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Gordon, Alexander Itinerarium Septentrionale or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England London: printed for the author, 1726. First edition, large-paper copy, folio (45.5 x 28.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [19] 12-188 [6] pp., engraved folding map, 66 engraved plates (several double-page), a little wear to binding, small paper flaw to margin of plate 4 [ESTC T133129: 12 copies worldwide]Note: Note: 'Itinerarium septentrionale (1726) is Gordon's lasting memorial in which he not only enshrined the antiquities of Roman Scotland and traced the route of Agricola's campaign but also ensured his own immortality in the fiction of Walter Scott. Gordon's folio is the book which Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary in Scott's novel of that name, unwraps in the Queensferry diligence and which proves his vade-mecum in his studies of the subjects Gordon had made his own' (Iain Gordon Brown in ODNB).

Rowling, J. K. The Order of the Phoenix London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition, 8vo, signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title, original boards, dust-jacket spine fadedProvenance:Signed by J.K. Rowling at Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2004

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, extensive loss of the laminate, spine faded and with slight loss, lower cover with some image loss, some slight creasing and wear at extremities, no inscriptions, toning to text-block as usual, slight spotting to edges occasionally just encroaching on margins [Errington, A1(aa)]Note: Note: With all the requisite points: copyright page with numberline from 10 to 1, author named as Joanne Rowling, and 'Thomas Taylor1997' printed without a space, '1 wand' duplicated on p. 53, and the misprint 'Philosphers' Stone' on rear wrapper.

Whitehead, Alfred North [Graeme Haldane] 8 volumes The Concept of Nature. Cambridge, 1920. First editions, 2 copies, one inscribed in pencil 'Haldane', one inscribed 'T.N.G. Haldane July 1920' with 10pp. manuscript essay, possibly by T.N.G. Haldane, "Dr. Whitehead's Concept of Nature" loosely inserted;An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge, 1919. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth;The Principle of Relativity with applications to Physical Science. Cambridge, 1922. First edition, original cloth;Science and the Modern World. Cambridge, 1926. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth, one with occasional light marginal pencil scoring, other with bookplate of Humphry Davy Rolleston, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge;Eddington, A.S. Stars and Atoms. Oxford, 1927. First edition, inscribed 'T.G.N. Haldane' in pencil on front endpaper

Peary, Robert E. The North Pole With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, deluxe issue, out-of-series copy from the edition of 500, signed by Robert E. Peary and R. A. Bartlett, 4to, later tan half calf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 112 tipped-in photographic plates, limitation leaf spotted and marked, tide-mark to index leaves;Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to, contemporary half roan (spine and front board detached), 31 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured or printed in colours, one folding), errata leaf, engraved plates spotted, tear to folding map, sigs. 3Z and 4A transposed [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381];Franklin, John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22. London: John Murray, 1824. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter cloth, 4 folding maps, Board of Trade ink-stamps to title-pages;Cook, James. An Abridgment of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. London: G. Kearsley, 1788. Sixth edition, 12mo, modern cloth, iii 1-430 pp. (apparently 448 pp. called for but text ends on p. 429, the remaining leaves presumably advertisements), 8 engraved plates (some trimmed along fore edge);Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), damp-staining (diminishing towards centre of volume), half-title discarded, marginal extensions to title-page, pp. v/6 and final leaf, maps and folding plates laid on linen, first map with extensive closed tear and pertaining section consequently lifting from linen, short closed tear to second map;and 10 others (these not collated), including: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations ... in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1856 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth); M. A. Healy, Report on the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885, 1887 (first edition, 4to, original cloth); Francis McClintock, The Voyage of the 'Fox' in Arctic Seas, 1859 (first edition, contemporary half calf, lacking folding map); and similar

[Chetham Library] Buchanan, George Franciscanus & Fratres Quibus accessere varia eiusdem & aliorum Poemata quorum & titulos & nomina XVI indicabit pagina. Basle: Thomas Guarinus, [1568], First edition, 8vo, [xvi], 319; 176; 143; some use of Hebrew type, late 18th century vellum, spine gilt with Greek key pattern, armorial bookplate of Rev. John Stirton M.V.C. D.D.Note: Note: First edition of a 3-part collection of Neo-Latin verse. The previously published works by Buchanan in the first part comprise the satires on monasticism Franciscanus and Fratres fraterrimi; the biblical tragedy Jephthes; and translations of the Medea and Alcestis of Euripides. The second part contains poems by Adrien Turnebe, Michel de l'Hopital, and Jean Dorat; the third consists of Karel Utenhove''s Astragalus.On the front endpaper, facing the gift inscription, are listed 6 Italian authors, 3 French authors and 1 Scottish author [Buchanan], followed by the quip:"Here 1 Scot, 3 French 6 Italians run3 equal 6, but 9 are beat by 1" and"3 French, with 6 Italian Poets shine1 single Scot eclipseth all the nine."Provenance: Presentation inscription gifting volume to "Jos. Brereton, 17 March 1773 from my good friend Mr Thyer, the late Learned Librarian of Manchester". Robert Thyer (1709–1781), 18th-century British writer and literary editor, best known as Chetham's Librarian.

Chinese Porcelain - Morgan, J. Pierpont Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain New York: Privately Printed, 1904-11. 2 volumes, 8vo, edition limited to 250 copies, presentation copy with John Pierpont Morgan's leather book label, inscribed "Sir Guy Laking, with kind regards, J. Pierpont Morgan, Library, Oct. 22nd 1906", 158 coloured plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, watered silk and green morocco endpapers, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncutNote: Note: A very fine copy of the edition limited to 250 copies, privately printed by order of J. Pierpont Morgan.Provenance: J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier, banker and benefactor, notable collector of books, pictures, paintings, clocks, gemstones & other art objects. His son, J. P. Morgan Jr., made the Pierpont Morgan Library a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to a his father.Guy Francis Laking (1875-1919), English art historian and author, first keeper of the London Museum, an authority of arms and armour.

