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Orme (Robert). A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, 3 volumes, including atlas, 4th edition, revised by the author, Madras: re-printed by Pharoah and Co., 1861, 35 lithograph maps, plates and plans (first map re-guarded, a few archival tissue repairs and some marginal insect damage), previous owner signatures and ink stamps to titles, a few annotations, some light spotting and toning, modern half calf, 8vo, together with Sachau (Edward C. editor). Alberuni's India. An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910, some light spotting, original cloth gilt in bright condition, a few small light marks, 8vo, plus Jackson (A.V. Williams). Persia Past and Present. A Book of Travel and Research, 1st edition, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906, folding colour map, half-tone illustrations, advertisement leaf, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt edges lightly rubbed, corners a little bumped, 8vo, plus 2 others: The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The Great and Small Game of India, Burma and Tibet", by R. Lydekker, 1907, and The Baiga, by Verrier Elwin, 1st edition, 1939QTY: (8)

Tacitus (Publius Cornelius). The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [and] The End of Nero and Begining of Galba, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, London: Arnold Hatfield for John Norton, 1604 [1605], front blank bound between preliminary leaves and A1, woodcut initials, engraved plan illustration to second part (close-trimmed to fore-edge), 1605 imprint from colophon, occasional early underlining, couple of worm holes to lower blank margins of first half of text block, early owner signature Cornelius Suffeild(?) and 19th-century armorial bookplate of Joseph S. Shepard to front free endpaper, light damp stain to last few leaves and rear free endpaper, early text leaf to pastedowns, contemporary calf Oxford binding, blind-stamped with rolls used by Nicholas Smith and afterwards by Richard Billingsley (the latter probably being the binder of this volume), later green morocco title label to spine, joints rubbed, foot of lower joint with small strengthening repair, without ties, folioQTY: (1)NOTE: ESTC S117624; STC 23645.A good example of an Oxford binding. “Oxford binders developed a habit for two-way hatching patterns [on the board edges], finishing a row of diagonal hatching with a few rows running horizontally, or diagonally the other way; this can be a useful rule of thumb for recognising Oxford work between about 1580 and 1650, …” – David Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 113. “One very distinctive feature of nearly all Oxford bindings executed between 1580 and 1620, and of a certain number between the latter date and about 1670, is the ‘hatching’ at the head and tail of the back. This consists of diagonal lines, …” — Strickland Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings (Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1903), p. 41.

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 2nd edition, 2nd issue (with 'fifth thousand' on title), London: John Murray, 1860, half-title, title with ownership signature to upper blank margin 'Clarence Harcourt 1860 October', folding lithograph diagram at p.117, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated January 1860, some light toning, endpaper hinges slightly cracked, original dark green cloth gilt (binder's ticket of 'Edmonds & Remnants, London' to rear pastedown), extremities very lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 376. The 1250 copies of the first edition of 1859 were sold out almost immediately and this revised second edition (identified by “fifth thousand” on the title page) was published some 3 months later. In a very important addition to his text, Darwin here tries to reconcile the theory of evolution with the traditional conception of God’s creation of the world. The title leaf is unopened. Freeman binding variant a. with upright of L in London over right-hand upright of H in JOHN in spine imprint and with 1 mm gap between lower triangle and gilt rule below it. Imprint letters to spine 3 mm high.

Hayward (John). The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: John Partridge, 1630, initial blank lacking, engraved architectural title page with portrait of Edward VI in oval at centre, engraved portrait of John Hayward, with allegorical figures below, on page vi signed ‘Will. Pass.’, woodcut printer’s device on verso of last, leaves L3, M3, N3, and Q4 are cancels printed in slightly smaller type, old small monogram ink stamp to verso of title page and facing leaf (upper margin of facing leaf also with ink stamp word 'Duplicate'), occasional light scattered spotting, upper pastedown with oval bookplate label "Ex Musaeo Huthii", i.e. from the Huth Library, late 19th-century speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, upper joint lightly cracked, slim 4to (17.6 x 13.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 12998; Pforzheimer, 459; Lowndes II 1018.The first edition of Sir John Hayward’s posthumous ‘Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,’ the earliest biography of the last Tudor king, reprinted in 1636, and again in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706.The Huth Library was begun by Henry Huth (1815-1878) and continued by his son Alfred H. Huth. The Library was dispersed by Sotheby's in a number of sales between 1911 and 1920.

Javan (Mirza Kazim Ali). The Bárah-Másá, A Poetical Description of the Year in Hindoostan, 1st edition, Calcutta: printed by P. Pereira, at the Hindoostane Press, 1812, [2], 114, [2] pages, printed in Urdu with additional title in English printed at rear, several embossed and ink library stamps to both titles including British Museum stamps to English title verso and date stamps '28 OC 69' to first and second leaves, spotting throughout and heavier spotting and dust-soiling to first and last leaves, disbound with original pictorial wrapper printed in red and 3 flyleaves, one inscribed 'Recd from Calcutta Coll:25 June 1813', loose leaves chipped at edges, old calf boards detached and spine deficient, worn, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Mirza Kazim Ali Javan (late 18th to early 19th century) was a prose writer from Delhi, writing in Urdu. The Bárah-Másá is an Indian poetic genre, describing each month's Muslim and Hindu festivals. Very rare.

