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[Charles Dickens] Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People .., Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard, 1837, first American edition, head of title page cropped, worn cloth-backed boards.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Boots the Chemist edition, illustrated by Gwynedd M Hudson, complete with colour plates, slight foxing to pages, Methuen & Co Ltd London, Rose Flyeman, The Rose Flyeman Fairy Book, selected poems and twelve coloured plates, in original canvas cover, inscribed to Margaret Jean Mackenzie from Miss Jean Templeton, Blackie & Son Ltd London Glasgow, Dublin and Bombay, Florence Harrison, In the Fairy Ring, inscribed Jean Mackenzie with love from Florence, Christmas 1908, staining to canvas cover, Hodder & Staughton, J M Barrie a new Edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, from the Little White Bird, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, canvas cover deteriorated, complete with colour book plates, JM Dent & Co New York, Charles Dickens Cricket on the Heath, illustrations by C E Brook, inscribed Murial Mackenzie Christmas 1905, and another, A Christmas Carol, inscribed Murial Mackenzie Christmas 1905, Travels of Marco Polo, Macmillan, All the Puck Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 1935, Longman's Green & Co The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Laing, first edition, in card with leather spine, one volume, William Hyman, London, The Half 'Loaf, a Comedy of Chances and Error in three acts by Agnes Mure Mackenzie, first edition, inscribed and dated 3425 Jean H Mackenzie from the author, in cloth cover

Rowling [J.K]: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007 First Edition (two copies) and Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, 2005 First Edition, all in dust jackets. (3)

Linford Christie Athlete Signed Autographed Edition First Day Cover. 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.

Potter (Beatrix) - The Story of Miss Moppet, first edition (WAF); The Motograph Moving Picture Book, published by Bliss Sands & Co; Bursill (Henry) - Hand Shadows, second series,; The Instructive Picture Book, Quadrupeds, published by Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh; Examples of Modern Alphabets and other books.

IWC. A Limited Edition titanium automatic calendar wristwatchModel: Aquatimer '35 Years Ocean 2000' Reference: IW329101Date: Circa 2017Movement: 21-jewel Cal.30120 automaticDial: Black, applied luminous baton hour markers, white outer minute divisions, revolving inner bezel, date aperture at 3, luminous baton hands, centre secondsCase: Brushed round, screw down back, No.6075631Strap/Bracelet: Detachable black IWC rubberBuckle/Clasp: Signed titanium buckleSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 42mmFootnotes:IWC first produced the Aquatimer in 1966/67 as a diver's watch for the new fashion of underwater diving for sport. As well as having a Master Compressor case enabling it to be water resistant to 20 Atmospheres it had the innovation of twin water-resistant crowns, the second turning the calibrated internal bezel. This keeps the watch safe from being accidently knocked out of position and leading to miscalculated dive times.The current lot was released in 2017 in a limited edition of 350 pieces.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

William Snow in Marlebrough. A fine and rare silver and leather key wind pair case pocket watch with pin decorationDate: Circa 1670Movement: Gilt full plate gut fusee verge, pierced and engraved elongated balance cock, silver regulation, tulip pillarsDial: Silver with central engraved rosette, black Roman numerals, black inner quarter hour divisions, blued steel single handCase: Polished inner, leather covered outer with fine silver pin decoration, ring pendant and bowSigned: MovementSize: 53mm Accompaniments: Transcript of Nicholas Snows willFootnotes:No other maker with the name William Snow is recorded for this period other than the son of Nicholas Snow of Salisbury, a town just 30 miles south of Marlborough (modern spelling) who in his will says that '...my working tooles belonging to my trade shall be kept and preserved for the use and benefit of my said sonne William Snowe...'The performance of watches greatly improved when the movements were made with four, rather than three wheel trains, and this is an early example. The balance cock has an unusually open foliate design which is superbly executed and both the table and foot are bordered, an exceptional feature at this date. It is fitted over a tenon - or block - in the plate in order to secure it in position in the traditional manner but it is not pinned to the plate but screwed to it. Snow may well have considered this a better arrangement than fitting feet on the underside of the cock foot and it allowed him to follow a fine and delicate design.The decorative pin work on the back of the leather covered outer case, which is in superb condition, is characteristic of the exuberant floral designs which appeared after the Restoration of the Monarchy.Provenance:Purchased from Dennis Brown circa 1947T P Camerer Cuss CollectionIllustrated:F J Britten, Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, 7th Edition, Spon Lts 1956, illustrated plate 30, pages 48-9 and listed 'One of the first high-quality provincial watch-makers'T P Camerer Cuss, The Story of Watches, MacGibbon & Kee, 1952, plate 22, page 65T P Camerer Cuss, The Country Life Book of Watches, Country Life, 1967, plate 24, page 29T P & T A Camerer Cuss, The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, ACC 1976, plate 27, page 76Exhibited:British Clockmaker's Heritage Exhibition, Science Museum, May-September 1952, exhibit 250For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

