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NO RESERVE Medicine.- [Johnson (Robert Wallace)] Some Friendly Cautions to the Heads of Families: containing Ample Directions to Nurses who attend the Sick, and Women in Child-Bed, &c., first edition, lacking final errata leaf, traces of damp-staining but extensively repaired and restored, contemporary calf, rubbed and marked, spine repaired, [Wellcome III.360], David Wilson, 1767; and another on nursing & domestic hygiene, 8vo (2) ⁂ Outlining the necessary attributes of a nurse and instructions for care, and including several recipes for invalids such as potatoe pudding, blanc manger, calves feet jelly etc.

NO RESERVE Clemmer (Jean) Canned Candies: the Exotic Women & Clothes of Paco Rabanne, first edition, full-page illustrations, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, a little rubbed, 1969 § Testino (Mario) Out of Fashion, full-page colour illustrations, original printed wrappers, 2006 § Bailey (David) Trouble and Strife, full-page illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, short tear to top edge, slight creasing to edges, a little worn, 1981; and others, photography and illustrated, v.s. (60)

Bowles (Paul) The Sheltering Sky, third impression, original cloth, fractional bumping and fading to spine ends, dust-jacket, fractional chipping to spine extremities, 8vo, October 1949 § Spark (Muriel) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, first edition, original cloth, faint mottling to spine and edges, dust-jacket, short tear to bottom edge, slight staining to verso, slight chipping to top edge, 1961 § Pinter (Harold) Plays: Three, signed by author to title, and cut signature loosely inserted, original paper wrappers, small paper price label to lower cover, faint crease to spine, else crisp, 1986 § Le Carré (John) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, first edition, spotting to fore-edge as usual, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, small splits to spine extremities, a little rubbed, 1974 § Grass (Günter) The Tin Drum, first english edition, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, sunned spine, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, faint staining to verso, a little rubbed, 1962; and others similar, many first editions, 8vo (c.90)

Graves (Robert) I, Claudius, first edition, bookplate to front endpaper, original cloth, very lightly mottled, dust-jacket, spine defective at head, with loss to some letters, and small chip to lower portion, spine foot and fold ends chipped, toning, creasing at folds, 8vo, 1934.

Lovecraft (H. P.) The Case of Charles Dexter War, first edition, half-title, scattered spotting, front-free endpaper clipped at corner, faint abrasion marks to endpapers, scattered spotting, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket with tears and parts detached, spotting, 1951 § Freeman-Mitford (A. B.) The Attache at Peking, first edition, presentation copy with blind-stamp to title, light spotting to endpapers, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1900 § Marsh (Richard) The Beetle, frontispiece, scattered spotting, previous owner's pencil inscription, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1900; and others similar, 8vo (52)

Mantel (Hilary) Wolf Hall, first edition, signed by the author and dated 27 May 2009 on title, original boards, bumping to corners, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, 2009; and two others, including the signed limited edition of The Mirror and the Light, 8vo (3)

Pasternak (Boris) Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, first English edition, original cloth, slight fading to spine and upper cover, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short split to head and foot of upper joint, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1958.

NO RESERVE Salinger (J.D.) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction, first edition, second state with the dedication present and misspelling "Sey-more" to p.173, original cloth, very light fading to spine, light sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, light rubbing and creasing to spine tips and corners, short nick with creasing to head of upper panel, and excellent copy, 8vo, Boston, 1963.

Shaw (George Bernard) An Unsocial Socialist, first edition, first issue with "Author of The Confessions of Byron Cashel's Profession" to title and no appendix, a few scattered spots, hinges cracking but firm, original cloth, gilt, spine sunned, spine ends a little worn, 1887 § Nichols (Robert) Aurelia, autograph poem by the author tipped-in to front pastedown, ink ownership inscription front endpaper, original cloth with paper label to spine, spine ends a little bumped, 1920 § Wren (Percival Christopher) Good Gestes, signed presentation inscription from the author to bookplate at front pastedown, title lightly foxed, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly sunned, toning to spine and folds, spine and fold ends rubbed, 1929 § Kundera (Milan) Směšné lásky [Laughable Loves], 3 vol., original cloth, dust-jackets, some light toning or surface soiling, extremities lightly rubbed with a couple of very small tears at upper edge, Prague, Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel Press, 1963-68; Thurber (James) Alarms and Diversions, first edition, ink gift inscription to front endpaper, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, spine foot a little scuffed, dust-jacket, sine sunned, a few very small tears or chips, 1957; and c.100 others, first editions, including 13 signed by the author, 8vo (c.100)

