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Tarot Cards. Dummett (Michael), The Game of Tarot, from Ferrara to Salt Lake City. Duckworth, 1980, first edition, quarto, worn dust jacket; Waite (Arthur Edward), The Pictorial Key to the Tarot ... William Rider, 1911, first edition, original cloth; Wirth (Oswald), Le Tarot, Des Imagiers du Moyen Age ... Planches Paris: Le Symbolisme, 1926, eleven colour plates, each with two card illustrations,in original card folder (text volume not present); with a collection of Tarot and fortune telling cards, various modern packs, including Akron & Giger's Baphomet (boxed) and Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot Cards (boxed). One earlier pack present, in a later folding card cover with the label 'Tarocchi di Firenze'. [Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (qty)

Magic, Prophecy, Hermetics and the Occult.Bennett (Sir Ernest), Apparitions and Haunted Houses, A Survey of Evidence.Faber and Faber, August 1939, first edition, foxing to endapers, contents VG, original cloth (spine slightly faded, top edge dust marked).Grant (Kenneth & Steffi), Hidden Lore, The Carfax Monographs.Skoob, 1989, numbered limited edition of 1000, folio, ten mounted colour plates, Fine, original cloth gilt.Vaughan (Thomas) & Waite (Arthur Edward), The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan …George Redway, 1888, first edition thus, large taped repair to page 5, marginal tears, tanning, front endpaper split at hinge, Perkins Collection bookplate, original cloth dust marked with darkened spine;Gettings (Fred), Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils.Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, first edition, ex public library copy from the collection of the author, dust jacket;Barrett (Francis), The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer, Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy .... Volumes 1 - 9.Helios, 1964-66, numbered limited edition of 200, nine volumes, illustrated, original cloth-backed boards (some foxing to covers and edges);Steiner (Dr. Rudolf), A small collection of lectures given in 1924, typescript with colour illustrations, a 'Private Manuscript' for members of the Anthroposophical Society, worn wraps; with a small quantity of others.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (qty)

Nostradamus (Michel).Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [36], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, gutter gaping in places, front endpaper creased, manuscript on rear pastedown, small bookplate to front pastedown with name scratched off, worn calf gilt (backstrip partially detached with loss to head);idem, Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus …Rouen: Jean-B. Besongne, 1710, French text, [34], 216 pages including frontis and two full page portraits within pagination, lacking a preliminary leaf (a11), small hole in frontis, obscured annotation to title and frontis recto, vellum binding, modern slipcase;idem, Les Vraies Centuries, Presages et Predictions de Maitre Michel Nostradamus …Anvers: Peter wan Duren, 1792, French text, x, [2], xii, 136, xxii, 137-312 pages, some foxing/staining, small bookplate to title verso, marbled endpapers, quarter calf binding;With a modern facsimile of the 1557 first edition in faux leather binding with slipcase.[Provenance - The Fred Gettings Library]. (4)

Whales and Whaling.Markham (Albert Hastings), A Whaling Cruise to Baffin’s Bay and the Gulf of Boothia and an Account of the Rescue of the Crew of the ‘Polaris’.Sampson Low, Marston …, 1875, second edition, plates as called for, original cloth gilt;Bullen (Frank T.), The Cruise of the ‘Cachalot’, Round the World After Sperm Whales.Smith Elder, 1898, first edition, folding map and plates as called for, original cloth gilt;Struthers (John), Memoir on the Anatomy of the Humpback Whale ...Edinburgh: MacLachlan and Stewart, 1889, reprint from the ‘Journal of Anatomy and Physiology’, six lithographic plates, presentation slip ‘From the author’, original cloth;Beale (Thomas), The Natural History of the Sperm Whale …. To which is added, A Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage …Holland Press, 1973, facsimile edition, dust jacket;Elliott (Gerald), A Whaling Enterprise, Salvesen in the Antarctic.Michael Russell, 1998, first edition, dust jacket;With Fifteen Others. [not collated]. (20)

Lee (Harper).To Kill A Mockingbird.Heinemann, 1960, first British edition, gift inscription to front free endpaper, small address label to front pastedown under jacket flap, dust jacket (priced 16s., a little wear to corners).Contents generally VG, single spot to lower fore-edge margin of las few leaves (see image), closed edges tanned with some very light spotting. Dust jacket worn with splitting to jacket joints and wear to corners (see multiple images).

