![Songbirds.- [Albin (Eleazar)] A Natural History of Singing Birds, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 21 plates, one or two](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/df59a6b6-a570-4c74-b95e-aaef121777bb/468x382.jpg)
Songbirds.- [Albin (Eleazar)] A Natural History of Singing Birds, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 21 plates, one or two shaved at fore-edge, contemporary ink signature of G.Bleasdale on title, some spotting or soiling, contemporary sheep, a little worn, Edinburgh, for J.Wood, 1776 § Nash (Joseph) A Practical Treatise on British Song Birds, first edition, 5 engraved plates only (of 8), original boards, uncut, spine defective, 1824 § Napier (C.O.G.) The Food, Use, and Beauty of British Birds, first edition, albumen photograph frontispiece, errata slip, advertisement leaf loosely inserted, original printed glazed orange boards, joints split, spine chipped at head, 1865, rubbed; and 2 others, birds, including one on the canary, 8vo et infra (5)⁂ The first is the rare Scottish second edition; ESTC lists only 3 copies.
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Songbirds.- Bulliard (Pierre) Aviceptologie Françoise, ou Traité général de toutes les ruses dont on peut se servir pour prendre les Oiseaux..., first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 34 plates of bird traps, hides, tools etc., one with small hole to lower margin repaired, light spotting and soiling, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked in calf, Paris, P. Fr. Didot, le jeune, 1778; and a copy of the seventh edition of 1818, 8vo (2)⁂ Popular work on the trapping of birds with a range of hides and disguises for the trapper including one in the form of a false cow.
![Songbirds.- [Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.)] Traité du Serein de Canarie, et aures Petits Oiseaux de Voliere, first edition, 4](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/e1e71899-d1c9-443a-9a43-d70c8218a6c7/468x382.jpg)
Songbirds.- [Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.)] Traité du Serein de Canarie, et aures Petits Oiseaux de Voliere, first edition, 4pp. privilege/approbation at end, 1707 bound with [Venette (Nicolas)] Traité du Rossignol..., folding plate with woodcut of bird traps, privilege leaf at end, 1707, together 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut devices on titles, contemporary ink inscription at head of first title, lightly browned, Paris, Claude Prudhomme § Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.) Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie, second edition, woodcut plate of cage at end, contemporary ink signatures of James Sanxay and John Arscott on front free endpaper, fine engraved maritime pictorial advertisement for Paul and Isaac Vaillant "at the Ship in the Strand" on front pastedown, Claude Prudhomme, 1713 § [Arnault de Nobleville (L.-D.)] Aëdonologie, ou Traité du Rossignol Franc ou Chanteur, second edition, folding engraved frontispiece of nightingale and large folding plate of cages etc. at end, a little staining to first and last few leaves, Debure, 1773, contemporary sprinkled/mottled calf or sheep, spines gilt, the first two rubbed with labels chipped, the last a little worn, Paris, 12mo (3)⁂ Charming group of works on the canary and the nightingale. The second volume has evidence of several Huguenot connections.
Songbirds.- Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.) A New Treatise of Canary-Birds. Containing the manner of Breeding and Coupling them..., first English edition, half-title, 2 woodcut plates (one of cages, the other musical notation), 5pp. advertisements at end, spotted, small rust-spot to G6, contemporary sheep, rubbed, spine a little worn and chipped at ends, 12mo, for Bernard Lintot..., 1718.⁂ Rare; ESTC lists only 6 copies in the UK and 10 in America.
