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Kafka (Franz) Prosessen. [The Trial], first Norwegian edition, half-title, original pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with tear and small chip to foot neatly repaired, repairs to spine ends, very light dust-soiling to lower wrapper, joints and extremities lightly rubbed, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, Oslo, 1933.⁂ The first published translation of Kafka's Der Prozess, the first English translation appearing four years later in 1937. Scarce, we can trace no examples in commerce. The upper wrapper features a woodcut design by Norwegian artist Kaare Espolin Johnson.

NO RESERVE Montgomery (Bernard Law, Viscount of ) The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K. G., first edition, signed by the author "Montgomery of Alamein F.M 1959" to front free endpaper, plates, original cloth, spine head lightly bumped, dust-jacket, spine slightly sunned, a few light marks, light rubbing to joints and edges, with a few tiny nicks, short tear to foot of lower panel without loss, overall an excellent copy, 8vo, 1958.

NO RESERVE Aviation.- Hegener (Henri) Patria's Luchtvaart-Album, first edition, 114 colour illustrations on card, tipped-in, original pictorial cloth, toned or sunned in patches, extremities scuffed, Amsterdam, 1936; and 3 others mechanics and rail, v.s. (4)

NO RESERVE Paleontology.- Bertrand (Elie) Dictionnaire Universel des Fossiles Propres, et des Fossiles Accidentels, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half titles, titles in red and black, contemporary calf, spine ends and label a little chipped, The Hague, 1763 § Oppel (Albert) Die Juraformation Englands, Frankreichs und des Sudwestlichen Deutchlands, light foxing, contemporary calf-backed boards, Stuttgart, 1856-58 § Scopoli (J.A.) Einleitung zur Kentniss und Gebrauch der Fossilien, paper repair to title, some spots, modern boards, Riga, 1769; and 4 others (7)

Persian Queen.- Quarles (Francis) Hadassa: or The history of Queene Ester: with meditations thereupon, diuine and morall, first and only separate edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, cartouches, and decorative initials, lacking title, trimmed at head, affecting a few headlines, some water-staining, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, corners worn, rubbed, [STC 20546], small 4to, Imprinted [by Felix Kingston] for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard, in Fleetstreet, 1621.⁂ Rare at auction. Esther (originally Hadassah) is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. She is a Jewish orphan, who becomes Queen of Persia. Quarles (1592-1644), English poet, best known for his Emblemes. Provenance: Charles Meigh (engraved armorial bookplate).

Binyon (Laurence), J.V.S. Wilkinson & Basil Gray. Persian Miniature Painting, first edition, colour frontispiece, 113 plates, occasional light spotting, original cloth, gilt, a couple small stains, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, 1933.

Mallet du Pain (Jacques) Mercure Britannique; ou notices historiques et critiques sur les affaires du tems, 36 numbers in 34 parts (I-III in 1 vol.), first edition, a complete set, publisher's advertisements, subscription or prospectus ff., occasional spotting or mostly light staining, some light browning, original printed wrappers, number XXXI erroneously bound in wrappers for XXX and thus corrected in ink, some tearing and creasing, without loss of text, but with occasional loss of part of wrapper, some staining or soiling, but overall in a good state of preservation, 8vo, W & C. Spilsbury, Snow-Hill, 1798-1800.⁂ A rare complete set of this important journal concerning Swiss independence and European political affairs. Mallet du Pain (1749-1800) was a Genevan journalist and propagandist, who opposed the extreme positions held by both Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary partisans during the French Revolution. He fled France in 1792 and arrived in London in 1798, where he founded the present periodical. He died in Richmond in 1800. Provenance: Thomas Ker, 7 Great Quebec Street (contemporary ink inscriptions to upper wrappers).

NO RESERVE Darwin (Charles) The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, second edition, half-title, 3 folding maps, with small tears and repairs at folds, 6pp. publishers advertisements at end, a few scattered spots, original cloth, rebacked, preserving original spine, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, 1874.⁂ This edition was extensively revised to take into account the work of Professor James Dwight Dana on Corals, which was published after Darwin's first edition.

Scot (Reginald) The Discoverie of Witchcraft, limited edition, first few ff. with very small tear/chip to fore-margin, endpapers browned and with some light spotting, hinges split and weak, original morocco-backed cloth, some light soiling, staining to spine, a little rubbed at spine ends and corners, upper joint starting at head, John Rodker, 1930 § Bredow (G. E.) Compendious View of Universal History and Literature in a Series of Tables, second edition in English, translated by Major James Bell, tables, most double-page and mounted on stubs, one folding at end (little creased at fore-edge), some spotting, mostly light but heavy at points, occasional minor soiling, some light staining towards end, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, 1824; and others on various subjects, v.s. (9)

Vesaliensis (Arnoldus) Epitome Singularum Distinctionum in quatuor libros Sententiarum, old ink-stamp and ownership inscription to title, first c.15 leaves with small wormhole to foot, occasionally affecting text, small hole to H8 with loss to a couple letters, a few instances of contemporary ink marginalia, lightly browned, some light foxing and staining, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, later half vellum over patterned boards, spine titled in ink, a little soiled, very small hole to spine foot, 12mo (110 x 70mm.), Lyon, Jean d'Ogerolles for Antoine Vincent, 1556.⁂ A rare edition of this abridgement of the works of Petrus Lombardus by the German humanist Vesaliensis.

NO RESERVE Shakespeare (William) Carmina quae Sonnets nuncupantur latine reddita ab Alvredo Thoma Barton, number 61 of 150 copies, lacking portrait frontispiece, title printed in blue and black, light spotting to endpapers, original vellum, some light discolouration, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Medici Society, 1913.⁂ First edition of this notable translation.

Elizabeth I.- Humphrey (Laurence) Ad illustrissimam R. Elizabetham, L.H. vice-can. Oxon. oratio Woodstochiæ habita. An. 1572. August. 31, first edition, woodcut large initial and tail-piece, early ink accounts to final blank verso, lacking title, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, outer ff. soiled, disbound, [STC 13959], small 4to, John Day, 1572. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Oration given to Elizabeth I at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. It is rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 1903. Humphrey (c.1525-1589) was an English theologian, who was President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Gloucester and Winchester. He played a prominent role in the 1575 entertainments at Woodstock.

NO RESERVE Goldsmith (Oliver) The Traveller, A Poem, engraved title vignette, half-title, for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1770, bound with 5 others similar, with half-titles and engraved title vignettes, some light browning, together 6 parts in 1, contemporary calf, joints cracked but firm, spine ends a little worn § Dodd (William) Thoughts in Prison, in five parts, first edition, with final advertisement leaf, torn and laid down, light browning and spotting, ?contemporary navy morocco, spine and corners a little rubbed, 1777 § Smith (Sidney) A Memoir of the Reverend Sidney Smith, 2 vol., second edition, attractively bound in navy calf by Ramage of Edinburgh, spines ornately gilt with contrasting morocco labels, a few very minor scuffs, 1855; and c.23 others literature, a couple C17th, most C18-19th, 8vo & 4to (c.26)

Quakers.- Persecution Expos'd, in some Memoirs relating to the Sufferings of John Whiting, and many others of the People called Quakers, first edition, I2 verso and I3 recto with ink-stains affecting odd word, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, J. Sowle, 1715.⁂ Provenance: Ink ownership inscription of Caleb Dickinson, dated 1743, and bookplate of his son William Dickinson (1745-1806). The Dickinson family can be traced back to Thomas Dickinson, who was recorded as a cook at Eaton in 1594. He had several children, the youngest of whom, Francis (Grandfather of Caleb) served as a Captain in the army and aided in the capturing of Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655. He was rewarded by Charles II with a plantation in Jamaica, where sugar and the slave trade became the source of the families wealth, eventually enabling Caleb Dickinson to purchase the Kingweston Estate in Somerset. It appears that Francis was the first member of this branch of the family to become a Quaker.

