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Illustrated Books. Dulac (Edmund, illustrator) & Andersen (Hans), Stories, first edition thus, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, printed in double-ruled borders with floral vignettes, 28 tipped-in colour plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt, spine slightly sunned and spotted, boards slightly bowed, pictorial endpapers, 4to

De Lassale (Jacques Dubarry), Identifying Marble, first edition, [Paris]: Éditions H. Vial, March 2000, printed on the presses of Mariogros, Turin, 303pp, pictorial dustjacket over terracotta cloth, folio (35.5 x 25cm)

Theology and Thought. [Baptism & baptists]: Seaton (William), The Church in the Wilderness [...], first edition, London: Printed for the Author, by J.S. Hughes, 1821, contemporary quarter-calf, disbound, 12mo, others, unrelated, The Pleasing Instructor, or Entertaining Moralist [...], London: Robinson & Roberts, Newcastle: T. Slack, 1770, contemporary calf, chipped and worn, 12mo, Wotton (Sir Henry, Kt), Reliquiæ Wottonianæ [...], fourth edition, first edition thus, London: B. Tooke, et al., 1685, lackng plates, contemporary calf boards rebacked, 8vo, Wesley (John), a sammelband of 17 Methodist sermons, mixed imprints and dates, but all early 19th c, contemporary speckled calf, 8vo, Jerment (Rev. George), Religion; A Monitor to the Middle-Aged [...], sole edition, London: C. Buckton, et al., 1796, defective title-page, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, almost disbound, 8vo, Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, volume I only, Edinburgh: J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1777, calf, 12mo, Scottish sombre binding, The Holy Bible, [issued with] The Psalms, Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1767, each of the three parts with their respective black-ruled title-pages, double-columns, otherwise unexamined and sold as a binding, contemporary black morocco, 12mo, The Book of Common Prayer, London: T. Davison, for L. Wayland, 1792, broad margins, plates, contemporary blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 8vo, parish law, etc., (13)

British India & the Raj. Reports on Sanitary Measures in India 1873-74, 1874-75, 1875-76, volumes VII, VIII & IX respectively, bound as one, London: George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1875, 1876, & 1877, cloth enclosing original wrappers, folio, Ross (A.), Report on the Settlement of Dehra Doon, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1850], Government Library, Agra, stamp, 130pp, later cloth, 8vo, Auber (Peter), An Analysis of the Constitution of the East-India Company [...], London: Printed for Kingsbury, et al., 1826, disbound, 8vo, Army List 1808, lacking title-page, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, Report of the First Indian Industrial Conference Held at Benares [...], Allahabad: Printed at the Indian Press, 1906, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, original cloth over boards, losses, 8vo, Dutt (Romesh C.), Baroda Administration Report 1902-03 and 1903-04, Bombay [i.e. Mumbai]: The Time Press, 1905, folding map, original papered boards, perished spine, losses, 8vo, A Settlement Manual for the North-Western Provinces, 1868, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, cloth, 8vo, Hughes (A.W.), A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh, London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, defective, perished original cloth, 8vo, Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, 1901, red cloth, 8vo, Who's Who in India, Supplement 1912: Coronation Edition, red cloth, 8vo, municipal law, etc., (15) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Some titles with worming.

Children's and Juvenile Books. Marryat (Captain, R.N.), The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, with a Memoir of the Author, ?first edition thus, London: George Bell and Sons, 1877, engraved plates, contemporary red half-calf gilt over cloth, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Anon, The Truant Kitten. And Other Stories, first edition, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875, original publisher's cloth over pictorial boards, split but holding, 8vo, Foster (Myles Birket, illustrator), Little Poems for Little People, London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [1847/8], original publisher's red cloth gilt, 8vo, Molesworth (Mrs.), A Christmas Child, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, contemporary blue calf gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo,Granny's Story-Box, London: Griffith and Farran, 1873, split some movement, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Bache (Mrs. Anna), Clara Howell; or, The Little Housewife, Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1857, original cloth, 8vo, etc., (11) 

Wilde (Oscar), eight studies, including Gide (André) & Mason (Stuart, editor), Oscar Wilde: A Study [...], first edition, one of 500 copies, Oxford: Holywell Press, 1905, original papered boards, uncut, Guilsborough Hall copy, Northamptonshire, inscribed title-page, 8vo, Douglas (Lord Alfred), Oscar Wilde and Myself, first edition, London: John Long, Limited, 1914, original publisher's cloth, uncut, 8vo, Mason (Stuart), Oscar Wilde: Art & Morality, first public edition, London: Frank Palmer, 1912, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Sherard (Robert Harborough), The Life of Oscar Wilde, first edition, London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906, original cloth, gilt, 8vo, Harris (Frank) & Douglas (Lord Alfred), New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde", first edition, London: The Fortune Press, 1925, original cloth, 4to, Birnbaum (Martin), Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories, first edition, one of 750 copies, London: Elkin Matthews, 1920, original cloth over boards, uncut, 4to, etc., (8)

