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1573 CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRINTED BOOK: Preces privatae in studiorum gratiam collectae, & regia authoritate approbatae - Guielmus Seres, London. 16mo. Modern panelled calf in blind with spine gilt in the 16th century style, splendidly executed. The Catholic Primers were manuals of popular devotion deriving from the medieval Books of Hours of the Blessed Virgin. This Anglican version, based instead on the Book of Common Prayer, had its first edition in 1564. Four years earlier the first English printing of the Latin translation of the Book of Common Prayer had been published. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1625 The Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments. And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England - Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill: 1625. Folio. The first edition of the Charles I revision. With many woodcut initials, black letter. Engraved titlepage printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary full calf, covers framed by five gilt fillets enclosing in the centre a large grolieresque gilt central lozenge. A very good copy. This copy was in turn used by those in the Church of Ireland who were desirous for a complete revision of the Booke of Common Prayer to coincide with the 1871 Act of Disestablishment. These suggestions are in red ink. Those involved however lost out against the traditionalists which included J B Garstin. Spine expertly rebacked preserving original. Loosely inserted is a four page printed leaflet entitled 'a form of prayer and Thanksgiving' for "the merciful preservation of the Queen from the atrocious and treasonable attempt against her … on Monday, the thirtieth of May, 1842" - to be used in all Churches and chapels in Ireland. Dublin: printed by George and John Grierson, 1842. Provenance: from the library of WR Westoppe Roberts and Sidney Young with their armorial bookplates. BOUND WITH CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRINTED BOOK: The Psalter, or Pslames of David, after the translation of the Great Bible, pointed as it shall be said or sung in churches - Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill. Folio with many woodcut initials. According to a note in this copy, the emblem of St Luke, a Bull, appears on the title page by mistake instead of the Lion of St. Mark. Binding: Contemporary calf, gilt, re-backed. Provenance: Bookplates of "Sidney Young, citizen and barber of London" and "W R Westropp Roberts, Senior Fellow, Trinity College Dublin". and gifted to his daughter Dorothy and her husband Dan Conner. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

ST. ROSE OF LIMA - PATRONESS OF AMERICA CATHOLIC PRINTED BOOK: Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa Venerabilis Sororis Rosae de S Maria Limensis ex Tertio Ordine S. P. Dominici - by Leonhard Hansen OP. Printer and Rome, Typis Nicolai Angeli Tinassii. 4to. Old vellum, with early titling in ink on spine. St Rose of Lima (1586 - 1617) is the native born patroness of America being the first American to be canonized. Too weak to sustain a full conventual life, nevertheless she practised severe mortification and died in only her thirty first year. This early biography - the first edition is a 12mo of the same year - was written by a Dominican who when resident in Rome was put in charge of the English Province. It provides the basis for later biographies with a detailed account of her life and death and also miracles attributed to her intercession. It also details some of her remedies including the use of chocolate for the relief of stomach problems as well offering an account of life in Peru in the later years of the 16th Century. Provenance: The books carries a withdrawn notice on the book plate of St Dominic's Convent, Stone. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1717 CATHOLIC PRINTED BOOK: Index Librorum Prohibitorum usque ad totum mensem Martii MDCCXVII. Regnante Clemente XI - Typographia Camera Apostolica, Rome. 1717. pp. [xx], 531. 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps. An exceptionally fine copy of a rare edition of the Church Index of Prohibited Books. This was something sparked off by the Reformation and first issued in 1543 and was then first published in 1559. Thereafter the office of the Apostolic Camera periodically published updated catalogues of books deemed to be dangerous to faith and morals. This particular issue reprints the 1710 Decree of Clement XI prohibiting discussion of the Coeremoniarum Sinensium, or Chinese Rites. These concerned the elements of Confucianism that Fr Matteo Ricci S.J. had incorporated into the brand of Catholicism propagated in the Sino-Manchu Empire. Provenance: Monastery of St. Nicholas, Innsbruck with their dated inscription (1721) on the title page and final leaf. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1573 MERCURIALIS, Hieronmus. De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex - Printed Apud Iuntas, Venetiis, Large 4to. pp. [xii], 308, [27]. Modern vellum. A fine copy. The 2nd edition of a historic work dealing with Gymnastics but the first to include a series of illustrations designed by Pirro Ligorio and cut by Cristoforo Coriolani. Twenty in all, they are recognized as being examples of the finest Italian woodcuts of the mannerist period. Amongst the strenuous forms of exercise these include boxing, wrestling, discus throwing, weight lifting, while it is worth noting that a milder form i.e. dancing was also recognized. Indeed the author (1530-1606) who held professorships at Padua, Bologna and Pisa not merely advocated the health giving aspects of exercise but also was one of the first to note that this could be harmful when done to excess. Provenance: Bookplate of Donald and Mary Hyde, the great post war American collectors; from the estate of Tony Sweeney

