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Illustrated Children's Books. Tolstoy (Alexei), Schimanskaya (Eugenia, translator), & Kuznetsov (Konstantin, illustrator), Russian Tales for Children, first English edition, London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1944, illustrated, original pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 16mo, Field (Eugene) & Parrish (Maxfield, illustrator), Poems of Childhood, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904, colour plates, original publisher's cloth gilt, upper-cover with papered pictorial onlay, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Adams (Richard), The Plague Dogs, first edition, 1977, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, spine sunned, 8vo, Andersen (Hans) & Dulac (Edmund, illustrator), The Nightingale, London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [c. 1920], colour plates, original pictorial papered boards, bumped, perished spine, 4to, Dickens & Bedford (illustrator), The Magic Fishbone, London: Frederick Warne and Co Ltd., n.d. [c. 1920], publisher's binding, oblong 8vo, Christopher Robin's Verses, 1943, 8vo, etc., (7)

Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677, imprimatur leaf - creased, tatty and loosening, black-ruled title-page printed in red and black, double-column text, pp: [xvi], 507, 8 (coats of arms), [36] (indexes), double-page map and 21 plates, 2 of which are folding and 16 double-page, further in-text illustrations, a respectable copy, 1 folding plate - Newark - repaired with some loss, the contents OK-good with some foxed spots and toning, rarer rust holes with no loss of sense, some creases, 18th c calf boards, rebacked, repaired and the gilding refreshed, all edges gilt, later endpapers, folio (35 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: 1) Christopher Hussey, contemporaneous 17th c dated ink MS inscription to original verso blank: 'Memorandū 10th June 1685 if this book/be returned in two months time from *y date/hereof. I will give two shillings for it witnesses/my hand Christopher Hussey-'. 2) Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton, KCVO (1837-1909), brewing magnate, Liberal politician and philanthropist; his Rangemore Hall, East Staffordshire, bookplate to recto pastedown. 3) Ex Libris Carl J. Fenner, 20th c pictorial bookplate ditto.

Verne (Jules), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Complete. Author's Edition, with Illustrations, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885, some preliminary foxing, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, slight twist, all edges gilt, lacking ffep, 8vo, [&] Jerome (Jerome K.), Three Men in a Boat, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889, slight movement, original publisher's pictorial cloth, split, tear to spine, lacking ffep, 8vo, (2)

Natural History. [Botany] Wood (John Frederick, FHS), The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist, volumes I-VIII, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1847-54, mixed contemporary bindings, 12mo in 6s, [Provincial Imprint] Deering (Charles), Catalogus Stirpium, &c., or, A Catalogue of Plants, Naturally growing and commonly cultivated in divers (sic) Parts of England, More efpecially (sic) about Nottingham [...], first and only edition, Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by G. Ayscough, and fold (sic) by C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard (sic), London 1738, unexamined, contemporary calf boards, repaired and rebacked, 8vo, [Henry 620], Lowe (Robert), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, et al., 1798, folding hand-coloured map frontispiece, 20th c cloth over boards, etc., (14) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Miscellaneous. Stevenson (Robert Louis), Treasure Island, second edition, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1884, split with loose/loosening quires, original publisher's cloth, worn, split and twisted, 8vo, idem, Island Night's Entertainments, first edition, London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1893, repaired plate, split but holding, original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, 8vo, another RLS title, Kipling (Rudyard), Just So Stories, first edition, second impressions, London: Macmillan and Co., October 1902, illustrated, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, idem, Departmental Ditties, first edition, London: George Newnes, Limited, 1899, cloth, 8vo, idem, The Years Between, The Dominions Edition, London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1919, original wrappers, split, perished spine, 8vo, four further RK works, three Joseph Conrad first editions, (14)

Enlightenment Mathematics and Astronomy. An 18th c sammelband of four works, comprising Ferguson (James), Astronomical Tables and Precepts [...], first edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1763, 63pp, errata slip pasted on final leaf, 1 folding engraved plate, which is somewhat tatty, [bound with] Stone (The Reverend Edward), The Whole Doctrine of Parallaxes Explained and Illustrated by an Arithmetical and Geometrical Construction of the Transit of Venus Over the Sun, June 6th, 1761 [...], first edition, Oxford: Printed for J. Fletcher in the Turle, et al., 1763, 108pp, in-text diagrams, [with] West (The Late Rev. Mr. Wm., of Exeter) & Rowe (John), Mathematics, ?second edition, London: Printed by J. Kippax, et al., 1762, pp: [viii], 85, [3], 11 folding engraved plates, clean impressions, a few a trifle tatty around the edges, [&] Le Paute (Madame [Nicole-Reine]), Explication de la carte, Qui représente le Passage de l'Ombre de la Lune au travers de l'Europe dans l'Eclipse de Soleil Centrale & Annulaire, du premier Avril 1764, s.l., s.n., n.d., 8pp only, bound as one in contemporary calf, joints split but holding, light wear and bumps, otherwise sound, MS paper shelf number to tail of spine, red speckled edges, 8vo

Country Pursuits. Edwards (Lionel) & Wallace (Harold Frank), Hunting & Stalking the Deer, London: Longmans, et al., 1927, original blue cloth, 4to, Country Life, volumes XV & XVI, 1904, original moiré cloth gilt, all edges gilt, folios, Conway (James), Forays among Salmon and Deer, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861, original publisher's cloth, uncut, 8vo, further fishing interest, some hunting, (17)

Fine Binding, Royal Navy. Penrose (The Rev. John), Lives of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, K.C.B., and Captain James Trevenen, first edition, London: John Murray, 1850, each biography with a portrait frontispiece of the subjects, lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart after Charles Allingham, finely bound by Folthorp of Brighton, signed with a ticket to recto pastedown, in contemporary dark blue morocco gilt, the covers outlined with a single-fillet enclosing a rolled gothic architectural border, its corners blocked with anchors, conforming six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, rubbed, upper-joint splitting near head, recto head with light loss, other lighter wear, anthemion turn-ins, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, 8vo, [Beddie 2485; not in Hill] Trevenen's life contains an important section concerning Captain James Cook's third and final voyage that includes a previously unpublished note on the death of Cook in Hawaii, 1779.

