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Tithes. Benett (John, Esq; of Pyt House, Wilts), An Essay on the Commutation of Tithes; to which was adjudged The Bedfordean Gold Medal, by the Bath and West of England Society [...], first edition, Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell; et al., 1814, contemporary quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges, yellow endpapers, 8vo, Toller (Samuel), A Treatise on the Law of Tithes [...], first edition, London: A. Strahan, 1808, contemporary calf, 8vo, Bearblock (The Rev. James), A Treatise Upon Tithes: Containing an Estimate of Every Titheable Article in Common Cultivation [...], third edition, London: J. Hatchard; et al., 1809, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [&] Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons, sixth edition, London, 1835, original roan boards rebacked in 20th century gilt-lettered morocco, 8vo, (4). Provenance: 2nd: Thomas Netherson Parker (1772-1848), of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, armorial bookplate to recto pastedown and title-page with ink MS ownership inscription.

Topography, Home Counties. Beckett (Arthur), Spirit of the Downs, first edition, London: Methuen, 1909, original cloth, rebacked, 8vo, Anon, Records of Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, 1896, quarter-calf, 8vo, Sussex County Magazine, volumes 8 & 9, 1934-35, original blue cloth, 4to, Anon, Sussex Archaeological Collections, three various volumes, cloth, 8vo, Bourne, Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, 1907, 8vo, Cobbett, Wayfaring Notions, 1906, 8vo, Anon, A Reports on the Agriculture and Soils of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 1911, original cloth, 8vo, Old Standing Crosses, 1930, 8vo, further topography, antiquarianism, agricultural history, etc., (approx. 55).

Veterinary. Blaine (Delabere), A Domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, first edition, London: T. Boosey, 1803, original contemporary marbled boards, disbound, 12mo, Sully (Henry), Observations on, and Plain Directions for, All Classes of People, to Prevent the Fatal Effects of the bites of Animals Labouring under Hydrophobia, inscribed presentation copy from the author, first edition, Taunton: Printed for the Author, by J.W. Marriott, et al., 1828, some stains, slight and discreet marginal worming, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, split and worn, 8vo, Rydge (John), The Veterinary Surgeon's Manual [...], fourth edition, London: Printed fro T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832, frontispiece and title-page gutter repaired, plates, rebacked original publisher's boards, 8vo, White (James) & Spooner (W.C., editor), A Compendium of the Veterinary Art, seventeenth edition, London: Longman, et al., 1842, coloured frontispiece, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, White's Complete System of Veterinary Medicine [...], volume II only, first edition, London: John Badcock, 1804, contemporary calf, worn, 12mo, (5).

Veterinary. Sherer (John), Rural Life [...], Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred Steel Engravings, London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d. [c. 1870], contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, The Veterinarian for 1847, contemporary quarter-calf, upper-cover almost off, 8vo, Mudie (Robert), Domesticated Animals [...], Winchester: D.E. Gilmour, et al., 1839, original publisher's blue cloth, 8vo, Dick's Occasional Papers on Veterinary Subjects, first edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1869, original cloth, 8vo, Blaine's Outlines of the Veterinary Art [...], sixth edition, London: Longman, et al., 1854, folding and full-page plates, rebacked cloth, 8vo, etc., (11).

[Bayly (Lewis)], The Practice of Piety: Directing A Christian how to walk, that he please God, sixtieth edition, London: Daniel Midwinter, 1743, engraved frontispiece, black-ruled title-page, early 19th century sombre black morocco, tired, rubbed, black-stained edges, later 18th century ms. presentation inscription, 8vo, Bagster's Polyglott Bible, n.d. [c. 1844], 8vo, other Bibles and devotionals, Robertson (William Henry), A Hand-Book to the Peak of Derbyshire, and to the Use of the Buxton Mineral Waters [...], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854, fold-out map, plates, moiré-type floppy boards, 8vo, Mitford (Nancy), The Pursuit of Love, first edition, second impression, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946, original pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo,  French part-morocco bindings, etc., (21).

[Dickens (Charles)], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", volume I only, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, lacking half-title and adverts, 331pp, nine plates by George Cruikshank, slight off-setting to frontispiece, the text with some creases in places, toned portions, two or three blemishes, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, beginning to split, rubbed, edges and endpapers marbled en suite, 12mo.

[Snart (Charles, editor)], Selection of Poems, two-volume set, sole edition, Newark: Printed and Sold by M. Hage, et al., 1807-08, volume II  includes 'The Mountain Violet, page 66, which has before been attributed to a young Lord Byron, 20th century morocco over boards, ex-lib, 8vo, a further nineteen volumes, mostly Nottinghamshire authors and imprints, but with some post-Romantic literature, all ex-lib, including Driver (Henry Austen), Harold de Burun: A Semi-Dramatic Poem; in Six Scenes, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1835, later boards, 8vo, Millhouse (Robert), The Destinies of Man, two parts in one, first edition, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1834, original publisher's moiré cloth, with faults and losses, 12mo, Gally Knight, Phrosyne: A Grecian Tale, [with] Alashtar: An Arabian Tale, first edition London: John Murray, 1817, disbound original marbled wrappers, 8vo, Mason (Jonah), Poems, Devotional and Miscellaneous, first edition, London: Hamilton, et al., 1831, later buckram, 12mo, Anon, Senacherib: A Sacred Lyrical Drama [...], sole edition, Nottingham: T. Forman, 1851, rebacked and laminated original wrappers, 4to, Leigh Hunt, Juvenilia, fourth edition, London: J. Whiting, 1803, later morocco over cloth, 8vo, Prior (James), Poems, Nottingham: H.B. Baxton, Mansfield: F. Willman, 1925, original wrappers, 8vo, George Bird, etc., (21).

Aldin (Cecil, illustrator), A Dog Day, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1902, the prelims a trifle foxed, original pictorial papered boards, rubbed and bumped, in-keeping rebacked, 4to, [&] A Gay Dog, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1905, light foxing to prelims and title-page, original cloth-backed pictorial papered boards, very light bumps, 4to, (2).

An American Quaker in England. Woolman (John), The Works of, In Two Parts, first English edition, London: T. Letchworth, 1775, pp: xvi, 319 contemporary speckled calf, 8vo, further works, including an Elzevir imprint of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, Leyda [i.e. Leiden]: Giovanni Elsevier, 1659, etched title-page, contemporary speckled calf gilt, 12mo, Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying Belles Lettres, four-volume set, second edition thus, Dublin: M. Rhames, 1737, contemporary calf, 12mo, & Law's Call, tenth edition, London: G. Robinson, 1772, contemporary speckled calf, 12mo, (7).