***Please note this is not the first edition of this book*** 1688 BINI, Pietro di Lorenzo. Memorie del Calcio Fiorentino - Firenze: Printed by Nella Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta. 4to. pp. [xii], 118. Modern Vellum, titled in ink on spine. Rare first edition. With engraved arms of Ferdinando da' Medici as prince and his consort Violante Beatrice of Bavaria signed Franco Nacci (including 1 figure holding a soccer ball), 2 large folding plates (1 signed Alessandro Cecchini). Fine copy. 4to . of this illustrated account of the game of Calcio, the historical ancestor of football/soccer, and originally a distinctively Florentine game traditionally played in the Piazza Santa Croce during Carnival by young men. From the dedication, date of publication and contents, it is clear that the work was meant to coincide with the marriage festivities of Ferdinando de' Medici (as Prince) and Violante Beatrice of Bavaria in December-January of 1688-89, in which at least one Calcio match figured. The aim of the Memorie was to explain the mechanics of the game, to provide its antiquarian background and to relate actual games played in Florence and its environs in the recent past. Much in the manner of a program book, the contents are a typically Baroque miscellany, and if highly erudite, clearly somewhat "forced": it includes a reprint of the first work devoted to the game by Bardi, Discorso sopra'i Giuco del Calcio (first ed. 1580); a learned disquisition in Latin by the Jesuit G.B. Ferrari on the game's ancient antecedents; a long learned poem in Greek by Gregory Koresios on the sport, along with its translation into Tuscan dialect; notices of the game in ancient as well as 16th century Italian sources; and some records of historical games played. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1477 DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES / BECCARIA, Antonia. De Situ Orbis - Venice: 1477. A very good copy in old vellum. One of a handful of geographers of the Ancient World whose writings survived through the Middle Ages in manuscript form, Dionysius Periegetes lived in Alexandria at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. He composed his work in Greek verse, and while the lack of a sufficiently wide audience, capable of reading it in the original, delayed printing of the Editio Princeps until 1512, it had already been brought to public attention through this Latin prose version by Antonia Beccaria of Verona. The first edition of Strabo's Geographia had been printed in Rome eight years earlier but this, I would suggest, is the first school geography being no more than a potted version of the original and thus clearly aimed at a less scholarly audience. In translation, it has to be said, it gained as well as lost in that it now contains material of which Dionysius could have had no knowledge. Because of the brevity of some of his entries, notably that dealing with Ireland, the translator made his own additions to the text and thus he writes "Ea longe copiosiores equos parit. atque eos eiusmodi: ut nõ videant nisi quodam suavissimo incessu deambulare a natura didicisse: ac cü quadã quasi modulatione progredi more regio." This can be construed as the first published advertisement for the merits of the Irish horse and was surely certainly prompted by reports of horse purchases of which Beccaria would have heard, as these were made in Ireland in the mid-15th century by the duke of Ferrara's agent. At least it can be said that De situ orbis offers a more acceptable image of Ireland for its medieval audience than that propagated by Strabo and Pomponius Mela who restricted their minuscule coverage of the island to barbarism, cannibalism and incest. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1580 [BARET, John. / FLEMING, Alexander] An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, containing four sundrie tongues: namely English, Latin, Greeke and French. Newlie enriched with varietie of wordes, phrases, proverbs, and divers lightsome observations of grammar. -London: Printed by Henry Denham, 1580. Folio. Partly black letter. Antique style calf by Charles Gledhill. Lacking A1 (blank) but a clean and pleasing copy. The 2nd of two STC printings: - 1411. First published in 1573 as a three-language dictionary and in this second edition edited by Alexander Fleming. In his address "To the Reader" Baret describes the way in which his dictionary originated: "About eighteene yeeres agone, having pupils at Cambridge studious of the Latine tongue. I used them often to write Epistles and Theames together, and dailie to translate some peece of English into Latin, for the morer speedie and easie attaining of the same. And after we had begun, perceiving what great trouble it was to come running to me for everie worde they missed (knowing then of no other Dictionarie to helpe us, but Sir Thomas Eliot's Librarie, which was come out a little before:) I appointed them certaine leaves of the same booke everie daie to write the English before the Latin, & likewise to gather a number of fine phrases out of Cicero, Terence, Caesar, Livie, etc. & to set them under severall titles, for the more readie finding them again at their neede. Thus within a yeere, or two, they had gathered together a great volume, which (for the apt similitude between the good Scholiers and diligent Bees in gathering their ware and honie into their Hive) I called them their Alvearie." The author took pride in the methodology he adopted pointing out how "By the tables you may contrariwise finde out the most necessarie wordes placed before the alphabet, whatsoever are to be found in anie dictionarie: which tables also serving for lexicons, to lead the learner unto the English of such hard wordes as are often read in authors, being faithfullie examined are truelie numbered. Verie profitable for such as are desirous of anie of those Languages. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1594 RECORDE, Robert. / DEE, John. / MELLIS, John. The ground of Artes, teaching the perfect worke and practice of Arithmaticke, both in whole numbers and fraction, after a more easie and exact sort than hitherto hath beene set foorth. And now diligently corrected and beautified with sundry new Rules and necessary additions: And further endowed with a third part of Rules of Practise .… as are incident to the Trade of Merchandise. Printed by T.D. for John Harison, London. 8vo. With abacus-like woodcut illustrations on thirty six pages. Contemporary vellum with gilt lettered title on spine. Early ink doodlings and trial sums in some margins, occasional staining but a good copy. The 17th of 29 STC and 13 Wing printings. The earliest surviving edition of what is the first book in the English language dealing with arithmetic is dated 1543. It came from the pen of a "D in Physicke" who was a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge. He was the founder of the English school of mathematical writers as aside from this work he also wrote on geometry and was the first to introduce algebra into the country. His switch over from the officially used Roman numerals to arabic numbers contributed to his success and this went through a multiplicity of 16th and 17 century editions. The corrected edition of 1561 was done by John Dee while the schoolmaster John Mellis added a third part [here found with a separate titlepage] in 1582. This final part of which this is the fourth printing is important in that it deals with merchants trading, rules of three, loans and interest, barter coins etc and even "Sportes and Pastimes done by number" There was no Dublin printed text book on "double entry" accountancy until close to the end of the 17th Century. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1601 CANISIUS, Dr Peter, S.J. Summa Doctrinæ Christianæ. Antwerp: Printed Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum, 1601. Small 8vo with woodcut printer's device on titlepage and final leaf. One of several catechisms produced by the later canonized Jesuit, this version of 1554 took on the name "catechismus major" as it became a significant weapon in the Counter Reformation. In this the first 17th century edition Joannes Moretus reprints Christopher Plantin's excessively unctuous dedication of 1566 to Phlip II of Spain along with an "Appendix de hominis lapsu et istificatione secundum sententiam & doctrinam Concilij Tridentini. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: 17th century autograph ex libris of Philippi Despiennes. Two small library stamps, one faded and hard to decypher but denoting Jesuit ownership, the other from the Dominican Convent at Sart. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1687 LILLY, William. Brevissima Institutio seu ratio grammatices, cognoscendæ, ad omnium puerorum utilitatem præscripta. Printed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. 12mo. pp. [ii], 206. Recent full calf with morocco letter piece on spine. Light browning. A very good copy. The most celebrated of all the Tudor school Latin grammars made its first appearance under this title in 1549 and continued to be published and used far into the 18th Century. The only edition to be printed in the reign of James II. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

