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Markham (Gervase) Cavelarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning all the Arte of Horse-manship, as is Necessary for any Man to Understand FIRST EDITION 8 parts in 1, title of second part with elaborate woodcut borders, numerous woodcuts throughout, Book 1 in poor condition, lacks all before B1, including title, severe worming to corner of first few quires affecting text, lacking C4-D4, loss to 3O4 and 3Z3 (title to Book 6), lacks all after [Part 8] E2, damp-staining, principally to last 2 Books, other slight marginal stains and occasional browning, 18th century ink inscription on inner front board, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, [STC 17334; Poynter 19.1], small 4to, [London, for E. White, 1607].

Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, 3 vol in 2, engraved vignettes, contemporary half calf over boards, surface mould bloom, 8vo, 1840.

Wild (Frank) Shackleton's Last Voyage The Story of the Quest, FIRST EDITION presentation copy, half titles, chromolithographic frontispiece and photographic plates and illustrations, publisher's pictorial cloth, spine slightly sunned, slight wear at spine ends, otherwise excellent, [Spence 1259; Taurus 112], 8vo, 1923.

Willis (Brown). A Survey of the Cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Oxford and Peterborough .... FIRST EDITION, 12 folding engraved plates, bookplates of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale and The Royal Institute of British Architects, contemporary fine speckle calf binding, 4to, R.Gosling, 1730.

Thompson (Pishey). Collections for a Topographical and Historical Account of Boston ...., FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title and dedication page, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, folding pedigree and vignettes throughout, list of subscribers, later speckled calf, 4to, 1820.

Stark (Adam). The History and Antiquities of Gainsbrugh .... FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, map, four engraved plates, modern calf-backed pattern boards, uncut, 8vo, 1817.

Stark (Adam). The History and Antiquities of Gainsborough..., first edition, folding engraved frontispiece map, engraved plates, modern half calf over patterned boards, 4to, 1817.

Carroll (Lewis), A Tangled Tale, FIRST EDITION, an engraved frontage piece and tissue guard, and engraved plates, 1885; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 17th, 1882; Looking Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 20-1st thousand; 1872, original publisher's cloth, g.e., 8 vol, (3).

Burnett (Francis Hodson). Little Lord Fauntleroy, first English edition, 1897; and a quantity of other general Victorian literature including a few works by Bunyan.(qty).

- 1 of just 751 Jubilee limited editions made to celebrate MG's 50th Anniversary - Subject to a bare metal restoration and re-trimmed seats - Offered with photographic record of the recent work and MOT'd into April 2016 The Jubilee edition of 'everybody's favourite sports car' was produced in 1975 to celebrate 50 years of the MG marque. Each car was finished in British Racing Green complemented by Gold stripes and other detailing. The unique specification extended to overdrive, B V8-style wheels and large diameter three-spoke steering wheel; fully carpeted interiors and tinted windows, and was attributed to 751 MG B GTs, one MG B Roadster, one MG B V8, and a solitary Midget. The Jubilee B GT now on offer was manufactured in May 1975 and dispatched to Oliver Rix (Garages) Ltd of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. They delivered it to the first owner on 12th August. In 1989 it was acquired by MG specialists Little Houghton Garage, Northants. They embarked on a restoration that was never completed and the MG then languished in the Garage until rescued by the vendor in January this year. It has since been treated to a complete bare metal restoration, during which all corrosion was removed, the wheels refurbished, new tyres fitted and the seats retrimmed. 'LEH 151P' is now offered complete with a photographic record of the recent work and MOT to April 22nd 2016.

- Number 22 from a limited production run and 1 of just 390 for the UK - Offered with original bookpack and service book containing 14 entries - Described as 'excellent' with regards to the paintwork, engine and interior Unveiled in 1993 and much-vaunted by the motoring media, the special edition Clio Williams was a nod to the relationship between Renault and the Williams F1 team to whom Renault was supplying engines, and sparked by the company's desire to homologate a 2.0-litre race engine. Evolved from the 1.8-litre Clio 16S unit, the 150bhp powerplant featured uprated valves, camshaft, exhaust manifold etc. It drove through a modified JC5 gearbox and the chassis benefited from firmer than standard suspension and a wider front track. A total of 5,400 examples were produced over two years in three generations, 390 of which were made especially for the UK market. One of the first of these iconic pocket rockets made, the sale car (No.22) has had seven owners to date and is smartly presented in the correct combination of Sports Blue paintwork and Gold-coloured eight-spoke Speedline wheels. The interior still boasts its 'W' monogrammed grey cloth seats and Blue Williams-branded floor mats. 'L580 BGV' is now offered complete with book pack containing 14 service stamps, old MOTs, load-cover with integral suit-carrier and original Hamilton & Palmer security system. MOT'd until 25th November 2016, the vendor regards the Clio as having 'excellent' bodywork, paintwork, interior trim, four-cylinder engine and five-speed manual gearbox.

