbaie and Jacques Cartier rivers in the 1830s. 

Picard (Jean) Traité du Nivellement, first edition, 3 engraved plates, errata leaf at end, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, spine chipped at foot, 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1684.*** Treatise on levelling using a new instrument designed by the astronomer Picard as a by-product of his researches into the measurement of the circumference of the earth. It was also used to calculate how to bring water from neighbouring rivers to the palace and park of Versailles in the 1670s.

Canada.- [Adamson (William Agar)] Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, extra illustrated with an additional set of the illustrations stuck down to blank leaves interleaved (to face illustrated pages), contemporary dark green half morocco, spine gilt with salmon devices, spine sunned and with some minute rubbing, modern slipcase, 1860 § Hewitt (Edward Ringwood) Secrets of the Salmon, first edition, one of 780 copies, numerous plain photographic plates, illustrations and diagrams, modern dark green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt, edges uncut, New York, 1922 § La Branche (George M. L.) The Salmon and the Dry Fly, colour frontispiece, original calf-backed marbled boards, slipcase, Boston and New York, 1924 § Cronyn (Verschoyle P.) The Fly Leaf, ?one of 25 copies, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, with two later reprint copies of the same, together housed within custom-made modern morocco-backed drop-back box, privately printed, [1959-68], [together Wood BSS 59, 97, 106 & 73]; and 6 others, including another copy of the first mentioned, a first edition in original cloth, 4to et infra (9)*** A splendid group of works on salmon fishing in Canada, including some classics in the development of American 'how-to' literature of salmon fishing. 

[Fitzgibbon (Edward)] The Book of the Salmon, first edition, 8 hand-coloured plates, advertisement leaf at rear, hinges cracked but holding firm, original cloth, spine slightly faded, extremities worn, 1850 § Dawson (George) Pleasures of Angling with a Rod and Reel for Trout, first edition, plates and decorative initials, ink inscription front endpaper, some foxing, original decorative cloth, gilt, New York, 1876 § Hall (Bradnock) Norwegian and Other Fish-Tales, first edition, plates, upper hinge starting, original decoraive cloth, gilt, 1910; and 4 others, 8vo (7)*** A group of works sporting works incorporating salmon fishing and all in original cloth. 

British Isles.- Ireland.- Wilkinson (Sidney Berdoe) Reminiscences of Sport in Ireland, first edition, a few plates and illustrations, original drab cloth, privately printed, by Grant Richards, 1931 § Liddell (Peter) Salmon Rivers of Eire, mimeograph typescript, ink library stamps to title, original cloth wrappers with ring-binder, housed within drop-back box, privately printed, 1971, [together Wood BSS 58 & 48], small folio & 8vo (2)*** First mentioned: a rare first edition of this memoir of salmon fishing in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was reprinted in 1987 by the Signet Press. Second: A report on the effects of arterial drainage schemes, pollution and netting and trapping on salmon stocks in Irish Rivers by Liddell, chairman of the British Association of River Authorities. Rare.  

Burroughs (William S.) Naked Lunch, first American edition, original boards, later issue dust-jacket with roman numeral but priced at $6.00 and no zipcode on rear panel, light fading, light nicks to spine ends, otherwise excellent, 8vo, New York, 1959.

Canada.- Harmsworth (Cecil) A Little Fishing Book, first edition, one of 80 copies, title in red and black with printer's device, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, [Wood BSS 93], 8vo, Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1930.*** One of relatively few books on salmon fishing printed by a private press. Printed by The Cuala Press for private circulation, the work was popular and went on through four commercial editions. Provenance: from the author's family library ['Rothermere' bookplate]. 

Hegemann (Werner) Amerikanische Architektur & Stadtbaukunst, Berlin, 1925 § Le Moyne (L.V.) Country Residences in Europe and America, New York, 1908 § Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia (The): with an Account of the Proceedings connected with its Opening June 20, 1867, old ink library stamps to title, Philadelphia, 1868 § Hubbard (Elbert) So Here are the Preachments entitled the City of Tagaste, and a Dream and a Prophecy, limited edition signed by the author and "illuminer", tipped-in portrait, hand-coloured decorative borders by Minnie Gardner, original boards, uncut, rebacked & recornered in roan, East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1900 § Allen & Young, architects of Stockton, California. Architecture..., publicity brochure, original printed wrappers, rebacked in cloth, Stockton, Ca., [1927], plates and illustrations, all but the last two original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.80 others, American architecture, v.s. (c.85)*** The first is devoted to American public, commercial, and domestic architecture and town planning, with an appreciation of buildings designed by the McKim Mead White partnership and high-rise buildings in New York City.