Swift (Graham) Waterland, signed by the author on title, jacket with extremely light bumping to some extremities, 1983 § Ishiguro (Kazuo) An Artist of the Floating World, with title from a later edition signed by the author loosely inserted, jacket with very small closed tear to lower joint head, some very light creasing to upper edge, 1986 § Lessing (Doris) The Summer Before the Dark, signed by the author on title, ink ownership inscription front pastedown, jacket spine very lightly toned, 1973, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.70 others, first editions, including 17 signed by the author, 8vo (c.70)

Traven (B.) The Death-Ship, first English edition, scattered spotting, ownership blind-stamps and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly dulled, dust-jacket, light browning to spine and top edge of panels, short closed tear to foot of spine, slight creasing to spine ends, some light spotting and surface soiling, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1934.⁂ Traven's breakthrough novel a scathing critique of bureaucracy and the loss of workers' rights, adapted into a 1959 film of the same name.

Birch (Thomas) The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, 1 vol. only (of 2), first edition, engraved title vignette, 80 engraved plates, 1 with short marginal tear, list of subscribers, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary calf, gilt spine, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1743.⁂ Volume 2 was published later, in 1751.

Medicine.- White (Charles) Avis aux Femmes Enceintes et en Couches..., first edition in French, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, split to lower joint, Paris, Vincent, 1774 § Tissot (S.A.A.D.) Avis au Peuple sur sa Santé, 2 vol., third edition, original wrappers, uncut, rebacked, Paris, Didot le jeune, 1770 § F.(J., "Médecin Anglois") De la Passion de l'Amour, only edition, old red ink stamp to title, Paris, Pichard, 1782 bound with [?Collet (Pierre)] Le Parallele Vivant des Deux Sexes. Par un Soldat, only edition, Amsterdam, et se trouve a Paris, Dufour, 1769 and J[ouard] (G[abriel]) Un Mot sur le Merite des Femmes. Poëme de G.Legouvé, only edition, Paris, for the author, An IX [1801], the last 3 works bound together in 1 vol., nineteenth century calf-backed boards, spine gilt, all a little rubbed, 8vo et infra (4)⁂ White's Treatise on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-in Women was first published in 1773 and includes plates of his specially-designed tilting delivery bed. A pioneer obstetrician he argued strongly for the isolation of infected patients, good ventilation and, most importantly, cleanliness. He was the first medical doctor to espouse the practice of aseptic midwifery.

Gorey (Edward) The Vinegar Works, first edition, together 3 vol. comprising The Gashleycrumb Tinies; The Insect God, and; The West Wing, illustrations, original pictorial boards, light sunning and spotting to spines, slight bumping to corners and extremities, housed in original pictorial slipcase, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, New York, 1963; The Gorey Alphabet, first English edition, illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription, author's compliments slip loosely inserted, faint spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, original pictorial cloth, lightly faded spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1961; The Gilded Bat, first American edition, illustrations, original pictorial boards, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, minor chipping to edges, faint spotting to verso, 1966; and 11 others by or illustrated by Gorey, v.s. (14)

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Faithful Dove, first edition, number 22 of 100 copies, usual browning to free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, very minor dust-soiling to edges and folds, but overall an excellent copy, [Linder 432; V&A pp.1236-1238 & 1715; Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick p.168], 16mo, Warne, 1955.⁂ The first separate edition of a story originally penned in 1907 for the Warne children. Although rediscovered in 1918 by Fruing Warne, Beatrix Potter could not be convinced to provide illustrations for the work, birds not being her preferred subject matter or artistic strength. Meanwhile, Warne were unwilling to publish using a different illustrator whom Potter recommended. As a result the work was not published until 1955.

NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Abbey (Maj. J.R.) Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860...; Life in England...; Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, together 4 vol., reprints, rubbed, 1972 § Arents (George, Jr.) Tobacco Its History Illustrated, 5 vol., first edition, New York, 1937-52, illustrations, original cloth; with c.105 others, bibliography and reference, v.s. (c. 115)

NO RESERVE India.- China.- Atkinson (Thomas Witlam) Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the confines of India and China, first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece, folding map at end, small loss to bottom corner, wood-engraved illustrations, spotting to first few leaves, new endpapers, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, 1860.

Italy.- Rolfe (E. Neville) Pompeii, Past and Present, first edition, half-title, 25 vintage albumen plates, scattered spotting, final ff. with marginal tears and small loss, expert tissue repairs, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, new endpapers, contemporary decorative cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, inlaid image of Pompeii to centre upper cover, small 4to, 1884.

NO RESERVE Anthropology.- Smith (Lt.-Col. Chas. Hamilton) The Natural History of the Human Species, first edition, engraved portrait, additional title with vignette of Native American, 7 plates of cranio-racial features and 27 partly hand-coloured plates of racial types by Lizars, tissue guards, some light marginal soiling, modern calf-backed marbled boards, Edinburgh, 1848 § Quatrefages de Bréau (J.-L.A. de) Rapport sur les Progrés de l'Anthropologie, only edition, foxing at beginning and end, ex-library copy with ink stamps to title, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, spine worn at head, Paris, 1867; and another on criminal anthropology in the Netherlands, 8vo (3)

* TOM PHILLIPS CBE RA (BRITISH 1937 - 2022),BRUNNHILDElimited edition lithograph on paper, signed and numbered 35/275image size 40cm x 58cm, overall size 50cm x 68cm Framed and under glass.Note: Tom Phillips attended drawing classes and lectures on Renaissance iconography at Ruskin alongside his studies in English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Taught by Frank Auerbach in 1961 at Camberwell School of Art, Phillips's first solo exhibition in London was in 1965 at the Artists International Association Gallery, followed by an exhibition with Angela Flowers in 1970. Phillips taught at Bath Academy of Art, Ipswich and Wolverhampton Art College between 1965 and 1972, and in 1969 he won the John Moores Prize. In 1966 Phillips resolved to dedicate himself to making art out of the first secondhand book he could find for threepence on Peckham Rye. Thus began A Humument, the longest of Phillips's extended serial projects. A Humument is a radical 'treatment' of a forgotten Victorian novel by means of collage, cut-up ornament and other techniques, creating new works of art and poetic text from the original pages.. On the fiftieth anniversary of its inception in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work – each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Phillips received many commissions for site-specific artworks including tapestries for St Catherine's, Oxford, sculpture for the Imperial War Museum, street mosaics for his native Peckham, and ornament and memorials for sacred spaces, including both Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Phillips's portrait subjects have included Samuel Beckett as well as friends such as Iris Murdoch, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Richard Morphet, and the Monty Python team. In 1989, he became only the second artist to have a retrospective of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. Fifteen years later, he also went on to curate We Are The People, an exhibition at the NPG of his large collection of postcard photographic portraits. Phillips received the Frances Williams Memorial Prize in 1983 for his illustration and new translation of Dante's Inferno. He also made a TV version of the Inferno with Peter Greenaway which won them jointly as directors the Italia prize. Elected to the Royal Academy in 1984, Phillips went on to chair the Academy's Library and its Exhibition Committee from 1995 to 2007, He curated the RA’s exhibition Africa: The Art of a Continent (1995) which travelled to the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and the Guggenheim, New York. Serving as a Trustee for the National Portrait Gallery and British Museum, Phillips was made a Commander of the British Empire for services to the Arts in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, and between 2005 and 2011 he was invited as an annual Director's Visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Oxford's Bodleian Library took over Tom Phillips's archive and with them he published his postcard collection in a series of books. Phillips's collaboration with Tarik O'Regan on an operatic version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, for which he provided the libretto, was premiered at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre at the end of 2011. Tom Phillips lived and worked in London.