Nevinson (C.R.W.) & Konody (P.G.), Modern War Paintings, first edition, London: Grand Richards Limited, 1917, lacking the signed colour frontispiece, 79pp, 24 monochrome plates, rare in original dustjacket, chipped and worn, over green cloth-backed boards, 4to

Antiquarianism. Bayley (John), The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, two-volume set, first edition, London: T. Cadell, 1821, plates, some foxing and mild off-setting, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, split and rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (38 x 28cm), idem., History of the Tower of London, second edition, London, 1830, plates, contemporary red quarter-morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, top-edge gilt, 8vo, Francis (René) & Weirter (Louis, illustrator), The Story of the Tower of London, London, [1915], original cloth, 4to, Richards (Raymond), Old Cheshire Churches, de luxe edition, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1948-49, colour plates, finely bound in original red morocco by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co Ltd, signed, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 4to, Winkles' British Cathedrals, three-volume set, London: Tilt and Bogue, n.d. [1836-42], steel engravings, original publisher's cloth, some wear, 4to, (8)

Byron, Romantic & Nottinghamshire Poetry. Four copies of The Giaour, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth & fourteenth editions, London: John Murray, 1814-15, mixed quarter-morocco bindings, 8vo, The Bride of Abydos, eighth edition, London: Printed by T. Davison for John Murray, 1814, quarter-morocco over cloth, 8vo, Beppo, seventh edition, London: John Murray, 1818, original wrappers, enclosed in later half-morocco, 12mo, Mazeppa, London: W. Dugdale, 1825, three-quarter morocco over cloth, 12mo in 6s, two copies of Lara, 1824 & 1830, mixed sizes, [Snart (Charles, editor)], Selection of Poems, two-volume set, sole edition, Newark: Printed and Sold by M. Hage, et al., 1807-08, volume II  includes 'The Mountain Violet', page 66, which has before been attributed to a young Lord Byron, original publisher's cloth over papered boards, volume II disbound, otherwise worn but holding, 8vo, [&] Wild (Marianne), Horns of Melancholy, first edition, Nottingham: R. Allen, 1838, split gutter but holding, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed and bumped, all edges gilt, 12mo in 6s, (14) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Early English Music. Oldham (John) & Blow (Dr John, Master of the Children, and Organist of His Majesty's Chapel-Royal), A Second Musical Entertainment Perform'd on St. Cecilia's day. November XXII. 1684, first edition, London: Printed by John Playford, and are to be Sold by John Carr, at the Middle-Temple Gate, 1685, black-ruled title-page, woodcut printed musical notation, the libretto letterpress printed, pp: [8], 71, [1] (John Carr's music book advertisement), the last two leaves repaired, occasional stains, some marginal soiling, the score with later MS pencil annotations, its blanks and the first five leaves with ex-library stamps, further stamps in places, including the final leaf, slight chips here and there, 19th c institutional quarter-roan over cloth, their bookplates, labels and bibliographical notes, c. 1685 red-speckled edges, 4to

Literature. Marmontel [(Jean-François)], The Incas: or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru, two-volume set, first English edition, London: Printed for J. Nourse, P. Elmsly, and E. Lyde, 1777, with half-titles, toned and a trifle foxed, contemporary calf, tired and rubbed, 12mo in 6s, [Bacon (Phanuel)], Humorous Ethics: Or, an Attempt to Cure the Vices and Follies of the Age By a Method entirely New. In Five Plays [...], sole collected edition, London: W. Owen, 1757, general and some divisional titles chipped, contemporary calf, 8vo, [Shakespeare], Johnson (Samuel), Steevens (George), et al., Annotations upon Romeo and Juliet, Written by Will. Shakspere (sic), London: Printed for, and under the Direction of, John Bell, 1787, engraved frontispiece, split, original wrappers, chipped and loose, some unopen gatherings, uncut, 12mo, Anon, The History of Little Fanny, fourth edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810, chapbook only, original wrappers and sleeve, 16mo, Sheridan's Rivals, fourth edition, n.d., 8vo, and an odd volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire, (7)

Arctic & Polar Exploration. Nares (Captain Sir George, R.N., et al) & Feilden (H.W.), Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 [...], with Notes on Natural History, two-volume set, first edition, London: Sampson Low, et al., 1878, 6 mounted Woodburytype photographic plates, further mixed media illustrations, volume I lacking fold map, otherwise unexamined, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over cloth, worn, rubbed and split, some quires loose or with movement, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Von Heuglin (Theodor), Reisen nach dem Nordpolarmeer in den Jahren 1870 und 1871, volumes I & II only, Braunschweig: G. Westermann, 1872-3, chromolithograph frontispieces, 3 folding maps and plan, plates, slightly later institutional library cloth, their bookplates, ink and blindstamps, some repaired faults, 8vo, (4) Condition: Nares volume I lacking fold map, otherwise both volumes unexamined and uncollated.

Early English Printing. [The Kalender of Shepherdes (sic)], a series of 24 woodcuts, (15.1 x 12.8cm), incorporating the Signs of the Zodiac, s.l. [?London], s.n., n.d., probably facsimiles taken from an early English edition of an almanac first published in French in 1493 by Guy Marchant as Le compost et Kalendrier des bergiers, trimmed to the black-ruled margin, Gothic Black Letter to verso, mounted two to a leaf, browned, collected and bound in 19th c tan morocco, chipped and split, upper-cover lettered in gilt: The Shepherd's Kalendar (sic), 1580, blind-ruled borders, 4toThe binding's attribution to the 1580 Elizabethan narrative poem is erroneous: neither the type employed nor the illustrations in our series of prints conform to that title, itself Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work.These woodcuts closely accord with the illustrations in a 1500 French edition of the Compost (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Douce 161), but differ from those in an English edition of 1556. However, the text on the verso of a conforming set of 12 woodcuts in the Royal Collection (RCIN 809372), to which ours also conform in part (here we have 24 rather than 12), is in English.

British India and the Raj.  Cavenagh (General Sir Orfeur, K.C.S.I.), Reminiscences of an Indian Official, London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1884, prelims with worm trail, later three-quarter leather over cloth, later marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo, Dixon (Lieut.-Colonel C.G., Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara), The Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, Illustrating the Settlement of Land Revenue [...], sole edition, Agra: Printed [for the Government] at the Secundra Orphan Press, 1853, graduating worm trail until B2 but with no loss of sense, thereafter a just one or two small worm holes with little or no loss, later cloth, 4to, Durand (Colonel Algernon, C.B., C.I.E.), The Making of a Frontier [...], first edition, London: John Murray, 1899, original publisher's cloth, worn and stained, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, [&] The Ashanti Campaign of 1900, repaired cloth, 8vo, (4) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return.