Münster, Sebastian Institutiones Grammaticae in Hebraeam linguam [Hebrew title at head: Melekheth ha-Diqduq]. [Basel]: Froben, 1524. First edition, [288 pp.], printer's woodcut device to title and final page, text in Hebrew, Latin (roman types) and Greek, musical notation in text, title-page dust-soiled and with early ownership inscription, old staining to a8 v. and b1 r., final page stained and with early ink annotations, a few marks and early ink annotations elsewhere [Adams M1932; VD16 M 6685].[Bound with 2 other works:]Ceporinus, Jakob. Compendium grammaticae graecae, iam de integro ab ipso authore et castigatum et locupletatum. Hesiodi georgicon ... Epigrammata. Basel: Valentin Curio, 1522. First edition, 175 [1] pp, allegorical woodcut border to title-page, printer's woodcut device to verso of colophon leaf, text in Greek and Latin (Latin in italic types), early ink annotations including ownership inscription 'George Hudson is the right owner of this book', title-page dust-soiled and with shallow chipping to foot, variable tide-mark to foot of gutter, [VD16 ZV 15528; not in Adams, the earliest edition there listed being Zurich, 1539]; Luscinius, Ottmar. Progymnasmata graecae literaturae. Strassburg: Johannes Knobloch, 1523. [28] 87 [30] pp., woodcut border to title-page, printer's woodcut device to final page, ownership inscription 'Ego libro Joannis Harryse Scoti 12th Octobrii anno 1561' to verso of title-page, occasional early annotations and underlining, title-page dust-soiling, a few stains elsewhere [Adams L1731; VD16 N 32].3 works in 1 volume, 8vo (15.9 x 10.5cm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked with most of original spine laid down, contents tonedNote: Note: First and only edition of an early work by Sebastian Münster, the preeminent Hebraist of 16th-century Europe, rare in commerce; his earliest verified publication is his Epitome Hebraicae grammaticae, printed in 1520, also by Froben. This appears to be the first edition of Ceporinus's work; the first part (Compendium) was also published separately by Curio in the same year. The design of the title-page has been attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. Luscinius's work first appeared in 1517.

Reid, Thomas Essays on the Active Powers of Man Edinburgh: for John Bell, 1788. First edition, 4to (26 x 20.5cm), contemporary tan calf, red morocco label, edges sprinkled red, half-title, advertisement leaf, bookplate (Seton of Ekolsund), spine darkened, slight loss to head, a few quires spotted [ESTC T109117]Note: Note: Thomas Reid was appointed professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1764, succeeding Adam Smith, who had resigned to accompany the duke of Buccleuch on his continental tour. One of two major works Reid published in his retirement, the other being his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), the Essays on the Active Powers of Man 'combined a defence of the concept of human free will with an attack on aspects of Hume's theory of morals. Together, the two Essays shaped the teaching of moral philosophy in Britain and America well into the nineteenth century, partly thanks to the influence of his disciple Dugald Stewart, but also because they provided the basis for a systematic account of the faculties of the mind which was both well suited to the practicalities of pedagogy and consistent with most variants of protestant theology' (ODNB).

Greece Three works Aligny, Théodore. Views of the most celebrated Sites of Ancient Greece drawn from nature and etched by Théodore Aligny. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 1971. Large folio (70 x 49cm), 10 plates, loose as issued, with text, in grey card folder lettered in black;Bröndsted, Peter Oluf. The Bronzes of Siris. London: The Society of Dilettanti, 1836. Folio, 6 plates, 2 vignettes [title and colophon], original cloth-backed boards, lacking backstrip, boards detached, some spotting;[Mazier de Heaume, Hippolyte] Voyage d'un Jeune Grec à Paris. Paris: F. Louis, 1824. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, half-titles, contemporary calf, spines gilt, some spottingNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Burton, Sir Richard Francis The City of the Saints and across The Rocky Mountains to California London: Longman, Green [&c.], 1861. First edition, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, 3 maps on 1 folding sheet, 8 plates and plans (1 folding), text illustrations, contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt, 19th century bookplate of Thomas William Beaves [Sabin 9497]Note: Note: Edward in his excellent biography of Richard Burton noted "the book is a a rare account by an experienced traveller who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one travelled westward. Here are emigrants, soldiers, desperadoes, wanderers, frontier women, Indian tribes, government officials, rascals and saints, the inevitable pretty girls (white and Indian alike). Social conditions, perceptions about democracy, advice to the army about dealing with the aborigines (the Indians were like a sort of Bedawin to Burton), lists of routes and way stops, the legal system and frontier justice, analyses of raw materials and alkaline waters, the sources of rivers, the weather, soil conditions - it is mid century America in five hundred pages and appendixes and rarely dull".

Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First UK edition, 8vo (17.2 x 10.2cm), 20th-century red quarter morocco, marbled sides, top edge dyed red, [6] 141 pp., without half-title or advertisements, spotting towards front and rear, pp. 35/6 dog-eared. Together with a copy of Kidnapped (first edition, 1886, original cloth, spine sunned, rolled and frayed, label removed from front board, folding map, 'business' at p. 40 l. 11, advertisements dated '5G 7-86')

Ferguson, Adam An Essay on the History of Civil Society Edinburgh: for A. Millar and T. Caddel [sic], 1767. First edition, 4to (25.6 x 20cm), contemporary mottled calf, joints cracking but firm, occasional light spotting, chiefly to margins, 3A3-4 untrimmed at upper fore corners [ESTC T76205; Goldsmiths' 10264]Note: Note: An attractive copy of Ferguson's masterpiece, a major Scottish Enlightenment text which proved hugely influential among contemporary British and continental European readers alike. Ferguson's analysis of the problems facing advanced commercial societies 'touched a chord in its British readers because it offered a detailed, colourful, non-deterministic historical account of the way nations advance morally and materially towards the state of commerce, refinement, and liberty associated with eighteenth-century Britain ... Ferguson rejected the legalistic accounts of the rise of states in terms of social contracts, and cast doubt on the simplistic economic and moral evolutionism associated with theories of natural law. Instead, he followed Montesquieu by acknowledging a great variety of factors, climatic and geographic, as well as cultural and moral, affecting the rise and fortunes of polities in Europe and beyond ... The Essay made its author famous throughout Europe. It was hailed by men of letters as diverse as James Boswell, Baron d'Holbach, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Of special significance was the Essay's impact on the early attempts at creating the disciplines of social sciences by Ferguson's contemporaries' (ODNB).Provenance: From the library of the ducs de Luynes at the château de Dampierre (bookplate and shelfmark label to front pastedown).

Government of India Alqabnamah [Title at head:] List showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, etc., having Relations with the Indian Government. Corrected up to the 5th October 1935. New Delhi: printed by the manager, Government of India Press, 1935. Folio, original printed blue paper boards, rebacked and recornered, [4] iii [2] 2-118 pp., updated throughout in manuscript (red and black inks) and with tipped-in printed slips, printed insert tipped to p. 108, covers marked, title-page, pp. 21/2 and 117/18 heavily washed and reinserted, uniform browning to other text-leaves, small abrasion to first page of index from adhesion to facing page, pencilled shelfmark to verso of title-page, Government of India ink-stamp to verso of final blankNote: Note: Marked 'confidential', this is the only edition of the work we have traced, and in institutional terms is present in one other copy, at the British Library (shelfmark IOR/R/15/1/734), with no copies traced in auction records.The work covers the protocols of addressing the ruling princes and chiefs of India, in addition to the rulers of independent states, including Tibet, Nepal and Siam, 'miscellaneous states', including Zanzibar, Muhammerah (modern Iran), Indore, Arcot and Bombay, and protectorate rulers. This last group includes the sultan of Muscat and Oman, the rulers of various sultanates in modern-day Yemen, and the shaykhs of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and of each the Trucial States, that is, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain.Each ruler is listed under seven headings: Name of state or place of residences; Name and address in English; Commencement and conclusion of letter in English and colour of crest; Highest British authority by whom hitherto addressed; Name and address in Persian or Arabic; No. of Guns [for salutes]; Remarks. The profuse additions to this copy (in the form of printed slips and manuscript annotations) both record rulers' deaths and the identities of the successors, and illustrate changes in the status of rulers while still living: the shaykhs of Bahrain and Kuwait are both noted as being promoted from the title of Excellency to Highness, while the raja of even a minor Indian state, Talcher, is recorded as receiving the new title of Raja Bahadur 'as a personal distinction'.