Literature & History. Dickens (Charles), The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale, first one volume edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841, uncollated, split, contemporary maroon quarter-morocco gilt over cloth, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Hume's and Smollett's History of England, thirteen-volume set, London: Richardson & Co., et al., 1821, contemporary calf, tired, plain armorial bookplate: William Thomson, 8vo, Smyth (William), Lectures on Modern History, two-volume set, London: William Pickering, 1848, contemporary calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, [Irving (Washington)], Bracebridge Hall, two-volume set, first UK edition, London: John Murray, 1822, rebacked and repaired quarter-calf, 8vo, Campbell (Thomas), Life and Times of Petrarch, two-volume set, second edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1843, frontispieces, slightly later Eton election MS inscription, contemporary calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, etc., (23)

Natural History. Thorburn (Archibald, FZS), British Birds, four-volume set, vols. I-II third editions, III-IV second editions, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917-18, colour plates, original publisher's red cloth gilt, some wear and light stains, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, idem., British Mammals, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920-21, original cloth, 4to, The Original Water-Colour Paintings of John James Audubon for Birds of America, two-volume set, Published by Michael Joseph Ltd. and The Connoisseur, 1966, original cloth only, marbled endpapers, 4to, further works on ornithology, (11)

Travel. [Polynesia] [Vason (G.)], An Authentic Narrative of Four Years' Residence at Tongataboo [Tongatapu] [...], first edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; et al., 1810, steel-engraved frontispiece, original printed and papered publisher's boards, chipped, rbacked in cloth, discreet ex-lib markings, uncut, 8vo, [Ireland] Manners (Lord John, MP), Notes on an Irish Tours in 1846, second edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881, split, original publisher's cloth, stained, some ex-lib markings, 8vo, [&] Brydone (Patrick, FRSE), A Tour through Sicily and Malta, two volumes in one, London: A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1790, 20th c calf over original boards, ex-lib, 8vo, (3) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

English Catholicism and Recusancy. The Office of the Holy Week According to the Roman Missal and Breviary [...], third edition thus, [London]: Printed for T. Meighan in Drury-Lane, 1738, engraved frontispiece and plates, finely bound in a contemporary armorial binding of crimson morocco gilt, the covers blocked in gilt with a coat of arms supralibros within a Rococo cartouche, rolled and tooled foliate borders, the spines with IHS christograms, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, joints split, lower-cover almost detached, bumps and slight wear, 12mo, [&] [?Joyner (William)], Some Observations Upon the Life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal of the Royal Bloud (sic) of England. [...], sole edition, London: Printed for Mathew Turner at the Lamb in High-Holbourn, 1686, cropped black-ruled title-page, 142pp, toned, stained in places, later 18th/19th c sheep, almost disbound, 8vo, [Wing J1160], (2) Provenance: 2nd: 1) Joseph Tasker (d. 1860), of Middleton Hall, Essex, his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. 2) ?Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliomaniac who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, whose dispersal, following his death, took over 100 years. Verso of ffep with 20th c pencilled provenance attribution. The first sold as a binding and not subject to return, though apparently OK. The second sold collated.

English Civil War Pamphlet. [Regicide]: The Charge of the Commons of England Against Charles Stuart, King of England, Of High Treason, and other High Crimes [...], Examined by the Original Copy. Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot, first edition, London: Printed by Rapha Harford, at the Gilt Bible in Queens-Head Alley in Pater-noster-Row, 1648 [i.e. 1649], ?uncalled for wood-engraved portrait 'frontispiece', cropped, chipped innner-margin and loosening, title in ornamental border, A2 with type setting B, i.e. "Tyrannicall power", complete: 8pp, title with two holes but with no loss of text, contents browned and creased, later 18th/19th c blue wrappers, 4to

English newspapers and tracts, 17th & 18th c, including A Fourth Collection of Papers Relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England [...], London: printed, and are to be sold by Rich. Janeway, 1688, [2], 34pp, 20th c cloth over boards, 4to, Mercurius Publicus, Numbs. 14 & 29, April 2  to 9. 1663 & July 16 to 23. 1663, 213-224pp & 453-468pp, disbound, 4to, The Intelligencer, Numb. 71, Monday, September 5. 1664, 569-576pp, disbound, 4to, The Rehearsal Of Observator, &c., Numb. 48, June 23th to 30th. 1705, 2pp, disbound, foolscap, [English Civil War], A Continuation of the true Diurnall (sic), of all the Passages in Parliament, From March 14 to 21., London: Printed for Robert Wood, 1641, 63-70pp, disbound, 4to, [The Elizabethan Act of Uniformity], Injunctions given by the Queenes Majestie (sic) concerning both the clergie (sic) and laity of this realme (sic). Published Anno Dom. 1559 [...], s.l. [?London]: s.n., n.d. [1641], title-page cropped with loss of imprint, lacking frontispiece, i.e. 30pp only, disbound, 4to, [Wing ED529], Anon, An Humble Representation upon the Perpetual Imprisonment of Insolvent Debtors [...], first edition, London: Printed for John Platt, 1687, trimmed with some losses, later wrappers, 4to, [Wing H3645], etc., (9)