Kafka (Franz) Der Prozess. [The Trial], first edition, half-title, some very light soiling to first and last few ff., modern boards, with original labels printed in red laid down to spine and upper cover, spine label lightly toned, 8vo, Berlin, Die Schmiede, 1925.⁂ Kafka's unfinished masterpiece, posthumously edited and published by Max Brod, despite the author's requests that Brod destroy his work after his death.

Walker (Sir Edward) Historical Discourses, upon Several Occasions, first edition, double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved decorations, full-page engraved illustration on b2v, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover becoming detached, lower joint split, Printed by W.B. for Sam. Keble, 1705 § Quarles (Francis) Emblemes, engraved title, numerous engraved illustrations, hole to F4 with slight loss of text, foxed and soiled, later calf with old covers laid down, [Wing Q82], Printed for J. Williams & F. Eglsfield, 1676; and 4 others, 17th and 18th century, including a volume of political pamphlets, folio and 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Rowntree (B. Seebohm) Poverty: A Study of Town Life, first edition, presentation copy from author, folding map frontispiece, 5 double-page plans, one plate, one folding map, illustrations, previous owner's ink signature to half-title, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1901.

NO RESERVE Antarctic.- Chilton (Charles, editor) The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 2 with folding map in pocket at rear (lightly foxed), vol. 1 with two plates loose, very light toning to margins, the occasional abrasion mark, mostly marginal but heavier to first few ff. to vol. 2, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light rubbing, particularly to spines, Wellington, 1909 § Taylor (Griffith) With Scott: The Silver Lining, first edition, first state without the author's preface, half-title, lacking folding colour map at end, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, frontispiece and title strengthened at inner margin, a few ff. trimmed at fore-edge, a few with crude repairs, scattered spotting, library cloth, wear to spine ends and corners, 1916, plates and illustrations, 4to & 8vo (3)

Clare Leighton (1898-1989), wood engraving printed from the block on paper, September, Apple-Picking, from The Farmer’s Year, 1933, 22cm x 28cm, mounted, glazed and framed. This original, full page wood block print is from the first edition of Clare Leighton’s most famous work, which she wrote, engraved and designed

Timpo - Set 258 - Indian Village Set, [1970 issue], comprising: full Colour Card Play Sheet, 2 x Tepees [large size versions], 5 x Mtd Indians, 9 x Indians on Foot, 4 x Wild Horses, Camp Fire, 2 x Totem Poles, 2 x Cacti & 18 x Fencing Sections/Posts. Mint overall, contained in a generally Excellent [some storage wear] first edition illustrated box.

Airfix - Playsets [Snap-Together Models] Series No. 1685, comprising: First Issue [1966] HO/OO scale release for: Sherwood. Near Mint [figures loose], contained in a generally Very Good [some storage wear] Type 3 [1963/73] "Andrew Prewett" First Edition fully illustrated [lid art] box. Rare, the First Example of this Issue to be Sold by Vectis.

Britains - Cococubs, First Edition - Produced March, 1934, comprising: Jonathan - Boy Eating Chocolate - the First Cococub produced & Jonathan - Boy Walking, 2nd Edition produced in December 1934 - Brown Jumper, Blue Shorts & Blue Socks. Originally made as Promotional items in 1934 and Packed as Gifts in Tins of Cadburys Bournville Cocoa. Some paint chipping otherwise generally Good overall. [2]

19th Century Literature Various Authors Dickens, Charles. American Notes... London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt with spines repaired;Idem. All the Year Round. London, 1860-64. Volumes 3, 6, 7, 9 & 10 only, contemporary half calf, rubbed;Idem. The Battle of Life. A love story. London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt neatly rebacked retaining most of original spine;Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Lodging for the Night. New York: the Roycrofters, [n.d.] 8vo, original brushed calf;"Currer Bell" - Charlotte Brontë. Shirley. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1931. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern half calf; and two further Book-Lover's edition;Richardson, Samuel. Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded. London: C. Cooke, [n.d.] 8vo, contemporary calf; and another copy, another edition, modern half calf, title-page repaired;Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte D'arthur. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, school prize bookplate, joints split;Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. [Works: Faust; Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Poems; Dramas; Autobiography; Conversations.] London: George Bell and Sons, 1880-1882. 7 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf;sold not subject to return

Nonesuch Press, Shakespeare Head Press, Cresset Press, etc. Group of limited editions Nonesuch Press. The Anatomy of Melancholy ... by Democritus Junior [Robert Burton]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1925. One of 750 copies on Dutch paper, 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards, patterned slipcase;Idem. X Sermons preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne, 1923. One of 725 copies, 4to, original holland-backed boards;Idem. The Mask of Comus. John Milton. Henry Lawes ... Ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar, 1937. One of 925 copies, folio, original japon, slipcase;Shakespeare Head Press. Ovyde hys Booke of Methamorphose ... Translated by William Caxton. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1924. One of 375 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, 4to, original holland-backed boards;Idem. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Translated from the Greek of Achilles Tatius by William Burton. Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1923. One of 498 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, 4to, original holland-backed boards;Cresset Press. Wiliam Painter. The Palace of Pleasure. With ... Illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss, 1929. Numbered 28 and probably one of 30 sets on hand-made paper (in addition to 500 copies on mould-made paper), 4 volumes, 4to, original holland-backed patterned boards;Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays. London: [by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, for] Chatto & Windus, 1892. One of 100 copies on large parge paper, signed by the published, 4to, recent red quarter morocco, marbled sides, slipcase;Crockett, S. R. The Stickit Minister and some Common Men. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 'Eighth and illustrated edition', one of 350 copies signed by the author, 4to, recent red quarter cloth, marbled sides, slipcase;together with Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard, 1960 (first edition in English, 8vo, rebound in leopard-print textured boards)

Powell-Cotton, Percy Horace Gordon In Unknown Africa a Narrative of Twenty Months' Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and among New Tribes. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 2 colour plates, 2 folding maps, halftone photographic plates throughout, maps spotted, ownership inscription to title-page;Idem. A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, zebra-pattern endpapers, photogravure frontispiece, folding map in end-pocket, spine faded, pale mottling to covers, wear to bottom edges of boards, spotting to edges of text-block;Crum, Frederick Maurice. With the Mounted Infantry in South Africa. Being Side-Lights on the Boer Campaign 1899-1902. Printed for Private Circulation. Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1903. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper;Idem. With Riflemen, Scouts, and Snipers, from 1914 to 1919. Oxford: for private circulation, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original green wrappers, 7 halftone photographic plates, separation along joints, evidence of old adhesive-repair;Idem. Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. Stirling: A. Learmonth & Son, c.1951. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, photographic illustrations throughout;Hesketh-Prichard, H. Sniping in France. With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers. London: Hutchinson & Co., c.1920. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 28 plates;Greener, W. W. Sharpshooting for Sport and War. London: R. W. Everett & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, illustrations in text;and 7 others

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, 8vo, 223 pp., original pictorial wrappers, laminate perished, spine rolled, wear to extremities and to head of front cover affecting title, textblock toned as usual, frequent staining [Errington A1(aa)]Note: Note: With all the requisite points: the copyright page dated 1997, credited to 'Joanne Rowling', with no space between 'Thomas Taylor', and with the number line descending from 10 to 1; page 53 with '1 wand' repeated; and retaining the misprint 'Philospher's' on the rear wrapper.