Farriery. Clater (Francis), Every Man His Own Farrier [...], twenty-first edition, London: W. Lewis, 1811, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's pictorial papered boards, 8vo, Clater's Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor, Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1864, original cloth, 16mo, Lowson's The Modern Farrier, London: W. Brittain, 1848, engravings, original cloth, 12mo, another copy, Percivall's Anatomy of the Horse, London: Longmans, et al., 1868, repaired original cloth, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, Knowlson's Yorkshire Cattle-Doctor and Farrier, fourth edition, 1846, some stains, repaired original cloth, 8vo, Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Mangament, 1885, contemporary gilt, rebacked in 20th century cloth, 8vo, Half-Crown Key to Farrier, fourth edition, 1873, original cloth, 8vo Mackenzie's Modern Practical Farriery, five-part set, n.d. [c. 1900], colour and b/w illustrations, original boards, worn, 4to, Blaine's Domestic Treatise, 1803, defective, Blaine's Village Farrier, second edition, London: Tegg, 1831, worn original pictorial boards, 8vo, etc., (18).

Forestry. Pontey (W), The Profitable Planter: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees [...], third edition, London: John Harding, 1809, original publisher's boards, worn and chipped, 8vo, Curtis (Charles E.), Practical Forest [...], first edition thus, London: Published at the office of The "Land Agents Record", n.d. [c. 1875], original green cloth, gilt pictorial and lettered, 8vo, Bright's Pole Plantations and Underwoods, London: Crosby Lockwood and Sons, 1888, original cloth, 8vo, Schlich's Manual of Forestry, volume V only: Forest Utilization, 1896, original cloth, 8vo, (4).

French Agriculture and Miscellaneous Titles. Liger (Louis), Dictionnaire général des termes propres à l'agriculture [...], Paris: Damien Beugnie, 1703, contemporary speckled calf, some ex-lib markings, 8vo, Turbilly (Marquis de), Memoire sur les Defrichemens, first edition, Paris: d'Houry, 1760, contemporary speckled calf gilt, 8vo, Duhamel du Monceau, Traité de la culture des terres, Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1750, contemporary speckled calf, 8vo, sammelband of eight tracts/pamphlets, a few on agricultural subjects, mixed dates, 18th/19th century, contemporary calf over boards, 8vo, [Virgil], Les Géorgiques, Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune/Chez Bleuet père, n.d. [c. 1800], 20th century calf over contemporary marbled boards, 8vo, etc., various bindings and sizes, (approx. 40)

Gardening. [Ellman (John, editor)], The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge [...], first edition, Lewes: Sussex Agricultural Press: Printed and Published by J. Baxter, 1830, illustrated, contemporary green quarter-roan over marbled boards, 8vo, Miller (Philip, F.R.S.), The Abridgment of the Gardeners Dictionary [...], sixth edition, London: Printed for the Author, et al., 1771, frontispiece and folding plates, rebacked calf, 4to, two annuals of the Cottage Gardener, volumes I & V, 1849 & 1856, mixed bindings, 4to, [Marnock (Robert, editor)], Gardeners' and Land Stewards' Journal, 1845, disbound, folio, (5).

Glass Making. Haudicquer de Blancourt (Jean de), The Art of Glass. Shewing (sic_ How make all Sorts of Glass, Crystal and Enamel, Likewise the Making of Pearls, Precious Stones, China and Looking-Glasses. To which is added, The Method of Painting on Glass and Enameling. Also how to Extract the Colours from Minerals, Metals, Herbs and Flowers. A Work containing many Secrets and Curiosities never before Discovered [...], With an Appendix, containing Exact Instructions for making Glass-Eyes of all Colours, two parts in one, first English edition, London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; et al., 1699, complete, collating: A-Z?; Aa?, and illustrated with 9 engraved plates as called for, rebacked contemporary panelled calf boards, some of the original spine preserved, contemporaneous ink MS shelf numbering, later early 20th century collector's acquisition inscriptions, 8vo, [Duveen 281; Ferguson I, 367; Wing H1150].