Bloomfield (Robert). The Fakenham Ghost, a True Tale, London: William Darton Junior, 1806, printed on one side of 16 leaves with engraved illustration to each, near-contemporary pencil ownership inscription with later over-inking and a later presentation inscription beneath, some spotting and dust-soiling throughout, original engraved pictorial wrappers, rubbed and soiled, spine a little perished, 16moQTY: (1)NOTE:Darton H84 (1). Scarce first separate edition of this tale taken from Bloomfield's Rural Poems of 1802.

Deighton (Len). An Expensive Place to Die, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1967, includes 'Top Secret In Transit Document' wallet with 10 documents, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus 30 further works by Len Deighton, together with:Crais (Robert), Stalking The Angel, 1st U.K. edition, London: Piatkus, 1990, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, 8vo, plus 13 further works by Robert Crais, plus Fleming (Ian), Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern crime & spy fiction, including works by, Kingsley Amis, G. M. Ford, Elmore Leonard, Donna Leon, Robert Harris, many first editions, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo QTY: (6 shelves )

Marlowe (Christopher). The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 3 volumes, 1st collected edition, London: William Pickering, 1826, half-title to first volume, front free endpaper of first volume with signature William C. Roscoe 1844 (possibly William Caldwell Roscoe, 1823-59, poet and essayist, son of William Roscoe of Liverpool), top edge gilt, contemporary brown half morocco, loss to upper panel of spines to volumes 1 & 3, some joints slightly cracked, 8vo, together with:[Griffiths, Acton Frederick], Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry: in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks..., London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, for the Proprietors of the Collection, 1815, half-title, wood engraved frontispiece, title in red and black with engraved illustration of India paper, wood engraved initials and portrait illustrations, additional tipped-in engraved portrait plate of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle to 2H2, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near contemporary brown half morocco gilt by Morrell, extremities slightly rubbed, 8voTurner (Sharon), A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems, London: E. Williams, 1803, ink annotation at head of title, some spotting and few marks throughout, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo, plus other antiquarian poetry and related, 19th-century publicationsQTY: (17)

Bruce (James). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790, half-titles to volumes 2 and 3 only, engraved vignettes to titles, 58 engraved plates, 3 folding maps ('The Chart of Solomon's Voyage to Tarshish' supplied from a later edition), 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects, armorial bookplates of William Hodgson Cadogan to front pastedowns, occasional light spotting and offsetting, titles to volumes 1 and 4 and 'Ceraste' plate in volume 5 repaired, early 19th-century half calf gilt, rubbed, 4toQTY: (5)NOTE:Blackmer 221; Cox I p. 388; ESTC T51608; Nissen ZBI 617; cf. Macro Arabian Peninsula 600-1 for later editions.A complete set of one of the great travel narratives of the 18th century. 'In conformity with 18th-century conventions of travel writing, it is an "immethodical miscellany", ranging from striking adventure stories, reported dialogues, and Shandean asides boasting of [Bruce's] success with African women, through a pedantic history of ancient Ethiopia (which occupies most of the first two volumes), to vivid sketches of contemporary Abyssinian life, politics, and natural history. It was immensely successful, most of the original edition being sold to retail booksellers within thirty-two hours, and was rapidly translated into French and German' (ODNB).

[Heywood, Thomas]. The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophesies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annalls. Being a Chronographicall History of all the Kings, and memorable passages of this Kingdome, from Brute to the Reigne of our Royall Soveraigne King Charles. A subject never published in this kind before, and deserves to be knowne and observed by all men, London: Printed by J. Okes, and are to be sold by Jasper Emery, 1641, engraved frontispiece (torn to fore-margin at foot, not affecting image or text), "To the Reader" leaf present bearing letterpress name 'Thomas Heywood' at end, light dust-soiling and few marks mostly to initial leaves, some light toning throughout, early 19th-century calf, blind and gilt decoration to spine, extremities rubbed, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R10961; Pforzheimer, 478; Wing H1786.The first edition of "one of Heywood's most interesting pot-boilers" (Pforzheimer). Merlin is an important figure from British myth, associated primarily with the tales of King Arthur but with roots going further back into the mists of Welsh legend. This popular account by Thomas Heywood presents his story for contemporary English audiences.

Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world..., Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein. Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist..., London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640, initial blank and additional engraved title not present, letterpress title with several manuscript inscriptions 'A good edition of a curious work, invaluable as the plates are all coloured by some private hand well worth 3-3-0', with partially inked out inscription 'Michel Pierre, ce 26/16 October 1689 pore 03 pièce moins 3 lint(?)', and 'Job Lousley's Book Hampstead Norris Berks 1854', woodcut botanical illustrations throughout with near-contemporary hand-colouring, decorative initials, headpieces, chapter line breaks also with near-contemporary hand-colouring, lower outer corner of N4 with short closed tear and slight printing fault (not affecting meaning of text), closed tear to L5 partially repaired, 2X5 & 2X6 damp stained, short closed tear at foot of 4B6 and repaired closed tear to 5P4, first leaf of 'The Table of the English Names' (7H1) at rear of volume frayed to edges, errata leaf present at rear, occasional light dust-soiling to margins, slight marginal damp staining to few leaves, late 20th-century endpapers with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Henri-Joseph Rega (1690-1754) relaid to front pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving morocco title label, board corners neatly repaired, folio (33.4 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121875; STC 19302.Henri-Joseph Rega (1690–1754) was a professor of medicine and rector of Leuven University, in the Habsburg Netherlands, where he established a botanical garden, laboratories for chemistry and physics, and an anatomical theatre, as well as adding a new wing to the University Hall (originally Leuven's medieval cloth hall).Job Lousley (1790-1855) was born in South Moreton, Berkshire and lived in Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury. He was an avid book collector and published widely on agricultural, botanical and historical matters relating to Berkshire.

Mason (William). Arts Advancement or the most Exact, Lineal, Swift, Short, and Easy method of Short-hand-Writing hitherto Extant, is now after a view of all others, and twenty eight years practice) raised to a higher degree of perfection than any as yet published, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, [London]: Printed for the Author, 1687, 24 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title within architectural border, engraved text to one side of leaf printed within decorative border, leaf 3 with early ink doodle and leaf 21 with early manuscript, occasional fraying to margins, some light dust-soiling, front free endpaper with early manuscript calculation in brown ink and note 'S. Lowdell from Mrs Phillips', contemporary sheep, joints slightly cracked at head and foot, lightly scuffed, slim 12mo (14.4 x 6.9 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R23530; Wing M942. Wing gives format 16mo.Scarce, only two UK institutional copies found (Edinburgh Central Library and Senate House Library, University of London), and four copies in US institutional libraries found (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, New York Public Library, Newberry Library, Yale University and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).William Mason (fl. 1672-1709; d. 1719?) issued three influential treatises on shorthand: the present work, first published in 1682, and the more romantically titled "A Pen Pluck'd from an Eagles Wing" (1672) and "La Plume Volante" ("The Flying Pen") of 1707. Developed over half a century, Mason's system used 423 characters, and words were written as they sound, a fact that makes it of interest to modern linguists for the light it can shed on 17th-century English pronunciation. Mason's system was adapted by Thomas Gurney for use as the official shorthand of the criminal courts at the Old Bailey, his influence on stenography stretched into the 19th century. Mason's one-shilling publications both supplemented his income and promoted his services as an instructor of stenography; the title page here advertises lessons available at his "Writing School, the Hand and Pen in Grace-Church Street."

Churchill (Winston S). The World Crisis, volumes 1-4, (1911-1914, 1915, & 1916-1918 parts I & II), reprinted, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927, folding maps etc., original uniform dark blue cloth gilt, short snag at head of first volume, together with Thoughts and Adventures, 4th impression, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932, original dark green cloth gilt, plusHodgkin (R. H.). A History of the Anglo-Saxons, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1952, folding maps, monochrome plates and illustrations, original light blue cloth gilt, spines somewhat faded, and other history, military, memoirs, biographies, literature including L. E. Jones, A Victorian Boyhood/An Edwardian Youth/Georgian Afternoon/I Forgot to Tell You, mixed editions, 1958-65, F. Spencer Chapman, The Jungle is Neutral, reprinted 1949, John Bagot, Glubb, The Story of the Arab Legion, 1st edition, 1948, P. Keble Chatterton, King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855, 1st edition, 1912, etc. (approximately 75 volumes)QTY: (3 shelves)

Pouncy (John). Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Parts 1-4 in 2, [all published], 1st edition, London and Dorchester, [1857], lithographed title, 79 tinted photolithographed views including one double-page, some heavy spotting and old dampstaining affecting plates throughout, some marginal splits to text leaves and lower blank outer corner of first leaf of Introduction torn with loss, modern buckram with original gilt-titled cloth covers relaid, oblong folioQTY: (2)NOTE:The first book illustrated by photolithography, where photographs were transferred onto lithographic stones which were then enhanced with figures, animals and other details by drawing. A further two parts were proposed but never issued. 'As far as we know Pouncy's rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature by photolithography', Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 546. 'Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration', McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p. 128.

Poland. Berger (J. C.). Delineationem Liberae in Silesia Dynastiae Drachenberg..., Amsterdam, 1676, uncoloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, trimmed to the neat line, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, repaired marginal closed tear, 510 x 570 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Pitt (Moses). Palatinatus Posnaniensis Majori Polonia Primarii Nova Delinatio per G. F. M. circa 1680, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, large uncoloured decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 455 x 540 mm, with Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of). Lusatiae Inferioris..., Nuremberg, 1768, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, 440 x 555 mm, plus Sanson (Nicolas). Masovie Duché et Polaquie ou sont les Palinats de Czersk, Bielsk et Plocsko, Paris, 1665, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 410 x 540 mmQTY: (4)NOTE:The first described item is a scarce map of the Barony of Drachenberg. The map served to aid the civil litigation regarding disputed territory between the Hatzfeld and Nesselrode families whose coats of arms decorate the map. There is a later edition of this map by Petrus Schenk published in 1726.