Miscellaneous Books & Manuscripts. A Fox-Hunting Poem in the Mid-19th Century. The Captive Fox: a tale founded on fact, written by W.R., illustrated by C.H., 1850, [11]ff card leaves inscribed in ink MS with the narrative verse, and illustrated with 10 sepia wash, pen-and-ink, and/or pencil 'carciatures', each titled within the image, and tipped-in within black-ruled borders, the images and text mentioning an unidentified earl and his hunt, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco (rubbed, some scratches, bumps and chips, but OK), the upper-cover gilt-lettered within rolled borders and fillets, marbled endpapers, oblong royal folio (34.5cm x 49cm), Piety in Regency England. The Psalms, n.d. [early 19th century], an ink manuscript transcript, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco, disbound, marbled endpapers, 4to, Questions in Arithmetic, by Harry Green, Parsonage House Academy, 1866, [80pp] of manuscript, contemporary crimson quarter-roan gilt, 4to, a post-World War Two photograph album, dated 1946-49, b/w snapshots of various trips within the British aisles, annotated, original blue boards, oblong 4to, Stead (William Thomas, editor), Penny Popular Novels, approx. 40 numbers, including Dumas (Alexandre), The Three Musketeers, parts I & V-VII only, Hugo (Victor), Les Misérables, parts II-V only, De Quincey (Thomas), The Mystery of the Masque, Burgin (G.B.), Gascoigne's Ghost, other authors including S. Baring-Gould, Sir Walter Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, Lord Lytton, William Joseph Yeoman, etc., original wrappers, a few detached but present, one or two lacking, 8vo, [&] Thackeray (William Makepeace), The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, eighteen numbers only (of 24), including some duplicates, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-58, full-page plates, in-text illustrations, some adverst, mostly with original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, (62)

Illustrated Books. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) & Swift (Jonathan), Gulliver's Travels, into Several Remote Nations of the World, ?first edition thus, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909, 12 colour plates, a few b/w in-text illustrations, original pictorial red cloth gilt, spine sunned, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers, 8vo

Military. [Frederick the Great] & Foster (Major, Late of the First (or Royal) Dragoons, translator)), Military Instruction [...], two parts in one, third edition, Sherborne: Printed by and for Cruttwell and Son; London: Sold by Egerton, Military Library, n.d. [c. 1800], 13 folding plates, bound-in MS leaf, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, chipped and with some losses, loosely-inserted later 19th century military book catalogues, 8vo, Scoffern (John), Projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Compounds, first edition, London: John Mortimer, 1845, original wrappers, repaired, loosely-inserted in an institutional manila cover, 8vo, Robins (Benjamin, FRS), Mathematical Tracts, volume II only, London: J. Nourse, 1761, half-title, rebacked, contemporary title-page inscription: Gravesend Volunteer Artillery, 8vo, Cundill (Major J.P., Royal Artillery), A Dictionary of Explosives, Chatham: W. & J. Mackay & Co., 1889, interleaved but not annotated, original red roan, gilt-lettered, over publisher's blue cloth, 8vo, [&] Thomson (Captain J.H., C.B.), Guide to the Explosives Act, 1875, third edition, original cloth, 8vo, (5)

Crime & Punishment. Scotland, a sammelband of two titles: The Trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie For the Crimes of Incest and Murder [...], first edition, Edinburgh: Auld and Smellie; et al., 1765, lacking half-tile, pp: iv, 5-200, repaired title-page, [& bound with] Report of the Trial of Mrs. Gilmour, before the Supreme Court of Justiciary, on the Charge of Poisoning her Husband, with a Brief Sketch of her Life, Glasgow: W.C. Pattison, 1844, leaves trimmed to text, 20th century quarter-morocco over 18th c marbled paper boards, 8vo, The Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer, for Poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley [...], Illustrated and Unabridged Edition, London: Ward and Lock, 1856, folding frontispiece torn, original publisher's cloth, chipped and worn, 8vo, Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer [...], London: Ward and Lock, 1856, frontispiece, double-page diary lithograph, in-text illustrations, 20th c grey papered boards, 8vo, A Complete Report of the Trial of Dr E.W. Pritchard, for the Alleged Poisoning of his Wife and Mother-in-LAw [...], Edinburgh: William Kay, 1865, frontispiece, early 20th c cloth, Bradford Public Library's copy, neat but for a few preliminary stamps, 8vo, [&] Dueling, The Trial of James Thomas Earl of Cardigan before The Right Honourable The House of Peers, [...] for Felony [...], London: Printed for William Brodie Gurney, et al., 1841, original publisher's cloth, sunned and chipped, 8vo, (5) Provenance: 5th: Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), judge and Justice of the King's Bench, ffep inscribed in MS: J.T. Coleridge/Montague Place/April 1841.