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, volumes I & II only, first edition, London: Spicer Brothers, 1851, volume I folding map repaired, chromolithographed plates, further b/w plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary calf gilt, worn and slightly soiled in places, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, [&] The Illustrated Exhibition, two volumes, 1852, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, (4).  Provenance: 1st: Mrs Alfred Turner/Kelvedon

Hertfordshire. Higgins (John), Wilson (Thomas) & Foster (John), Report Upon the Farm of Thomas Greg, Esq. At Coles, in Hertfordshire, sole edition, Bedford: Printed by J. Webb, 1810, 23pp, original blue wrappers, 8vo, [&] Ellis (William, of Little-Gaddesden, Hemstead (sic)), Chiltern and Vale Farming Explained [...], first edition, London: Printed for the Author [...], And sold by W. Meadows, et al., n.d. [1733], lacking frontispiece, contemporary calf, split joints but holding, upper-cover with some chipped losses, 8vo, (2). Provenance: 2nd: John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde, 10th Earl of Ossory (1740–1795), the spine his and his wife's conjoined monogram crested by an earl's coronet.

Horse Racing. Anon, Race-Horses Past and Present. Six Letters, By I.F.R., second edition, London: William Benning and Co., 1857, 31pp, disbound pamphlet, 8vo, Sheardown (William), Doncaster Races [...], first edition thus, Doncaster: Brooke, White, and Hatfield, n.d. [1866], 22pp, disbound pamphlet, 8vo, Darvill (R., V.S. 7th Hussars), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the English Race Horse [...], first edition, London: James Ridgway, 1827, 4 plates of which 2 are full-page and 2 folding, all stained, later quarter-calf, 8vo, Heber's Historical List of Horse-Matches Run, volume IV only, London: Printed for the Author, by E. Owen, 1755, contemporary calf, disbound, 8vo, Weatherby's Racing Calendar 1825, Volume the 53rd, contemporary calf, disbound, 12mo, Weatherby's Stud Book, volume I v only, 1836, calf, 8vo, The Sporting Magazine, October 1795, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (7). 

Horses. Rarey (J.S.), The Taming of Horses, first British edition, London: George Routledge & Co., 1858, original pictorial boards, worn with stains and some losses, 8vo, Australian Imprint, Sample (H), The Horse and Dog [...], ?sole edition, Melbourne: [Privately printed by] J.J. Miller, n.d. [1894, inscription], in-text illustrations, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, Smith (Norton B.), Practical Treatise on the Breaking and Taming of Wild and Vicious Horses, ?first edition, London: s.n., 1892, illustrated, some stains, original pictorial wrappers, worn, spine partially-perished, 8vo, Stewart's Stable Economy, sixth edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1854, original cloth, 8vo, Hieover (Harry), The Pocket and the Stud, 1848, original green cloth, rebacked in calf, 8vo, How My Hunter Was Lamed, etc., (7).

Horses. Davis (A), The Horseman's Stable Companion [...], first edition thus, London: A Davis, n.d. [c. 1865], 64pp, [bound with] A Catalogue of Saddles, Harnesses, [...], [London]: A Davis, Saddler, n.d. [c. 1865], 32pp, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over cloth boards, 8vo, Gibson (W.), The True Method of Dieting Horses [...], second edition, London: J. Osborn and Tho. Longman, 1726, black-ruled title-page, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, [Hinds (John)], Conversations on Conditioning. The Groom's Oracle [...], first edition, London: Printed for the Author, for Sherwood, et al., 1829, folding aquatint frontispiece after Alkin, cloth boards, uncut, 8vo, [&] Taplin (William), Stable Directory, ninth edition, London: G. Kearsley, 1789, portrait frontispiece, early 19th century quarter-vellum over marbled boards, 8vo, (4).