France.- Serres (Jean de) A General Inventorie of The History of France, first edition in English, translated by Edward Grimeston, title with with woodcut portrait of Henri IV, woodcut illustrations of Kings of France, head- & tail-pieces and initials, lacking initial blank, 4T2 and 4T5 in duplicate, title detached along with front free endpaper, 19th-century book-label of W. A. Woodward, title with small contemporary ink inscription, a little chipped at edges and with vertical tear, running into woodcut but without loss, a few instances of early ink marginalia, the odd marginal chip or short tear, a few times into text but without loss, some light browning or soiling, contemporary calf with central gilt medallion, rebacked, quite worn, upper cover detached, endpapers renewed, [STC 22244], folio, George Eld, 1607.

NO RESERVE Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler) Henry Hobson Richardson and his Works, facsimile reprint of 1888 first edition, Park Forest, Ill., 1967 § Hitchcock, Jr. (Henry-Russell) The Architecture of H.H.Richardson and His Times, New York, 1936 § Beirne (R.R.) & J.H.Scarff. William Buckland 1734-1774: Architect of Virginia and Maryland, Baltimore, 1958 § Schuyler (Montgomery) American Architecture and Other Writings, edited by William H.Jordy and Ralph Coe, 2 vol., Cambridge, Mass., 1961 § White (Samuel G. & Elizabeth) McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks, New York, 2003, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, the last with dust-jacket; and 8 others on American architecture, v.s. (14)

Militaria.- Strada (Famiano) De Bello Belgico. The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, first edition in English, translated by Sir Robert Stapylton, 14 engraved portraits (including frontispiece), 3G3-4 misbound, engraved armorial bookplate of Edmond Plowden, first few leaves a little frayed at edges and working loose, 2C3, 2L2 and 3D1 with small hole in text, some light soiling or staining, occasional cracking at gutter, upper hinge tender, contemporary calf, quite worn, [Wing S5777], folio, for Humphrey Moseley, 1650.

[Head (Richard) and Francis Kirkman]. The English rogue continued in the life of Meriton Latroon and other extravagants. Comprehending the most eminent Cheats of Both Sexes, the Third [& Fourth] part, 4 engraved plates to each part, both titles with date corrected to 1680 in ink manuscript, title of third part with contemporary ink ownership inscription, third part trimmed at head, a couple times shaving headline, a few instances of early ink correction or marginalia, B1 with printing flaw and short tear repaired, with loss to a couple letters and catchword, B2 chipped at upper corner, with loss to pagination, E1 with small hole within text, the odd short marginal tear, a couple times running into text but without loss, some browning and light foxing, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners worn, endpapers renewed, small 8vo, for Francis Kirkman, and are to be sold at his shop over against the Custom[e]-House, in Thames-Street, 1671; sold not subject to return. ⁂ A popular work, published in parts from 1665. This copy appears to be an amalgam, with the titles of the first edition of the Third and Fourth parts, published in 1671, but with the text seemingly supplied from a later edition.

NO RESERVE Young (Filson) The Joy of the Road: An Appreciation of the Motorcar, one of 600 copies, frontispiece, very slightly spotted, a few spots and ink underlining to text leaves, endpapers toned, vellum backed boards, with some markings to covers and spine, 1907 § Richards (Robin) Speed and a Microphone, first edition, inscribed by the author in ink to front free endpaper, photographic illustrations, edges spotted, original cloth, rubbed at extremities, dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, damp-stained and repaired on reverse, loss to head of spine, marked on lower panel, 1958 § Fox (Mike) and Steve Smith, The Complete Works: The best 599 Rolls-Royce stories, photographic illustrations, original wrappers, rubbed, 1984, and c.65 others, mostly first editions, relating to sports, v.s. (c.70)

Ussher (James) The Annals of the World, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, title in red and black, final advertisement leaf, later ink inscription to blank f. preceding title, occasional early ink marginalia, damage causing a few holes within text, predominantly affecting gatherings 2A-2D, 2I-2Q, 5T-5U, a couple tiny rust-holes, the odd spot or stain but generally a clean copy, contemporary panelled calf, spine with red morocco label, worn at extremities, joints split at head and foot but holding, [Wing U149], folio, E. Tyler, for J. Crook &tc, 1658.