Natural History & Evolution. Huxley (Thomas H.) & Etheridge (Robert), A Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology, first edition, London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1865, prelims with some creases, lightly thumbed, original publisher's wrappers, chipped, creased and starting to split, 8vo

Crime & Detective Fiction. Kerr (Philip), A German Requiem, first edition, Viking, 1991, dj, hb, 8vo, other Bernie Gunther thrillers, [Wallander] Mankell (Henning), Faceless Killers, first UK edition, The Harvill Press, 2000, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., The White Lioness, first English edition, New York: The New Press, 1993, dj, hb, 8vo, another three works, one of which is signed by the author, A Charles Willerford Omnibus, first edition thus, London: Macdonald, 1991, dj, hb, 8vo,  Lansdale (Joe. R) & Skinner (Lewis), Private Eye Action, signed by the authors, first edition thus, copy no. 408/1000 (out of a total 1126 copies), Holyoke: Crossroads Press, 1998, 8vo, Raymond (Derek), I Was Dora Suarez, first edition, New York: Scribners, 1990, dj, hb, 8vo, another three Raymond works, Conan Doyle (Adrian) & Carr (John Dickson), The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, London: John Murray, 1954, original pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, Greene (Hugh), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, London: The Bodley Head, 1970, dj, hb, 8vo, eight Laurie R. King novels, including Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Taylor (Andrew), The Fire at Court, signed by the author, 2018, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., Mortal Sickness, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo, idem., The American Boy, 2003, dj, hb, 8vo, two Caleb Carr first UK editions, one of which is signed by the author, six works by M.S. Power, five signed Stephen Booth volumes, others, three first UK editions of Inspector Montalbano Mysteries, three volumes of Black Box thrillers, James Ellroy first editions, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Dashiel Hammett, George V. Higgins, Roy Fuller, Rennie Airth, Phil Rickman, John Connolly, Michael Dibdin, Lawrence Block, etc., (100)

Poetry. Early 19th c and later Nottinghamshire authors or imprints, including Bailey (Thomas), The Carnival of Death. A Poem, in Two Cantos, sole edition, London: Longman, et al., 1822, [bound with an associated letterpress leaf] Lines, on Reading Mr. Bailey's Publication, "The Carnival of Death.", contemporary calf gilt, perished spine, worn, 8vo, another copy, similar, original publisher's boards, worn with faults, detached upper-cover, 8vo, Wieland & Hope (Francis, translator), Gandalin, first English edition, London: Longman, et al., 1838, half-title, 20th c institutional morocco over buckram, 12mo, Butler (Rev. W.J.), Roche Abbey, and other Poems, sole edition, Nottingham: J. Hicklin and Co., 1835, 20th c institutional morocco over buckram, 12mo, [Hislop (M.D.)], The Exile of the Waters, and other Poems, sole edition, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1851, chromolithographed title-page, blacked-ruled contents, institutional calf over boards, all edges gilt, 8vo Ragg (Thomas), Sketches from Life, Lyrics from the Pentateuch, and other Poems, sole edition, London: Longman, et al., 1837, original publisher's cloth, 12mo, etc., (8) All ex-lib with their bindings, labels, &/or stamps. Sold not subject to return.

Antiquarianism. [Architecture] Place (George Gordon), Plans, Sections, and Elevations of The Chancel of All Saints' Church, Nottinghamshire, first edition, Cambridge: John Thomas Walters, 5 lithograph plates as called for, all leaves repaired and laid on canvas, former damp and water stains, original wrappers, rebacked, folio (86 x 65cm), [Genealogy] Willoughby (Elizabeth Sophia Heathcote Drummond), Chronicles of the House of Willoughby de Eresby, first edition, London, 1896, institutional quarter-morocco over boards, folio, [&] Gainsford (William Dunn, Esq., editor), Annals of the House of Gainsford, Horncastle: W.K. Morten & Sons, Ltd., 1899, hand-coloured armorial frontispiece, further b/w printed plates, original cloth over printed papered boards, uncut, folio, Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, volume I only, 1805, late 19th c quarter-calf over cloth, folding plates, folio, British Museum Facsimiles of Autographs, three odd volumes, 1897-99, mixed bindings, folio, The Architectural Association Sketch Book, New Series, volume X, 1890, quarter-calf, 4to, (8) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

English Landscape Binding. [Walpole (Horace)], The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto, sixth edition, large paper copy, Parma: Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, Bookseller, of London, 1791, half-title, pp: [vi], xxxii, 245, illustrated with two variant impressions of the the frontispiece, a few marks and creases inside, otherwise good, finely bound in russia calf gilt, the covers ruled with a gilt double-fillet and outlined with a rope-twist border, each enclosing a topographical Picturesque landscape of medieval ruins, decorated en grisaille, most of the spine perished, the corners rubbed and exposed, the boards with slight surface wear and a few minor chipped losses, sometimes affecting the landscapes, split joints, upper-cover loosening, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, 4to Though unsigned this binding and others of the same ilk have been attributed to the binderies and decorating ateliers of Edwards of Halifax, Charles Hulbert of Shrewsbury and John Wansbrough of Bristol. However the latter two are known to have signed their works with a ticket, and R. Ashton, another name known to have decorated landscape bindings, signed his work within the image. Provenance: 1) Charles Joachim Hambro, Baron Hambro (1807-1877), his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. 2) The Viscount Esher, either William Brett (1815-1899), the first viscount, or Reginald Brett (1852-1930), the second viscount, armorial bookplate to flyleaf surmounted by a coronet.

Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, London: Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677, defective: lacks title and dedication leaf, 2 leaves of index, and some plates, some leaves re-margined, map present but laid on linen, further discreet repairs, 20th c brown half-morocco over cloth, rubbed, folio (34 x 22.5cm), [Wing T1063]

Scotland. Dalrymple of Stair (Sir James, President of the Session), The Institutions of the Law of Scotland [...], part one only, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1681, black-ruled title-page, historiated initials, a1-2 loose and creased, contemporary speckled calf, worn, shelf wear, folio (29.6 x 16cm), idem, third complete edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton, 1759, contemporary calf, some wear, folio (32.5 x 21cm), Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session, From the year 1730 to the year 1752. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1766, contemporary calf, folio (32.5 x 21cm), [&] Select Decisions of the Court of Session, From The Year 1752 to the Year 1768. Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, For John Bell, 1780, contemporary calf over marbled boards, (32.5 x 21cm), etc., (5)    The first edition of Dalrymple's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', an account of the private law of Scotland according to the judgments of the Court of Session, is now considered the foundation of modern Scots law. Provenance: 1st: Joseph Crombie, title-page with 18th c ink MS ownership inscription. 2nd & 3rd: John Orr of Barrowfield (d. 1803), town clerk and commissary of Glasgow, owner of plantations and slaves in the West Indies; title-pages with ink MS ownership inscriptions, engraved armorial bookplates on each recto pastedown.

Topography. [Photographically-illustrated], Harker (B.J.), Rambles in Upper Wharfedale, first edition, Skipton: Edmondson and Co, 1869, half-title, original publisher's cloth, gilt and blind, all edges gilt, 12mo, Grainge (William), Nidderdale, Pateley Bridge: Thomas Thorpe, 1863, chromolithographic plates, original publisher's cloth, gilt, some wear, all edges gilt, 8vo, Phillips (John, FRS), The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire [...], subscribers' edition, London: John Murray, 19853, 36 plates, original publisher's cloth, worn and split, but good, uncut, contemporary crested bookplate: Arthur Maude, 8vo, Jenkinson's Lake District, 1872, folding hand-coloured maps, original publisher's cloth, worn and split, gutter holding, 8vo, Abraham's Motor Ways in Lakeland, second edition, 1913, cloth, 8vo, Mackintosh's Scenery, 1869 , 8vo, etc., (13)

Rushworth (John, editor), The Trayl (sic) of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason [...], first edition thus, London: Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and Ricahrd Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1680, portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White, black-ruled, dedication leaf with historiated initial, contemporary panelled calf, some scuffs and minor losses, rebacked preserving some of the original spine with its morocco labels for when bound as part of Rushworth's State Trials, folio (32.2 x 21.5cm), [Wing R2333] Provenance: 1) J: Trelawny, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. Loosening ffep with pencilled provenance attribution to The Reverend Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet (1650-1721), one of the Seven Bishops tried and imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II's orders. 2) Wm Heysham Esq:r/Greenwich in Kent, Jacobean armorial bookplate to pastedown incorporating a maritime anchor. Almost certainly the same William Heysham (1691-1727), MP for Lancaster (1716-1727), described by a Lancaster Quaker as ‘an indolent man and of no service’.

Illustrated Children's Books. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) & Lucas (Mrs. Edgar, translator), Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., n.d., defective, worn original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Kinglsey (Charles) & Heath Robinson (William, illustrator), Water-Babies, London: Constable, 1915, original pictorial cloth, sunned portions, 8vo, another edition, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, Stevenson (Robert Louis) & Robinson (Charles, illustrator), A Child's Garden of Verse, first edition illustrated thus, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896, defective original green cloth pictorial gilt, all edges gilt, 8vo, Barrie (J.M.) & Bedford (F.D., illustrator), Peter and Wendy, third edition, London: Hodder & Stougton, October 1911, original pictorial cloth, worn, 8vo, Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Aesop's Fables, London: William Heinneman, n.d., cloth, stained, 8vo, [cloth book], Bible Pictures, Edwyn A. Birks Ltd., n.d., square 4to, Hauff's Caravan Tales, n.d., defective original pictorial cloth, 8vo, two Alison Utley first editions illustrated by Margaret Tempest, Ernest Nister's A Long Time Ago, Walter Crane, Katharine Crane, other illustrators, various, (approx. 40)

Illustrated Books. Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Carroll (Lewis), & Dobson (Austin), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first trade edition, first impression, London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1907], verso of half-title with Rip Van Winkle advert, verso of colophon with Pamela Tennant's The Children advert, pictorial endpapers dated 07 within the image, 13 colour plates, each with their respective lettered tissue-guards, further b/w in-text illustrations, occasional foxed spots, though never affecting the plates, original pictorial green cloth, slightly sunned in places, 8vo Provenance: Christie's, Printed Books, 10 March 1982, lot 77 (of 4).