Harkness, Henry A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo (24.7 x 15cm), contemporary half calf, rebacked, vi [2] 175 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, wear to corners, plates spotted, occasional spotting and a few marks to text [not in Abbey];Marshall, William E. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India. History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in black (apparently one of several variant bindings), rebacked with original spine laid down, xx 271 pp., 18 autotype plates of which 14 from photographs, autotype map, illustrations in text, tips bumped and worn, first signature near detached;King, W. Ross. The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri Hills. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces ('Toda Woman' and 'Toda Man'), one further plate, gutta percha perished and text-block detached from binding, ink-stamps and pencil markings of the Clinton Hall Association, New York to pastedowns and title-page, scraps of paper adhering to front pastedown and free endpaper causing small hole in latter

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, without the portrait, bookplate of H. M. Brower and printed catalogue description mounted to front pastedown, craquelure and score-marks to bindings, general light soiling to contents, A2-3 chipped along edges and therefore slightly shorter, closed tear in lower margins of quires F-G and Y, similar tear in Q2 extending into text, T1 signature-mark punched through, 2S4 with repaired closed tear to head, housed in a custom brown linen slipcase and chemise [ESTC T91547; cf. Rothschild 556] Note: Note: First Edinburgh edition, the second overall, second issue, with the correct reading of 'stinking' in 'To a Haggis' on p. 263. According to Rothschild 3,000 copies were printed.

Burton, Sir Richard Francis Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-56. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, half-title in volume 3, errata leaf in volume 1, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 5 chromolithographed plates, 1 wood-engraved plate, 2 folding maps, and 2 plans (1 folding), fine red straight-grained morocco gilt with gilt device of Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899), spines gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, green silk endpapers with gilt device of R.T.H. Bruce, gilt edges, some light dampstaining to about 5 platesNote: Note: A very finely bound set of the first edition of Sir Richard Burton's most famous exploit.Provenance: Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899), Scottish businessman.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings, signed by Tolkien in each volume The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967-65-65. Mixed editions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, with second edition dust jackets (in grey, with 'Revised Edition' on front panels and 'Second Edition' on front flaps), 3 folding maps in red and black, top edges dyed red. Some wear, chipping and soiling to dust jackets, light spotting to edges of textblocksNote: Note: With J. R. R. Tolkien's autograph signature to the title-page of each volume. The Fellowship of the Ring is a second edition, second impression (cf. Hammond A5 e. i); The Two Towers and The Return of the King are first editions, eleventh impressions. The dust jackets are all those of the second edition. The trilogy was first published in 1954-5 and the second edition, for which the text of each volume was partly reset and revised, was published in 1966.Provenance: Signed by Tolkien for K. A. M. Abbott, royalties accountant at George Allen & Unwin; thence by descent. The lot sold with a copy of The Silmarillion (1977), first edition, first impression, signed by Christopher Tolkien, and with a typed letter signed from Christopher Tolkien to Abbott.

Russia - Crimea - Simpson, William Seat of War in the East London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855. First edition, folio, Series 1 and 2 bound in one volume, pictorial lithographed titles and 79 tinted plates with tissue guards, contemporary green half morocco, the contents sprung, bookplate of Brother Edward Macbean, rubbed, upper joint split at baseProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

India - Sanskrit printing Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit [Part 2:] Dasa Cumara Charita, abridged by Apayya]. [Part 3:] Three Satacas, or Centuries of Verses, by Bhartri Hari. Serampore: [Serampore Mission Press], 1804 [Sanskrit title-page dated 1803]. 4to (20.5 x 19cm), modern cloth, xv [1] 160 [3], [5] 4-22 [2], [5] 26-111 [5] pp., title-page, part-titles, errata leaves and introduction (pp. xv) in English, remaining text in Sanskrit, spotting to front and rear, first part second errata leaf laid down, ink annotations in Sanskrit to p. 101, a few pencilled annotations elsewhereNote: Note: Editio princeps, and the first book in Sanskrit printed with Devanagari types, perhaps one of 100 copies, no other copy traced in auction records.A collection of animal fables believed to date from the 12th century CE or earlier, the Hitopadesa was derived partly from the Panchatantra, which was translated into Arabic via Persian to become the fable cycle Kalila wa-Dimna. The Serampore Baptist Mission and its associated press were founded in 1800 by missionary and translator William Carey (1761-1834), who had established himself in Danish-controlled Serampore in response to the ban on missionary activity in the territory of the East India Company. In 1801 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit, Marathi and Bengali at the Company's Fort William College, at whose behest he prepared this edition of the Hitopadesa from six manuscript copies. The introduction is by the pioneering Sanskritist Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837). A Bengali edition was published by the Press in 1801.Literature:Johanes Hertel (ed.), The Panchatantra (Harvard, 1908), p. xxii;Rosane & Ludo Rocher, The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (2014) p. 73.Provenance: East India Company library (ink-stamps to title-page, first page of the second part, and terminal errata leaf of the third part).

Blaeu, Joannes [Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland] Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1662. Folio, title-page hand-coloured and heightened in gilt, hand-coloured vignette to volume title-page, 49 hand-coloured Scottish maps and 6 hand-coloured maps of Ireland, original vellum gilt neatly repaired along lower edges, some light marginal dampstaining, predominantly to lower margins, some minor worming to lower margins and a few neat repairs, again to lower margins, some browning to endpapers, presented in custom archival boxNote: Note: This atlas comprises volume five of the six-volume Dutch text edition of Blaeu's Theatrum. Each volume of the work was published separately between 1635 and 1655, in several languages. In its era, the Theatrum was considered to be the most comprehensive and accurate atlas produced, with volume 5 being regarded to this day first atlas of Scotland, using many maps developed by the cartographer, Pont. 49 of the maps are of Scotland and 6 depict Ireland."The publication in 1654 of Volume V of Blaeu's Atlas novus was the result of over 70 years of cartographic, chorographic, and editorial activity, by a dispersed network of people in Scotland and the Low Countries. Through their combined efforts, dogged by war, poverty, copyright restrictions, and only intermittent official support, 'Scotland became one of the best mapped countries in the world' (Stone, 1989)" (C. Fleet: Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, NLS).

