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GODZILLA VS MECHAGODZILLAArt Print (20" x 30" ); 15/120 Signed by ArtistNear Mint Rolled; Artwork by Attack Peter Mondo, 2020Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Linocut Print on Lokta PaperThis art print is on linocut paper, with only minor wear from handling. Godzilla's mechanical archnemesis, Mechagodzilla, made its first appearance in this Toho Studios movie, though as an alien impostor rather than the human-made creation it was depicted as in later Godzilla movies.This lot will be auctioned on Thursday, April 18th. The auction will begin at 9:30am PST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on April 19th.

Newspapers & journalism.- [Roederer (Pierre-Louis)] Opuscules, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, one of 50 privately printed copies, not for general circulation, title dust-soiled, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary wrappers, soiled, uncut and unopened, 8vo, Paris, Printers of the Journal de Paris, An XII [1803].  *** A wide-margined copy of this rare collection of essays by Roederer (1754-1835, French politician, economist & historian), mostly concerning the role of the press (particularly his contributions) in influencing public opinion. 

Bloomfield (Robert) Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry, presentation inscription "To Mr Walter Jackson, from the Author. May. 19. 1819" to verso of title, 8 wood-engraved plates, later ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting, scattered spotting, contemporary marbled calf, lacking spine label, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, 1812 § [Butt (George)] A Peep at the Wiltshire Assizes: A Serio-Ludicrous Poem, first edition, half-title, binder's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, attractive navy half morocco by Cedric Chivers of Bath, gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, Salisbury, Brodie and Dowding, [1819] § [Polwhele (Richard)] The Fair Isabel of Cotehele, a Cornish Romance, first edition, later ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, some light browning, some spotting and soiling, 19th century diced calf, wear to corners, rubbed, lower joint cracked but holding firm, for J. Cawthorn, by Michell and Co. Truro, 1815; and others, 19th century poetry, 8vo (c.25) *** The first mentioned first published in 1806. 

Heraldry.- Lautte (Jean) Le jardin d'armoires, contenant les armes de plusieurs nobles royaumes et maisons de Germanie inferieure, first edition, Sig. B defective (lacking 2ff. and misbound, B2 heavily trimmed and laid down), lacking final blank, front free endpaper with "Duplicate" ink-stamp to foot, title with small loss at inner margin affecting a few letters and laid down, title with various early ink inscriptions, frequent and often extensive annotation in a contemporary hand, some printed side-notes and annotations trimmed, V8 small paper-flaw hole affecting letter of text, light browning, some light and mostly marginal water-staining, some very small worming to head of gutter, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners worn, front endpapers renewed, 12mo, Gent, Geeraert van Salenson, 1567; sold not subject to return.

Gothic poetry.- Lewis (Matthew Gregory) and others. Tales of Wonder; Written and Collected by M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P., 2 vol., first edition, advertisement leaf at end, bookplate of Viscount Halifax dated 1887, book-label of J.O. Edwards, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of titles, occasional light spotting or soiling, else very good, contemporary calf, rebacked but covers detached, rubbed and worn in places, [Summers, p.525-27], W. Bulmer & Co. for the author, 1801; and another, a parody of Lewis, large 8vo & 8vo (3) *** Contributors to Tales of Wonder include Robert Southey, Robert Burns, and Sir Walter Scott. Some of Scott's earliest writings appear in the volumes, which by virtue of their high cost of publication, were nicknamed "Tales of Plunder". Also included in the lot is "The Old Hag in a Red Cloak", a contemporary parody of M.G. Lewis' "The Grim White Woman" included in Tales of Wonder. 

de Teramond (Guy) L'Art et le Beau: La Forme Humaine et sa Beauté Etudes Artistiques, illustrations, light finger-soiling marks to title, original pictorial cloth, rather scratched and scuffed, Paris, [c.1906] § Sze (Mai-Mai) The Tao of Painting, 2 vol., first edition in English, illustrations, original cloth, spines faded, 1957 § Strachan (W.J.) The Artist and the Book in France, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, tear to spine head, the odd nick and fraying to extremities, New York, 1969; and c.100 others, art reference, v.s. (c.100) 

England & Wales.- Cary (John) Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, being a New Set of County Maps, first edition, engraved title, dedication and 47 maps with partial hand-colouring, list of subscribers at end, Sussex and Warwickshire misbound, some foxing, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper and signature of Raymond Erith, engraved bookplate of Fiennes Sanderson Miller of Radway, contemporary half calf, a little worn and stained, 4to. John Cary, 1787.*** Raymond Erith (1904-73), 20th century architect in the classical style who remodelled Nos. 10, 11 & 12 Downing St. between 1959 and 1963. His practice was continued by his pupil and partner Quinlan Terry.