MARKHAM, Gervase. How to chuse, ride, trayne and dyet running horses - Printed by E.A. London: 1606. 4to. Bound in nineteenth century full brown morocco by Riviere. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Extremely rare as are all the earlier Elizabethan editions. STC 17350. This was first published under the title A discourse of horsmanshippe in 1593 but the enlarged second edition of 1595 carried the new title above marking this out as the world's first book on training racehorses. Markham had the true instinct of a horse-dealer and to enhance sales each edition carried fresh material. Thus it is that this final version alone provides the completed text. During the period when he was so engaged, he was also a participant in the Nine Years War in Ireland in the role of a captain of cavalry. As demand for this book declined, he subsequently periodically changed the title but eventually fell foul of the London booksellers, who found themselves saddled with shelves of books, so similar in content as to be virtually unsaleable. In a document, dated 1619, that survives in the archives of the Society of Antiquaries, London, they obliged him to promise that he would not write anything further on the subject of horses. However his name though lived on right down to the 20th century when stud grooms were still quoting Master Markham, the first author to appreciate the need to handle with gentleness the highly strung Arabian horse whom he named "the only stallion", a judgment endorsed by posterity. This is the ancestor of the modern thoroughbred for all horses listed in the General Stud Book - first published in 1793 and now produced at four-yearly intervals - trace their male line ancestry back to just one of three sires, the Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian all of whom stood at stud in England in the first half of the 18th century. Of this pre-potent trio, one had a direct Irish connection, the charger that Colonel Byerley rode in the battle of the Boyne. Sweeney 2979. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