Law. [?Douglas (D)], The Biographical History of Sir William Blackstone, Late one of the Justices of Both Benches [...] and a Catalogue of all Sir William Blackstone's Works [...], By a Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, first edition, London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by J. Bew, 1782, original publisher's boards, worn, uncut, 8vo, [&] The Polite Preceptor [...], London: Printed for Stanley Crowder, 1776, contemporary sheep, split and rubbed, 12mo, (2)

Theosophy, Mysticism and Spirituality. The Nature of Mysticism, second edition, Adgar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1934, cloth, 8vo, further TPH imprints, including Besant (Annie), Puddles of Reconstruction, first edition, 1919, creased, original cloth, 8vo, Leadbeater on Dreams, fourth edition, n.d. [c. 1920], cloth, 8vo, Aphorisms of Yoga, first edition thus, London: Faber & Faber, 1938, original dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Rudolf Steiner titles, Hermes volume IX, 1983, a defective copy of Ali Nomad's Cosmic Consciousness, 8vo, Huc's Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary, Tibet, and China, During the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, London: Longman, Brown, Green, et al., 1852, half-ttile, split, foxed, original cloth, worn, 12mo, "Fiona MacLeod", volume IV, 1910, 8vo, further works on Buddhism, early 20th c and later copies of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, mixed imprints, bindings and sizes, Dickens, natural history, etc, (4 shelves)

Ireland, Female Education; Possible Royal Presentation Copy. Simple Direction in Needle-Work and Cutting Out; Intended for the use of the National Female Schools of Ireland. To which are added, Specimens of Works Executed by the Pupils of The National Model Female School [i.e. the Quaker-established Kildare Academy/Kildare Place Society], ? a royal presentation copy for Queen Victoria, Dublin: Published by Direction of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, et al., 1846, [5], 6-84pp, 85-106ff (Specimens), first part (i.e. text) signatures collating: ¶², B-L⁴, the paginated and unpaginated interleaved green printed specimen leaves 'illustrated' with 60 cotton, linen, wool, lace, further needlework, and printed textiles, comprising samplers, frocks and dresses, hosiery, patchwork, etc., all of which are prefaced by an extra-illustrated silkwork leaf embroidered with the message: The Queen Reigns In the Hearts of Her People Aug. 1849, the cresting and apron embroidered in gilt threads with a royal crown and the Irish harp or clarsach, within a meandering green shamrock border, finely bound in contemporary purple morocco over boards, somewhat bowed, the upper-cover blocked in gilt and centred by the VR cypher within an unlettered garter and crested by St Edwards Crown, each cover outlined with a blind double-fillet border, the white paper printed leaves with all edges gilt, gilt-rolled anthemion dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to  There are several tantalising indications that this finely bound copy of a usually more restrained volume, two of which have been sold in these rooms before (a c. 1836 edition, July 2022, & the 1853 edition, January 2023), might have been a copy presented to Queen Victoria during her 1849 visit to Ireland. As well as the dated needlework samplers corresponding to the imprint date, i.e. 1849, the extra-illustrated sampler, with its eulogy addressed to the sovereign, is not called for and its uniqueness hints at presentation. The fine binding, again uncommon on such a practical book, strongly indicates a presentation copy. The University of Toronto's database British Armorial Bindings show only one further example of this supralibros, Victoria Stamp 9, on an 1851 Dublin imprint now in the Penes Philip Maddock library.  Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin.

Shakespeare. Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays, eight volumes, London: Printed for John Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Stand; and C. Etherington, at York, 1773-74, frontispieces, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, volume I upper-cover detached and its first quire loose, most lettered labels lost, 8vo, (8)

Waugh (Evelyn), Put Out More Flags, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1942, publisher's cloth only, 8vo, another copy, similar, not signed, Ninety-Two Days, With a Map and 24 Illustrations, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1931, publisher's blue cloth only, 8vo, others first editions, including Black Mischief, 1932, Scoop, 1933, Wine in Peace and War, n.d. [1947], Helena, 1950, Men at Arms, 1952, Unconditional Surrender, 1961, etc., (24)

Africa. Schillings (C.G.) & Whyte (Frederic, translator), With Flashlight and Rifle: A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wild Life [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1906, illustrated, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, 8vo, idem., In Wildest Africa, two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1907, original publisher's terracotta cloth, 8vo, Cumming (R. Gordon), A Hunter's Life in South Africa, two-volume set, Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1980, dj over cloth boards, 8vo, (6)

Modern Firsts. Eliot (T.S.), Poetry and Drama, first edition, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1951, original publisher's dustjacket over red cloth, bowed, dj tone-faded portions, lightly creased and chipped, 8vo, idem, The Confidential Clerk, first edition, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1954, original publisher's dustjacket over grey cloth, bowed, chipped, 8vo, two further T.S. Eliot works, not first editions, dj, hb, 8vo, Huxley (Aldous), Do What You Will: Essays, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1929, original dustjacket over cloth, chipped and slightly stained, 8vo, Sitwell (Edith), The Shadow of Cain, first edition, London: John Lehman, 1947, original green dustjacket over papered boards, 8vo, idem, Gardeners and Astronomers, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1953, original pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, Housman's Trimblerigg, 1924, 8vo, Leeds University Anthology, 1949, Edmund Blunden, (10)

Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts. Herbert (George), The Temple [...], eleventh edition, London: Printed for R.S. and are to be Sold by Richard Willington, 1695, [bound with] [Harvey (Christopher)], The Synagogue: or the Shadow of The Temple [...], In Imitation of Mr. George Herbert, sixth edition, London: Robert Stephens, 1673, first title split and loose at title-page, both titles uncollated and with defective leaves and further condition points, contemporary panelled calf, chipped and disbound, 12mo, [Shakespeare], Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed (sic) Hot-spur, parts I & II, London: J. Tonson, 1734, Part II defective, but with the sole frontispiece, both parts with some stains, disbound, 12mo, idem., three further plays as one, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, & The Tempest, London: J. Tonson, 1734, the second and third titles with frontispieces that are now loose, disbound, 12mo, Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare, Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham, 1818, lacking ffep, finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo, three early 19th c manuscript hymnals, Richard Brooke, dated 1817-18, inscribed in MS with hymns and musical notation, including Psalms, mixed bindings of calf, sheep and calf over boards, worn in places, oblong 4to & 8vo, another, barely-inscribed by J. Ward, 1826, marbled wrappers, 4to, Murray's History of British India, London: T. Nelson and Son, 1853, map and plates, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, gilt extra, all edges gilt, 8vo, Watson's Theological Tracts, six-volume set, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University, et al., 1785, contemporary mottled calf, worn, chipped and split, but holding, 8vo, Blomfield's Life of Christ, Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809, plates, contemporary mottled calf, 4to, Knight's Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, first edition, 1837, defective contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, The Jolly Angler, seventh edition, n.d. [c. 1850], cloth, 8vo, Stamford's Map of Africa, n.d. [19th c], original cloth boards, British India & the Raj, a photograph album of 10 b/w photographic prints, c. 1935, mostly Delhi, contemporary polychrome-decorated lacquer boards, cloth back, oblong folio, etc