![Sporting.- [Apperley (Charles James)] The Analysis of the Hunting Field, first edition, first issue, additional pictorial tit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/d8895d8b-5556-42d3-e7d2-cb1ab50bb766/468x382.jpg)
Sporting.- [Apperley (Charles James)] The Analysis of the Hunting Field, first edition, first issue, additional pictorial title and 6 plates after Henry Alken, all hand-coloured aquatints, most rather browned, illustrations, later calf, gilt, by Worsfold, 1846 § Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 9 plates by John Scott, one double-page of dog kennel, letterpress title with author's name as "William" and wood-engraved vignette by Thomas Bewick, light browning, bookplate of Walter Harold Wilkin, later straight-grain calf, gilt, by Rivière & Son, Albion Press, 1810 § Cook (Col. John) Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field, first edition, list of subscribers, 3 lithographed plates, light foxing, later red morocco with gilt hunting motifs, by Bayntun of Bath, for the Author, 1826, all with gilt spines, g.e., 8vo (3)
Sporting.- Fairfax (Thomas) The Complete Sportsman; or, Country Gentleman's Recreation..., issue with colon after "recreation" on the title, p.11 signed A6 and p.15 unsigned, engraved frontispiece (lightly offset on title), contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed, neatly rebacked, red morocco label, for J.Cooke, 1760 § Mayer (John) The Sportsman's Directory; or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion...second edition, much enlarged, 2 wood-engraved plates of bird traps, light spotting, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, Colchester, 1817 § Fairburn's New Drawing Books, No.23, 8 engraved plates on 4 sheets (6 aquatints of shooting), one hand-coloured, soiled, original yellow wrappers with engraving on upper cover, rubbed, I.Fairburn, [c.1820], 8vo & oblong 8vo (3)⁂ Concerning country pursuits and management such as fowling, hunting, pigeon-breeding, dog-raising, cock-fighting, birding, etc. The first was a popular book that ran to many editions; the second was first published in Colchester in 1815 and this edition is scarce, COPAC listing only 2 copies (BL & Oxford).
Sporting.- Rawstorne (Lawrence) Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game; and an improved method of making Plantations and Covers..., first edition, half-title, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J.T.Rawlins heightened with gum arabic, errata slip at end, some browning and staining, particularly towards end, upper hinge broken, contemporary olive green morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed, spine browned, upper cover with split to leather affecting border at fore-edge, [Abbey, Life 392; Tooley 393], 8vo, R.Ackermann, 1837.
![[Misson de Valbourg (Henri)] Memoires et Observations faites par un Voyageur en Angleterre, first edition, additional engrave](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/42fe183a-6b88-401b-d481-6e90b8a78011/468x382.jpg)
[Misson de Valbourg (Henri)] Memoires et Observations faites par un Voyageur en Angleterre, first edition, additional engraved pictorial title, title in red and black, folding engraved map and 19 plates, most folding, lightly browned, contemporary ink signature of F.Jackson on front free endpaper, modern bookplate of K.T.Butler, The Hague, Henri van Bulderen, 1698 § [Bertels (J.) & others.] Respublica Lutzenburgensis, Hannoniae, et Namurcensis, engraved title (soiled and with small ink stains), Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1635, both a little browned, contemporary vellum, rubbed; and another, 8vo & 12mo (3)
Australasia.- Australia.- Grey (George) Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, 2 vol., first edition, 22 lithographed plates, 6 hand-coloured, 2 folding engraved maps in pocket at beginning of vol.1, vol.1 with advertisement leaf at beginning and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, vol.2 with 4pp. advertisements for Gould's Birds of Australia at beginning, some light spotting, upper hinge of vol.2 weak, primary binding of original blind-stamped purple cloth, spines gilt with kangaroos at foot, rubbed and faded, especially spines, [Ferguson 3228; Wantrup 131], 8vo, 1841.⁂ The first exploration of the north-west interior during the course of two expeditions fraught with problems: on the first Grey was wounded in an attack and the party had to turn back; in the second they were shipwrecked and had to return overland to Perth, an appalling ordeal during which one man died. Despite this they made many discoveries. The work includes appendices on the mammalia and reptiles of Australia by J.E.Gray, on insects by Adam White, and a list of birds by John Gould.