1686 COX, Nicholas. / LANGBAINE, Gerald. The Gentleman's Recreation: In four parts, viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing - London: Printed by Freeman Collins, 1686. 8vo. Bound in nineteenth century full mottled calf. Covers framed by a wide gilt floral roll, spine richly gilt. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Each part has its own engraved plate. The 3rd and best of the five editions as it includes an extra work "The Hunter, a discourse of horsemanship" by Gerald Langbaine. Printed by L Lichfield, Printer to the University, Oxford. These were left over sheets of the first edition published the year previous and by one of the quirks of the book trade, you will pay more for this on its own than one bound in as an extra. Provenance: An accompanying autograph letter addressed to "Hutchinson" offers this copy as a gift from Stanley Maxwell. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

S. ROGIERS AFTER JACOB HONDIUS Hibernia, A Map of the Island of Ireland Contained within a silver beaded photograph frame, 13 x 18cm This comes from the 1616 revision by Jocodus Hondius of the "Tabularum Geographicarum Contractum", which had been first published under this title in 1600 by P Bertius. The Latin text is drawn in part from the incunable De Situ Orbis of Dionysius Periegetes (1st edition 1477). Andrew Bonar Law - "The Printed Maps of Ireland to 1612", page 17. Provenance: Purchased from the Neptune Gallery, Dublin ; from the estate of Tony Sweeney

Detective Inspector John Sweeney of New Scotland Yard John Sweeney, Tony's grandfather, rose to be a senior London police officer. He instigated the Flying Squad (immediately done into cockney slang as Sweeney Todd, Flying Squad). Tony Sweeney was immensely proud that a son of evicted Irish emigrants from Kerry could rise to such a responsible position in Victorian England and then publish his sensational memoirs. Tony commissioned a slip case, designed by Michael Scott, with a gilt printed morocco label, giving details of Sweeney's career, his custody of the Crown Jewels during the postponement of Edward VII's coronation, security for Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900, and his defence against libel. Mounted under magnifying glasses are two silver commemoration medals of above events. Containing: Detective Inspector John Sweeney At Scotland Yard, 1st Edition, London 1904 and the 2nd Edition which contains the defence against Parmeggiani, cloth covers with design of handcuffs Edited by Frances Richards. "New and enlarged edition" printed by Alexander Moring, who appears to have been in a loose partnership with Grand Richards, London, 1905. 8vo with portrait in a red cloth binding decorated with a pair of handcuffs. The previous year's first edition provoked a libel suit and the supplementary chapter was entitled Parmeggiani v. Sweeney. Luigi Parmeggiani was a major collector of antiques and pictures who resided at I Bedford Square, Bloomsbury where his visitors included on one occasion the Empress Frederick of Germany with John Sweeney acting as bodyguard. According to the author Parmeggiani had been one of the formost figures amongst the anarchists and it was this allegation that prompted the law suit. John Sweeney marshalled his evidence so well though that the plaintiff was in the final instance reduced to claiming that the anarchist also named Luigi Parmeggiani was his brother. After a four day hearing before Mr Justice Ridley and a special jury in the King's Bench Court the plaintiff was awarded damages of one farthing, reminiscent of the outcome of the Whistler v Ruskin case, but had to pay John Sweeney's legal costs. Together with Landsdowne, A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard, London (n.d.) Together with Chief-Inspector Littlechild. The Reminiscences, 2nd Edition, London 1894, decorated cloth with paper label (Littlechild was Sweeney's 'boss' at Scotland Yard) The Author dedicated his book "To possible criminals … those who, having within them the germs of crime, are in constant danger of falling into its dark abyss, and if every such person will purchase a copy, ample remuneration awaits my labour. If the perusal of itsd pages should cause but a small number to 'look before they leap,' my reward will be greater. If one truth stands out more prominently in my experiences than another, it is that 'The way of the transgressor is hard". Littlechild was John Sweeney's boss when the Special Branch came into being but his book by the year 2000 was priced below that of his subordinate and this despite Littlechild himself having played a leading role in the hunt for "Jack The Ripper". Provenance: bookplate of James H Dalton and a note indicating that in 1953 he had presented it to J A de Grolian. Acquired by us from Lathkill Books, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Together with Chief-Inspector Cavabba Scotland Yard, Past and Present, London 1893, half-calf, art nouveau spine (Tony Sweeney says Cavanna is the first detective who acquired a 'personality cult') Together with a collection of five volumes on policing, including Galton F., Finger Prints, London 1892 Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney

Twelve assorted volumes, including leather-bound Life of Walter Gilby Bart, illustrated, pub. by Vinton & Co., 1898, Just Dogs by K. F. Barker, first edition 1933, pub. by Country Life (12)

Perry on Tennis, by Fred J. Perry, first edition, signed by the author

Stories from The Arabian Knights retold by Lawrence Houseman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, pub. Hodder & Stoughton 1907 Condition Report It is a first edition - foxing throughout, mostly to edges. All plates are present

T E Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom; publ. 1935, First General Edition (condition fair).