Pietro Paolo Vergerio the elder, - De diruta statua Virgilii epistola, and Poggio Bracciolini De diruta statua Virgilii epistola, and Poggio Bracciolini, Oratio in funere Iuliani de Caesarinis, in Latin, manuscript on paper [central Italy (probably Milan or vicinity), third quarter of fifteenth century] 30 leaves (plus modern paper endleaf at each end), wanting approximately 2 leaves of text from the centre of the volume, which had the end of the first text and the opening words of the second (approximately 20 lines of each), else complete, collation: i-iii10 (last 4 leaves blank), single column, 17 lines in a fine humanist hand (but written at different times with different pens) with a low descending fish-hook-like tail to the g and frequent use of et-ligature within words, 3 lines of faded red capitals at opening of first text, some capitals set in margin and occasional marginal corrections, small spots and tiny hole in fol.10 (with no affect to text), eighteenth-century sums on one endleaf at back and modern pencil 29 and 523 , overall in good condition, 192 by 142mm., bound within contemporary blind-stamped leather boards with s shapes and fleur-de-lys within chevrons, these panels now laid over modern brown leather over pasteboards during modern restoration Provenance: (1) Most probably written in Milan or its vicinity in the third quarter of the fifteenth century: the watermarks of an 8-petalled flower are notably close to Briquet nos. 6597 (Chiavenna, 1465 and Milan, 1472) and 6599 (Milan, 1475 and Pavia, 1481). (2) Hieronymus Maria Giacin[tus]: his seventeenth-century ex libris inside front endleaf, naming him as a prior. Text: This volume contains works by two of the founders of Italian Renaissance humanism. Pietro Paolo Vergerio was born c . 1369 in Capodistria, Istri (now Koper, Slovenia), and alongside Guarinus, was the first modern author to write about the studia humanitatis . He studied at Padua, Florence and Bologna, and lectured as a professor of logic at Padua before serving Pope Innocent VII and Gregory XII as papal secretary, thereafter entering the service of Emperor Sigismund, for whom he translated Arrian s biography of Alexander the Great into Latin. He remained in the imperial court, and in 1420, was the chief Catholic orator there arguing against the Hussite disputation. He died at Prague still in imperial service in 1444. This text is an invective against Carlo Malatesta, who in 1397 had ordered a statue of Virgil in Mantua to be destroyed. Poggio Braccolini (1380-1459) was a Tuscan by birth and studied Latin in Florence under Giovanni Malpaghino, the friend and student of Petrarch. He himself befriended and worked for the grand humanists Coluccio Salutati and Niccolo de Niccoli, and became the most well-known and celebrated scholar of early humanism, principally through his rediscovery of significant parts of our Ancient Latin heritage mouldering in German, Swiss and French monastic libraries. He wrote this Oratio to honour the memory of Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini (1398-1445), and the efforts he made ad liberandum Europam ab oppresione barbarorum nefaria crudelique . Leonardo Bruni dedicated his edition of the Gothic War to Cesarini. The two tracts also appear together in other humanist manuscripts: Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 272; Padova, Biblioteca Civica, B.P. 1223 and 1287; and Ravenna, Biblioteca Comunale Classense 117.

The Astronomical Compendium of San Cristoforo, - Turin, including Regiomontanus, Calendarium Turin, including Regiomontanus,  Calendarium  , as well as other related texts, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper and parchment [northern Italy (probably Turin), last decades of the fifteenth century (perhaps c. 1474)] 61 leaves (including 3 endleaves at front and 2 at back, plus last 4 leaves of text blank), complete, collation: i6, ii6, iii6, iv10 (first leaf a parchment insert, that pasted to a singleton which forms last leaf of bifolium), v3 (last leaf a parchment singleton), vi10, vii14, catchwords present, single column, c. 35 lines in a small but fine and legible hand which shows the influence of humanist script, rubrics in red, astronomical symbols in faded purple, 2-line initials in simple blue or red and blue with contrasting penwork, spaces left for other initials, 10 pages of diagrams illustrating the phase  of lunar and solar eclipses for the years 1475-1530 (3 pages left in trick), 2 parchment leaves with 4 full-page diagrams, one a volvelle (middle ring wanting), others an  Instrumentum horar[i]um inequalium  with a list of planetary bodies, a  Quadrans horologii horizontalis  and a  Quadratum horarium generale   with designations for latitude and longitude, 2 pages of calculatory diagrams with text in red and purple ink and 2 further volvelle diagrams on either side of a paper leaf, a series of near-contemporary calculation numbers added down side of one diagram, some small stains and smudges, splits to edges of a few endleaves, small amount of wormholes, overall good condition, 206 by 147mm., in contemporary light coloured leather over pasteboards, circular marks scored into boards showing places of lost metal bosses, some scuffs, worm and losses at corners, spine skilfully rebacked Provenance:  (1) Most probably written and illustrated for Brother Antonius  de lanteo  (doubtless a member of the medieval Turin  de Lanceo  family), an inmate of the Augustinian monastery of San Cristoforo, Turin: his inscription at head of recto of first leaf of Calendar  S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo . The Calendar of Regiomontanus  work has been adapted during copying to include Augustinian saints and exclude the German and Bohemian ones usually found there. (2) Joseff Greg[o]ri[o] da Bologna: his seventeenth-century inscription on back cover. (3) Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Italian polymath and grand bibliophile, who held offices as professor of Mathematical Physics at Pisa and of Calculus at the Sorbonne, and then Chief Inspector of French Libraries from 1841. This last role eventually brought him notoriety as a book thief, and he fled to England. Before and after this he had acted as a legitimate dealer in books and manuscripts, and doubtless he acquired the present volume in Italy. It was lot 92 in his sale at Sotheby s, 28 March 1859. (4) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), the greatest book collector to have ever lived, who assembled a vast collection numbering several tens of thousands of items, accumulating in a single lifetime more manuscripts than Oxford and Cambridge together; his MS. 16242 (his pencil  Ph  number and pen  Phillipps Ms 16242  inside front board; his sale at Sotheby s, 5 June 1899 ( Bibliotheca Phillippica   XI), lot 75 (sale catalogue cutting glued to front endleaf). (5) Samuel Verplank Hoffman (1866-1942), who studied astronomy and taught it at John Hopkins University before taking over his family s business empire, and was a member of the New York Historical Society from 1901 until his death, serving as its president from 1903 (they have a portrait of him from 1907) and a member of the Grolier Club: his armorial bookplate inside front board. It was probably sold soon after his death, on  July 28, 1944  (pencil date inside front board). The Smithsonian acquired his collection of astrolabes in 1959. Text: This is an important witness to the study of astronomy in Turin in the fifteenth century, which is contemporary or near-contemporary with the life of the celebrated astronomer Regiomontanus. It is among a tiny handful of early copies of his crucial  Calendarium   (here fols.1v-32v, and giving information on lunar and solar eclipses for 1475-1530, as well as the length of days and signs of the zodiac and planets), and is the earliest known Italian manuscript of the text. It is now the only recorded copy left in private hands. Regiomontanus  virtuoso career straddled the transition from manuscript to early print, and thus his works are of the greatest rarity in handwritten copies. He was born Johannes Müller in 1436 in the Franconian market town of Königsberg (the name Regiomontanus was first coined by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534). His first known accomplishment, as  a 13-year-old student in Leipzig, was the production of a set of planetary tables vastly more accurate and impressive than Gutenberg s own  Astronomical Calendar of 1448 . He became a pupil of Georg von Peuerbach (1423-61) in Vienna, and continued that scholar s work in astronomy, mathematics and instrument making. On Peuerbach s insistence, Regiomontanus followed his mentor into the service of the  humanist papal legate and book collector Basilios Bessarion and spent much of the 1460s splitting his time between Bessarion s household there and the courts of Archbishop Janos Vitez and King Matthius Corvinus in Hungary. It was in these years that he honed his notion that what astrology lacked was precision, and began his prolific writing career, moving in 1471 to Nuremberg, an imperial cultural centre, and founding his own printing press, the first dedicated to astronomy and mathematics. He died soon after, while on a trip to Rome in 1475-76. It is most probably his foundation of a printing press that ensured so few of his works were transmitted in manuscript, as his work moved in many cases seamlessly from his own rough copy to incunable. The only two manuscript copies to come to the market in living memory are this one and that sold by Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig, and thence to the Getty, later sold to the late Laurence Schoenberg, and now in Princeton University ( Transformations of Knowledge  , 2006, LJS. 300, p. 74, deposited in Princeton since 2011). The Schoenberg manuscript has been dated variously from  c  .1470 to  c  .1500, and was most probably in the library of Lambach Abbey, Austria. Both it and  the present copy are prestigious  de luxe   copies, rather than hastily copied scholar s working copies. Neither can be definitively dated to either before or after the emergence of the printed edition of 1474, and both agree closely with that witness (the present manuscript differs only in the alterations to the Calendar and in the placement of the diagram of the  Quadrans Horologii horizontalis   and the  Quadratum horarium generale   later in the sequence). Both might be copies of Regiomontanus  lost exemplar (which as it was produced for direct printing is likely to have been near-identical in layout to the incunable). That may have been circulated among associates and fellow astronomers immediately before the printing, and Antonio de Lanteo was plausibly a friend of the author perhaps met during his long travels in northern Italy. Or they could be copies made for monastic libraries soon after 1474,  but then we must believe that these libraries could afford to source a copy of the incunable and produce  de luxe   copies of it, but apparently could not afford to purchase a printed copy. The study on the relationship of these early manuscript witnesses to the printed text has yet to be written, but it is clear that no such study can afford to ignore the present manuscript. The other short texts at the end here are no less interesting or intriguing, and include a large number not apparently recorded elsewhere.