Angling Interest. Hardy (John James), Salmon Fishing, first edition, London: "Country Life", 1907, b/w plates, original cloth, 8vo, [Hodge (Davies)], Angling Days on Scotch Lochs, first edition, Edinburgh: John Menzies & Co, 1884, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, other Edwardian and later fishing, mostly fly fishing (18).

Architecture. Desgodetz (Anthony, Architect) & Marshall (George, Architect, engraver and translator), The Ancient Buildings of Rome: Accurately Measured and Delineated, Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-seven Plates; and Explanations in French and English, two-volume set, first English edition, London: [s.n.], 1771, [&] Printed for I and J. Taylor, 1795, parallel French-English title-pages and text, pp: [ii], [xx], [1]-72, bound-in 4pp Taylor's advert/catalogue ('A List of Books on the various branches of Architecture and Building'); [v], [1]-64, illustrated with 137 full-page copperplate-engraved architectural plates as called for, plates II & IV respectively of the arches of Constantine and Septimius Severus repaired; the plates for the baths of Diocletian and Paulus Emilius with damp-stained margins, mostly not affecting the elevations/plans; some sporadic toning, foxing, and a trifle off-setting in places throughout, uniformly bound in contemporary c. 1795 mottled calf over marbled boards, eight-compartment spines of raised band, gilt-lettered morocco labels in the second compartment, numbered in the fourth, edges uncut, elephant folios (57cm x 39.5cm), (2).  Provenance: 1) Alexander Copland, (? possibly 1774-1834; the builder of Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, between 1801-1828, and for which these books might have influenced the design of); early 19th century canted spade shield armorial bookplates to each pastedown; 2) the Seymour family of Thrumpton Hall, near Nottingham.

Aubrey (John), Miscellanies upon Various Subjects. A New Edition, with Considerable Improvements. To which is prefixed, Some Account of His Life, first edition thus, London: Printed for W. Ottridge, and E. Easton at Salisbury, 1784, engraved frontispiece, in-keeping but 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, preserving original endpapers, 8vo. "A very curious work, treating of Day fatality, Omens, Dreams, Apparations, &c"; Lowndes.

Austen (Jane), Mansfield Park: A Novel, first illustrated edition, second Bentley edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1837, with Bentley's 'Standard Novels' half-title, an engraved vignette title-page and frontispiece (both of which are stained), pp: [iv], 424, [4] (adverts), splits and movement but holding in situ, occasional marginal blemishes not affecting text, some toning and foxing here and there,  original publisher's plum cloth (splits and fraying, but OK, also a little twist; front board loose but attached, inner-gutter split), gilt-lettered paper title label only (i.e. lacking the Standard Novels no. label), all edges uncut, 8vo. Any of the first illustrated editions of Austen's novels in the original cloth is a rarity, and the 1837 reprint of Mansfield Park is scarce. Gilson comments 'So few of these reprints survive in libraries, and even fewer in original condition, that the following details must be incomplete...' (Gilson p. 225). Provenance: Edward Lloyd (b. 1778) of Rhagatt Hall, Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales; E. Lloyd,/Rhagatt, contemporary printed book label to recto pastedown.

Binding. Shaw (Byam, illustrator) & Sidgwick (Frank, editor), Ballads and Lyrics of Love, first edition thus, copy no. 10/260 Special Edition copies, [London]: Chatto & Windus, 1908, wood-engraved pictorial title-page in black and blue, tipped-in colour plates, later bound in in-keeping green morocco gilt, the upper-cover outlined with a rectangular frame, tooled and lettered in gilt, similar spine, top-edge gilt, others uncut, foliate endpapers, 8vo (26.1cm x 20.1cm). Very good condition. Some toning to the text, but very light; the uncut fore-edge with the occasional chip, but not affecting the pages. The binding with the lightest of wear.

Botany. Wooster (David, F.R.H.S., editor), Alpine Plants: Figures and Descriptions of some of the Most Striking and Beautiful of The Alpine Flowers, two-volume set, second edition of the first series, first edition of the second, London: George Bell & Sons, 1874, full-page chromolithographed botanical plates, original publisher's blue cloth boards (some stable splits, a trifle rubbed, corners exposed), gilt and blind, 4to, (2).

Botany & Gardening. Von Marilaun (Anton Kerner) & Oliver (F.W., translator), The Natural History of Plants, two-volume set, first edition thus, London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1904, illustrated, original publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt in the Art Nouveau taste, 8vo, Shepherd (J.C.) & Jellicoe (G.A.), Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925, photogravure plates and in-text illustrations, Sir Anthony Minoprio’s copy (1900-1988; British architect), ffep with ink MS inscription, loosely-inserted ALS from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), original green cloth boards, later rebacked in green leather, medium folio (45cm x 33cm), Nicholson (George, editor), The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, four-volume set, London: L. Upcott Gill, n.d. [c. 1880], in-text monochrome illustrations, contemporary cloth, 4to, etc., (10).

Byron. Byron (Lord), Werner, a Tragedy, first edition, second issue, London: John Murray, 1823, half-title, signature [A] damp-stained, speckling and toning throughout, early 20th century instutional red cloth binding, their bookplates and stamps, 8vo, [Byron], Cain, a Mystery, London: [John Murray], Printed by Thomas Davison, [1821], divisional title only, contemporary green quarter-morocco over marbled boards, upper-cover detached, spine chipped, ex-lib but apparently unmarked, 8vo, Byron (The Right Hon. Lord), The Deformed Transformed; A Drama, third edition, London: Printed for J. and H.L. Hunt, 1824, half-title, original wrappers, uncut edges, ex-lib stamp and labels, 8vo, another copy, similar, the first edition printed in France, Paris: A and W. Galigani, 1824, half-title, original marbled wrappers within 20th century institutional morocco over boards, ex-lib labels, plates and stamps, 8vo, Byron (Lord), Miscellaneous Poems, London: Printed by and for Hodgson and Co., 1823, slightly later 19th century blue cloth, detached upper-cover, ex-lib with stamps and plates, 12mo in 6s, Coleridge (Ernest Hartley, editor), The Works of Lord Byron [...], copy no. 10/250, signed and numbered, volumes I-IV, London: John Murray, 1898-1901, plates, original blue cloth, later rebacked in blue morocco gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, ex-lib blind stamps, some further but discreet institutional markings, 4to, Don Juan, two-volume set, London: Arthur Humphreys, 1906, slightly later red morocco over bevelled boards, blind-ruled, ex-lib blind supralibros to each cover, further stamps or plates, 4to, The Fanfrolico Press, ex-lib, further Byron material, early 19th century and later, all of which is ex-lib with stamps &/or institutional markings, (18).