Two Ben Hur First Edition canvas bound volumes, the Garfield Edition by Harper and Brothers, New York (bindings a/f)

Clarice Cliff & Graham Sutherland - A Harrods 1934 Art In Industry `Modern Art for the Table` teacup and saucer, the interior wells with black floral decoration against a pink ground, the border edges with black banding and pink and black ribbon trails, printed Bizarre FIRST EDITION mark (hairline to the saucer).

Three Royal Worcester bone china limited edition figures, of Queen Elizabeth II, First Dance and Grace Kelly.

Damien Hirst (Bn 1965 - ) - I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now - A first edition hard back, unopened and cellophane wrapped, together with a copy of The Death of God by Damien Hirst. (2)

MICHAEL DOBBS - The "House of Cards", trilogy, first edition, published by Harper Collins, in original dust jackets, parts 1 & 2, inscribed and signed by the author, part 3 similar by Ian Richardson, who played Francis Urquhart in the TV adaptation

Ants by Derek Wragge Morley, 1953, New Naturalist first edition in dust wrapper and Full Sail by C.Fox Smith (2)

DICKENS, CHARLESBook - (BOOK)A first edition of Dombey & Son, by Charles Dickens, pub. Bradbury & Evans, 1848. with a good, clear Dickens autograph dated 1847 inlaid on the first blank prior to the half-title. Book bound from the parts in contemporary green morocco boards, with recent reback, a little rubbed at edges, thick 8vo. Some spotting to the plates (as usual), a few repairs etc. Overall size approx. 220x150mm. A good way to obtain a signed Dickens item at a reasonable price.

A first edition 'Dombey and Son' Charles Dickens 1848 published by Bradbury and Evans, Bouverie Street, leather and card bound, distressed

An 1811 first edition poetry book with hand tinted etching, and a 1941 naval book.

A Merrythought 'Teddy Bear' (1948); A first edition Elvis magazine; Royal Memorabilia and 19th Century/20th books, parcel lot, q

A Hotpoint first edition fridge

Dit Boecxken: A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492, number 40 of 150 copies, illustrations, original morocco-backed marbled boards, uncut, with the original box, [Thacher p.146; cf.W&S p.35-36 & 78], 4to, Honey Dun Press, 1978. A reprint of the privately printed edition (only 25 copies) for Alfred Denison by the Chiswick Press in 1872. "It contains 26 chapters, of a few lines each, giving recipes for artificial baits, unguents & pastes, & at the close two pages are given to the periods at which certain fish are `at their best`". W&S. It also contains instructions for catching birds and ducks with the hands (by baiting them), recipes for paste fishing baits made from beaver`s kidney, human blood and barley flour, other baits, various fishing methods, etc. Denison says in his introduction, "We may consider it to be the first known work on angling".

Pritt (T.E.) Yorkshire Trout Flies, first edition, [one of 200 copies], half-title, 12 lithographed plates including 11 hand-coloured of flies, tissue guards, gutta percha perished and becoming loose (as usual), book-label of Jon. Shackleton, original cloth, title and quotation in gilt on upper cover, a little rubbed, spine slightly worn at head and foot, [Thacher pp.408-409], 8vo, Leeds, 1885.

Edinburgh Angling Club. Songs and Selections from the Album of the Edinburgh Angling Club founded 1847, edited by J.Smith, enlarged edition, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and illustrations by William Forrest, inscribed "To Professor [David] Wyllie, who helped me to buy my first rod.J.R.R." on half-title and with card of Dr.Ronaldson loosely inserted, original glazed pictorial green cloth, gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly marked, [Thacher p.159; cf.W&S p.83, earlier editions], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1900. A collection of verse with attractive engravings. General Sir James Russell of Ashiestiel was the owner of the Club`s main fishing, David Wyllie and Dr.Ronaldson were members of the club.

Richardson (Thomas, publisher) The Modern Angler,containing the Most Esteemed Methods of Angling., first edition, 24pp., folding hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, text lightly browned, small tear to fore-edge of frontispiece repaired, modern calf-backed marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (laid down, upper wrapper frayed at edges), [Thacher pp.363 & 421], 12mo, Derby, Thomas Richardson, [c.1830]. Rare.