Hamilton, Alexander A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints and of Children in Early Infancy. Edinburgh: for Peter Hill, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, small section of loss to head of spine, boards rubbed, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front board and title-page, monogram book-label and tape residue to front free endpaper, title-page slightly finger-marked and with small tear to gutter [ESTC T117281]; Chambers, Robert. Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, device of the Northern Lighthouse Board gilt to covers, tinted lithographic frontispiece of a view from the links at St Andrews (mounted), folding map of Lochaber (backed on linen), half-title discarded;and others (these not collated): James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, A New Edition, London: A Strahan, 1790 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt); George Buchanan, Poemata quae exstant, Amsterdam, 1687 (16mo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page, joints cracked); Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1860 (contemporary half calf); Numb. 15, Minutes of the Proceedings in Parliament Monday 4. November 1706, Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706 (single bifolium); and two part-sets of ScottNote: Note: A Treatise of the Management of Female Complaints is nominally a revised edition of the author's A Treatise of Midwifery, first published in 1781, but in practice so extensively updated as to constitute a new work: 'In correcting it for a third edition ... he perceived that many improvements might be made, which would render it more extensively useful than formerly; but he found that these could not be introduced without altering completely the form and style of the book' (preface, p. vi).

'Arabian Nights' Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah [Arabic title, i.e. The Thousand and One Nights and a Night, first part]. Cairo: Matba'ah al-taqqadum al-'ilmiyah [Scientific Progress Press], 1325 AH [1907 CE]. Small 4to (19.4 x 13cm), contemporary half sheep, 528 pp., printed with Arabic types, loss to spine, text-leaves browned, paper slips with ownership inscriptions of Captain H. E. Short, Indian Medical Service, pasted to title-page not obscuring text. Together with a lithographic Buddhist text possibly in Mongolian, approx. 175 ff., loose between wooden covers, 18 x 56cm, occasional illustrations and borders printed in pink, title-page with pencilled transliteration and translation of title (' ...Herein is told the tale of Gasar ga-an, master of the ten directions')Note: Note: A new edition of the Bulaq edition of 1834/5, the first printed in the Arab world and now extremely rare. The first volume ends with the 162nd night; apparently four volumes were published.

Fergusson, James Tree and Serpent Worship or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati ... Second Edition, revised, corrected, and in great part re-written. London: India Museum, 1873. 4to (33 x 24cm), original red half morocco gilt, xvi 274 pp., lithographic frontispiece, 101 plates numbered 1-100 (including 10A), albumen print photographs or lithographs, photographs mounted as issued (often one on each side of a single leaf, numbered in all cases as separate plates), publisher's postscript slip, joints cracked with front board remaining attached only via new endpapers, frontispiece, title-page and first leaf of text strengthened in gutter, dust-soiling and a few spots to top edges of mounts, numerical ink-stamp to margin of p. 33, mount for photographic plates 95 and 96 creased across upper fore corner [Gernsheim 419];Malcolm, John. Malcolm's History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with Notes and Dissertations by Lieut.-Colonel M. H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry. Lahore: printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, Lahore, 1888. Folio (32.5 x 20cm), modern half leather, [2] ix [3] 290, title-page slightly nicked and marked and with small annotation to upper inner corner, light marginal soiling elsewhere, last 2 leaves slightly nicked and with damp-staining to corners;Kaye, G. R (editor). The Bakhshali Manuscript. A Study in Medieval Mathematics. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch [volume 2, Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1927-33. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter morocco, photogravure plate (spotted), 47 ?collotype plates, volume 2 spine rubbedNote: Note: James Fergusson travelled to India after leaving school, and within ten years as an indigo planter in Bengal had made a sufficient fortune to dedicate himself to the study of art and architecture. Sanchi, near Bhopal in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, is the oldest Buddhist sanctuary in existence, dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The stupa at Amaravati, in what is now Andhra Pradesh, was founded around 200 BC. Fergusson's account was first published in 1868. The photographs are by W. H. Griggs and James S. Waterhouse; Waterhouse eventually became surveyor-general to the Monumental Photographic Survey of India. The Civil and Military Gazette, publishers of this edition of Malcolm's Persia, was where Rudyard Kipling began his professional life in India, joining as a sub-editor in 1882.

Scotland Collection of deeds and documents, 16th-18th century including document signed by Sir John Skene (c.1540-1617), jurist and author of Regiam Majestatem, 13th July 1588[?], concerning John Auchterlony of the county of Forfar, in English, on paper with pot watermark, signed 'Joannes Skene' at foot, 41 x 30cm, a few holes along one fold;Charter signed by George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal (?-1694), royalist army officer, 1690, confirming John Thomson, merchant of Peterhead, and his wife Griselda Mylne in their possession of lands, in Latin, on vellum, 25 x 65cm;Charter signed by James Law (c.1560-1632), archbishop of Glasgow, 1632, in Latin, on vellum, retaining red wax seal, 29 x 55cm;and approx. 40 others, on paper or vellum, including documents mentioning Patrick, Lord Gray of Forfar, 1575 (on paper), John Leslye of Boquhane, 1593 (on paper), the sheriffdom of Lanark, 1633 (on vellum), and similarNote: Note: A xylographic version of John Skene's signature is printed in the 1597 edition of The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Scotland (STC 22626) on leaf 2G3. The career of George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal is summarised by Aberdeenshire Museums Service: 'He succeeded to the title at the death of his brother in 1661. In his younger years he served in the French army and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned to Scotland when the civil war broke out, but does not appear to have taken any active part on either side until the army of the "Engagement" was raised to rescue Charles I from the Republican party. He commanded a regiment of foot in that mismanaged enterprise, and fought at the battle of Preston (August 17th, 1648). Three years later he had the command of three regiments at the battle of Worcester, where he displayed the hereditary bravery of his house, but was overpowered by numbers and taken prisoner. He appears to have lived quietly on his estates during the reigns of Charles II and his brother, James VII. He took no active part on either side at the Revolution. "Earl Marshall," wrote Claverhouse to Melfort, "is at Edinburgh, but does not meddle." He died in 1694' (catalogue description for the rental book of George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal, GB 3298 P3417).

