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Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt edges, frontispiece and text-illustrations, binding rubbed and marked, slightly shaken, lacking pp. 153-6, pp. 149-52 loose, occasional finger-soiling, marginal tear to pp. 133/4 old manuscript note tipped to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank. Together with 8 others including A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (first edition, 1928, original cloth, dust jacket), Winnie-the-Pooh, (second edition, 1926, original cloth, dust jacket, Now We Are Six (2 copies, second and third editions, both 1927, original cloth, third edition with dust jacket), When We Were Very Young (2 copies, thirteenth and sixteenth editions, 1926-7, original cloth, sixteenth edition with dust jacket)

Wilde, Oscar The Happy Prince and Other Tales London: David Nutt, 1888. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates and vignettes by Walter Crane, original pictorial paper-covered boards, some slight discolouration and soiling to covers, endpapers browned, section cut from frontispiece with note to front paste-down endpaper: "O.W.'s signature cut out", some evidence of Wilde's signature still remaining

Martin, John Illustrations for the Bible London: Charles Tilt, 1838. First edition, folio, 20 mezzotint plates, original cloth gilt rebacked, bookplate of Joseph Crawhall, some wear to cloth, foxing particularly affecting plate margins

[Defoe, Daniel] A Plan of the English Commerce London: Charles Rivington, 1728. First edition, 8vo, modern calf with banded spine and gilt tooling, endpapers renewed, a little internal soiling mainly to initial leaves [ESTC T70838]

Dickson, H. R. P. Kuwait and her Neighbours London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, photographic colour frontispiece, 15 halftone photographic plates, folding genealogical table, illustrations and maps in the text, 3 further genealogical tables, 1 plate and 4 maps all folding and loose in end-pocket as issued, dust jacket price-clipped, slightly dust-soiled on rear panel and with a few nicks and chips

Burton, Richard F. The Book of the Sword London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, large 8vo, xxxix 299 pp., original grey cloth, wood-engravings throughout, spine toned, light wear to spine-ends, a few marks to covers, tips bumped, spotting to endpapers, bookplate [Penzer pp. 107-8]

Architecture and Interiors Collection of works Valentini, Agostino. I Freschi delle Loggie Vaticane da Raffaele Sanzio... Rome, [n.d.] Folio, 41 plates, original boards;Roth, Alfred. La Nouvelle Architecture... Zurich, 1947. Third edition, oblong 4to, original cloth;Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret. Zurich, 1952-1957. 4 volumes, oblong 4to, original cloth, the first volume in fifth edition, the subsequent three in first or second;Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork. London: H. Greville Montgomery, 1925. Original green cloth gilt;Jourdain, M. English Interiors in Smaller Houses. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., [1923.] Original green cloth gilt;Hayden, Arthur. The Furniture Designs of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton. London: Gibbings and Company, Limited, 1910. Original cloth;Tarbuck, Edward Lance. The Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery. London: J. Hagger, [n.d.] 4to, contemporary half calf gilt;Traité de l'Horologie... Paris: Charles Moette..., 1741. 4to, plates (volume 2 only?);Marmottan, Paul. Le Style Empire... Paris: Chez F. Contet, 1925. Folio, volume 3 only;Koch, Alex. British Competitions in Architecture - Special Number - London County Council Hall, final competition. London: Academy Architecture, 1908. Folio, original boards with adverts;Large scrap album with laid-in views, mostly Italian, attributed to the antiquary and Anglican Bishop of Nottingham, Edward Trollope, c.1800, contemporary green half Morocco;and a quantity of others, sold not subject to return

Laking, Sir Guy Francis A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1920-22. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to, original beige cloth with red morocco spine-labels, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, halftone photographic illustrations throughout the text, photogravure frontispiece to volumes 1 and 2, each volume with the dust jacket, volume 1 dust jacket with tear to head of rear panel, volumes 2-5 covers mottled. [Together with the supplementary volume:] A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924 by Francis Henry Cripps-Day, London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1925, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, frontispiece, illustrations throughoutNote: Note: Rare in the dust jackets.

Glasgow Large collection of works Pagan, James (editor). Sketch of the History of Glasgow. Glasgow: Robert Stuart & Co., 1847. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, engraved additional title-page, folding map, 22 plates (on tinted ground);Idem. Glasgow, Past and Present: illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and in the Reminiscences and Communications of Senex, Aliquis, J. B., etc. Printed by private subscription. Glasgow: James Macnab [-David Robertson], 1851-6. First edition, 3 volumes in 2, 8vo, original green cloth, engraved frontispiece to volume 3;Marwick, Sir James D. The River Clyde and the Clyde Burghs, the City of Glasgow, and its Old Relations with Rutherglen, Renfrew, Paisley, Dumbarton, Port-Glasgow, Greenock, Rothesay and Irvine. Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1909. First edition, 4to, original cloth, photogravure portrait frontispiece;Ibid. Early Glasgow. A History of the City of Glasgow from the Earliest Times to the Year 1611. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1911. First edition, 4to, original cloth, halftone photographic plates;Renwick, Robert. Glasgow Memorials. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1908. First edition, one of 600 copies, 4to, original cloth, halftone photographic plates;Cruikshank, George (illustrator). Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs: being Sketches of Life in the Streets, Wynds, and Dens of the City. By Shadow. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, etched frontispieces (browned and damp-stained), free endpaper removed;[Rutherglen poet]. Hamely Echoes from an Auld Toun. By Hugh Muir. Glasgow: Aird and Coghill, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, all edges gilt, halftone photographic frontispiece and similar plates;Strang, John. Glasgow and its Clubs. London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1856. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf;Campbell, William. History of the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow. Glasgow: Robert Anderson, 1883. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Crawfurd, George. A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Trades' House of Glasgow. Glasgow: Bell and Bain, 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plate;Insch, George Pratt. Carmina Glottiana. Poems of Avondale and Clydeside. Edinburgh: Lindsay & Co., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Gibson, John. The History of Glasgow, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Glasgow: for the author, 1777. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, joints cracked, lacking map;and approx. 45 others, 19th and first half of the 20th century, including histories of Glasgow parishes, churches, trade organisations, and similar, mainly Glasgow-published, original cloth or wrappers

Rutter, John Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey [An Illustrated History and Description of Fonthill Abbey.] Shaftsbury, 1823. First edition, folio (37 x 30cm, larger than many copies), 14 plates including 3 hand-coloured aquatints and folding lithograph plan of the estate, 3 genealogical tables, original boards with later dark green morocco gilt spine, boards rubbed, joints loose

Mackenzie, Alexander Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country. London: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. First edition, 4to (25.6 x 20.5cm), [4] viii cxxxii 412 [2] pp., recent tree calf to style, smooth spine gilt in compartments, decorative gilt border to covers, marbled endpapers, edges dyed yellow, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, errata leaf, toning, intermittent stains and blemishes to text, maps backed on linen, each with short closed handling tears to inner folds and map of North America with longer tear to foot (all closed up), final map ('Track ... to the Pacific Ocean in 1793') with a few spots, quire d spotted, small spill-burns in o4, G3 and 3E4, r2 (final leaf of preface) chipped along fore edge, B1 (first leaf of main text) repaired and slightly shorter in fore margin (possibly supplied from another copy) [Howes M-133; Sabin 43414]Note: Note: Mackenzie's two journeys, undertaken from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on behalf of the fur-trading North West Company, added considerably to the geographical knowledge of the north-west Canadian interior. The first resolved the 'major misunderstanding' (ODNB) that what became known as the Mackenzie River led due west to the Pacific, rather than north to the Arctic Ocean; his second was 'the first journey across North America north of Mexico' (idem).