[Boaz (Herman)] The Angler`s Progress: A Poem, second edition, half-title, 12 wood-engraved vignettes, 3pp. advertisements at end, table of harbours, seasons and depths for catching fish pasted over final leaf (text supplied in pencil on rear free endpaper), light offsetting, a few spots, mostly to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, spine titled in gilt with fish motifs, [Thacher pp.68-69; W&S p.35], 8vo, J.H.Burn, 1820. Also published in Newcastle as the first of the Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers.

Charfy (Guiniad, pseudonym) The Fisherman: or, the Art of Angling Made Easy, first edition, advertisement leaf at end, occasional spotting or browning, Brent Gration-Maxfield`s copy with his neat pencil notes on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked to style, green roan label, [Thacher p.105; W&S p.58], 8vo, for J. Dixwell, [?1800]. Scarce. "A compilation by George Smeeton, printer of St. Martin`s-lane, who, with his wife, was burnt to death." Westwood & Satchell.

Kelson (George M.) Tips by the Author of "The Salmon Fly", first edition, half-title, illustrations, 11pp. advertisements for angling equipment at end, half-title and endpapers browned, original pictorial burgundy cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, a few small stains to upper cover, [Thacher p.296], 4to, by the author, 1901.

Best (Thomas) A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 2 advertisement leaves at end, contemporary ink inscription "W.P." at head of half-title, frontispiece and title very lightly foxed, one or two other marks but a fine tall copy in modern russet morocco, gilt, by Brian Frost & Co. of Bath, covers with double gilt rule border, spine ruled and titled in gilt with five raised bands, g.e., [Thacher pp.52-53; W&S p.31], 12mo, for C.Stalker.H.Turpin, 1787. Best was Keeper of His Majesty`s Drawing-room in the Tower of London.

Blacker (William) Blacker`s Art of Fly Making &c. Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of fly-fishing, engraved title and 20 plates including 17 finely hand-coloured plates of flies, tissue guards, very occasional spotting, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, original black morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Thacher pp.61-62; W&S p.33], 12mo, 1855. Originally issued as Art of Angling in 1842, and then in 1843 as Blacker`s Art of Angling, but this is the first edition to include the detailed plates of flies.

Shirley (Thomas) The Angler`s Museum; or, the Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut title-vignette of fish, portrait a little offset on title, lightly browned, ex-library copy with small ink and perforated stamps on title (across woodcut so fairly unobtrusive), modern crimson morocco with gilt rule border, by Frost & Co. of Bath, spine titled in gilt and with two raised bands, g.e., [ThacherW&S p.194], 12mo, for John Fielding, [1784]. The rare first edition. The portrait frontispiece shows "Mr. John Kirby, the celebrated angler", who was keeper of Newgate and died in 1804 at the age of 80.

Carroll (W.) The Angler`s Vade Mecum, containing a descriptive account of the Water Flies., first edition, half-title, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, a little foxed and soiled, light water-staining to lower margin, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed, corners and head of spine worn, [Thacher p.102; W&S pp.50-51], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1818. One of the earliest books with plates of flies in colour, containing 194 examples of natural flies arranged from May to September. A contemporary ink inscription on the front free endpaper notes, "July 28th I caught 7 Perch with an artificial fly called the red hackle and also 3 trout at ?Beactuef.".

[Locke (James)] Tweed and Don; or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years, second edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, light foxing, bookplates of Arthur E.Wilson-Browne and T.Spence, Edinburgh, 1860 § Rooper (George) Thames and Tweed, presentation copy from the author inscribed by him and another on half-title, [1875] § [Bertram (James)] The Border Angler: A Guide Book to the Tweed and its Tributaries., folding map, Edinburgh, 1858 § Robertson (John) The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland and the Border Counties, folding map, 1861 § Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed, third edition, frontispiece and additional vignette title (loose), plates and illustrations, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, 1885, original cloth, the first four pictorial gilt, rubbed, the first with spine a little worn and stained, 8vo (5).

Halford (Frederic M.) The Dry-Fly Man`s Handbook, A Complete Manual Including the Fisherman`s Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery, first edition, number 8 of 100 deluxe large paper copies signed by the author on title, half-title, title in red and black, photogravure frontispiece and 40 plates, many photogravures on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, light water-staining to upper inner margin, contemporary half red calf, spine gilt, t.e.g., spine faded, a little rubbed and stained, [Thacher pp.234-235], 4to, 1913.