Darwin (Erasmus) Phytologia; or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening, first edition, 12 engraved plates, some folding, some foxing and marginal staining or browning, later half calf over marbled boards, spine faded, Printed for J. Johnson, 1800; and 3 others by or about the same, 4to and 8vo (4)

Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea: A Collection of all the Incomparable Peices, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall (lightly spotted), cropped shaving a few head-lines, some staining, bookplate of Sir Stafford H.Northcote, Bart, bookseller's ticket of A.Holden of Exeter, later panelled calf, spine gilt, for Humphrey Moseley, 1658 § Pitcairn (Archibald) & others. Selecta Poemata, 1727 bound with Poems in English and Latin on the Archers, and Royal-Company of Archers, 1726 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, browned, modern calf-backed cloth, Edinburgh § Cicero (Marcus Tullius) The Letters, edited by William Melmoth, 5 vol., bookplate of Boyd Alexander of South Barr, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, Edinburgh, 1808 § Byron (G.G.N., Lord) English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, reprint of the third authorised edition, half-title, 3pp. advertisements, original boards, spine worn, 1810 [but later, watermarked 1819] § [Erskine (Thomas)] Armata: a Fragment, ?first edition, 4pp. advertisments at end, original boards, uncut, broken and loose, 1817; and a quantity of others, literature, 8vo et infra; sold not subject to return (c.100)*** The last is a political romance and utopian novel concerning an imaginary voyage to a parallel earth, by the lawyer and politician Thomas Erskine. It is the first work of science fiction by a Scottish author.

Farming & Farm Buildings.- Maxwell (Robert) Select Transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, first edition, signed authentication by the author on verso of title, initial imprimatur leaf, folding engraved plate, a few pencil annotations/markings, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper joint split, spine ends & corners worn, [Fussell p.20], Edinburgh, Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1743 § Gray (W.J.) A Treatise on Rural Architecture...Farm Houses, Farm Offices, Cottages, Manses, Schools..., only edition, 48 lithographed plates, tissue guards, illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, spine faded, Edinburgh, 1852; and another on farm buildings, 8vo (3)*** The Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, founded in 1723, was the first organisation in Scotland to promote the adoption of improved farming methods which would improve crop yields, grazing, and the cultivation of flax for the manufacture of linen. 

Newton (Sir Isaac).- Pemberton (Henry) A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, first edition, engraved title-vignette, initials and head- and tail-pieces, 12 folding engraved plates, first and last few leaves slightly frayed, endpapers likewise, contemporary panelled calf, worn, covers almost detached, [Babson 98; Wallis 123], 4to, Printed by S. Palmer, 1728.*** Pemberton edited the 1726 third edition of Newton's Principia.

Cookery.- Richards (Amy G.) Cookery, first edition, title and advertisement endpapers browned (one with tear and brittle at edges), Montreal, 1895 § "Historicus". Cocoa: All About It, printed in blue, child's inscription to half-title, 1896 § Griggs (Annie M.) Savouries for Breakfast, Luncheon & Dinner, Fairbairn's Home Manuals No.1, n.d. § Soyer (Nicolas) Soyer's Paper-Bag Cookery, second edition, 1911 § Vine (Fred T.) Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window, third edition, original cloth-backed printed boards, 1903, plates and illustrations, advertisements, some soiling or staining, all but the last original cloth, all rubbed, the second damp-stained at edges; and a quantity of others, cookery and household management, 8vo et infra (2 boxes)

Canada.- Nettle (Richard) The Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence and its Tributaries, first edition, endpapers renewed, original red cloth stamped-in blind and lettered in gilt, neatly rebacked, 8vo, Montreal, John Lovell, 1857.*** An excellent first edition of this scarce early work on salmon fishing on the St. Lawrence river which flows from the Great Lakes out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