Bible, Arabic Printing of Apocrypha. Wallin (Georg the Younger, translator and editor), Qissat Yusuf 'al-Najjar. Sive Historia Josephi Fabri lignarii. Liber apocryphus ex codice manuscripto Regiae Bibliothecae Parisiensis nunc primum Arabice editus, nec non versione Latina et notis illustratus, first edition thus, Lipsiæ [i.e. Leipzig]: Andreæ Zeidleri [Andreas Zeidler], 1722, Arabic printing, Latin translation and commentary, black-ruled title-page, complete, pp: [xvi], 110, [2], some toning and the odd foxed spot, otherwise a good, crisp copy, late 19th/20th c institutional morocco over cloth, gilt, top-edge gilt, others speckled, marbled endpapers, 4to, [Schnurrer 413; Zenker BO ii, 1240] Provenance: 1) C. Rudo***, faded/washed contemporary owner's MS inscription at foot of title-page. 2) The British Museum, their later transferred 1881 duplicate stamps. 3) The Guildhall Library, presentation bookplate from the BM to them, further GL stamps. 4) City of Liverpool Public Libraries, their bookplate.

Walpole (Horace), Historic Doubts on the Reign of King Richard the Third, second edition, London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1768, portrait frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf gilt, split and worn, but holding, morocco lettering piece, 4to, [Warton (Joseph)], An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, two-volume set, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1782, contemporary calf, contrasting Neoclassical olive and scarlet morocco lettering pieces, 8vo, Upton (John), Critical Observations on Shakespeare, first edition, London: G. Hawkins, 1746, detached ffep with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: James Mundy, contemporary calf, disbound, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: 2nd: 1) Wm. Taswell, 18th c Neoclassical armorial bookplates. 2) Esme Nicoll, Egland, Honiton, [Devon], a friend of Agatha Christie, book labels.

Wanley (Nathaniel, M.A. and Vicar of Trinity Parish in the City of Coventry), The Wonders of the Little World: Or, a General History of Man [...], first edition, London: T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-street, et al., 1678, black-ruled title-page, printed in black-ruled double-columns, signatures [A1]-2 & [Qqqq1]-2 repaired, a few markings in places, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, folio in 4s (37 x 24.4cm), [Wing W709] [&] [Earle (John)], Microcosmography: or, A Piece of the World Discover'd. In Essays and Characters, London: Printed by E. Say, 1732, title-page apocryphally attributed to Samuel Wesley, and somewhat creased, upper-right margin with former damp-staining, but not affecting legibility, contemporary calf gilt, split and worn, but OK and holding, 12mo in 6s, (2)  Provenance: 1st: The Worshippfull (sic) Edward Hyde Esquire/His Booke (sic) 1696, several dated ink MS inscriptions to verso of signature Pppp, including references to 'supping'. 2nd: 1) The Reverend Timothy Lee (d. 1777), of Ackworth, Yorkshire, his 18th c armorial bookplates to recto pastedown and verso of title-page. 2) David Stather (1940-2022), Yorkshire bibliophile, his ex libris label dated 1981 to ffep.

[Hyde (Edward)], The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon [...], three-volume set, first edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759, contemporary speckled calf gilt, signs of former lot labels to upper-covers, 8vo, [Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of)], Characteristicks (sic), volume III only, s.l. [London]: s.n. [Printed by James Purser in Bartholemew-Close], 1737, contemporary calf, rubbed and split, but holding, 8vo, [Fine Binding], Bunyan (John) & Papé (Frank C., illustrator), The Pilgrim's Progress, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910, colour plates, red three-quarter morocco gilt over cloth by Asprey & Co Ltd, signed, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Denison's Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells, 4th edition, London: John Weale, 1860, plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 12mo, etc., (7)

Jewels & the Wunderkammer. Hackenbroch (Yvonne), Renaissance Jewellery, first edition, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979, original dj over cloth, folio, Johns (Catherine), The Jewellery of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions, first edition, UCL Press, 1996, dj, cloth, 4to, Habsburg (Géza von), Princely Treasure, first edition Thames & Hudson, 1997, dj, black cloth, folio, Scarisbrick (Diana), Portrait Jewels [...], first edition, Thames & Hudson, 2011, dj, red cloth, oblong 8vo, two further Scarisbrick reference works, including Rings, etc., (7)

Francis (Dick), Dead Cert, first edition, 12mo, with dust jacket, Michael Joseph, 1962.