Marshall (John, editor). Mohenjo-Daro and The Indus Civilization, being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931, 164 plates (including folding plans, illustrations after photographs), 2 folding maps to rear pocket of volume 1 (plus an additional large folding map of the region from unrelated work), further smaller illustrations in-text, bookplate of W and P.J. Kupfer to front pastedowns, plate V neatly repaired to upper margin, original publisher's pictorial brown buckram gilt, a few light marks, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:An excellent set of this pioneering work on Mohenjo-Daro (meaning 'Valley of the Dead Men'), the largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Located in Sindh, Pakistan, it is one of the earliest known large cities, founded in the 26th century BCE. Marshall's 'announcement in 1924 that he had there found a new civilization of the third millennium marked an epoch in modern discovery; the so-called Indus valley civilization is now recognized as the most extensive civilization of the preclassical world' (ODNB). His 'mass excavation of large areas at Mohenjo-daro . published in 1931, showed a great city, dating from before and after 2000 BC, planned and drained on a vast scale and in a regimented fashion, with wide thoroughfares and closely built houses and workshops. Detail was lost; but, like Schliemann before him, Marshall got to the heart of the matter and gave what was needed first in the current state of knowledge, namely the general shape, the sketch, of a hitherto unknown civilization. He was a pioneer of a high order' (Ibid).

Hooke (Robert). Micrographia Restaurata: Or, the Copper-Plates of Dr. Hooke's Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope, Reprinted and fully Explained: Whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow compass; and intermixed, occasionally, with many entertaining and instructive discoveries and observations in Natural History, London: John Bowles, 1745, title with oval ink and blind library stamp and strengthened to gutter margin, 33 engraved plates (including 3 folding), plates 8, 10, 15 & 16 with oval blind stamp at head, some offsetting, toning and spotting, without final blank, edges of few folds to plates discreetly strengthened to verso, modern calf gilt, slim folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Keynes, Hooke, 10. Norman 1092 & PMM 147 (first edition)The second edition of the most important book in the history of micrography which was originally published in 1655, "... not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations ... his famous and dramatic portraits of the flea and louse, a frightening eighteen inches long, are hardly less startling today than they must have been to Hooke's contemporaries" (Norman 1092).

Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Poems ... edited with notes by Robert Bridges, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, 1930, monochrome plates, original vellum-backed patterned boards, 8vo (limited edition printed on handmade paper 120/250), together with:[Wilde, Oscar], The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by C. 3. 3., 2nd edition, London: Leonard Smithers, 1898, original two-tone cloth, spine toned, slim 8vo,Rossetti (Dante Gabriel), The Poems ..., edited with an introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti, 2 volumes, London: Ellis & Elvey, 1904, monochrome frontispieces and plates, original Japanese vellum backed cloth, some discolouration and few marks, 4to,Landor (Robert Eyres), Selections from his Poetry and Prose with an introduction, biographical & critical by Eric Partridge, London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1927, bookplate of Ralph Dickinson to front pastedown, original half vellum, dust-soiled and marked, 8vo (limited edition 28/155 printed on handmade paper at the Curwen Press, signed by Eric Partridge),Doughty (Charles M.), The Dawn in Britain, 6 volumes, London: Duckworth & Co., 1906, first volume containing a tipped-in pencil portrait of C. M. Doughty, manuscript note regarding Doughty's poems written and signed by J. Middleton Murry, front free endpaper of first volume bearing signature of Muirhead Bone, original green cloth, 8vo, plus other mostly similar poetry and related, etc., together with an undated greetings card signed 'Valerie & T. S. Eliot'QTY: (approx. 35)

Misson (Henri, de Valbourg). Memoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre..., La Haye: Henri van Bulderen, 1698, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red and black (imprint date cropped at foot), folding engraved map and folding plan of London, 17 engraved plates (15 folding), browning mostly to text leaves, occasional damp stains to upper margins, armorial bookplate of Henry Thomas Buckle to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, early 19th-century calf gilt, lacking spine labels, joints cracked at head, 12mo, together with:[Nichols, John; Warburton, John & Ducarel, Andrew Coltee], Some account of the Alien Priories, and of such lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales, 2 volumes, London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1779, folding engraved map frontispiece to first volume, 7 engraved plates (3 folding), closed tear to L8 in volume 1, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title labels to spines, joints cracked and light wear at head and foot of spine, 8vo,Boursault (Edme), The?atre de feu Monsieur Boursault, 3 volumes, new edition, Paris: Francois Le Breton, 1725, 18th-century continental armorial ink stamp with ducal coronet to titles and final leaves, toning throughout, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with continental ducal gilt embossed armorial at foot of spines, 12mo,Phaedrus, Fabulae et Publii Syri Sententiae, Paris: Ex Typographia Regia, 1729, printed on large paper, engraved frontispiece by Simmoneau, early19th-century crushed black half morocco gilt, slim 12mo (Graesse V p.253; Dibdin II p.280)QTY: (7)