Travel. Willyams (The Rev. Cooper, A.M., et al.), A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, One of the Squadron Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. [...]. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798 [...], first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White, 1802, complete, pp: xxiii, [1] (errata), 309; illustrated with 43 plates as called for, mostly executed in sepia, including an engraved dedication leaf to Admiral Lord St. Vincent (Willyams' patron), a map of the Mediterranean, and a plan of the Battle of the Nile, very good ex-library copy, ink numbers to verso of title and dedication and blind-stamps (inoffensive), mostly marginal but within image of around 18 plates, else generally clean with some occasional spotting or light staining, small repair to inner margin of title, 20th century quarter-calf gilt over cloth, preserving an earlier gilt-lettered label, contemporary marbled edges, royal folio (49cm x 35.5cm), [Abbey, Travel, 196; Blackmer 1813] Provenance: Bath Public Library, The Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles bequest 1920; bookplate to pastedown, their blindstamps within as catalogued.

Medical, Health & Wellbeing. [De Mediolano (Joannes, attrib.)] & Moreau (René, editor), Schola Salernitana [...], first edition thus, Parisiis: via Jacobaea, sumptibus Thomae Blasii, 1625, some 17th c English marginal manuscript annotations, lacking folding plate, upper-right margin somewhat tatty until signature D, signatures Rr4 onwards with inner-marginal worming with some loss of text, minimal by the end and just affecting one or two letters, 20th c black buckram, red-stained edges, 8vo

Wilde (Oscar), De Profundis, first edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1905, with half-title and 40pp publisher's catalogue, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde], seventh edition, first with the author's name, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899, original publisher's cloth over boards, uncut, 4to, Intentions, New York: Bretano's, 1905, original cloth, etc., (6)

Topography and Antiquarianism. Lewis (Samuel), A Topographical Dictionary of Wales [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: S. Lewis and Co., 1833, double-columns, folding and full-page maps, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, uncut, 4to, Miller (Samuel H.) & Skertchly (Sydney B.J.), The Fenland: Past and Present, Illustrated with engravings, maps and diagrams, first edition, Wisbech: Leach and Son, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878, original publisher's green half-morocco over marbled boards, reabcked, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, crested library stamp surmounted by a a coronet: Tillard, 4to, A Revenue Letter-Book, Being Correspondence from 2nd January, 1689/80 to 15th December, 1692, of Their Majesties' Agents for Bringing in of Taxes, one of 75 copies only, London: Inland Revenue, Somerset House, 1933, original cloth over papered boards, sunned, ripple, 4to, [&] Shorter's Highways and Byways in Buckinghamshire, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910, later cloth when inlaid from 8vo to 4to, (5)

Children's Book. Milne (A.A.) & Shepard (E.H., illustrator), The House at Pooh Corner, first trade edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928, pp: xi, 178, [1], frontispiece and in-text illustrations, overall a clean and fresh copy, rare with original pictorial dustjacket, now torn in two parts, chipped, worn and slightly soiled, over original terracotta cloth, pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, pictorial endpapers with some off-setting from dj, 8vo

Local Interest. Trueman (Edwin) & Marston (R. Westland), History of Ilkeston [...], first edition, signed and dedicated by Trueman, Ilkeston: Printed and Published by The Pioneer Printing Company, Limited, 1899, illustrated, contemporary quarter-calf over cloth, relaid, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 4to, another copy, similar, 4to, Trueman (Edwin), The New Borough of Ilkeston: A Portrait Gallery of Fifty of its Principal Inhabitants. Published as a Souvenir of the [Golden] Jubilee of [...] Queen Victoria, London: Bemrose & Sons, 1887, illustrated, original pictorial red cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 8vo, a similar copy, later, [...] A Souvenir of the Coronation of [...] George V, Ilkeston: Printed & Publshed by Edwin Trueman, "Pioneer" Office, 1911, original red cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, Borough of Ilkeston. Copy of Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Council, Held on the Ninth Day of November, 1891, stained, original cloth, 8vo, Permanent Record of Queen Victoria's State Visit to Derby [...], Derby: W. Hobson, 1891, illustrated, original pictorial blue cloth, 8vo, Gayton (William Warren), History of the Congregational Church, Ilkeston, sole edition, s.l., s.n., 1928, finely bound in contemporary quarter-morocco gilt over cloth, rubbed, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, (7)

Antique Ceramic Reference. Mundy (Major R.G.), English Delft Pottery, Edition de Luxe copy no. 45/100, signed and numbered by the author, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1928, b/w plates, original vellum gilt over cloth boards, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to The first monograph on English delftware.

Classics. [Lucretius], Titi Lucretii Cari, De rerum natura libri sex, Birminghamæ: Johannis Baskerville, 1772, contemporary French catspaw calf gilt, split, chipped and rubbed, upper-cover bowed and loosening, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, [Gordon 20; Gaskell 43], [&] Rousseau (Jean-Baptiste), Œuvres, two-volume set, first London edition, Londres: Jacob Tonson & Jean Watts, 1723, frontispiece engraved by Gerard Vandergucht after Louis Chéron, contemporary English calf, slightly worn, red-speckled edges, marbled endpapers, 4to, (3)

Swinburne (Charles Algernon), approx. 65 volumes by, mostly first editions in their original publisher's bindings, verse and some drama, including Clarke (Harry, illustrator), Selected Poems, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928, plates and vignettes, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over pictorial scarlet cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [association copy] A Century of Roundels, presented by the author's mother Lady Jane Swinburne (1809-1896) to Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1906), the authoress and a neighbour on the Isle of Wight, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, Hugh Walpole's copy of The Sisters, 1892, both the author's armorial bookplate and cypher book label, original cloth, 8vo, Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, 1870, original wrappers, 8vo, Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876, original wrappers, 8vo, A Word for The Navy, popular edition, 1896, original wrappers, 8vo, Studies in Prose and Poetry, 1894, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, two Mosher imprints on Van Gelder hand-made paper, some secondary studies of the man and his literary work, various, etc., mixed sizes