Children’s Books. Burnett (Frances Hodgson) & Robinson (Charles, illustrator), The Secret Garden, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1911, colour plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt (some wear, but OK), green top-edge only, 8vo. Some light wear to binding, e.g. rubbing, some minor losses and chips. Slight twist. Blemish to lower-right of upper-cover. Stable, slight split to recto pastedown gutter, ditto to verso upper-left. Ffep with ownership inscription dated 1948. Very minor and infrequent corner creases. Text with slight movement, but OK in situ.

Children's Books and Illustrators. Potter (Beatrix), The Roly-Poly Pudding, London: F. Warne & Co., [c. 1917, dated inscription], defective early copy lacking title, hand-coloured by a child, original pictorial cloth, small 4to, Uttley (Alison) & Tempest (Margaret, illustrator), four Little Grey Rabbit's titles, various, dj, hb, 8vo, Upton (Florence) & (Bertha), The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., n.d. [1905], original cloth over pictorial papered boards, tired, oblong 4to, children's annuals, Lionel Edwards, etc.

Classics. [Danet (Guillaume)], A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman Antiquities [...], first English edition, London: Printed for John Nicholson, et al., 1700, imprimatur leaf, black-ruled title, printed in double-columns, three folding engraved maps, rebacked contemporary panelled calf, some losses, upper-cover just holding, 4to, [Eton], Scriptores Græci; sive selecta ex scriptoribus Græcis, ... Cum versione Latina. In usum Regiæ Scholæ Etonensis, Etonæ: J. Pote, 1780, Greek and Latin printing, contemporary sheep, disbound, 8vo, [Demosthenes], Selectæ Orationes, sixth edition, London: J. Pote, et al., 1778, folding engraved map, contemporary sheep, worn with losses, 8vo, [Euripides] & Monk (James Henry, editor), Hippolytus Coronifer, Cantabrigiæ: Excudit J. Smith, 1811, contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, Butler, Sketch of Modern and Antient (sic) Geography, seventh edition, London, 1825, humorously illustrated with contemporary pen-and-ink caricatures, occasionally annotated, loosely-inserted MS leaves, contemporary calf, 8vo, [Sophocles], Antigone, 1867, quarter-calf, 8vo, (6). Provenance: 1st & 3rd: the Williams baronets of Bodelwyddan Castle, nr. Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, armorial and crested bookplates.

Cookery. [Philip (Robert Kemp, editor)], Consult Me, to Know How to Cook [...], first edition, Wakefield: William Nicholson and Sons, n.d. [?1866], chromolithograph frontispiece, repaired original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Dods (Mistress Margaret), The Cook and Housewife's Manual [...], tenth edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1856, original cloth, worn, 8vo, idem, sixth edition, 1837, later cloth over boards, 8vo, Holland (Mrs Mary), The Complete Economical Cook, seventeenth edition, London: William Tegg and Co., 1853, cloth, 12mo, Radcliffe, Domestic Cookery, Manchester: J Gleave, 1823, refreshed contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, Dalgairns (Mrs), The Practice of Cookery [...], sixth edition, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1836, original publisher's boards, worn and split, 8vo, Eaton (Mrs Mary), The Cook and Housekeeper's Dictionary, [...], Bungay: J. and R. Childs, 1823, half-title, frontispiece, title-page, and final signatures supplied in facsimile, 20th century brown morocco over cloth, 8vo, Reid (Hartelaw), Cookery, ?sole edition, Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1853, original cloth, worn and split, 8vo, [Rundle (Mrs)], A New System of Domestic Cookery, London: John Murray, 1838, plates, original publisher's boards, split, 8vo, idem, a later copy, 1843, cloth, worn, 8vo, Bishop (Frederick), The Wife's Own Book of Cookery, London: Ward and Lock, n.d. [1850], illustrated, original cloth, 8vo, Anon, The New Female Instructor [...] [with] A Complete Art of Cookery [...], London: Thomas Kelly, 1836, later binding, 8vo, other books, pamphlets, etc., (approx. 40)

Detective Fiction. Hume (Fergus W.), The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, second edition, first UK edition, London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, n.d. [1887], 'Seventy-Fifth Thousand' at head of title-page, advertising frontispiece, 230pp, lacking rear adverts, one or two internal tears, but no loss of text, last leaf a trifle tatty, toning as expected, original publisher's pictorial upper-wrapper only, the spine sellotaped, 8vo.

Dickens (Charles, editor), The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c., three-volume set, first edition, second issue, London: Henry Colburn, 1841, frontispieces and plates, a few gutter splits but stable, original publisher's green cloth, blind decorative boards, gilt-lettered spines, each gently sunned, top of volume I chipped; the same volume with stable fraying split to verso joint, contemporary bookseller's ticket to each pastedown: W. Pocock, Bath, 8vo, (3).  Provenance: Caroline J. Richardson, Sept:er 28th 41; contemporary ink MS inscriptions to each ffep.

Drayton (Michael), Poly-Olbion, A Chorographicall (sic) Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, second edition, but first edition thus with its second part, London: Printed for John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622, lacking frontispiece and all maps, title-page and explanatory frontispiece leaf repaired, some internal gutter repairs, split and with movements, very occasional contemporaneous ink MS annotations, sadly affected by former cropping, late 19th century brown half-morocco gilt over marbled boards, preserving an 18th century Chippendale armorial bookplate: J.B. Barrett, folio.

Economics. Lauderdale (The Earl of), An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase, first edition, Edinburgh: Arch. Constable & Co., 1804, contemporary mottled calf, disbound and chipped, Library of the Institute of Bankers copy, their book label and stamps, 8vo, Malthus (T.R.), An Essay on the Principle of Population, volume III, fifth edition, London: John Murray, 1817, conforming provenance, contemporary diced calf, disbound and chipped, 8vo, Bolingbroke's Letter to Wyndham and Pope, London, 1753, quarter-calf, defective binding, 8vo, an unrelated title, Gregory (G., D.D.), The Life of Thomas Chatterton [...], London: G. Kearsley, 1789, contemporary quarter-calf, disbound, conforming provenance, 8vo, (4).