Crealock, Henry Hope Deer-Stalking in the Highlands of Scotland London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First edition, one of 255 copies, large 4to, original green pictorial cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 plates, tissue-guards, ownership inscriptions to initial blank and half-title, pale marks to covers, light spotting to prelims, occasional finger-soiling [Schwerdt I p. 124-5: 'the best book on Scotch deer-stalking as it is now practised'];Millais, John Guille. British Deer and their Horns. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1897. First edition, large 4to, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt, chromolithographic frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (spotted), marginal tissue-repairs to guards of a few plates;Idem. The Wildfowler in Scotland. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. First edition, 4to, original half japon, 21 plates, tissue-guards;Grimble, Augustus. Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1888. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, modern half cloth, 18 plates, half-title browned;Idem. Highland Sport. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1894. First edition, 4to, later quarter calf, edges untrimmed, 10 plates, spotting to text, stain to lower margins of quires 2H-2K, marginal tears to 2K1 and final leaf 2M2;and 1 other

Harvie-Brown, J. A. (editor) A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland, complete set, several volumes inscribed or with letters comprising: Sutherland, Caithness, and West Cromarty; Outer Hebrides; Iona and Mull; Orkney Islands; Argyll and the Inner Hebrides; Moray Basin; Shetland Islands; North-West Highlands and Skye; Tay Basin and Strathmore; Tweed Area; Forth. Edinburgh: David Douglas [-Oliver and Boyd], 1887-1935. First editions, 11 works in 12 volumes (Moray Basin in 2 volumes), 8vo, original green cloth, top edges gilt, numerous plates including pictorial title-pages, Iona and Mull with bookplate (Lumley Graham), Outer Hebrides inscribed 'Norman Maclachlan, May 4th 1889, subscriber's copy' on front free endpaper, Moray Basin inscribed 'To Sir Herbert Maxwell Bt M.P., with the Publisher's very kind regards, June 27th 1896', and containing 2 autograph letters and 2 autograph notes from Harvie-Brown to Maxwell (all signed or initialled, 1897-1904, on various natural history and ornithology matters including the growth of mistletoe on oak, the jay population in the south-west counties of Scotland, the salmon, etc., one of the notes on verso of printed compliments slip and apparently concerning fire damage to Harvie-Brown's home of Dunipace, Larbert; all housed in 2 envelopes mounted to endpapers), Shetland inscribed 'H. Saunders, with T. E. Buckley's compts', spines of 6 works sunned, Sutherland [etc.] spine with small tear to rear joint and fraying to head and foot, Outer Hebrides spine defective [Mullens & Swann p. 282, all volumes except Shetland, p. 199, and Tweed and Forth, not listed]. Together with 5 others, Scottish ornithology, comprising: George Sim, The Vertebrate Fauna of "Dee", Aberdeen, 1903, first edition, 8vo, original cloth; Robert Gray, The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1871, first edition, original pictorial cloth gilt; J. A. Harvie-Brown, The Capercaillie in Scotland, 1879, first edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, laid-in autograph letter from Scottish ornithologist James Bartholomew to Dr. I. D. Pennie; John Morell McWilliam, The Birds of the Firth of Clyde, 1936, first edition, original cloth, dust jacket; ibid. The Birds of the Island of Bute, 1927, first edition, original cloth Note: Note: '[Harvie-Brown's] contributions to ornithological science are literally legion ... His greatest work, however, and the one that will form an imperishable monument to his name, is the series of volumes on the vertebrate fauna of Scotland, most of which were written either by himself, or in collaboration with other ornithologists' (Mullens & Swann). The projected accounts of the Clyde and Solway areas do not seem to have materialised. Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845-1937), recipient of this copy of A Fauna of the Moray Basin, was a Conservative politician, noted author and authority on salmon fishing.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).

Joubert, Felix Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott Glasgow: [printed for private circulation by] David Robertson & Co., 1924. First edition, one of 100 copies only, signed in the introduction by R. L. Scott, 3 volumes, large folio (45.8 x 31cm), original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 107 tinted photogravure plates, bookplates (Michael Moad), vellum slightly soiled, volume 1 covers lightly scuffed, volumes 1 and 3 endpapers creased;The Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original MS in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. With Introduction and Notes by Viscount Dillon. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Large folio (49 x 32cm), original full japon gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 34 chromolithographic plates (2 folding), photographic plate, pale mottling to spine and rear board, spotting to blanksNote: Note: R. L. Scott (1871-1939) was chairman of his family's successful shipbuilding firm in Greenock from 1915 until his death, overseeing its production of cruisers, destroyers and submarines for the Royal Navy during the Great War the rearmament period. After his death his collection of armour was bequeathed to Glasgow Museums. 'The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and charts some of the most spectacular armour ever made. It is known as the Almain Armourers’ Album after the German armourers employed by Henry VIII from the early 16th century' (V&A).

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit First edition, first impression, one of 1500 copies, 8vo, original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and covers in blue, top edge dyed green, map endpapers printed in red and black, frontispiece ('The Hill: Hobbiton across the Water'), plate ('Mirkwood'), spine rolled, small area of cockling to head of front board, corners very slightly bumped, lower fore corner of rear board with cloth worn away, a few light finger-marks to margins [Hammond A3a]Note: Provenance: With the ownership inscription 'Betty Jean Orton, Xmas 1937' to the initial blank: this is the daughter of Harold Orton (1898-1975), English dialectologist and lexicographer remembered for his monumental Survey of English Dialects (1962-72).

Hay, John Views of Aberdeen First Series [all published]. Aberdeen: published by John Hay, 1840. First and only edition, folio, 6 tinted lithographic plates, with leaf of calligraphic lithographic text not mentioned in Abbey, all loose as issued in original buff printed paper wrappers, variable spotting [Abbey Scenery 496]Note: Note: Very rare: no other copies traces in auction records; one copy traced in libraries, at the University of Aberdeen.

Middle East and Arabia Four works Tamisier, Maurice. Voyage en Arabie. Séjour dans le Hedjad. Campagne d'Assir. Paris: Louis Desessart, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 12.8cm), [4] 399, [4] 402 pp., contemporary quarter sheep, half-titles, engraved folding map of the Hijaz, spines worn, spine of volume 1 with loss and repair, large section of leather on spine of volume 2 detached (now laid in), contents spotted [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2163]; [Firmin-Didot, Ambroise]. Notes d'un voyage fait dans le Levant en 1816 et 1817. Paris: Firmin Didot, [1826]. First edition, 8vo (20 x 11.8cm), [8] 403 pp., contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides and endpapers, joints cracked, top compartment of spine reattached, spotting to outer leaves and to margins [Blackmer 485; Cobham-Jeffery p. 67]; Buckingham, James Silk. Travels in Palestine, through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead ... including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition, 4to (29 x 22cm), xxv [3] 553 pp., uncut in original boards, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, 6 plans, plate of inscriptions, wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings, 4 advertisement leaves of different dimensions tipped to recto of frontispiece, contemporary bookplate of William Foster to front pastedown, front board detached, rear board reattached, spotting to map and plans, map loose; Lucas, Paul. Voyage au Levant. Nouvelle edition revue et corrigée. Paris: Nicolas Simart, 1714. 8vo (15.6 x 9cm), [24] 244 [2] 245-499 [3] pp., 10 engraved plates including natural history subjects and a view of Isfahan, engraved folding map of the Nile, loss to head of spine, light browning, folding map with adhesive staining from attempted tape-repair to closed tear Note: Note: Maurice Tamisier served as secretary to the medical officer of the expeditionary force sent by Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt to pacify the Hijaz in 1833-4. His work contains extensive accounts of Jeddah and Taif. Ambroise Firmin-Didot visited Greece, Constantinople and environs, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, modern-day Lebanon, Cyprus and Rhodes. According to Blackmer 'only a few copies' of his work were printed; a projected second part never appeared. Paul Lucas's Voyage au Levant was first published in 1704.Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile (gilt stamps to foot of spines; ownership inscriptions to half-titles or initial blanks).

Golden Cockerel Press Mabinogion A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. One of 550 copies, folio, original orange half morocco, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-page, full-page wood-engraved illustrations throughout, cloth sides slightly marked, small spot to limitation leaf. Together with 5 others: A. A. Milne, The Secret and Other Stories, New York: The Fountain Press, 1929, one of 742 copies signed by Milne on the half-title; ibid., When We Were Very Young, 1929, sixteenth edition, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1931, eleventh edition, Now We Are Six, 1927, second edition, all in original cloth; and Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 1889, first edition

Gunnery and field sports Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century, leather-bound Folkard, Henry Coleman. The Wild-Fowler: a Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild-Fowling, Historical and Practical. London: Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, 1859. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century crushed half morocco by Riviere and Son, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, 13 engraved plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, a few spots to plates;Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: for Longman [and others], 1833. Seventh edition ('corrected, enlarged, and improved'), 8vo, modern brown crushed full morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges untrimmed, half-title, 8 engraved plates, wood-engravings in text, plates spotted;Greener, William. Gunnery in 1858: being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, modern tan calf, 5 engraved plates, War Office ink-stamps, frontispiece spotted and offset;Gerrare, Wirt [pseudonym of William Greener?]. A Bibliography of Guns and Shooting. London: Roxburghe Press, c.1896. First edition, 8vo, modern half morocco;Kincaid, J. Random Shots from a Rifleman. London: T. and W. Boone, 1835. First edition, 8vo, modern tan calf, 4 pp. advertisements, military bookplate and related ownership inscription to front free endpaper;Demmin, Auguste. An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour. London: George Bells & Sons, 1877. First edition in English, 8vo, modern morocco, half-title;Patent Office. Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Fire-Arms and Other Weapons, Ammunition, and Accoutrements. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1859. 8vo, 20th-century dark blue crushed half morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere);Deane, John. Deanes' Manual of the History and Science of Fire-Arms. London: Longman [and others], 1858. First edition, 8vo, modern green leatherette, 3 folding plates (of ?), browning, gift inscription to retained front free endpaper;[Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury]. Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to their forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country. By a Corporal of Rilfemen. London: for T. Egerton, 1808. First edition, 8vo, recent blue half sheep, 13 engraved plates (a few hand-coloured), extra-illustrated with additional target plate facing p. 119 (in pen and ink with watercolour) and a letterpress bill containing the rules and regulations for the Acrotormentarian Society dated 1810 tipped in at rear (tape-repaired), errata leaf, edges untrimmed, spotting and staining, lacking text-leaf G2;Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys. London: John van Voorst, 1886. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked and recornered, lacking final plate;and 4 others (Holley, A Treatise on Ordnance and Amor, 1865, lacking pp. xv/xvi, spine mislettered; Forsyth, The Sporting Rifle, 1867; Busk, Hand-Book for Hythe, 1860; Busk, The Rifle and how to use it, 1859), the lot collated with regard to plates onlyNote: Note: Library Hub cites four copies only for Beaufoy's work.