Dickens, Charles Hard Times For these Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth (primary binding with price in gilt to foot of spine), spine faded and rolled, wear to head and foot of spine and to section of rear joint, faint mottling to sides, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, leaf B1 (section-title 'Book the First', verso blank) excised [Smith I 11];Ibid. Pictures from Italy. London: published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, a little wear and a few pale marks to binding, front inner hinge gone, soiling to lower fore corners of quires H-K [Smith II 7];Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, 40 etched plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, binding rubbed, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves, closed tear in leaves U7-X1, closed tear to foot of plate facing p. 327, marginal tear to 2P4

Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, 12mo, original dark green boards with mouse motif to upper cover, neatly rebacked with silver lettered spine, lacking one plate at p.17, endpapers rubbed, some soiling [Quinby 20 / endpapers matching plate X]; editions of The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle & The Tale of Two Bad Mice dating to 1910 or later [endpapers matching plate X]; a 1952 edition of The Fairy Caravan

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, sixth impression, hardback, inscribed by the author 'to Laura - with best wishes - and I like the necklace! J K Rowling', 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine-panel sunned), textblock slightly tonedNote: Provenance: Inscribed for the vendor at a book signing in Edinburgh c.1998; according to her recollection the necklace was made of candy.

Libertinism Records of the Most Ancient and Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland, Anstruther [Bound with:] Supplement to the Historical Portion of the "Records of the ... Beggar's Benison ... being an Account of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Society, together with Excerpts from the Toasts, Recitations, Stories, Bon-Mots, Speeches, and Songs delivered thereat. Anstruther [i.e. London]: printed for private distribution only [by J. Lewis, Wardour Street], 1892. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (20.7 x 13cm), near-contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, [10] 30 [2], 91 [3] pp., half-title, 9 photographic plates showing the society's paraphernalia, pamphlet (Notes on "The Records of the Beggar's Benison Society ...", 1892, 16 pp.) tipped to front pastedown, 2 additional photographs of society paraphernalia tipped to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, bookplates, faint spots to covers, a few spots and marks to contents. Together with an original Beggar's Benison diploma of membership, 1759, granted by Robert Lumsden of Invergelly, admitting Ralph Teesdale, Captain, Royal Marines as member of the Edinburgh branch, manuscript on vellum, 16.8 x 31cm, signed by Walter Ferguson, recorder of the Edinburgh branch of the Beggar's Benison, folded, retaining original pink ribbon, remains of red wax sealNote: Note: First edition, one of 250 copies only. The Beggar's Benison, a gentlemen's sex club, was founded in Anstruther, Fife, in 1732 and is believed to have continued until the 1830s. The group's recorded practices include a phallocentric initiation rite, ritualised onanism, inspections of nude female models, and sexualised toasts and readings. The present work is the principal source for the group's activities and contains photographs of its paraphernalia including drinking goblets, medallions and its notorious 'testing platter', all decorated with priapic motifs. No other copy traced in auction records, apart from an incomplete copy offered Hodgson's, London, in 1965, lacking three plates.

Architecture Folios Art and Literature Gillespie, James. Details of Scottish Domestic Architecture, A Series of Selected Examples From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, of Stonework, Woodwork, Furniture, Plasterwork, & Metalwork. One hundred and twenty-four plates of measured drawings, and six plates of collotype reproductions of photographs. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Architectural Association, 1922. Folio, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering. Provenance: Herbert Louis Honeyman FRIBA (1885-1956);Washington Browne, George. Pugin Studentship Drawings being a selection from Sketches, Measured Drawings, and Details of Domestic and Ecclesiastical Buildings in England and Scotland... Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878. Copy no. 33 of 200, folio, original red buckram cloth slightly faded with gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed insignia on front board, 75 black and white plates, owner inscriptions to free endpaper. Provenance: Andrew Kerr Tasker FRIBA, President of the Northern Architectural Association (early 20th century);Small, John William. Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Measured and Drawn for the Stone. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1878. Copy no. 221 of 500, folio, 100 black and white plates, original yellow cloth cockled, red lettering, boards bumped, pencil inscription to free endpaper;Latham, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture and Adornments of Some of the Most Notable Houses of England Historically Depicted from Photographs. London: Country Life, 1904 and 1907. 2 volumes, folio, black and white photographic illustrations throughout, blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering, g.e.[Adam, Robert and James] The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam. Complete Edition. London: John Tiranti & Co., Architectural Publishers, 1931. Folio, grey paper boards with cloth to spine, black stamped lettering, dustjacket nibbled at edges and dust-stained;Dickens, Charles and George Cruikshank [illustrator]. The Adventures of Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy's Progress. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1895. One of 500 copies, 4to, original illustrative printed boards, brown quarter morocco, gilt lettering to spine, 26 colour plates with tissue guards, edges and corners bumped;Dickens, Charles, Cattermole, George [illustrator] and Hablot Browne [illustrator]. Master Humphrey's Clock. 3 volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. First edition in book form, 8vo, contemporary black half morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering, black and white illustrated text, boards worn with some loss to spines;Hogarth, William, Hanny, James [introductory essay], Trusler, Rev. J. and E.F. Roberts [descriptive letterpress]. The Works of William Hogarth in a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Superb Engravings on Steel, from the Original Pictures. 2 volumes. London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d. [c.1880]. 4to, original maroon half morocco boards, raised bands, blind stamps and gilt lettering to spine, g.e.

Gage, Thomas A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America, by Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. London: By M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. Fourth edition, 8vo, [A4, B1 - II7], very erratic pagination but complete, folding map ('A New Mapp of the Empire of Mexico'), contemporary calf, corners neatly repaired, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of Baron NorthwickNote: Note: A classic account of 17th century Mexico and the West Indies.Gage lived for many years as a Dominican friar in Antigua, Guatemala. He later became the chaplain to English forces stationed in Jamaica. First published in 1648 under the title The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, this fourth edition is enlarged and includes a fine early map of Mexico and the West Indies engraved by Francis Lamb. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenceless condition of the Spanish possessions in South America excited the cupidity of the English, and it is said that Gage himself laid before Cromwell the first regular plan for mastering the Spanish territories in the New World... He was appointed chaplain to General Venables's expedition, which sailed under Venables and Penn for Hispaniola... The fleet failed at Hispaniola, but took Jamaica, where Gage died in 1656" (DNB). The text describes Catholic missions in Mexico, and contains many ethnographic observations, including a grammar of the Pokonchi language.Provenance: John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800), M.P. for Evesham

Waddell, L. A. The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and its relation to Indian Buddhism. London: W.H. Allen, 1895. First edition, 8vo, 7 plates, text illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt

Roland, George A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing Edinburgh: Archd. Constable and Company..., 1823. First edition, 8vo, half-title, 12 plates, contemporary black calf gilt with bull's head motif to covers, bookplate of Kirwan J. Fernie and ownership inscription to half-title verso