Paston letters.- Fenn (John) Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III, 2 vol., second edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles, 17 engraved plates, one of which hand-coloured, folding pedigree, bookplates, vol. 1 2D4 tear to foot without loss, folding pedigree browned and little frayed at head (no text loss) with short tear to blank lower margin, some offsetting, some foxing and light browning, occasional soiling, vol. 1 Sig 2E with light damp-stain to fore-edge, contemporary polished calf, spines with red and green morocco labels, vol. 2 spine ends and joints repaired, a few light stains, heavier to vol. 1 upper cover, rubbed, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1787; and a defective copy of Paine's Common Sense (1793), 4to & 8vo (3) *** Fenn's series ultimately numbering five volumes, with volumes 3 & 4 first published in 1789 and volume 5 posthumously in 1823. 

[Johnson (Samuel)] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, first edition, second issue with 6-line errata, some light spotting, some passages marked in pencil with notes at end, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rubbed, spine chipped at head, W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1775; and 7 others, Johnson & Boswell including an attractively-bound 5 vol. Life in green straight-grain morocco, gilt, 8vo et infra (8)  

India.- Atkinson (Capt. George Francklin) "Curry & Rice", fifth edition, colour plates of sketches by the author, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by M.Digby Wyatt, 1911 § Archer (W.G.) The Plains of the Sun: Poems, ?proof copy (for an edition limited to only 50) with a few manuscript corrections and typed passages/lines/words pasted in, original wrappers, 1943 § Elwin (Verrier) I Married a Gond, offprint from 'Man in India' vol.XX no.4, original wrappers, browned, upper cover becoming detached, 1940 § Dunbar (Janet) Golden Interlude: The Edens in India 1836-1842, signed & inscribed by the author to Mildred Archer with A.Pc.s. loosely inserted, 1955 § Lunt (James, editor) From Sepoy to Subedar being the Life and Adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army..., illustrated by Frank Wilson, inscribed by the artist to Mildred Archer with A.Ls.s. & ephemera loosely inserted, 1970 § Jacobs (Julian) The Nagas: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter, 1990, some plates or illustrations, all but the first three original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and a small quantity of others on India and the British, some pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.50)*** Verrier Elwin was an anthropologist who lived among and wrote several books on Indian tribal communities.

Thames.- Ravenstein (E.G.) The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames, folding lithographed strip-map with hand-colouring, c.565 x 840mm., dissected and mounted on linen, light soiling, folding into original cloth with printed green label to upper cover (bit worn), James Reynolds, n.d. § Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames from its Source to London Bridge (The), colour strip-map dissected and mounted on linen, folding concertina-style into original cloth, Edward Stanford, 1905 § Taunt (Henry W.) A New Map of the River Thames..., third edition, double-page maps with mounted photographic illustrations, original cloth, Oxford, [c.1878], all rubbed; and 3 others on the Thames, one with panorama, 8vo et infra (6)*** The first shows the river from the Thames Head through Oxford to London Bridge, along the way describing canals, locks, fishing possibilities, bathing sites, etc.

Architecture.- Archer (Lucy) Raymond Erith Architect, [33 copies], first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, all but one sealed in 2 publisher's packages, Burford, 1985; and a quantity of Country Life, a few bound in cloth (1900s), the rest loose in original wrappers from the 1920s & '30's, Raymond Erith's copies, some with his signature, many with his paper markings of particular houses, 4to & folio (5 boxes)

Birmingham.- Hutton (William) An History of Birmingham, to the end of the year 1780, first edition, list of subscribers (with additional f. for the latecomers), folding engraved frontispiece panorama, 2 folding plans (town and canals) and 14 plates, of which 1 folding, piece from upper margin of title, offsetting, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, original boards, rebacked, preserving original chipped backstrip with later ms. title label, corners worn, rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 12120], Birmingham, Printed by and for Pearson and Rollason, 1781; and an early 19th century work on Birmingham silversmiths, 8vo (2) *** Eric Quayle's copy (noted book collector and author; with his bookplate and initialled note to inner front board) of the first edition of the first significant history of Birmingham. Includes workingmen's clubs, theatres, public buildings, the lamp act, and charity schools and poor house statistics. 

Estienne (Henri, editor) Conciones sive orationes ex Graecis Latinisque historicis excerptæ, first edition, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, index ff. A1-6 bound at end, lacking final blank, faded ink stamp of a religious institution to to outer margin of title, small hole to lower margin of P1, occasional staining to inner gutters, occasional spotting, washed, antique style ornately blind-stamped panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments, [Adams C2486 (issue with pp.278 [288]); Renouard, Estienne, 133:3; Schreiber 176], folio, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570. *** Examples of speeches of Greek and Roman historians to be used in the instruction of lawyers and politicians, amongst others. Translations of texts are made by the humanists Lorenzo Valla, Francesco Filelfo and Angelo Poliziano. Authors include Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Tacitus.Provenance: Peter Scupham; The Cantley Library / Bagman of Cantley (modern bookplates to front pastedown). 