Cleveland (John). The Works Mr. John Cleveland, containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, collected into one volume, with the Life of the Author, London: Printed by R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, 1687, engraved portrait frontispiece frayed to edges, blind stamp to title, 4 pp. publisher's list at rear with small hole to first leaf, browning throughout, occasional spotting to margins, library bookplate to front free endpaper 'The Brother Julian, F. S. C. Collection, donated by Mr. Christian A. Zabriskie, New York City'., late 19th/early 20th-century gilt decorated panelled calf, rebacked preserving spine, morocco labels to spine, 8vo (Wing C4654), together with:Woty (William), The Poetical Works of Mr. William Woty, 2 volumes, London: William Flexney, 1770, browning to margins of first and last few leaves, bookplate of David Rice trees of Llandovery to upper pastedown, contemporary diced calf, both volumes rebacked, board corners worn, 8vo, with another set of the same edition bound in contemporary calf,Norris (John), A Collection of Miscellanies: consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written, 2nd edition, corrected, London: J. Crosley and Samuel Manship, 1692, imprimatur leaf present, early signature 'Wm. fawconer' at head of title, damp staining at front and rear, old label of Tortworth Rectory to upper pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, worn at head and foot, 8vo,Orrery (John Boyle, Earl of), Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; in a Series of Letters from John, Earl of Orrery, to his Son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle, 2nd edition, corrected, London: A. Millar, 1752, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, joints cracked, 8vo,[Blackwell, Thomas], An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer, 2nd edition, London: Printed in the Year, 1736, engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, folding engraved map, engraved illustrations, contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked, joints cracking at head and foot, extremities rubbed, 8vo,Waller (Edmund), Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons, 8th edition, with additions, London: Jacob Tonson, 1711, engraved portrait frontispiece, toning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of George Rous to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly 18th-century antiquarian, mostly poetry and relatedQTY: (29)

Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, 3rd edition, Revised and Augmented by the same Author, London: printed by S. Simmons, 1678, engraved portrait frontispiece after W. Dolle, final blanks present, some spotting and heavy browning throughout, contemporary ownership inscription of Nath[aniel] Greenwood dated 17 May 1680 at Oxford to flyleaf recto and noting the book cost 2/6 with a later inscription in another hand with a quotation from Dryden to verso, some chipping to flyleaf fore-edge with blank losses, old paper repairs to inner hinges, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, some wear with small loss at head of spine and loss of spine label, 8vo, together with a 4th edition of the same work, edited by Thomas Newton, volume 1, London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al, 1757, engraved portrait frontispiece, old ownership inscription of Ann Rutherford to title, a little spotting and some marginal browning to final leaves, later ownership inscription to front flyleaf with some offsetting from cutting pasted opposite, late 19th-century pimpled cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:First item: Pforzheimer 719; Wing M2145.

Jacombe (Thomas). Osios ’egkainismos. Or A treatise of holy dedication, both personal and domestick. The latter of which, is (in special) recommended to the citizens of London, upon their entring into their new habitations, London: Ralph Smith and Samuel Gellibrand, 1668, first two words of title page in Greek characters, with early ink ownership at head of title (margins slightly frayed), without errata leaf at rear, some marginal browning mostly at front and rear, toning and scattered spotting, contemporary sheep, upper board detached, worn, 8vo (Wing J118), together with:Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Celebriores Sententiae, Apophthegmata et Similitudines ex Operibus M.T. Ciceronis collectae, Antwerp: Apud Henr. Aertssens, 1651, engraved title with early signature to upper margin and faint ink stamp to centre of leaf, ink stamp at head of A2, early manuscript to verso of final leaf, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, dust-soiled and few marks, 16mo,Milton (John), Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon several occasions..., 5th edition, London: J. Tonson, 1713, engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, some light dust soiling and occasional scattered spotting, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, maroon morocco title label to spine (without volume number label), 12mo, plus two other antiquarian (one defective)QTY: (5)

[Schrijver, Pieter]. Histoire des contes d'Hollande et estat et gouvernement des provinces unies du Pays Bas, 1st French edition, The Hague: Adrian Vlaq, 1664, ownership inscription of 'Horatio: Walpole 1711' at head of title and 'Robert Southey, Nottingham, June 19 1811' at foot of title, a little dust-soiling and spotting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole (1678-1757), English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador to France from 1724 to 1730. He was the younger brother of Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Robert Southey (1774-1843), English poet and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.

Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, Septr. 1st 1787, advertisement, dedication and title page, tables of roads and lists of cities and towns, index and list of subscribers, the index with near-contemporary manuscript annotation, 47 (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, each with a tissue guard, each map with a page of descriptive text, slight staining to the endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary sheep, lacking spine, worn and frayed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Chubb, CCLX. The first edition of Cary's earliest published atlas. This copy with slightly odd pagination.

Christie (Agatha). The Man in the Brown Suit, 1st edition, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924, half-title and advert leaf at rear present, occasional minor scattered spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, original grey-brown cloth lettered and decorated in dark brown (in the same pattern used in Poirot Investigates), vertical crease to spine and lettering faint, rubbed and light wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Wagstaff & Poole, p.30-31.