A collection of works by Winston Churchill, mostly first editions, including: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, first edition, 4 vols; The Second World War, first edition, 6 vols; My Early Life; Great Contemporaries; and others, together with a collection of books relating to history and literature, including: Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley; The Poems of John Donne; The Plays of Shakespeare; The Derbyshire Dales, by Norman Price; English Biography in the Seventeenth Century, by Vivian de Sola Pinto; Portrait of Churchill, by Guy Eden; and others, contained across two boxes.

Crewe ( The Marquess of) Lord Rosebery, two vols., 8vo,cloth, illus. first edition 1931; together with a selection of hardback books, primarily relating to history, titles including: Universal World History, ten vols, by J. A. Hammerton; The Journal of Henry Cockburn, 1831-1854, two vols, with portraits by Sir Henry Raeburn; William Nelson: A Memoir, edited by Sir Daniel Wilson; and others. (25)

Andrew Flintoff being Freddie My story so far. Dedicated. First edition with dustjacket. 2005. Hodder and Stoughton. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10

Richard Taylor, First Strike, limited edition coloured print, framed and glazed

° ° Dickens, Charles - Bleak House. First Edition, pictorial engraved and printed titles, frontis and 38 plates (by Hablot Brown). contemp. blind ruled and gilt decorated calf, rebacked preserving original panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps. 1853

° ° Hardy, Thomas - Wessex Tales: strange, lively, and commonplace. First Edition, 2 vols (bound together). half title (vol.I): contemp. binder's half morocco and cloth, gilt ruled and lettered spine (by Evans & Witt, with their ticket). 1888

° ° Lambarde, William - A Perambulation of Kent: conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shyre ... First Edition. title within decorated border, map, decorated and historiated initial letters, black letter; sometime rebound blind-ruled calf, panelled spine with maroon label, blind-decorated medallion on covers. for Ralphe Newberie ... 1576

FIVE BOXES OF BOOKS, CDS AND DVDS, approximately ninety books to include a first edition of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, fiction, children's literature, TV, collectables, reference, some vintage titles, over ninety CDs by artists including The Beatles, Nirvana, T Rex, Bob Marley, The Prodigy, Oasis and REM, some audio CDs, over forty DVDs to include vintage TV box sets and feature films, etc (5 boxes) (sd)

ONE BOX OF BOOKS, to include, Jeanne Roche-Mazon; Contes Du Ver Luisant and Charles Robert-Dumas; Contes D'or De Ma Mere-Grand, Boivin & Cle, Editeurs (some colour plates missing), a 1935 Greyfriars Holiday Annual, seven signed Greyfriars Collector's Edition Book Club volumes 12, 13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, all in original cases, five Frank Richards Billy Bunter series books, to include three first editions Billy Bunter's Bolt 1957, Billy Bunter At Butlins 1961, Lord Billy Bunter 1956 and two second editions Backing Up Billy Bunter 1955, Billy Bunter's Brain-Wave 1957 (missing dust jackets), etc. (1 box)

ONE BOX OF TWENTY SEVEN P.G. WODEHOUSE BOOKS, comprising a set of seven Autograph Edition books, Piccadilly Jim, Uncle Fred In The Springtime, The clicking of Cuthbert, Big Money, Jeeves and The Feudal Spirit, Indiscretions of archie, Leave It To Psmith, a first edition Swedish print 'Money In The Bank' 1942, first edition 'Spring fever', first edition 'Uncle Dynamite' both printed by Herbert Jenkins, a first edition pre UK issue 'Full Moon' Doubleday & Co. 1947, a first edition 1952 Barmy In Wonderland -Herbert Jenkins, first edition Uncle Dynamite - Herbert Jenkins, first edition Uncle Fred In The Springtime 1939- Herbert Jenkins, first edition Blandings Castle, third printing Jeeves Omnibus, Pigs Have Wings, Jennings As Usual, first edition 1922 'The Clicking Of Cuthbert' -Herbert Jenkins, 'The World Of Mr. Mulliner', After Hours With P.G.Wodehouse by Richard Usborne, P.G. Wodehouse A Literary Biography by Benny Green, a first edition P.G Wodehouse An Illustrated Biography by Joseph Connolly, three Souvenir Press editions of A Prefect's Uncle, The Gold Bat, The Head Of Kay's (with photocopied dust covers) (1 Box) (Condition report: twelve books have no dust covers, some light damage, some have been library books) (1 box)

THREE BOXES OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS & MAGAZINES in hardback and paperback format to include vintage Annuals, nine Beatrix Potter Centenary Editions, five Eric Thompson 'Dougal' books, Harry Potter titles (NOT first editions) two Rosemary Sutcliffe 1st editions, a Margaret J. Miller 1st edition and a Margaret Lyford-Pike & Rosemary Sutcliff 1st edition