Freud, Sigmund The Ego and the Id The London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition, 4to, contemporary quarter morocco, 88 pp., ex-library with related ink-stamps and labels, many leaves reinforced in gutter, several corners dog-eared, various nicks, marks and other blemishes;Burton, Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, 4to, modern library cloth, 299 pp., ex-library with labels to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, annotations to verso of title-page, blind-stamps to upper outer corners of text-leaves, magnetic label to margin of p. 243;Occult. The Book of Destiny and the Art of Reading Therein. By Grand Orient. London: William Rider & Son, Ltd., 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, folding frontispiece showing 'The Wheel of Wisdom', ink-stamped 'presentation copy' on half-title and title-page, front free endpaper excised;Idem. Absolute Key to Occult Science. The Tarot of the Bohemians. The Most Ancient Book in the World. For the Use of Initiates. By Papus ... Second Edition Revised, with Preface by A. E. Waite. London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1910. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, ex-library, front inner hinge gone, rear inner hinge cracked

Gray, Alasdair 18 signed works, including Lanark Gray, Alasdair. Lanark. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1981. First edition, signed and inscribed: “To Juliet from ----- via Alasdair 20 August 1991 Edinburgh”, dust-jacket not price-clipped;Idem. 1982 Janine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. First edition, signed, dust-jacket not price-clipped;Saunders, Donald - Alasdair Gray. The Glasgow Diary. Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 1984. First edition, dust-jacket price-clipped, signed by Gray;Idem. The Fall of Kelvin Walker. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985. First edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped, inscribed and signed 'Alasdair'; and another copy, signed ‘Alasdair Gray’;Idem. Old Negatives. four verse sequences. London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First edition, signed and numbered 220/500, with loose errata note, dust-jacket not price-clipped; and another copy, 276/500; and a paperback copy, signed;Idem. McGrotty and Ludmilla. Glasgow: Dog and Bone, 1990. First edition, paperback, inscribed and signed 'Alasdair';Idem. Poor Things. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. First edition, signed, dust-jacket not price-clipped;Idem. Ten Tales Tall & True. London: Bloomsbury, 1993. First edition, signed, dust-jacket not price-clipped;Idem. Mavis Belfrage. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and inscribed “To Scott, with thanks for helping to make this the least defective of our efforts…”; and another copy, unsigned;Idem. Working Legs. Glasgow: Dog and Bone, 1997. First edition, paperback, inscribed and signed 'Alasdair';McCulloch, Ian – Alasdair Gray. The Artist in his World. Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing, 1998. 4to, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed in pencil;Gray, Alasdair. The Book of Prefaces. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000. First edition signed, dust-jacket not price-clipped;Moores, Phil, editor - Alasdair Gray. Alasdair Gray Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography... Boston Spa: The British Library, 2002. First edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and numbered 3/100; and another copy, signed and inscribed;Gray, Alasdair. The Ends of our Tethers. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2003. First edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and inscribed

Lucian Freud OM CH (1922-2011) - dust jacket design Paul among the Jews by Franz Werfel, translated by Paul Levertoff. London: Grey Walls Press, 1943. First trade edition in English, 8vo, original red cloth, with the lithographic dust jacket designed by Lucian Freud, spine of binding rolled, endpapers marked and with pencilled ownership inscription, dust jacket spotted and chippedNote: Note: An early and little-known example of Freud's work.

Bindings A large collection of bound literature Spenser, Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. A new edition... London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 2 volumes, 4to, later quarter calf with red Morocco gilt labels to spines; Goldsmith, Oliver. An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. London: J. Nourse, 1774. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Pope, Alexander. Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, by several Hands... London: Bernard Lintot, 1722. Fourth edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary panelled calf; Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]. Romola. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First edition in book form, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, some rubbing, without adverts; The Spectator. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, [n.d.] 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf;Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. Edinburgh: W. Darling, 1780. 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with modern spines; Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: F.J. du Roveray, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced calf rebacked with modern spine, volume 1 title page with section cut from the top; Cross, J.W. George Eliot's Life... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt;Beccaria, Cesare. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments... London: F. Newbery, 1769. Second edition, 8vo, quarter calf;L'Art D'Aimer... London, 1759. 8vo, hand-coloured title-page, contemporary calf gilt;Drummond, William. The History of Scotland, From the Year 1423, to the Year 1542. Glasgow: R. Urie, 1749. 8vo, contemporary calf;Thackeray, W.M. The Virginians. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary straight-grained half morocco gilt;Mrs. Sherwood. History of the Fairchild Family. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed;The Gentleman's Library, containing Rules for Conduct in all Parts of Life. London: E.P. Meare, 1715. 12mo, contemporary calf;Segneri, Paolo, Padre. Opere. Venice: Baglioni, 1773. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary vellum;and 102 others, mostly leather bound, sold not subject to return

Calvin, John Institutio Christiani religionis Geneva: Jacob Stoer, 1618. 8vo, later half sheep, marbled sides, refurbished, occasional light worming;Beza, Theodore. Tractatio de polygamia. [Bound with:] Tractatio de repudiis et divortiis. Deventer: Johannis Columbii, 1650-1. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, Polygamia sig. B loose at foot, sig. K spotted;Erskine, Ralph, minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline. [Volume of pamphlet sermons, comprising:] Glad Tidings in Sad Times ... a Sermon on Psalm xlvi 4, preached in Annandale, Edinburgh: for David Duncan, 1739, first edition [ESTC T162752: 2 copies only, both at Glasgow]; The River of Life, proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb, a Sermon preached ... at Dunfermline, Edinburgh: for James Beugo, 1736, first edition, [not in ESTC, which records editions of 1737 and 1778 only]; The Sum of the Gospel, or God in Christ, a Sermon preached ... in Dunfermline, Edinburgh: for David Duncan, 1738 [ESTC T192728: 2 copies]; The Promising God, a Performing God, a Sermon preach'd on a Thanksgiving-Day after the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, at Abbot's Hall, Edinburgh: for James Graham, 1737 [ESTC T83312: 3 copies]; God's Gret Name, the Ground and Reason of his saving Great Sinners, a Sermon preach'd at Carnock, Edinburgh: for David Duncan, 1737 [ESTC T76477: 5 copies]; Dark Providences clear'd in due Time, being a Sermon upon John xiii. 7. preach'd at Dunfermline, Edinburgh: for David Duncan, 1737 [ESTC T63252: 3 copies]; and another sermon by William Wilson, minister of the Gospel at Perth;Burnet, Gilbert. A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland. Glasgow: Robert Sanders, 1673. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled sheep, bookplate of the earls of Hopetoun, recent spine-label, old repair to front free endpaper [ESTC R206010];and 6 others, theology and religion (not collated), including Vetus Testamentum ex versione Septuagint interpretum, Utrecht, 1725 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spines), and similar

Illustrated children's books A collection Barrie, J.M. Peter and Wendy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 8vo, first American Edition (simultaneous with first UK edition), original green cloth, 12 plates (incl. frontispiece), inscription to free endpaper;Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. 8vo, original blue cloth; Dahl, Roald. Danny The Champion of the World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, owner's inscription to free endpaper; Idem. Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 8vo, original boards, dust jacket; and 7 further works by Dahl:Peake, Mervyn (illustrator). The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll. London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. 8vo, first edition, original illustrated boards;Idem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Zodiac Books, 1949. 8vo, first edition, original illustrated boards, some foxing and 2 small tears to spine; Idem. Witchcraft in England by Christina Hole. London: B.T. Batsford, 1945. First edition, second impression, original cloth faded, dustwrapper with tear and small area of loss; and 13 further titles illustrated by Peake;Searle, Ronald (author and illustrator). The Rake's Progress. London: Perpetua, 1955. First edition, second impression, original black cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped; and 10 further titles illustrated by Searle;Hughes, Ted. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1963. First edition, original blue cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped; with 16 further works by the author; and approx. 30 poetry books including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Edith Sitwell; together with further children's books illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and similar