Biblical studies Collection of works, 17th to 19th century Bible; Greek. Septuaginta Interpretum ... summa cura edidit Joannes Ernestus Grabe. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1707-19-20-09. 4 volumes in 2, folio, contemporary panelled calf, main text in Greek, engraved frontispiece of the author presenting the work to Queen Anne, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre to each title-page, engraved headpieces and initials, front pastedowns with bequest plates (Rev. Franke Parker to the Bishopric of Cornwall) and ownership inscriptions of William Henry Bliss, joints cracked, volume 1 front board held by one cord only;Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo de. Variae lectiones Veteris Testamenti. Parma: ex Regio Typographeo, 1784-8. First edition, 4 volumes in 2, 4to, contemporary marbled sheep, rebacked and refurbished, volume 1 title-page damp-stained, various library plates and related ink-stamps to endpapers and versos of title-pages;Du Pin, Louis Ellies. A New Ecclesiastical History of the Sixteenth Century. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1703-6. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, volume 1 with small worm-track in fore margins;Trommius, Abraham. Concordantiae Graecae versionis vulgo distae lux interpretum. Amsterdam: sumptibus Societatis, 1718. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, modern quarter calf, half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, moderate spotting and browning, volume 2 with institutional ink- and blind stamps to half-title and title-page;Origen. Hexaplorum. Oxford: Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary red half morocco, rebacked;the lot sold as a collection, not subject to return

Falconer, William Remarks on the Influence of Climate Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life, on the Disposition and Temper, Manners and Behaviour, Intellects, Laws and Customs, Form of Government, and Religion, of Mankind. London: C. Dilly 1781. First edition, 4to (28 x 22.5cm), xvi 552 [28] pp., uncut in original boards, expertly rebacked to style, spotting to covers and endpapers, occasionally to text, stain to lower margin of p. 163, short closed tear in Z4, [ESTC T60417; Goldsmiths'-Kress 12116; Norman 755]Note: Note: An unsung forerunner of 19th-century historical materialism, the work was awarded the Fothergill gold medal by the Medical Society of London in 1796. Falconer was an Edinburgh-trained physician 'most famous for his research into the Bath waters and their impact on chronic conditions ... In investigating the efficacy of the spa, William Falconer made an important contribution to later Georgian medical quantification, which contests the view that clinical statistics only emerged at the Paris hospitals after the French Revolution' (ODNB).

Lamb, A. C. Dundee. Its Quaint and Historic Buildings Dundee: George Petrie, 1895. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 155 copies signed by the author (from the total edition of 528), large folio (52.5 x 39.5cm), original maroon morocco gilt, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 56 lithographic plates numbered 1-59 (plates 29/30, 37/8 and 54/5 each on single sheet), most tinted, a few in colours, spine and extremities rubbed, a few scuffs to sides. Together with a copy of the 'small paper' issue, one of 357 copies signed by the author (folio, 46.5 x 36cm, original half morocco, morocco-effect cloth dust jacket, all plates as called for), and Crawford Barlow, The New Tay Bridge, 1889 (first edition, modern cloth with original front panel laid down, 22 plates)

New Naturalist The Natural History of Orkney [and:] British Warblers London: Collins, 1985. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, each with the dust jacket retaining Duraseal clear plastic covering as issued, Orkney with sliver of fading to foot of spine, spines of dust jackets sunned [Bernhard & Loe NN70A & NN71A] Note: Note: First edition, first state of each work, numbers 70 and 71 and the two rarest titles in the New Naturalist series; 725 copies of each were printed.Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).

Gunnery Collection of works including rare trade catalogues Hotchkiss & Co. The Hotchkiss Single-Barrel Rapid-Firing Gun. A Description of the System by Alfred Koerner. Paris: printed for private circulation, 1884. 4to, original cloth, 37 [3] pp., 11 plates, comprising 7 albumen print photographs (mounted as issued) and 4 folding lithographic diagrams, bookplate and ownership inscription of Henk Visser (1923-2006), noted collector of arms and armour, booklet 'Measurements and Weights of Hotchkiss Rapid-Firing Guns ...' laid in, Hotchkiss company ink-stamp to title-page, wear to spine-ends, front free endpaper detached, text-leaves and lithographic plates toned, folding plate 10 a touch proud and consequently nicked and rumpled along fore edge;Ibid. The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon. Descriptions and Illustrations of the Systems as designed for Naval Service, Field Artillery and Flank Defence ... by Lieut. Edward W. Very. Paris: printed for private circulation, 1885. 4to, original cloth (rebacked), 30 phototype or lithographic plates, numerous repairs;Nordenfelt, Thorsten. The Nordenfelt Machine Guns described in Detail and compared with Other Systems. Portsmouth: Griffin & Co., 1884. First edition, 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked and recornered, 56 plates numbered 1-53 (including 12A, 35A, 37A), bookplates of Henk Visser (q.v.) and one John Madden (1836-1902), ink-stains to covers, occasional spotting;Whitworth, Sir Joseph. Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Ryer. 1873. First edition, inscribed for 'The Right Honble B Disraeli MP with the authors compliments', with bookplate of Sir Samuel Wilson (subsequent occupant of Hughenden Manor), 4to original cloth;and 11 others (these not collated), including: War Office, Textbook for Small Arms, 1908 and 1929 (i.e. 2 works, 8vo and 4to, original red cloth, the former ex-library); Robin Chute, Shooting Flying, A Bibliography of Shooting Books 1598-1950, 2001, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author, folio); Walter Winans, The Art of Revolver Shooting ... New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1911 (4to, original cloth); G. T. Teasdale-Buckell, Experts on Guns and Shooting, 1900, first edition, secondary binding, large 8vo, original cloth); and similarNote: Note: Library Hub traces two copies only for The Hotchkiss Single-Barrel Rapid-Firing Gun, at the British Library and the National Maritime Museum, and two for this edition of The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, at the NMM and the National Army Museum; an earlier edition, published in 1879, had 15 plates as opposed to 53 in the present edition.