Polar Exploration.A large quantity of books on exploration, predominantly polar exploration, including;Rymill (John), Southern Lights, The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937.Chatto and Windus, 1938, first edition, plates, folding map, torn and price-clipped dust jacket;Nansen (Fridtjof), 'Farthest North' Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 ....Archibald Constable, 1897, first edition, two volumes, plates and maps, original cloth (worn);Bagshawe (Thomas Wyatt), Two Men in the Antarctic, An Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-1922.Cambridge University Press, 1939, first edition, plates, folding panoramas, original cloth;Scoresby (Rev. W.), Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research.Longman Green ... 1859, first edition, portrait frontis, publisher's presentation stamps, orginal cloth;Anon., Cook's Voyages Round the World, for Making Discoveries towards the North and South Poles.Manchester: Sowler and Russell, 1799, portrait frontis in facsimile, five plates as called for, modern quarter calf; Thomson (C. Wyville), The Depths of the Sea. An Account of the General Results of the Dredging Cruises of H.M.SS 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' ...Macmillan, 1874, second edition, maps and plates, original cloth;Scott (Capt. Robert F.), The Voyage of the 'Discovery'.Macmillan, 1905, two volumes, maps and plates, original cloth.[not collated]. (qty)

Clarendon (Edward, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 ... Oxford, printed at the Theater, 1702-03-04, first edition, three large-paper folio volumes (printed in fours), portrait frontis to each, [4], xxiii, [1], 557, [1]; [16], 581, [1]; [24], 603, [23] pages, page size 437mm x 280mm; 452mm x 280mm and 445mm x 280mm. Contemporary panelled sprinkled calf (re-backed, joint cracks in places). ESTC N9847, N9850, T147811.idem, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England ……Written by Himself.Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759, large folio, possibly large paper copy, page size 452mm x 285mm, portrait frontis, [8], 133, [3], 523, [13] pages, worn contemporary calf gilt. Vol I: water stain to lower margin corner, occasional spotting, some age toning, marginal tear to F4, gutter gaping after half-title which is a little pulled. Some restoration to head and tail of spine but front joint cracking.Vol II, small stain to 3H4, occasional spotting, lower corner stain to later leaves, nibbled fore-edge of last few leaves, gutter gaping after half title.Vol III, water stain to A4, occasional spotting, dust marking to head margin in places, .Life - occasional dust marking to head margins.

Thorburn (Archibald).Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland.Longmans, Green, 1923, first edition, folio, thirty colour plates, foxing, top edge gilt, red cloth gilt;idem, A Naturalist’s Sketch Book.Longmans, Green, 1919, first edition, quarto, sixty plates (colour and monochrome), foxing, top edge gilt, red cloth gilt;idem, British Mammals.Longmans, Green, 1920, first edition, two quarto volumes, fifty colour plates, foxing, top edges gilt, red cloth gilt.idem, British Birds.Longmans, Green, 1918, fourth and third editions, four quarto volumes, eighty-two colour plates, foxing to pages, pastedown rippled, top edges gilt, red cloth gilt. (8)[Provenance - Dutton Manor, Lancs.]

Georgano (Nick) edit. The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile, Volumes 1, A-L & 2, M-Z. The Stationary Office, 2000, first edition, two large quarto volumes, dust jackets; Bayley (Stephen), Cars - Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything. Conran Octopus, 2008, first edition, quarto, suede binding, original slipcase. (3)

Stoker (Bram).The Jewel of Seven Stars.William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, tanning to pages, particularly the margins, foxing to endpapers, dust-marked closed edges, dust-marked original cloth with rubbing to joints and head and tail of spine. [Dalby p. 40]

Whales and Whaling.Scoresby (William).An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery.Edinburgh: Archibald Constable .., 1820, first edition, two volumes, xx, 551, [1], 82; viii, 574 pages plus advert leaf, three folding tables, twenty four plates including folding chart and two folding frontispieces, extensive corner turning to volume I which also has some intelligent annotation in erasable pencil, dust marked edges, particularly the top edges, original boards (spines worn and cracked, upper board detached from volume I);idem, Journal of A Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool.Edinburgh: Archibald Constable .., 1823, first edition, xliv, 472 pages, seven of eight plates (lacking first chart), some corner turning and annotation in erasable pencil, dust marked top edge, original boards (spine worn and cracked);Scoresby (Rev. William), Memorials of the Sea. My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby.Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851, first edition, viii, 232 pages, may lack a portrait*, [bound with]idem, Memorials of the Sea. Sabbaths in the Arctic Regions.Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850, second edition, viii, 155, [1] pages, dust marked top edge, endpapers splitting at hinge, original cloth original cloth.[*Copac calls for a portrait, however this appears uncommon, all copies previously examined and those found currently in commerce also lack this.]

Polar Exploration.The South Polar Times, 1902 - 1911. Centenary Edition. Orskey-Bonham-Niner, 2002, numbered limited edition of 350, three quarto volumes, original cloth with inset pictorial panel;Cherry-Garrard (Apsley) edit., The South Polar Times, 1912, The First Facsimile of Volume IV.Scott Polar Research Institute-Bonham, 2010, numbered limited edition of 500, quarto, original cloth uniform with first three volumes.Some rubbing to outer bottom edges of text block (see image on website), otherwise Fine copies, free of inscriptions.

Fielding (Xan).The Stronghold, An Account of the Four Seasons in The White Mountains of Crete.Secker & Warburg, 1953, first edition, frontis and plates as called for, map endpapers, dust jacket (priced 21s.);idem, Hide and Seek, The Story of a War-time Agent.Secker & Warburg, 1954, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on half title, additionally signed on the title page, plates as called for, map endpapers, dust jacket (priced 15s.).[Major Xan Fielding, DSO, CdeG., was a Special Operations Executive agent in WWII, serving in Crete (with Patrick Leigh Fermor), France and the Far East.]