Travel and topography Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Parboni, Achille. Nuova raccolta della principali vedute antiche, e moderne dell'alma citta di Roma et sue vicinanze. Rome: Giacomo Antonelli, 1824. Oblong 8vo, contemporary half morocco, engraved title-page, 99 engraved plates, spotting to front and rear;Parnell, Richard. The Natural History of the Fishes of the Firth of Forth and Tributaries. Private Copy. Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1838. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed for 'John Stark Esr, with the compliments of the author' on the title-page, 8vo, original purple cloth, 28 etched plates numbered 18-44 (including 33 bis);Sale, Lady Florentia. A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, large 12mo, contemporary calf, 2 lithographic maps (one folding), binding rubbed, old Kelso United Library plate to front pastedown, related inscription to title-page, folding map with loss of one section, laid down, and with splitting along one fold, various chips and tears to text-leaves;Douglas, Francis. A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland from Edinburgh to Cullen. Paisley: printed for the author, 1782. 12mo, 19th-century green half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, front inner hinge cracked, head of title-page repaired;Pyne, James Baker. Lake Scenery of England. London: Day & Son, c.1860. 4to, original purple cloth gilt, 25 tinted lithographic plates including vignette title-page, gutta percha perishing;and 8 others (these not collated): John Leighton, Scenes in Scotland, 1831, contemporary green calf, engraved plates; G. R. Gleig, The Campaigns of the British Army, Fourth Edition [bound with:] Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan, New Edition, 1836-61, 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary half calf; James Jackson Jarvis, Parisian Sights and French Principles, 1853, contemporary half calf; Alphonse de Lamartine, Visit to the Holy Land, c.1840, 2 volumes, contemporary half calf by William Muir of Hamilton, engraved plates; J. Goldsmith, Geography on a Popular Plan ... Sixth Edition, 1811, contemporary tree sheep, engraved maps and plates (many folding); J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, 1860, 4 volumes, contemporary red half morocco gilt; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 1854, contemporary marbled half calf; Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac, 1848, contemporary red roan gilt

Ornithology Large collection of works from the library of Dr I. D. Pennie Bannerman, David Armitage. Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963-8. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, numerous colour plates, dust jackets, with 3 autograph letters signed from Bannerman to Dr I. D. Pennie, a press photograph of Bannerman and Pennie, and a carbon typescript of Pennie's review of the work, all laid in, the letters concerning the publication and Pennie's review of the work, Scottish Ornithologists' Club committee matters, etc., fading to blue dye on top edges of textblocks, volume 1 dust jacket repaired, volume 4 dust jacket with abrasion to spine-panel;Harvie-Brown, J. A. Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, plates and maps, with 2 autograph letters signed from J. A. Harvie-Brown to one Mr Parkin (evidently the oologist Thomas Parkin, 1845-1932, the letters concerning zoological specimens, ornithology libraries e.g. 'Mullens must have a finely "grangerized" library ...', etc.), and an autograph letter signed from Edward R. Alston (1845-1881), Scottish zoologist, all laid in;Mullens, W. H., & H. Kirke Swann. A Bibliography of British Ornithology, from the Earliest Times to 1912. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, with an autograph letter signed from W. H. Mullens laid in ('I have discovered several small points of interest since the Bibliography was published and these shall be forwarded to you in due course ...'), spine sunned;Mullens, W. H., H. Kirke Swann, & F. C. R. Jourdain. A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology. London: Witherby & Co., 1919-20. First edition, 6 original parts as issued, 8vo, original wrappers, largely unopened, together with the supplement volume, 1923, 8vo, original wrappers;Baxter, Evelyn V., & Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. The Birds of Scotland. Their History, Distribution, and Migration. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, plates, with 2 autograph letters signed to Dr I. D. Pennie, one from Rintoul (dated 1951, 'We are most grateful to you for all the notes you have us from Tongue & shall look forward to hearing from Golspie where we hope you will be very happy', additionally signed by Baxter), one from Baxter (dated 1953, thanking Pennie for his condolences on the death of Rintoul);Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E. H. A History of British Mammals. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910. First edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo, later half morocco by Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen, plates;[Peregrine Books]. Bird Life in the Far North. E. S. Steward F.R.C.S. M.B.O.U. (1873-1954). Leeds: privately printed by J. Whitaker, 1994. One of 100 copies only, 8vo, original boards;Hancock, John. A Catalogue of the Birds of Northumberland and Durham. London: Williams and Norgate, 1874. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 14 photogravure plates;Macpherson, H. A. A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire north of the Sands. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, plates, spine faded;Gätke, Heinrich. Heligoland as an Ornithological Observatory. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895. First edition in English, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt;Meinertzhagen, Richard. Pirates and Predators. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, plates;and some 30 others similarNote: 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).

Warwickshire Large collection of local, regimental and family histories, 19th and early 20th century Bedford, W. K. Riland. Three Hundred Years of a Family Living, being a History of the Rilands of Sutton Coldfield. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1889. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 50 copies signed on behalf of the printer (Wright Dain Peyton & Co.), 4to, original quarter japon;Idem. History of Sutton Coldfield. Birmingham: The Times Printing Co., 1891. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Kemp, Thomas (editor). The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: Henry T. Cooke and Son, 1898. First edition, deluxe issue (no limitation stated), 4to, original quarter japon, bookplate of John Tricks Spalding (noted collector of British topographical books, 1844-1924), ownership inscription;Idem. The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: Henry T. Cooke and Son, 1898. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original cloth, inscribed 'with the editor's love' on the front free endpaper;Adderley, Henry Arden. History of the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Warwick: W. H. Smith & Son, 1912. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 36 signed by the author, 4to, original cloth, binding sunned and mottled, splitting to joints;Bickley, W. B. Pedigree of the Bolding Family of Warwickshire. Birmingham: for private circulation, 1898. 8vo, original red crushed morocco gilt over bevelled boards, folding letterpress pedigree, appendix loose in end-pocket;Hervey, Sydney Henry Augustus. Ladbroke and its Owners. Bury St Edmunds: Paul & Mathew, 1914. First edition, 4to, original red cloth;Morris, Henry. Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church and Hall. London: Art and Book Company, 1897. First edition, 4to, original cloth, sunned;Badger, E. W. The Monumental Brasses of Warwickshire. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1895. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 100, 8vo, original quarter japon;Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (formerly the Sixth Foot), London: "County Life," Ltd., [1923]. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original japon gilt;Bloom, J. Harvey. A History of Preston-upon-Stour. Hemsworth: C. E. Turner, 1896. First edition, one of 25 copies, 8vo, later cloth, edges untrimmed;Hart, Charles J. The History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and its Predecessors. Birmingham: Midland Counties Herald Limited, 1906. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, front free endpaper excised;Rimmer, Alfred. Rambles round Rugby. London: Percival & Co., 1892. First edition, one of 750 copies, 4to, original cloth;Cooper, William. The Records of Beaudesert, Henley-in-Arden, Co. Warwick. Leeds: John Whitehead & Co Ltd, 1931. First edition, 4to, original cloth, inscribed by the author on slip mounted to front free endpaper, occasional marginalia;Idem. Wootton Wawen, its History and Records. Leeds: John Whitehead & Son Ltd., 1936. First edition, 4to, original cloth;Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche. Rugby. The School and Neighbourhood. London: Whittaker & Co., 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Wellstood, Frederick C. Records of the Manor of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. Transcribed and edited from the Original Manuscripts for William John Fieldhouse. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1919. First edition, one of 105 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth, wear to spine, presentation plate inscribed to Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926), editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, bequeathed by him to Queen Mary College, University of London and subsequently withdrawn, with related labels and stamps, wear to spine;Hudson, Robert. Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish. Being Papers mainly descriptive of the Records and Registers of the Parish of Lapworth. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. First edition, one of 250 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, label and withdrawal stamp of Yorkshire Archaeological Society to front pastedown;Miller, George. Rambles round Edge Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse. Banbury: William Potts, 1896, First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Hannett, John. The Forest of Arden, its Towns, Villages, and Hamlets. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1863. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt;Bill, C. A. The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Armstrong, Charles M. C. A Short Guide to Sherbourne and the Parish Church of All Saints. [No place:] privately printed, 1948. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by the author;and 10 others similar, most works with plates, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen

Biblical and Near Eastern languages Collection of works Robertson, James. Grammatica Linguae Hebraeae. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1758. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC T99741];Sykes, Sir Percy. A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, including 3 folding maps loose in end-pockets as issued, ink-stamps of the Midland Bank directors' library to front free endpapers;Cureton, William. Remains of a Very Antient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe, London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked with endpapers renewed, lithographic frontispiece, Syriac text, partly unopened;Lewis, Agnes Smith. Some Pages of the Four Gospels re-transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest, with a Translation of the Whole Text. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1896. First edition, 4to, original cloth, photographic frontispiece, Syriac text, partly unopened, wear to joints and spine, covers sunned and cockled;Lewis, Agnes Smith, & Margaret Dunlop Gibson. The Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels. Re-edited from two Sinai MSS. and from P. de Lagarde's Edition of the "Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum". London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1899. First edition, 4to, original cloth, Syriac text, photographic plate;Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. An Arabic Version of the Epistles of St Paul to the Ephesians from a Ninth Century MS. in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1894. First edition, 4to, later quarter cloth;Davidson, Samuel. An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical, and Theological. London: Williams and Norgate, 1862-3. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, mottling to covers;Freytag, G. W. Lexicon Arabico-Latinum ex opere suo majore in usum Tironum excerptum. Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, 1837. 4to, later quarter cloth;and 8 others, on Ethiopic, Assyrian, the Hittites, etc.