[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was writ, second edition, one of 100 copies, signed and inscribed by the author to "Thomas Satchell from his friend Joseph Crawhall with kind regards" at head of first page of text, etched, woodcut and wood-engraved vignettes and illustrations by the author, Joseph Crawhall III, James Guthrie and W. Chapman throughout, some hand-coloured, with prospectus, subscription form and a few sample pages and other additional material bound in at end, some foxing, worst at beginning and end, bookplate of Sir John Dodd and with his pencil inscription to front free endpaper, later half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments with angling motifs, t.e.g., others uncut, spine faded, lower corners slightly bumped, [Thacher p.131; W&S p.69], 4to, Newcastle upon Tyne, Andrew Reid, 1881. An excellent association copy belonging to the famous piscatorial bibliographer. The additional material at the end comprises 2 plates from the first edition of 1859 which was limited to 40 copies only (etched reproduction of the famous woodcut from Berners`s Treatise of Fysshynge and a portrait of Izaak Walton), plus pp.61-68 & 85-92 and 4 plates from Border Notes & Mixty Maxty of 1880 (limited to 50 copies), all tipped into larger leaves and inscribed "Remainders" at head of p.61 in Crawhall`s hand.

Westwood (Thomas) The Chronicle of The `Compleat Angler` of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton. Being a Bibliographical Record of its Various Phases and Mutations, first edition, one of 25 large paper copies, signed and inscribed by the author "To the Rev. M.G.Watkins with cordial greeting from his brother Piscator.1882" on front free endpaper and with accompanying A.L.s. tipped in at beginning, half-title, title in red and black, decorative initials hand-coloured in red, interleaved and with a few notes or cuttings pasted in, light spotting, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, a little rubbed, boards slightly worn at edges, [Thacher p.569; Westwood & Satchell p.239], 4to, Willis and Sotheran, 1864. Thomas Westwood (1814-88) was the author, with Thomas Satchell, of the highly regarded Bibliotheca Piscatoria; he moved to Belgium in 1844 to work for a railway company and spent most of his life enjoying his leisure collecting a fine angling library. There was also a trade edition of this work, which was the first of the Compleat Angler bibliographies describing 53 editions. In his letter Westwood describes his library (although his fishing library was already sold by then, offered for sale in 1873 in New York by J.W. Boulton but bought en bloc by the New York Public Library.): "In one of the bookcases.is Van Voorst`s series of natural history (not one wanting) with White`s Selborne, Jeffreys.Sowerby`s botany.Ruskin. Dibdin.& I declare, amongst the folios, the `Nuremberg Chronicle`.".

Art (The) of Angling first edition, engraved title, frontispiece, original printed upper wrapper bound in, slightly soiled, later endpapers, later calf, [cf. W&S p. 17], 24mo, G. Smeeton, [c. 1822].

[Chatto (William Andrew)], "Stephen Oliver." Scenes and recollections of Fly-Fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, first edition, wood-engraved vignette on title, illustrations, some foxing, bookplate of Edwin F. Snow on front pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt, [W&S p. 162], 12mo, 1834. "An interesting volume." - Westwood & Satchell.

Alken (Henry) [The National Sports of Great Britain], first edition, second issue, aquatint title (dated 1821) and 50 aquatint plates by J.Clark after Henry Alken, all splendidly hand-coloured and in excellent condition, printed in English & French, this copy without the dual-language letterpress title-page in but with plates watermarked `1820`, 19th century bookplate of Thomas Greer on front pastedown, handsomely bound in full contemporary straight-grain morocco with blind-tooled inner border and decorative ornament contained within elaborate gilt border, spine titled in gilt with further gilt compartments within gilt-tooled raised bands, g.e., surface wear to corner some edges, small section of surface loss to upper cover near spine, [ Mellon/Podeschi 111; Schwerdt I, p.19 & IV, p. 4; Siltzer p. 70; Tooley 41], folio, Thomas McLean, 1821. "Alken`s most important work.It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection." Tooley, English Books with Colour Plates, p.64. Alken`s hugely popular presentation of the aristocratic pursuits of the time, resplendent with large hand-coloured aquatint depictions of popular pastimes including hunting on horseback, hawking, gun shooting, angling, horse-racing, pugilism and dressage, as well as activities that even at the time were becoming increasingly controversial such as bull-baiting and bear-baiting. This copy would seem to have been without the letterpress title for some time, perhaps even bound without, as the offsetting onto the verso of the additional title is that from the Preface.