Cosgrave (Bronwyn) & others. Sample. 100 Fashion Designers. 010 Curators: Cuttings from Contemporary Fashion, illustrations, many colour, original pleated white boards with elastic strap, fore-edge cut at angles, cloth slip-case, 2005 § Coton (A.V.) The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss and his Work, first edition, illustrations, some colour, original pictorial cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, a little frayed and chipped at edges, 1946 § Ballets Jooss. Souvenir programme, illustrations, a little browned, hand-printed pictorial wrappers designed by Hein Heckroth, spine slightly worn, Totnes, Dartington Hall, [c.1938]; and 7 others on ballet & dance, mostly Ballets Jooss including a duplicate of the last, 4to & 8vo (10) 

Jones (Barbara) The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition, 1951; Design for Death, 1967 § Lambert (M.) & Enid Marx. English Popular Art, 1951 § Brears (Peter) North Country Folk Art, Edinburgh, 1989 § Ayres (James) English Naive Painting 1750-1900, 1980 § Husband (T.) The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism, New York, 1980, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first a little frayed and defective at edges, the third rubbed; and c.25 others on British naive, folk and popular art, some pamphlets/catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Schriften, 8 vol. in 4, ?first collected edition, engraved frontispieces and title vignettes, some light browning, occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, 2 vol. with upper covers detached, worn, Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787; and another by the same, 8vo (5)

[Elliott (Ebenezer)] Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, Written and Published by Order of the Sheffield Mechanics' Anti-Bread Tax Society, first edition, 12pp., book-label of J.O. Edwards, title and final f. browned, modern wrappers, 8vo, Sheffield, for the Author, by Platt and Todd, 1830. *** Rare in commerce, we can trace only one copy at auction (2006). Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849) was an English poet, iron merchant and Chartist agitator, nicknamed "the Corn Law Rhymer" for his fight to repeal the Corn Laws. 

Nicholson (William).- Cooper (Edward H.) Mr. Blake of Newmarket, first edition, advertisement leaf at beginning and 3 leaves at end, original pictorial cloth designed by William Nicholson, a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly faded, 8vo, 1897.

Architecture.- Cook (Theodore Andrea) Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, [1916] § Langenskiöld (Eric) Michele Sanmicheli: The Architect of Verona, Raymond Erith's copy with his ink signature, broken, original pictorial wrappers, Uppsala, 1938 § Raval (M.) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 1756-1806, original wrappers, Paris, 1945 § Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, facsimile reprint of 1570 Venice edition, biographical pamphlet loosely inserted, Milan, 1951 § Bopucher (B.) Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time, 1994 § Cresti (C.) & Claudio Rendina. Palazzi of Rome, Cologne, 1998 § Hitchcock (Henry-Russell) Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany, 1968, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the second & third original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the first four a little rubbed; and c.55 others, architecture, mostly Continental, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.60)

Maffei (Giovanni Pietro) Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI..., first edition, printer's device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, large book-label, title with small closed tear paper repair at foot, and along with following leaf reinforced at gutter, scattered marginal worming (no text lost), occasional faint marginal damp-stains, eighteenth century mottled calf, spine gilt, a few light scuffs, [Edit16 CNCE 28797], folio, Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1588.*** First edition of this important work on the "Indies", both West and East; a collection of accounts of the Portuguese discoveries and missionary work in China and Japan, the East Indies, Brazil and the Americas. This copy complete with the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, sometimes lacking.

India.- Francis (Charles Richards) Sketches of Native Life in India with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc., etc., first edition, 22 tinted lithographed plates by J.C. Anderson after C.H. Fairland, list of subscribers and errata slip at rear, plate 3 with loss to corner affecting image, 1 text leaf chipped and torn without loss to text, scattered foxing, light browning to text, contemporary half roan, rubbed and worn, folio, Meldola, Cahn, & Co., 1848.*** Scarce series of Indian views. 

Chagall (Marc).- Babel (Isaac Emmanuilovich) Geschichten aus Odessa, first German edition, half-title, original cloth-backed printed boards, dust-jacket, by Marc Chagall, torn-in-two along upper joint, chips and small tears at edges, spine toned, 8vo, Berlin, Malik-Verlag, 1926.*** Rare, especially in dust-jacket by Chagall. The story of a group of Jewish criminals, living in the then notorious ghetto-like district of Moldawanka in Odessa, during the end of the Russian Empire and start of October Revolution. 

Women Poets.- Dodsworth (Mrs. [Anna]) Fugitive Pieces, first edition, bookplate of George Bache Pappas, lightly browned, some light foxing and faint damp-staining, mainly marginal, contemporary calf marbled in a lattice pattern, gilt, lacking spine label, spine head chipped, spine and extremities rubbed, upper joint split but holding, Canterbury, Printed [for private distribution] by Simmons and Kirkby, 1802 § Mitford (Mary Russell) Christina, the Maid of the South Seas; a Poem, errata f. at end, lacking half-title, contemporary ink gift inscription "Elizabeth Jennings the gift of Miss Wellbeloved" to front free endpaper, title margins browned, spotting, particularly near start, hinges repaired, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, new morocco spine label, old backstrip little chipped, rubbed, A.J. Valpy, 1811; and others, 19th century poetry by women, including Ethelinda Potts' Moonshine, 8vo & 12mo (12) *** The first mentioned rare, we can trace only one copy at auction (1980). 