Extra-Illustrated Children's Books. [Duns (Margaret)], Mark Noble: or, The Button Necklace, ?first edition, Edinburgh: William P. Kennedy, n.d. [?1856], 96pp octave pages clipped and pasted onto quarto leaves, extra-illustrated with 8 pen-and-ink genre pictures inspired by the narrative, some loosely-inserted ephemera, contemporary red quarter-calf over marbled boards, splitting and rubbed wear, 4to.

Fairies. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Allies' Fairy Book, first trade edition, London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1916], colour plates, original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, Lang (Andrew), The Blue Fairy Book, first edition, tenth impression, London: Longmans, et al., 1903, original publisher's blue cloth, wear and starting to split, 8vo, others, comprising Yellow 1903, Red 1921, Orange 1922, Pink 1922, and another Blue 1926, all in original publisher's cloth, various states, 8vo, etc., (9).

Gibbon (Edward) & Bowdler (Thomas, translator), History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, five-volume set, London: Longman, et al., 1826, uniformly bound in full calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Sheffield (John, Lord, editor), Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, five-volume set, London: John Murray, 1814, volume I with portrait frontispiece, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, vol. I upper-cover detached, others chipped & tired, 8vo, further Gibbon, Melmoth’s Letters of Cicero, three-volume set, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1789, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny, two-volume set, eighth edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1786, disbound contemporary calf, 8vo, ditto, a later copy, two-volume set, 1810, original publisher’s cloth over boards, 12mo,  [Ovid] & [, P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum Herodium liber […], Roterodami: Typis Regneri Leers, 1698, contemporary English two-tone speckled calf cover only, 12mo, Arnold (The Rev. Thomas Kerchever, editor), A First Classical Atlas, London: Francis and John Rivington, n.d. [1849], 13 two-fold maps only (of 15), line-engraved with hand-coloured delineation, some manuscript annotations, original cloth, 8vo, Lesie (Shane, editor), Plato's Symposium, signed by the editor, one of 1,500 copies, London: The Fortune Press/Printed by The Whitefriars Press, n.d. [c. 1942], printed on English unbleached hand-made paper, original publisher’s cloth over boards, top-edge uncut, 8vo, Horace, further Latin and Classics, (31).   Provenance: 2nd: 1) The 19th Light Dragoons, a British Army cavalry regiment that saw action in British India and North America; ASSYE/NIAGRA/XIX, lettered in gilt within the spines’ compartments between an elephant and a military trophy; 2) George Duff, plain armorial bookplates to each pastedown. 3rd & 4th: 1) Stewart Marjoribanks (1774-1863), Whig MP, director of The New Zealand Company, landowner in Australia, and wine merchant; early 19th century crest bookplates to ffeps. 6th: Armytage, mid-18th century labels and inscriptions.

Golden Cockerel Press. Bates (H.E.) & Nash (John, illustrator), Flowers and Faces, copy no. 242/325, colophon leaf signed by the author, first edition, 1935, printed in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor hand-made paper, 4 full-page wood engravings, original green morocco gilt over marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, signed, top-edge gilt, other uncut, previously with The Chaucer Bookshop of Canterbury, their loosely-inserted writing-paper, 4to.

Guattani (Giuseppe Antonio), I piu? celebri quadri delle diverse scuole italiane riuniti nell'Appartamento Borgia del Vaticano, first edition, Roma: Stamperia de Romanis, 1820, 41 line-engraved plates by Giuseppe Craffonara, each with accompanying letterpress leaves, some foxing in places, contemporaneous English red quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed with some loss, folio, Paton (J. Noel, R.S.A, illustrator), The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, For the Members of the Royal Association of the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1860, original publisher's green cloth gilt, folio, Maclise (Daniel, R.A.), The Story of The Norman Conquest, Art-Union of London, 1866, split with some slight movement, original green cloth gilt, oblong folio, (3).  Provenance: 1st: George Philips, early 19th century armorial bookplate.

Husbandry. Low (David), The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, two volumes bound as one, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1842, text only, lacking all plates, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, all-edges gilt, lacking ffep, medium folio (43.5cm x 34cm), A Compleat (sic) Book of Husbandry, first edition, London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton et al., lacking frontispiece, 13 plates only, contemporary calf over boards, crown folio (42cm x 27cm), Bartlet (J., Surgeon), Pharmacopœia Hippiatrica: or, the Gentleman Farrier's Repository, second edition, Eton: T. Pote, 1766, ends within index, unexamined prior, sheep upper-cover only, 8vo, Clater's Every Man His Own Farrier, twenty-eighth edition, London: Cradock & Co., 1843, frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 12mo, (4).  Provenance: 1st: John Waldie (1781-1862), administrator of Hendersyde Park, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland; contemporaneous ink MS. presentation inscription, as well as his armorial bookplate to pastedown. 3rd: George Preston, Bradmore, Nottinghamshire; contemporary ink MS. ownership inscription to pastedown.

Huxley (Aldous), Brave New World: A Novel, first edition, Lodnon: Chatto & Windus, 1932, neatly repaired at ffep gutter, original blue cloth only, 8vo, a further six Huxley first editions, three with dustjackets, various sizes, (8).

Illustrated Books. Irving (Washington) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Rip Van Winkle, London: William Heinemann, 1907, third impression thus, tipped-in colour plates, occasional foxed spots, not affecting plates, original green pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, all edges green, 4to, Heath Robinson (W., illustrator), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited for Boots, n.d. [c. 1930], tipped-in colour plates, pictorial dustjacket, chipped, over pictorial red cloth, 4to, [&] Hawthorne (Nathaniel) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), The Scarlet Letter, first edition thus, London: Methuen & Company Limited, 1920, tipped-in colour plates, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, 4to, (3).