[MILLES, Thomas] The Catalogue of Honor or Treasury of True Nobility. Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine... translated out of the Latyne into English. First Edition. engraved frontispiece and architectural title, text illus x armorial's, separate part titles, errata leaf, irregular pagination, old calf (worn and broken), roy. 4to. printed by William Jaggard, 1610. G 1 with sm. tear (lacks 4 words of text), lacks G5 (pp. 69 & 70), 4 shields with damage, some stains; sold as found. R/L 3

Cary's New and Correct English Atlas . . . from actual surveys . . . First Edition, 43 engraved and partly coloured county maps & three others, engraved dedication, advertisement leaf, subscribers' list and relevant other letterpress, half calf & marbled boards, 4to. printed for John Cary, 1787

TENNANT (S.) & GREY (P) The Vein in the Marble. First Edition. mounted plates, cloth-backed marbled boards, illus.on eps, spare labels included. 1925. * pasted card on half title - 'yours very sincerely / Stephen Tennant; OLIVER (Edith) Without Knowing Mr. Walkley: a personal memoir. First Edition. photo. plates, d/wrapper. 1938; together with other literary & illustrated editions of earlier to mid 20th cent. (qty)

HALE (K.) Orlando the Marmalade Cat Keeps a Dog. First Edition. coloured illus. throughout, coloured pictorial boards/ some wear & it.loose), folio. (1948?); with others (mostly of the period); including some by Joan Anglund (qty)

BETJEMAN (J). Ghastly Good Taste . . . First Edition. with the very long fold-out plate, errata slip, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards (lt.rubbed), paper spine label (spare one present) 1933. *presentation copy- 'to Baroness d'Erlanger with the author's thanks' Illustrated

JAMES (Edward) The Venetian Glass Omnibus. Limited Edition. second (extended title), illus. (from drawings by Oliver Messel), pictorial boards (some damage at lower edge of upper one), 4to. The James Press, (1933). * limitation (for this 2nd edition of Sep. 1933) of 25 copies; the first edition (20 copies), having been published December 1932. this copy with a fulsome Christmas1933 inscription by the author to Baroness D' Erlanger, and accompanied (loosely inserted) by a lengthy personal note (36 lines on 2 postcards - Dec. 23rd, 1933. c/o Lord Berners, Farringdon House, Berks.) - 'You are about the first person who stands to deserve a copy . . . last year I had twenty copies printed, but they were not so good at this. The cover has . . . been improved upon and Christopher Sykes has added several drawings in addition to Oliver's . . . ' ; and continuing about a written card being pasted over a dedication which the Baroness might well not now approve; certainly a leaf prior to that appears to have been excised - possibly something else that also may not have pleased (?) ; another very scarce offering and, significantly, inscribed from Farringdon House - where, for eccentricity, Lord Berners was more than his equal Illustrated

D' ERLANGER (Baron Emil B.) L' Age d' Or: Poemes et Sonnets. Limited Edition. coloured pictorial & printed wrappers (lt. marked, creased at edges, some internal spotting), uncut & partly unopened, 4to. Paris: (Francois Bernouard, 1919). * limitation of 500 numbered copies; with another poem (typescript, 14 lines on a single sheet, 20-12-19) loosely inserted; AYRAL (L.) L'Age des Cieux. First-Edition. printed in blue, wrappers (? lacks upper one), 4to. Paris (privately published) 1930. * author's inscription to Baron d' Erlanger on half title; FRANTEL (Max) Dialogue sur la Tombe des Hommes . . . Limited Edition. portrait sketch, printed wrappers, 4to. Paris, 1937. * one of 20 lettered copies (this one 'M', the note printed in red) - 'cet exemplaire a ete tire specialement pour le Baron Emile B. D'Erlanger & with an extended personal mss. note on half title (3)

(ERLANGER) La Collection Erlanger . . . texte par Gustave Geffroy. Limited Edition. letterpress & 40 plates (11 coloured) printed within captioned glassine guards, contemp. gilt-lettered calf (some wear), lge. folio. Paris, 1911. * the significant collection (David, Teniers, Brueghel, Bonnington, etc.) of Frederic Emile, first Baron Erlanger (of the merchant banking & trading company); German/ British art connoisseur benefactor & music patron; this (very scarce) volume published the year of his death Illustrated

[GRAVES, Robert] The Marmosite's Miscellany, (by) John Doyle. First Edition. original patterned boards (sl. used), slim 8vo. Leonard and Viginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925

A collection of modern first editions: John le Carre, Smiley`s People 1980 (2), A Perfect Spy 1986, The Little Drummer Girl 1983, The Tailor of Panama 1996, J B Priestley, Three Men in New Suits 1945, all with dwrps, and three Ian Fleming 1st edition volumes, (no dwrps).

Charles Dickens, "Dombey & Son" and "David Copperfield" from the Fireside Dickens Edition, morocco and other books, including First Editions by Elizabeth Goudge.

Ted Lewis, "Jack`s Return Home", First Edition, Michael Joseph 1970 with dust wrapper and another title by the same author, "Plender", First Edition, Michael Joseph 1971, with dust wrapper.