Scottish poetry.- [Beattie (George)] John o'Arnha'. A Tale, second edition, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 6 plates, plates trimmed at fore-edge, most causing loss to headline and a few just within image, a few ff. with short tears neatly repaired or marginal repairs, p.23 causing loss to couple words, light browning and offsetting, plates soiled and little rubbed, some soiling elsewhere, modern half calf, spine gilt, Montrose, 1818 § Mitchie (John) The Vices of the Tavern Dissected: or, Drunkenness Laid Open: A Poem, ninth edition, a few minor chips to upper margin, light browning and some light spotting, title and verso of final f. little soiled, later morocco backed-cloth, little rubbed, Edinburgh, for the Author, 1819, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century Scottish poetry, including a copy of "The Craniad: or, Spurzheim Illustrated" (1817), 8vo (10) *** The first mentioned rare, with WorldCat and Library Hub recording only six copies of this edition. 

Lawrence (D.H.) The Lost Girl, first edition, first issue, light toning to endpapers and half-title, bookshop stamp on title, hinge cracked towards end, original cloth, one or two marks, extremities bumped, preserved in custom-made slip-case and chemise, 1920 § A Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence, one of 100 large paper copies signed by McDonald and Lawrence, bookplate or book-label on front and rear pastedowns, original cloth-backed boards, light rubbing to edges, otherwise fine, Philadelphia, 1925, 8vo (2)

Koudelka (Josef).- Beranová (Libuse) Diskutujeme o morálce dneška, first edition, 13 photographic plates (3 double-page), original boards, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small tear to top edge, chipping and small loss to spine head, slight creasing and chipping to edges, 4to, Prague, Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury, 1965. *** First and only edition of this first work, a scarce photobook by the renowned Czech-French photographer Josef Koudelka (b.1938).

Women.- Female excellence: or, Woman display’d, in several satyrick poems. By a person of quality, first edition, title with woodcut typographic ornament, small worm trace, affecting a few letters in a minor way, little staining, lightly browned, disbound, [Wing R1749], folio, Printed for Norman Nelson at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, 1679. *** Rare at auction. A collection of four misogynistic poems, once attributed to Rochester, but now sometimes attributed to Robert Gould. 

Eliot (George) Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 bound with [Craik (Dinah)] The Ogilvies, 1860 and [Craik (Dinah)] John Halifax, Gentleman, 1856 and Oliphant (Margaret) The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts, burn hole to first 2pp., 1857, together 4 works in 1, first American editions, light foxing, contemporary half morocco, rubbed § [Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Red Rover, 3 vol., second English edition, some toning and occasional browning, original boards, spine label to vol.2 chipped, 1828 § Eastlake (C.L.) Hints on Household Taste, ink ownership inscription to half-title, original cloth, spine faded, ends frayed, 1878; and c.20 others, 19th century English literature, v.s. (c.25)

Marx (Karl) & Friedrich Engels. Válogatott Müvei, vol. 1 only, small loss to title affecting odd letter, previous owner's faded ink-stamp to title, title and first few ff. with small loss and expert repairs, scattered faint spotting, new endpapers, modern half morocco, 8vo, Budapest, A. Népszava, 1905. *** This volume contains the second Hungarian edition of the Communist Manifesto. 

Latimer (Bishop Hugh) [The seconde sermon], first edition, black letter, woodcut decorative initials, lacking A1-8, R1, 2E1(supplied in shorter facsimile), and 2E6-8, G1 from another copy and loosely inserted, U8 outer margin torn away, affecting printed side-notes, a few ff. with small piece cut from a margin, some spotting or staining / water-staining, lightly browned, upper hinge split, modern speckled tan calf, [cf. STC 15274], 8vo, [John Daye & William Seres], [1549]. sold not subject to return.  *** Rare at auction in any condition. 

Bolton (James) Nero Caesar or Monarchie depraved. An Historical Work, first edition, engraved additional title (dated 1623), engraved numismatic illustrations, title a little browned, scattered small worm-holes, sometimes touching letters, occasional faint damp-stains, contemporary calf, spine head chipped and foot worn, small patch of worming to upper cover, [STC 3221], small folio, T.S. for Thomas Walkley, 1624*** Bolton's history of Nero and early Roman Britain with much referencing contemporary events. An apparently unsuccessful attempt to gain royal patronage.

Architecture.- Gardens.- [Perrault (Charles)] Labyrinte de Versailles. The Labyrinth of Versailles. Der Irr-garte zu Versailles. 't Dool-hof tot Versailles, 41 engraved whole-page illustrations, text in French, English, German and Dutch, some faint marginal water-staining but mainly to text leaves, contemporary vellum, a little minor soiling, [Brunet III, 723], 4to,  Amsterdam, Nicolaus Visscher, [1690].*** The labyrinth of Versailles was completed around 1675, and the illustrations here depict the numerous fountains contained therein, each designed in animal forms after Aesop's fables. The first edition of this work (Paris, 1677) was in French only, while this edition combines the original French and also translations into English, German and Dutch; Brunet notes it is far less common than the first.  