Travel and social anthropology 9 works Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. London, 1929. First edition, 8vo, 96 plates, original white linen-backed blue cloth, lettered in gilt;Knox, Robert. An Historical Relation of Ceylon. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1911. 8vo, one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper, plates, folding map, original vellum-backed red cloth gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut;Ashley-Montagu, M.F. Coming into Being among the Australian Aborigines. London: G. Routledge, 1937, First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth;Elwin, Verrier. The Muria and their Ghotul. Bombay, Geoffrey Cumberlege, O.U.P. [Indian Branch], 1947, 8vo, plates, maps, original red cloth uncut;Elwin, Verrier. The Baiga. London: J. Murray, 1939. First edition, 8vo, plates, original maroon cloth, dustwrapper repaired;Elgood, Cyril. A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge: University Press, 1951, 8vo, plates, original green cloth;Madariaga, Salvador de. Christopher Columbus. London, 1939. 8vo, plates, maps, original green pictorial cloth gilt;Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. History of the Incas... and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1907-08. 2 parts: 1 volume in original cloth, and Supplement in original blue wrappers (in original envelope, repaired);Hunter, John D. Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen. With anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate and vegetable productions of the territory Westward of the Mississippi. A New edition, with portrait. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees [&c.], 1823. 8vo, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at beginning, engraved bookplate of Sir William Middleton Bart., of Shrubland Park, original boards, uncut, paper label to spineNote: Note: The third edition of John D. Hunter's Memoirs of a Captivity was published in 1824, so this 'new edition' would appear to be the second edition. This copy contains the rare lithographed frontispiece by C.R. Leslie printed by Hullmandel, which was not present in the copy examined for the Wagner-Camp entry, or in the Library of Congress copy. Wagner-Camp notes that "Hunter's autobiography includes his story of a journey across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, `on the south side of the Chok-a-li-lum (Columbia River)'." Wagner doubted the veracity of this account, although he accepted Hunter's description of life among the Kansas and Osage Indians as authentic. He claimed to have been abducted at an early age by Kickapoo Indians, but escaped to white settlements to get an education. He visited London where he was lionised in 1823-34 and then returned to America where he was murdered by Cherokees.

Sporting books 12 works Sinigaglia, Leone. Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, 38 plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt doublures over red printed silk endpapers, a little rubbing;Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. 2 volumes (including Supplementary Appendix), 8vo, frontispiece, single-page map, 2 folding maps including one in rear pocket, 19 plates, folding plan of Quito, with 14 additional plates in the Supplementary volume, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, some dampstaining to supplementary volume;Ball John. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859-1852. Third edition of volume 1, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover of volume 1 detached, bookplates of Archibald Rogers;James, David. That Frozen Land. London: The Falcon Press, 1949. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;Whymper, Edward. Chamonix, and the Range of Mont Blanc. London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;Haskett Smith, W.P. Climbing in the British Isles. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 12mo, original red cloth gilt;Wilson, Claude. Mountaineering. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. 12mo, original green cloth;Barrow, John. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa... London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Volume 1 only, contemporary diced calf, rebacked retaining portions of original spine, repairs to hinges, repair to title-page, bookplates, lacking maps;Scrope, William. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional title-page and 10 (of 11) coloured lithographs only, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover detached;Millais, J.G. Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1894. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text, original pictorial cloth;St. John, Charles. Natural History & Sport in Moray. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, some offsetting from tissue guards;Rollo, W. Keith. The Art of Fly Fishing. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [1931]. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signatures and blindstamp to endpapers

Kottenkamp, Franz History of Chivalry and Ancient Armour with Descriptions of the Feudal System, the Usages of Knighthood, the Tournament, and Trials by Single Combat, translated from the German by the Rev. A. Löwy. London: William & Sotheran, 1857. Oblong 4to, [8] pp., 110 columns, [4] pp., original blue cloth gilt, recased, 61 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with metallic pigments (of 62: lacking plate 5), of which 26 folding, variable spotting and offsetting, frontispiece nicked along bottom edge, plates 1 and 62 chipped along fore edges, plate 45 creased, damp-staining to rear endpapers and margin of plate 61 Note: Note: First edition in English, first published in German in 1842 as Der Rittersaal.Provenance: T. Bigelow Lawrence (bookplate).

Bindings Including The Field of Mars... London: J. Macgowan, 1781. 2 volumes, 4to, volume 1 lacking half-title, 55 (of 56) plates and maps, some loose, contemporary calf [ESTC T93173];Cambridge, Richard Owen. An Account of the War in India... Dublin: George and Alexander Ewing, 1761. 8vo, lacking plates and maps, contemporary calf;Dodsley, Robert. The Preceptor... Dublin: George Faulkner, 1749. 2 volumes, 8vo, lacking one plate, contemporary calf;Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition, 8vo, volume 1 only, original green cloth;Enfield, William. The Speaker... London: printed for the bookseller, 1790. 12mo, an anomaly matching the collation of the Dublin edition with a variant title-page, contemporary calf, lacks all plates

New Naturalist Numbers 1-69 London: Collins, 1945-83. 70 volumes (i.e. containing both editions of 6, Highlands and Islands), 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, a few volumes with ornithological bookplate of I. D. Pennie, early volumes with occasional customary fading to cloth and variable spotting to endpapers and jackets (chiefly to flaps), volumes 27-9, 38, 52, 63, 64, 65 and 67 jacket spines faded, 13 jacket with water-stains to spine-panel, a few small nicks and chips elsewhere Note: Note: First editions of numbers 1-69 in the New Naturalist series, except numbers 1-4 and 58 (second impressions) and 47 (second edition); also included is the 1969 edition of Highlands and Islands (6), described as the second edition but effectively a new work. Butterflies (1) with an autograph letter signed from the author to Dr. I. D. Pennie ('Thank you for so kindly informing me that Pieris brassicae has now reached Foula ... It has been in the main islands of Shetland for several years past'); Insects (8) with a typed letter signed to Pennie from George R. Else of the British Museum department of entomology on bee specimens; Finches (55) with typed review of the work by Pennie.Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969. First india-paper edition, 8vo, original black cloth decorated in silver and gilt, 2 folding maps, full-page map in text, spine very slightly sunned, slipcase rubbed [Hammond A5h];Stevenson, Robert Louis. Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa. The Bottle Imp. The Isle of Voices. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, colour map, 26 plates (counted in pagination), price on list of publications facing half-title amended in manuscript;Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818 [c.1900]. Facsimile edition, 8vo, original cloth, paper spine-label, largely unopened;Henley, W. E. (editor). Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello. Translated into English by Geffraie Fenton anno 1567. With an Introduction by Robert Langton Douglas. London: David Nutt, 1898. One of 18 copies on Japanese paper, this copy 'marked 'File copy' on limitation page, 2 volumes, 4to, original white glazed paper boards, unopened, wear to spine-ends and joints, covers slightly soiled;Burton, Richard F (translator). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose. London: printed for the translators ... for private subscribers only, 1894. One of 1,000 copies on hand-made paper, 8vo, original quarter japon, spine discoloured, wear to tips;Baillie-Grohman, William A. & F (editors). The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. 8vo, original vellum gilt, 24 plates, occasional spotting to text;and 4 others including D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, [Paris]: privately printed, 1929, author's unabridged popular edition, contemporary cloth, retaining original wrappers