Meyer (Hans). Across East African Glaciers, an account of the first ascent of Kilimanjaro, 1st edition in English, London: George Philip & Son, 1891, chromolithograph frontispiece, 12 black & white lithographed plates, 8 mounted photographs, 3 folding maps, a few preliminary gatherings (including frontispiece, title, first folding map) loose, a preliminary leaf with large tear (no loss), front hinge cracked, original green pictorial cloth gilt, some wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Neate M92; Perret 2987.A highly important account of the first ascent of Kibo, the highest of Kilimanjaro's two peaks.

Humphrey (Laurence). Ioannis Iuelli Angli, Episcopi Sarisburiensis Vita et Mors, 1st edition, London: John Day, 1573, title within typographic border, woodcut initials, typographic ornaments, numerous marginal manuscript notes in an old hand, old inscription to upper margin of title, ‘pietas periculosa sed, Faelix Henricus Hill’ with another line beneath inked out, some dust-soiling and old dampstaining to upper margins and lower outer corners of several early and later leaves, ink ownership inscription of George Reading Leathes [1779-1836, curate of Shropham and botanist] and armorial bookplate [of the Davidson family] with motto ‘sapienter si sincere’ to front pastedown, paper loss to upper outer corner of front flyleaf, contemporary blind-stamped calf with gilt-decorated spine, rubbed, some wear to spine ends and extremities, joint cracked, 4to (195 x 140 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 13963. First edition of Humphey's biography of his friend John Jewel (1552-1571), Bishop of Salisbury and Anglican reformer.

Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation, 3 volumes, 2nd edition of volumes 1 and 2, 1st edition of volume 3, 1832-33, half-title to volume 3 only, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 6 uncoloured engraved plates (light damp stain to margins of vol. 1 frontispiece), and 3 maps (2 hand-coloured and 2 folding, also includes a duplicate map 'of extent of surface in Europe' from another edition), numerous wood engravings to text, publisher's adverts at rear of each, occasional offsetting and scattered spotting, contemporary half calf with contrasting labels to spines, extremities lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:PMM 344; Dibner 96; Grolier/Horblit 70; Milestones of Science 140; Norman 1398 [all for first edition].A foundational text of modern science and a central influence on the theory of evolution. Lyell demonstrated that large-scale changes in the Earth's physical geography could be explained by uniform geological causes which could be seen in the present day, rather than by catastrophic or biblical events. The implications of Lyell's study would have a profound effect on the development of evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin read the work on his voyage with The Beagle and it greatly influenced his thinking on both geology and evolution. A second edition of the third volume was not published.

Dostoevsky (Fyodor). The Possessed. A Novel in Three Parts, from the Russian by Constance Garnett, 1st edition in English, London: William Heinemann, 1913, half-title, 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp to title upper margin, spotting to endpapers, original red cloth with decorative spine, rubbed and dust-soiled with light stain to top outer corner of upper cover, spine slightly faded, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First published in Russky Viestnik (The Russian Messenger) in Moscow in 1871-72, this was the work's first appearance in English. It was the third volume of Dostoevsky's works translated by Garnett between 1912 and 1920.

Meredith (Louisa Anne). Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania, Native Flowers, Berries and Insects, 1st edition, London: Day & Son, 1860, additional chromolithographic title, 11 chromolithograph plates, 3 further chromolithographic embellishments to text, occasional light toning, hinges repaired, all edges gilt, contemporary black half morocco gilt, rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Ferguson 12508. Meredith emigrated to Tasmania in 1839. She was possibly the first female photographer of the region, although none of her photographic work survives.

Gilpin (William). Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the Year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmorland, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London: R. Blamire, 1792, half-title to first volume, upper margin of titles with ownership inscription 'Marianne Philips 1793', 27 plates aquatint plates (mostly tinted) and 3 hand-coloured plans, contemporary calf, rebacked, leather surface to boards worn, 8vo, together with:Gilpin (William), Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, 3rd edition, London: R. Blamire, 1792, 17 tinted aquatint plates, light offsetting to text, armorial bookplate with double-headed eagle crest and motto 'altius ibunt qui ad summa nitantur', contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving original spine with morocco title label and double-headed eagle gilt crest, 8vo,Gilpin (William), Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to which is added a Poem, on Landscape Painting, London: R. Blamire, 1792, half-title, 7 aquatint plates (some tinted and one hand-coloured), contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, joints split and wear to extremities, 8voQTY: (4)

AN ANTIQUARIAN SECOND EDITON 1899 ORDNANCE OF BAKEWELL UNION DERYSHIRE, A SECOND EDITION OF 1899 MAP OF GLOSSOP UNION AND HIGH PEAK DIVISON DERYSHIRE, A FIRST EDITION 1873 MAP OF MACCLESFIELD DIVISON CHESHIRE AND AN1874 MAP OF MACCLESFIELD DIVISON CHESHIRE.