Ceramics.- Hodgkin (John Eliot) Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated, and Inscribed, one of 500 copies signed by the authors, 1891 § Hobson (R.L.) Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in...the British Museum, 1903 § Horne (J.) A Collection of Early English Pottery, 1981-2000, 2 vol., one of 150 copies, original rexine-backed marbled boards, slip-cases, 2000 § Grigsby (Leslie B.) The Henry H.Weldon Collection: English Pottery: Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, limited edition, 1990 § Charleston (R.J.) English Porcelain 1745-1850, 1965 § Barker (D.) & Steve Crompton. Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, 2007 § Cotter (John P.) Colchester Archaeological Report 7: Post-Roman Pottery from Excavations in Colchester, 1971-85, Colchester, 2000, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the second original cloth, the first decorated (worn, spine detached), the last four with dust-jackets, the fourth also with slip-case; and a quantity of others on English ceramics including a run of Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle 1933-2019 (most bound in cloth), many pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.140)

Ceramics.- Meteyard (Eliza) The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 2 vol., first edition, modern cloth with original decorated cloth mounted on boards and spine, 1865 § Pountney (W.J.) Old Bristol Potteries, Bristol, 1920 § Mountford (A.R.) The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, 1971 § Towner (Donald) The Leeds Pottery, 1963 § Holgate (D.) New Hall & Its Imitators, 1971 § Lewis (J. & G.) Pratt Ware...1780-1840, Woodbridge, 1984 § Edwards (D.) Black Basalt: Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Woodbridge, 1994, illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last five with dust-jackets; and c.55 others on British potteries, many pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.60)

Natural world.- Geology.- Jonston (John) Thaumatographia naturalis, second edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, small obliterated ink signature to title, E11/12 carelessly opened at foot resulting in small piece of E12 remaining attached to E11, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Sinkankas Gemology, 3279; Ward & Carozzi, 1218; Wellcome I, 3478; Wood p.409], 12mo, Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1633.  *** Second edition of the author's first book. 'A treatise on natural wonders, was divided into ten categories: the new stars, the elements, meteors, minerals, plants, birds, quadrupeds, insects and other 'bloodless' animals, fish, and men' (Norman 1177). 

Hazlitt (William) Liber Amoris; or, The New Pygmalion, first edition, contemporary purple morocco, upper cover detached, lower spine hinge broken, light fading, printed for John Hunt, 1823; The Spirit of the Age, or Contemporary Portraits, first edition, original boards, uncut, covers detached, spine chipped with title in manuscript, printed for Henry Colburn, 1825; and 5 others, Hazlitt, including the Nonesuch bibliography, v.s. (7)

Sarpi (Paolo) The History of the Council of Trent, lacking initial imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue from another edition tipped in, title browned and a little frayed at fore-edge with small repair, [a]4 & I3 very small rust-hole within text, a few short tears or marginal chips but no text loss, occasional later marginal annotations in pencil, occasional spotting, some very small and minor worming to foot of gutter and lower margin (generally single small wormhole), final f. repaired at inner margin, upper hinge cracked, contemporary panelled calf, old reback, spine label little chipped, later endpapers, [Wing S696], J. Macock, for Samuel Mearne &tc, 1676 § Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi) The Lives of the Popes..., first edition in English, translated by Paul Rycaut, engraved portrait frontispiece, title little soiled with 19th century ownership inscription to head, frontispiece fore-margin creased with small chip repaired with tape, title and A2 gutter strengthened, 3E2 small hole affecting few letters, final third with a few very small marginal wormholes, expanding into small traces towards end but no text loss, one or two small marginal repairs to Index, the odd spot or minor soiling but overall good, modern morocco, [Wing P2403], for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685, titles in red and black, some light browning, occasional faint marginal water-staining, rubbed, folio (2) 

Worcestershire.- Dean (William) An Historical and Descriptive Account of Croome d'Abitot...Hortus Croomensis and Observations on the Propagation of Exotics, first edition, 4 fine aquatint plates, list of subscribers, frontispiece lightly spotted, plates offset, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Abbey Scenery 416], 8vo, Worcester, for the Author, 1824. *** Including 161pp. catalogue of plants at Croome and the growing of exotics.