![American Chapbooks.- [Dorset (Catherine Ann)] Think Before You Speak; or, the Three Wishes, 6 plates (frontispiece mounted on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/7e685be8-3384-4a73-bcf9-f25bb9070064/468x382.jpg)
American Chapbooks.- [Dorset (Catherine Ann)] Think Before You Speak; or, the Three Wishes, 6 plates (frontispiece mounted on front pastedown, plates very browned, Philadelphia, Johnson & Warner, 1811 § New-York Preceptor (The), New York and Baltimore, Samuel Wood & Sons, n.d. § American Primer (The), fourth edition, Philadelphia, Mathew Carey, 1813 § M'Carty's American Primer, Philadelphia, M'Carty & Davis, n.d., woodcut or wood-engraved plates or illustrations, most a little browned, original printed wrappers, some over stiff card, a little rubbed or browned, the first with short splits to upper wrapper at folds, 12mo (4)
![[Vaux (Frances Bowyer)] The Promised Visit: including an Account of...Manufacturing Paper in Different Countries, first editi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/6214fc61-7f7d-47ec-a6a9-fc1e0b87bd5c/468x382.jpg)
[Vaux (Frances Bowyer)] The Promised Visit: including an Account of...Manufacturing Paper in Different Countries, first edition, engraved frontispiece, light foxing or soiling, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, Darton, Harvey & Darton, 1818 § Watts (Isaac) Divine Songs...for the Use of Children, woodcut frontispiece (front pastedown) and illustrations, ink inscription dated 1815 to verso of title, Boyle, Corcoran and Crompton, printed by E.Young of Bristol, n.d.; another edition, with Supplementary Poems by P.Doddridge, half-title, Champante & Whitrow, 1812 § Dymond (Henry) Instructive Narratives for Young Persons, Members of the Society of Friends, Harvey & Darton, 1825 § Jeux de le Jeunesse (Les): ou Nouvelle Méthode à Instruire les Enfans en...Jeux et Exercises du Corps, wood-engraved illustrations, old book-label of Louisa Gissing, Newmarket, R.Rogers..., n.d. § Pinnock (W.) Sequel to the Little Explanatory Reader calculated for Children..., second edition, fine woodcut frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary sheep, worn, Alton, Mentorian Press, 1810 § Portraits of the Characters of the Kings of England, Part II, hand-coloured wood-engraved title-vignette and portraits, original printed blue stiff wrappers, John Harris, 1825 § Little Boy's Own Book; consisting of Games and Pastimes, with Directions for the Breeding and Management of Rabbits, Birds, Pigeons, etc...by Uncle Charles, hand-coloured plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, damp-stained, Henry Allman, 1850, occasional light foxing or soiling, the first five contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, all rubbed; and 11 others, children's books, 8vo et infra (18)
Stevenson (Robert Louis) A Child's Garden of Verses, first edition, first issue with apostrophe on spine like the number '7', "of" on spine in smaller type and no mention of 'Two Series' in list of other works by the author, advertisement leaf, half-title, occasional light spotting, endpapers browned, original blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1885.
Rand (W.B.) Lilliput Lyrics, edited by R.Brimley Johnson, colour frontispiece & pictorial title and black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, glacine wrapper, 1899 § Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, colour illustrations by Edmund Evans after Kate Greenaway, original pictorial cloth, g.e., a little stained, [1886] § [Dodgson (C.L.)], "Lewis Carroll". Symbolic Logic, Part I: Elementary, fourth edition, pencil annotation to frontispiece, original cloth, spine faded, a few small stains, 1897, all rubbed; and 12 others, children's, including 7 issues from the Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library", 8vo et infra (15)
Australasia.- Australia.- Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houton de) Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, 2 vol., first English edition, large folding engraved map and 45 plates, advertisement leaf at end, with additional 6pp. publisher's catalogue advertising Chauchard's 'Map of Germany...' and long list of subscribers bound in at end, frontispiece foxed and offset onto title, one plate 'View of Admiralty Islands' water-stained at upper margin, other plates lightly offset but generally a good clean copy uncut in the original boards, rubbed, spine with orange paper label but stained and a little worn and defective, [Ferguson 309; Sabin 38421], 4to, for John Stockdale, 1800. ⁂ Account of the search for the Comte de La Pérouse and his ships which had disappeared in the Solomon Islands in 1788 during their expedition to explore the Pacific and Australasia. The voyage included extensive visits to the coast of Western Australia and Tasmania and contains information on the natives and their customs, implements and languages as well as important early contributions to Australian botany.
![Irish Linen-Trade.- [?Bindon (David)] A Letter from a Merchant who has left off Trade to a Member of Parliament, in which the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/d44d14ca-1a35-4828-b472-670c0a6a1164/468x382.jpg)
Irish Linen-Trade.- [?Bindon (David)] A Letter from a Merchant who has left off Trade to a Member of Parliament, in which the case of the British and Irish Manufacture of Linnen, Threads, and Tapes is fairly stated..., first edition, lightly soiled, later wrappers, slightly frayed at edges, [Goldsmiths' 7567], 8vo, for R.Willock, 1738.
Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island..., first edition, half-title, engraved title-vignette, folding engraved map by Thomas Phinn in second state (with imprint), lacking final blank, D2 in first state with "John Home" affixed to first quotation, E2 in first state, Z3 in second state with "Mariani" corrected, some light soiling or browning, offsetting to map, modern half mottled calf, [Gaskell 473; Rothschild 442-445], 8vo, Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1768.
Music.- Burney (Charles) The Present State of Music in France and Italy, first edition, with advertisement leaf at end but lacking errata, 1771; The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, 2 vol., second edition, 1775, together 3 vol., contemporary ink signature of Elinot Dring at head of titles, contemporary sprinkled calf, red and black roan labels, very slightly rubbed, a fine set, 8vo
Theatre & Music.- Victor (Benjamin) The History of the Theatres of London, from the Year 1760..., first edition, browned, a few stains, contemporary marbled boards, uncut, rebacked in cloth, for T.Becket, 1771 § Drama Recorded (The); or, Barker's List of Plays..., some spotting, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, new endpapers, J.Barker, 1814 § Second Book of the Compleat Dancing-Master (The), woodcut frontispiece, musical notation, browned, damp-stained, worming to lower outer corner, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, lacking spine, by H.Meere, for J.Walsh, 1719, rubbed; and another, 8vo & oblong 8vo (4)
Boswell (James) The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., first edition, with I5, Q7 & U6 all in second state, lacking half-title but with errata leaf at end, contemporary ink signature at head of title and another later to front free endpaper, light browning, a few stains, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Rothschild 457-458], 8vo, by Henry Baldwin, 1785.
Lamb (Charles) The Works, 2 vol., first collected edition, one or two leaves browned or soiled at edges, later burgundy calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1818; Tales from Shakespear..., 2 vol., second edition, 20 engraved plates, rather browned, some soiling, modern half calf, g.e., 1810, spines faded, 8vo & 12mo (4)
NO RESERVE Hazlitt (William) Liber Amoris; Or, The New Pygmalion, first edition, engraved title, original cloth, paper label to spine, 1823 § Taylor (Captain Meadows) Tara. A Mahratta Tale, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, contemporary half calf, 1863; and 24 others, literature and history, 8vo & 12mo (28)
![[Dickens (Charles, editor)] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 2 vol., first edition, first issue without "grotesque" border to fina](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6ea4edf4-7cb4-4ce9-9f2e-a89d00d4439d/2f92ecb9-822a-4aed-ec36-9c8fd9ee1e1c/468x382.jpg)
[Dickens (Charles, editor)] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 2 vol., first edition, first issue without "grotesque" border to final plate, half-titles, engraved portrait, 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, 36pp. catalogue at end of vol.2, bookplate of George Faudel Phillips, later half morocco, by Tout, spines gilt, g.e., very slightly rubbed at edges, [Cohn 237], 8vo, 1838.
Aphorisms, Epigrams and Maxims.- La Rochefoucauld (Francois, Duc de) Moral Maxims and Reflections, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, occasional light browning, book label, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Pforzheimer 580; Wing L452], 12mo, for M.Gillyflower...J.Sare...and J.Everingham, 1694.⁂ First complete edition in English; incomplete earlier English versions were published in 1670 and 1685.
Aphorisms, Epigrams and Maxims.- Rickman (Thomas Clio) A Select Collection of Epigrams. Many of them Original, first edition, advertisement f., ink ownership inscription, book label, contemporary tree calf, gilt, morocco label to upper cover, a little rubbed, 24mo, for Thomas Clio Rickman, 1796.⁂ Scarce, ESTC lists 6 copies. Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834) is best remembered as biographer of Thomas Paine, who lodged with him whilst writing the second half of The Rights of Man, this appears to be his first published work.