Ireland. O’Connell (Daniel, M.P.), A Memoir On Ireland, Native and Saxon, Dublin: Duffy, 1869, original publisher’s green cloth, damp-stained upper-cover but not affecting text, unopened in places, 8vo, Edgeworth (Maria), Castle Rackrent, fifth edition, London: J. Johnson, 1810, disbound contemporary quarter-calf, contemporaneous ink MS. ownership inscription: Emma Bladburne, 1819, 12mo, The Orrery Papers, two-volume set, first edition, 1903, original green cloth, 8vo, Duffy (Sir Charles), Young Ireland, second edition, 1880, original cloth, ffep loose, 8vo, Hayden (Mary) & Moonan (George), Short History of the Irish People, New and Revised Edition, Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d., dj over cloth, 8vo, Wright (Thomas), The History of Ireland, two-volume set, London: J. & F. Tallis, n.d., map and plates, black roan gilt over boards, 4to, MacNeill (Eoin), Phases of Irish History, 1937, 8vo, Vanishing Irish, second impression, 1955, dj, hb, 8vo, Somerville & Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., ?first edition, eleventh impression, 1902, 8vo, Folio Society, 20th century works on Irish topography and country houses. Dublin, etc., (32).

Laurence Olivier's Copy. Bell's British Theatre, 19 volumes only (of 20), first edition thus, London: John Bell, 1776-78, engraved frontispieces and plates, general and divisional titles, contemporary calf over marbled boards, chipped, rubbed, and some splits, a few covers detached/loosening, vellum corners, lettered labels, 12mo, another volume from a later edition, presumably volume 20, 12mo, (20).  Provenance: 1) Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (1907-1989). Sold by Quaritch, 100 Books from the Library of Lord Olivier, List 2017/13, no. 9.

Laurence Olivier's Copy. Dodsley (Robert, editor), A Select Collection of Old Plays, 11 volumes only (of 12), first edition thus, London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1744, engraved title-page vignettes, contemporary calf, worn and chipped, some covers detached, 12mo, (11). Provenance: 1) General Philip Honywood (c. 1710-1785), of Markshall, near Coggeshall, Essex, armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown. 2) Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (1907-1989). Sold by Quaritch, 100 Books from the Library of Lord Olivier, List 2017/13, no. 21.

Law, Crime and Punishment in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century. A sammelband of 13 tracts, including the apparently unrecorded Anon, The Tread-Wheel. Copy of a Petition presented to The Right Honourable The Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom in Parliament Assembled, sole edition, London: Rodwell and Martin, et al., 1824, pp: [ii], 17, the others comprising Holwell, A New Experiment for the Prevention of Crimes, sole edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1786, 36pp, Anon, Five Letters to Samuel Romilly, M.P. on the subject of his motion respecting The Penal Laws. By Anti Draco, sole edition, London: W. Clarke, 1810, 45pp, [Cooke (John)], A Pamphlet; called Old England for ever: From a Devonshire Jog-trot; Not of too high or low a rate, Exeter: printed (verbatim from the Author’s MS.) by T. Flindell, 1819, lacking title-page and all before C, but apparently complete in itself, pp: 33, [1], Christian, A Vindication of the Criminal Law […], inscribed presentation copy from the author, sole edition, London: Richard Watts, 1819, pp: 77, [1], Anon, Attornies not Conveyancers […], sole edition, London: Printed for Author, By Luke Hansard & Sons, 1820, pp: 77, [1], Norton, An Exposition of the Privileges of the City of London […], second edition, London: T. Steel, 1821, pp: [ii], [5]-72, Holford, Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of this Country […], first edition, London: Rivington, 1821, pp: [iv], 80, viii, Holford, Statements and Observations concerning the Hulks, two parts, sole edition, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, pp: [iii]-xi, 124, Williams, An Inaugural Lecture, Delivered before The University of Oxford, sole edition, London: Davidson and Son, 1824, 43pp, Anon, A Review of the Arguments for Removing the Lent-Assizes from Thetford to Norwich […], By Vindex, Part I only (?all published), sole edition, Thetford: S. Mills, 1824, folding county map of Norfolk, pp: iv, 40, pasted errata slip to final leaf, London-Dock-Company. Copies of Resolutions […], first edition, London: Effingham Wilson, 1824, 32pp, [&] Anon, The Vagrant Act, in relation to the Liberty of the Subject. By a Barrister. With a Postscript, second edition, London: John Murray, 1824, 89pp, early-mid 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, disbound, bookseller's ticket: W.H. Bond/Law Bookseller/8, Bell Yard/Temple Bar, 8vo.

Local Interest. Briggs (John Joseph, F.R.S.L.), The Trent and other Poems, sole edition, Derby: Bemrose, 1859, lithograph title-page, [bound with] The History of Melbourne, second edition, Derby: Bemrose and Son, n.d. [1852], each with plates, first title stained in places, contemporaneous quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Hall (Dr Spencer), Days in Derbyshire, first edition, 1863, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Pape's Newcastle-under-Lyme in Tudor and Early Stuart Times, 1938, cloth, 8vo, another two books on Derbyshire geology and Matlock, a collection of Victorian albumen prints of Nottinghamshire country houses, their interiors and estate, as well as views of Nottingham, (6).

Medical. Faust (Dr [Bernhard Christoph]), The Catechism of Health; Selected and Translated from the German […]. Now First Published for the Use of the Inhabitants of Scotland, By the Recommendation of Dr Gregory, first edition thus, Edinburgh; Printed for William Creech, 1797, 1 engraved plate only, in-keeping 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, 12mo, further medical and other works on science and natural history, including [Pseudo-Aristotle], The Works […], Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man, and the Maladies incident to Females, with proper Remedies for their Cure: to which is added, The Family Physician […], A New Edition with Cuts. London: Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. [c. 1825], contemporary imitation mottled calf, 12mo, Turner’s Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences […], nineteenth edition, London; G.B. Whittaker, et al., 1825, in-text illustrations, contemporary mottled sheep, 12mo in 6s, Provincial Imprint, Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, three volumes only (of 4), York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1804, frontispieces, contemporary calf, faults, 8vo, De Saint-Pierre’s Harmonies of Nature, volume I only, first English edition, 1815, contemporary calf over boards, 8vo, etc., (9).

Military. [Drummond (Brevet Major Hugh F., Scots Fusilier Guards)], Letters from the Crimea, sole edition, London: [?Privately] Printed by Norris & Son, 1855, 271pp, original red cloth, uncut, square 12mo, Muller (John, Professor of Artillery and Fortification), A Treatise of Artillery [...], first edition, London: Printed for John Millan, 1757, red-ruled title-page, pp: xvi, 309, [1] (advert), M7 & M8 transposed, frontispiece and 28 folding plates, former staining and some repairs, but with no loss of legibility or image, toned, 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, etc., (3). The one copy of Drummond's Letters located on OCLC at the NLS mentions a plate, here without, yet the volume appears complete in itself and there's no traces of one ever having been bound in. Furthermore, the book's scarcity implies that Drummond's family, following his death in action on 13th August 1855, had the book privately printed as a memorial to their son.