Mackesy (Charlie).The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.Ebury Press (Penguin), 2020, first printing of this limited edition, signed 'Charlie x' on label at head of half title, lower corners bumped, original cloth-backed boards;idem, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.Harper One, 2021, a 2021 printing of the 2019 first edition, signed 'Charlie Mackesy x' on label at tail of half title, original cloth-backed boards;idem, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.Ebury Press (Penguin), 2022, first printing of this edition, signed 'Charlie Mackesy x' on label at tail of half title, original boards. (3)2020 - Lower corners bumped, very slight dent to fore-edge of rear board. Otherwise Fine.2021 - Fine2021 - Fine

Polar Exploration.Bull (Colin) & Wright (Pat F.) edits.Silas. The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright.Ohio State University Press, 1992, numbered limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the editors, cloth, slipcase;Wilson (D.M.) & Elder (D.B.), Cheltenham in Antarctica, the Life of Edward Wilson.Reardon Publishing, 2000, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the authors, bonded leather binding with inset portrait, slipcase;Ludecke (Cornelia) & Summerhayes (Colin), The Third Reich in Antarctica, The German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39.Bluntisham Books, 2012, signed by one of the authors, dust jacket;Mills (Leif), Frank Wild.Caedmon of Whitby, 1999, first edition, signed by the author, dust jacket;Skelton (J.V.) & Wilson (D.M.), Discovery Illustrated, Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition.Reardon Publishing, 2001, Centenary Edition, folio, signed by the authors, dust jacket. (5)

Fitzgerald (Edward) transl.Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909], numbered limited edition of 750 copies, signed by the artist, twenty mounted colour plates with printed tissue guards, top edge gilt, outstanding vellum gilt binding with silk ties.Free of inscriptions, the first plate has a light corner crease, otherwise Fine contents, tanning to extremes of uncut edges, bookplate to front pastedown, top edge dust marked, very clean vellum.

Williamson (Dr. George C.).Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery, 1590-1676. Her Life, Letters and Work …Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1922, numbered limited edition of 250, with author’s signature to limitation label, frontis, fifty-three plates (some printed recto and verso), two folding pedigrees, uncut edges, armorial bookplate, original quarter vellum binding. Front hinge a little weak, otherwise a VG copy. Ffinch (Michael), Westmorland Poems.Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1980, signed by the illustrator Caroline Metcalfe-Gibson, half morocco binding [with]idem, The Dame School at Raisbeck.Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1984, half morocco binding (spine faded), both volumes housed in double slipcase.Thompson (Ralph), An Artist’s Safari.Collins, 1979, one of twenty numbered copies reserved for fine binding by Zaehnsdorf, this copy for Hugh Fattorini, top edge gilt, quarter morocco with vellum corners, slipcase;Lancaster (Osbert) & Scott-James (Anne), The Pleasure Garden.John Murray, 1977, first edition, one of ten numbered copies reserved for fine binding by Zaehnsdorf, this copy for Hugh Fattorini, top edge gilt, quarter morocco with vellum corners, slipcase;Hartley (Marie), The Yorkshire Dales, Wood Engravings by Marie Hartley.Smith Settle, 1989, quarter cloth, slipcase;idem, The Yorkshire Dales, A Further Selection, Wood Engravings by Marie Hartley.Smith Settle, 1991, prospectus loosely inserted, quarter cloth, slipcase. (7)

Polar Exploration.Decleir (Hogo) edit., Roald Amundsen's Belgica Diary. The first scientific expedition to the Antarctic.Bluntisham Books, 1999, first English edition, dust jacket;Decleir (Hugo) & De Broyer (Claude) edits., The Belgica Expedition Centennial ...Brussels University Press, 2001, folio, original boards;Lagerbom (C.H.), The Fifth Man, Henry R. Bowers.Caedmon of Whitby, 1999, first edition, dust jacket;Back (June Debenham), The Quiet Land, The Diaries of Frank Debenham, Member of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913.Bluntisham Books, 1992, first edition, dust jacket;Ludecke (Cornelia) & Summerhayes (Colin), The Third Reich in Antarctica, The German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39.Bluntisham Books, 2012, first edition, dust jacket;von Drygalski (Erich), The Southern Ice-Continent, The German South Polar Expedition aboard the Gauss, 1901-1903.Bluntisham Books, 1989, first English edition, folio, cloth. (6)

Dahl (Roald).Matilda.Jonathan Cape, 1988, first edition, illustrated by Quentin Blake, dust jacket (obscured price);idem, The BFG.Jonathan Cape, 1982, first edition, illustrated by Quentin Blake, dust jacket (priced £6.50);with seven others by Roald Dahl, all first editions. (9)

Rowling (J.K.) - Signed.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Bloomsbury, 2000, first edition, seventh printing, inscribed ‘to Katie, best wishes, J K Rowling’, previous owner’s name to front pastedown under jacket flap, front hinge a little weak, very light spotting to closed edges, some dust marking to top edge, printed by Mackays of Chatham, dust jacket (priced £14.99).[We are advised that the book was signed during a fundraising event at North Foreland Lodge in Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire. The event was reported in ‘The Daily Echo’, 23rd Feb. 2001.]