![Ephemera - Anonymous [Combe (William)], The Diaboliad: A Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominions, Also, Th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/12e61889-9886-47bc-a0b9-a8900097e9b0/64af7744-6420-4415-9f04-e9590747d61b/468x382.jpg)
Ephemera - Anonymous [Combe (William)], The Diaboliad: A Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominions, Also, The Diabo-Lady: Or, A Match In Hell, first Dublin edition, 1777, disbound, 12mo; The Report of the Commissioners of the Church: Of their Proceedings with His Majefty (sic) at the Hague, Made in the General Assembly, July 10, 1649, 14pp, pamhplet, 12mo; Anonymous [attributed to John Wilkes], A Letter to a Member of the Club, in Albemarle-Street, first edition, G. Kearsly, London 1764, 22pp, disbound 4to; Anonymous [William King, Jacobite], Aviti Epistola Ad Perillam, Virginem Scotam: Editoris Ecphrasi et Annotationibus Illustrata, first edition, London 1760; a mid-18th century manuscript medical receipt, A Plaister (sic) for The Rheumatism or Gout; Temple (Sir William), Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands, A. Churchill and J. Tonfon (sic), London 1720, 77pp, disbound, 4to; A List of the Honourable United East-India Company's Covenanted Civil Servants on the Fort St. George Establishment, 1806, disbound, 16mo; Journal de Paris, various issues, mainly 1784; 18th century French pamphlets, various; a mid-Victorian sketchbook, containing pencil sketches and drawings, one page inscribed Railway Sketches, floppy oblong 32mo; Miniature Almanack, For the Year of Our Lord 1831, Being 3d after Bissextile or Leap Year, Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, Boston 1831, [28pp], marbled covers, floppy 64mo; an early 19th century scrapbook of verse and prose, ink 'palimpsest' manuscript beneath some 'scraps', marbled covers, the front with armorial presentation bookplate: Colston's Girls' School, Bristol, The Bequest of Charles Julius Ryland 1909, floppy 12mo; A List of Veterinary Preparations, Prepared by W.T. Clark, Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, pamphlet 39pp; Martin (Sir Theodore), Horace and his Friends: Two Lectures Delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Instiution, 1881; Leaf (Walter), pamphlets, Notes on Homeric Armour and The Homeric Chariot (2); Russell (Bertrand), Education for Democracy, pamphlet; Sir Emery Walker: Master of Typography, 1851 - 1933, privately printed anthology of newspaper obituaries; Play Titles Bottled by Worthington (3); chap books; photographs, 19th century cabinet cards and carte de visites; etc
Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: Third Girl, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1966, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, Book Club Associates for Collins Crime Club, London 1975, h/b, d/j, small 8vo, (2); Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1964, h/b, d/j, 12mo, (1); They Came To Baghdad, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1951, h/b, d/j, 12mo; The Pale Horse, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1961, h/b, d/j, 12mo; By the pricking of my thumbs, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1968, h/b, d/j, 12mo, [6]
Agatha Christie - an autograph letter, typed and signed by the author, on Winterbook House, Wallingford, Berkshire, headed notepaper, dated 17th September 1973; Appointment With Death, first edition, The Crime Club, Collins, London 1938, 252pp, adverts [iv], top of text block gilt-edged, 21st century quarter-black morocco and black buckram boards, 12mo, [2]
![Agriculture/Farming - Anonymous [Whitaker (Edward)], The Complete Grazier: Or, Gentleman and Farmer's Directory [...], Writte](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/12e61889-9886-47bc-a0b9-a8900097e9b0/d460b3cb-6ad7-4221-88f6-bfaddb1a46df/468x382.jpg)
Agriculture/Farming - Anonymous [Whitaker (Edward)], The Complete Grazier: Or, Gentleman and Farmer's Directory [...], Written by a County Gentleman, and originally defigned (sic) for private Ufe (sic), presumably first Irish edition, J. Potts, Dublin 1767, xii, 240pp, 20th century half-pebble red morocco and green buckram boards, gilt-embossed title label to spine, marbled endpapers, 16mo