Books - Climbing - Travel - Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1955, hb, dj; Forbes (Rosita), The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara, Cassell and Company, Limited, London 1921; Forbes (Rosita), From Red Sea to Blue Nile: Abyssinian Adventures, Cassell and Company, Ltd, London 1925; Himalayan Quest: The German Expeditions to Siniolchum and Nanga Parbat, Nicholson and Watson, London 1938; Baedker's Eastern Alps; etc (2 boxes)

Books and Ephemera - Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years, Madame C De La B, 1843, leather bound, first edition; others, Ordnance Survey maps; tea cards; etc.; quantity

Antiquarian Books - Talbot Kelly (R), Egypt: Painted and Described; Lytton Bulwer (Edward), Leila, Or the Siege of Grenada, first edition; Kyle (william), A West Surrey Sketch-Book; Black & White Budget (run); etc

Antiquarian Books - Wells (H.G.), New Worlds For Old, first edition, Archibald Contsbale & Co., London 1908; Cresswell v. Jackson: The Matlock Will Case, Tried Before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and A Special Jury [...] Wednesday, February 22, 1864 [...], Alfred Boot, London 1864; Covenants With Death, edited by T.A. Innes and Ivor Castle, Daily Express Publications, London 1934; Verni (Maria), Modern Beauty Culture, The New Era Publishing Co; an 18th century English grammar publication, contemporary calf; 19th century p/b Waverley Novels; etc

Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) Christmas, from Bampfylde’s Sonnet Etching, c.1850 proof for the 1882 first edition 10 x 8cm; 4 x 3in Provenance: Elizabeth Harvey-Lee, Olympia, 1993 The estate of Peter J. Rankin ++Some staining and foxing to margins

Chesterton (G. K.) - The Collected Poems, 1 vol, 8vo, first edition signed and numbered 347/350, 1933 presentation inscription to flyleaf, Cecil Palmer 1927, deckle edge paper with vellum backed boards and patterned tapa cloth binding

Two Colin T Clifford Railway Photographs Books: ‘Decline of Steam’ 3rd Impression 1975 with dust jacket, VG, and ‘Each A Glimpse’ 1970 First Edition, lacks dust jacket, G (2)

THREE FIGURES, a Royal Worcester 'First Dance' No.3629, and two Limited Edition Royal Doulton 'Faith' HN3082, 4721/9500 and 'Charity' HN3087, 4904/9500 (3)

An album of silver medallions "The Kings & Queens Of England" produced by John Pinches, First Edition proof set of 43 medals.

A Hotpoint 'First Edition' Fridge Freezer (50/50), together with a Dimplex microware, a steam mop, adjustable floor lamp, computer desk, office chair and printer & a Swan teasmade.