Bell (Currer) [Charlotte Bronte].Villette.Smith Elder, 1853, first edition, three volumes, [iv], 324; [iv], 319, [1]; [iv], 350, [2] pages, last page blank, bound without catalogue, armorial bookplates, contemporary half calf. Later calf-edged slipcase. Smith 6.[From the library of John Gilbert Winant, US Ambassador to England, then to Gilbert Verney].Contents clean and free of inscriptions, minor stain to vol. 1 B4-5, slight gaping to gutter before contents page of vol. 1, very minor spotting/foxing to fore-edges, spines darkened, spines, joints and marbled boards rubbed.

Mixed pictures to include a Pat Mallinson limited edition etching entitled 'First Child', two Niran oil painting portraits on banana skins and othersLocation:

Spode presentation, limited edition boxed pieces (5), no cracks or chips. UK P&P Group 2 (£20+VAT for the first lot and £4+VAT for subsequent lots)

Lorna Bailey Old Ellgreave Pottery wall pocket, Mexicana, limited edition 48/250, no chips or cracks, L: 13 cm. UK P&P Group 2 (£20+VAT for the first lot and £4+VAT for subsequent lots)

Lorna Bailey Old Ellgreave Pottery wall pocket, Mexicana, limited edition 73/250, hairline crack to back, L: 14 cm. UK P&P Group 2 (£20+VAT for the first lot and £4+VAT for subsequent lots)

[SIGNED] Carrying The Fire, An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins with a foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh, published N.Y., Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1974, first edition third printing, in publisher's cloth and colour dust-wrapper. Signed & inscribed in ink by the author Michael Collins (American Astronaut and member of the Crew on Apollo XI) to Dr. Margaret Weston (Director of The Science Museum) and dated 1977 on endpaper

Gilbert & George The Complete Pictures 1971-2005 in 2 volumes with an introduction by Rudi Fuchs, published Tate 2007 first edition illustrated with over 1,000 pictures, in hardbound volumes with gilt titles in dust-wrappers & folding card slipcase

Twenty-six Battletech table top wargame rulebooks and supplements to include second and fourth edition boxed sets 1604, Master Rules 1707, Shattered Sphere 1712, First Strike 1697, Crusader Clans 1706 and Warden Clans 1711, FASA Corp.

[Peep-Show] The Picture Post Coronation Peep-Show Book, Devised & Drawn by Edwin Smith with a commentary on the Ceremony & Regalia by Olive Cook, published Hulton Press 1953 first edition

The Cricket on The Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens, published Bradbury & Evans 1846, first edition with frontispiece, engraved title page and 12 illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle etc, bound in original publisher's gilt cloth

[Cookery] The Modern Cuisine and Book of Household Receipts compiled by Nina B. Bingham published Carrick & Young, The Poultry 1887 first edition includes sections on Christmas Fare, Breakfast Dishes, Sauces etc, bound in half leather marbled boards and gilt title (some twisting to boards), together with a copy of Penny’s Improved Commercial Pocket Book with Almanack for 1843 with engraved frontispiece, numerous ink notes, in a leather wrap-around wallet binding (2)

[Pre-Raphaelite] Poems by Alfred Tennyson published Edward Moxon 1857 the first edition with engravings by members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, including J.E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, Holman-Hunt & others and portrait medallion by Thomas Woolner, bound in publisher's gilt cloth

The Anatomy of The Horse Including A Particular Description of the Bones, Cartilages, Muscles, Fascias, Ligaments etc In 18 Tables, all done from Nature by George Stubbs, Painter – The Original 1766 edition and illustrations with a modern veterinary paraphrase by James McCunn assisted by C.W. Ottaway with 24 additional plates for Stubb’s drawings for this work now published for the first time, London J.A. Allen 1965, bound in full imitation leather & in original dust-wrapper (folio)

The New Book of Poultry by Lewis Wright with 45 plates in colour and black & white by J.W. Ludlow and The Poultry Cub Standards of Perfection for the Various Breeds, published Cassell & Co. (1902) first edition, bound in half leather with raised bands, gilt spine and leather labels

[Signed] The Story of The Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922 The Romance of a Great Project and How it has Materialised & Story of its Creators, compiled, illustrated & edited by Leo Weinthal The Pioneer Publishing Company (1922) Volume 1 only, first edition with maps, portraits & facsimiles, folio bound in half leather with gilt spine (bottom edge of pages suffering an unusual amount of loss/damage), inscribed by author on dedication

[First Peacock Edition] Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen with preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, published George Allen 1894, peacock edition bound in elaborate gilt decorated cloth with peacock design to upper cover and spine and with gilt lettering (some rubbing of gilt on cover and owner's bookplate endpaper)