Langley, Batty and Thomas Gothic Architecture improved by Rules and Proportions. In many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonades [sic], Porticos, Umbrelos, Temples, and Pavillions etc. London: for John Millan, 1747. 4to (29.7 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf gilt, engraved title-page, 2 pp. letterpress (headed 'On the Ancient Buildings in this Kingdom'; often lacking), 64 engraved plates, binding rubbed, spine-label perished, superficial cracking to joints in places [ESTC T132230; Harris 410]Note: Note: First edition, second issue, with a new title-page but retaining the plates from the first issue of 1741-2, which was published under the less explicit title Ancient Architecture, Restored, and Improved. 'An exceptional and original work, it was a pioneering attempt to give Gothic architecture the classical respectability of orders, motivated, as usual, by his interest in English freemasonry and handsomely engraved by his brother Thomas. Its novelty and light-hearted inventiveness, although scoffed at by amateur gothicists such as Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray, were just what many country squires wanted, prompting other architectural writers—William Halfpenny, T. C. Overton, and William Pain in particular—to follow Langley's lead' (ODNB).

New Naturalist Numbers 78-83 British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild and Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists; The Natural History of Pollination. London: HarperCollins, 1992-6. 6 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, jacket spines variably faded [Bernhard & Loe NN78A-83A], together with a second edition of number 82 (The New Naturalists), 2005 Note: Note: First editions of numbers 78-83 in the New Naturalist series, each respectively one of 1601, 1401, 1404, 1400, 1489 and 1472 copies printed. The copy of The New Naturalists (number 82) contains an autograph letter signed from the author Peter Marren to Dr I. D. Pennie dated 1995 and concerning the non-inclusion of Seton Gordon's The Golden Eagle in the New Naturalist Monographs series.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).

Yeats, William Butler The Trembling of the Veil London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1922. First edition, 8vo, number 269 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Yeats, frontispiece portrait, original quarter Japanese vellum over blue paper-covered boards, dust-jacket with some chips and repairs, some spotting to covers, pencil notes to half-title

Irish Gaelic printing The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer [Irish title: An teagasg Críosduidhe]. Paris: James Guerin, 1742. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree sheep (lacking front board), liv 513 pp., parallel text and title-pages in Irish and English, small ink-stain to foot of title-pages, damp-staining to quires R, S and X [ESTC T97298];Mignan, Robert. Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, performed on Foot in 1827. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. First edition, 8vo, xvi 333 [3] pp., advertisement leaf, contemporary purple diced calf gilt, 2 folding maps, 7 aquatint plates [Atabey 908];Hartshorne, Anna C. Japan and her People. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 50 photographic plates, folding map, bookplates;and 5 othersNote: Note: This Irish catechism, written by the Roman Catholic priest Andrew Donlevy (1680-1746), is 'the most complete formal text in Irish for [its] period and draws on the author's spoken Irish' (ODNB).

Montaigne, Michel de The Essayes or Morall, Politike, and Militarie Discourses. London: M[iles] Flesher, for Richard Royston, 1632. Third edition in English, folio (27.5 x 18cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, engraved additional title-page, binding rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down (later label, probably 18th century), endpapers renewed, engraved title chipped along top edge and extended along fore margin, 18th-century ownership inscription to letterpress title-page, toning, occasional blemishes and marks [STC 18043]Note: Note: John Florio's translation of Montaigne's essays, the first into English, was originally published in 1603. It was 'one of the great translations of the Elizabethan age ... [and] a source of inspiration for such as Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Webster, and Shakespeare' (ODNB).

Field sports and gunnery Collection of 19th century treatises in original cloth Greener, William. The Science of Gunnery, as applied to the Use and Construction of Fire Arms. London: Longman and Co., 1841. First edition, 8vo, original blind-stamped red cloth, edges untrimmed, advertisement leaf, half-title, engraved additional title-page, 8 engraved plates including frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings and illustrations in text, spine rolled, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page [Chute 250];Greener, William Wellington. Choke-Bore Guns, and How to Load for all Kinds of Game. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1876]. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 4 folding plates of which 2 in end-pockets, 2 folding tables, bookplate and ownership inscription (Atkin-Roberts, Glassenbury), trade label of Theophilus Murcott, manufacturer of breech loading guns and rifles to front pastedown, fraying to head of spine, inner hinges cracked, a little spotting [not in Chute];Idem. Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [1871]. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, folding table (short closed tear, spotting), fraying to spine-ends, trade plate to front pastedown;Lacy, [Richard]. The Modern Shooter; containing Practical Instructions and Directions for Every Description of Inland and Coast Shooting. London: Whittaker and Co., 1842. First edition, 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, steel-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette title-page, 3 similar plates, bookplate and ownership inscription of Francis Alvey Rhodes Darwin, spine-ends worn, inner hinges strengthened, annotations to front free endpaper, abraded ownership inscription to vignette title-page [Chute 377];Walsh, J. H. The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle; including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles, and Revolvers. London: Horace Cox, 1882-4. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, profuse wood-engraved illustrations (as plates and to the text, several plates folding) [Chute 654: 'The most detailed and up to date description of the guns used for sporting since Greener's Gunnery in 1858'];Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. Letters to Young Shooters (First [-Second, Third] Series) on the Choice and Use of Gun, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First, second and first editions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, frontispiece to volume 2, 37 plates to volume 3;Idem. The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, Author of 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' 1802-1853. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, 10 engraved plates, bookplates;Winans, Walter. Shooting for Ladies. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece, full-page illustrations in text, fraying to head of spine, faint mottling to cloth [Library Hub traces 4 copies in UK libraries];and 9 others similar

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century [Indian convict autobiography] Muhammad Jaffer Thanesari (1838-1905). Tawarikh-i 'Ajib ['Wonderful Stories']. [Place illegible:] Temple Press, 1307 AH [1889/90 CE]. 8vo (24.5 x 15cm), recent half leather, in Urdu (except testimonials in English to verso of title-page), lithographed throughout, [2] 100 pp., map of Port Blair in text (p. 66), browning, tissue-repairs to title-page, worming to head and foot of last few leaves similarly repaired, light marginal worming;Mawlawi Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Aghlab Muhani. Nayrang-i Afghan ['The Charm of the Afghans']. Lucknow: Matba' Sham Oudh, 1904. First edition, 8vo (24 x 14cm), recent half leather, in Urdu, lithographed throughout, [2] 4 8 64 344 5 pp., 2 albumen-print photographic portraits of Abd al-Rahman Khan and Habibullah Khan mounted to leaf after title-page, variable browning, corner of pp. 23/4 detached, closed tear in pp. 225/6;Mawlawi Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Haqq. History of Palestine. [Urdu title:] Tarikh Bayt al-Muqaddas. Delhi: Mujtabai Press, 1891. 8vo (23.2 x 14cm), recent half leather, in Urdu, lithographed throughout, [2] 40 pp., 3 plates, marginal repair to title-page, small closed tear in final plate;and 6 others, including Mirza Muhammad Jalal al-Din Tabataba'i, Tawqi'at Kisra, Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, c.1858 (Persian literature) and similarNote: Note: Muhammad Jaffer Thanesari was a Wahhabi Muslim activist arrested in 1863 for conspiring to smuggle funds to anti-British mujahideen in Afghanistan. From 1866 to 1883 he was a prisoner at the Port Blair penal colony in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tawarikh-i 'Ajib, an account of his time in prison, is also known under the title Kala Pani. Printed on the verso of the title-page is a testimonial in English from Richard Carnac Temple as cantonment magistrate, Ambala: 'I have known Muhammad Jafir to 10 years, first as a munshi at Port Blair and then as an employe [sic] here under me, whatever may have been his shortcoming in days gone by he seems to have profited by this severe punishment that overtook him and has been as long as I have known him a quiet, inoffensive man [...]'. A date in the colophon suggests that the work may have first been printed in 1887. The second work, Nayrang-i Afghan, appears to be a history of Afghanistan; the author's other works according to a note on the title-page include works on Russia (Kitab-i Rus) and the Islamic schools of law (Haqa'iq-i Madhahib).