Miscellaneous. Northumberland Parliamentary Politics, Anon, A Review of a North-Country Election. Occasion'd by Some modern Male-Practices [...], sole edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1768, 31pp, [bound with] Spence's Parallel; In the manner of Plutarch, second edition, first public edition, London: Dodsley, 1759, 104pp, and a defective tract, contemporaneous calf, 8vo, Cross (J.C.), Circusiana, or a Collection of the most favourite Ballets, Spectacles, Melo-drames, &c. Performed at the Royal Circus, St. George's Field, two-volume set bound as one, sole edition, London: Printed for the Author, by T. Burton, 1809, lacking plates, Minet's copy, ex-lib with some stamps, buckram, 8vo, The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters, six-volume set, volumes III-VI first editions, London: John Murray, 1981-84, original dustjackets over red cloth, 8vo, [Rennie (James)], The Menageries: Quadrupeds, two-volume set, London: Charles Knight, 1829-31, in-text natural history, finely bound in contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, 12mo, Quarles, Emblems, 1888, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo, Victorian cloth bindings, 18th century plays, G.P.R. James novel with provenance from Stormont Castle, Ireland, Baring-Gould, etc., (14). 

Miscellaneous. Pratchett (Terry), Small Gods: A Novel of Discworld, signed by the author, first US edition, Harper Collins, 1992, pictorial dustjacket by Michael Sabanosh, two-tone blue cloth, 8vo, another two works autographed by their authors, Helen Cresswell and Ian Rankin, two works of local interest, Severn (Josph Millott), My Village: Owd Codnor, Derbyshire, sole edition, Brighton: Published by the Author, Printed by the Westbourne Press, 1935, original cloth, 8vo, [&] Teversal, The Molyneux Estate, Nottinghamshire, three different transcripts of medieval muniments, early 20th century half-vellum gilt over blue cloth by C. Fox, [London], stamped, marbled endpapers, 4to, (5).

Miscellaneous. [De La Créquinière] & [Toland (John, translator)], The Agreement of the Customs of the East-Indians, With those of the Jews, And other Ancient People [...], To which are Added Instructions to Young Gentlemen that intend to Travel, first English edition, London: Printed for W. Davis, 1705, signature K defective, 4 plates only (of which one is defective), contents loosening, contemporary blind-ruled sheep (rubbed, split), 8vo, King Charles the Martyr, [Coade (George)], A Letter to a Clergyman, Relating to his Sermon on The 30th of January [...], sole edition, London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1746, contemporary calf (disbound), 12mo in 6s, The New-Readers Pocket Book: or A Military [...] and A Naval Dictionary [...], London: Printed J. Newbery, 1759, contemporary calf (disbound, perished spine), 12mo in 6s, [Ovid] & Biman (Paulus, translator & editor), P. Ovidii Nasonis Fasti, Tristia, de Ponto, &c. Enchusani [i.e. Enkhuizen]: Alberti Kluppel, 1653, engraved title-page, contemporary vellum, 12mo, (4).

Miscellaneous. Wines & Spirits, Morgan (E.), The Tavern-Keeper or Publican's Directory, The Tavern-keeper's Guide; or the Butler's Assistant: Containing Receipts for the Managing, Colouring, and Flavouring of Foreign Wines and Spirits [...], third edition, London: Printed by Burnham and Morgan, n.d. [c. 1820], additional engraved title-page, pp: iv, 5-180, 14ff of additional of contemporary and later MS recipes and receipts, including tipped-in printed clippings, contemporaneous marbled boards, perished, just holding, 12mo in 6s, Erotica, [Mirabeau (Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de)], Erotika Biblion, first edition, Rome [i.e. Paris or Neuchâtel]: De l'imprimerie du Vatican, 1783, pp: iv, 191, bound within a sammelband of six other English titles of Regency drama and satirical verse, dated from 1801-1811, but for Blakeway's Attempt to Ascertain The Author [...], Junius, Shrewsbury: W. Eddowes, 1813, 19th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, faults, disbound, 8vo, [Swift (Jonathan)], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, dated 1726 the same year as the first edition, presumably a later issue, complete in itself but paginated 83-114, 20th century gilt-lettered calf over cloth, the binding with former water damage, rippling upper-portions of text, 8vo in 4s, Scotland, Anon, A Short Account of the Town Hospital in Glasgow [...], second edition, Glasgow: s.n., 1737, 40pp, upper-margin stained, not affecting legibility of text, 19th century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, faults, disbound, 8vo, (4).

Miscellaneous. Ornithology, Scott (Peter), Wild Chorus, copy no. 348/1,200, signed and numbered by the author, first edition, London: Country Life Limited, 1938, tipped-in colour plates, some b/w plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher’s blue cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, large 8vo, China and Japan: Nakahara (K.), Hashizume (M.), & Ohara (Koun, Arranged by), Moribana & Heikwa: Selected Flower Arrangement of the Ohara School, first edition, Printed by Jigyokudo, October 1934, concertina book with colour plates, 8vo, another two books, similar, Menpes (Mortimer), Japan: A Record in Colour, Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, n.d., split, original cloth, 8vo, reference works on Chinese works of art, including jade; Bainbridge (Henry Charles), Peter Carl Fabergé: An Illustrated Record and Review of his Life and Work, A.D. 1846-1920, 1949, original teal dustjacket over publisher’s red cloth, 4to, botany, (11).