Family Devotions for Every Morning and Evening throughout the Year translated from Sturm & Tiede by Thomas Gaspey published London Printing Co (c.1850s) 2 volumes (bound in one) with many full-page plates, bound in full leather with decorated gilt spine. The first four books of Milton’s Paradise Lost by C.W. Connon 1855. Practical Measuring by E. Hoppus, 1751 third edition, bound in leather. The Whole Duty of Man printed for John Eyres, William Mount & Thomas Page 1744 with engraved title and frontispiece, bound in leather (worn). Vulgar Fractions, a handwritten exercise book dated 1833 (worn) together with two Dictionaries (7)

Robin Tanner, The Etchings, published Garton & Co 1988, first edition limited to 1000 copies, this copy is bound in full imitation leather with gilt lettered spine and there are pencil corrections & notes through the Biographical section suggesting perhaps a publisher's / author's proof copy

H.G. Wells World Brain, published Methuen & Co. Ltd 1938 first edition, publisher's orange cloth, in original dust-wrapper

A large quantity of model diecast vehicles, various manufacturers including Burago, Corgi, First Edition, etc.

WODEHOUSE (P.G), EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS, first edition, d.j., orange cloth, Herbert Jenkins, 1940 (1)

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, ROWLING (J.K.), 1998 hardback, first edition, first issue, with original dust jacketCondition good. Been well stored for the past two decades.

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1909, first edition Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, no date Together with two titles by A.A. Milnes (4) Condition Report:Available upon request

Camden (William). Britannia siue Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquiate Chorographica dsescriptio, Authore Guilielmo Camdeno, Nunc postremo recognita, & magna accessione post Germanicam aeditionem adaucta, 5th edition and 1st with maps, London: George Bishop, 1600, additional engraved title by William Rogers (repaired closed tear to lower left of image plus minor paper residue in the same area) letterpress title with large woodcut royal coat-of-arms bound in after dedication, additional title page for Hiberniæ et Insularum Briitanniæ Adiacentium descriptio..., 3 engraved maps by William Rogers; Britannia Provincia Romanorum, Englalond Anglia Anglosaxonum Heptarchia and Hibernia Antiqua (the latter printed to recto of Bbb8), full-page engraving of Stonehenge to P6, several full-page engraved illustrations of coins and antiquities, woodcut head-pieces, decorative initials, etc., contemporary ink marginal annotations to a few leaves including index and additional title page for Hiberniæ et Insularum, some water staining to margins, wormhole to top inner margin from first additional title to D1, tear with loss to outer top margin to Q3, later endpapers, contemporary blind stamped calf rebacked, lacking title label, boards rubbed, spine and corners worn & showing, upper board detached, small 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 4507; Shirley 230.Bonar-Law pre-1612 P235 (for Hibernia Antiqua).Includes Rogers's map of Ireland copied from the 1595 Mercator map but showing Ireland in ancient times.

Vergil (Polydore). Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae Historiae libri vigintiseptem. Ab ipso autore postremu?m iam recogniti, ad[que] amussim, salua tamen historiae veritate, expoliti, Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1555, title with printer's woodcut device and with some early manuscript annotations and markings, upper outer corner of title with ownership signature of J. Hewitt dated 1760 (title repaired and reattached at gutter, lightly creased and slightly dust-soiled), decorative woodcut borders and initials to leaves a2 and a3, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, early underscoring and annotations to margins throughout volume, light fraying to margins of first few leaves, short closed tear at foot of leaf H6, occasional damp-stains to margins of few leaves, contemporary blind panelled calf with blind arabesque to centre of each board, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V448.Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia was commissioned by Henry VIII to chronicle England’s ancient past up to the early Tudor dynasty, ending with the advent of Henry VIII’s reign in 1509. It was first published in Basel in 1534 by Johann Bebel, and re-issued in 1546, but only with the 1555 edition (as here) was the reign of Henry VIII to 1538 added.

Bishop (Isabella Lucy, née Bird). Views in the Far East, photographed by Isabella L. Bishop, F.R.G.S., 1st edition, Tokyo: S. Kajima, n.d. [1896], 60 collotype plates after photographs, comprising 37 of China, 12 of of Korea and 11 of Japan, each with printed caption at foot, original floral decorated moiré silk boards, fore-edges a little frayed, small oblong folio (17.5 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:See Deborah Ireland, Isabella Bird: A Photographic Journal of Travels through China, 1894-1896, (Feltham, AE Publications, 2015).An important collection of collotypre plates by Seibei Kojima after photographs taken on her travels in China, Japan and Korea by Isabella Bishop (née Bird), the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Scamozzi (Vincenzo). L'Idea della Architettura Universale, divisa in X libri, 2 parts in 1, 1st edition, Venice: Expensis auctoris [for Giorgio Valentino], 1615, engraved architectural title to part one (lacking one to second part), letterpress titles to each, 83 full or double-page plates (of 86), lacking a further 4 text leaves, imprimatur leaf at end, armorial bookplate of James Herbert of Tythorpe to front pastedown, neat early 20th-century gift inscription in black ink to head of front free endpaper, first and final few quires faintly damp-stained to outer margin (touching text), contemporary vellum, head and foot of spine worn with some loss, some marks to covers, folio (34.5 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Berlin Kat. 2605; Fowler 292; Millard Italian 123.'These are the two literary contributions of Vincenzo Scamozzi, who in his old age enjoyed an undisputed international reputation and provided a direct link with Palladio for Bernini's generation' (Wittkower 1983, 26 & Millard Italian). 'Scamozzi had been the student and assistant of Andrea Palladio, many of whose works he completed after 1580, including the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza' (Millard Italian).