Husbandry. Nourse (Timothy), Campania Fœlix. Or, A Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry: Containing Directions for all manner of Tillage, Pasturage, and Plantation; As also for making of Cyder (sic) and Perry [...], first edition, London: Printed for Tho. Bennet, 1700, engraved frontispiece, pp: [vi], 354, [6] (adverts), toned and browned, otherwise a clean copy, rebacked contemporary panelled calf, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, [&] [Worlidge (John)], The System of Husbandry and Gardening [...], Part the Second only, London: Printed for J. Wotton, 1718, pp: [iv], xlix, [iii], 191, [1] (errata), 6 engraved plates rebacked contemporary panelled calf, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, (2).

Husbandry. Varley (Charles, Esq), A New System of Husbandry [...], three three volumes bound as one, first edition, York: Printed for the Author, By N. Nickson, 1770, table supplied in facsimile, some stains in places throughout, not affecting legibility of text, and mostly to the prelims, contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn, later label, 8vo in 4s, [&] Bradley (Richard, Fellow of the Royal Society), A General Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening [...], volume I only, London: T. Woodward, 1724, black ruled overall and divisional title-pages, 5 engraved plates, of which 3 are folding, contemporary panelled calf, worn, 8vo, [&] Ellis (William), The Modern Husbandman [...], May-August only, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1743, contemporary calf, worn, upper-cover just holding, 8vo, (3).

London. Wellbeloved (Horace), London Lions for Country Cousins and Friends about Town [...], first edition, London: William Charlton Wright, 1826, folding aquatint frontispiece, in-text letterpress illustrations, rebacked original publisher's boards, 8vo, [Tayler (Jeffrey)], A Month in London, first edition, London: Harvey and Darton, 1832, monochrome plates, original perished roan over boards, 12mo, Lockie (John), Topography of London [...], second edition, London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813, printed in parallel columns, 20th century cloth, uncut edges, 12mo in 6s, etc., (9)

Natural History, Ornithology. Ogilvie-Grant (W.R.), A Hand-Book to the Game Birds, two volumes, London: Edward Lloyd, Limited, 1896-97, colour plates, contemporary green quarter-morocco over cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpaers, 8vo, Yarrell (William), A History of British Birds, volume I only, London: John Van Voorst, 1839, in-text engravings, original publisher's boards, 8vo, Avis (Richard), The Canary [...], first edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870, hand-coloured frontispiece a trifle soiled, split, loosening, original boards, 8vo, a similar copy, third edition, 1872, 8vo, Sharpe's Handbook of British Birds, n.d., original wrappers, 8vo, etc., (7).

Natural History. Shaw (George), Zoological Lectures [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: George Kearsley, 1809, no plates, original publisher's boards, worn with some light losses, 8vo, Platts (The Rev. I), The Book of Curiosities [...], London: Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, n.d. [c. 1825], 20th century quarter-calf, 8vo, White's Natural History of Selborne, London: Printed for J. and A. Arch, et al., [at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham], n.d. [1837], contemporary quarter-calf, disbound, 8vo, Lubbock (Sir John, Bart), On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects, second edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1874, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, pamphlets, etc.

Photographically-Illustrated. [Grundy (William Morris, illustrator)], Sunshine in the Country. A Book of Rural Poetry, Embellished with Photographs from Nature, first edition, London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861, pp: [8], 152, complete with 20 mounted albumen prints, some gutter splits but stable, original publisher's green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 4to. Provenance: A Present to my dear Daughter Harriett G.R. Alford from her father John Alford, January 7/97, ink manuscript inscription to ffep.

Photographically-Illustrated. Balgarnie (Rev. R.), Sir Titus Salt, Baronet: His Life and its Lessons, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877, Woodburytype frontispiece and illustrations, former detached but present, original cloth, 8vo, Parnell (Edward A.), The Life and Labours of John Mercer, F.R.S., F.C.S., etc. The Self-Taught Chemical Philosopher [...], With a Portrait, first edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886, original cloth, 8vo, Smith (Hubert), A Short Memoir of the Late-Eminent Shropshire Genealogist and Antiquary, William Hardwicke, Esq., first edition thus, Madeley, Salop: J. Randall, 1879, photographic plates, rebacked original cloth boards, 8vo, others topographical, including A Tour Round England 1870, A Walk from London to John O'Groats 1864, Dr Wilson's typed manuscript catalogue and bibliographic notebook, etc., (10).