Dugdale, Sir William The Antiquities of Warwickshire London: for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1730. Second edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, 23 engraved plates and maps only (of 24), of which 20 double-page, bookplates of William Fermor of Tusmore, Oxfordshire, and the Barons Holland of Holland House, variable damp-stainingHakewill, James. The History of Windsor, and its Neighbourhood. London: Edmund Lloyd, 1813. First edition, large-paper copy printed for subscribers (79 listed), large 4to (412 x 315 mm), xviii 359 pp., contemporary dark red morocco gilt over thick bevelled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 18 engraved plates including frontispiece, 3 engraved maps (one double-page), engraved vignettes, text and plates printed on thick wove paper (text watermarked J Whatman 1811), occasional interleaves, bookplate, laid-in tissue-guards, pale discolouration to covers, spotting and occasional marginal damp-staining to plates and maps, 2D1 closed with tear to lower margin;Sims, John. Curtis's Botanical Magazine. London: printed by Stephen Couchman, published by Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1816 & 1822. Volumes 43 & 49, 8vo, non-uniform half leather bindings (volume 49 front board near-detached), 90 and 82 hand-coloured engraved plates (several folding), occasional light damp-stains to top margins of plates in volume 43, volume 49 first plate working loose;and approx. 15 others, mainly Scottish topography, including A. H. Evans, A Fauna of the Tweed Area, 1911 (first edition, original cloth), A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod and Gun, 1900 (first edition, original cloth), and similar

Christie, Agatha The Murder of Roger Ackroyd London: W. Collins & Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, a few small markings (a little red ink to endpapers and fore-edges and a little light foxing in places), rear free-endpaper torn covers and joints rubbed

Arnot, Hugo (1749-1786) Autograph letter, signed to William Strahan, on the 11th March 1779, regarding the printing and publication of a London edition of Arnot's The History of Edinburgh, Arnot writes: "Several years have elapsed since Mr Creech & I made an agreement concerning the publication of The History of Edinburgh, a work, which I have been long engaged in composing. As I had a personal acquaintance & friendship with Mr. J. Murray of Fleet Street, Bookseller, we never looked for a London publisher, it being always understood that Mr. Murray was to be the person...the book was to be published here on Saturday last, bearing to be printed for W. Creech Edin., & T. Murray London. But last night Mr. Creech received a letter from Mr. Murray, which amounts clearly to this,, That if the Book is to be sent to Mr. Murray, the reverse may be expected of what an author or proprietor would wish from the publisher of his work...It was proposed that 300 of the first edition should be sent to the London publisher at the price of £0:19:0. each and these are the terms upon which Mr. Creech and I wish you to publish the work...Mr. Creech and I will entertain a grateful sense of your becoming publisher at a crisis when we have been disappointed...The title page may be cancelled & reprinted either here or in London." 3 manuscript pp., 22 x 18cmNote: Note: A fascinating letter in which the Scottish writer, and historian, begs the publisher, William Strahan, to be the London publisher of his renowned History of Edinburgh. With erased words and small additions, it is easy to imagine that this note was written in a hurry, perhaps by candlelight, as Arnot desperately sought a replacement publisher for John Murray, who seems to have rescinded on his agreement to publish the work at the last minute. Copies of the work with J. Murray listed as the London publisher are still commonly found, suggesting that the title-pages were never cancelled (as mentioned in the letter), or perhaps Murray had a change of heart? No copies of the work have been traced with Strahan listed as the London publisher.

Miscellaneous collection including Beatrix Potter and leather bound albums Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt;Nightingale, Florence - album with possible family connections. Small album including postcard annotated: "Florence Nightingale's beloved home" and one of Lea Hurst with the annotation: "in remembrance of Lea Hurst, Louisa Shaw Nightingale, 9th Oct. 1904";Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, New Edition. London: Ward, Lock & Company Ltd., 1888. 20 x 14cm, original red half-calf over green cloth boards, corners bumped, front joint detaching, small area of loss lower spine;Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. Fifth edition, 8vo, original calf binding, spine worn with some loss to head, corners bumped, title page laid down onto linen, owner's plate to paste-down endpaper, some dust staining;Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, dust-jacket price-clipped;Faulkner, William. Knight's Gambit. London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. First UK edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped;[Johns, W.E.] Ace High. London: The Ace Publishing Company, [n.d.] 8vo, original boards;Blakston, W.A., Swaysland, W. and August F. Wiener, FZS. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., (n.d.). 4to, 56 colour plates, original green cloth with gilt decoration, g.e., boards bumped and scratched, front board detaching, owner's label to past-down endpaper;Potter, Beatrix. Ginger & Pickles. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First edition, 8vo, original boards worn and detaching, historic tape repair to front joint;Idem. The Tale of Ginger & Pickles. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., (n.d.) Early copy of the larger printing size, small 8vo, original boards slightly discoloured, head and tail of spine bumped;Idem. The Roly-Poly Pudding. London: Frederick Warne & Co., (n.d.). Early edition (first?), 8vo, lacking title page, original boards bumped and faded, pages yellowed and several torn, dust staining and pencil marks throughout;Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, (n.d.). Eighth edition, 15 x 22.5cm, original half calf illustrated boards, some foxing, joints broken; Heward, Constance. Amerliaranne and the Green Umbrella. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1954. Original boards worn, spine faded, endpapers foxed, some dust staining;Reina, Tomaso. Prediche Quaresimali. Rome: Franceso Corbelletti, 1649. 4to, contemporary limp vellum wormed and cockled, free endpapers and title page wormed, intermittent dust-staining;10 theological pamphlets, 17th century, disbound;small red calf-bound album of early 20th-century travel and school/university photographs, 16 x 11.5 x 2.5cm;group of portrait cabinet cards, including one of Queen Victoria;tooled calf-bound album of cartes de visite and photographs, 19th century, a few small tears, joints detaching, boards bumped; and five further similar albums, including one with photographs of Ian Lorimer in ceremonial attire and several other family photographs;4 albums of early 20th century scraps, postcards and greetings cards;and 10 others

Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. First American edition, second printing (p. 303 without 'The End'), 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 109 engraved plates and various images in text, original green pictorial cloth, neatly rebacked (in 1952, according to inscription on front free-endpaper), covers and spine rubbed, some small tears and repairs to text, not affecting completeness

"Gavin Ogilvy" - Barrie, J.M. An Edinburgh Eleven London: Office of the "British Weekly", 1889. First edition, inscribed: "Golding[?] Bright from his friend J.M. Barrie", original cloth

Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials trilogy, each volume signed The Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass. London: Scholastic, 1995, 1998, 2000. First edition, first impression of Amber Spyglass, ninth impression of Northern Lights, seventh impression of Subtle Knife, 3 works, 8vo, original boards, dust jackets, signed by Pullman on the title-page of each volume;Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno [and:] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889-93. 2 works, 8vo, later red crushed half morocco gilt original red cloth sides with gilt roundels, all edges gilt, wood-engraved frontispieces and illustrations in text (many full-page), Concluded frontispiece tissue-guard torn;Tartt, Donna. The Little Friend. London: Bloomsbury, 2002. Deluxe edition, one of 350 copies signed by the author, original black quarter leatherette, orange boards, slipcase;Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, later red crushed half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, top edge gilt, half-title loose at foot

Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. Hunting Hawking Shooting Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings. London: privately printed for the author, 1928-37. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author, this copy one of an unspecified number bound in deluxe full niger (most copies being in green half morocco), 4 volumes, 4to (32 x 25cm), original orange niger by Kelly & Sons, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, gilt decorated endpapers, 382 plates, most in colours, many mounted or folded, tissue-guards throughout, spines sunned, light scuffs and marks to bindings, tan-burn along edges of endpapers from turn-ins volume 3 additionally with abrasion to top spine compartment, faint indentations to front board, shallow chip to head of plates 206-210, volume 4 with mottling to covers

Gunnery Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century Boucher, John. The Volunteer Rifleman and the Rifle ... Second edition, greatly enlarged. London: W. O. Mitchell, 1859. Inscribed by 'To William Roupell Esqre M.P., with the author's compliments' on the title-page, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, 4 plates (of which 2 folding), bookplate to front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper, frontispiece offset, rear inner hinge slightly cracked;Baker, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns: being the Result of Forty Years Practice and Observations. With Specific Remarks on Fowling Pieces. London: E. Baker, 1821. Eighth edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, gilt red morocco to front board, [6] 140 pp., half-title, 12 engraved plates (most hand-coloured), without 8 pp. supplement noted in other copies;Dove, Patrick Edward. The Revolver. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original red pictorial boards, 5 wood-engraved plates, loss to spine;Idem. The Revolver. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First edition, second issue, 8vo, original blue pictorial boards, 5 wood-engraved plates, loss to spine;Busk, Hans. The Rifleman's Manual; or, Rifles, and how to use them. London: Charles Noble, [1858]. Second edition, original cloth, rebacked, bookplate of Henk Visser, ownership inscriptions;Noel, J. B. L. The Automatic Pistol. London: Forster Groom & Co., Ltd., c.1919. First edition, small 8vo, original tan cloth;Lancaster, Charles. An Illustrated Treatise on the Art of Shooting. London: McCorquodale and Co. Limited, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, advertisement endpapers, halftone photographic frontispiece, plates, covers slightly marked, fraying to spine-ends, tips bumped, inner hinges strengthened, spotting, damp-stain to head of gutter, a few plates strengthened in margins or gutter [Chute 378: 'The first purely practical work on how to shoot straight and safely'];and 27 others, on rifles, pistols, machine guns, etc., original clothNote: Note: William Roupell (1831-1909), recipient of this copy of Boucher's Volunteer Rifleman, was a Liberal politician whose career ended in disgrace after he was convicted of forging wills and property deeds in a famous court case. Dove's Revolver is rare in libraries and in commerce: Library Hub traces one copy only of each issue in British and Irish institutions.

Bible; English; Authorised Version [The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, and the New] [London: Robert Barker, probably 1617].Folio (39.9 x 25cm), modern calf, dated 1611 on spine. Signatures: A-B4 C6 D4, A-6D6. Lacking 8 leaves: A1 (general title-page) and D4 (containing last page of The Table and Kalender recto, and The Name and Order of all the Bookes ... verso) in prelims, and 6D2-6 (final 5 leaves, Revelation) in main text; New Testament title-page (5D1) dated 1611 trimmed and mounted and probably supplied from another copy. Text in black letter, double column, 59 lines to the page, decorative woodcut headpieces and initials, calendar printed in red and black. Bound with John Speed's engraved double-page map of the Holy Land (at front), and 12 of 18 leaves from Speed's Genealogies (interspersed throughout the text).Map creased and with small chip to head; preliminary quires A-B with a few small holes in text and spill-burn in gutter costing a few letters, A2-4 creased, mounted on guards and reinforced along lower margins, A2 with additional repair at head next to woodcut royal arms; main text with damp-staining to lower margins of quires 2X and 6C-6D, light damp-staining to lower fore corners of a handful of other quires, 3F3 margins strengthened, 3O1 and 3O6 strengthened along lower margins obscuring signature-mark and part of side-note in former, 4F2 and 5I6 with small spill-burns to minimal effect on text, faint blue staining to 5D2 recto (first leaf of NT text), 5N1 small repair to lower margin, circular oil-stain to head of last few leaves[ESTC S122467; Darlow & Moule 353]Note: Note: Third of the five large black-letter folio editions of the King James Bible printed between 1611 and 1640, reading 'leaf for leaf' (Darlow & Moule) with the two preceding editions, the 'Great He Bible' of 1611 and the first in any format, and the 'Great She Bible' of 1613, and agreeing very closely with the fourth and fifth editions of 1634 and 1640, but with distinguishing points including: dedication leaf (A2) with woodcut royal arms at head but without royal initials ('C R' added for the fourth edition); woodcut initial of Psalm 122 depicting St John the Evangelist; Jeremiah 18:3 with 'whelles' (for 'wheels'); Hebrews 12:1 with 'unto the race' ('unto' removed for the fourth edition); marginal readings in italics (changed to roman types by the fifth edition).

Calvin, John Two rare 16th century English editions [The Institution of Christian Religion]. [London: Richard Harrison, 1562]. Second edition in English, folio in eights (26.8 x 17.5cm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf over bevelled boards, spine and covers decorated in gilt and blind, edges dyed red, signatures [superscript pi]A8 ²pi1 3T-3X8 A-2S1 2T4 2V-3R8 3S4, text in black letter, lacking title-page (pi1: replaced with early calligraphic manuscript title in red and black dated 1578, with later restoration to upper fore corner), preliminary quire [superscript pi] A damp-stained and with several repairs, ²pi1 silked, 3T-3X ('The Table') bound at front between ²pi1 and A1, damp-stained at foot with concomitant softening and fraying along bottom edges, occasional light damp-staining thereafter, becoming slightly stronger towards rear, old repairs to L4 and margin of 2U8, 3M-3S (i.e. terminal quires as bound) with small worm-track in lower margins, bookplate [ESTC S107157; STC 4416];Sermons, upon the Booke of Job. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding. London: for George Byshop and Thomas Woodcocke, 1579. Third edition in English, folio in eights (33 x 22cm), modern blue skiver, signatures [superscript pi]A4 *6 2*8 (2*8=blank) A-Y8 2A-2Y8 3A-3C8, text in roman letter, double column, elaborate architectonic woodcut border to title-page, woodcut initials, early manuscript recipe to verso of medial blank 2*8, worm-track to lower inner corner of text in first 20 or so leaves, marginal damp-staining towards front and rear, worming in gutter, very small worm-track in gutter at centre of volume (text never affected), title-page laid down, second leaf A2 chipped along top edge, 2C4-5 loose, closed tear in 2D5, rust-hole in 3B4, final quire 3C damp-stained and chipped, leaf 3C1 loosening, bookplate [ESTC S116835; STC 4446]Note: Note: The first edition in English of Calvin's Institutes appeared the previous year; for this second edition ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries. The first edition in English of his Sermons, upon the Booke of Job was published in 1574, with another edition following in the same year. This third edition is especially rare, ESTC tracing four copies world-wide; there was a subsequent re-issue with a cancel title-page dated 1580 as in the colophon.