Yeats (William Butler), The Wild Swans at Coole, first edition thus, "Presentation Copy" blind-stamp to half-title and title, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919, rare in publisher's original dustjacket, now tatty in places, spine scuffed and worn, over blue pictorial cloth designed by Sturge Moore, gilt upper-cover, uncut, 8vo

Local Interest. Deering (Charles, M.D.), Nottinghamia vetus et nova, or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham [...], first edition, Nottingham: Printed by and for, George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751, lacking title, otherwise unexamined, contemporary reverse calf, split and repaired, 4to, two Nottingham election Poll Books, Nottingham: R. Sutton, 1830 & 1855, some repairs and institutional stamps, 20th c morocco over cloth, 12mo in 6s, [India & the 1857 Mutiny] Meek (The Rev. Robert, of Sutton Bonington), The Martyr of Allahabad, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1857, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, some blind-stamps, 8vo, three volumes of Robin Hood's Garlands, 1792, 1800 and n.d. [c. 1800], each chapbook defective &/or repaired, cloth, mixed sizes, Creswell's History of Printing, 1863, original wrappers, repaired, 4to, two of Sir Joseph Bright's scrapbooks of newspaper, journal and periodical clippings, c. 1890, repaired contemporary bindings, 4to, Terrier of the Chamber & Bridge Estates, Corporation of Nottingham, 1871, contemporary floppy roan, oblong folio (33.5 x 44cm), Pendock Barry Barry versus James Butlin, 1836, defective, lacking all prelims, unexamined thereafter, 20th c black cloth, folio (45 x 28.5cm), two volumes of Chaworth's Hunting Songs & Poems, the Belvoir Hunt, Sherwood Gazetteer volume I, some local imprints, etc,. (24) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Miscellaneous. Howitt's Journal, volumes I & II bound as one, London: Published [...] by William Lovett, 1847, printed in black-ruled double-columns, contemporary black quarter-roan over cloth, 8vo, Vernède (R.E.), War Poems & Other Verses, first edition, second impressions, London: William Heinemann, October 1917, original cloth only, some stains and twist, 8vo, Dante's La Divina Commedia, Paris, 1844, contemporary English quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [classics] Schreveli Lexicon, 1781, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 4to, Britain's Life-Boats, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923, original cream cloth gilt, 8vo, Betjeman's Summoned by Bells, first edition, London: John Murray, 1950, original pictorial dustjacket, chipped, over green cloth, 4to, Churchill Family Album signed by Mary Soames (née Churchill), dj, hb, 4to, Brookner (Anita), A Start in Life, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1981, loosely-inserted ALS from the author to a fan, original publisher's dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, idem., Family and Friends, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1985, original dustjacket over cloth, dj torn, 8vo, Scott's Ivanhoe, volume I only, 1822, finely bound in Regency crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, 8vo, Williams (Frederick Smeeton), The Midland Railway [...], London: Strahan & Co., n.d., later cloth 8vo, mid-20th c and later pictorial dustjackets, etc., (17)

Godwin (William), Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England, volumes I & II only, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., et al., 1817, half-titles, original publisher's boards, worn and split, but holding, uncut, contemporary bookseller's ticket to upper-covers: R. Millikens, 34 Grafton St., [London], 12mo, further works by Shelley's father-in-law, including St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, et al., 1831, toned, original publisher's Standard Novels cloth binding, split, twisted, 8vo, two others conforming, The Adventures of Caleb Williams & Fleetwood, 1832, original bindings in varying states, 8vo, etc., (7)  Provenance: William St Clair FBA (1937-2021).

[Machiavelli]. Patricii (Francesco)/[Patricius Franciscus], La militia romana di Polibio, di Tito Livio, e di Dionigi Alicarnaseo, first edition, Ferrara: Domenico Mamarelli, 1583, title-page with the arms of the dedicatee Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, woodcut head and tail pieces, historiated initials, ff: [6], 92, 12 folding etched and engraved plates, first dedication leaf repaired with loss of text, some further repairs, smaller and discreet, with no loss of text, some foxing, 18th c Italian vellum, spine MS lettered, marbled edges, 18th c MS inscription to ffep verso, 4to Provenance: Thomas Francis Fremantle, either the 1st Baron (1798-1890) or 2nd Baron Cottesloe (1830-1918); Golden Age armorial bookplate to pastedown.

Armorial Binding. [Sepulchral epigraphy and epitaphs] Tonjolæ (Johannis) [Tonjola Johannes], Basilea sepulta, retecta, continuata [...], first edition, Basileæ [i.e. Basil]: Typis & Impensis Emanuelis König & Fil, 1661, macabre memento mori additional title-page engraved by Peter Aubry, worm trail affecting it and the following six leaves of text, never with loss of sense, affecting some of the pastedown too, contemporaneous armorial vellum binding over boards, the covers blocked in black with supralibros and fleur-de-lis spandrels, 4to Provenance: Count Franz von Trauttmannsdorff (1662-1719), Austrian diplomat and bibliophile; his armorial binding and bookplate to verso pastedown.

Local Interest. Deering (Charles, M.D.), Nottinghamia vetus et nova, or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham [...], first edition, Nottingham: Printed by and for, George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751, folding and full-page plates, some repaired, rebacked calf with further signs of repair, 4to, Whitby (H. Seely), The Water Veteran's Dinner, Empress Rink, Nottingham, Tuesday June 20th, 1911, printed within decorative turquoise borders, illustrated, original cloth, worn, oblong 8vo, Wylie (William Howie), Old and New Nottingham, volume I only, second edition, London: Longman, et al., 1855, repaired original cloth, 8vo, & Thoroton Sociery Transactions, volumes XXXVII, 1933, XXXIX, 1935, & XLII, 1938, original wrappers, 8vo, (6)  Provenance: 1st: Charles Ichabod Wright (1828-1905), of Stapleford Hall, Nottingham, banker, MP and JP; recto pastedown with ink MS inscription dated 1868. The Deering sold uncollated.