Photography. Litchfield (R.B.), Tom Wedgwood, the First Photographer: An Account of his Life, his Discovery and his Friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge [...], and an Examination of Accounts of Alleged Earlier Photographic Discoveries, sole edition, London: Duckworth and Co., 1903, original cloth, 8vo, & Meteyard (Eliza), A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815), Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods and their Friends, Embracing the History of the Discovery of Photography and a Facsimile of the First Photograph, sole edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871, late 20th century half-calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, (2).

Science & Natural History. Derham (W., F.R.S., editor), Miscellanea Curiosa, Containing a Collection Of some of the Principal Phænomena in Nature [...], Being the Most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, three-volume set, mixed editions, London: Printed for James and John Knapton, et al., 1726-27, volume I with engraved frontispiece, 19 engraved plates throughout, 18 of which fold, volume III lacking gathering E but F duplicated in its place, contemporary calf, volume I's upper-cover repaired, volume III's upper-cover detached; all three with some chips and bumps, red-speckled edges, contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscriptions to ffeps: J: Forster: 1731, 8vo, Derham (W., Canon of Windsor, et al.), Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation [...], eighth edition, London: Printed by W. Innys and R. Manby, 1732, 1 fold-out engraved plate only, contemporary calf gilt, slightly later 18th century armorial female ownership stamp to recto pastedown: a chevron between three moor's heads, within a lozenge, 8vo, Stillingfleet (Benjamin), Miscellaneous Tracts [...], second edition, London: Printed and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, et al., 1762, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo, De La Beche (The Late Sir Henry), Reeks (Trenham), & Rudler (F.W.), Catalogue of Specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology [...], second edition, London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1871, original cloth boards as issued (spine perished), 8vo, Arago [(François)] & Kelly (Walter K., translator), Popular Lectures on Astronomy, Delivered at the Royal Observatory of Paris, first edition thus, London: Whittaker and Co., 1841, printed in parallel columns, in-text illustrations, bound with another title viz. European travel, contemporary quarter-calf, armorial bookplate and ink MS inscription of: George Canney, M.D., 8vo, First Reports of the Proceedings [...] of The British Association for the Advancement of Science, York: Thomas Wilson and Sons, 1832, original wrappers, giving way, 8vo, odd volume of Hooper's Rational Recreations, 1782, folding and full-page plates, 8vo, Hutton facsimile, (10).

Science and the Enlightenment - Wright (Gabriel), The Description and Use of both the Globes, The Armillary Sphere, and Orrery, Exemplified In a large Variety of Problems in Astronomy, Geography, Dialling, &c. Carefully selected from the late Messrs. Martin and Ferguson, and other Eminent Men [...], To which is added, A Short Account of the Solar System by G. Wright [...], first and ?sole edition thus, London: s.n., [1783], folding engraved frontispiece with scientific instruments, the other plates lacking or defective, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo in 4s. Provenance: Maria Anne & Sophia Caroline Berens, contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscription.

Scotland. Anon, The Rules and Constitutions for Governing and Managing the Maiden-Hospital, Founded by the Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695, first edition Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731, contemporary marbled wrappers, 8vo, [Campbell (John)], Dissertatio chemicophysica inauguralis, de actione calcis in agricultura [...], sole edition, Edinburgi: excudebant Adamus Neill et socii, 1800, contemporary Neoclassical calf gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, further volumes, including Robert Burns, the Highland Society, the Edinburgh Review, Chamber's Journal, Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, 19th century and later, various part-leather and other bindings, etc., (23).