Hintz (Richard R.) Hintz' Moderne Häuser: Ein Illustrierte Architectonische Zeithschrift, original cloth, new endpapers, advertisement slip mounted on front free endpaper Berlin, 1887 § Loos (Adolf) Das Andere: Ein Blatt zur Einfuerhrung Abendlaendischer Kultur in Oesterreich, No.1 & 2 [all published], stapled folding sheets, unopened, Vienna, 1903 § Wienkoop (A.) Das Englische Landhaus, third edition, original pictorial boards, Wiesbaden, 1910 § Baillie Scott (M.H.) Häuser und Gärten, original cloth, spine faded, Berlin, 1912 § Schulze (K.W.) Glas in der Architektur der Gegenwart, title spotted, original cloth, spine faded, a couple of worn patches, Stuttgart, 1929 § Ponten (Josef) Architektur die nicht gebaut wurde, 2 vol., some spotting, modern cloth, Berlin, 1925, plates and illustrations, a few colour, most a little rubbed; and 14 others, modern German architecture, v.s. (22)*** The first is a rare item of promotional architectural literature issued by a Berlin architect and builder offering houses from ready-made sets of measured drawings and plans. The second, a short-lived, periodical includes a wide range of social, literary and artistic topics, ranging from fashion and wallpaper to masturbation.

Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) Novels of the Sisters Brontë, 8 works in 12 vol., "Thornton Edition", frontispieces and plates, titles in red and black, a few tears affecting text, some light spotting and staining, endpapers browned, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, tape repair to upper hinge of Wuthering Heights, some upper hinges slightly cracked with first few leaves slightly proud, original cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a few small stains, some very lightly soiled, spines lightly sunned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, 8vo, Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905.

Norway.- Flury (Roy, editor.) Alten. Red Letter Days. The Diary of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton, number 5 of 5 copies, signed by Flury on front endpaper, colour frontispiece, most leaves manuscript facsimile, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded and ends very lightly bumped, Oxford, 'published privately', 1994; Alten. Red Letter Days..., number 1 of 60 deluxe edition copies, title in red and black, original dark green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, housed within original presentation cloth slipcase, pictorial gilt, Cambridge (MA), privately printed by Charles B. Wood III, 2009, both copies with black and white illustrations, [Wood BSS 12 & 13], large 8vo (2)*** Two different reproductions of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton's remarkable fishing adventures; the first very rare being one of only 5 copies. The original diary is still owned by the family.

Malthus (Thomas Robert) An Essay on the Principle of Population. . . , 2 vol., fourth edition, lacking half-titles, occasional foxing or soiling, light water-staining to upper margin of vol.2, a few minor marginal flaws, contemporary half calf, worn, spines defective or lacking, upper cover detached, [Goldsmiths' 19373; Kress B.5219], 1807 § Sinclair (Sir John) Appendix to the History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, first edition, presentation copy with "from the author" inscribed at head of half-title (cropped), staining to final leaf, contemporary half roan, 1789 § [Nicholls (G.)] Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, bookplate of Ferguson of Raith, original cloth, [Goldsmiths' 33401], 1843 § Attlee (Clement) The Labour Party in Perspective, Left Book Club Edition, original orange cloth wrappers, 1937, rubbed; and 11 others, 8vo & 4to (16)

Salmon Fishing Illustration.- The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports, whole page wood-engraved illustrations (c.280 x 210mm.), contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to half-title and upper cover, some minor marginal damp-staining, original printed upper cover wrapper, lower cover supplied in later drab along with repairs to spine and extremities, a little creased and soiled, housed within modern custom-made drop back box, [Wood BSS 216], oblong 4to, Boston, M.M. Ballou, 1855.*** Containing a rare and important illustration: likely the first American illustration of fly fishing for salmon (Wood), and described by the Derrydale press in their 1929 reprint edition as 'the first American picture book of sport'. 