Miscellaneous. Scarce Victorian Poetry Dedicated to the 1st Duke of Westminster, Naylor (R.A.), Nugæ Canoræ, sole edition Printed for Presentation Only/[By] Bowker Brothers, Middle Row, Goswell Road, London, n.d. [1888], original cloth gilt, the upper-cover centred by the Grosvenor crest, all edges gilt, 4to, Eliot (George), The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem, first edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, lacking ffep, original cloth, 8vo, Hyndman (H.M.), The Bankruptcy of India […], sole edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1886, lacking ffep, original cloth (tired), 8vo, Anon, Etiquette; or, the Perfect Lady, London: Milner and Sowerby, n.d. [1855], original publisher’s green cloth, small 8vo, Second World War, The Diary of 85 (Essex) Medium Battery Royal Artillery 1943-1945, Margate: Printed by W.J. Parrett, Ltd, 1947, cloth, 8vo, Thackeray (W.M.(M), The English Humourists of the Eighteen the Century, London: Smither, Elder and Co., 1858, publisher’s cloth boards, 8vo, Travel, Enock (C. Reginald, F.R.G.S.), Peru, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908, presentation copy blind stamp, original cloth, 8vo, further travel, Salisbury (William), The Botanist’s Companion, volume II only, London: Longman, et al., 1816, publisher’s boards, 12mo in 6s, The Mirror, volume II, 1823, original publisher’s boards, 8vo, Moat’s Short-Hand, 1833, calf over marbled boards, tired, 8vo, Mark Twain, John Ruskin, 8vo, Wardle on Silk Fibre, 1908, original cloth, 8vo, Victorian building, construction, and manufacture, etc., (33).

Modern First Editions and other Literature. Signed and Dedicated by the Author, Du Maurier (Daphne), The Loving Spirit, London: The Book Club, 1948, the ffep endpaper inscribed in ink manuscript: Peter Unwin/with best wishes/yours sincerely/Daphne du Maurier, publisher's cloth only, 8vo, another three du Maurier titles, Shaw (George Bernard), The Quintessence of Ibsenism, first edition, London: Walter Scott, 1891, original publisher's green cloth gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, another forty-three Bernard Shaw volumes, various titles, some first editions, original bindings, mixed sizes, Masefield (John), Ballads, first edition, London: Elkin Matthews, 1903, original wrappers, 8vo, P.G. Wodehouse, some first editions, original publisher's cloth, various states, 8vo, T.S. Eliot, J.M. Barrie, etc., (63).

Modern First Editions. Woolf (Virginia) & (Leonard, editor), A Writer's Diary [...], first edition, London: The Hogarth Press, 1953, pictorial dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell, orange cloth, 8vo, Sansom (William) & Lamb (Lynton, illustrator), Lord Love Us, first edition thus, London: The Hogarth Press, 1954, original dustjacket, cloth over decorative boards, 8vo, Miller (Henry), The Colossus of Maroussi, first edition, Norfolk: New Connections, 1941, fragmentary dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Kafka (Franz), The Great Wall of China, and Other Pieces, first English edition, London: Martin Secker Ltd., 1933, original publisher's cloth only, 8vo, Corvo (Baron, translator), The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam [i.e. Omar Khayyam], first edition thus, London: John Lane/Bodley Head, 1903, parallel French-English text, original publisher's cloth over papered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Hemingway (Ernest): The Old Man and the Sea, second edition, London: The Reprint Society, 1953, illustrated by Tunnicliffe and Sheppard, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, [&] The Fifth Column, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1939, original cloth, 8vo, Bellow, The Victim, first edition, London: John Lehmann, 1948, pictorial dustjacet over cloth, 8vo, Stendhal, Love, The Merlin Press, 1957, original pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, further Hemingway and Woolf interest, various; Hogarth Press imprints; Graham Greene, Osbert Lancaster, Classical Landscape, 1947, pictorial dustjacket other works, various pictorial dustjackets, including one designed by John Piper, etc., (28).

Modern Firsts, Literature & Thought. Eliot (T.S.) & Bentley (Nicolas, illustrator), Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, first illustrated edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940, original pictorial dustjacket, torn, chipped & stained, over pictorial cloth, 8vo, Woolf (Virginia), Orlando: A Biography, first edition, second impression, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928, frontispiece, original cloth only, 8vo, Whistler (Rex, illustrator), The Traveller’s Companion: A Travel Anthology, first edition thus, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 12mo, Le Carré (John), The Constant Gardener, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, dj, hb, 8vo, Larkin (Philip), The Less Deceived, sixth edition, Hessle: The Marvell Press, May 1966, dj over cloth, 8vo, Russell (Bertrand, F.R.S), What I Believe, first edition, London: Kegan Paul, et al., 1925, rebacked original boards, 8vo, Walkerdine (W.E.), Selected Poems, London: The Favil Press, 1935, original cloth, 8vo, five copies of Horizon, 1945-46, original wrappers, 8vo, Humbert Wolfe’s Copy, Phillpotts (Eden), A Comedy Royal: In Four Acts, London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1925, vellum over boards, 8vo, Waugh (Evelyn), Put Out More Flags, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1942, original ochre cloth only, 8vo, Coleridge (Ernest Hartley), Poems, London: John, The Bodley Head, 1898, original cloth tall 12mo in 6s, Maxwell (W.B.), Time Gathered: Autobiography, first American edition, New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938, dj over cloth, 8vo,  Haggard (H. Rider), Pearl-Maiden […], first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1903, original cloth, 8vo, (1); H.E. Bates, The Tinkers of Elstow, second edition, n.d., cloth, 8vo, (1); R.P. Lipster, Nancy Cunard, Stendhal, The Week-end Book 1927, Belloc, H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley, John Betjeman, John Piper, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Graves, John Masefield, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Ransome, The Countryman, The Poetry Review, etc., (approx. 60)

Modern Firsts, Signed Editions, & Uncorrected Proofs. Crichton (Michael), Jurassic Park, first edition, Century, 1991, dj, hb, 8vo, Rushdie (Salman): The Moor’s Last Sigh, signed, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo, [&] The Satanic Verses, first edition, Verses, 1998, dj, hb, 8vo, a further nineteen signed titles, various authors, including Bill Bryson, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Bragg and Sally Hay Burton on the latter’s biography of her husband Richard Burton, Ian Rankin, Laurie Lee, A.N. Wilson, David Frost, Joanne Harris, a further thirty-one first editions, various authors, including three by Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Sillitoe, Anthony Burgess, two Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Uncorrected Proof Copies, a collection of forty-two, including Heller (Joseph), Good as Gold, London: Jonathan Cape, 1979, original wrappers, 8vo, Hemingway (May Welsh), How it Was, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977, original wrappers, 8vo, Colegate (Isabel), Deceits of Time, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998, original wrappers, 8vo, Kerr (Philip), Esau, London: Chatto & Windus, 1996, original wrappers, 8vo, Bryson (Bill), Mother Tongue: The English Language, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990, original wrappers, 8vo, others, fiction and non-fiction, various, (95).