Rare Oxfordshire poetry Original Rhymes by T. S. Allen Bampton: printed and sold for the author, by W. Holloway and Sons, 1826. First and only edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the initial blank, 8vo (17.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue straight-grain calf gilt, [4] ii [2] 78 [2] pp., p. 62 with additional autograph stanza by the author, spine sunned, worn at head.Together with 5 manuscript items, comprising: 1) Notebook including 'An Adventure with the "Press-gang" in Shetland in 1805, narrated verbatim by the Rev. Sinclair Thomson of Dunrossness, one of the principal actors, Edinburgh, 17 Septr 1862', 'Tacitus on Orkney and Shetland', 'Rosslyn, a Commemoration Sketch', 'To the editor of the Shetland Advertiser', verse, notes on classical authors, etc., 8vo, contemporary quarter skiver; 2) Manuscript hymn-book, 1805, containing words and scores, oblong 8vo, contemporary red roan gilt, watercolour vignette title-page, approx. 16 ff.; 3) Early-18th-century Scottish manuscript including 'The Scot Litany' and other poems, 6 ff.; 4 & 5) Two early-20th-century autograph/friendship albumsNote: Note: Two institutional copies traced (British Library and Bodleian). Contents include 'The Cambrian Excursion' and 'On Hearing the Nightingale, in a Thicket, near Black Bourton, Oxon'.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, signed by Rowling London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, signed by the author on the dedication page, textblock slightly toned as usual

Burns, Robert Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) edition with with 'skinking' on p.263, and 'Boxburgh' for Roxburgh on p.xxxvii, half-title, portrait, 19th century green morocco gilt, a few leaves with a little dampstaining to upper margins, some light scattered foxing, two small repairs to inner margins of tile and A3, neat 20th century ownership inscription to flyleaf [ESTC T125274]

Wilde, Oscar - "C.3.3." The Ballad of Reading Gaol London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition, 8vo, one of 800 copies on hand-made paper (a further 30 were on Japanese vellum), original cloth, covers slightly foxed, some darkening to endpapers

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, hardback issue, 8vo, 251 pp., original boards, dust jacket, textblock toned as usual, ownership inscription to front pastedown, dust jacket covered with clear self-adhesive laminate and consequently stuck to pastedowns, jacket spine panel faded [Errington A2a]

Hexham, Henry The ... Principles of the Art Military ... The Second Edition newly corrected and amended. [In 4 parts, comprising:]i) The First Part of the Principles of the Art Military, practised in the Warres of the United Netherlands, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange our Captaine Generall. For so much as concerned the Duties of a Souldier, and the Officers of a Companie of Foote, as also of a troupe of Horse, and the exercising of them through their severall Motions. Delft: for the lovers of the noble art military, 1642. Engraved volvelles at ²F1r. (partly pasted down as in ESTC), K1v. (slightly rumpled at inner corner), and K2r. (detached but present), engravings throughout the text (many full-page), early ownership inscription of one Henry Osborn to title-page, leaf A1 repaired, quire ²A⁶ ('Briefe Instructions of the Duties of a Horseman') bound at end of part 2[Cockle 136; ESTC R11968, 11 copies world-wide];ii) The Second Part of the Principles of the Art Military ... Consisting of the Severall Formes of Battels, Represented by the Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange ... and His Highnesse Frederick Henry Prince of Orange ... Together with the Order and Forme of Quartering, Encamping, and Approching, in a Warre Offensive and Defensive.Delft: [no printer], 1642.20 engraved plates (all but 2 double-page, several by Hondius), very small worm-track to foot of quires I-N, associated pinhole-sized tracks to foot of a few plates[Cockle 163, with Antony of Heusden imprint; ESTC R234005, 1 one copy only, at Christ Church Oxford, and 9 copies for the Antony of Heusden imprint];iii) The Third Part of the Principles of the Art Military .... Treating of severall Peeces of Ordnance, Carriages, Engines, Quadrants, Morters, Petards, as also Instructions for Master-Gunners, and Canoniers, with Divers Instruments and Materials belonging to a Warre with their severall Uses and Practices.Rotterdam: James Moxon, 1643.3 engraved plates lettered A-C (A double-page, closely trimmed along top edge), engravings in text, I2 and M2 cancelled as usual[Cockle 164; ESTC R26057, 8 copies];iv) An Appendix of the Lawes, Articles, and Ordinances, established for Marshall Discipline, in the Service of the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange. Together with the Articles of Quarter for the Ransoming of Officiers and Souldiers ... Translated out of Dutch into English.The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn, 1643.C1-2 transposed and misbound between B1 and B2[Cockle 137; ESTC R231620, 7 copies].4 parts in 1 volume, folio (35 x 21.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in blind, rebacked, collations as in ESTCNote: Note: Second edition of an acknowledged 'tour de force of English military literature and a veritable catalogue of the Dutch contributions to the transformation of warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries' (David Lawrence, The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 2009, p. 104). Henry Hexham was an English soldier who served in the Netherlands during the climactic decades of the Eighty Years' War, acting as quartermaster to Sir Horace Vere's regiment at the relief of Breda in 1625, the siege of Bois-le-Duc ('s-Hertogenbosch) in 1629, and at the capture of Venloo, Roermond and Strale and the siege of Maastricht in 1631-2. 'After Vere's death he became quartermaster to the regiment of George (afterwards Baron) Goring, with whom he served at the siege of Breda in 1637' (ODNB). The first three parts of the work were respectively published in 1637-38-40, and the appendix also in 1637.

Field sports Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Page, Thomas. The Art of Shooting Flying: familiarly explain'd by way of Dialogue. Containing Directions for the Choice of Guns for Various Occasions [...]. Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, 1766. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter calf, spotting, B4 repaired [Chute 493; ESTC T201535; Schwerdt II p. 58];Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: Longman [et al.], 1824. Third edition ('considerably enlarged and improved'), tall 8vo, modern full morocco, top edge gilt, half-title, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates (one hand-coloured), [Schwerdt I p. 235: the 'most complete edition'];Daniel, William Barker. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1812. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf decorated in gilt and blind, engraved title-page to each volume, 68 engraved plates (several folding), title-pages spotted, bookplates, front board of volume 2 detached;[Clement, Lewis]. Shooting and Fishing Trips in England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco by J. Larkins, thematic motifs gilt to spines, spines faded, spotting to blanks and half-titles;[Sportsman's Dictionary]. The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in all Rural Recreations: with full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. London: J. Osborn, 1744. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 25 engraved plates (of 26: lacking frontispiece), unnumbered plate facing quire Z torn, plates 9 and 22 repaired [ESTC N23268];Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, first issue (retaining 2E4-2F2, i.e. pp. 215-220), 4to, contemporary half calf rebacked, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1 engraved plate (of 2), 3 folding tables, half-title discarded, text spotted and browned, closed tear in 2Z2 [Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];and 2 othersNote: Note: The Art of Shooting Flying by Norwich watch and gun maker Thomas Page is 'the first book in prose solely on shooting ... Very rare' (Chute); ESTC cites three copies only in libraries world-wide: Oxford, Library of Congress, and Yale.

Scotland Large collection of works on topography and local history Wilson, Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, c.1840. 2 volumes, 4to, original green cloth gilt, folding map frontispiece, numerous engraved plates;St John, Charles. A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. London: John Murray, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 10 engraved plates, wear to spine-ends, tissue-guard for frontispiece of volume 1 removed;Mackenzie, Colin. Storm and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece (pencil-marking to tissue-guard), rubbing to extremities, half-title inscribed in pencil 'Emma A. P. Dawson, from Mrs Colin Mackenzie, 1884', albumen print mounted to verso;Craig, R. S., & Adam Laing. The Hawick Tradition of 1514. Hawick: W. & J. Kennedy, 1898. First edition, 4to, original red cloth, frontispiece, folding map to rear, damp-stain to front board and concomitant bleeding of dye into margins of prelims;Batten, Edmund Chisholm. The Charters of the Priory of Beauly. [Edinburgh]: for the Grampian Club, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Penney, John. A Topographical and Historical Account of Linlithgowshire. Edinburgh: Stevenson, 1832. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, engraved additional title-page (dated 1831);Edwards-Moss, John E. A Season in Sutherland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, bookplate of Charles Thomas-Stanford (1858-1932);Sharpe, J. Selkirk: its Church, its School, and its Presbytery. Selkirk: James Lewis, c.1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 4 halftone photographic plates;Mackay, Donald. Memories of our Parish (Parish of Reay, Caithness). Dingwall: Ross-shire Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 plates, presentation inscription from the author;Horne, John. Summer Days in Cattiland. Wick: office of the "John O'Groat Journal", c.1910. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards;MacCormick, John. An t-Eilean Muileach. The Island of Mull. Its History, Scenes and Legends. Glasgow: Alex. Maclaren & Sons, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Evans, A. H. A Fauna of the Tweed Area. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911. First edition, 8vo, plates, bookplates;Tait, E. S. Reid (editor). The Statistical Account of Shetland 1791-1799 ... by Sir John Sinclair. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1925. 4to, original cloth;Metcalfe, William M. A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905. 4to, original quarter vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map (detached, spotted);Anderson, Joseph (editor). The Orkneying Saga. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, plates;and approx. 40 others including Edinburgh and provincial Scottish imprints