A VERY LARGE FIRST EDITION 1873 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF CHESHIRE, MACCLESFIELD DIVISON.200CM BY 135CM

A SURVEYED IN 1871 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF PRESTBURY PARISH, CHESHIRE ( EASTERN DEVISION ), A FIRST EDITION 1888 MAP OF HIGH PEAK DIVISION, DERBYSHIRE, AN 1871 MAP OF PRESTBURY PARISH PLUS A FIRST EDITION 1871 KNUTSFORD DIVISION CHESHIRE, A/F

First edition artwork for the album 'Echoes' by Storm Thorgerson (1944-2013)each print featuring different motifs taken from previous Pink Floyd LP covers, each edited slightly differently suggesting that these were first drafts for the album artwork, high quality giclee prints, signed in pencil lower right, edition in pencil lower left, mounted and framedprint size 303 x 303mm, framed size 98 x 88.2cmCondition: In excellent condition at the point of cataloguing.

Waugh. Evelyn., Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, First edition, 1945, Chapman & Hall, 12mo., red cloth, dust wrapper, together with The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, First edition, 1957, Chapman & Hall, 12mo, blue cloth, dust wrapper, (2) 12moCondition: First dust wrapper soiled with chips, losses and hinge splits, generally tired. Mould marks to red cloth on edge on both boards. Slight twist/warp binding. Contents clean without inscription. Second chips and tears to edges of dust wrapper, pen dedication, otherwise good

Illustrated Books and other works comprising Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fiztgerald and illustrated by Gilbert James 1909, de cloth, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot with 38 tipped in black and white pictures from photographs, 1912, dec cloth, Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest illustrated by Edmund Dulac with tipped colour plates, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales illustrated by W Heath Robinson, together with Markham, Shooting in the Himalayas, 1854, first edition, lithograph frontis and six plates, folding map, wood cut engraved illustrations, red half morocco with marbled boards and Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and, 1858, 2 Volshalf morocco and embossed cloth etc., (qty)variousCondition: First with some soiling to cloth, fraying to front hinge, spine worn top and bottom, some marks to contents. Second some soiling rubbing to cloth contents cleanDulac illustrated Tempest with spotting and foxing Shooting in the Himalayas, defective lacking one plate, foxing to frontis and other plates. binding cracking

T.E Lawrence The Mint, first edition 1953 & two 1940s editions of the Radio Times, both appear complete one has small tears to back page. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Unmasked - A memoir 2018. A signed first edition autobiography complete with dust jacket.

Nevil Shute, two first edition hardback novels with dust jackets to include 'The Rainbow and The Rose' (1958) & 'Trustee From The Toolroom' (1960), some damage to dust jackets.

Balvenie 1972,  20 Year Old, First Cask No 14734 Limited Edition Bottle Number 0089 - 46% VolWhisky

Macallan Water Jug & The Definitive Guide to Buying Vintage Macallan - Miniature First Edition

Corgi and Exculsive First Edition models, three trays of mostly vans and coaches, all boxed.Qty: 3 boxes

ROYAL MINT 2015 SILVER PROOF COLLECTION. A Royal Mint 2015 silver proof coin collection 'The Fifth Circulating Coinage Portrait, First Edition' in case with certificate, booklet & outer boxes. For condition see Lot 172 statement.  Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING.  The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.

Miscellaneous antiquarian and later books, approx. 55, including Cameron (Kenneth), The Place-Names of Derbyshire, three-volume set, Cambridge University Press, 1959, original dustjackets over cloth boards, 8vo, Dircks (Henry), The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquess of Worcester, first edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1865, original purple cloth, Alfred Seale Haslam's copy with his bookplate, 8vo, a book salesman's sample copy of the Caxton Publishing Company's The Modern Motor Engineer, n.d. [c. 1930], cloth, 4to, various 1930s and 40s motor engineering and repair manuals, 19th c and later engineering and industrial history, [comic] Eagle [volume I], no. 1, 14 April 1950, folded, slight split edges and wear, 19th c engineering and topographical prints, etc

Four J K Rowling Harry Potter first edition hard backed volumes - The Deathly Hallows, The Half Blood Prince (2), The Order of the Phoenix.

Three J K Rowling Harry Potter hard back first edition books - The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows and The Ickabog.

Three Coalport figures, Lady's of Fashion, Patricia, boxed Golden Age Eugenie First Night at the Opera Edition Number 6053 or 12500 and Golden Age Georgina Issue Number 8528 or 12500

J.K. Rowling, two First Edition volumes, ' Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince ' and ' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix '

One volume, First Edition, ' Quality Street ' a comedy in four acts by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, printed by Hodder & Stroughton, signed by the author and dated November 1913, having gilt tooled canvas bindingDoes have spine lean, foxing to pages, the binding is weakening. Some pages are loose. Condition of binding as shown in photos.