Natural History, Ornithology. Baker (J.A.), The Peregrine, first edition, first impression, London: Collins, 1967, pictorial dustjacket designed by Charles Raymond, over publisher's black cloth, 8vo, Montagu (George, F.L.S.), Ornithological Dictionary; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, two volumes bound as one, first edition, London: Printed for J. White, 1802, half-titles and errata, colour frontispiece only, contemporary gilt russia boards, rebacked, all edges gilt, 8vo, (2). Baker's Peregrine a crisp copy, the dustjacket with some trifling toning, a crease, and one or two minor chips. Montagu's Dictionary a respectable copy, some toning, occasional stains - mostly not affecting text, lower board soiled.

Natural History. Bewick (Thomas, illustrator), three provincial imprints: A General History of Quadrupeds, first edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, et al., 1790, in-text wood engravings, original publisher's boards, title-page with contemporaneous female ownership inscription: Sarah F***, 8vo, a similar copy, 3rd edition, 1792, contemporary calf gilt (detached covers), pink endpapers, 8vo, History of British Birds, volume II only, first edition, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, 1804, slightly later 19th century green quarter-morocco gilt over boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (3).

Natural History. Scotland, Gordon (Seton, F.Z.S.), The Land of the Hills and the Glens: Wild Life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides, With 57 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author, first edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1920, original cloth, 8vo, Gadow (Hans), Amphibia and Reptiles, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901, original cloth, 8vo, Houghton (Rev. W.), Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children, sole edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869, 7 chromolithographs only (of 8), original cloth, 8vo, Furneaux’s Butterflies and Moths, 1897, publisher’s blind-stamped presentation copy, original cloth, 8vo, Johns (The Rev. C.A.), Flowers of the Field, Elliott’s edition, tenth impression, 1923, colour plates, cloth, 8vo, further ornithology and botany, hunting, (13).

Norway, its Archaeology and the Vikings. [Nicolaysen (Nicolay)], A Brief Description of the Ancient Vessel Found Near Sandefjord in Norway. To accompany the Model of the Ship Sent to the International Ship-Model Exhibition in London 1882, first edition, 14pp, original wrappers, 8vo, [&] Excavations at Trondheim, 1971, an album of 41 b/w images, annotated and mounted to card leaves, 20th century buckram ledger, moiré endpapers, (1); 6 loose b/w and sepia photographs of Scandinavian Viking antiquities and architecture, (2).

Oxford. Storer (J, illustrator), Storer (H.S., illustrator), & Lascelles (Rowley), The University and City of Oxford; Displayed in a Series of Seventy-Two Views [...], Accompanied with A Dialogue, after the Manner of Castiglione, first edition, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821, engravings printed on India paper and press-rolled onto leaves, toned with occasional spots of foxing, the clean impressions of the plates not affected, original publisher's boards repaired and rebacked, 8vo.

Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph, Bart.), Letters to Young Shooters, First-Third Series, mixed editions, London: Longmans, et al., 1914, 1902, & 1896, illustrated, original publisher's green cloth gilt, 8vo, Watson (John), Poachers and Poaching, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1891, frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, others, 19th century and later on further country pursuits, shooting, hunting and fishing, husbandry and agriculture, various, (approx. 88).

Plato & Spens (Harry, D.D., translator), The Republic of Plato. In Ten Books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator, first English edition, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1763, pp: [8], [v]-xl, 430, [2] (publisher's advert), generally crisp, a few toned leaves, spots of foxing - mostly to prelims, occasional light creasing, contemporary calf, disbound, perished spine, 4to, [Gaskell 423] Provenance: 1) Thomas Watson Duncan, printed book label to pastedown, dated Nov. 30 1874 in ink manuscript. 2) J.H. Stuart, 10th May 1941, pencil ownership inscription on title-page.

Poetry and Provincial Imprints. [Southey (Robert, editor)], The Annual Anthology, volume I only, first edition, Bristol: Biggs and Co., 1799, typically lacking B8 (i.e. 31-32), contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, lower-cover detached, further wear with losses, 8vo, Lloyd (Charles, [Quaker]), The Duke d'Ormond, a tragedy; and Beritola, a tale, inscribed "With the author's respects", first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1822, leaves [H8]-I defective, original publisher's boards, upper-cover tacked-on at inner-gutter, but now with further movement, some wear and chips, spine perished in places, uncut, 8vo, Hayley (William) & Flaxman (Maria, illustrator), The Triumphs of Temper, thirteenth edition, Chichester: J. Seagrave, 1807, few soiled leaves, torn margin, disbound contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, another copy, twelfth edition, 1803, defective title, original boards, upper-cover almost disbound, 8vo, Percival (Thomas), A Father's Instructions, Gainsborough: H. Mozley, 1802, frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, split, 12mo in 6s, etc., (6). Provenance: William St Clair FBA (1937-2021).

Politics. A collection of twenty-one books, pamphlets and periodicals, including Bradlaugh (Charles), Five Dead Men Whom I Knew When Living [...], ?first edition, London: C. Watts, n.d. [?1877], disbound, 8vo, further socialism and trade unionism, Fabian Society tracts, as well as imperialism, China and Japan, Baynes' bibliography on National Socialism, 1943, etc., mixed bindings and wrappers, various sizes.

Poultry. De Réaumur [(René Antoine Ferchault)], The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick (sic) Fowls Of all Kinds, At any Time of the Year. Either by means of the heat of Hot-Beds, or that of Common Fire, first English edition, London: C. Davis, et al., 1750, half-title, pp: viii, 470, [1] (errata leaf), 15 folding engraved plates (no. 15 repaired and in places supplied in facsimile), engraved in-text vignettes, some stains in places, but an overall respectable copy, 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Hunting. Somervile (William), The Chace. A Poem, first edition, London: G. Hawkins, and sold by T. Cooper, 1735, pp: [vi], 106, [1] (errata), frontispiece engraved by Gérard Scotin after Hubert-François Gravelot, contemporary Spanish calf (a trifle tired, occasional chip), 4to, (2).  Provenance: 2nd: Ex Libris Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), French industrialist and bibliophile, noted for his library devoted to hunting; his water fowl bookplate to recto pastedown; sold at the first of his sales, Sotheby’s Monaco, 28th February 1987, lot 510, loosely-inserted instructions.