Popery. Popish Cruelty Display'd, Being a short, but impartial history of some of the assassinations, murders, and inhumane slaughters, committed by papists upon protestants ..., [London?], 1718, guarded-in title edge-frayed and with early ink manuscript name Willm Hodgson, bound with: Nottingham (Daniel Finch, Earl of), The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr. Whiston's Letter to Him, concerning the Eternity of the Son of God, and of the Holy Ghost ..., eighth edition, London: for Edward Valentine, 1721, 3pp. advertisements at end, bound with: [Randolph, Herbert], Some Plain and Short Arguments from Scripture proving the Lord Jesus Christ to be the supreme God ..., sixth edition, London: for John Clark, 1719, bound with: Popping (S., publisher), The Lay-Mens Humble Representation of their Just Grievances, London, 1720, bound with: Calamy (Edmund), A Letter to Mr. Archdeacon Echard, upon occasion of his History of England, third edition, London: for John Clark, 1718, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, generally toned, occasional minor marks or stains, some dust-soiling, hinges cracked, mid-18th century blind-tooled calf, rubbed, one corner showing, minor worming to spine ends, 8vo, together with: [Zacharie de Lisieux, pe?re], A Rela[tion] of [the] Cou[ntry of] Ja[nsenia, Ne[ver Till Now Described, Wherein] is [... composed in French by Lewis Fountaine, Esq; and newly translated into English by P.B.], [1668], majority of title lacking and torn away (with an additional usual version of the title bound-in at the rear), without folding map, some toning, dust- and finger-soiling mainly at front and rear, few leaves lightly edge-frayed or with minor losses to blank margins, without front endpapers, contemporary calf, worn, small 8vo, plus: Gunter (W.), Gunter's Confectioner's Oracle, London: Alfred Miller, 1830, 4 plans (one folding), without portrait frontispiece, lightly toned, scarce minor spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary maroon half calf, worn, front joint cracked and board loose, spine covering defective, 8vo, with 4 other antiquarian titles (one in 2 volumes), some defectiveQTY: (8)NOTE:First item: ESTC T180090, T21975, T49335, T171246 & T38157 respectively.Second item: ESTC R38878; Wing F1410 for the usual edition. This copy appears to have remnants of a rare version of the title with the additional phrase 'Never till now described'. This version is not in ESTC, Wing or Library Hub. We have only found one mention of this version: in the catalogue of the first portion of the ... library of the late James Crossley, sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 21-28 July 1884 (lot 896).

Bower (Hamilton). Diary of a Journey Across Tibet, 1st edition, London: Rivington, Percival and Co, 1894, ownership inscription of John Bower (the author's brother) to half-title, frontispiece, folding map (frayed with small loss), 29 full-page and smaller illustrations, hinges cracked, sewing loosened with text block separated in places, original green pictorial cloth, rubbed with some wear to extremities, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Yakushi B533. In 1891 Hamilton Bower and Dr. W. G. Thorold, at the instigation of the British Indian intelligence service, travelled 1200 miles across the Tibetan plateau through unknown country, at an average elevation of 19000 feet, despite being deserted by their guides, their food supplies giving out and almost all their transport animals dying. The Indian sub-surveyor Atma Ram accompanied Bower and Thorold and made an important map of the region which is reproduced in the book. Bower was the first European to cross the Tibetan plateau, for which he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.

Fielding (Henry). Amelia, in four volumes, London: A.Millar, 1752, each volume with 'R L' ink stamp to title-page, volume 1 lacking free front endpaper, volume 2 with advert leaf present at rear, Roger Quirk bookplate to front pastedown of each volume, all uniformly bound (volume 1 near matching), near contemporary brown sheep binding with gilt, gilt title to label on spine, gilt decorated spines, somewhat faded and slightly rubbed, with minor loss at head, corners showing, 12mo, together withThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams..., 2nd edition, in two volumes, London: A.Millar, 1742, both volumes with Roger Quirk bookplate to front pastedown, volume 1 with old cataloguing description laid down onto front free endpaper and 2 leaves of adverts to rear, both bound in near contemporary marbled calf (volume 1 rebacked retaining original spine, volume 2 rear board partially detached), gilt decorated spines, 12mo, plusRichardson (Samuel). Clarissa. or the History of a Young Lady..., 8 volumes, 4th edition, London: S. Richardson, 1759, each volume with bookplates to front pastedown, front free endpaper and rear pastedown (volume 7 hinges strengthened), contemporary speckled calf (volume 1 and 4 upper cover partially detached), gilt decorated spine, with gilt leather labels in second and third compartments (volume 3 with loss of volume label), spines rubbed and a few with minor wear at ends, volume 1 upper cover just holding on one cord, volume 4 with repair to lower cover, 12mo, and four other sets comprising: Rosamond, 2 volumes, 1821; Rosamond the Sequel, 2 volumes, 1822; Camilla, 5 volumes, 1796; and The History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, 4 volumes, 1792, QTY: (27)NOTE:Rothschild 853: "There were two impressions of the first edition, one in December 1751, the second in January 1752; no distinguishing characteristics have been recorded". Rothschild quotes Dr. Johnson who said of 'Amelia' that it was: "perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night" ('Anecdotes of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson', H.L. Piozzi, 1786, p.221)