Children's and illustrated books Large collection of works Whistler, Rex (illustrator). Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Cobden Sanderson Ltd, 1935. First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the artist on the half-title, 8vo, original cream buckram richly gilt, all edges gilt, wood-engravings throughout;Carroll, Lewis. Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece and text illustrations by Harry Furniss, all edges gilt, spine sunned, a few marks to covers;Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 28 colour plates;Idem. Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1916. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and faded;Idem. The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1912. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 28 colour plates, mark to front board;Idem. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1918. 4to, original cream pictorial cloth, 14 colours plates, inner hinges repaired;Idem. The Masque of Comus. The Poem by John Milton. Cambridge: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. One of 1,500 copies, 8vo, original quarter japon, colour plates, slipcase;Marie, Queen of Romania. The Story of Naughty Kildeen. Illustrated by Job [i.e. Count Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville]. Tours: A. Mame and Sons, c.1922. Folio, original orange pictorial cloth, colour illustrations throughout, covers sprung, spotting to endpapers;Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine rolled, browning to half-title and final blank;Eliot, T. S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Nicolas Bentley drew the Pictures. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, original white pictorial cloth, contemporary ownership inscription, dust jacket repaired, a few nicks and chips;Le Mair, H. Willebeek (illustrator). A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, oblong 4to, original quarter cloth, 12 colour plates;and approx. 50 others, including others illustrated by Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, and similar

India - Bengal Presidency Collection of Calcutta imprints Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ... New Edition. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1858. 4to, later cloth, [4] 566 [2] pp., 4 lithographic folding maps (2 hand-coloured), 6 folding letterpress tables (counted in pagination and register), uniform moderate browning (stronger to title-page), very small worm-track to upper fore corner of initial leaves;The Journals of Major James Rennell, First Surveyor-General of India. Written for the Information of the Governors of Bengal during his Surveys of the Ganges and Brahamputra Rivers 1764 to 1767. Edited by T. H. D. La Touche. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910. 4to, later cloth, portrait frontispiece, folding plate of manuscript facsimile (torn along fold), folding map of Bengal and Bihar to rear, uniform moderate browning;and 4 others (these not collated): The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, c. 1832 (8vo, contemporary red half sheep, folding map with short closed tear, lacking pp. 173/4; The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842, Vol. I, Calcutta: William Rushton an[d] Co., c.1842 (8vo, contemporary half roan by the Government Press, Allahabad, 3 folding maps and folding diagram, first folding map (frontispiece) torn, binding worn, browning; The Bengal Almanac for 1848 ... compiled and arranged by Samuel Smith and Co., Calcutta, 1848 (8vo, contemporary boards, red sheep backstrip, binding worn and worn, rear inner hinge gone); Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces 1818-1820, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1866 (8vo, original cloth, binding defective)Note: Note: Library Hub traces two copies for the Directions for Revenue Officers (NLS and Cambridge).

Caesar, Julius The Commentaries Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse concerning the Roman Art of War. By William Duncan. Illustrated with Cuts. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1753. Folio (43 x 26cm), civ 335 [20] pp., modern panelled calf to style, richly gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red, 79 engraved plates including frontispiece (plates '3' and '4' in fact one plate), most double-page and 3 (nos. 41, 75 and 78) also folding, 6 folding maps, frontispiece offset onto title-page, title-page additionally somewhat marked, signatures 2A-2B with short closed tear to head, plate 41 (buffalo) with repairs and short closed tears along bottom edge, plate 59 (folding map of Italy) with small repair, plate 75 (elephant) with small tear to intersection of folds and short closed tear to foot [ESTC T136453]Note: Note: First Duncan edition. William Duncan (1717-1760) was professor of philosopher at Marischal College, Aberdeen. The plates, many by Cornelis Huyberts, include depictions of Picts, Britons, and 'Germans', battles including the famous 'Battle with the Elephants' scene, military formations and encampments, aerial city views, and a suite of nine plates after Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar. Remaining in print well into the 19th century, Duncan's translation was influential the 18th-century revival of interest in Britain's Celtic past and helped inspire his pupil James Macpherson in his creation of Ossian, the mythical Scottish bard. Publishing the work a few years after 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Duncan was evidently concerned to present Caesar as a model of leadership, advising his dedicatee the future George III: 'It is likewise well known, that in dangerous domestic seditions ... nothing tends more to confirm the well-affected in their duty, and to check the machinations of the factious, than when a king every was qualified to command, appears in person at the head of his troops'.

India Quantity of works, including Indian imprints Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society; Volumes:I. No. 1, July-December 1907, 4to, blue half morocco;II. No. 1 and 2, January-December 1908, 2 volumes, blue half morocco;III. No. 1 and 2 (Serial No. 7-8), January-June 1909, 2 copies;IV. (Serial No. 9), July-December 1909, 2 copies;VIII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 15-16), January-June 1914;IX. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No 17-18), July-December 1914;X. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 19-20), January-June 1915;XI. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 21-22), July-December 1915;XII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 23-24), April-June 1916;XIII. Part 2 (Serial No. 26), October-December 1916;XIV. Part 2 (Serial No. 28), April-June 1917;Grierson, George A. Bihar Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885. 8vo, map, lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, binding (only) lightly wormed;Mukerji, Nitya Gopal. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture. Calcutta, 1901. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, contemporary half calf;M'Cann, Hugh W. Report on the Dyes and Tans of Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1883. 8vo, original brown cloth;Anderson, J.D. A Collection of Kachari Folk-Tales and Ryhmes. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. 8vo, original cloth-backed blue boards, slightly rubbed;Hume, Allan. List of the Birds of India, Reference Edition, corrected to 1st March 1879. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., 1879. 8vo, title from upper board, original cloth-backed boards;Bengal Camp Guide. Coronation Durbar at Delhi. Notes and Information for the use of the Guests of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Small 4to, photographic plates, 7 folding plans in pocket at end, original blue cloth gilt;Hunter, William Wilson. North-Eastern Frontier. Political Dissertation prefixed to a Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1869, 8vo, original wrappers slightly stained and small hole without loss, spine worn; RARE;Sastri, Pandit Sivanath. Remtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer, a History of the Renaissance in Bengal. London: Sonnenschein; Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1907, presentation copy to the Honble. W.C. Macpherson Esq. from S.K. Lahiri, plates, original cloth;Bradley-Birt, F.B. Chota Nagpore, a little known province of the Empire. 1903. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, plates, folding map, original red cloth gilt, slightly marked;Pennell, T.L. Amongst the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. 1909. 8vo, plates, spine faded;Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, a little dampstaining or spotting, rubbed, hinges weak;Crawford, Arthur. Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan. 1897, 8vo, original cloth;Foster, William. The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [1622-23], Oxford, 1906-08, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.;Neve, Major Arthur. The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Khardo, &c, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1918. 8vo, 11th edition, folding maps, original cloth-backed boards;Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923. 8vo, plates, original cloth;Beveridge, Henry. A Comprehensive History of India. 1842, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;Fraser, Sir Andrew H.L. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. London, 1911, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded;Carstairs, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. 1912, 8vo, original cloth;Hoernle, A.F.R. A History of India. Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press, 1909. 8vo, original cloth;O'Malley, L.S.S. Bengal District Gazetteers. Saran. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1908. 8vo, original blue cloth;Thornton, Thomas Henry. General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. London, 1898, original cloth;Case, Mrs. Day by Day at Lucknow. A Journal of the Siege. London, 1858. 8vo, original cloth;Fay, Mrs Eliza. The Original Letters from India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1908. 8vo, original cloth;Younghusband, Sir Francis. Kashmir. A. & C. Black, 1917, original pictorial cloth;Penny, F.E. Southern India, painted by Lady Lawley. A & C. Black, 1914, original pictorial cloth;Shakespear, John. Dictionary of Hindustani & English. London, 1849, 4to, contemporary half calf, lacks title page, margins of dedication leaf repaired;Roberts of Kandahar, Lord. Forty-one Years in India. 1902, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;[Rousseau, Samuel]. A Dictionary of Words used in the East Indies... the leading word of each article being printed in a New Nustaleek type, to which is added, Mohammedan Law & Bengal Revenue Terms. London: for James Asperne, 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired, extensively annotated;Smith, R. Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, worn;Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end, on linen), folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, 2 tinted lithographs, 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding plan, original brown cloth, neatly recased, hinges strengthened, bookplate of George Armistead;and a quantity of later, India-related volumes; sold as a collection not subject to return