Richards (Laura E.) When I Was Your Age, first edition, author's copy, with her ownership inscription on front free endpapers and gift inscription from the publisher's on title, front endpaper reinforced with tape at hinge, contents a little shaken, original cloth, spine sunned, chipped at edges, New York, 1895; Quicksilver Sue, first edition, author's copy, with her ownership inscription on front free endpapers, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, New York, 1899 § [Stowe (Harriet Beecher)], "Christopher Crowfield". House and Home Papers, original cloth, extremities rubbed, Boston, 1895; and c.75 others, 19th century American literature, v.s. (c.80) 

Architecture.- Weaver (Lawrence) Small Country Houses of To-day, 3 vol., vol.1 third edition, vol.2 second edition, vol.3 first edition and with ink signature of Raymond Erith, 1922-19 § Richardson (A.E.) Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries, 1914 § Blomfield (Reginald) A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800, occasional spotting, 1897 § Ayres (J.) Building the Georgian City, New Haven & London, 1998 § John (R.) New Classicists. Robert Adam: The Search for a Modern Classicism, Victoria, 2010 § Dean (Ptolemy) Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, 1999 § Archer (Lucy) Raymond Erith, Architect, Burford, 1985, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the first three slightly rubbed; and c.45 others on architecture, mostly British, v.s. (c.50)

London.- Houses of Parliament. Report of the National Gallery Site Commission..., 3 folding colour lithographed plans, one creased, later cloth-backed boards,morocco label, new endpapers, 1857 § Smirke (Sydney) Suggestions for the Architectural Improvement of the western part of London, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured lithographed plan, 2 aquatint plates, one by W.Daniell, original red decorated boards, uncut, 1834 § Homersham (S.C.) London (Watford) Spring-Water Company. Report to the Directors, third edition, large folding map with routes of pipes in red, folding colour-printed lithographed plate of well and folding colour map, original cloth, spine worn, upper cover & map detached, 1850, all rubbed; and 4 others, London docks etc., v.s. (7)*** The first item investigates moving the National Gallery from its William Wilkins building in Trafalgar Square (which was not large enough), considering the effect of pollution on the paintings, and the possibility of combining the collection with the British Museum. The second proposes new parliament buildings in Green Park, a Gothic temple on the Serpentine for tombs from Westminster Abbey, and slum clearances and development of Soho.

Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill, second edition, illustrated by Beardsley, original decorated green cloth, gilt, 1913 § Whistler (Laurence) !Oho!, first edition, illustrated by Rex Whistler, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed and marked, 1946 § Powers (Alan) The English Tivoli, number 19 of 50 copies, 16 colour lithographs by Powers all numbered & signed in pencil, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box, printed at the Curwen Studio, 1988 Wright (Harold J.L.) & Campbell Dodgson. The Etched Work of F.L.Griggs, one of 400 copies, original cloth, wrapper, 1941 § Reade (Brian) Victoria & Albert Museum: Ballet Designs and Illustrations 1581-1940, original cloth, 1967 § Russell (Judith, editor) The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, original cloth, dust-jacket, Aldershot, 1993, plates and illustrations, a few colour; and c.85 others, modern illustrated and illustrators including some King Penguins, many pamphlet, v.s. (c.90)

Schroedinger (Erwin) What is Life?, first edition, small chip to foot of half-title, neat ink ownership inscription dated 1945 to endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, upper joint broken, significant loss to spine ends (not affecting text), chipping to remainder of spine, light creasing to head and foot, light surface soiling to panels and spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge, 1944.*** A cornerstone title in the study of quantum physics, scarce in the dust-jacket.

Design.- Ashbee (C.R.) Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry, first edition, ex-library copy with ink stamp and numbers, original cloth-backed boards, paper label, rubbed, corners a little worn, London & Chipping Campden, Essex House Press, [1908] § Read (Herbert) Art and Industry: the Principles of Industrial Design, first edition, original cloth, defective dust-jacket loosely inserted, 1934 § Sweetman (John) The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920, original boards, dust-jacket, Cambridge, 1988 § Larmour (Paul) The Arts & Crafts Movement in Ireland, original boards, dust-jacket, Belfast, 1992 § Benton (C.) & others. Art Deco 1910-1939, original wrappers, 2003, illustrations, some colour; and c.60 others on design, ornament, crafts etc., some pamphlets & catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.65)

London.- Barjaud (J.-B.) & C.P.Landon. Description de Londres et de ses Edifices, first edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured engraved map, engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, Paris, 1810 § Highmore (A.) Pietas Londinensis..., lacking half-title, contemporary calf, 1810 § Bayley (John) The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with variant title including "Biographical Anecdotes" rather than "Memoirs", engraved plates including double-page plan, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, 1821 § Transactions of the Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society for the year 1898 [-1904-05], 6 vol., limited deluxe edition signed by the secretary/treasurer, original buckram, gilt, uncut, 1899-1907, all rubbed; and a small quantity of others on London including an album of views of Highgate annotated by George Potter and a framed stevengraph of the Crystal Palace, v.s.  (c.40)

Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds, 2 vol., first edition, mixed set, 1797-1804; A General History of Quadrupeds, third edition, 1792, wood-engraved illustrations by Bewick, Land Birds and Quadrupeds rather foxed and uniformly bound in contemporary half calf,  Water Birds with only occasional spotting and taller in contemporary calf, all rubbed and rebacked preserving old spines, Newcastle § Gosse (P.H.) Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones, chromolithographed plates, original cloth, gilt, 1860 § Miller (Thomas) Common Wayside Flowers, colour additional pictorial title and illustrations by Birket Foster, foxed, original decorated cloth, gilt, with mounted colour illustrations, rubbed, 1860; and 7 others, natural history, 8vo & 4to (12)