Scotland. Selkirk (The Earl of), Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, with a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of Emigration, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1805, bound without half-title, pp: vii, 223, lvi, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, speckled edges, 8vo, [Henderson (John)], An Account of the Improvements Carried on by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Founder, First President, of the Board of Agriculture, on his Estates in Scotland. Extracted from the Agricultural Report of the County of Caithness, sole edition thus, London: Prince by B. McMillan, 1812, fold-out hand-coloured map frontispiece ('Map of the Soil of Caithness'; one line tear) and engraved plate Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster's 'Pyramid of Statistical Enquiry', pp: [i], 43, 10 folding engraved plates, 1 of which with upper-fold detached but present, some others with discreet repairs, 20th century terracotta buckram institutional binding, 8vo, (2). Provenance: 1st: A. Lamont of Knockdow, Argyll, Scotland; early-mid 19th century armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, Knockdow House numbered shelf label: B/3, to ffep. 2nd: Rothamsted Laboratory, Lawes Trust; their binding.

Sheep. Lydekker (Richard), The Sheep and its Cousins, first edition, London: G. Allen and Company, 1912, original blue cloth, 8vo, Ormerod (Frank), Wool, 1918, original cloth, 8vo, Fraser's Sheep Husbandry, second edition, 1951, dj, hb, 8vo, Hudson's Shepherd's Life, sixth edition, 1924, cloth, 8vo, others, 20th century and later, mostly hb, some pamphlets, etc., (approx. 30)

Sinclair (Sir John, Bart), An Account of the System of Husbandry Adopted in the More Improved Districts of Scotland [...], two-volume set, second edition, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1813, frontispieces, full-page and folding plates, contemporary speckled quarter-calf gilt over papered boards, 8vo, another copy, rebacked original publisher's boards, 8vo, volume I of the third edition, 1814, later cloth, 8vo, Sinclair's Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects, first edition, London: A Strahan, 1802, folding plates, wormtrail to lower-gutter margin becoming fainter, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, Memoirs of Sir John Sinclair, two-volume set, first edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1837, half-titles, original publisher's cloth over boards, 8vo, [&] Greg (Thomas), A Letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P., President of the Board of Agriculture [...], second edition, London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1810, split, rebacked boards, 4to, (9). Provenance: 1st: The Drambuie Collection copy, label. 2nd: John Wilson, 19th century armorial bookplate. 5th: 1) Thomas Hargreaves, 19th century armorial bookplate, & 2) Rothamsted Experimental Station, their stamp. 6th: Royal Agricultural Society of England, their bookplate.

Stevenson (William), The Agriculture of Surrey. Drawn up for the Consideration of The Board of Agriculture and Interests of Improvement, first edition, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813, hand-coloured fold county map frontispiece, upper-part of title-page defective with loss of 'The' only, early 20th century green three-quarter morocco over contemporary marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, 8vo.  Provenance: Ex Libris Colin & Gertrude Patrick, early 20th century pictorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

The Belton House-Wrest Park Copy. Sprat (Thomas), The History of the Royal-Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge, first edition, first issue, London: Printed for T.R. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-bar, and J. Allestry at the Rose and Crown in Duck-lane, Printers to the Royal Society, 1667, historiated and foliated initials, lacks frontispiece (as often), otherwise complete, signatures collating: A-B?, A-Z?, Aa-Zz?, Aaa-Iii?, engraved arms on verso of initial license leaf, 2 folding engraved plates as called for, verso blank inscribed with a partial-index in contemporary 17th century ink MS, the passages in question within the text thus underlined, signature Mm lower-margin with a stable tear just touching text, otherwise generally a fresh, clean copy with some minimal marginal foxing, contemporary polished calf some splits, bumps, and abrasions, but good, blind-ruled covers, five-compartment spine tooled in gilt and divided by raised bands, gilt-lettered morocco label in the second compartment, marbled edges, 4to, [Wing S5032; Keynes, Evelyn 178; Hooke 28; Norman 1989]. Provenance: 1) John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, KB (1690-1754), of Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, the Belton library's ink MS numbering: B: i668. 2) Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, KG, PC, FRS (1781-1859); his Wrest Park bookplate to verso pastedown. 3) Sir Alan Lubbock (1897-1990), his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

The Enlightenment. Hutton (Charles), A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: Printed by J. Davis, for J. Johnson, et al., 1796-[95], printed in double-columns, lacking half-titles, 37 engraved plates, in-text diagrams, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, split and with some losses, 4to, (2).

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.