Edinburgh Collection of works on Edinburgh topography and history Hamilton, John (publisher). Edinburgh Delineated: comprising Twenty-Five [sic[ Views of the Principal Public Buildings, Streets, and Picturesque Scenery of the Scottish Metropolis. Edinburgh: John Hamilton, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, 50 engraved plates with tissue-guards;Wilson, Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1848. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, engraved plates;Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century. London: Jones & Co., 1829. 4to, contemporary straight-grain grain red morocco, engraved plates;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1837 and 1838. First edition, 2 volumes in 4, 4to, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, 271 etched plates of 361, bindings bumped, owner's plate to paste-down endpapers of each volume, foxing to free endpapers, some dampstaining and intermittent foxing to pages;Irons, James Campbell. Leith and its Antiquities. Edinburgh: printed for the subscribers, 1897. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, plates, fraying to spine-ends;and approx. 20 others including Bruce J. Home, Old Houses in Edinburgh, c.1905, Benjamin W. Crombie, Modern Athenians, 1882, Hugh Paton, Modern Athenians, 1851 (oblong folio, 24 plates only, original wrappers, repairs), J. Cameron Lees, St Giles', Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1889 (4to modern blue half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed), early-19th-century Edinburgh almanacs, and similar, the lot sold as seen

Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, ex libris Lord Reith A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles founded mainly on the Materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James A. H. Murray [and others]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888-1933. 21 volumes, 4to (32.8 x 25.5cm), original maroon half morocco, titles and crests of the University of Oxford gilt to spines, top edges gilt, printed presentation plates to John, Lord Reith in Latin to front pastedowns [PMM 371]Note: Note: First edition, from the library of John Reith, Baron Reith (1889-1971), first general manager of the BBC, with presentation plates in Latin commemorating the 40th anniversary of the service, reading: 'Radiodiffusionem in populo Britannico serviendum institutam xl post annos grati respicientes Johannem Reith, rectorem primum, hujus operis ac bene meritum rector et gubernatores salutant, A.S. MDCCCCLXII'. Reith's influence on the institution he helped establish, and national life generally, is such that 'Reithian' values, and his stated mission to 'inform, educate, and entertain', continue to be invoked today in debates about the role of the national broadcaster. 'The N.E.D., as it was originally cited, or the O.E.D., as it is now known, is the greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship' (PMM).

Daniell, William A Voyage round Great Britain undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a Series of Views Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and Engraved by William Daniell. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and William Daniell, 1814-25. 8 volumes, 4to (36.7 x 25cm), contemporary russia gilt, heraldic crests gilt to top compartments of spines, twin triple-fillet borders gilt to covers, all edges gilt, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates, uncoloured engraved plate, engraved folding map to rear of volume 8, bookplates of Fairfax Rhodes (overlaid with later bookplates of Sylvia White in volumes 5 and 8), volumes 1, 2, 7 and 8 rebacked with original spines laid down, joints of remaining volumes rubbed, volumes 3-5 with slight cracking to front joints, volume 7 rear board detached, occasional spotting and offsetting to text, a few plates spotted (generally light), plates in volume 3 extended along fore margins at an early date, closed handling tear to folding map [Abbey Scenery 16; Prideaux pp. 279-80; Tooley 177] Note: Note: First edition of 'the most important colour plate book on British topography' (Tooley). 'Such a succession of beautiful colour plates is scarcely to be found elsewhere, and they are unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting' (Prideaux). On publication the work was priced at £60. This copy retains the folding 'Index chart to the Voyage', 'not usually included' according to Tooley, and unmentioned in Abbey.Provenance: Fairfax Rhodes (1845-1928),

Waring, J. B. Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 London: Day & Son, 1863. First edition, folio (42 x 28.5cm), 3 volumes, 3 chromolithographed title-pages, 301 chromolithographed plates, many heightened in gold and silver, original bevelled and elaborately gilt tooled morocco, all edges gilt, small, neat ownership stamps of Henry How of Sevenoaks to front free endpapers, spines reinforced, final 4 plates in volume 3 bound out of order

Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, second issue (with 2E4-2F2, pp. 215-220, cancelled), 4to, modern half leather, half-title discarded, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plates (one folding), 3 folding tables, contemporary manuscript annotations to initial blank containing 'Extracts from General George Hanger's ... treatise on sporting, 1814', marginal repair to 2B2 [Chute 532; Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];Grose, Francis. Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. A New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements. London: T. Egerton, 1801. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary russia, rebacked, volume 2 in 2 parts, engraved title-page to each part, 139 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates 28-9 in second part, 'A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons');Idem. A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons. London: S. Hooper, 1786. 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered in sheep, engraved frontispiece, title-page and 48 plates (plate 49, mentioned in text, apparently never issued), spotting and browning;[Magné de Marolles, Gervais-François]. An Essay on Shooting. London: T. Cadell, 1791. Second edition in English, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title, bookplate, a very good copy [ESTC T64643];Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline ... The Eighth Edition, revised, corrected, and altered to the Present Practice of the Army. London: R. Baldwin [and others], 1759. 8vo, 20th-century half roan, 7 engraved folding plates, imprimatur leaf, ownership inscription of D. Dundas, identified in a laid-in note as General Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), author of The Principles of Military Movement [ESTC T122214];Montagu, George. The Sportsman's Directory: or, Tractate on Gunpowder, founded on a Series of Experiments, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking frontispiece [ESTC T33010: 4 copies world-wide];and 3 others including Guillaume Le Blond, A Treatise of Artillery, 1746, first edition in English, 15 engraved plates, lacking final 3 text-leaves and advertisement leaf, and John Muller, A Treatise of Artillery, 1780, third edition (these not collated)

[Early Bombay printing] Harris, William Cornwallis Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the Years 1836 and 1837 Bombay: American Mission Press, 1838. First edition, 8vo in half-sheets (20.4 x 12.5cm), modern crushed morocco gilt, xviii 406 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, lithographic folding map, extra-illustrated with 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates from the third or later edition of the present work, bound in at rear, toning, stab-holes visible in gutter from original binding, a few old stains Note: Note: First edition, rare. A second edition was printed in London the following year, with the title The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; a third edition was published in 1841, also using the amended title but incorporating a suite of 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates.Provenance: Admiral Sir Thomas Hastings (1786-1870), British naval officer, with his ownership inscription ('Sir Thos. Hastings, R. Naval College') to the half-title.