CORGI AEROPLANES/AIRPLANES - CLASSIC JETLINERS - a selection of 8 packaged The Aviation Archive Classic Jetliners 1:144 scale models to include a first issue D.H Comet 48 British European Airways (48501), 2 x limited edition DH Comet 4C SU-ASLM United Arab Airlines 1962 (AA31402), a first issue Lockheed Constellation - TWA (47501), a D.H. Comet 4 Dan-Air London (48502), a DH Comet 4 BOAC (48504) and 2 x limited edition DE Havilland Comet 4B BEA Airtours (48506).

CORGI AEROPLANES/AIRPLANES - CLASSIC PROPLINERS - a selection of 10 packaged The Aviation Archive Classic Propliners Corgi 1:144 scale models to include a limited edition Vickers Viscount 800 British Air Ferries (AA30503), 2 x first issue Vickers Viscount Continental Airways (47603), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 806 British Airways (47608), a limited edition Douglas DC-3 Continental Airlines (AA30001), a Vickers Viscount Parcelforce (47602), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 800 Aer Lingus (AA30501), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 700 United Airlines (AA30502), a first issue Vickers Viscount 800 series Lufthansa (476704) and a limited edition Vickers Viscount 836 British Midland Airways (47609).

CORGI AEROPLANES/AIRPLANES - CLASSIC PROPLINERS - a selection of 9 packaged The Aviation Archive Classic Propliners Corgi limited edition and first issue 1:144 scale models to include a Vickers Viscount Parcelforce (47602), 2 x Vickers Viscount 700 United Airlines (AA30502), a Vickers Viscount 700 series British Eagle (47605), a Vickers Viscount 806 Virgin Atlantic Airways (47606), 2 x Vickers Viscount 700 series British European Airways (47601), Vickers Viscount 800 series Lufthansa (47604) and a Vickers Viscount 806 British Airways (47608).

'British Field Sports' an exact facsimile of the first and only edition of one of the rarest of all sports book contained in original outer case.

H.E. Bates - "The Darling Buds of May", first edition published by Michael Joseph, London 1958, with original dust wrapper, and sold with letter from W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) printed with address for Villa Mauresque, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, and dated 9th June addressed to the author as "My dear Bates" and thanking him for a copy of the book

PORTUGESE FURNITURE AND DESIGNMainly Portuguese Language EditionsHelder Carita and Homem Cardoso,'Les Interios em Portugal',published by Livraria Civilizacao, c.1980, bilingual English/ Portuguese edition, slipcase, signed by the authors, No.9338,R C Smith,'Cadeirais de Portugal',published by Livros Horizonte, Portuguese with English summary, published 1961,Franklin Pereira,'O Couro Lavrado no Mobiliario Artistico de Portugal',published by Lello 2000,Tilde Canti,'O Movel no Brazil, Origens, Evolucao e Caracteristicas',published Lisbon 1999, re-issue of book first published in Rio de Janeiro in 1980,'Triomphe du Baroque',published RTBF, 1991, Portuguese text,Alfredo Guimaraes,'Mobiliario Artistico Portugues Livraria Sa da Costa 1949',Exhibition Catalogue,'Artes Decorativas Portuguesas',published Lisbon 1979,Exhibition Catalogue,'Museu de Lamego Mobiliario',published by the Institute of Portuguese Museums 1999,Arthur de Sandao,'O Movel Pintado en Portugal',sign

SURTEE (Robert Smith). 5 ouvrages sous emboîtage grand in-8° en maroquin rouge dos à nerfs orné et doré renfermant les éditions originales de 5 oeuvres de Surtee dans leur couverture rouge d'éditeur sous chemise cartonnée à rabats.&nbsp London Bradbury 1853-1865. Ill. de John Leech.&nbsp 1) Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.&nbsp 1853. First edition. 13 parts in 12 vol. in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements.&nbsp 13 coloured pl.&nbsp 2) Handley Cross or Mr. Jorroks's Hunt. 1853-1854. 17 parts&nbsp &nbsp in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements.&nbsp 17 coloured &nbsp pl.&nbsp 3) "Ask Mamma" or the richest commoner in England.&nbsp 1857-1858. 13 parts&nbsp in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements.&nbsp 13 coloured pl. 4) Plain or Ringlets? 1860.&nbsp 13 parts in 12 vol.&nbsp in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements.&nbsp 13 coloured pl.&nbsp 5) Mr. Facey Romeord's Hounds. 1864-1865. 12 parts&nbsp in the original red printed wrappers with advertisements.&nbsp 24 coloured pl.&nbsp

WOOLF VIRGINIA: (1882-1941) English Novelist. A good T.L.S., Virginia Woolf, two pages, oblong 8vo, n.p. ('As from 52 Tavistock Square, London, WC1'), 22nd March 1930, to Mr. Grubb. Woolf states 'I shall be delighted to help you if I can. I am in the country at the moment and cannot be quite certain when my books were published, but think that the following list is correct.' and continues to provide a list of nine of her works, the publisher and date, including her first novel The Voyage Out ('Duckworth. 1915'), and Mrs Dalloway ('Hogarth Press 1922'), To the Lighthouse ('Hogarth Press 1927') as well as the extended essay A Room of One's Own ('Hogarth Press. 1929') etc. She further writes 'The Voyage Out was my first book. The Hogarth Press reprinted it this autumn in a five shilling uniform edition'. Woolf also informs her correspondent 'The time I take in writing a book varies greatly. Mrs. Dalloway took I think two years; Orlando five months. I have so many plans always for future books that I am afraid it is useless to count them. A Room of ones Own has sold best of my books in England. In America Orlando is, at this moment, the best seller. Doran printed my first the first novel to appear in the USA. It was Night and Day' and concludes 'I do not know of any personal note about me'. A letter of excellent literary content, with several holograph corrections. Some light staining (including minor rust stains caused by a paperclip), G G. H. Grubb - London Agent of the American Publishers G. P. Putnam's Sons.