Pugin (Augustus Welby). Contrasts; or, a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and similar buildings of the present day; shewing the present decay of taste; accompanied by appropriate text, 1st edition, London: printed for the author and published by him at St. Marie's Grange, near Salisbury, Wilts, 1836, etched frontispiece, additional etched title lettered in red, letterpress title printed in red and black, 14 etched plates, first few leaves from additional title onwards with damp stain, some light spotting, previous owner inscriptions dated 1840 at front, bookplate of Mark Girouard, contemporary half morocco, joints and edges rubbed and scuffed, 4to, together with the True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott, 1st edition, London: John Weale, 1841, engraved frontispiece lettered in red, title printed in red and black with device, 9 engraved plates, illustrations (2 in colour with show-though to verso), occasional light spotting, bookplate of John Hopton (1782-1870), of Canon Frome Court, Herefordshire, his inscription dated July 1844, bookplate of Mark Girouard, all edges gilt, original green blindstamped cloth gilt, spine faded with small tears at ends, a few light stains, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Fowler 265 & 266.The first work is Pugin's manifesto in which he contrasts urban buildings of the time with their mediaeval equivalent and argues for a revival of the Gothic style (as well as the social structure and faith of the Middle Ages).

Misrach (Richard). Chronologies, 1st edition, San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallary, 2005, colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards in plastic wrapper, folio, together with:Suau (Anthony), Beyond the Fall, the Former Soviet Bloc in Transition 1989-99, 1st English language edition, New York: Renegade Publishing, 2000, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, small tear to the foot of the front cover, folio, plusDecarava (Roy), The Sound I Saw improvisation on a jazz theme, 1st edition, New York: First Print Press, 2019, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, and Jeffreys (Leila), Birdland, 1st edition, Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2015, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other modern photography books, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (2 shelves)

Cox (Mrs. G Vassall). First Lessons in Cookery, 1st edition, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1916, advertisements to endpapers, page block toned throughout, a few leaves very slightly chipped or frayed at edge, original decorative cloth, somewhat marked, faded spine a little worn, with some fraying and a couple of tiny holes, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A curiously rare cookery book; there are just four locations listed on COPAC, and we have been unable to trace a copy sold at auction. Perhaps the publisher's stock of this title perished in a fire, or as a result of bombing during the First World War, or maybe the poor quality wartime paper meant that very few survived the use for which they were intended.

Dresser (Christopher). Principles of Decorative Design, 3rd edition, London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, circa 1875, 2 chromolithograph plates, monochrome illustrations, occasional pencil underlining, blue ink stamp of Council of Industrial Design Library to title, prize label of Bradford Mechanics' Institute School of Art, bookplate of Mark Girouard, original decorative cloth gilt, shelf number to foot of spine, corners and edges a little rubbed, small 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:First published in 1873, a keystone work by the leading Aesthetic Movement, Art Nouveau and industrial designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904).

Sarratt (J. H.). A Treatise on the Game of Chess; containing a regular system of attack and defense: also, numerous rules and examples, teaching the most approved method of playing pawns at the end of a game. To which is added, a selection of critical and remarkable situations, won or drawn by scientific moves. A new edition, revised and improved with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis, London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and brown..., 1822, title with early ownership signature to head of Louisa Vialls, 8pp of publishers advertisements bound in at front, untrimmed, contemporary pale blue boards, rubbed and some marks and soiling, old card reback, with a little wear to edges and corners, 8vo, together withWalker (George). A Selection of Games at Chess, actually played by Philidor and his contemporaries: now first published from the original manuscript, with notes and additions by George Walker, London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835, lower blank portion of dedication leaf excised, 110pp., with single-leaf publishers list at end, original dark green cloth, with printed title label to upper cover, rubbed and label somewhat darkened, 8vo, plusAnderson (Hans Christian). Tales and Fairy Stories, by Hans Christian Anderson. Translated by Madame de Chatelain. Illustrated by Henry Warren, London; George Routledge & Co., 1853, wood-engraved plates, occasional minor marks, mostly to plates and text margins, upper inner hinge partly split, original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated red cloth, a little rubbed, small 8vo, and other 19th century and 20th century literature, etc., including Thomas Zouch, The Life of Izaak Walton; including notices of his contemporaries, 1826, The Other Side of the Question: or, an attempt to rescue the characters of the two royal sisters Q. Mary and Q. Anne..., by a Woman of Quality, London: T. Cooper, 1742, France Grose, A Provincial Glossary, with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions, London: S. Hooper, 1787, etc., leather-bound and cloth-boundQTY: (6 shelves)