Texier, Charles and Richard Popplewell Pullan Byzantine Architecture Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity with Historical & Archaeological Descriptions. London: Day & Son, 1864. First English edition, folio, chromolithographed additional title and 70 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates, many printed with gold tissue guards, 2 double-page plates and numerous woodcut illustrations, original maroon decorative cloth gilt, gilt edges, binding lightly faded Note: Note: A very good copy of this lavishly illustrated survey of the early Christian architecture of Greece and the Near East. Pullan was architect to the Bodrum Expedition sent to survey the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in 1857 and also carried out various excavations as agent for the Society of Dilettanti. The Lion of Knidos was found in 1858 by Pullan as he walked the cliffs near where he was helping Charles Thomas Newton to excavate the ancient Greek city of Knidos. Royal Engineer Robert Murdoch Smith was given the task of assisting. He was presented with the lion statue that had fallen onto its front face. The limestone core of the monument was still there but the marble cladding and other details had either been stolen or lay around where it had fallen. Smith was able to replace and move each of the remaining stones which allowed the engineer to write a detailed report on the structure. Pullan created an orthographic drawing of the building which is thought to be a good reproduction of what the whole structure would have looked like. The Lion of Knidos was loaded onto the naval ship HMS Supply and shipped to London. It is now in the British Museum.Texier was in Asia Minor much earlier, but the two collaborated to produce this interesting work. Atabey 1213; Blackmer 1647

Olivier, Jean Fencing Familiarized or a New Treatise on the Art of the Small Sword. London: John Bell, 1780. Second edition, 8vo (20.6 x 11.5cm), 20th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece and 13 folding plates, 2 sets of engraved arms in the text, title-pages and text in English and French, bookplate of Raymond Riling (1896-1974), author of Guns and Shooting: A Select Chronological Bibliography, plates toned and offset, plates 2-4 and 13 without numbers (possibly cropped by binder), plate 3 with split and faint adhesive residue at foot of fold [ESTC T135608, 3 copies in UK libraries; Pardoel 450; Thimm p. 128];Hutton, Alfred. Fixed Bayonets: a Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine Rifle. London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1890. First edition, large 8vo, original maroon pictorial cloth, frontispiece and 23 plates, loss to spine-ends, ink-stamps of the Admiralty library to prelims;Betts, J. The Sword and How to Use it. London: Gale & Polden, Limited, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original red boards printed in black, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, printer's slip tipped to title-page, ink-stamp of the War Office General Staff library dated 1908 to front board and title, shelfmark label taped to foot of spine;Castle, Egerton. Schools and Masters of Fence from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, etched frontispiece, 6 collotype plates (one chipped in margin), bookplate of the Royal Artillery Institution, related ink-stamp to half-title and title-page;Steinmetz, Andrew. The Romance of Duelling in all Times and Countries. London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked with original spines laid down, bookplates;and 10 others on fencing and swordsmanshipNote: Note: Olivier's work was first published in 1771; this second edition has new plates.

Irish Literature Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey and Jonathan Swift Wilde, Oscar. Three Times Tried. Paris: Privately printed, [n.d. but c.1915] 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, number 127 of 999 copies;Idem. Salome. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1922. 12mo, original boards, dust-jacket present but torn with loss;Yeats, W.B. Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Idem. The Celtic Twilight. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. First edition, 12mo, original green cloth gilt;Idem. The Poem of W.B. Yeats. Norwalk, CN: The Easton Press, [1976]. 8vo, original green morocco gilt;O'Casey, Sean. Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock & The Shadow of a Gunman. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925. 8vo, original boards;[Swift, Jonathan] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in four parts by Lemuel Gulliver... Glasgow: James Knox, 1765. 12mo, contemporary calf rebacked with modern spine

Fife Collection of works Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. First edition, one of 100 copies (according to other records), 3 volumes, 4to, original red quarter morocco gilt by C. S. Smith of Edinburgh, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title-pages, 33 colour lithographic plates reproducing original charters, letters and other documents, wood-engraved illustrations of seals and signatures in text, volume 1 with presentation plate to front pastedown, largely effaced but name of recipient William Blackwood Esq. (presumably the famous publisher) visible, volumes 2-3 with bookplates of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, spines rubbed, peripheral mottling to covers, volume 2 with split to foot of spine;Idem. Illustrations of the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, containing duplicates of the title-pages, colour plates and other illustrations from the Memorials, one copy with bookplate of Innes of Learney to front pastedown and later colour print mounted to front free endpaper, the other with bookplate of Francis James Grant, Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, second copy with wear to spine-ends mottling to covers;Idem. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [colophon:] by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1890. First edition, one of 150 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, rebacked in red morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 41 plates including photogravures or lithographs from portrait paintings (many on india paper, mounted) and colour lithographic facsimiles of historical documents, printed presentation plate addressed in manuscript to Archibald Stirling of Keir to front pastedown of volume 1;Idem. Introductions and Illustrations in the Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1890. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, plates, one copy inscribed by William Fraser to David Chalmers of Redhall (1820-1899), Scottish industrialist, with a letter from Fraser to Chalmers in original envelope mounted to endpaper, and Chalmers's bookplate;Patrick, John (1831-1923). Photographic Views of the Fife Coast, c.1870. 8vo, original green cloth, 13 albumen-print photographs (10.7 x 18cm), on card mounts backed onto continuous sheet of linen folded in leporello format, printed border and captions to mounts, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, modern bookplate to rear, light soiling to mounts, ties detached or gone;Fife Tales by Photo. Part I. Contents. I. The Mother's Fault. II. The Gowks. III. The Minstrel. With a Calotype [sic] of Macduff's Castle. Leven: John Patrick, 1861. 12mo, 74 pp., original glazed yellow printed wrappers, albumen-print photographic frontispiece, wrappers chipped and soiled, attempted adhesive-repair to spine, closed tear in index leaf, occasional soiling to contents;Limekilns. Its Antiquities and Church Landowners, Harbours, Ships, Shipmasters and Shipments, and Passagium Reginae. Compiled under the Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere. Edinburgh: for private circulations, 1929. First edition, one of 215 copies, large folio, original cloth, 20 plates, front free endpaper excised, pen-marks to endpapers, mark to foot of p. 88;Watson, Charles Brodie Boog. Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Founder of A. Cowan & Sons), his Kinsfolk and Connections. Perth: D. Leslie (Watson & Annandale), privately printed, 1915. Folio, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece from a painting, 2 double-page plates, without genealogical tables listed in contents, inscribed by the author, together with a separate issue of the final part ('Some Notes on Moray House'), folio, original cloth, with plates as in the preceding work, inscribed by the author;Mackay, Aeneas J. G. A History of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map, bookplates (R. Y. Pickering, dated 1895, and the Barons Glenconner);and 4 others including William Gifford of Joppa, An Ancient Seaport on the Shores of the Forth, Dunfermline: Journal Printing Works, 1914Note: Note: John Patrick was originally a baker in his native Buckhaven before becoming a commercial photographer, working first in Kirkcaldy and subsequently Edinburgh; his famous images include a portrait of Thomas Carlyle taken during Carlyle's visit to Kirkcaldy in 1874. No other copy of Fife Tales by Photo traced.