JEROME JEROME K.: (1859-1927) English Writer & Humorist. A.L.S., Jerome K Jerome, two pages, 8vo, Alpha Place, n.d. (1891-93), to McIntyre. Jerome announces 'We were unfortunate - or at all events I feel I was. I trust I shall have better luck next time we are in the same city' and continues 'Can you think of any subject connected with Germany & the Germans likely to make a light interest article. How about an article on German dwelling illustrated by photos or otherwise on the German equivalent for our boxing - or a Lager Beer Brewery'. A couple of stains to the first page, just affecting a few words of text, and two tears to the edge of the central fold. Together with a L.S., J. K. Jerome, two pages, 8vo, Earls Court Road, 27th November 1922, to Mr. Grubb. Jerome writes in reference to a recent conversation regarding the American book rights of his Reminiscences and asks 'Could your people make me an offer for these soon. What advance would they make me on a royalty of twenty %', further commenting 'The matter seems so simple that I do not see why I should not act as my own agent....'. Also including an unsigned hardback edition of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome. First Edition (Second Issue) published by J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street, Bristol, 1889. With illustrations by A. Frederics. Adverts to front and rear pastedowns and concluding three pages. Bound in grey cloth with black lettering and design to the cover. Spine loose and with some age wear. G to about VG, 3

MILNE A. A.: (1882-1956) English Author, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Book signed, a hardback edition of Michael and Mary, First Edition published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1930. Signed by Milne in ink with his name alone to the limitations page and numbered 106 of 260. Bound in the publisher's green buckram and with gilt title to spine (some discoloration). Top edges gilt and the others uncut. One very slight, minor stain just beneath Milne's signature and some light overall age wear, about VG

SIGNED BOOKS: Selection of signed hardback editions by various writers, novelists and a few other famous individuals etc., including Ted Hughes (a complete set of Collected Animal Poems, Volume I The Iron Wolf, Volume II What is the Truth?, Volume III A March Calf and Volume IV The Thought-Fox, First Editions published by Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1995. With illustrations by Chris Riddell (Vol.I) and Lisa Flather (Vols. II - IV). The first volume is signed by Hughes with his name alone in black ink to the half title page. All volumes are accompanied by their dust jackets and contained in the original slipcase), Edward Ardizzone (hardback edition of Saint Luke's Life of Christ, translated by J. B. Phillips and with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, First Edition published by Collins, London, 1956. Limited Edition number 83 of 150. Bound in gilt blocked leather over cloth backed boards. Signed by both Phillips and Ardizzone in fountain pen inks with their names alone to the limitations page. Contained in the original decorative printed slipcase), Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy (First Edition, 1932) Limited Edition 38 of 525, signed by Galsworthy to the limitations page, Sard Harker by John Masefield (First Edition, 1924) signed by Masefield to the fly leaf and dated October 1924, Little Plays of St. Francis by Laurence Housman, Collected Plays by L. du Gurde Peach (Volumes I to IV, First Editions, First volume signed only), The Man of Kerioth by Robert Norwood (First US Edition, 1919), Plain Girl by Arthur Miller (First Edition, 1995), The Lion and the Unicorn by Clemence Dane (Limited Edition number 355 of 1000, 1943), The Army of the Shadows and other stories by Eric Ambler, The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell, The Persian Ransom by Evelyn Anthony (loosely inserted A.L.S.), Curtmantle by Christopher Fry, Down with Superwoman! by Shirley Conran, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend, A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley, Plain Girl (First Edition, 1995) and A View from the Bridge/All My Sons (paperback) by Arthur Miller, The Eye of the Tornado by Chapman Pincher, London by Beryl Cook, Susan's Story by Susan Hampshire, Orson Welles - The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad etc. Many are First editions and some are accompanied by the dust jackets. G to generally VG, 37

CHICHESTER FRANCIS: (1901-1972) British Sailor and Aviator, the first person to sail single handed around the world by the clipper route, 1966-67. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Atlantic Adventure, First Edition published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1962. Signed by Chichester in bold blue fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper with an interesting inscription, in full, 'To Frank Bates, with many thanks for valuable help with some of my gear such as marine and bubble sextants which functioned perfectly. From Francis Chichester', and dated Christmas 1962 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some tears and overall age wear). Together with a second book signed, being a hardback edition of the autobiography The Lonely Sea and the Sky, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1965 (third impression). Signed by Chichester in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to the front free endpaper. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some slight tears and minor age wear). G to about VG, 2

MCCARTNEY LINDA: (1941-1998) American Musician & Photographer, husband of Paul McCartney. Book signed, a hardback edition of Photographs, First Edition published by Pavilion Books, London, 1982. Signed by McCartney in blue ink to the front free endpaper, 'For you my friend! love Linda' and dated 1982 in her hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG

BAILLIE MATTHEW: (1761-1823) Scottish-born Physician and Pathologist. A.L.S., M Baillie, two pages, 4to, London, 8th February 1814, to [Antoine Portal]. Baillie states that he is flattered to have received his correspondent’s letter and treatise ‘as a testimony of approbation from one of the most celebrated Anatomists and Physicians in Europe’ and continues ‘I have been for many years acquainted with your high reputation and have read some of your excellent works with instruction - I had not seen however your admirable work, Cours d’Anatomie Medicale till lately and therefore I have not been able to derive advantage from it, in publishing the last edition of my Treatise upon Morbid Anatomy - should this book ever come to another Edition, I shall not fail to take advantage of so ample a source of information’. With blank integral leaf. VG Baron Antoine Portal (1742-1832) French Anatomist, Doctor and Medical Historian. Baillie’s The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (1793) is considered the first systematic study of pathology, and the first publication in English on pathology as a separate subject.