Badham (Charles David, M.D.), A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c., first edition, Reeve Brothers, London 1847, x, 138pp, adverts (16), illustrated throughout with 20 lithographic full-page plates and frontispiece (the first 16 chromolithographs), gilt-embossed and titled drab cloth as issued, the front board with a vignette of mushrooms and fungus, 4to
Beerbohm (Max), A Book of Caricatures, first edition, Methuen & Co., London 1907, coloured photogravure frontispiece, forty-eight monochrome photogravure plates of political and literary figures, publisher's quarter tan buckram with red spine with gilt-embossed title, the front board with printed cream paper label, crown folio
![Cookery - Acton (Eliza), Modern Cookery, For Private Families [...] Newly Revised and much Enlarged Edition, Copiously Illust](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/12e61889-9886-47bc-a0b9-a8900097e9b0/efb392ef-0ce2-4f21-d538-a6634dbf9bea/468x382.jpg)
Cookery - Acton (Eliza), Modern Cookery, For Private Families [...] Newly Revised and much Enlarged Edition, Copiously Illustrated, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London 1860, oxblood buckram, the spine embossed in gilt with dead game, further meat and fish, 12mo; Rundell (Mrs [Maria Eliza]), New System of Domestic Cookery, Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families [...], With Many New Receipts [...], T. Nelson and Sons, London 1863, foliate embossed green bucrkam boards, later spine and endpapers, pastedown with library stamp The Guild of Master Craftsmen, 18mo; Watts (Elizabeth), Fish: And How to Cook It, Frederick Warne & Co., London 1866, terracotta buckram printed with adverts, 16mo; Francatelli (Charles Elmé), The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant: A Practical Treatise on English and Foreign Cookery in all its Branches [...], Richard Bentley & Son, London 1874, embossed oxblood buckram as issued, 12mo; Anonymous, Soups, Savouries, Sweets, With a Chapter on Breads, By A Practical Housewife, presumably first edition, Richard Bentley and Son, London 1889, dedication inscription to endpaper: Presented by the Author, H.B.Y. To M***** D. ****way [...], oxblood cloth as issued, 12mo; The Gourmet's Almanac, 1931; others, pastry, gastronomy, etc, [10]
Lawrence (D.H.), Bay: A Book of Poems, first printing, first edition, numbered 196/200 (120 copies on hand-made paper numbered 81/200), Beaumont Press, Westminster 1919, 43pp, [i], cover and decorations by Anne Estelle Rice, the topography and binding by Cyril W. Beaumont, monochrome wooducts throughout, printer's device to verso of back endpaper, publisher's yellow patterned board, green buckram spine titled in gilt, book label to front pastedown: Marion C. Walker, Her Book, 12mo
Medical History - Mackintosh (John, M.D.), A Treatise on the Disease Termed Puerperal Fever; Illustrated by Numerous Cases and Dissections, first edition, William Blakcwood, Edinburgh 1822, 20th century red buckram, 8vo; Jackson (J.W.), Lectures on Phrenology, Delivered in Edinburgh, Published by the Author, Edinburgh 1855, lithographic frontispiece, quarter-morocco and cloth boards, 16mo; Hooper (Robert, M.D.), Quincy's Lexicon-Medicum: A New Medical Dictionary; Containing an Explanation of the Terms [...], Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co., London 1811, 20th century brown buckram spine and drab papered boards, 8vo; Seymour (Edward J.), Illustrations of Some of the Principal Diseases of the Ovaria, Their Symptoms and Treatment: To Which Are Prefixed, Observations on the Structure and Functions of these Parts in the Human Being and in Animals, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London 1830, Library: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland stamp, contemporary green buckram spine, paper boards with printed paper title-label, 8vo; Warren (Samuel, F.R.S.), Passages From the Diary of a Late Physician, two-volume set, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1848, contemporary buckram, 12mo; Alpinus (Prosper), The Presages of Life and Death in Dieseases [...], edited by R. James, M.D., volume II only, G. Strahan and J. Clarke, London 1746, 20th century calf spine and marbled boards, gilt-embossed title label to spine, 12mo; another copy, similar, disbound contemporary calf boards, 12mo; The Anatomy of Melancholy [...], William Tegg and Co., London 1876; Anonymous [Warwick (Eden)], Notes on Noses, Richard Bentley, London 1852, quarter-calf and marbled boards, 16mo; odd volumes of 18th century publications; etc