London. Greenwood (C & J), Map of London from an actual survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., Greenwood & Co, 1st edition, August 21st, 1827, large scale map engraved by James & Josiah Neele with contemporary colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, inset views of St Pauls and Westminster, dedication to King George IV, reference to the parishes and table of explanation, some offsetting, edged in green silk with slight fraying, 1260 x 1855 mm, bookplate of L. C. Berger to verso, contained within contemporary tree calf book box (rubbed and slightly worn) QTY: (1)NOTE:Howgego 309. The largest and finest map of London to be printed in the 19th century. The Greenwood brothers spent three years preparing this remarkable new survey, illustrating for the first time the planned development of Belgravia by Thomas Cubitt, the completion of the Grand Surrey Canal and Regent's Park one year before it was finished in 1828. No map provided greater detail or accuracy until the Ordnance Survey.

Algarotti (Francesco). Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours. From the Italian of Sig, Algarotti [translated by Elizabeth Carter], 2 volumes, London: Printed for E. Cave at St. John's-Gate, and sold also by Messrs. Brindley, Dodsley, Harding, Miller, Shuckburgh, Birt, Rivington, Gray, Hett, and Davison, and Clarke, 1739, volume 1: title, A3-11, B-K12, L7 (without the half-title A1 and advertisement leaf at end, L8), volume 2: title, plus two contents leaves, B1 and 3-12 (B2 not required), C-L12, M4, title to first volume relined, second title with Cave's name only, two versions of the contents leaf to volume 2 (one being a cancel with augmented errata to verso), some minor marks, signature of the painter George Romney to head of title of second volume, dated 1773 (and later signature of Edward Jeram, 1838, adjacent), endpapers replaced, 19th century half calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: George Romney (1734-1802); Edward Jeram (signature); Patricia Jaffé, née Milne-Henderson (1925-2018).ESTC T86533; Babson 147; Wallis 196.5 or 6.First edition in English of this successful popularisation by the Venetian polymath, Count Francesco Algarotti, which originally appeared in Naples in 1737. The author studied natural sciences and mathematics under Zanotti in Bologna, and himself experimented with optics. Translated by the poet Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), who first came to notice as a contributor of poems to the publisher Edward Cave's Gentleman's Magazine. Cave also issued a volume of her poetry in 1738. She was afterwards celebrated for her Greek scholarship, becoming the subject of Greek and Latin epigrams by Samuel Johnson.

Hobbes (Thomas, translator). The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books, written by Thucydides, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, 1676, engraved additional title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 3 folding and double-page engraved maps, 2 engraved plates, frontispiece and front endpapers detached (folding map a little frayed at margins, small light water stain), rear blank with 18th century annotations, previous owner signatures of Frances Shirley and J. B. Locke to letterpress title, bookplate of Robert Quirk (with manuscript date of 1903), contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rebacked with original spine relaid, label renewed, some edge wear, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frances Shirley (Lady Frances Shirley, 1707-1778), signature to title.Wing T1134. First published in 1629, this is Thomas Hobbes' most famous translation and the first directly from the Greek. He also drew the ancient map of Greece.

Rennie (John). The Theory, Formation, and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Weale, 1854, mezzotint portrait frontispiece of the author by J. Andrews (offset to title), 122 engraved charts and plans, some spotting, 2 small circular institutional ink stamps at head of first text leaf to volume 1, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt over cloth, rubbed and soiled, large folioQTY: (2)

Pugin (Augustus Welby). Contrasts: or, a Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Similar Buildings of the Present Day; shewing the present day decay of taste, 2nd edition, London: Charles Dolman, 1841, etched frontispiece, 18 plates bound at rear, some light spotting, endpapers renewed, presentation inscription, bookplate of Mark Girouard, original blindstamped cloth, spine a little faded, a few light stains, 4to, together with An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England, 1st edition, London: John Weale, 1843, half-title, etched frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 10 plates, a little minor spotting, front hinge broken, original cloth gilt, spine faded with loss at head, some fading and damp stains, 4to, plus A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts, their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification, 1st edition, London: Charles Dolman, 1851, frontispiece and 13 plates, hinges broken, textblock detached, original cloth, spine defective, covers detached, 4to, with an autograph letter from Benjamin Ferrey (Pugin biographer), dated April 1884 bound-in, with 3 others, a 3rd edition of Contrasts, or a Parallel Between the Noble Edifices, 1841 or later, and another edition of The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, 1853 (lacking spine) and Pugin's Gothic Furniture, reissue edition circa 1889? QTY: (6)NOTE:Fowler 265, 268, 272 for first three titles.