PAVLOV IVAN: (1849-1936) Russian Physiologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1904, thus becoming the first Russian Nobel Laureate. Rare A.L.S., I. Pavlov, two pages, 8vo, Rue Wedenskaya, 16th August 1898, to a colleague ('Monsieur et tres honore collegue'), in French. Pavlov states that he has learned with great pleasure about his correspondent's kind proposal concerning the translation of his Lessons into French and continuing 'Your proposal is still the first one. I must tell you that there is already a German translation, in which there are some supplements that are not in the Russian edition. However, in the French translation, it is also desirable that you introduce some new supplements, according to the new results that we have obtained in our laboratory'. A couple of very small, extremely minor pinholes to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise EX

DIANA: (1961-1997) Princess of Wales. Rare book signed, an 8vo hardback edition of Noddy Goes to Toyland by Enid Blyton, published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. and D.V. Publications, Ltd., London, First Edition, 1949. The book, with colour illustrations by Harmsen Van der Beek, is Noddy Book 1 and bears the ownership signature ('Diana') of the young Diana in bold red ink to the front endpaper bearing a colour printed design and the words This book belongs to….. Together with similar hardback editions of Noddy Has An Adventure (Noddy Book 17) bearing the ownership signature ('Sarah') of Lady Sarah McCorquodale (1955- , Elder Sister of Princess Diana) and You Funny Little Noddy (Noddy Book 10) bearing an ink inscription by a nanny to Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes (1957- , Elder Sister of Princess Diana). Some overall age wear and various largely minor faults. An extremely rare trio of books bearing an exceptionally early example of Princess Diana's signature. Contained in an attractively presented custom fitted box and with a loose letter of provenance stating that the books were originally acquired by Ian Scott Hunter, employed by the Royal Household as a Footman, who had been given the books by the Housekeeper at Park House on the Sandringham Estate after the Spencer Family left there for Althrop following the death of Diana's grandfather, and her father inheriting the Earldom. G, 3

THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Let Our Children Grow Tall - Selected Speeches 1975-1977, First Edition published by the Centre for Policy Studies, London, 1977. Signed by Thatcher with her name alone in bold blue ink to the front free endpaper. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG

AVIATION: Selection of multiple signed (9) and individually signed (16) First Day Covers by various members of The Red Arrows aerobatics teams of 1972, 1975, 1979, 1980 (2), 1986, 1989 (2), 1990 etc., including Bill Aspinall, Pete Day, Brian Hoskins, Tim Curley, Michael Howell, Richard Thomas, Tim Miller, Al Hoy, John Rands, John Newton, Jeff Glover, Steve Johnson, Guy Bancroft-Wilson, Andy Stewart, Paul Rogers, Tony Smith, Martin Cliff, Dickie Duckett, Mike Phillips, Bob Eccles, Des Sheen, Brian Hoskins, Richard Thomas, Pete Lees, Pete Collins, Dan Findlay, Mel Cornwell etc. Some duplication. All of the covers feature colour designs and images, some commemorating anniversaries of the formation of The Red Arrows etc. Together with a set of 42 individually signed First Day Covers issued to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the King's Cup Air Race, 15th July 1972, and all featuring a colour image of a Gloster Grebe in flight, signed by various participants of the Air Races including Stanley Warwick (winner, 1972), R. A. Blech (winner of Aspenair Trophy), J. A. D. Bradshaw (winner, 1971), F. R. E. Hayter (winner, 1968), Prince William of Gloucester (scarce; died at the age of 30 in a flying accident), J. A. Spiller (winner, 1959), J. Stewart-Wood (winner, 1965), D. M. Hartas (winner, 1964) etc. Unsigned (1). All are loosely and neatly contained in a custom presentation ring binder, limited edition number 342 of 350. VG, 25 + album

WORLD WAR II: An historic original mimeograph document, signed in facsimile by a Lieutenant Colonel, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. (May 1945), being a Message Form issued by 8 Corps and delivered to various military divisions (11th Armoured Division, 5th British Division etc.), the Top Secret message announcing the German surrender and stating 'GERMANS surrendered unconditionally 1820 hrs 4 MAY 45 (.) hostilities on all SECOND ARMY fronts will cease at 0800 hrs 5 MAY (.) NO repeat NO advance beyond present front line without orders the HQ (.)....' Together with two further identical original mimeograph documents, both signed in facsimile by a Captain, each one page, folio, n.p., n.d. (May 1945), issued by 8 Corps to various military divisions, delivering the contents of a personal message sent by King George VI to Dwight Eisenhower and the contents of Eisenhower's Victory Order of the day from SHAEF stating, in part, The crusade on which we embarked in the early summer of 1944 has reached its glorious conclusion. It is my especial privilege, in the name of all Nations represented in this Theater of War, to command each of you for valiant performance of duty. Though these words are feeble they come from the bottom of the heart overflowing with pride in your loyal service and admiration for you as warriors. Your accomplishments at sea, in the air, on the ground and in the field of supply, have astonished the world….You have taken in stride military tasks so difficult as to be classed by many doubters as impossible. You have confused, defeated and destroyed your savagely fighting foe….You did not pause until our front was firmly joined up with the great Red Army coming from the East, and other Allied Forces, coming from the South. Full victory in Europe has been attained. Working and fighting together in a single and indestructible partnership you have achieved a perfection in unification of air, ground and naval power that will stand as a model in our time. The route you have travelled through hundreds of miles is marked by the graves of former comrades. From them has been exacted the ultimate sacrifice; blood of many nations - American, British, Canadian, French, Polish and others - has helped to gain the victory….Let us have no part in the profitless quarrels in which other men will inevitably engage as to what country, what service, won the European War. Every man, every woman, of every nation here represented, has served according to his or her ability, and the efforts of each have contributed to the outcome. This we shall remember - and in doing so we shall be revering each honoured grave, and be sending comfort to the loved ones of comrades who could not live to see this day'. Also including a hardback edition of The River Rhine to the Baltic Sea, being a narrative account of the pursuit and final defeat of the German Armed Forces, March - May 1945. A good, small selection of documents relating to the end of World War II. Some age wear and some length splits in the folds of the first document, FR to G, 4