GOLDING; WILLIAM, LORD OF THE FLIES, First Edition, published by Faber and Faber 1954, printed in Great Britain by Latimer Trend & Co, with second impression dust wrapper bearing reviews, book bears a label for WHSmith & Sons Library Bridge House, Lambeth with stamped 'SOLD' over stamp and a torn charge sticker below (Condition Report: text complete and firmly bound, the dust wrapper is torn and stained with some light water damage along the bottom back edge, there is also a dead moth behind the top back corner near the spine, the top edge of the pages have a large pink stained patch and all other edges are dirty, there is some foxing particularly to first few front and back page, other areas of water staining from red cover into end papers / inside covers)

YUGIOH FIRST EDITION AND POKEMON PSA 9 CARDS, cards are Yugioh Metal Raiders Change Of Heart MRD-E060 and a Japanese Gym Challenge Koga's Beedrill no. 015, Change Of Heart shows no obvious signs of wear, whilst Koga's Beedrill has a PSA grade of 9

*Local Interest - After William Heaton Cooper RA (1903-1995), a coloured print, 'Grasmere In Midwinter', 25cm x 37cm, & 45cm x 55cm overall, plus two other coloured prints, the first after Jill Aldersley (1943-2007), 'Windermere', and the other after Tom Harland (1945-2012), 'Springtime On The Dorset Coast', a limited edition 114 of 1520

Royal Doulton Bunnykins Figure My First Bunnykins & Limited Edition Country Manor Chef (2)

Royal Crown Derby Paperweight, The Longest Reign Pub, 10cm high, commemorates HRH Queen Elizabeth becoming the longest reigning British monarch, 9th September 2015, exclusive for Goviers of Sidmouth as a limited edition of 500, Royal Crown Derby stamp and grey printed marks to the base, 10cm high, first quality. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Royal Crown Derby Paperweight in the form of a Partridge, limited edition, number 1,142 of a limited edition of 4,500, first quality with gold stopper. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Royal Crown Derby Property Paperweight, Derby House, 10cm high, this is number 81 of a limited edition of 500, commissioned by Compton and Woodhouse, Royal Crown Derby stamped porcelain stopper, red printed marks to the base, 10cm tall, first quality. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Royal Crown Derby Property Paperweight, The Florist ‘Love Blossoms’, 8cm high, this is one of a limited edition of 500 exclusive to Goviers of Sidmouth, celebrating the marriage of HRH Prince William to Catherine Middleton 29th April 2011, first quality, red printed marks to the base. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Royal Crown Derby miniature paperweight, Goviers China Shop, 8cm high, this is one of a gold backstamp edition of 1,000 commissioned by Goviers of Sidmouth to celebrate their Centenary in 2004, porcelain stopper with Royal Crown Derby stamp in gold and gold printed marks to the base, 9cm high, first quality. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Ian Fleming's James Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, second state binding. With original dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping

Two Ian Fleming James Bond hardback books. You Only Live Twice, Jonathan Cape, 1964, first edition, second state, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, third impression. Both with original dust jackets.

Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929, first edition, with colour frontispiece, colour title with 12 colour plates, with pictorial endpaper, original tan boards with mounted colour illustration to both boards, some water marks to boards and a personal ink inscription on inside page, splits at spine

Four hardback first edition novels by Ian Rankin comprising The Falls, Resurrection Men, A Question of Blood and The Naming of the Dead

Four hardback first edition Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett; Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Unseen Academicals and Raising Steam

Four hardback first edition novels by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, (2), (adult and children's versions), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, (adult version) and The Casual Vacancy

Four volumes on North Wales: 1.) Thomas Roscoe - 'Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales' (Tilt & Simpkin 1836). * Condition: Later 19th C dark red morocco gilt. Extremities rubbed, light gilt wear. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine worn. Biro ownership inscription to ffep. Occasional spotting. Toning to back endpapers, light toning elsewhere. Lacks most plates - only 4 plus frontis and two front vignettes remain. 2.) Thomas Pennant - 'The Tour in North Wales MDCCLXXIII'. * Condition: 18th C half calf with marbled boards. Extremities and boards worn. Front hinge cracked and glued. No title. Pencil notes ffep. Tear to p.157. Scattered spotting throughout, notably around plates and heavy spotting to last few pages. Some offsetting. Toning and soiling to first few pages. Handwritten list of plates to back end paper.  3.) J.E. Griffiths - 'Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families' (Bridge Books facsimile edition, no.133 of 300 published, 1985 - facsimile of 1914 edition). * Condition: Corners lightly bumped. Light spotting to end papers. Occasional light spotting elsewhere.  D.R. Thomas - 'The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph - Vol. I and II' (Caxton Press 1908). * Condition: Wear to extremities. Boards lightly soiled. Light pencil notes to ffeps. Vol.1 small tear to top of frontis near gutter. Ex-libris - adhesion marks from sticker removal to titles and back pastedowns. Lightly toned.