Sackville-West (Vita) Collected Poems, vol. 1 [all published], first edition, signed presentation inscription from Victoria Sackville-West (the author's mother) to front free endpaper, endpapers browned with some foxing, occasional light spotting elsewhere, hinges cracked, original cloth, 1933 § Galsworthy (John) Four Forsyte Stories, one of 896 copies signed by the author on half-title, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, New York, 1929 § Thackeray (William Makepeace) The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., one of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original cloth, slipcase (rubbed), New York, Limited Editions Club, 1956, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, all but first with spine slightly sunned; and 2 others, 1 on Churchill signed by the author W.H. Thompson, 8vo & 4to (5)

Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol., first edition in book form, endpapers a little spotted and stained but largely clean internally, original pictorial cloth, faded, lightly soiled, restorations to spine ends and joints, tall 8vo, 1840-41.

NO RESERVE Scott (M.H.Baillie) Houses and Gardens, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, original green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little faded, edges rubbed, 1906 § Sutcliffe (G.Lister) The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction, 6 vol., plates and illustrations, some double-page, a couple of leaves in vol.1 creased, light spotting, original decorated green cloth designed by Talwin Morris, a little rubbed, [1890s] § Stillman (Damie) English Neo-classical Architecture, 2 vol., original cloth, dust-jackets, together in slip-case, 1988 § Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, edited by Joseph Gwilt, 2 vol., engraved portrait and plates, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, 1825; and c.20 others, architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

NO RESERVE Blunden (Edmund) Undertones of War, first edition, light spots to peripheral ff., upper hinge starting, original cloth, spine sunned, minor scuffing to extremities, 1928 § War Report. A Record of Dispatches broadcast by the BBC's war correspondents with the Allied Expeditionary Force..., plain plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly soiled and toned in places, spine and fold ends rubbed, 1964 § Wilde (Oscar) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, small ink ownership inscription, cracking to gutter at p.1, original blue boards with red paper label to upper cover, spine torn and ends rubbed, 1912 § Cannan (Gilbert) Mendel. A Story of Youth, first edition, library stamps to title and other ff., splitting to gutter, tape and cloth repairs, original cloth, rubbed, 1916 § Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3 vol., original boards, dust-jackets, slipcase, 1994; and 22 others, some first editions, modern literature and psychology, 8vo (28)

NO RESERVE Commerce.- Lacombe de Prezel (Honoré) Les progrès du commerce, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, spotted, last f. and endpapers with some foxing, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt and with red morocco label, corners little worn, rubbed, [Goldsmiths 9570; Higgs 2216; Kress 5864; INED 2428], 12mo, Amsterdam & Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, 1760.⁂ 'Lacombe formule quelques principes économiques, place le commerce et l'agriculture au faite de la prospérité d'une nation, et note la dépopulation de la France' (INED).

Astrology.- More (Henry) Tetractys Anti-Astrologica, or the Four Chapters in the Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness ..., first and only edition, title in red and black, loss to bottom corner affecting imprint, engraved illustration, lacking initial blank as usual, spotting to M4 & N1, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, near contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, [Wing M2679], 4to, by J. M. for Walter Kettilby, [1681].

NO RESERVE Ford (Henry) & Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work, first English edition, contemporary ink presentation inscriptions to browned front free endpaper, light foxing, original cloth, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jacket, tape repairs to spine, splitting to joints, spine browned, 8vo, 1923.

Opelius (Constantinus) De fabrica triremium Meibomiana, first edition, browned, printed slip pasted to foot of title, previous owner's ink signatures to title and early blanks, paper label pasted to front pastedown, contemporary calf with gilt arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet to covers, rebacked, 4to,Freistadt, 1672.