Private Press. Two copies of Weissenborn (Hellmuth, illustrator), Fantasy, limited to 100 copies only, these unnumbered and unsigned, London: The Acorn Press, 1978, Mono Plantin type, 21 hand-coloured linocuts, printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper, original publisher's green papered boards, uncut, slipcases en suite, 4to, miscellaneous other books, including four mixed copies of Popper (Karl R.), Das Elend des Historizismus, comprising the 1st, two of the 2nd, and 5th German editions, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1965, 1969, & 1979, one 2nd edition extensively annotated, probably by an editor, in manuscript with revisions, plus some inserted type-script, mixed bindings, 8vo, Fraser (Lovat, illustrator), Pirates, London: Simpkin Marshall, et al., n.d. [c. 1920], illustrated, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, 8vo, Douglas Adams first edition, original dj over black cloth, 8vo, illustrated books, (10)

Military, History & Politics. Saxe (Field-Marshal Count [Maurice]), Reveries, or Memoirs upon the Art of War, first English edition, London: J. Nourse, 1757, 40 plates engraved by Isaac Basire on 34 sheets, one or two repairs, one or two stable tears, the odd foxed spot, contemporary calf, split, holding, but with some movement, bumped and worn, 4to, Otway (Captain Joseph, translator), Turpin's Essay on the Art of War, volume II only, first English edition, London: A. Hamilton, for W. Johnston, 1761, 21 engraved folding plans and maps only, contemporary speckled calf, 4to, M'Cormick (Charles), Memoirs of Edmund Burke [...], second edition, London: Lee and Hurst 1798, portrait mezzotint, contemporary calf, upper-cover detached, further faults, contemporary bookseller's ticket: J. Gill, Booksellers, Wakefield, 4to, The Annual Register 1771, London: J. Dodsley, 1772, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, etc., (5)  Provenance: 1st: 1) Mutilated contemporary Chippendale armorial bookplate. 2) Octavius Sturges/Sept. 11/1847; ink MS inscription. 3) Thomas Francis Fremantle, either the 1st Baron (1798-1890) or 2nd Baron Cottesloe (1830-1918); Golden Age armorial bookplate to pastedown.

Ireland. Birmingham (George A.) [psued. Hannay (James Owen)] & Yeats (Jack B., illustrator), Irishmen All, first edition, Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1913, tipped-in colour plates, original green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [&] three works by Brendan Behan, dustjackets over cloth as issued, 8vo, (4) 

British India, the Raj and Independence. Keynes (John Maynard), Indian Currency and Finance, first edition, and Keynes' first major work on economics, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913, half-title, clean, ex-lib, their institutional binding and a few stamps, 8vo, Representative Men of Southern India. ?sole edition, Madras: at the Price Current Press, 1896, loose albumen print photographic frontispiece, some further movement, original publisher's green cloth, 8vo, Giani (Kesar Singh), Indian Independence Movement in East Asia [...], first edition, Lahore: Singh Brothers, n.d. [1947], ex-lib, boards, 8vo, [&] Ambedkar (B.R.), History of Indian Currency and Banking, first edition, Bombay [i.e. Mumbai]: Thacker and Company Ltd., 1947, original publisher's cloth, tacked-on spine repair, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, (4) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. The first three ex-lib.

Miscellaneous. [De Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)], Jugement de Pluton, sur les deux parties des nouveaux dialogues des morts, first edition, Paris: G. Quinet, 1684, contemporary English speckled calf, split, some losses, 8vo, [Bouhours (Dominique)], Histoire de Pierre d'Aubusson, grand-maistre de Rhodes, second edition, Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1677, contemporary calf, worn, 18th and early 19th c Bibliothèque de Marseille stamps to title-page, 12mo, [Aikin (John)], The Calendar of Nature; Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young Persons, second edition, London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, early 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, perished spine, some movement, 12mo, & [Americana], [Watts (William)], The Yahoo; a Satirical Rhapsody, first edition, New York: Printed and Published by H. Simpson, 1830, half-title, original publisher's grey papered boards, spine perished, disbound, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: 1st: Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex PC (1670-1710); his Jacobean armorial bookplate dated 1701, verso of title-page.

Miscellaneous. [Justinian, Corpus Juris Civilis] Institutiones, Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevier, 1676, engraved frontispiece, printed in black and red, rear lacking 3 pages, 18th c English vellum, spine chipped, yellow-stained edges, book label contemporary to binding: Dr G S Jenks/Circus/Bath, 8vo, defective Elsevier imprints of Livy, [Provincial Imprints] Salmon (W., translator), Memoirs of [Frederick the Great] [...], Nottingham: Sam. Creswell, and sold by J. Deacres, 1759, lacks frontispiece, archive repairs, 20th c institutional morocco over boards, uncut, 8vo, [&] Dr. Watt's Historical Catechisms, Nottingham: E.B. Robinson, 1817, stained and repaired, institutional cloth binding and markings, 12mo, [Australia] Howitt (William), Tallangetta, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1857, original publisher's cloth over boards, now split and disbound, uncut, 8vo, [India & the 1857 Mutiny] Meek (The Rev. Robert, of Sutton Bonington), The Martyr of Allahabad, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1857, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, some blind-stamps, 8vo, Wakefield (Gilbert), Silva Critica, parts I & II bound as one, Cantabrigiensis: typis academicis excudebat J. Archdeacon, et al., 1789-90, 20th c half-calf over green cloth, 8vo, odd volumes of Wakefield's other works, classics, harlequin volumes of Dodsley's poems, mixed bindings and sizes, etc Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Cookery. Smith (E.), The Compleat (sic) Housewife, tenth edition, London: J. and H. Pemberton, 1741, black-ruled title-page, it and the frontispiece reinforced at the gutter, folding plates, otherwise unexamined, 20th c tan levant morocco over bevelled boards, 8vo, Jarrin (W.A.), The Italian Confectioner, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861, uncollated, some folding plates repaired, 20th c calf over green cloth boards, 8vo, Macdonald's London Family Cook, London: Albion Press, n.d. [1812], defective, 8vo, Anon, Practical Economy, first edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1821, contemporary quarter-calf, 12mo, idem., third edition, 1823, original publisher's cloth over boards, bumped and split, 8vo, idem., ?fourth edition, 1824, 20th c papered boards, uncut, 8vo, Kitchiner (William), The Cook's Oracle, London: Houlston and Wright, 1860, original cloth, some movement, 8vo, Williamson & Son, The Practice of Cookery and Pastry, ninth and thirteenth editions, mixed publishers, 1870 & 1875, 8vo, Wells' Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Baker's Assistant, 1890, pictorial advertisements, original cloth, 8vo, The Family Economist, volumes I to IV bound as two, 1848-51, 20th c blue calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Francatelli's The Cook's Guide, 1874, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Eaton's Cook and Housekeeper's Dictionary, 1833, worn, original cloth, 8vo, Panton's From Kitchen to Garret, seventh edition, 1890, cloth, stained, 8vo, Hues, Ornamental Confectionery, [New York], 1893, used, cloth, 8vo, Acton's Modern Cookery, eighth edition, 1849, defective, original cloth, 8vo, Anon, Every Family's Cook Book, Wakefield: William Nicholson and Son, n.d., original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, Food and Diet, New York: Fowler & Wells, n.d., original cloth, 4to, Anon, The Housekeeper's Guide, London: Jackson and Walford, 1834, original publisher's cloth, faults, 8vo, etc., (27)