Modern literature including George MacDonald Fraser Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman. London, 1976. Fifth edition, dust-jacket price-clipped; Idem. Royal Flash. London, 1970. First edition; Idem. The General Danced at Dawn. London, 1970. First edition; Idem. Flash for Freedom! London, 1971. First edition; Idem. Flashman at the Charge. London, 1973. First edition; Idem. Flashman in the Great Game. London, 1975. First edition; Idem. Flashman's Lady. London, 1977. First edition, dust-jacket price-clipped; Idem. Flashman and the Redskins. London, 1982. First edition; Idem. Flashman and the Dragon. London, 1985. First edition; Idem. Flashman and the Mountain of Light. London, 1990. First edition, neat gift inscription; and 7 other, later, books by George MacDonald Fraser;Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. 8vo, original cloth, some soiling to dust-jacket;Lewis, Wyndham. The Apes of God. London: Nash & Grayson, [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket in several pieces with loss;Forster, E.M. Abinger Harvest. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket with some loss; Idem. Two Cheers for Democracy. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1951. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped

Bible; Old Testament; Hebrew Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus. Edidit Benjaminus Kennicott. Oxford: e Typographeo Sheldoniano, 1776-80. 2 volumes, large folio (43.6 x 26cm), contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked with restoration to extremities, xxiii [1] viii 684 [2], [4] 732 129 [7] pp., occasional light browning, volume 1 sig. 7D spotted [ESTC T147508]Note: Note: First edition of a major scholarly recension of the Hebrew Bible, which established its compiler, the Oxford Hebraist Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), as a scholar of international standing in Enlightenment Europe. 'The greater part of [Kennicott's] life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament ... With his formidable knowledge of Syriac, early Latin, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task ... Kennicott's labours culminated in the production of his Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus, the first volume published at Oxford in 1776, the second in 1780. These were two superb folios complete with parallel Samaritan and Hebrew texts and apparatus criticus ... The scale of textual criticism (he had consulted and collated 615 manuscript versions and 52 printed editions) gave Kennicott a European reputation that transcended national and denominational boundaries, his labours constituting a milestone "in a more systematic and comprehensive examination of the formation of the biblical text and canon by subsequent scholars"' (ODNB).

New Naturalist Numbers 72-77 Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes; The Hebrides; The Soil. London: Collins, 1986-92. 6 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, jacket spines sunned [Bernhard & Loe NN72A-77A] Note: Notes: First editions, numbers 72-77 in the New Naturalist series, each respectively one of 880, 1850, 1500, 1470, 1500 and 1481 copies printed. Heathlands (72) and The New Forest (73) are both in the first-issue dust jackets each retaining 'Collins' to the foot of the spine-panel, removed for the later Bookclub edition. (Bernhard and Loe cite no such issue-point for the subsequent volumes.)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).

Antiquarian literature Collection of works Daniel, William B. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, engraved frontispieces, 70 plates, a little wear to bindings, plates variably spotted and offset;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, numerous engraved plates;Hume, David. The History of England ... A New Edition, Corrected. Dublin: printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan sheep, red and green morocco labels, slightly rubbed;Calderwood, David. The True History of the Church of Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation, unto the End of the Reigne of King James VI. [Netherlands?: no publisher], 1688. First edition, folio, 19th-century half calf, spine defective at head, bound without index (8 pp.) [ESTC R16833];Macpherson, James. The History of Great Britain, from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hannover. London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary calf, lacking portrait, section excised from each title-page;Spottiswood, John. The History of the Church of Scotland. London: for R. Royston, 1655. First edition, folio, 20th-century half calf, lacking portrait;and 3 others including another copy of Calderwood, the lot sold as seen

Clerk, John, of Eldin A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland With Additional Etchings and Facsimiles from his Drawings. Edinburgh: for the Bannatyne Club, 1855. Large folio (50.5 x 31cm), original maroon quarter roan (rebacked), printed paper label to front board, xxx pp., lithographic portrait frontispiece and additional mezzotint portrait, both on india paper, mounted, 55 etched or tinted lithographic plates (numbered 1-55 but many containing multiple separately printed images), one unnumbered plate, tissue-guards, wear to corners of boards Note: Note: Second edition, greatly enlarged, number 98 in the Bannatyne Club series; it was first published in 1825 with 28 plates only. John Clerk of Eldin (1728-1812), 'a true child of the Enlightenment' (ODNB) is best remembered today for his Essay on Naval Tactics (1790). 'Clerk was an exceptional amateur artist. His wealthy background afforded him the luxury of entertaining numerous careers, including medicine and business, and he also showed a considerable interest in geology. In the 1740s he began sketching alongside his brother-in-law, Robert Adam, and the artist Paul Sandby. Clerk travelled extensively throughout Scotland, recording a wide range of landscapes and ancient buildings. His sketches of Edinburgh and the surrounding areas are highly personal representations of his native countryside' (National Galleries of Scotland, online). The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), physician and pioneer of chloroform, original subscriber; thence by descent.

Arms and armour Group of private and institutional collection catalogues Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1843-1909. [New York:] printed privately, 1914. First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, etched portrait frontispiece, 53 photographic plates (mounted, numbered 1-51, including 9a and 19a), covers slightly dust-soiled and sprung, a little wear to tips, bookplate (Michael Moad) and ownership inscription;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of European Daggers including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, 85 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Court Swords and Hunting Swords including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, tinted photographic frontispiece, 101 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Amour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Company (Limited), 1894. First edition, large 4to, contemporary red crushed full morocco gilt for Henry Arthur Johnstone, his monogram within armorial lozenge gilt to front board, tan pigskin doublures, incorporating Johstone's naval ex-libris device dated 1899 in blind, 133 plates, bookplates;Laking, Guy Francis. The Armour of Windsor Castle. European Section. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Company, 1904. First edition, 4to, original quarter pigskin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 mounted photographic plates with tissue-guards, binding slightly rubbed and marked;Gibb, William. Naval and Military Trophies and Personal Relics of British Heroes. A Series of Water Colour Drawings. The Descriptive Notes by Richard R. Holmes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. First edition, large 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 36 chromolithographic plates;Drummond, James. Ancient Scottish Weapons. With Introduction and Descriptive Notes by Joseph Anderson. Edinburgh: George Waterston & Sons, 1881. First edition, one of 500 copies, large, original quarter morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, 50 chromolithographic plates (of 54: lacking plates 15-18), endpapers renewed, blind stamps of the Royal United Services Institution to heads of plates

Blaeu, Johannes Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, cinquieme partie [Scotland and Ireland] Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1654. Folio (50 x 33cm), [12] 181, 59 pp (rectos of map-sheets not counted in pagination), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, engraved architectonic title-page incorporating arms of Scotland and with letterpress title in French on mounted slip, 55 engraved maps (all but one double-page), containing titles within decorative cartouches, several maps additionally with dedication and mileage charts in similar cartouches (a few dedications also incorporating arms of the dedicatee), maps and title-page with contemporary hand-colour throughout, title-page additionally heightened in gilt, woodcut initials and tailpieces, binding pitted, variable browning and offsetting, occasional spotting, small worm-track to lower margin from front to p. 40 (text and maps never affected), repaired closed tears to text-leaf *1 and map of Lennox ('Levinia'), 'Scotia Regnum' map with old circular stain to upper margin, Lower Clydesdale ('Gottiana Praefectura Inferior') map with Dutch text verso and small hole in image [Skelton 59a; cf. Chubb, 'The Atlases of Scotland' II-III, Dutch and Latin editions]Note: Note: 'The first printed atlas of Scotland' (Skelton), being the fifth volume of Blaeu's 1654 world atlas, this copy from the French-text edition: editions with text in French, Latin, Dutch and German were all published in the same year, with a Spanish edition appearing in 1659; the maps themselves are titled in Latin and English. The work contains 'three general maps and forty-six maps of Scottish counties and regions, engraved at Amsterdam from drawings by Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661) and his son James (c.1615-1686), minister of Rothiemay in Banffshire, together with a general map of Ireland and five maps of Irish provinces, after Mercator and Jansson. The maps by the Gordons incorporate the results of the earliest topographical survey of Scotland, that made by Timothy Pont at undetermined dates, apparently within the last two decades of the 16th and the first decade of the 17th century' (ibid.).

Travel Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First US edition, 8vo, original green cloth, all plates and maps as called for, wear to head and foot of spine, front inner hinge tender;Patterson, J. H. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, photographic frontispiece, map to rear, photographic illustrations throughout the text, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;Selous, Frederick Courteney. Sport and Travel, East and West. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 18 plates;Roosevelt, Theodore. Through the Brazilian Wilderness. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine sunned and with fraying to head;and 12 others, including Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails, reprint, c.1910 (original pictorial cloth), Charles Sheldon, The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, 1911 (original cloth), W. S. Rainsford, The Land of the Lion, 1909, Lord Roberts, Forty-One Years in India, 1898 (2 volumes, original cloth), William T. Hornaday, Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava, 1908 (original cloth), and similar

Observer books - Weather with a glossy cover, first edition British Insects etc

Coaching Days of England, text by Anthony Burgess, 1750-1850, published by Paul Elek, 1966, first edition, Landscape folio together with Pageantry of Sport, From The Age of Chivalry to The Age of Victoria by John Arlott and Arthur Daley, published by Paul Elek 1968, first edition

Robert Taylor - 'Lancaster' first edition print signed by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, 35 x 47cm

The Borough of Stoke on Trent by John Ward, first edition 1843 including fold out map and engravings plus The Victorian History of the Counties of England Staffordshire Vol 1 & 8