Price (Uvedale) A Letter to H.Repton, Esq., first edition, occasional foxing, for J.Robson, 1795 bound with [Marshall (William)] A Review of the Landscape, presentation copy from the author, half-title, very lightly browned, 1795, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split, lacking label, [BAL 2620 & 2060] § Mason (W.) The English Garden: a Poem. In Four Books, A New Edition, corrected, contemporary ink inscription "Jane Murray Bath Aug. 28th 1784" to title, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt floral spine & red morocco label, York, A.Ward, 1783 § [Akenside (Mark)] The Pleasures of the Imagination. A Poem, first edition, lacking half-title, title in red & black with engraved vignette (slightly soiled), advertisement leaf at end, book-label and inscription of architect Roderick Gradidge, later vellum-backed boards, a little faded and a few stains, R.Dodsley, 1744, 8vo & 4to (3) *** The first two items arose from the controversy engendered by the publication in 1794 of Richard Payne Knight’s poem The Landscape and Uvedale Price’s An Essay on the Picturesque.  The first item, written by Price in reply to a pamphlet by Humphrey Repton, emphasises Price’s view that landscape gardening should be founded on the same principles as landscape painting, while the second by William Marshall defends Capability Brown against accusations, particularly by Price, that the clumps and belts so favoured by Brown and his followers were planted in too formal a manner.

[Dodsley (Robert) with contributions by Samuel Johnson] The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces and folding plates and maps, maps hand-coloured in outline, lacking a few plates and one defective, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, R.Dodsley, 1748 § Knox (R., editor) The Anatomy of the Bones of the Human Body...with Explanatory References by John Barclay, 32 engraved plates, 1829; Plates of the Arteries of the Human Body; after Frederic Tiedemann, second edition, 38 engraved plates with partial hand-colouring, 1831, together 2 vol., foxing, ex-library copies with stamps to verso of plates, contemporary cloth, worn and stained, covers detached, Edinburgh § Page (David) Handbook of Geological Terms..., second edition, original cloth, Edinburgh & London, 1865 § Williams (Frederick S.) The Midland Railway, first edition, original cloth, rubbed, new endpapers, [1876] § Singer (Charles) The Earliest Chemical Industry: An Essay in the Historical Relations of Economics & Technology illustrated from the Alum Trade, original cloth, spine faded, Folio Society, 1948; and c.20 others, science & medicine, including parts of Supplement to fourth & fifth editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica with engraved plates and in original boards, v.s. (c.25)

[Trusler (Rev. John)] The Works of Mr. Hogarth Moralized, first edition, engraved frontispiece, vignette title and 75 illustrations, 9 full-page, lacking letterpress title, light damp-staining to frontispiece & title, some soiling, a few marginal tears, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo, [S.Hooper], [1768].

[Watson (Thomas, editor)] The Oxford Sausage; or, Select Poetical Pieces, first edition, woodcut illustrations, ex-library with ink-stamp to pastedown, foxing, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, upper joint repaired affecting gilt to spine, lower joint cracked, front free endpapers renewed, for J. Fletcher and Co., 1764 § [Whyte (Samuel) and others] A Collection of Poems, The Productions of the Kingdom of Ireland: Selected from...The Shamrock; or, Hibernian Cresses, 19th century ownership inscriptions to pastedown and front free endpaper, a few manuscript annotations to Contents leaves, B4 very small marginal hole, browning to margins of first few leaves, some light browning and foxing elsewhere, contemporary calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, some loss to spine ends, corners quite worn, rubbed, upper joint split and with backstrip peeled away, for S. Bladon, 1773, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others 18th century, most poetry, v.s. (c.35) 

Book: 1698 edition of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, The First Emperors of Rome by C. Suetonius Tranquillus

Collection of 70 boxed diecast models to include Matchbox Models Of Yesteryear including red and cream boxes, 2 x 1/18 scale Maisto models including Special Edition Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet 1994 and Special Edition Lamborghini SE, Burago 1/18 scale Mercedes Benz SSK, Matchbox MB-20, EFE Exclusive First Editions OO scale, Oxford Diecast, Lledo Days Gone, Corgi Tramlines, etc, diecast vg, boxes vg overall with some signs of storage and edge wear, together with a small quantity of Dinky military diecast models including 677 Armoured Command Vehicle, 661 Recovery Tractor, 672 Scout Car, etc (2 Boxes)

15 Boxed EFE Exclusive First Edition diecast model sets to include The Last Days of Southdown, Cobham Bus Museum, London Transport Museum etc, all ex

44 Boxed / cased Corgi Original Omnibus diecast model buses to include Midland Red, Limited Edition, Heritage Fleet, etc featuring OM45113 MCW Metrobus MKII, OM40202 Midland Red, OM45501 Midland Red, OM41303 Wright Eclipse Fusion First Hampshire, OM45711 AEC Q - Birmigham, etc, all ex (2 Boxes)