Plat, Sir Hugh Delightes for Ladies to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories: with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters. London: printed by H. L., 1605. 12mo (12 x 6.8cm), contemporary limp vellum, unpaginated, signatures presumably A-H12 (H1-4 and H9-11 in sympathetic facsimile, also lacking H12, probably blank or cancelled, the text ending 'Finis' on H11r.), ornamental woodcut borders throughout, binding soiling, probably resewn with endpapers renewed, a large fragment from a contemporary edition of A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen bound in at rear, occasional damp-staining and other marks to text, worming to lower margins from quire C, E7 repaired [ESTC S94740; STC 19979.5]Note: Note: ESTC traces one other copy, at the University of Leeds, from which the facsimile leaves in this copy are believed to have been made (information provided by the vendor), though in that copy having H1 is described as cancelled and H4 as a blank. Sir Hugh Plat's Delightes for Ladies was first published in 1602.

Rawstorne, Lawrence Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game and an Improved Method of making Plantations and Covers, explained and illustrated. London: published for the proprietor, by Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. First edition, inscribed 'From Laurence Rawstorne, April /93' on the initial blank, 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), original green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 208 pp., half-title, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rawlins, heightened to gum arabic, errata slip tipped to p. 208, spine slightly faded, custom green cloth slipcase [Abbey Life 392; Schwerdt II p. 127; Tooley 393]Note: Note: 'An esteemed book. It is realy a treatise on forestry, written with a view to laying out plantations in the way most suitable to game preservation. But the highly coloured plates mostly represent shooting scenes. They are unusually attractive, and convey a good impression of the way in which our forebears killer their game, in the beginning of the 19th century' (Schwerdt).

India Group of rare Indian imprints [Reily, E. J.]. A Year of my Life in India. Calcutta: Thos. S. Smith, 1888. First edition, small 8vo, later cloth with front cover from original cloth binding laid down, [4] iv [2] 216 pp., 13 lithographic plates (13 listed; one plate, 'An Early Start', not found facing p. 202 as listed, possibly being the one unlisted plate facing dedication leaf), inscribed 'for Elise, Anson, Patrick & Robert, given to mother for them by the authoress Mrs Neily' on the front free endpaper;[Parsi author]. Travels in Persia. From 2nd April 1878, up to 22nd May 1880. By Kavasji Dinshawji Kiash. Bombay, 1882. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, crudely rebacked, 500 pp., preliminary text and part of title in English, remaining text in Gujarati, 30 lithographic plates (collation not established);Nash, George. The French Prisoners, a History. Calcutta: William Rushton, 1843. First edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, loss to spine-ends, closed tear from C1 to D1;Hart-Davies, T. L Sind Ballads. Translated from the Sindi. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1881. First edition, square 8vo, original cloth, 46 pp., slightly worn, ownership inscription to title-page;Manucha, Kaccoo Mal, Rai Bahadur (Chairman, Municipal Board, Fyzaband-cum-Ajodhya, Oudh). The Hindu Home-Life. Lucknow: London Printing Press, 1890. First edition, 8vo, contemporary Indian half cloth, [7] vi-ix 109 pp., errata leaf at rear, ink stamp of Pandit Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to title-page, browning and worming;Government of India. Manual for the Guidance of Native States in Rajputana and Central India for the Control and Reclamation of Criminal Tribes. Calcutta: office of the superintendent of government printing, 1896. Folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, 23 pp., text in English, Hindi and Urdu, covers damp-stained, wear to spine, contents browned;Government of the United Provinces. The Excise Opium Manual, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad: W. C. Abel, 1914. 4to, original green cloth, marked;Idem. Rules for the Management and Discipline of Prisoners in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahahd: reprinted by F. Luker, Supdt., Government Press, 1915. Large 8vo, original black cloth, inner hinges cracked, browning, light damp-staining to outer leaves;[Pamphlets]. Volume of pamphlets, comprising: 1) A Consideration of the Position of Women in Primitive Society from the Standpoint of Marriage. By S. S. Mehta, [Bombay: Anthropological Society of Bombay], 1915, offprint; 2) The Proposed Proclamation Pillar and Minto Park at Allahabad, Allahabad: Leader Press, 1910; 3) All Intoxicants should be avoided. The Twelvth [sic] Annual Report on Total Abstinance [sic] and appeal to those interested in the Public Welfare ... by Pl. Ram Sharan Raturie Sharma, Dehra Dun: Shri Swami Press, 1919; 4) Kalidasa and Shakespeare: a Parallel by D. A. Narasimham, lecturer in English, govt. college, Kumbakonam, 1921; 5) The Present Situation or an Appeal to my Moderate Friends ... by Prof. Ruchi Ram Sahni, Lahore: Tribute Press, 1922;Devi, Sushila. Reminiscence of English Life. A Lecture delivered in Quetta under the kind patronage of J. R. Carnah ... Superintendant [sic] of Education, Baluchistan. Lahore: Panjabee Press, c.1910. 8vo, original cloth-backed wrappers, 26 pp., some worming;Chari, M. Viraraghava. The Mysore Representative Assembly and the Indian National Congress. A Dialogue. Madras: National Press, 1891. 8vo, 28 pp., disbound;and 2 othersNote: Note: No other copy traced for A Year of My Life in India; much of the work concerns Burdwan (now Bardhaman), West Bengal, other places visited including Calcutta, Jaipur, Barrackpore, and Baraset. Library Hub cites the British Library copy only for Hart-Davies's work, and the BL and Cambridge copies only for Nash's.

Paul, Sir James Balfour The Scots Peerage founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-14. First edition, 9 volumes (including index volume), 8vo, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, colour frontispiece of the royal arms of Scotland to volume 1, armorial plates, decorative initials throughout, bookplates of Kenneth Charles Corsar, occasional marginalia, spotting to outer leaves, spines a little darkened or otherwise discoloured;Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland, from the Reformation, A.D. 1560, to the Present Time. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1866-71. First edition, 3 volumes in 6, 4to, original cloth, worn and marked, volumes 5-6 ex-library with gilt stamps to spines, plates to front pastedowns and ink-stamps to title-pagesIdem. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae ... New Edition, revised and continued to the Present Time under the Superintendence of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1915-27. 7 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, volumes 1 and 5 without dust jackets, volume 2 dust jacket front panel near-detached;Brown, P. L. Clyde Company Papers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1952-77. Later edition of volume 1, first editions of remaining volumes, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, plates;and 1 other

Waring, J. B. Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 London: Day & Son, 1863. First edition, 3 volumes, folio (42 x 29cm), contemporary red half morocco, all edges gilt, 3 chromolithographic title-pages, 301 chromolithographic plates (numbered 1-300 300a), bindings rubbed and marked, occasional light spotting to contents

Markham, Gervase Hungers Prevention: or, the whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land London: for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison, 1655. Small 8vo (13 x 8cm), [16] 285 [1] pp., 20th-century calf by Riviere & Son, all edges gilt, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, closely trimmed along top and fore edges, many side-notes and a few headlines shaved, spotting to first and last few leaves, without final blank T8 (mentioned in Schwerdt but not in ESTC), custom slipcase [ESTC R12445; Schwerdt II p. 12; Wing M657]Note: Note: Second edition of the earliest English work on wildfowling, intended by the author especially for use by colonists in 'the blessed plantation of Virginia', and dedicated to Sir Edwin Sandys, founder of the Virginia Company. 'Like so many booklets which were easily portable and therefore exposed to wear, this work is not often met with' (Schwerdt). The first edition was published in 1621.