NO RESERVE Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) De architectura, facsimile reprint of Como 1521 edition, New York & London, 1968 § Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, edited by Paola Marini, Milan, 1980; The Four Books on Architecture, translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield, original cloth-backed boards, Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1997 § Serlio (Sebastiano) The Book of Architecture, facsimile reprint of London 1611 edition, New York, 1980 § Tijou (Jean) A New Booke of Drawings, reprint edited by J.Starkie Gardner, original pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked in cloth, 1896 § Chambers (William) Designs of Chinese Buildings, New York, 1968 § Du Cerceau (J.-A.) Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France, Paris, 1988 § Marder (T.A.) Bernini and the Art of Architecture, New York, 1998 § Keene (Derek) & others. St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004, New Haven & London, 2004, most facsimile reprints, plates and/or illustrations, a few colour, most original cloth or boards, the second and last three with dust-jackets; and 7 others on architecture, some facsimiles, folio & 4to (16)⁂ The first is a reprint of the beautiful first vernacular edition of Vitruvius, with commentary by Cesare di Cesarino. The fifth mentioned, Tijou, which was originally published in 1693, was the first book of ironwork designs published in England.

Holocaust.- Vosolsobe (Josef) Terezínská Mučírna v Obrazech, first and only edition, 27 full-page illustrations, captions to verso, a few with very minor creasing to edges, one with short tear at fore-edge, loose as issued in original pictorial paper wrappers, rubbed with a few light stains, spine chipped with joints split at head, Prague, Dělincké Nakladatelství, 1945 § Macht (Antonín) Pankrác - Terezín malá pevnost, tipped-in booklet containing 55 mainly photographic illustrations on 12 leaves, a couple gatherings loose or working loose, original printed wrappers, lightly rubbed and creased at corners, Prague, 1946; and another on the same, 8vo & 4to (3)⁂ Three works on the Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in the Czech Republic. The first mentioned shows the first photo documentation after the liberation.

Burke (Edmund) Reflections on the Revolutions in France, first edition, second impression, bookplate removed, contemporary ink ownership name to front free endpaper, foxing to preliminaries, light damp-staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, lightly scuffed or bumped, [Todd 53a], 1790.

Turkey.- Fraser (David) Persia and Turkey in Revolt, first edition, "sent by desire of Author" slip loosely inserted, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's pencil signature, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1910 § Spencer (Captain) Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, fifth thousand, chromolithograph frontispiece and 3 plates, illustrations, folding map at end, short tear with tape repairs to verso, bookplate, upper corner trimmed from front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, 1855 § Gautier (Theophile) Constantinople of Today, first edition, frontispiece, additional vignette title, plates, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1854; and 2 others similar, 8vo (5).

Economics.- Mill (John Stuart) Principles of Political Economy with Some of their Applications to Social Philosophy, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with advertisement leaf and 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, vol.2 with initial blank and 2pp. catalogue at end, New College library stamps to titles verso, some finger-soiling marks, occasional light pencil annotations, modern cloth, spine faded, 8vo, 1848.⁂ One of the most significant and influential works on economics of the mid-nineteenth century.

NO RESERVE Duck (Sir Arthur) The Life of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in the times of Henry the V. and VI. Kings of England, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece with half-title verso, woodcut decorative initials, errata f. at end, portrait and title lightly browned, the latter spotted, water-stained at foot, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, lacking label, rebacked, upper cover detached, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing D2430], Printed for Ri. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1699; and another, John Potter, Bishop of Oxford, 1720, 8vo & small 4to (2)⁂ 'in effect an ecclesiastical and constitutional history of England in the fifteenth century' (Peter Stein in ODNB). The English translation is somewhat fuller than the Latin original according to ESTC. Provenance: Charles Francis Wyatt (1820-1906), Broughton Rectory, Oxon, antiquary. His collections relating to Oxfordshire and Broughton are held by the Bodleian (ink inscription 'CFW, Foresthill, Oxon' and bookplate to front pastedown).

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol., first edition in book form, plates and illustrations, vol. 3 lacking title page, upper hinge starting, spotting, original cloth, gilt, sunning, vol. 1 spine torn, Chapman and Hall, 1840 § Lydekker (Richard) The Royal Natural History, 6 vol., colour plates, tissue guards, illustrations, ink ownership inscription to title, some foxing, including to plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, 1893-6 § Ruskin (John, editor) Roadside Songs of Tuscany, 9 parts only (of 10, lacking part 5), translated by Francesca Alexander, plates, original printed wrappers, some toning and minor soiling, extremities with some small nicks and creases, together housed within contemporary drop side portfolio, cloth and board, worn, George Allen, Orpington, 1884-85; and a large quantity of others, nineteenth century, v.s. (large qty)

Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) The Poems...Rendered in English Verse by Several Persons, lacking imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait and additional pictorial title, book-label of Wick Episcopi Library, 18th and 19th century ink ownership inscriptions to pastedowns, title and verso of title, title with small burn hole, affecting one letter, C7v with marginal paper repair, the odd spot, some light soiling, early ink marginalia to final f., near contemporary calf, remains of label to foot of spine, quite worn, joints split at foot but holding, [Wing H2781], small 8vo, E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 1666; and 3 others, defective 17th century, including a first edition of Raleigh's History of the World, with engraved title and some maps, and Hexham's Principles of the Art Military, 8vo & folio (4)

Marx (Karl) and Friedrich Engels. Komunisticki Manifest, first Croatian edition, translated by Moša Pijade, ink ownership inscription to title, light spotting to peripheral leaves, original printed wrappers, lightly rubbed, a few small chips to extremities, upper joint starting at head but holding firm, Belgrade, Biblioteka Marksizma-Lenjinizma, 1945; and a Serbian translation of the same in Cyrillic alphabet, 4to (2)⁂ The translator Moša Pijade (1890-1957), a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison following his 1924 translation of Das Kapital.

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Coomassie and Magdala: the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps, previous owner's pencil inscription, one or two marginal tears not affecting text, neat tape repairs, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, fractional bumping to corners, [Hosken p.189], 8vo, 1874.

Economics.- Beeke (Henry) Observations on the Produce of the Income Tax..., first edition, half-title, modern wrappers, [ESTC T41846], for J. White, 1799 § [Walpole (Robert)] The Rise and Fall of the Late Projected Excise, Impartially Consider'd by a Friend to the English Constitution, half-title, light spotting to margins, lightly foxed, modern boards, [ESTC T63487], for J. Peele, 1733 § Alison (A.) Universal Free Trade; by Means of a Property, Income and Wages Tax, contemporary ink quotation to dedication leaf verso, modern wrappers, 1852, 8vo (3)⁂ A good group of scarce economics pamphlets relating to tax and free trade.

NO RESERVE Ceramics.- Mackenna (F.Severne) Chelsea Porcelain: The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares, one of 500 copies, Leigh-on-Sea, 1948; Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, one of 500 copies, errata slip tipped in, Leigh-on-Sea, 1946 § Towner (/Donald) The Leeds Pottery, 1963 § Wolfe (ff. & A.T.) How to Identify Oriental Rugs, second impression, cuttings tipped in, 1931 § Wessel (Klaus) Byzantine Enamels, Shannon, 1969 § Jackson (Sir Charles James) English Goldsmiths and their Marks, second edition, 1921, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets, rubbed, one or two frayed, the first torn; and 7 others on European ceramics, 4to & 8vo (13)

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Loudon (John Claudius) An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, fourth edition, contemporary half morocco, spine faded, 1826; another edition, edited and corrected by Mrs. Loudon, first edition, 1850; Self-Instruction for Gardeners, first edition, engraved portrait (foxed), hinges weak, 1845 § M'Intosh (Charles) The Book of the Garden, 2 vol., first edition, Edinburgh & London, 1853-55 § Kemp (Edward) How to Lay Out a Garden, third edition, 1864 § Amherst (Hon. Alicia) A History of Gardening in England, first edition, 1895, plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth, some pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, some spines slightly faded; and c.20 others on gardens and garden design, 8vo & 4to (c.25)

NO RESERVE Howard (Ebenezer) Garden Cities of To-Morrow, second edition, half-title, portrait, 5 diagrams on 4 plates, light spotting at beginning and end, ink signature of James Crossland and small ink stamp of Malcolm Higgs to front pastedown, contemporary buckram, slightly rubbed, spine faded, [cf.PMM 387, first edition], 1902 § Sennett (A.R.) Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, 2 vol., plates and plans, some folding, original green cloth, spines very slightly faded but a good copy, 1905, 8vo (3)⁂ Two important and influential works on planning, the first being first published in 1898 under the title To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Howard's utopian view that the Town and Country magnets "must be made one" led on to the creation of the Garden City Association and ultimately the first garden cities at Letchworth in 1903 and Welwyn in 1919. "He was to live to see not only the spread throughout the world of the movement he had started singlehanded, but the establishment of Town and Country Planning as a universally recognized obligation of government in the civilized world. Satellite towns, and the very latest suggestion of city-clusters, were well in the forefront of Howard's ideas." PMM

NO RESERVE Willis (Robert) & John Willis Clark. The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge..., 4 vol. including volume of plans, first edition, plans with linen overlays, some hand-coloured, later half crimson morocco, by Stoakley, t.e.g., others uncut, spines slightly rubbed and faded, Cambridge, 1886 § RCHM. City of Cambridge, 3 vol. including box of plans, original cloth, dust-jackets, 1959, plates, plans and illustrations, some folding; and 6 others, RCHM City of Oxford and 5 vol. London, large 8vo & 4to (13)

Turkey.- Barker (William Burckhardt) A Reading Book on the Turkish Language, with a Grammar and Vocabulary, first edition, ex-library with shelfmark to title verso, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, 1pp. manuscript notes loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1854; A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language, ex-library with ink-stamp to title and shelfmark to title verso, new endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, a little rubbed, 1854 § Arnold (Edwin) A Simple Transliteral Grammar of the Turkish Language, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1891; v.s. (3).

America.- [Beresford (William)] A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America...By Captain George Dixon, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, 22 engraved charts and plates, some folding, 7 of natural history with fine hand-colouring, light offsetting, a few plates with minor tears and repairs, 1 natural history with margins reinforced, endpapers foxed, the odd spot elsewhere but overall a crisp and bright copy, half crushed purple morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, spine a little sunned, lightly rubbed, [Sabin 20364; Hill 117], 4to, Geo. Goulding, 1789.⁂ A series of letters by William Beresford, cargo-officer on Dixon's ship the Queen Charlotte. Portlock and Dixon's was the first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest, ostensibly to set up a fur-trading business. They succeeded, however, in a more detailed exploration and mapping of the coast, visiting both the Falkland islands and Sandwich islands (Hawaii), and improved on Cook's charts of the region. The first edition was also issued on regular paper with uncoloured plates. "Coloured copies are of considerable scarcity" (Hill).

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Piracy.- Keppel (Capt. Henry) The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke Esq. of Sarawak, 2 vol., first edition, presentation inscription "Sir William Eden, Bart. from his friend the author" to vol.1 half-title, 11 lithographic plates (all but one tinted), 6 folding maps, folding table, light foxing and offsetting to plates, original blue cloth, sunning to spines, marking and soiling to covers, spine ends and corners a little bumped, [Hill 918], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1846.⁂ "Keppel was sent to Singapore as senior officer on that part of the station. There he made friends with Sir James Brooke, with whom he returned to Sarawak. For eighteen months he co-operated with Brooke for the suppression of Borneo piracy, and, after many engagements, the Dido, together with the East India Company's steamship Phlegethon, destroyed the chief stronghold of the pirates, together with some 300 prahus" - ODNB.

London.- Maitland (William) The History of London, 2 vol., first edition, extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, views, plans and other pieces 18th-20th century (many window-mounted), including 3 hand-coloured vues d'optique and a large folding engraved ticket to the Lord Mayor's dinner at Guildhall in 1825 printed in blue, some foxing, bookplates, later blind-stamped calf, joints worn, 2 covers detached, folio, Printed by Samuel Richardson, 1739.

NO RESERVE Coke (Sir Edward) Three Law Tracts, edited by William Hawkins, first collected edition, lacking engraved frontispiece, ink library stamp to title and 1 or 2 other pp., occasional tears to margins, tear to X2 running into text, library cloth, 1764; and 24 others, largely antiquarian, v.s. (25)

Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, fourth edition, partially printed in triple column and black letter, lacking portrait frontispiece but with woodcut title, folding plate loosely inserted, with a few repaired tears (minor loss) and silked at fore-edge, first few leaves a little chipped and frayed at edges, just within woodcut border of title, title with contemporary ink inscription to head, the odd marginal chip or short tear, with loss to a few letters of 3Z5, light browning and the odd stain, early ink inscriptions to front and rear endpapers, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, title in early ink manuscript to fore-edge, [STC 15787], folio Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] I[ohn] H[aviland] and R[obert] Y[oung], 1639.

Atomic Bomb.- Smyth (H. D.) Atomic Energy. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, first English edition, some manuscript annotations in pencil to final page, rusting to staples, original printed wrappers, rust-stain, ink manuscript signature and wrapper peeling at lower right corner, wrappers toned and rubbed at extremities, corners frayed, spine peeling, 8vo, 1945.

Polar.- Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 2 vol. including Supplement, first edition, with tipped-in errata slip, 14 engraved or aquatint plates and 6 maps (4 folding), Supplement with half-title and 6 engraved plates, bookplates, p.277 with short tear to foot, affecting a few letters but without loss, a few small tears and repairs to folding maps, 1 partially obscuring a few words of imprint but without significant loss, offsetting, some light foxing or browning, uniform later half roan, spines gilt, rubbed, [Sabin 58864; Hill 1311], 4to, 1821-24.

Turkey.- Knolles (Richard) The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie, third edition, engraved title, 32 engraved illustrations in text (31 portraits and 1 battle scene), woodcut initials, lacking A1 (blank), later ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, title with a few small chips and tears and laid down, first and last few ff. chipped at edges, with first gathering loose or working loose, occasional early ink marginalia, including to title, with doodling to a couple of portraits, the odd marginal chip or short tear, a few repaired, a couple times running into text but without loss, K3 and 4F3 with small hole in text, occasional small worming to lower margin, some light browning and staining, heavier stain to 5R2v, contemporary calf, spine gilt, partial loss to spine label, joints cracked but covers holding, [STC 15053], folio, Adam Islip, 1621.

NO RESERVE Eastlake (Sir Charles Lock) Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details, first edition, 8 colour samples of wallpaper, most printed in gold, 1868 § Davison (T.Raffles, editor) The Arts connected with Building..., first edition, original paper-backed decorated cloth, 1909 § Parker (Barry) & Raymond Unwin. The Art of Building a Home, second edition, 1901 § Robson (E.R.) School Architecture, second edition, 1877 § Morris (Thomas) A House for the Suburbs, third, enlarged edition, 1870 § Matheson (Ewing) Aid Book to Engineering Enterprise Abroad, 2 vol., presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title of vol.1, 1878-81 § Casson (Hugh) An Introduction to Victorian Architecture, first edition, signed by the author on title, 1948, plates and illustrations, all but the second original cloth, the sixth pictorial gilt and slightly cockled, most a little rubbed; and c.70 others, architecture, design, engineering etc., 8vo & small 4to (c.75)

Gloucestershire.- Atkyns (Sir Robert) The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, first edition, with the Author's Epitaph leaf, engraved portrait, 8 plates of coats-of-arms, double-page map and 64 fine double-page views by Kip, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, bookplates of the Rev. Fenwicke and Henry Hales Bouverie, first few gatherings with small wormhole to outer lower corner, mostly marginal but affecting a few coats-of-arms plates, plate at 4N2 trimmed just within plate and with repaired tear to fore-margin, plate at 5Q3 with small hole to image, some light spotting but overall a crisp copy, contemporary polished calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old backstrip, rubbed and scratched, head of lower cover sunned, corners and hinges repaired, [Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 117], Printed by W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling, 1712.

America.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, folding map, small chips to edges and laid down, folding table, short tear to split to foldline, illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, most marginal, Y5-6 with short marginal tear affecting odd letter, one or two marginal pencil notes, ex-library with occasional discreet blind-stamps, modern half-calf, [Penzer pp.68-69], 8vo, 1861.

[Valentine (Laura)] Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite, 24 full-page illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim, 1p. of text with a few marginal tears, repaired with paper to verso, occasional scattered spotting, some splitting at gutter and hinges, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, [c.1870] § Soulby (W. H.) The Surprise Art Album, second edition, numerous pull-up tabs revealing quote, puns or colour illustrations, some light surface soiling, original brown cloth, lettered in black and red to upper cover, cloth slipcase, [c.1900], rubbed at spine ends and corners; and others, children's, including the first English edition of the Disney authorised Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and 4 issues of the Girl's/Boy's Own Annual, v.s. (16)

Titi (Placido) Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy, first edition, translated by M. Sibly, engraved plates and tables, contemporary ink annotations and underlining, faint off-setting, T1 & T2 misbound, ex-library with very faint ink-stamp to title verso, modern calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1789.

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, first edition, mounted albumen frontispiece, 5 maps only (of 6), 3 folding, one with tear and gutter and splits to foldline, plates, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, most to first and last few leaves, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked, fractional rubbing, [Hosken p.188; Czech p.152], 8vo, 1872.

Marx (Karl) Kapital, 2 vol., first Serbo-Croatian edition, previous owner's ink signature to title, ?ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, vol. 1 trimmed at margins, vol. 2 with occasional pencil underlining and marks, even toning, new endpapers, modern half-calf, 8vo, Belgrade, Kosmos, 1933-34.

Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, second edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, without initial and final blanks, 2ff. Table bound after dedication, front free endpaper with inkstamp of Ickwell-Bury Library, another with embossed stamp of Robert W. Oates, inkstamp of Bibliotheca Oatesiana to title and verso of final f., title trimmed at foot, affecting ruled border only, 2A1 & 2Z4 with very small hole in text, T1-2 with small chip to ruled border at head, the odd spot or light stain, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, old covers rubbed with wear to corners, [Gibson 15; STC 1149], 4to, by John Haviland, 1629.⁂ The second edition with all fifty-eight essays but the first edition also to include 'Of the Colours of Good and Evill'.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The Economic Consequences of the Peace, first American edition, pencil ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, discoloured, spine ends frayed, New York, 1920; A Treatise on Probability, endpapers browned, rear hinge broken, original cloth, lightly soiled, spine ends frayed, 1921; and another by the same, 8vo (3)

Architecture and Design.- Rosengarten (A.) A Handbook of Architectural Styles, A New Edition, some spotting, slightly worn at extremities, with loss to head of spine, 1891 § Harvey (John H.) Henry Yevele, jacket tape repaired on reverse, and slightly rubbed at extremities, 1944 § Gardner (A.H.) Outline of English Architecture, illustration pasted to half-title, price clipped, 1945, photographic illustrations, original cloth, final two with dust-jackets and coloured frontispieces, all but first Batsford Books first editions, and c.55 others, mainly first editions, mainly from Batsford Books, relating to British architecture and decoration, and several relating to mechanics and industry, 8vo (c.60)

Parodies of classical verse.- Estienne (Henri, compiler) Parodiae morales, first edition, collation: *8 a-i8 k4 A-M8 (complete with all blanks), printed in Latin and Greek, some foxing, 19th century red morocco, gilt, g.e., small scratch to lower cover, upper cover becoming loose, 8vo (161 x 99mm.), Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1575.⁂ Attractive copy of "Estienne's rare collection of Greek and Latin parodies of quotable verses from classical poets, composed (he tells us) in order to fight boredom while traveling on horseback" (Schreiber). The rectos of all leaves in the first section are left blank for readers to fill with their own parodies. The first of these blank rectos has been partially utilised by an 18th century hand.Literature: Renouard 142.6; Schreiber 194; Adams S1784.

Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue with View From the Hill Top frontispiece, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 5 plates only (of 6), by the author, tissue guards, 1 plate loose, occasional corner creasing, ink gift inscription to endpaper, portion removed from rear endpaper, original blue gilt pictorial cloth, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, rubbed, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858 [but 1857].

NO RESERVE Wattjes (J.G.) Moderne Architectuur in Noorwegen, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken..., 1927; Moderne Villa's en Landhuizen in Europa en Amerika, 1930; Moderne Kerken in Europa en Amerika, original printed wrappers, a little browned, 1931; Nieuw-Nederlandsche Bouwkunst, third edition, 1929, all but the last first editions, photographic illustrations, all but the third original cloth, the first with faded spine, the last with decorative dust-jacket, slightly chipped and frayed at upper edge, 4to, Amsterdam (4)⁂ The last is the first one-volume edition, incorporating Parts I & II published in 1924 & 1926 respectively.

NO RESERVE Pugin (Augustus Welby) Details of Antient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th centuries..., first edition, 1836; Contrasts, second edition, foxing, 1841; The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, first edition, 1841 § Eastlake (Charles L.) A History of the Gothic Revival, first edition, 1872 § Ferrey (Benjamin) Recollections of A.N.Welby Pugin, first edition, ink inscription to title (partly cut away), 1861 § Belcher (Margaret) A.W.N.Pugin: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, London & New York, 1987; The Collected Letters of A.W.N.Pugin, 5 vol., Oxford, 2001-15, plates and illustrations, those in the first three engraved or lithographed, some spotting, original cloth, rubbed, the third with part of spine detached (loosely inserted), the fourth rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers, the last with dust-jackets; and 11 others by Pugin or his father Augustus Charles Pugin, 4to (22)

Tourtel (Mary) The Adventures of Rupert the Little Lost Bear, first edition in book form, illustrations, pencil scribbling to p.53, light foxing, endpapers browned, original pictorial boards, discoloured, corners bumped and rubbed, surface soiling, rebacked, 4to, [1921].