Greece Five works Chandler, Richard. Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition, 4to, 4, [xiv], [2 - errata], 304; 7 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, folding map torn without loss, head of spine slightly rubbed;Fellows, Charles. An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. London: J. Murray, 1841. First edition, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps and 36 lithograph or etched plates (including 2 folding, 1 double-page, 1 hand-coloured & the unlisted plate at p.367), lacking boards;Thiersch, Friedrich Wilhelm von. De l'état actuel de la Grèce et des moyens d'arriver à sa restauration. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt, some light spotting [Blackmer 1652];Hellenic Journal. Plates from the Hellenic Journal 1921-1936. 4to, specially bound volume of all the plates from the Hellenic Journal of 1921-1936 depicting Greek marble statues, heads, reliefs, vases, bronze statuettes, pottery cups, alabaster bowls, bronze sculptures &c., numerous plates, some coloured, fine blue morocco gilt, spine gilt; Mahaffy, J.P. Greek pictures. 1890. 4to, plates, illustrations, original cloth, lightly rubbedNote: Note: Thiersch. An important work by one of the most important Bavarian philhellenes who in 1831 went to Greece as an unofficial agent of the Bavarian court to promote the nomination of Otho as King of the Hellenes.

Switzer, Stephen The Practical Kitchen Gardiner or, a new system of directions for his employment in the melonry, kitchen-garden, and potagery, in the several seasons of the year. London: Tho. Woodward, 1727. First edition, 8vo, 3 folding plates, contemporary calf, some minor worming to lower margins of a few leaves, bookplate [ESTC T60865]

Middle East Collection of works Eleftériadès, Eleuthère. Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1944. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to 'A son Excellence Monsieur Béchara El-Khoury, Président de la République Libanaise, hommage respectueux de l'auteur, Beyrouth, le 17 juin 1944, Eletfériadès' on the initial blank, 4to (23.5 x 16cm), contemporary half morocco, 7 halftone photographic plates (printed on both sides and numbered 1-14), folding table, 2 maps on one folding plate at rear, 9 graphs in text, original paper covers and spine bound in, plates spotted;Marchebeus, Jean-Baptiste. Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau à vapeur. Paris: Artus Bertrand, Amiot, l'auteur, 1839. First edition, tall 8vo (25 x 15.5cm), contemporary quarter morocco, half-title, 24 engraved plates, engraved folding map, bookplate of Archives et temps modernes, their ink-stamp to title-page, spotting [Blackmer 1075];Ruete, Emily (née Salimah bint Sa'id), Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Mémoires d'une princesse Arabe. Traduit de l'allemand par L. Lindsay. Paris: Dujarric, 1905. First edition in French, 8vo (18.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, [6] 330 pp., original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, contents browned, half-title and title-page loose and slightly chipped;Laurier, Jean-Philippe. Observations sur les Pyramides. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1960. First edition, inscribed on the half-title 'A Monsieur Guy Abela, en souvenir de son passage à ma maison de Sakkarah, le 5-3-67 et en cordial hommage, J. P. Laurier', 4to (28 x 19.8cm), contemporary quarter morocco, 13 plates, original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, staining to half-title;Guyard, Stanislas. Un grand maître des assassins au temps de Saladin. Extrait du Journal asiatique. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1877. 8vo (22 x 13.4cm), contemporary blue half morocco by the bindery of the Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, text in French and Arabic, spotting;'Arfa al-Dawlah Mirza Riza Khan Danesh (1846-1937). Perles d'Orient. Paris: Dujarric et Cie, 1905. Second edition, tall 8vo (24 x 15cm), original cloth, rebacked in morocco, endpapers renewed, 129 [3] pp., half-title, 4 halftone photographic plates, text-leaves browned;Musil, Alois. The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. First edition, large 8vo (24.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary orange full morocco gilt, photographic portrait frontispiece, photographic illustrations in the text, joints and extremities rubbed, spotting to rear board and edges, pp. 450-600 with occasional abrasions and repairs (pp. 532-3 marginally abraded, marginal repairs to pp. 557/8 and 559/60, 580/1 abraded with partial loss of text, similar abrasions and staining to pp. 588-600, pp. 589/90 repaired, etc.)Note: Note: Bechara El Khoury (1890-1964) was the first president of the newly independent Republic of Lebanon, serving from 1943 until his resignation in 1952; Library Hub traces two copies of Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban in UK libraries (British Library and Oxford). Marchebeus's work is an account of 'the first organised steamer cruise in the Mediterranean ... [which] visited Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor and the Archipelago' (Blackmer). Emily Ruete's work was first published in German in 1888; it has been described as the first published autobiography by an Arab or African woman. 'Arfah al-Dawlah, known as 'Danesh', was a Persian diplomatist of the late Qajar period. Perles d'Orient is a collection of poems and memoirs. Library Hub traces one copy only in UK libraries (Cambridge), and two of the first edition, printed at Constantinople the previous year.Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile, with his gilt stamp to foot of spines and ownership inscriptions to various preliminary leaves.