17th Century Religion & Politics. [Puritanism] Brightman (Thomas), The Revelation of Saint John, ?first edition, Amsterdam: Printed by Thomas Stafford, 1644, ?lacking frontispiece (pencil inscription, but not called for by ESTC), black-ruled title-page, printed in double-columns, stained but legible, dormant worm trails, archival repairs, 20th c institutional calf over cloth, gilt, 4to, idem., A Most Comfortable Exposition [...] of the Prophecy of Daniel [...], s.l., s.n., 1644, black-ruled title-page, printed in double-columns, some minor worming, 20th c institutional morocco over cloth, gilt, 4to, [&] [English Civil War] Anon, Englands (sic) dust and ashes raked up, or, the King and people beguiled [...], first edition, s.l. [London], s.n., 1648, ornmanetal title-page border, first four leaves archive repaired, further wear, 20th c blue buckram, 4to, (3) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Illustrated Books. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) & Evans (C.S.), Cinderella, first trade edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, tipped-in colour frontispiece, further monochrome illustrations and in-text vignettes, original publisher's dustjacket, somewhat chipped and creased in places, cloth over pictorial papered boards, bumped, 8vo, Tiger Tim's Annual, 1924, original pictorial boards, 4to, [&] Rice Burroughs, Jungle Girl, 1933, original green cloth only, 8vo, (3)

Donne (John, late Dean of St. Pauls), Poems &c. with Elegies on the Author's Death. To which is added, Divers (sic) Copies under his own hand, never before printed, fifth edition overall, first thus with five newly-printed poems including 'To His Mistress Going to Bed', [London] In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. [Thomas Newcomb] for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange, 1669, complete, though lacking the blanks [A1] & [Dd8], collating: [vi], 414, some erroneous pagination, page 153 line 6 with first setting "Vice-covering", title-page and the following two preliminary leaves [A2-4] repaired at the inner-gutter, signatures H2-3 & I with small chips to upper-right fore-edge but without loss of pagination numerals, some toning and light foxed spots in places throughout, never affecting the legibility of text, in-keeping 20th c panelled calf over boards, 8vo, [Keynes 84; Wing D1871].

Travel & Exploration. [Egyptology] Budge (E.A. Wallis), The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archaeology, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1893, folding and full-page plates, in-text hieroglyphs and epigraphy, split gutter but holding, original publisher's cloth, spine sunned, some bumps, uncut, ffep inscribed in MS: Temple Wickham Hillyard, 8vo, Thomas (Bertram), Arabia Felix, first edition, second impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1932, foxed title, frontispiece, original cloth, slight wear and bumps, uncut, unopened in places, ffep with cancelled Repton School Library stamp and inscribed: This book belonged to William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 8vo, Conway (Sir Martin), Palestine and Morocco: Lands of the Overlap, first edition, London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923, plates, original publisher's green cloth, uncut, ffep with cancelled Repton School Library stamp, 8vo, [&] Childe, New Light on the Most Ancient Near East, 1935, cloth, 8vo, (4)

Crime & Detective Fiction. Rankin (Ian), The Watchman, first edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1988, ex-lib, dj, hb, 8vo, six further Rankin novels, three of which are signed by the author, Burke (James Lee), The Neon Rain, first UK edition, Century, 1989, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., The Tin Roof Blowdown, tipped-in author's signature with numbered limitation citation, first UK edition, Orion, 2007, dj, hb, 8vo, another ten JLB novels, Harvey (John), Lonely Hearts, tipped-in author's signature, first UK edition, Viking, 1989, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., Now's the Time, signed by the author, Slow Dance Press, 1999, dj, hb, 8vo, nine more novels by John Harvey, five of which are signed, Wilson (Robert), Blood in Dirt, first edition, London: Harper Collins, 1997, ex-lib, dj, hb, 8vo, Child (Lee), The Visitor, signed, first edition, 2000, dj, hb, 8vo, another Lee Child first edition, Connelly (Michael), A Darkness More than Night, first edition, Orion Press, 2001, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., The Drop, signed by the author, Orion Press, 2011, dj, hb, 8vo, a further three Michael Connelly novels, James (P.D.), A Certain Justice, signed by the author, first edition, 1997, dj, hb, 8vo, James (Peter), Looking Good Dead, signed first edition, 2006, dj, hb, 8vo, Grey (Harry), Once Upon a Time in America, 1997, pb, 8vo, Stuart MacBride first edition, three Peter Straub first editions, two Jeff Lindsay first editions, Denise Mina, etc., (52)

Wilde (Oscar). Crosland (T.W.H.), Sonnets, first edition, association copy inscribed and autographed by Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, sometime lover of Oscar Wilde, London: John Richmond Limited, 1912, half-title, black-ruled title, pp: 28, [1], split, original publisher's papered boards, perished spine, worn and faded, 8vo Provenance: Clonmell/from/Alfred Douglas/Christmas 1912, half-title with ink MS inscription; ?Rupert Scott, 7th Earl of Clonmell (1877-1928) After the trials Wilde v. Queensberry (1895) and Regina v. Wilde (1895), Crosland, the author of these sonnets, united with Douglas, their association developing into friendship, and together they eventually persecuted Robbie Ross in the civil courts in a variety of actions. They also repeatedly wrote and visited the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions, trying to ensure Ross's arrest for homosexual offences. In 1914, Robbie Ross, Oscar Wilde's literary executor and rival for Wilde's affection, charged Crosland with criminal libel, plus writs for criminal conspiracy and perjury against Douglas and Crosland jointly. Crosland was found not guilty, though the judge did say that acquittal would not imply that Ross was guilty of any offence. By 1912, more than a decade after Wilde's death, the year he presented this volume as a Christmas gift, already having converted to Roman-Catholicism, Douglas began to repudiate Wilde and condemn his homosexuality, in part aggravated by the release of suppressed portions of Wilde's De Profundis. Douglas's revulsion at his own former life would manifest itself in the right-wing, Catholic, and occasionally anti-Semitic, weekly magazine Plain English that he and Crosland would later found in 1920.