Sackville-West, [Vita]. Sissinghurst, first & limited edition, signed by the author and numbered 418/500, London: Printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf and published at The Hogarth Press, 1931. Small quarto, publisher's mottled paper-covered boards, blue-green endpapers, slight wear to spine but otherwise very well-preserved, clean & bright, a small crease/nick at edge of limitation page and a couple of very faint spots, an excellent copyProvenance: Loosely-inserted slip from Peter Harrington, Chelsea

Literature. A miscellaneous collection of books comprising: Marnie, by Winston Graham, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961, octavo with dust-jacket; De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde, second edition, London: Methuen, 1906, octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth splitting at spine; The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde, London: John Lane, 1918, paper-covered boards; Extracts from Adam's Diary, by Mark Twain, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1904, publisher's illustrated cloth; Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field, by Sir Walter Scott, London: A. W. Bennett, 1866, illustrated with mounted photographic albumen prints, gilt cloth; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (6)

Children's & Illustrated. A collection of books comprising: Lucy Dawson's Dog Book, London: Collins, 1939, quarto, worn dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2003, hardback with d.j.; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling, early but not a first, NY: Scholastic, 1998, hardback with d.j.; The Bee-Man of Orn, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, London: Collins, 1967; Higglety Pigglety Pop!, by Maurice Sendak, NY: Harper & Row, 1967. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (5)

Stevie Smith (1902-1971), English poet and novelist. Two original illustrations and a signed copy of Not Waving but Drowning. Friskers, or Gods and Men, ink illustration numbered 1/1, mounted on pink paper, signed on mount, 17.5cm by 11cm, framed & glazed with typed poem verso. The Hat, illustration numbered 1/3, a handwritten stanza on card, 'I love my beautiful hat more than anything / And through my beautiful hat I see a wedding ring / The king will marry me and make me his own before all / And when I am married I shall wear my hat and walk on the palace wall', mounted on pink paper in an acrylic box-frame. Not Waving but Drowning, Poems by Stevie Smith, first edition, signed by the author in blue ink on front free endpaper, gift inscription in the hand of Percy Horton, London: Andre Deutsch, 1957, internally very well-preserved, clean & bright, erratum slip at p.39, publisher's yellow paper-covered boards with bump/split at base of spine but otherwise very good, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 12s 6d) with chipping/creasing at edges (3)Provenance: By descent of Walter J. Strachan (1903-1994), poet, translator and champion of the arts. Strachan taught at Bishop's Stortford College and was the author of numerous works, including A Relationship with Henry Moore 1942-1976 [Elliott Group, 1988]; Towards Sculpture: Drawings and Maquettes from Rodin to Oldenburg [Thames & Hudson, 1976]; Apollinaire to Aragon: Thirty Modern French Poets [Methuen, 1948]. Much of his personal collection went to the Tate, the V&A and the Taylor Institution, as well as forming the basis of The Walter Strachan Collection, University of Manchester Library

[Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatis rerum, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1535], second edition in English, woodcut printer's device at end. Thomas Berthelet was King's Printer and King's Bookbinder for Henry VIII, and this book was printed during the reign of Henry VIII. Recorded as folio but bound in sixes, 26.3cm, title page provided in manuscript [probably during 18th century], bearing armorial bookplate for Richard Barwell of Stansted [an early trader with the East India Company], 'To the Reder' and 'The Tabul' in 9pp., 'The Prologue of the Translator' in 4pp., main text paginated once per leaf from 1-386, lacking p.387, the final leaf [p.388] present but with loss at top edge affecting first two lines of text (but not affecting printer's device verso), pagination erratic in places but textually right and following on with correct signatures at bottom. Contents mostly very good with general age toning, a few pale marks in places, the first couple of leaves of 'Tabul' worn & loose, panelled calf binding heavily worn with boards detached, but an honest example [STC, 2nd ed., 1537]

Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall, signed by the author, first edition, 11th impression, hardback with dust-jacket, London: Fourth Estate, 2009. Together with four signed Jilly Cooper first editions (Polo, 1991; Appassionata, 1996; Pandora, 2002; Wicked!, 2006), and a signed first edition of The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer, 1996 (6)

Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Fairies I Have Met, by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell, scarce first edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1907]. Octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth, illustrated with eight colour plates including frontispiece as called for, 6pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, good & bright with pale spotting in places, slight wear to cloth at corners/edges. Together with The Tempest, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908], quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth, complete with 40 colour plates (including frontispiece) with captioned tissue-guards, good & bright with faint spotting in places, and Peter Pan & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson, Hodder for Boots, [c. 1931], gift inscription 1933, quarto, publisher's discoloured cloth, internally good & bright with toning/spotting to endleaves (3) 

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter Collection. SIGNED. Comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback with dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, seventh issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback with dust-jacket [these first two novels housed in The Harry Potter Gift Set slipcase]; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, 20th issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback with dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback with dust-jacket, together with first editions of the three remaining novels in the series, unsigned, and a "golden ticket" for the J. K. Rowling signing event at Ottakar's, The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley, Kent, 18 July [2000]. The books are in fine or near-fine, unread condition, internally very well-preserved, clean & bright, jackets bold & vibrant, possibly a binding flaw causing two short creases to lower spine of Goblet of Fire, some light bumping at edges of spines of Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows (8)

"Snaffles" [Payne, Charles Johnson]. Snaffles: Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints, limited edition numbered xxx of 750, signed by the publisher, compiled by Mark Flower, text by Donald Crawford, research by Caroline Juler, New Zealand: Millwood Press, 1983. Oblong folio, quarter morocco, housed in solander box. Complete within original card packaging - this was opened for the first time for the purposes of cataloguing (please see images showing box at point of opening), thus in fine condition

A first edition Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban