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English Civil War Collection of works Walker, Clement. Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640. [Bound with:] Anarchia Anglicana, or, the History of Independency. The Second Part. [And:] The High Court of Justice or Cromwells New Slaughter House in England. [London: no printer], 1648-49-51. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to, early-19th-century olive-green sheep by Hering, arms of the Lumley-Savile family (earls of Scarborough) gilt to sides within dogtooth frames, Greek-key roll gilt to turn-ins, Rufford Abbey bookplate, a few side-notes shaved, second work without plate cited in ESTC [ESTC R186160, R27579, R207365];Vicars, John. Jehovah-Jireh.God in the Mount. Or, Englands Parliamentarie Chronicle. London: by T. Paine and M. Simmons, for J. Rothwell and T. Underhill, 1644. First edition, 4to, contemporary vellum, later labels and endpapers, bookplate (Fairfax of Cameron, dated 1910), short closed tear in D3 [ESTC R1844];Scotland; Convention of Estates. The Acts made in the Second Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles ... holden at Edinburgh. [Bound with:] The Acts done and past in the First Session of the Third Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles ... holden at Edinburgh. [And:] The Acts done and past in the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Sessions of the First Triennall Parliament of ... Charles ... holden at Edinburrgh, Stirling, Pearth, and S. Andrews respective. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1641-44-46. 3 works in 1 volume, folio, modern half calf, first work title-page repaired and with small hole touching type-ornament border, contemporary marginalia, second work browned and with contemporary underlining [ESTC R33336, R12952, R211320];Blount, Thomas. Boscobel: or, the history of His Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester. London: for Henry Seile, 1660. First edition, presumed second issue (epistle signed 'Blount'), 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked and relined, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, arms, and folding view), all crudely hand-coloured, frontispiece trimmed along fore-edge, title-page with top margin excised, folding viewed backed on linen and inserted into end-pocket, contemporary ownership inscription 'Elizabeth Amherst August 15th 1660' to binder's blank [ESTC R6431];Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron. Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the Year 1641 to 1648. London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1699. First edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece with half-title recto, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, spill-burn in C3 [ESTC R3286];Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland. London: for J. Wilford; and T. Jauncy, 1720. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece [ESTC T53951];and 3 others (these not collated): Spalding, The History of the Troubles ... in Scotland, 1792 (2 volumes); Warner, The History of the Rebellion and Civil-War in Ireland, 1768 (2 volumes); Ricraft, A Survey of Englands Champions, 1647 [i.e.1818]Note: Provenance: The Millmore English Civil War Collection.

Australia 3 works Terry, Frederick C. Landscape Scenery, Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor and Port Jackson, New South Wales. Sydney & Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1855. Oblong 4to, engraved title, 38 engraved plates, original orange-pink cloth gilt lettered in gilt 'Australian Keepsake 1855' on upper cover, contents loose, outer margin of a few plates slightly dust-soiled, spine faded, binding slightly soiled and slightly rubbed, small stain to lower margin of first half; Lang, John Dunmore. An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales. London: Cochrane & M'Crone, 1834. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, lacks map, strip excised at head of volume 1 title, rubbed; Michie, Sir Archibald. Readings in Melbourne, with an Essay on the Resources and Prospects of Victoria. London: Sampson Low, 1879. First edition, 8vo, folding map, presentation copy from the author, original cloth, binding somewhat discoloured/stainedNote: Provenance:William Macpherson, the son of Colonel Allan Macpherson who bought the Blairgowrie Estate which included Newton Castle. He was born in India in 1784 and came to Scotland at the age of three with his parents. He emigrated to Australia in 1829, having spent a decade growing cotton in Berbice in the West Indies. He was Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales and later served (for 24 years) as Clerk of the Councils in New South Wales. He left agents and members of the family in charge of Blairgowrie Estate. He died in 1866 having lived in New South Wales for more than thirty-six years. By descent to the vendor.

English Civil War; Levellers The Banished Mans Suit for Protection to his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell being the Humble Address of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn. London: Tho. Newcomb, 14 June 1653. Broadside (38.5 x 30cm), printed on recto only, woodcut initial, repaired and laid down on Japanese tissue, disruption to text in places with minimal effect on legibility [ESTC R211530]. Together with 6 similar items:An Act for Preserving the Frequent Abuses in Printing Seditious, Treasonable, and Unlicences Books and Pamphlets; and for Regulating of Printing and Printing Presses [caption-title]. London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662. Folio, disbound, pp. [2] 425-444, lacking final black, small marginal worm-track, final 2 leaves repaired [ESTC R504464: 4 copies in libraries worldwide];A Declaration concerning the Generall Accompts of the Kingdome ... since the first Sitting of this Parliament unto the First of June, 1642. London: Richard Bishop for Laurence Blaiklock, 1642. Folio, modern card wrappers, strip of browning to gutter of title-page [ESTC R6764];The Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for Maintaining the Church of England, 16 April, 1689. Half-sheet printed on both sides, repaired [ESTC R13269];An Act for Paving, and otherwise Improving the City and Township of Peterborough [caption-title], 1790, 31 [1] pp. Loose in bifolia, stab-holes to inner margins [this edition not in ESTC];An Act for Indempnifying of such Persons as have acted for the Service of the Publique. London: Hen: Hills and John Field, 1657. Modern boards, browning [ESTC R27220];An Act for the taking away of Purveyance, and Compositions for Purveyance. London: Hen: Hills and John Field, 1657. Modern boards, browning [ESTC R27004]Note: Note: Very rare broadside appeal from the leading light of the Leveller movement, asking permission from Cromwell to return from continental exile. The request was not granted, but Lilburne decided nevertheless to return in June 1653, following the dissolution of the Rump Parliament, and was promptly taken to the Tower. He died on parole at Eltham in 1657. ESTC traces nine copies in libraries worldwide.Provenance: The Millmore English Civil War Collection.

17th-century English history Collection of works Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641. Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1707. 3 volumes, large folio, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre to title-pages, engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials, bookplates, scuffs to sides, spotting to latter half of volume 3 [ESTC N5833];Sanderson, William. A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles from his Cradle to his Grave. London: for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins, and George Sawbridge, 1658. First edition, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, royal crest of Charles I (cipher CAR REX surmounted by crown and with motto 'Dieu et mon droit' on banner below) gilt to covers, 2 engraved portraits, spotting and browning, small hole in 4H4 [ESTC R5305; Wing S646];May, Thomas. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the third, M. DC. XL. London: Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio, 19th-century half calf, rebacked, imprimatur leaf, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, bookplate (Thomas Graham Dundas), marginal tear in sig. B costing a few words, closed tears in D1 and M2, Q4 torn in margin just touching text, repairs in quires 2F, 2O and 2P, [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410];and 3 others (these not collated): John Rushworth, Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weight Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments, 1721 (8 volumes, folio, recent quarter morocco); Henry Scobell, A Collection of Acts and Ordinances of General Use, made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, anno 1640, 1658 (folio, contemporary calf, bookplate of Charles Yorke, 1722-1770, Lord High Chancellor, spine split (just held by one cord); Reports and Cases taken in the third [...] and seventh years of the late King Charles, 1657 (extensively repaired)Note: Provenance: The Millmore English Civil War Collection.

Australia manuscript - New South Wales - Tasmania Wentworth, William Charles 'A Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its dependent Settlements in Van Dieman's Land. With a particular enumeration of the advantages which these Colonies offer for emigration, and their superiority in many respects over those possessed by the United States of America. By W.C. Wentworth Esq., a native of the Colony. Printed for Whittaker, Ave. Maria Lane, London, 1819', 4to (21.5 x 18cm), manuscript copy (not autograph), manuscript throughout in a neat copperplate hand, pp. 449, [7 (index)], inscription on front endpaper 'Copied at Sea, W. Eldridge, 1819', these words scored through, and 'J.S. ?Min, Hooghly 1830', pp.1-414 on laid paper watermarked 'G. Pike 1814', 'G. Pike 1815', 'G. Pike 1817', 'C. Wilmott', and '1806', and pp. 415 to end on wove paper; a couple of tiny wormholes up to p.72, contemporary calf, slight worming to binding, head and base of spine worn, internally very cleanNote: Note: The present manuscript is a contemporary copy of Wentworth's work, not autograph.William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), explorer, author, barrister, landowner, and statesman, was the first to cross the Blue Mountains of Eastern Australia with Gregory Blaxland, founded the newspaper, The Australian, and campaigned for a free press, trial by jury and self-government. He played an important role in the Legislative Council, lent his support to squatters' demands for new land regulations, helped to establish state primary education in New South Wales, and played a major role in the establishment of the University of Sydney.The text of this manuscript up to p.448 appears to be identical to the printed edition up to p. 450 (and also p. 466 of the printed edition) published in 1819. After p. 449 the present manuscript is followed by, the Index (2pp.) and 'Observations' (5pp.). The paper is watermarked 'G. Pike 1814' and 'G. Pike 1815' and 'G. Pike 1817', 'C. Wilmott', '1806', these dates all preceding the publication date of the first edition (1819).Page 297 has a contemporary pencilled note initialled W.E. "June 1819 - a Bill is now in progress thro' parliament..." and there is a pencilled note at the very end 'Endeavour to procure a correct list of [--- ] to add to this with other observations. Also add on List of those in van Diemen's Land.'The stylistic similarities of the autograph between the present manuscript and the manuscript of Jeffreys's Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of Tasmania, commonly called Van Dieman's Land, one of the Southern Islands of Australia principally compiled from a Manuscript in the possession of Leiut. Jefferyes, Commander of H.N. Brig Kangaroo, [also in this booksale] imply that they were both written out by the same person.For a biography of William Charles Wentworth, see Australian Dictionary of Biography, William Charles Wentworth.For a biography of George William Evans, see Australian Dictionary of Biography, George William Evans.Provenance: William Macpherson, the son of Colonel Allan Macpherson who bought the Blairgowrie Estate which included Newton Castle. He was born in India in 1784 and came to Scotland at the age of three with his parents. He emigrated to Australia in 1829, having spent a decade growing cotton in Berbice in the West Indies. He was Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales and later served (for 24 years) as Clerk of the Councils in New South Wales. He left agents and members of the family in charge of Blairgowrie Estate. He died in 1866 having lived in New South Wales for more than thirty-six years. By descent to the vendor.

Qur'an Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman Empire, 19th century Arabic manuscript in black ink on polished laid paper, approx. 283 ff., 17 x 11.8cm, naskh script, 15 lines to the page, illuminated opening spread incorporating floral headpieces, text within gold borders throughout, surah-headings in white thulth script on gold ground, roundel ayah-markers in gold, rubricated recitation markings, polychromatic floral juz' markers with penwork extensions to margins, contemporary dark red morocco filigree binding, waqf inscriptions, front board and first 8 leaves detached, opening spread smudged and soiled, f.8 torn at corner not affecting text, occasional smudging and soiling elsewhere. Together with 10 printed English-language books on religious topics, 18th century: Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1775, 4to, contemporary green morocco, covers gilt with Greek-key and urn rolls, front cover lettered 'Wycomb church', spine worn; John Stalham, The River Rebuker: or, a Re-inforcement of the Charge against the Quakers, 1657; George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. In Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, 1776; Emanuel Swedenborg, A General Explication of the Ten Precepts of the Decalogue, 1794, front cover detached; The Passion Personify'd in Familar Fables, [no date], front cover detached; Wellins Calcott, Thoughts Moral and Divine, Coventry, 1759, third edition; John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, 1751; and 3 others

[May, Thomas?] The Life of a Satyrical Puppy, called Nim Who worrieth all those Satyrists he knowes, and Barkes at the Rest. By T. M. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1657. First and only edition, 8vo (16.6 x 10cm), early-19th-century green calf by Hering (ink-stamp to front free endpaper), gilt arms of the Lumley-Savile family (earls of Scarborough) to covers, edges sprinkled red, Rufford Park library plate to front pastedown, binder's blank with contemporary ownership inscription 'Sr George Savile', possibly the Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695), English statesman, small chip to spine-label, frontispiece absent, somewhat tightly bound, spotting, staining to pp. 64-5 [ESTC R38869; Wing M82A]. Very rare.Note: Note: Only nine copies traced by ESTC in libraries world-wide. Written possibly in the 1620s but published under the Commonwealth, the work is a salacious first-person account of a rake's progress through London society, with a cast of characters including an 'innkeepers daughter, who was thirty years old, and a mayde: her chastitie being starv'd for want of naturall consideration: and her fort vanquisht, by an unboned member (the Tongue)' (p. 32), and 'A certain young gentlewoman [who] grew carnally acquainted with a wealthy ward: one that did not long enjoy her to himself, because he was not alwaies sufficiently provided to please her insatiable appetite' (p. 72).

Aesop Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists With Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L'Estrange. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Amended. London: for R. Sare [and others], 1704. [Bound with:] Fables and Storyes moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop. London: for R. Sare, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (31.2 x 19.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [10] 28 [8] 476, [16] 238 [2], engraved portrait frontispiece after Kneller, engraved additional title-page, advertisement leaf to rear, front joint split at foot, frontispiece shaved along fore edge, first part with marginal damp-staining to quires 2A-2D, second part browned [ESTC N8014 & R202378, 8 copies in UK libraries for the first part]Note: Provenance: Sir William Gordon of Invergordon, Baronet (d.1742), Scottish politician and landowner (bookplate to verso of title-page).

Lockman, John The Shetland Herring, and Peruvian Gold-Mine: a Fable most humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales: on his graciously condescending to be Governor of the Society of the Free British Fishery. The Second Edition, Corrected. London: for W. Owen, and sold at the pamphlet-shops, 1751. Folio, 7 [1] pp., disbound, damp-stained [ESTC T48054]Note: Note: Presentation copy, inscribed 'To the much esteem'd James Harris Esq from his most humble servt the author ... 23 Feb 1750/1'. The recipient is believed to be the noted philosopher and patron of Handel (1709-1780). Very rare: ESTC traces three copies in libraries world-wide, and two copies for the first edition of the same year.Provenance: Maggs Bros, English Literature 1500-1800 (catalogue 858), 1958.

[Austen, Jane] Sense and Sensibility A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice". London: printed for the author, and published by T. Egerton, 1813. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), mid-late 19th century tan half calf, green morocco title labels to second compartments, volume numbers gilt to fourth compartments direct, comb-marbled sides, edges sprinkled red, with the half-titles, without the final blanks (O10, N8, O4), moderate spotting to outer leaves, occasional lighter spotting elsewhere, bindings rubbed, [Gilson A2; Keynes 2]Note: Note: Second edition of Austen's first-published novel and the work she chose over Pride and Prejudice 'to launch her career as a published writer' (ODNB). The first edition appeared in 1811, attributed on the title-pages to a 'Lady'. Austen 'introduced several alterations into the text' of the second edition (Keynes).

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new introduction by the author. [Bound with as issued:] The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. In two volumes. Vol. I. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (16.2 x 9.5cm), later quarter sheep, pp. [iii]-xii 202, [5] 4-163 pp., engraved frontispiece dated 1831 showing Frankenstein and his monster, half-title to Schiller, without the letterpress series-title, engraved vignette title-page, or advertisement leaf found in the 1831 edition (see note), frontispiece with attempted tissue-repair to short closed tear at head of gutter, light finger-soiling and a few marginal nicks, title-page also slightly finger-soiled and with faint institutional blindstamps (New University Club) [cf. Sadleir 3734a.9]Note: Note: First Bentley edition, later issue. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, with a second edition appearing in 1823. Bentley's edition, published in 1831 and incorporating extensive revisions by the author, was the third overall, the first illustrated edition, and the first edition in one volume. Copies are also noted with title-pages dated 1832 and 1836; this 1839 issue is usually described as the fourth. The engraved vignette title-page, not present here, is absent in other copies of the 1839 printing we have noted; it has not been established whether or not a letterpress series-title and advertisement leaf are also called for.Provenance: William St Clair FBA FRSL (1937-2021), British historian, with his ownership inscription.

[Wollstonecraft, Mary] - Salzmann, Christian Gottliff Elements of Morality, for the use of Children ... a new edition, in two volumes. London: J. Johnson, 1795, 2 volumes, 12mo, translated by Mary Wollstonecraft, contemporary calf, with early owner's name ('Larking') at head of volume 1 title, possibly lacking half-titles, lacking front free endpapers, bindings worn and wormed with some loss of calf, one board detached, [ESTC N31574];Mylius, W.F. [Charles and Mary Lamb]. The First Book of Poetry. For the use of Schools. London: M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1811. 12mo, [xii], 176, 4pp. (advertisements), original boards, uncut, without the 2 plates (see note), some spotting, rubbed, the words 'With two engravings' neatly scored through in 19th century red inkNote: Note: Lamb's Poetry for Children was published by Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1811, but was not re-issued, as this volume (which may be considered a second edition of that excessively rare item) took its place. In books published by Godwin in 1812 occurs an advertisement for Poetry for Children headed 'Out of Print, but the best Pieces inserted in Mylius' First Book of Poetry'.'Since the title-page notes that the volume is sold bound in sheep with two engravings, this uncut version which lacks the engravings should not be regarded as defective since they are not called for'. [Pencil note by William St Clair]The work contains twenty-nine original poems by Charles Lamb under the name of Mrs Leicester. Provenance:From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

'Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of Tasmania, commonly called Van Dieman's Land, one of the Southern Islands of Australia principally compiled from a Manuscript in the possession of Lieut. Jefferys, Commander of H.M. Brig Kangaroo'. Small 4to (195 x 150mm) Manuscript, 155 pages, in a neat copperplate hand. [paper watermarked 'G. Pike', '1815', '1817', '1814', 'C. Ansell' & '1818'], contemporary calf, spine gilt;Temple, 31st Dec. 1819' and 'Subsequently decided in favor of [ ] in the Court of Common Pleas, W.E.'Note: Charles Jeffreys's book with a slightly different title, Van Dieman's Land. Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman's Land, was published in 1820 in London by J.M. Richardson, as an octavo and comprised [vi], 168 pages.  'Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826), naval officer and author, was born on 16th October 1782 at Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, the son of Ninian and Mary Jeffreys. He joined the navy at 11 and served as midshipman in various ships before his passing certificate as lieutenant was issued by the Admiralty in August 1803. He was commissioned lieutenant in March 1805. In August 1810 at Lambeth, Surrey, he married Jane Gill of London. In January 1814 he arrived with her at Port Jackson in the brig Kangaroo.Jeffreys's first commission was to transport convicts and other passengers in the Kangaroo from Port Jackson to the Derwent. After an unsuccessful attempt in May 1814 he finally sailed for the Derwent in August and arrived at Hobart Town in October. Instructed to return to Port Jackson by way of Port Dalrymple to collect a cargo of wheat Jeffreys travelled overland, but though the Kangaroo sailed for Port Dalrymple later in October it did not re-enter Port Jackson until February 1815. Governor Lachlan Macquarie was dissatisfied with Jeffreys's explanation of the delay, wanted to send the brig back to England as unfit for service and to discharge Jeffreys, whom he thought a timid seaman and ignorant of his duties; however, in April he dispatched Jeffreys to Ceylon with the remainder of the 73rd Regiment. Whilst on this voyage Jeffreys named Molle Island in the Whitsunday Passage after Lieutenant-Governor George Molle, and Mount Jeffreys on Molle Island after himself. When sailing around Cape York Peninsula in May he discovered and named Princess Charlotte Bay. After his return to Port Jackson in 1816 he made two trips with convicts and stores to the Derwent, which he carried out satisfactorily, but in April 1817 the governor, still critical of Jeffreys's incompetence, reported that he was sending him in the Kangaroo to England. Macquarie instructed him not to touch at any port in either of the colonies, but Jeffreys disobeyed his instructions. He entered Hobart at the end of April under the pretext that he had lost a boat and suffered some damage, but with the real purpose of landing a large quantity of spirits. While the brig was in the Derwent it was learned that several prisoners were missing from Hobart, that two prisoners had been stowed at Port Jackson, and that the escaped Sydney merchant, Garnham Blaxcell, who owed a large sum of money to the government, was on board. When Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell ordered two boats to patrol the river on the evening of 6th May Jeffreys boarded one of them, beat and abused the commander, Captain Jones, and took him and other crew members on board the Kangaroo as prisoners. The captured men were released next day and Jeffreys sailed for England a week later. Macquarie hoped that Jeffreys would be suitably punished, but legal impediments prevented his trial in England; however, at least he had given the British government the means of successfully prosecuting its claims against Blaxcell.While in London Jeffreys arranged for publication of his Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Diemen's Land in 1820. Most of the information for his work was obtained from the manuscript of Surveyor George William Evans who had travelled in the Kangaroo between Van Diemen's Land and Port Jackson. The book, now rare, was the first of many guides for immigrants intending to settle in Van Diemen's Land.' [Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 2, 1967].Evans accused Jeffreys of plagiarism in his introduction to the second edition of Evans' own work, A Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Dieman's Land, with Important Hints to Emigrants, which was first published in 1822. It would appear that the present manuscript is a copy of the copy made by Jeffreys of Evan's manuscript purloined by Jeffreys whilst Evans was on board the Kangaroo. It is conceivable that it could be the actual copy made by Jeffreys (or at his order), with the title suitably worded to make it sound as though it was Jeffreys' own work, or at least with no reference to Evans as being the author. For a biography of George William Evans (1780-1852), see Australian Dictionary of Biography, George William Evans.See also the manuscript lot in this sale by W.C. Wentworth.In May 1820, Jeffreys and his wife returned to Hobart in the Saracen, and later obtained a grant at Pittwater of 800 acres (324 ha), which he named Frogmore. The first house and all its contents were destroyed by fire soon after being built, but he immediately laid the foundations of another. However, Jeffreys did not prosper as a farmer. He died on 6th May 1826 and was buried at Sorell. His widow remained in the colony, and was allowed an additional grant of 500 acres (202 ha).Provenance: William Macpherson, the son of Colonel Allan Macpherson who bought the Blairgowrie Estate which included Newton Castle. He was born in India in 1784 and came to Scotland at the age of three with his parents. He emigrated to Australia in 1829, having spent a decade growing cotton in Berbice in the West Indies. He was Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales, and later served (for 24 years) as Clerk of the Councils in New South Wales. He left agents and members of the family in charge of Blairgowrie Estate. He died in 1866 having lived in New South Wales for more than thirty-six years. By descent to the vendor.

Trollope, Anthony Collection of first editions comprising: Can You Forgive Her?, 1864-5 (2 volumes, half-titles); The Claverings, 1867 (2 volumes, ink-stamps of Count de Torre Diaz to front free endpapers); The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867; He Knew He Was Right, 1869 (2 volumes); The Vicar of Bullhampton, 1870; all in contemporary or later half morocco or half calf, with all plates as called for. Together with:Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary reddish-brown half calf, all plates as called for, bound from the parts with stab-holes visible in gutter, armorial bookplate of Lord Kinnaird;Idem. Master Humphrey's Clock [containing The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. 3 volumes in 2, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 2 frontispieces only (of 3);[Oliphant, Margaret]. Chronicles of Carlingford. The Rector and the Doctor's Family. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue half roan, half-title, spotting;Idem. Chronicles of Carlingford. The Perpetual Curate. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon half roan;the lot collated with regards to plates only

19th-century literature Collection of works, finely bound Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist ... A New Edition, Revised and Corrected [i.e. first one-volume edition]. London: for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, original front wrapper bound in, half-title, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, plates spotted and browned, plate facing p. 204 with small marginal repair;Idem. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, etched additional title-page, frontispiece and 38 plates by Phiz, spotted and browned, front inner hinge tender;Idem. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition, bound from the parts with stab-holes visible, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, half-titles, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, publisher's slip tipped to volume 1 p. 1;Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, wood-engraved folding frontispiece, folding map, all plates as called for;and 9 others: Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, 1858 (3 volumes, contemporary tan calf); Percy Bysshe Shelley, Works, 1854 (contemporary half vellum); Samuel Johnson, The Works, 1850 (2 volumes, contemporary half morocco); Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c.1880 (3 volumes, contemporary Marlborough College prize-binding of brown calf gilt); Boswell, Life of Johnson, c.1880 (4 volumes in 2, contemporary tan half calf); Byron, The Poetical Works, 1846 (contemporary tan calf); Tennyson, The Works, 1884 (contemporary prize-binding of green calf gilt); Swift, The Works, 1864 (2 volumes, contemporary tan calf); Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1877; all with bookplates of John [Faulkner] Child, with motto 'Imitari quam invidere'

Fine bindings 16 volumes Burns, Robert. The Works, edited by Charles Annandale. London: Blackie, 1888, 5 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary blue morocco gilt, spines gilt, g.e.;Hunt, Leigh. The Poetical Works. London: E. Moxon, 1832. First edition, 8vo, fine panelled green morocco gilt, morocco doublures and vellum endpapers, t.e.g., spine slightly faded;Rogers, Samuel. Italy, a Poem. 1830; Poems. 1834, 2 volumes, 8vo, both blue morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spines gilt, t.e.g.;Dumas, Alexandre. The Borgias. London: A. Humphreys, 1911. 8vo, red panelled morocco gilt by Bumpus, spine gilt, g.e.;Herrick, Robert. The Works. Edinburgh: W. & C. Tait, 1823. 2 volumes, 8vo, crushed citron morocco, gilt doublures, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, leather gilt book label of Robert Hoe;Plato. The Dialogues, translated by B. Jowett. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Third edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary brown morocco gilt with gilt portrait of Socrates on covers, g.e.

Fine bindings 17 volumes Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works, edited by Lord Wharncliffe. London: R. Bentley, 1837. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, green half morocco gilt by Tout & Sons, bookplates of James Tabor, spines gilt, t.e.g.;Dobson, Austin. Old-World Idylls and other Verses. London: Kegan Paul, 1883. 8vo, number 45 of 50 large paper copies signed by the author, panelled brown morocco gilt by Riviere, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut; Thorpe, Benjamin. Northern Mythology, comprising the principal popular traditions and superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany and the Netherlands. London: E. Lumley, 1851. 3 volumes, 8vo, maroon half morocco by Ramage, t.e.g.;Pope, Alexander. The Works, edited by Rev. G. Croly. London, 1835. 4 volumes, 12mo, engraved titles and frontispieces, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco with gilt urns on covers, spines gilt;Tennyson, Lord Alfred. In Memoriam. London: E. Moxon, 1851. Fourth edition, 12mo, dark green straight-grained morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, g.e.;Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Portland, Maine: T. Mosher, 1900. 8vo, green morocco, covers gilt panelled, t.e.g., others uncut, spine faded;Lamb, Charles. The Essays of Elia [& Last Essays of Elia] London: J.M. Dent, 1904-02. 2 volumes, 8vo, illustrations by C.E. Brock, green half morocco gilt for H. Sotheran, t.e.g., others uncut, spines lightly faded;Moore, Thomas. Epistles, Odes and other Poems. London: J. Carpenter, 1807. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved title and frontispiece in volume 1, half calf gilt by Henry Young of Liverpool, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut

Basil the Great, Saint (330-379) [Title in Greek] Opera Graeca quae ad nos extant omnia Basel: Froben, 1551. Folio (31.8 x 21cm), contemporary blind-tooled calf laid down on modern reverse-bevelled wooden boards with spine renewed, covers containing two concentric panels of repeating allegorical motifs including Adam and Eve tasting the forbidden fruit (captioned 'PECCATVM'), the crucifixion ('SATIFACIO' [sic]), and similar, text in Greek, printer's woodcut device to title-page and final page, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout, Luebeckische Stadt-Bibliothek deaccession stamp to verso of title-page, heavily wormed (reducing towards middle), browning towards rear [Adams B331; VD16 B 639]Note: Note: Editio princeps (the first complete edition in the original Greek).

Scottish herringbone binding The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1764. 18mo, contemporary Scottish morocco, blind-tooled overall, covers each with panel of repeating feather devices radiating from central stem in herringbone pattern, enclosed by inner frame of heart motifs and outer frame of a doubled sawtooth roll, against a ground of flower, bird and volute motifs, A3F6/12, joints and extremities rubbed, a few small areas of wear to covers, Y3-4 slightly short (affecting catchwords), small hole in 2T3, bound with an edition of the Psalms at the rear (Kincaid, 1764, lacking final leaf) [Darlow & Moule 1157; ESTC T9194];Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. Oxford: Mark Baskett, 1765. [Bound with:] [Vickers, William]. A Companion to the Altar. Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, in order to our Worthy Receiving the Holy Communion. London: John Beecroft, 1768. [And:] [Psalms]. The Whole Book of Psalms. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1767. 3 works in one volume, 8vo (18.8 x 11.8cm), contemporary red morocco, spine-compartments decorated with dotted saltires and seed-head and star tools gilt, covers each with dotted outer border enclosing lobed central panel incorporating dogtooth and floral rolls gilt, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, BCP signatures a-b8 A-2A8 2B4 (-2B4), Vickers signatures A-H8, with engraved frontispiece (apparently A1), ownership inscription of one Elizabeth Fairchild dated 1784 to the front free endpaper, and a prayer written perhaps in the same hand on the rear blank [ESTC T81419, BCP, 5 copies worldwide, T84901, Vickers, T142243, Psalms, 5 copies];Bugg, Francis. The Picture of Quakerism Drawn to the Life. In Two Parts. The First shewing the Vanity of the Quakers Pretence of their being the one, only Catholick Church of Christ … The Second, containing a Brief History of the Rise Growth, and Progress of Quakerism. London: for W. Kettleby, and W. Rogers, 1697. [Bound with:] Quakerism Withering, and Christianity Reviving ... Wherein their Errors ... are further detected, and G. Whitehead further unmask'd. London: for the author, 1694. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, first work with double-page plate, front board detached [ESTC R6912 & R23819];Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this World, to that which is to come: delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. A New Edition. London: for J. Caddel, T. Dodsley, A. Baldwin, and R. Millar, 1783. 8vo, contemporary sheep, 12 woodcut plates, front board detached [ESTC T58394, 8 copies worldwide];[Angling]. The Gentleman Angler … with several Observations on Angle Rods, and Artificial Flies … also an Appendix, containing the Art of Rock and Sea Fishing … by a Gentleman who has made it is His Diversion upwards of Fourteen Years, London: for G. Kearsley, 1786. First edition, 24mo, old boards, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf, binding worn, general soiling to contents, front inner hinge cracking between frontispiece and title-page, light marginal worming towards front [ESTC T57574, 9 copies worldwide];Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquess of. Instructions to a Son, containing Rules of Conduct in Publick and Private Life. Glasgow: R. Foulis, 1743. First Scottish edition, 8vo in half-sheets, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, bookplate of Scottish politician George Baillie (1664-1738), presumably applied posthumously by a descendant, early ownership inscription ‘Grisell Baillie’ to title-page [ESTC T108119, 7 copies worldwide];and 14 others similar (these not fully collated), comprising: Book of Common Prayer, John Baskett, 1738 (8vo, contemporary black morocco panelled in gilt, engraved additional title-page and plates, binding worn, repairs to plates); [Hannah Neale], The History of the Jews … Being an Appendix to the Sacred History in Sixteen Letters, 1796 (8vo, contemporary calf, engraved folding map, front cover detached, ESTC T114150, nine copies world-wide); [Samuel Johnson], [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia, The Sixth Edition, 1783 (8vo, contemporary marbled calf, spine worn); James Thomson, The Seasons, Edinburgh, 1761 (8vo, contemporary calf, 4 engraved plates); idem, Glasgow, 1775 (title-page loose); The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First and his Royal Successors, Kings and Queens of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1682 (12mo, contemporary calf); George Anson, A Voyage round the World in the Years M,DCCXL, I, II, III, IV … The Ninth Edition, 1767 (8vo, contemporary calf); Thomas Boston, A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records, Glasgow, 1772 (8vo, contemporary sheep); Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd; A Scots Pastoral Comedy, 1775 (8vo, contemporary calf, spine worn, lacking frontispiece); Samuel Rutherford, Letters, 1825 (8vo, contemporary sheep); Theophrastus, Les caractères, Brussels, 1692 (8vo, spine worn away, title-page loose); [Sammelband of plays published by John Bell, 1776-7], comprising Aaron Hill, Zara, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd, Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore, John Huges, The Siege of Damascus, Ambrose Philips, Distrest Mother (8vo, contemporary quarter calf, worn, edges untrimmed); Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1817 (lacking covers); and George Dawe, The Life of George Morland, 1807 (lacking covers)

Hume, David Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects A New Edition. London: for A. Millar, and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, 1760. 4 volumes, 12mo (16.2 x 9.5cm), contemporary calf, pp. [4] 395, [4] 379, [4] 299, [6] 352, covers detached, loss to headcaps, variable spotting and browning, nicks and chips to title-pages of volumes 2 and 4 [ESTC T33490]Note: Note: Scarce lifetime edition of Hume's Essays, with ownership inscriptions 'John Scott, 1790' and roundel bookplates of the Scott family to volumes one, three and four. This is almost certainly John Scott, first earl of Eldon (1751-1833), lord chancellor from 1801 to 1827. In 1790 he was serving as solicitor general. 'The years of essay writing, between the "failure" of the Treatise and the publication of the Political Discourses, had seen Hume cover an extraordinary amount of intellectual ground. But it had still not brought him commercial success. When this finally arrived, it was through the initiative of his publisher, Andrew Millar. In 1753 Millar put together a cheap, four-volume duodecimo edition of Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, in which the Philosophical Essays and the Enquiry Concerning Morals were placed between the Essays, Moral and Political and the Political Discourses. Though Hume did not immediately appreciate it, the effect of the edition was to enable his political essays to act as he had once hoped, "like Dung with Marle", and draw attention to his philosophy in a format which for the first time was both accessible and calculated to encourage sales' (ODNB).

Malthus, Thomas An Essay on the Principle of Population or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness ... A New Edition, very much enlarged. London: for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803. 4to (26.9 x 21cm), near-contemporary dark green straight-grain half roan, pebble-grain cloth sides, pp. viii [4] 610, spine and corners rubbed, variable spotting, closed tear to upper inner corner of 3A1, small chip to head of 4D2, neither affecting text, old manuscript library label to front pastedown [Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701]Note: Note: Second edition, though so extensively revised as to be regarded by the author as a substantially new work. Malthus's pioneering treatise was first published anonymously in 1798. In the preface to the second edition he plays down the originality of his central observation that population tends to outrun food supply, claiming to have deduced it from the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, and others. His findings were strongly criticised by literary contemporaries including Coleridge, Southey, and Cobbett, but Charles Darwin later acknowledged their influence on the development of his theory of natural selection. 'For today's readers, living in a post-Malthus era, the world's population problems are well known and serious, but no longer sensational. It is difficult therefore to appreciate the radical and controversial impact made by the Essay at the time of publication. It challenged the conventional notion that population growth is an unmixed blessing. It discussed prostitution, contraception, and other sexual matters. And it gave vivid descriptions of the horrendous consequences of overpopulation and of the brutal means by which populations are checked' (ODNB).All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to go to Oxfam UK.

Forlong, Major-General John George Roche Rivers of Life or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands, showing the Evolution of Faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1883. First edition, 3 volumes including large folding chart in slipcase, 4to, 14 plates, 2 maps, 4 folding tables and folding chart, numerous illustrations, brown half morocco, spines giltNote: Note: Loosely inserted is the 'Sixteen Full-page plates to illustrate an Encyclopaedia of the Science of Comparative Religions', in original wrappers.

Higgins, Godfrey Anacalypsis, an attempt to draw aside the veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. London: Longman, Rees, [&c], 1836. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, [one of 200 copies], 6 lithographed plates, 2 errata leaves, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spines, some light spotting

Knight, Richard Payne An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples. London: T. Spilsbury, 1786. First edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece, engraved illustrations in text, 11 engraved plates (including extra plate at p.116, often missing), contemporary red morocco gilt, interlocking gilt and rectangular panels on covers, spine gilt, gauffered edgesNote: Note: This copy contains the rare unnumbered plate "An Ancient Ex-Voto" (facing p.116), missing from many copies.

Lemnius, Levinus The Secret Miracles of Nature London: printed by Jo. Streater, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, John Sweeting, John Clark, and George Sawbridge, 1658. 4to (26.2 x 17cm), 19th-century half calf, morocco and printed book-labels of Thomas Bird, rector of St Fagan's, Cardiff, front cover near-detached, contents browned, title-page extended in fore margin, K4 closely trimmed along fore edge just shaving side-notes verso, small spill-burns to V1 and V3, custom quarter morocco slipcase [ESTC R8382; Ferguson, Books of Secrets 521; Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chimica II p. 23; cf. Duveen pp. 349-50]Note: Note: First edition in English of the author's De miraculis occultis naturae, first published at Antwerp in 1559. ESTC traces ten copies in UK libraries. Among the notable passages is a description of Avicenna's 'counsel for copulation': 'Avicenna, no base fellow, nor an authour of the lowest rank, describes the time and manner of procreating a sex: When (saith he) the terms are spent, and the womb is cleansed, which is commonly in five dayes, or 7. at most; if a man lye with his wife from the first day she is purged to the fifth, she will conceive a male; but from the fifth to the eighth day, a female; again, from the eighth day to the twelfth, a male again; but after that, a male again; but after that numbers of dayes, an hermaphrodite' (p. 28).

Science, The Occult, Medicine and Arabia 20 volumes Westcott, William Wynn. Numbers: their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1890. 4to, inscribed at head of title 'Asmothel, from H.A. J., March 1895', original maroon cloth gilt;Singer, Charles. Science, Medicine and History. Essays on the Evolution of Scientific Thought and Medical Practice. O.U.P., 1953, 2 volumes, large 8vo, brown half morocco gilt;Singer, Charles. From Magic to Science. London, 1928. 8vo, plates, original cloth, dustwrapper;Da Orta, Garcia. Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India, translated with an introduction by Sir Clements Markham, London: H. Sotheran, 1913. 4to, number 46 of 250 copies, black morocco by Riviere, spine gilt, neatly rebacked retaining spine, t.e.g.;Hilton-Simpson, M.W. Arab Medicine & Surgery. London: O.U.P., 1922. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; Browne, Edward G. Arab Medicine, being the Fitzpatrick Lectures. Cambridge: University Press, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Hitti, Philip K. History of the Arabs. London: Macmillan, 1937. First edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth, dustwrapper strengthened on verso;Nicholson, Reynold A. A Literary History of the Arabs. Cambridge: University Press, 1930. 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g.;Dozy, Reinhart. Spanish Islam. London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. 8vo, frontispiece, map, original red cloth, t.e.g.; Smith, George Adam. Jerusalem. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, maps, plates, original maroon cloth;Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition in Spain. New York: Macmillan, 1906, 4 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g.;Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900, 3 volumes, original cloth, t.e.g.Onians, R.B. The Origins of European Thought. Cambridge: University Press, 1954. 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper

Dentistry - Tomes, John, Surgeon-Dentist to the Middlesex Hospital A Course of Lectures on Dental Physiology and Surgery delivered at the Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine. London: J.W. Parker, 1848. First edition, 8vo, [viii, 398, + 2pp + 4pp. adverts], engraved frontispiece, illustrations, some full-page, original black embossed cloth, slightly spotted, rubbed (upper portion of spine loosely inserted), RCSI Library stamp to title

Grew, Nehemiah Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W. Rawlins, 1681. First edition, folio (32 x 19cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and relined, edges dyed red, engraved portrait frontispiece, 31 engraved plates (one folding), retaining medial blank 3D3, contemporary manuscript corrections to pp. 62, 81, 282 and 312, binding slightly worn, front joint cracking at head and foot, light browning to contents, small worm-track to head of gutter appearing from quire 2E, a few small additional tracks in gutter of last few quires and plates, text or images never affected [ESTC R23326; Freeman 1464; Garrison-Morton 297; Heirs of Hippocrates 640; Nissen ZBI 1714; Wing G1952]Note: Note: 'Grew, secretary to the Royal Society, compiled this great illustrated catalogue of its museum, then housed at Gresham College. Published with the catalogue is Grew's study of the stomach organs, which is the first zoological book to have the term "comparative anatomy" on the title-page, and also the first attempt to deal with one system of organs only by the comparative method' (Garrison-Morton). It was also one of the first scientific books to be published in England using a subscription model to pay for its engraved illustrations.Provenance: 1) The library at Gaddesden Place, Hertfordshire, seat of the Halsey family (bookplate); 2) Joseph Lyon Miller MD (bookplate).

Stephenson, John Medical Zoology and Mineralogy or Illustrations and Descriptions of the Animals and Minerals Employed in Medicine, and of the Preparations derived from them: including an Account of Animal and Mineral Poisons. London: John Churchill, 1838. First edition, 8vo, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards, contemporary green calf gilt, covers tooled in gilt and blind, armorial bookplate of John J. Tate, M.D.

Bell, John Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia Containing a Journey to Ispahan ... Part of a Journey to Pekin in China, through Siberia ... The Continuation of the Journey between Mosco and Pekin ... A Journey from Mosco to Derbent in Persia ... A Journey from St. Petersburg to Constantinople. Glasgow: for the author by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (23.5 x 17.5cm), contemporary tan quarter calf, red morocco labels, marbled sides, vellum tips, engraved folding map, advertisement leaf to rear of volume 1, errata leaf to rear of volume 2 [Cross, In the Lands of the Romanovs B23; ESTC T99651; Gaskell 415)Note: Note: After completing his medical studies, Stirlingshire-born John Bell (1691-1780) secured a letter of introduction to the chief physician to Tsar Peter I of Russia, soon after arriving in Russia was included in an embassy sent by Peter to Soltan Hoseyn, shah of Persia. 'On his return Bell learned of another mission, to China, on which he was included following the recommendation of the British ambassador. Bell's account of his remarkable journey is recorded in his one publication, Travels from St Petersburg in Russia to Various Parts of Asia (1763). Despite the tedium of the sixteen-month expedition, Bell's account of the journey to Kazan and through Siberia to China is the most complete and interesting part of his travels. Of particular note are his descriptions of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese wall, and his residence in Peking (Beijing)' (ODNB).

Baillie-Grohman, William A. and F. (editors) The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York The Oldest English Book on Hunting. With a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. London: published for the editors by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1904. First edition, one of 10 deluxe copies printed on Japanese vellum, large folio, original vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf, colour frontispiece heightened in gold, 61 plates (mainly heliogravures from pages of the original manuscript), tissue-guards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding slightly soiled, spine rubbed, worn at head and foot, with a few small worm-tracks and attempted covering of blemishes on spine, onlaid gilt border to covers possibly a later embellishment, contents toned, marginal spotting, intermittent pinhole-sized worm-tracks in gutter and top margin, rear free endpaper creased [Schwerdt II p. 305: 'A magnificently got-up book, of which the introductory chapters and bibliographical notes are of the greatest interest']Note: Note: There were also 600 standard copies, printed on paper and bound in reversed calf.

Ireland Four works on Irish flora Wade, Walter. Plantae rariores in Hibernia inventae; or Habits of some Plants, rather Scarce and Valuable, found in Ireland; with Concise Remarks on the Properties and Uses of many of them. Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1804. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining old label, supralibros of the Society of Writers to the Signet gilt to covers, xvi 230 pp., 2 engraved plates printed in green with additional hand-colouring, one further engraved plate, short closed tear to one folding plate [Stafleu & Cowan 16.473];Scully, Reginald W. Flora of County Kerry including Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd., 1916. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, diagram, 5 halftone photographic plates, folding colour map;Colgan, Nathaniel. Flora of the County Dublin: Flowering Plants, Higher Cryptogams, and Characeae. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd., 1904. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, folding map, cloth mottled as usual, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and half-title;Doogue, Declan, & others. Flora of County Dublin by the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club. Dublin: Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, 1998. First edition, one of 100 copies, large 8vo, original orange quarter morocco, slipcaseNote: Note: This copy of Wade's Plantae rariores in Hibernia inventae contains a through-paginated addendum (pp. 215-230) with two additional folding plates; the copy described in Stafleu & Cowan's Taxonomic Literature and those generally encountered in commerce end at p. 214 and contain one plate only.Provenance: E. Charles Nelson, botanist, with his bookplates.

Jennings, Samuel Orchids: and how to grow them in India and other Tropical Climates London: L. Reeve, 1875. First edition, large 4to, 48 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards, contemporary black half morocco

Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897. First edition, 7 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 16 cm), original green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 421 chromolithographic plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs as issued, bookplates (C. W. Higgs), spines sunned, variable spotting, chiefly to margins [Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann pp. 354-5; Nissen IVB 563]

Goldman, Nicolas La nouvelle fortification Leiden: chez les Elseviers, 1645. First edition in French, folio, (31.5 x 21cm), contemporary vellum, all edges untrimmed, [16] 224 pp., engraved allegorical title-page, engraved illustrations of fortifications throughout the text, lacking front free endpaper, worm-track in lower margins, L2-3 transposed, closed tear in O2, occasional light spotting and soiling [Willems 587];Panvinio, Onofrio. Epitome pontificum Romanorum a S. Petro usque ad Paulum IIII. Venice: impensis Jacobi Stradae Mantuani, 1557. First edition, folio in sixes (29.5 x 20cm), contemporary limp vellum, [8] 428 [16] pp., large strapwork woodcut device to title-page, woodcut illustrations of papal arms throughout the text, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page (apparently belonging to a count, 'Comes'), ties perished, damp-staining from front to quire G and to index [Adams P194];Bosse, Abraham. De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin ... Nouvelle édition. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745. 8vo xxxii 186 [6] pp., engraved frontispiece, 19 engraved folding plates, large engraved dedication and figural headpieces, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-page, bookplates of noted Lebanese collector Camille Aboussouan, occasional light spotting and soiling, ink-staining to top margins of last few platesNote: Note: Goldman's work was originally published in Latin in 1643, also by the Elzevirs.

Blakiston, Thomas W. Five Months on the Yang-Tsze with a Narrative of the Exploration of its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China. London: John Murray, 1862. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith, original pictorial red cloth gilt, rubbed and slightly soiled, Cruising Library Association stamp to upper cover, small unobtrusive blind-stamp to head of titleNote: Note: In 1861 Blakiston set out from Shanghai to explore the middle and upper course of the Yangtze to ascend the river as far as the Min. He arrived at Pingshan on 25th May, having travelled 1800 miles from Shanghai, 900 miles further than any other European but was forced to return to Shanghai due to insurgencies. This work remained the standard account for the region for at least the following fifty years.

Langley, Batty & Thomas Gothic Architecture improved by Rules and Proportions. In many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonades [sic], Porticos, Umbrelos, Temples, and Pavillions etc. London: for John Millan, 1747. 4to (29.7 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf gilt, engraved title-page, 2 pp. letterpress (headed 'On the Ancient Buildings in this Kingdom'; often lacking), 64 engraved plates, binding rubbed, spine-label perished, superficial cracking to joints in places [ESTC T132230; Harris 410]Note: Note: First edition, second issue, with a new title-page but retaining the plates from the first issue of 1741-2, which was published under the less explicit title Ancient Architecture, Restored, and Improved. 'An exceptional and original work, it was a pioneering attempt to give Gothic architecture the classical respectability of orders, motivated, as usual, by his interest in English freemasonry and handsomely engraved by his brother Thomas. Its novelty and light-hearted inventiveness, although scoffed at by amateur gothicists such as Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray, were just what many country squires wanted, prompting other architectural writers—William Halfpenny, T. C. Overton, and William Pain in particular—to follow Langley's lead' (ODNB).

[Loudon, John Claudius] Hints on the Formation of Gardens and Pleasure Grounds with designs in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves. London: John Harding, 1812. First edition, 4to, [xii], 70, [2pp. adverts.], 20 double-page engraved plates mounted on guards, original boards, uncut, plate 1 detached, lower board detached, the boards lacking their paper covering, some damp-staining to fore margins, a few light spots, short marginal tear to head of title. Rare.

Milton, Thomas, John Crunden and Placido Columbani The Chimney-Piece Maker's Daily Assistant or, A Treasury of New Designs for Chimney Pieces ... in the Antique, Modern, Ornamental and Gothic Taste. London: Henry Webley, 1766. First edition, 8vo (22.8 x 14.5cm), contemporary sprinkled tan calf, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece, 54 engraved plates (one folding), variable browning, plates 46 and 49 closely trimmed along fore-edges, plate 49 seemingly never caught by stitching at foot but remaining intact [ESTC T90198; Harris 158]Note: Note: Rare in libraries and in commerce. ESTC traces seven copies only in the United Kingdom.

Richardson, C. J. Studies from Old English Mansions Their Furniture Gold & Silver Plate Etc. By An Architect, First, Second, Third and Fourth Series. London: T. McLean, 1841-8. First edition, 4 volumes, folio, each 50 x 34.5cm, original red quarter morocco, green cloth sides lettered and decorated in gilt, 100 tinted lithographic plates including frontispieces (2 double-page), 35 leaves of decorative lithographic text, tissue-guards, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers (W. Brindley), extremities bumped and rubbed, intermittent foxing, a few areas of dampstaining

Ruskin, John Seven Lamps of Architecture; Stones of Venice; Modern Painters London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1849, 1858-53-53, 1857-56-56-56-60. 3 works in 9 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 16.5cm), finely bound c.1900 by Riviere & Son in red crushed morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments, French fillet borders gilt to sides, inner dentelles gilt, blue-green coated endpapers, all edges gilt, Seven Lamps with half-title, 14 etched plates, extra-illustrated with a duplicate of each plate (possibly photolithographic), Stones of Venice with half-titles, 53 plates (etched, aquatint or lithographic, the latter with additional hand-colouring), Modern Painters with half-titles, 87 engraved plates including frontispieces (several colour-printed; one hand-coloured and heightened with gold), 8 wood-engraved plates, the set bound without errata slips and advertisements, a few very light scuffs and marks to sidesNote: Note: First edition of Seven Lamps of Architecture, mixed editions of Stones of Venice (second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three) and of Modern Painters (sixth and fourth editions of volumes one and two, first editions of the remaining volumes).

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus De architectura libri decem Cum notis ... Guilielmi Philandri ... Danielis Barbari ... Claudii Salmasii ... Praemittuntur Elementa architecturae ... ab ... Henrico Wottono ... Accedunt Lexicon Vitruvianum Bernardini Baldi ... et Eiusdem Scamilli Impares Vitruviani. De pictura ... Leonis Bapistae de Albertis. De Sculptura ... Pomponii Gaurici ... Ludovici Demontiosii Commentarius de Sculptura et Pictura ... Omnia in unum collecta, digesta et illustrata a Joanne de Laet. Leiden: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. Folio (30.9 x 19.5cm), contemporary English panelled calf, rebacked, [8] 30 [2] 252 [30] 253-272 164 69 [3] pp., engraved allegorical title-page, numerous woodcuts in the text, repairs to corners of boards, endpapers renewed, small faint stain to first few leaves [Cicognara 726; Willems 1097]. Together with 2 others (John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, 1631, first edition, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, woodcuts in text, several full-page, bound without index, frontispiece laid down, closed tear in A4, marginal repair to 2A3; and Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, Strawberry Hill Press, 1765, second edition, volume 1-3 of 4, volume 4 published later, in 1771, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved plates)Note: Note: A 'magnificent edition' of Vitruvius (Willems), containing extensive commentary and additional texts including the first edition in Latin of Henry Wotton's Elements of Architecture.

Martin, Fredrik Robert The Miniature Painting of Persia, India and Turkey from the 8th to the 18th Century. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1912. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, 5 coloured plates, 271 uncoloured plates, illustrations, original pictorial blue buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, in later slipcase

Borneo 3 volumes Hose, Charles and William McDougall. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. London: Macmillan, 1912. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 211 coloured and plain plates and 8 maps, green half morocco gilt, red morocco labels, original pictorial cloth covers and spines bound in at end of each volume, t.e.g., spines lightly faded;Hose, Charles. Natural Man. A Record from Borneo. London: Macmillan, 1926. First edition, large 8vo, plates, maps, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.

Asian Art - The Baur Collection, Geneva 9 volumes Ayers, J. Chinese Ceramics. Geneva, 1968-1969-1972-1974, 4 volumes, number 22 (volume 1) and number 44 (volumes 2-4) of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrappers, slipcases;Ayers, J. Japanese Ceramics. Geneva, 1984, number 44 of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrapper, slipcase; Schneeberger, Pierre F. Chinese Jades. Geneva, 1946, number 45 of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrapper, slipcase; Schneeberger, Pierre F. Japanese Lacquer (Selected Pieces). Geneva, 1984, number 44 of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrapper, slipcase;Robinson, B.W. Japanese Sword-Fittings. Geneva, 1980, number 44 of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrapper;Coullery, Marie-Thérèse and Martin S. Newstead. Netsuke (Selected Pieces). Geneva, 1977, number 44 of 50 copies bound in leather, dustwrapper, slipcase; all with plates;with the original publishing prospectus for the Chinese Ceramics and Netsuke volumesNote: Note: A fine set of very important reference works on Asian art, the volumes written by leading experts in their respective areas.1,000 copies were published of the limited edition of Chinese Ceramics, volume 2 of Chinese Ceramics being priced at £12 10s. In addition, according to the prospectus included in the lot, "Further limited edition of 50 copies printed on special paper and bound in leather, £20". The prospectus for the Netsuke volume states "Volume 6 of the series is the first to deal with Japanese art. It illustrates and describes 1,200 selected netsuke of the Baur Collection covering all manufacturing centers. The collection is particularly rich in netsuke created by artists who lived in the second part of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in Osaka and Tokyo. In addition to the illustrations and descriptions of these 1,200 pieces, the catalogue contains also 8 colour plates showing the work of 8 selected artists, an alphabetical list of 897 signatures illustrated on separated plates. A glossary and an index complete the book".Sets of the edition limited to 1,000 copies rarely appear on the market; sets of the special edition bound in leather are exceptionally rare.

Japanese-style erotica 'The Pillow Book. Nob + Non' [spine-title] 14 original sketches probably by a late-20th century British hand, pen-and-ink, wash and watercolour, approximate dimensions 40 x 30cm, pencilled captions in English on versos, each tipped to mount comprising two craft-paper leaves stitched together along edges, the mounts glued into stiffened cloth backstrip and laid into white silk portfolio with embroidered titles and erotic decoration to spine and front cover. Together with 3 further art portfolios:Golikova, G. V. DMT 42, Stuttgart: Edition Domberger, 1969. First edition, one of 130 'unsigned' copies from the edition of 210, but this copy signed by Golikova and illuminator Gerald Laing in pencil on the limitation leaf, folio, original white card wrappers, black dust jacket, title-page with additional silkscreen colour, 23 colour silkscreen prints, colophon leaf, pink cloth portfolio and matching slipcase, portfolio and slipcase damp-stained, integral plastic support in portfolio detached;Picasso, Pablo. Picasso 347. New York: Random House/Maecenas Press, 1970. First edition, 2 volumes, oblong folio, original quarter cloth, in original box (somewhat distressed);Jamieson, Wendell. New York by New York. New York: Assouline, 2018. First edition, 4to, original orange cloth, slipcase, retaining protective cardboard packing case

Miller, Henry Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel 1966. First edition, 4to, the Leather Edition, one of 26 copies lettered from A to Z, this one lettered 'G', designed, edited, printed and bound by the Loujon Press editors Louise and Jon Webb at 1009 East Elm, Tucson, Arizona, signed and dated by the author, printed in red, blue and black ink on coloured paper, cream boards with cork endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, original cork and board slipcase

Orwell, George Animal Farm A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original green cloth, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket (priced 6s on front flap, 'An early list for 1945' advertisement on rear panel, Searchlight advertisement printed in red on verso). Spine rolled, sunning to head of spine and along foot of spine and covers, slight fraying to foot of spine, tips bumped, dust jacket with a few chips and nicks, spine-panel rubbed and section of rear joint worn through

Owen, Wilfred Poems London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition, frontispiece portrait, original red cloth, endpaper inscribed 'Aunt Bay [?] with best wishes from Naomi [Mitchison]', spine lightly faded

Spark, Muriel Collection of works Authors' Ghosts, Seven Poems, Rees & O'Neill, 2004. First edition, one of 20 numbered copies bound in yellow quarter morocco, signed by the author and with a holograph quotation from the text (from the total edition of 56 copies), 4to;A Hundred and Eleven Years without a Chauffeur, Colophon Press, 2001. First edition, one of 125 numbered copies sewn in blue card covers and signed by the author (from the total edition of 157), 4to;The French Window and the Small Telephone, Colophon Press, 1993. First edition, one of 105 numbered copies bound in blue quarter Nigerian goatskin and signed by the author (from the total edition of 123);Doctors of Philosophy, 1963. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, signed by the author on the title-page;The Comforters, 1957. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;Memento Mori, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original cloth (spine sunned, spotting to cloth), dust jacket;The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 1960, First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket;and approx. 39 others, including first editions in dust jackets of The Go-Away Bird (1958), Voices at Play (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963, lacking front free endpaper), The Mandelbaum Gate (1965), The Driver's Seat (1970), The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Loitering with Intent (1981), A Far Cry from Kensington (1988), and others including criticism by and about Spark, dust jackets in variable condition with usual rubbing and the occasional nick to extremities, a few ownership inscriptions

Tolkien, J.R.R. and miscellaneous 18 volumes Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First American edition, original blue cloth; Idem. The Two Towers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First American edition, original blue cloth, very worn dustwrapper; Idem. The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955, First edition, [1st impression], folding map, original red cloth, dustwrapper price clipped and split at fold, slightly frayed and slightly soiled;Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village. London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1824. 8vo, contemporary half calf;Moore, Thomas. The Epicurean. 1827. Third edition, 12mo, contemporary half calf;Smith, J.E. and Mr Sowerby. Supplement to The English Botany. London 1849, volume 4 only, hand-coloured engraved plates numbered 2868-2960, contemporary calf gilt;Ludlow, F. "Birds of Bhutan, Sikkim and S.E. Tibet, 1927-50" (title from spine). 8vo, extracted articles from the Ibis, plates, folding maps, brown buckram lettered in gilt; Seton-Thompson, Ernest. Lives of the Hunted. London: D. Nutt, 1901. 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth; Chrystal, Major R.A. Angling at Lochboisdale South Uist. London, 1939. 8vo, original cloth;Skues, G.E.M. The Way of a Trout with a Fly. London, 1935. Third edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth;Schomberg, R.C.F. Kafirs and Glaciers. Travels in Chitral. 1938. 8vo, plates, folding map, NLS deaccession stamp to endpaper;Kearton, Richard. With Nature and a Camera. 1904. 8vo, illustrations, original cloth, rubbed;Wade, Rev. W.M. Delineations, historical, topographical and descriptive of the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places of Scotland. Paisley, 1822. 12mo, original boards, uncut, rebacked with cloth;Smith, Rev. Gerard. The Ferns of Derbyshire, illustrated from Nature. London: Bemrose, 1869. 8vo, 6th edition, additional coloured lithographed title, coloured plates, later wrappers;Gray, Alasdair. Lanark. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1981. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper;Gould, B.J. The Jewel in the Lotus. 1957, 8vo, original cloth;Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy. Jock of the Bushveld. 1941. 8vo, original cloth; Dandy, J.E. and G. Taylor. Studies of British Potamogetons 1-3. Extracted from The Journal of Botany, August 1938-40, 5 extracts in a ring binder, bookplate of Sir George Taylor, blue cloth, sold not subject to return

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1940) Orlando A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, one of 861 copies printed on rag paper and signed by the author in purple ink on verso of the half-title, 8vo, original black cloth, spine decorated in gilt, publisher's device gilt to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece, 7 plates (including 3 showing Vita Sackville-West as Orlando), spine and head of rear board very slightly faded, a few spots to half-title and limitation leaf [Kirkpatrick A11a]Note: Note: The true first edition, preceding the Hogarth Press edition by nine days.Provenance: Ivan Chambers OBE (1902-1998), British bookseller (with his bookplate); thence by descent.

Detmold, Edward J. (illustrator) The Fables of Aesop London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 750 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original cream pictorial cloth gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates, spine rolled, covers slightly marked, spotting to edges, patch of browning to verso of plate 15 and to caption-leaf of following plate. Together with 4 others (Detmold, The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1911, 4to, original Japanese vellum gilt, tear to head of spine; C. Lewis Hind, Turner's Golden Visions, 1910, first edition, 4to original vellum gilt; Arthur Rackham, The Ingoldsby Legends, 1920, 4to, original textured leather; Edward F. Strange, The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige, 1925, first edition, 4to, original cloth; these not collated)

Hatherell, William (illustrator) Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 250 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original pictorial vellum gilt, slipcase, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 22 tipped-in colour plates, ties missing, slipcase worn and marked, spotting and browning to endpapers, a few holes to front inner hinge

Kerr, Judith The Tiger who came to Tea London: Collins, 1968. First edition, first impression, 4to, original matt pictorial boards, colour illustrations throughout, with the dust jacket (unclipped, priced 15s on front flap)Note: Note: Rare, especially in the dust jacket. Now a children's classic, The Tiger who came to Tea was Judith Kerr's first book. Her preparatory sketches for the work are now held by the British Library.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8vo, original pictorial boards, 223 pp., spine rolled, spine-covering and laminate perished, wear to extremities, scuffs and score-marks to covers, text-block browned, ownership inscription 'Holly 1997' to front pastedown, a few other marks to endpapers, light staining to pp. 187-90, doodling around headline on p. 193 [Errington A1(a)]Note: Note: First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, one of 500 copies, with all the requisite points: the copyright page dated 1997, with the numberline down to 1 and with the author credited as 'Joanne Rowling'; page 53 with '1 wand' repeated; and the rear cover with misprints 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' (for 'Witchcraft and Wizardry') and 'Philospher's Stone'.

Children's and illustrated books Collection of works, most signed including:Shepard, E. H. Everybody's Boswell. London: G. Bell and Sons, Limited, 1930. First edition thus, large-paper issue, one of 350 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed;Dahl, Roald. The Twits [and:] Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980-8. 2 works, first editions, 8vo, original boards, dust jackets (price-clipped), each signed by illustrator Quentin Blake on front free endpaper;Blake, Quentin. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote ... Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1995. 8vo, original cloth, slipcase, signed by Quentin Blake on title-page;Pullman, Philip. [Group of works:] The Book of Dust, Volume One, La Belle Sauvage, 2017 (2 copies); The Book of Dust, Volume Two, The Secret Commonwealth, 2019; Grimm Tales for Young and Old, 2012; The Scarecrow and his Servant, 2004; Lyra's Oxford, 2017; Serpentine, 2020; all first editions except Lyra's Oxford, all signed by Pullman, all with dust jackets, one copy of La Belle Sauvage additionally signed by illustrator Chris Wormald;Blyton, Enid. The Ship of Adventure, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, signed by the author on the front free endpaper (head of leaf excised), spine rolled, covers slightly marked;and approx. 30 others, including: Paul Coldwell, Paula Rego: Printmaker, 2005 (signed by Paula Rego) The History of the Beano, 2008 (large 4to, inscribed by Euan Kerr and Morris, editors of the Beano, with an original pencil sketch of Minnie the Minx by Jim Pence, and an original ink sketch of Gnasher); Alasdair Gray, Sixteen Occasional Poems 1990-2000, 2000 (one of 200 copies, signed); Arthur Rackham, The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929 (first trade edition, original cloth); idem, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1911 (first trade impression, second impression); Inga Moore (illustrator), The Wind in the Willows, 2000 (signed); Michael Rosen, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, 2009 (20th anniversary edition, signed by Michael Rosen and illustrator Helen Oxenbury); Gerald Scarfe, Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World and Other Tall Stories, 2008 (signed), and Drawing Blood; Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored, 2005 (inscribed); and similar

Graziani, Antonio Maria Histoire de la guerre de Chypre Paris: André Pralard, 1685. First French edition, 4to, [xii], 414, [2], engraved device on title, engraved head-pieces, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine rubbed, without the engraved frontispiece;Sonnini, Charles Nicolas. Travels in Greece and Turkey undertaken by Order of Louis XVI. And with the Authority of the Ottoman Court. London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801. 2 volumes, 8vo, without the atlas volume [which contains 1 chart & 5 plates], contemporary half calf, some spotting, bindings worn, one joint split, head of spine of one volume missing; note: seemingly very rare, no copy recorded on ABPC, not in Blackmer;Borrer, Dawson. A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem, by way of Athens, Egypt, and the Peninsula of Sinai... London: J. Madden, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 5 tinted lithographed plates, one plate caption slightly frayed, contemporary half calf, lacks map, slightly rubbed; Wordsworth, Christopher. Athens and Attica. London, 1827. Second edition, 8vo, 3 lithographed plates, 2 folding maps (1 loose), contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed Robert, Mr. Voyage du Levant. [extract from Voyage aux Terres Australes, by William Dampier] [Rouen, 1715], 12mo, title and pp.305-363 and index, folding map 'Carte des Isles de l'Archipel', modern quarter morocco; Thomson, Alexander. Letters of a Traveller, on the various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. London, 1798. 8vo, contemporary calf, slightly worn; Carne, John. Recollection of Travels in the East. London, 1830. 8vo, contemporary ex libris Library of Royal School Edinburgh at head of title, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original spine, corners repaired; Volney, C.F., Comte de. The Ruins, or a Survey of the Revolution of Empires. London, 1827. 8vo, frontispiece, 2 folding plates, contemporary half calf, rather spotted, worn, upper hinge broken;Douglas, Hon. Frederick Sylvester North. An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks. London: John Murray, 1813. First edition, 8vo, armorial bookplate of George Wilbraham, contemporary maroon calf gilt, slightly rubbed, neat inscription of "J. Stroud Read, London, March 13th 1939" on front endpaper;Lithgow, William. Lithgow's Nineteen Years Travels through the most Eminent Places. in the Habitable World... the tenth edition. London: J. Millet for M. Wotton, G. Conyers, T. Passinger, 1692. 8vo, 488, [viii], folding woodcut frontispiece and 6 folding woodcut plates [at p. 253, 277, 355, 393, 426, 435]; contemporary calf, p. 55 with paper flaw affecting a few words, once rebacked, now rubbed, covers detached, couple of small tears to fore-margin of title just affecting two letters, some spotting, 18th century ownership inscription 'J. Courtney' at head of title;Panofka, Theodor. Manners and Customs of the Greeks. London: T.C. Newby, 1849. First English edition, 4to, additional pictorial title and 21 plates (19 coloured by George Scharf), tissue guards, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, boards worn and somewhat dust-soiled, lacking part of spineNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al- Maqamat al-Hariri [Arabic title] Hariri eloquentiae Arabicae principis tres priores consessus. E codice manuscripto bilbiothecae Lugduno-Batavae pro specimine emissi, ac notis illustrati ab Alberto Schultens. [Part 2:] Consessus Hariri quartus, quintus et sextus. [Part 3:] Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae sive specimina quaedam illustria antiquae memoriae et linguae. Franeker [-Leiden]: Wibius Bleck [-Johannes Luzac], 1731-40-40. 3 parts in 1 volume, 4to (18.9 x 14.7cm), contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, woodcut devices to title-pages of parts 1 and 3, engraved device to title-page of part 2, Arabic and Hebrew types throughout, binding dust-soiled and marked, loss to vellum along fore edge of front board, small worm-track to fore margin of first few leaves, small hole in part 2 sig. A1Note: Note: First edition of any substantial portion of one of the most celebrated and ingenious works of early Arabic literature. Dating from c.1100, Hariri's Maqamat ('sessions' or 'assemblies') are a series of 50 picaresque vignettes written in virtuosic rhymed prose, recounting the exploits of wandering rogue Abu Zayd al-Saruji. A single maqamah was included in Fabricius's Specimen Arabicum, published in 1638. Schultens's edition contains the original Arabic text of the first six maqamat, each with a parallel Latin translation and detailed commentary.

Herbert, Sir Thomas Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two Famous Empires, the Persian, and Great Mogull. London: for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, 1638. Folio (29 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, blind rules to covers, engraved additional title-page, engravings throughout the text, including zoological and ethnographic subjects, maps and views, a few old stains, occasional marginalia in ink or pencil, initial blank (A1) discarded, closed tears in C2, E4, Y1, 2D2, 2F4, 2X4, marginal tears in 2C4, spill-burn in 2F4, damp-staining to quire 2Y, final leaf (2B4, index) torn with loss of a few numbers recto, repairs in gutter verso [ESTC S119691; STC 13191]Note: Note: Second edition, and the first under this title (the work was originally published in 1634 as A Description of the Persian Monarchy). Herbert travelled to Persia in 1627 as part of the disastrous embassy of Sir Dodmore Cotton, visiting 'the notable Persian cities of Gombroon [modern Bandar Abbas], Shiraz, Esfahan, Ashraf, Qazvin, and Qom as well as other Asian and African locales such as Surat, Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena' (ODNB). Notably the work contains an extensive section on the Persian Gulf (pp. 109-119), containing descriptions of Muscat and Hormuz, and a vignette containing two coastal views.