![Milne (A.A.), Winnie-The-Pooh, Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1926, xi, [5], 158](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/12e61889-9886-47bc-a0b9-a8900097e9b0/0a524065-89f2-4843-a325-2180dfe086d6/468x382.jpg)
Rex Whistler - Signed Copy, Andersen (Hans), Fairy Tales and Legends, Illustrated by Rex Whistler, first edition, signed edition limited to 250 copies, Cobden-Sanderson Ltd, London 1935, vii, 470pp, half-title page autographed in MS black ink Rex Whistler above a scrolling flourish, illustrated throughout vignettes, full cream buckram gilt-embossed with rococo scrollwork, the conforming endpapers printed in green, imperial octavo
Rolls-Royce - Automobilia & Engineering - Massac Buist (H), Rolls-Royce Memories: A Coming-of-Age Souvenir, Printed at The Cambridge University Press, For Private Circulation, 1926, oak buckram and drab boards, paper title label to front board, 4to; The Metallurgist: Johann Conrad Fischer 1773 - 1854 and His Relations with Britain, first and only edition, George Fischer Limited, Schaffhausen 1947, red cloth spine, Amalfi-type papered boards, dust wrapper, MS presentation inscription: To H.J. Swift, Esq., With The Compliments and Best Regards of George Fischer Limited, Schaffhausen, 12th January, 1950, tall 4to; Harker (Ronald W.), Rolls-Royce From the Wings: Military Aviation, signed with inscribed dedication from the author to Harry Swift and his wife, Oxford Illustrated Press, Oxford 1976, h/b, d/j, 8vo; other Rolls-Royce books; The Institution of Automobile Engineers: Proceedings of the Session 1930-31, and Index [for volumes] XXI - XXV; others, [17] Provenance: Harry 'Sft' John Swift, OBE, of Thorpe House, Littleover, Derby, former Overall General Manager of Rolls-Royce.
Winnie-the-Pooh Interest - Signed and Dedicated Presentation Copy, Milne (A.A.), The Christopher Robin Verse: Being 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six', With a Preface for Parents, With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1932, xi, [iii], 211pp, publisher's gilt pictorial blue buckram boards, the front endpaper inscribed in ink MS with two stanzas of eight line verse by A.A Milne, signed and dated October 23rd 1935 by the author, above a later presentation inscription in a different hand: Given to Janet Margaret Whitehead on the first anniversary of her birth, May 27. 1940 by Herbert Masters, short 8vo; When We Were Very Young, second edition, 12mo; Fourteen Songs From "When We Were Very Young", Words by A.A. Milne, Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 16th edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1938, h/b, d/j, front endpaper with ink MS presentation inscription: To my little friend Janet Whitehead on the 2nd anniversary of her birth, May 27th 1941, With much love from Herbert Masters, small folio, [3]
A large quantity of books to include Het Binnerhof, a folio of 17 Dutch lithographs, Vitgare HC Susan CH 212, lithographers Lankhout & Co S Hage; Thomas Barker - 'His life and Work' by Frank Bradlow, pub AA Balkerna, Cape Town/Amsterdam 1967, first limited edition 777/1100 and signed by the author; Claude Lorrain - 'Leber Veritatis' by Michael Kitson, pub British Museum Publications 1978; 'The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh' by Monica Poole, pub Gresham Books 1985; 'The Family History of England, Civil, Military, Social, Commercial and Religious' Ed. Rev James Taylor, pub William Mackenzie, London, illustrated with gilt pictorial boards; 'Milton's Paradise Lost' illus Gustave Dore, pub Henry Altemus, Philadelphia; 'The Old Testament in Art' Ed by W Shaw Sparrow, published by Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1905, and 'Philips Systematic Atlas' circa 1899
"Fairfax of York: The Life and History of a Noble Family" by Gary Webb, first edition, 2001; "The Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire" by Jane Hatcher, 1985; "An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York", Volume V: The Central Area, first edition, 1981, and "The Victorian History of the Counties of England: A History of Yorkshire: The City of York" edited by P M Tillott.
HUGHES, Ted - Season Songs: illustrated by Leonard Baskin, org. cloth backed boards in d/w, 4to, first ed, signed by both the illustrator and Ted Hughes, Viking Press, New York, 1975. * the first English edition was published one year later (Please note: This is a 1st Edition but second impression)
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