Stroud (Dorothy) Capability Brown, some spotting, 1950 § Hussey (Christopher) English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967 § Willis (Peter) Charles Bridgman and the English Landscape Garden, revised edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2002 § Daniels (Stephen) Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England, New Haven & London, 1999 § Hunt (John Dixon) & Peter Willis. The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820, 1975 § Jourdain (Margaret) The Work of William Kent, bound in modern red morocco tooled in gilt, spine faded, slight wear to lower edges, 1948 § Amherst (Hon. Alicia) A History of Gardening in England, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1895, plates and illustrations, all but the last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first two rubbed and frayed; and 13 others on landscape gardening, 4to & 8vo (20) 

India.- Archer (Mildred) & Toby Falk. Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, 1981 § Archer (W.G.) Kalighat Paintings, 1971; India and Modern Art, 1959 § Aijazuddin (F.S.) Pahari Paintings and Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, 1977 § Welch (Stuart Cary) Gods, Kings, and Tigers: The Art of Kotah, Munich, 1997; India Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985 § George Keyt: A Centennial Anthology, limited edition, 2001 § Randhawa (M.S.) Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda, New Delhi, 1963 § Havell (E.B.) The Ideals of Indian Art, reprint, 1920 § Pratinidhi (Balasaheb Pant) Ajanta, limited edition, original cloth-backed printed boards, spine faded, Bombay, 1932, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the last original cloth, the first eight with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.80 others on Indian art, several with contributions by the Archers, many catalogues or pamphlets, v.s. (c.90)

Architecture.- Wrighte (William) Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor after A. Thornthwaite, 27 engraved plates only (of 28), advertisement leaf at end of text, trimmed throughout, in places affecting edge of plate border and caption, at text leaves just touching letters, modern patterned paper-covered boards, [Harris 952], 8vo, for Henry Webley, 1767.*** First edition of Wrighte's "very successful collection of fantastic designs for garden structures" (RIBA).

Corsica.- Foulis.- Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli, first edition, half-title, engraved title vignette, folding engraved map by Thomas Phinn (in second state with imprint), final f. blank, map with some offsetting and lightly browned, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in modern speckled calf in compartments and with red leather label, corners worn, covers rubbed and little marked, [Gaskell 473; Rothschild 442], 8vo, Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768.  *** Boswell visited Corsica in the autumn of 1766, having been inspired by Rousseau to meet with General Pasquale Paoli, the leader of the Corsican independence movement. This account of the islanders' attempts to forge a new democratic nation independent of Genoa was widely read and translated. Our copy with D2 uncancelled; Contents f. (b2) follows Preface; E2 cancelled; p.67, ll.11&12 'Is-tria'; Z3 cancelled (p.357 'Mariana' in penultimate line corrected to 'Mariani'); p.70, l.17 'Ftruscans'; p.93, l.6 'of'; p.137, l.11 'feelirg'; p.172, l.9 'tha the'; p.184, l.4 'Montgomerÿ'; p.296, l.18 'of my own'; and p.327, ll.9&10 'speculati-ions'. Provenance: Sir Joseph Copley, Bt. (engraved armorial bookplate). 

Ceramics.- Grigsby (Leslie B.), Michael Archer & others.  The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, 2 vol., 2000 § Archer (Michael) Delftware: The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997 § Lipski (Louis L.) Dated English Delftware: Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, edited & augmented by Michael Archer, 1984 § Archer (Michael) Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2013 § Garner (F.H.) & Michael Archer. English Delftware, second, enlarged & revised edition, 1972 § Charleston (R.J.), Michael Archer & Madeleine Marcheix. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor; Glass and Stained Glass..., Fribourg, 1977, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, the first two and last with slip-cases, some still with publisher's original packaging, 4to & 8vo (7)

Yorkshire.- Parker (Thomas Lister) Description of Browsholme Hall, first edition, etched frontispiece and 19 plates by J.C.Buckler including a plan and plate of facsimile signatures, plan with rooms identified in manuscript, folding pedigree, an excellent clean copy, John Harris's copy with his wood-engraved bookplate by Reynolds Stone, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, slightly rubbed, 4to, S.Gosnell, 1815.  *** Scarce account of Browsholme Hall in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in Lancashire) privately printed for the author's friends, of which only 100 copies were for sale. Browsholme was a Jacobean manor house altered and extended for Thomas Lister Parker by Jeffrey Wyatt (later Sir Jeffrey Wyatville), partly to accommodate his picture gallery and library. The latter was sold by Leigh and Sotheby in 1815.

Rossetti (Christina) The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, first edition, frontispiece and additional title by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a few instances of faint foxing or finger soiling, ink ownership inscription front endpaper,  original green cloth, with gilt design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1866.

[Pseudo-]Diogenes Cynicus., [Pseudo-]Marcus Junius Brutus & [Pseudo-]Hippocrates.  In hoc parvo volumine continentur & descripta sunt tria haec opuscula scilicet epistolae Dyogenis, epistolae Bruti & epistolae Hypocratis, A1 drop-head title and text recto within composite woodcut decorative border, woodcut decorative initials and printer's devices to final verso, occasional early ink marginalia, lacking A6, A1 trimmed at foot, just within border, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, Dutch floral endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, olive crushed morocco, gilt, by J. Haines of Liverpool, [EDIT 16 CNCE 37281], 8vo, [Florence], [Piero Pacini], 1505.  *** Rare little edition at auction. Spurious letters of Hippocrates, Diogenes and Brutus in an influential Latin translation first published in Florence in 1487. The Greek editio princeps was published by Aldus in his collection of Greek Epistolographers in 1499. Provenance: Allan Heywood Bright (engraved bookplates). 

Evans (C.S.) The Sleeping Beauty, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, a little frayed at edges, 1920 § Farjeon (Eleanor) The Town Child's Alphabet, illustrated by David Jones, 1924; The Country Child's Alphabet, illustrated by Michael Rothenstein, 1924, together 2 vol., first editions, light browning at beginning and end, original pictorial boards, slightly soiled, spines worn and frayed, Poetry Bookshop § Shakespeare (William) As You Like It, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a few marks to upper cover, spine faded, [c.1909] § Crane (Walter) Queen Summer or The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose, first edition, hinges weak, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, soiled, spine worn at head, 1891 § Hill (Oliver) & Hans Tisdall. Balbus: A Picture Book of Building, first edition, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 1944, plates and illustrations, many colour, a few tipped in, all rubbed; and c.35 others, children's and a bundle of Girl comics, 4to & 8vo (c.40)

Ceramics.- Garner (F.H.) English Delftware, first edition, Michael Archer's copy interleaved with his notes and additional illustrations in preparation for a second edition, 1948 Garner (F.H.) & Michael Archer. English Delftware, second, enlarged & revised edition, Archer's interleaved copy with some corrections, 1972 § Ray (Anthony) English Delftware Pottery in the...Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, inscribed to Archer by the author, 1968 § Britton (Frank) English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, 1982 § Francis (P.) Irish Delftware, 2000 § Austin (John C.) British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. & London, 1994 § Grigsby (Leslie B.), Michael Archer & others.  The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, 2 vol., 2000, plates and illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, the first rebacked preserving part of dust-jacket on upper cover, rubbed, the last five with dust-jackets, the last also with slip-case; and c.20 others on English Delftware, mostly pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

Stained Glass.- [Winston (Charles)] An Inquiry into the difference of style observable in Ancient Glass Paintings, 2 vol., first edition, modern cloth preserving original gilt-stamped cloth on covers and spine, Oxford, 1847; Memoirs illustrative of the Art of Glass-Painting, some leaves stained and frayed at lower outer corner, old cloth, 1865 § Franks (Augustus Wollaston) A Book of Ornamental Glazing Quarries, original cloth, spine gilt, 1849 § Willement (Thomas) A Concise Account of the Principal Works in Stained Glass, engraved frontispiece, original cloth, privately printed, 1840, first editions, the first three with several plates hand-coloured, all rubbed, the last with worn spine; and 2 others including a bound volume of 3 Annotations to Shakespeare by Johnson and Steevens containing an article by Mr. Tollet with folding engraved plate of the stained glass window featuring morris dancers at Betley, Staffs (volume broken with plate loose), v.s. (7)

Rinehart (Mary Roberts) The Circular Staircase, first edition, endpapers browned, original pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed, 1908 § Wilson (Harry Leon) The Boss of Little Arcady, first edition, original pictorial cloth, light bumping to spine ends, otherwise crisp, Boston, 1905 § Hearn (Lafcadio) Kokoro, original cloth, spine sunned, Boston, 1896; and c.50 others, late 19th century or early 20th century American literature, v.s. (c.55)  

India.- Archer (Mildred & W.G.) Indian Painting for the British 1770-1880, first edition, 1955 § Kattenhorn (Patricia) British Drawings in the India Office Library vol.3, 1994 § Pal (Pratapaditya) & Vidya Dehejia. From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India, 1757-1930, with copies of Mildred Archer's review of the work and correspondence with Pratapaditya Pal loosely inserted, Ithaca & London, 1986 § Welch (Stuart Cary) Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, inscribed by the author to Mildred "Tim" & Bill Archer and with Mildred's signature, original wrappers, rubbed, New York, 1978 § Sutton (Thomas) The Daniells Artists and Travellers, signed & inscribed to Bill & Mildred Archer, 1954 § de Silva (R.K.) Early Prints of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1800-1900, copy of Mildred Acher's review and A.L.s. from the author to her loosely inserted, 1985, illustrations, many colour, all but the fourth original cloth or boards, the third and last with dust-jackets; and a small quantity of others on British artists in India and Company school including some reproductions of albums, many pamphlets, v.s. (c.50)*** The second item is a supplement to Mildred Archer's important 2 volume catalogue British Drawings in the India Office Library of 1969; this volume covers drawings acquired since 1969.