Mackenzie, Alexander History of the Relations of the Government with the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of Bengal Calcutta: Home Department Press, 1884. First edition, 8vo, folding map, original cloth, hinges broken, spine torn/rubbed, upper board soiledNote: Note: 'From 1866 to 1873 I had immediate charge of the Political correspondence of the Bengal Government. In 1869... I wrote... a "Memorandum on the North-East Frontier of Bengal". Since Pemberton's Report in 1835, no general survey had been taken of the political relations of the Government with the hill tribes of Assam, Cachar and Chittagong, and my 'Memorandum' proved to be extremely useful. I [planned] a work which while treating exhaustively of all the frontier tribes in that quarter, in respect of their relations to the Government, their manners, customs and ethnological affinities, would at the same time serve as a permanent hand-book for the Government and its local officers..." (Preface)Chapters are devoted to Bhutan, the extra-Bhutan Bhutias, The Akas-Hazari-Khawas and Kapachors; The Duplha Tribes, The Abors and Miris, The Mishmis, The Khampti Clans of Sadiya, The Singphos of Sadiya, The Moamariahs of Muttuck, The Naga Tribes- The Patkoi Nagas, The Seebsaugor Nagas, The Angami Nagas, North Cachar, Manipur, The Mikirs and Rengma Nagas, The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, The Garos, Hill Tipperah, The Lushai or Kookie Tribes, and Chittagong Frontier Tribes.

Anita Harris limited edition Irish setter dog 6/10, signed in gold, no cracks or chips, H: 13 cm. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Margaret Thatcher The Collected Speeches, signed leather bound limited edition copy, 146/200. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Limited edition Wedgwood Clarice Cliff plate in the Comets pattern, no cracks or chips, D: 20 cm. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Two military interest hardback books; Arthur, Max 'The Real Band of Brothers, firsthand accounts of the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War', signed by the author, published by Collins, second edition and Beharry, V.C Johnson, 'Barefoot Soldier, a story of extreme valour', first edition, signed by the author and with a signed book plate containing four additional signatures, published by Sphere 2006. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Foot, Michael, 'The History of Mr Wells', signed by the author, published by Doubleday, 1995, first edition hardback book with dust cover. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Limited Edition Swarovski Collectors Society piece. First of the trilogy series. Features majestic dancer named after Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance. She wears blue crystal scarf. Includes small sparkling blue crystals. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. Comes in original box which measures 11"L x 6.75"W x 5.75"H. Swarovski logo on bottom. Artist: Adi StockerIssued: 2002Dimensions: 8"L x 4.25"W x 7.75"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

Sir Francis Chichester (1901-1972) 'The Lonely Sea and The Lonely Sky', signed first edition , 1964, Hodder & Stoughton, with dust wrapper and another edition with personalised inscription and two other signed book plates.

Charnock, J. 'Biographical Memoirs of Lord Viscount Nelson': first edition 1806 H D Symonds, London, worn boards, (lacking frontispiece, poor condition) together with a group of related books.

Helen Sinclair (British, b.1949). 'Heaven's Gate'. A bronze resin group of four figures with arms around each other. Edition of 15. H36cm. Provenance: From Munstead Wood. The contents of the property are being sold by the former owners of the important country house which has now been purchased by the national trust. Munstead Wood is a Grade I listed house and gardens in Godalming Surrey. The garden was created by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and became very well-known through her designs, and her books and articles in magazines such as Country Life. The Arts and Crafts style house was built for Jekyll and she lived there until 1932, Munstead Wood was designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens to compliment the garden with Jekylls influence on the original design. Munstead Wood was the first, and perhaps therefore the most important, collaboration between Jekyll and Lutyens in garden and house design. These collaborations number around 120, with other well-known examples including Deanery Garden in Berkshire and Hestercombe House in Somerset. Jekyll transformed the site over the years, first meeting Lutyens at Munstead Wood in 1889 when the collaboration began, and she lived there until her death in 1932. Prior to the sale to the National Trust, Munstead Wood was the vendors family home for more than 50 years, the owners over this time were Sir Robert Clark and Lady Clark who were responsible for the house and gardens regeneration to return it to its original concept. Condition Report: Head from right figure has become detached

Records : KISS - First Kiss Last licks ltd edition vinyl album ltd to 800 copies fully signed on the cover - great condition

Books. 8 shelves of general stock, early 20th c and later, including Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, twelve-volume set, London: Chatto & Windus, 1940-43, original pictorial dustjackets designed by Enid Marx, some chips, 8vo, [James Bond], Fleming (Ian), Live and Let Die, first edition thus, Reprint Society, 1956, original dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Dulac (illustrator), Arabian Nights, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots, n.d., tipped-in colour plates, original cloth only 4to, Heath Robinson (illustrator), Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots, n.d., chipped dj over cloth, 4to, Attwell (Mabel Lucie, illustrator), J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan & Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [c. 1920], original cloth, stained, 8vo, Penguin Classics, Collins Classics, including Trollope and Dumas, further literature, children's annuals, railwayana, etc., mixed sizes

Books. Scrope (William), The Art of Deer-Stalking, London: Edward Arnold, 1897, contemporary quarter-vellum over marbled boards, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Mackay (William), Urquhart and Glenmoriston, first edition, Inverness, 1893, cloth, 8vo, Whitehead on the Deer Forests of Scotland, further works on Scotland and its Highlands, Peter Scott and some further natural history, etc

Four graduated English pewter measures with bird thumbpiece, 18th c, 16cm - 95mm h, three other pewter articles, comprising a Charles II half gill measure, lacking lid, salt cellar with single reed rim, c1740 and a George III plate, by William Cook of Bristol, and reference book - Cotterell (H H) - Old Pewter it's Makers and Marks, first edition, 1929 Pewter in good condition, salt rather dented, book showing signs of much use

Books. 15 shelves, including nine New Naturalist first editions, original pictorial dustjackets, chipped &/or torn, 8vo, others, further natural history, Isherwood (Margaret), The Root of the Matter, first edition, London: Gollancz, 1954, original publisher's dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Russell (Bertrand), Human Knowledge, first edition, London: Allen and Unwin, 1948, cloth only, 8vo, idem., In Praise of Idleness, first edition, second impression, 1935, cloth only, somewhat bowed, 8vo, idem, On Education, eleventh impression, 1951, original dustjacket over cloth, creased, 8vo, further fiction and non-fiction, pamphlets, etc

Dandy Annual 2001 Plus Futurama Comic No 54 Summer 2009, Annual is First Edition 2000 Hardback Book Annual published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd spine is in good order, good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

Nineteen model aircrafts and a full run of first edition Air Enthusiast magazines, models including Hawker Hurricane, Bristol Belvidere, Avro Anson, Mirage 3, Seahawk, Saab Tunnan, etc.

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first de luxe signature edition, original blue cloth gilt, upper-cover with inset printed pictorial, all edges gilt; other copies, comprising Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (3)

Marvel Special Edition #15 Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu (1973) Marvel Comics. First appearance of Shang-Chi. Key Bronze Age Marvel Comic.

Deans Bear, Apple Pip Fortune, limited edition 21/50, in excellent condition, H: 12 cm. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)