Botany. Keith (The Rev. Patrick, FLS), A System of Physiological Botany, Illustrated by Nine Engravings, two-volume set, first edition, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816, 9 line engraved plates, foxed and annotated in MS pencil, contemporary quarter-roan gilt over marbled boards, contemporary MS ownership inscriptions to title-pages: W: Rowland, ffeps only with the later stamp of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club (Shropshire), 8vo, Smith (Jacob Edward) & Römer (Johann Jacob, editor), Flora Britannica, three-volume set, Turica: Henrici Gessneri, 1804-5, later faux leather over contemporary marbled boards, 8vo, Catalogue of the Library of Albert C. Burrage, Esq., Manchester, Massachusetts, sole edition, Boston: Thomas Todd Company, Printers, 1930, original green cloth, 8vo, Rhind's History of the Vegetable Kingdom, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, 1855, double-column, 22 colour plates, others monochrome, contemporary diced calf gilt, rubbed, bumped, and starting to split, 4to, McIntosh's Greenhouse, London, 1838, repaired, 8vo, Rohde's Old English Herbals, 1922, 4to, two Loudon monographs, a defective 19th c Culpeper's Herbal, etc., (13)

European Literature. Fouqué (Lamotte), [Bowring (John, translator)], & Cruikshank (George, illustrator), Peter Schlemihl: from the German, first English edition, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824, foxed in places, contemporary calf gilt, worn with some losses, marbled endpapers, 12mo, Bouilly (Jean-Nicolas), Conseils à ma fille, London, 1817, contemporary mottled sheep, 12mo, etc., some politics, including a Russian imprint on Africa &/or colonialism, Moscow, 1918, original wrappers, 8vo, etc Provenance: 1st: the Woburn Abbey copy, Bedfordshire. Recto pastedown with the armorial bookplate of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766-1839).

Sitwelliana. Approximately 60 volumes, including Sitwell (Osbert), Left Hand, Right Hand!, presentation copies, signed and dedicated by the author to R. Johns, five-volume set, mixed editions, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1946-1950, pictorial dustjackets by H. Cowdell, red cloth, 8vo, a further eight works, signed, dedicated, and/or including letters from the author, including correspondence on Renishaw Hall or Castello di Montegufoni writing-paper, original pictorial dustjackets, 8vo, Sitwell: (Osbert) & Sacheverell), All at Sea, [London]: Duckworth, 1927, pictorial dustjacket designed by Cecil Beaton, blue cloth, 8vo, Sitwell (Edith), two works signed and dedicated from the poetess, comprising Green Song, 1944, & Notebook on William Shakespeare, 1948, inscribed to James Pope-Hennessy (1916-1974), original cloth, 8vo, Sitwell (Osbert), Argonaut and Juggernaut, signed and dated 1931 by the author, first edition, 1919, fragmentary rare dustjacket, cloth, pictorial bookplate to pastedown: Charles Berry, St. James's Street, London SW, 8vo, other works by the siblings, mostly first editions, various, mostly 8vo

Miscellaneous. [Ireland] Birmingham (George A.) [psued. Hannay (James Owen)], The Seething Pot, first edition, first impression, London: Edward Arnold, 1905, original publisher's pictorial cloth, uncut, 8vo, Lord Chesterfield's Letters, copy no. 108/525, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890, original publisher's quarter-vellum over blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, [Scarce Devon Baptist Sermons] Pierce (Samuel Eyles) & Hawker (The Rev. Robert, D.D., editor), An Essay towards an unfolding the Glory of Christ [...]., volume I (but complete in itself), London: S. Couchman, et al., 1808, contemporary sombre black calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Beaton (Cecil), The Face of the World, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, n.d. [1957], original pictorial dustjacket, worn, chipped and with further losses, green cloth, 4to, parts 1 & 49 of the copyright edition of Charles Dickens, coloured plates, in-text illustrations, original wrappers, 4to, classical texts, including Blomfield's edition of Aeschylus's Agamemnon, 1818, contemporary binding of calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Isocrates, 1872, cloth, 8vo, Clark on Civilization, 1972, morocco over blue cloth, 4to, Robert Browning first edition, T.E. Lawrence, local interest, bibliography, etc., (17)

Cowboys and Spaghetti Westerns. Weisser (Thomas), Spaghetti Westeners - the God, the Bad and the Violent, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1992, dustjacket over cloth, sunned spine, 8vo, Frayling (Christopher), Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy, 2008, pb, 4to, Gatto (Steve), Johnny Ringo, signed first edition, 2002, dj, hb, 8vo, Wyatt Earp, 1997, dj, hb, 8vo, etc., (13) 

Lack (David), Swifts in a Tower, first edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1956, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Ralph Thompson, the back of which is lightly foxed in places, blue cloth, 8vo, Association Copy, Harting (J.E.), A Handbook of British Birds, signed by and dedicated from the author to Auberon Herbert MP, London: John Van Voorst, 1872, original cloth, slight losses to sunned spine, uncut, 8vo, further works on natural history, wildlife and fens, others, 18th c and later, including [Goodall (W.)], The Adventures of Capt. Greenland, volume III only, sole edition, London: R. Baldwin, 1752, unexamined, contemporary calf, 8vo, (10) Provenance: 2nd) To the Hon. Auberon Herbert MP./With the author's compliments/A souvenir of ***/of 1873, ink MS inscription to verso of ffep. A year earlier Herbert played a leading role in the passing of the Protection of Wild Birds Act 1872; no doubt Harting, a leading ornithologist and natural historian, was grateful to the Liberal libertarian MP for his efforts, and this book may have been a token of that thanks.

British India and the Raj. The War in India. Despatches of [...] Hardinge, The Governor-General of India; [...] Gough, Commander-in-Chief; [...] Smith [...] and other documents; comprising the engagements of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon; with a map of the country, and seven plans of the positions of the army, second edition, London: John Ollivier and Ackermann & Co., 1846, 3 folding hand-coloured maps/plans, of which Sobraon is torn and now detached, browned, a few tatty and chipped leaves, 20th century half-leather, 8vo, Cooper (Frederic, Esq., C.S.), The Crisis in the Punjab, from the 10th of May until the Fall of Delhi, first London edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858, half-title, lacking map, ex-lib, their binding and faults, 8vo, Ruggles (Major-General J.), Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1845-1876, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1906, ex-lib, their red cloth, bookplate, and blindstamp, otherwise OK, 8vo, Recollections Captain Bellew's Memoirs of a Griffin [...], London, 1880, original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, Edwards' Reminiscences of a Bengal Civilian, London, 1866, ex-lib, rebacked and repaired cloth, 8vo, two Indian imprints, including Selections from the Records of Government, North-Western Provinces. Second Series, volume III only, Allahabad: Printed at the Government Press, 1870, later cloth, 8vo, etc., (7) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. The two Indian imprints each with various degrees of worming.