Star Wars - Collection of boxed Star Wars figures, collectibles, vehicles & games featuring 5 x Hasbro The Force Awakens figure (First Order Snowtrooper, Finn, First Order Stormtrooper, Darth Vader & Kylo Ren), 3 x Hasbro / Kenner Power Of The Force (Ronto and Jawa, Dewback and Sandtrooper (both resealed with varied contents) & Chewbacca), 2 x Hasbro Episode I 1999 Portrait Edition Dolls (Queen Amidala in Black Travel Gown & Queen Amidala in Red Senate Gown), 1 x Uncle Milton Kylo Ren Lightsabre Room Light, 1 x Hasbro Forces Of Destiny Chewbacca doll, etc, contents appearing complete but unchecked, boxes gd to vg (2 boxes)

MILNE (A.A), NOW WE ARE SIX, first edition, pictorial red cloth, |Methuen & Co, 1927, (1)

DICKENS (C), THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, first edition, rebacked red cloth, gilt edge page block, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, (1)

First Day Of Issue. Certified number 579 of 7498. The obverse side depicts Liberty in full stride. She is shown wrapped in the flag, her right hand is extended and her left arm is carrying laurel and oak branches. The reverse side features the heraldic eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5.5"L x 4"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Adolph A. Weinman and John MercantiIssued: 2008Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 579 of 7498Condition: Age related wear.

San Francisco Mint. Slabbed PR70 DCAM. First Day Of Issue. Inaugural $1. Certified number 1593 of 2919. The obverse side features the Statue of Liberty in profile. The reverse depicts George Washington's signature, and stylized gears which represents industry and innovation. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. Artist: Phebe Hemphill, Justin Kunz, Renata Gordon, and Donna WeaverIssued: 2018Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 1593 of 2919Condition: Age related wear.

West Point Mint. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 1016 of 1879. The obverse side depicts Liberty in full stride. She is shown wrapped in the flag, her right hand is extended and her left arm is carrying laurel and oak branches. The reverse side features the heraldic eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Adolph A. Weinman and John MercantiIssued: 2018Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 1016 of 1879Condition: Age related wear.

West Point Mint. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 2899 of 3897. The obverse side depicts Liberty in full stride. She is shown wrapped in the flag, her right hand is extended and her left arm is carrying laurel and oak branches. The reverse side features the heraldic eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Adolph A. Weinman and John MercantiIssued: 2017Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 2899 of 3897Condition: Age related wear.

Slabbed PR70 DCAM. West Point Mint. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 2654 of 2796. The obverse side depicts Liberty in full stride. She is shown wrapped in the flag, her right hand is extended and her left arm is carrying laurel and oak branches. The reverse side features the heraldic eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Adolph A. Weinman and John MercantiIssued: 2019Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 2654 of 2796Condition: Age related wear.

Slabbed MS70. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 4 of 220. Perth Mint. The obverse side depicts the sixth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II. The reverse features the famous image of the kangaroo from the Australian copper penny coinage. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Jody Clark and Dr. Stuart DelvinIssued: 2020Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 4 of 220Condition: Age related wear.

Philadelphia Mint. ANACS Graded and Slabbed PR70 DCAM. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 46 if 2969. .999 Silver. The obverse side features a footprint on the moon surface. The reverse side depicts a representation of a close-up of the famous Buzz Aldrin on the Moon photograph taken July 20, 1969. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Joseph Menna, Gary Cooper and Phebe HemphillIssued: 2019Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 46 of 2969Condition: Age related wear.

Denver Mint. Slabbed SP69 PL. First Day Of Issue. Certified number 1194 of 1399. Denver Mint. The obverse side features the profile of US President John F. Kennedy looking left. The reverse side depicts the presidential seal; an eagle with a shield, the talons clutching an olive branch and thirteen arrows. The coin is in a protective case. The case is approximately: 2.25"L x 0.5"W x 3.25"H. This item has its original box: 5"L x 3.5"W x 1.5"H. Artist: Gilroy Roberts and Frank GasparroIssued: 2019Dimensions: See DescriptionEdition Number: 1194 of 1399Condition: Age related wear.