BADER & JOHNSON: BADER DOUGLAS (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle of Britain & JOHNSON JOHNNIE (1915-2001) British World War II Ace (34 victories). A colour 24 x 20 First Edition print entitled Spitfire by artist Robert Taylor, 1979, signed by both Bader and Johnson individually in bold pencil with their names alone to the lower border. Framed and glazed in a modern plain silver coloured frame to an overall size of 24.5 x 20.5. About EX

BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (4) books by various pilots, most of whom fought in the Battle of Britain, including Bader - The Man and His Men by Michael G. Burns (signed by Raimund Puda), Aces High - A Further Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in World War II by Christopher Shores (three copies of Volume II, each with loosely inserted limited edition custom printed bookplates individually signed by Pete Brothers, Billy Drake, Gordon Conway, Tony Gaze, Ronnie Hay, Dennis David, Alan Smith and four others including the author, numbers 4, 5 and 6 of 150), 249 at War by Brian Cull (individually signed by John Grandy, Laddie Lucas, John Sutton, Tom 'Ginger' Neil and nine others including the author), Dennis 'Hurricane' David - My Autobiography by Dennis David, Diary of an Aviator by Sandy Johnstone, Tale of a Guinea Pig - The Exploits of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Geoffrey Page (2), Five Up by Laddie Lucas, The Story of Air Fighting by Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire Squadron - No. 19 Squadron at War 1939-1941 by Dilip Sarkar (featuring a limited edition custom printed bookplate individually signed by Michael Lyne, David Scott-Malden, Bernard Jennings, Peter Howard-Williams, Hugh Dundas, John Wray, Gordon Sinclair, Wallace Cunningham, David Cox, Ken Wilkinson, George Cecil Unwin, Alexander Noel MacGregor and the author), Nine Lives by Alan Deere, Fighter Pilot by Bob Doe etc. Some are First Editions and all but one of the hardback editions are accompanied by their dust jackets. G to generally VG, 21

AVIATION: Selection of signed hardback and paperback (1) books by various pilots and aviators of World War II including Aces High - The Fighter Aces of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in World War II by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams (signed by Roland Beamont), Avro's Maritime Heavyweight - The Shackleton by Chris Ashworth (featuring a limited edition custom printed bookplate individually signed by J. E. Bazalgette, Edward Chilton, Bill Houldsworth, Rex Roe and six others including the author, number 21 of 100), The Hawker Typhoon and Tempest by Francis K. Mason (featuring a custom printed bookplate individually signed by Roland Beamont, Denis Crowley-Milling, Pamela Gollen, John Grandy, Frank Murphy, Peter Wykeham and five others including the author), The Short Sunderland by Chaz Bowyer (featuring a custom printed bookplate individually signed by Edward Chilton, Douglas Gall, Victor Hodgkinson, James Norval, R. E. G. Van der Kiste and four others), Path Finders at War by Chaz Bowyer (signed and inscribed by Hamish Mahaddie), In Full Flight by Tony Spooner (3), Coastal Ace - The Biography of Squadron Leader Terence Malcolm Bulloch by Tony Spooner (signed and inscribed by Bulloch), Pure Chance by Felicity Peake, Believed Safe - A Fighter Pilot's Double Escapade by Bill Furniss-Roe, Flight to Freedom by Michael Donnet (two different editions), Dimsie - Memoirs of a Pilot from Air to Ground - A Trilogy by Donald Stones (2) etc. Some are First Editions and all of the hardback editions are accompanied by their dust jackets. Generally VG, 20

GERMAN AVIATION: Small selection of signed hardback books by various German Luftwaffe pilots of World War II comprising The Lent Papers - Helmut Lent by Peter Hinchliffe (featuring a special limited edition custom printed bookplate individually signed by Wolfgang Falck, Paul Zorner, Hans-Joachim Jabs, Georg Hermann Greiner and the author), Laurels for Prinz Wittgenstein by Werner P. Roell (featuring a custom printed bookplate individually signed in pencil by Hajo Hermann, Wolfgang Falck (in ink), Gunther Rall, Heinz Cramer, Herbert Kummritz, Friedrich Ostheimer and the author), The Messerschmitt Me 262 Combat Diary by John Foreman and S. E. Harvey (two different editions, one featuring a special limited edition custom printed bookplate individually signed by Hermann Buchner, Urban Drew, John Wray, Rod Smith, Hugh Fraser and the authors and the other featuring a special limited edition custom printed bookplate individually signed by Hermann Buchner, Hans-Dieter Weihs, Rod Smith, Peter Cowell, Clive Gosling and the authors), Fighter General - The Life of Adolf Galland by Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable (featuring a loosely inserted custom printed bookplate individually signed in pencil by Adolf Galland and the authors) and Spitfire on my Tail - A View from the Other Side by Ulrich Steinhilper and Peter Osborne (featuring a custom printed bookplate signed by Ulrich Steinhilper). Most of the books are First Editions and all are accompanied by the dust jackets. Generally VG, 6

BEST GEORGE: (1946-2005) Northern Ireland & Manchester United Footballer. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of On the Ball, First Edition published by Pelham Books Ltd., London, 1970. Signed ('Best wishes to John, George Best') in blue ink to the title page and dated August 1991 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket (slight age wear). About VG

BEST GEORGE: (1946-2005) Northern Ireland & Manchester United Footballer. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of his autobiography Where do I go from here?, First Edition published by Queen Anne Press, London, 1981. Signed ('To John, George Best') in blue ink to the half title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG

MENUHIN YEHUDI: (1916-1999) American-born British and Swiss Violinist and Conductor. T.L.S., Yehudi Menuhin, one page, 4to, Los Gatos, California, 7th June 1954, to Miss Muriel Frost. Menuhin states that he has received his correspondent's letter, remarking 'and I, too, pray that this may not be your last letter from an office which brought us together and contributed so much to my feeling of friendship and peace of mind in England', further adding that his wife is writing to her independently, although inviting Frost to stay with them in Gstaad in September, explaining 'your presence would be of inestimable value in handling my correspondence and freeing me to care for the rather important work I have at that time'. Menuhin concludes 'Many thanks for attending to all the different chores I have you. I do hope that the next weeks will provide you with relaxation and clear the mind from the myriad of petty problems you have had to face these last months.' Together with an A.N.S., Yehudi Menuhin, on an oblong 12mo card (most likely originally accompanying a gift or flowers), n.p., December 1954, to Miss Frost, 'celebrating a long and happy companionship'. Also including an A.L.S., Yehudi Menuhin, three pages, 8vo, London, 29th May 1955, to Miss Muriel Frost, on the printed stationery of Claridge's. Menuhin announces 'I will long recall the particular quality which your blend of devotion and ability conveyed to a relationship which has spanned the greater part of my life - a constant, unfailing element of support and comfort' and continues 'Amid a shifting background and standing often as a lonely pillar in a sea of debris, you guarded intact the life-lines and the essential parts of the matter' and concluding by remarking 'I only hope that you will bring your friendly and lively face often to see me'. Accompanied by the original envelope. Further including a vintage signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Menuhin in a head and shoulders pose playing his violin. Photograph by Fayer of Vienna. Signed by Menuhin in dark fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated December 1955 in his hand and a signed and inscribed hardback edition of Yehudi Menuhin - The Story of the Man and the Musician by Robert Magidoff, First Edition published by Doubleday & Company Inc., New York, 1955. Signed by Menuhin in bold blue ink to the half title page, 'To dear Miss Frost, recalling our happy hours in London together Dec-Jan 1956, Yehudi Menuhin'. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some extensive wear, creasing and areas of paper loss). The lot also includes Diana Menuhin (1912-2003) British Ballerina, second wife of Yehudi Menuhin. A.L.S., Diana Menuhin, two pages, 4to, Los Gatos, California, 10th September n.y. (late 1950s?), to Miss. Frost. Most likely writing following the death of her third child shortly after birth, Menuhin thanks her correspondent for their 'sweet & sympathetic letter' and continues 'It was a stupidly cruel shock and I am fighting hard to overcome the anguished feeling of emptiness & waste. I have, though, so much in life that I would be a very ungrateful & egoistic (sic) creature if I could not conquer my sadness, and I have such a loving family and friends that I know myself to be very fortunate', concluding by hoping that they will be able to meet for lunch or dinner in London in the future, and further features a series of sixteen vintage Christmas greetings cards from the Menuhin family, the majority inscribed by Diana Menuhin and signed by her on behalf of her husband and family, the stiff oblong small 8vo folding cards dated 1943, 1954 (2), 1956-59, 1961-67, 1969-70, each of the cards featuring different images (some colour, a few now detached although present), most depicting the Menuhin's children although some also including Yehudi and Diana. G to generally VG, 22

ADAMS DOUGLAS, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book Club Associates, first edition, 1980; and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, first edition, 1980.

KING STEPHEN, Salem's Lot, first edition, Doubleday 1975, with dust jacket; and Night Shift, Doubleday, first edition. (2)

Hardback Book, first edition 'Uncle Toms Cabin' published John Cassell 1852

BOOKS - "BIRDS IN FLIGHT" BY PYCROFTS ILLUSTRATED BY ROLAND GREEN FIRST EDITION 12 COLOUR PLATES, "BIRDS AND THEIR YOUNG" BY T.A. COWARD ILLUSTRATED BY ROLAND GREEN FIRST EDITION 12 COLOUR PLATES, "BIRDS ASHORE AND AFORESHORE" FIRST EDITION 16 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY WINIFRED AUSTIN BY PATRICK CHALMERS (3)

Seventeen die-cast model vehicles, including Exclusive First Edition buses and other commercial vehicles

[ART] Conor, William. The Irish Scene, first edition, MacCord, Belfast, 1944, pink-grey cloth, twelve tipped-in colour plate illustrations, tall quarto.

[CHILDRENS] Crane, Walter, (illustrator). A Flower Wedding, Cassell & Co., London, 1905, cloth-backed pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughout, small quarto (upper hinge split); Greenaway, Kate. A Apple Pie, Warne, London, no date, cloth-backed pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughout, small oblong quarto (covers detached; some pages detached and creased / torn, with small losses); Potter, Beatrix. The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition, Warne, London, 1908, bevelled dark crimson cloth with pictorial onlay, colour and line-drawn illustrations, small quarto (lower hinge broken; some pages secured with paper tape at inner edges; some line drawings with later pencil colouring); and three other works, (6).

[CHILDRENS] Ransome, Arthur. Coots in the North & Other Stories, first edition, Cape, London, 1988, boards, dustjacket, octavo; with We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, first edition, 1937, cloth; Secret Water, first edition, 1939, cloth; Great Northern?, first edition, 1947, cloth; and five others, reprints, all but one with a dustjacket, (9).

[HISTORY]. WINE Simon, Andre L. The History of the Wine Trade in England, three volumes, The Holland Press, London, 1964, maroon cloth, dustjackets, each volume SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo (jackets torn at spine ends, without significant loss); and Simon, Andre L. Vintagewise. A Postscript to Saintsbury's Notes on a Cellar Book, first edition, Joseph, London, 1945, maroon cloth, dustjacket, octavo, (4).

Pickles by Cecil Aldin published by Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, First Edition 1909

The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck by Beatrix Potter, published F.Warne & Co. First Edition 1908, good condition other than stain to front