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(Signed) Graham Swift A fine collection of ten works, seven of which are signed 'Out of This World,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Viking, London, 1988; 'Ever After,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, gilt top edge, vg to fine, Picador, London, 1992; 'Last Orders,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Picador, 1996; 'England and Other Stories,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014; 'Here We Are,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Scribner, London, 2020; 'Mothering Sunday. A Romance,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Scribner, London, 2016; 'Wish You Were Here,' signed, first edition, vg to fine, Picador, London, 2011; Three other unsigned works, all firstes and in fine condition. (10)

(Farm implements and machinery) Twenty four works James SLight and R. Scott Burn (engineers), Henry Stephens (ed). 'The Book of Farm Implements & Machines,' quarter green leather, split to head of front hings, ex libris label Mark Eberard Pepys and Courtney Library, xxi, pp.648, forty plates to rear, profuse with vignette steal engravings throught, some spotting to versos of plates, vg, William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1858; Reynold M. Wik. Steam Power on the American Farm,' first edition, two copies, gilt decorated cloth, both vg, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1953; Andre G. Haudricourt, Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamere. 'L'Homme et la Charrue. A Travers le Monde (The Man and the Plough. Around the World),' printed papers wraps sllight loosening from text block, ex libris, vg, Gallimard, Paris, 1955; J. B. Passmore. 'The English Plough,' original embossed boards, ex libris, plates and illustrations, fine, Oxford University Press, 1930; Marten Triewald. 'Short Description of the Atmospheric Engine publuished at Stockholm, 1734,' translated facsimile, printed card wraps, ex libris, vg to fine, The Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Egineering and Technology, Extra Publication No.1, W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, 1928; With Eighteen other works. (24)

(Signed ) John le Carre Seventeen fine works, mostly first editions and many signed 'The Constant Gardener,' signed to title, third impression, fine, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001; 'The Looking-Glass War,' first edition, clipped dj, sun bleached spine, a very good copy, Heinemann, London, 1965; 'A Small town in Germany,' first edition, unclipped dj, light spotting to edge of text block, vg, Heinemann, London, 1968; 'A Most Wanted Man,' signed , limited edition 213/1000, card slip, fine, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2008; 'Absolute Friends,' signed, first edition, fine, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004; 'The Naive and Sentimental Lover,' first edition, unlipped dj, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1971; 'Smiley's People,' first UK edition, small tape repair to vg unclipped dj, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1980; 'The Honourable Schoolboy,' thrid impression, clipped dj, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1977; 'The Secret Pilgrim,' first edition, unclipped dj, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1991; 'The Little Drummer Girl,' first edition, clipped dj, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1983; 'A Perfect Spy,' first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1986; With five others including 'A Delicate Truth' and Our Kind of Traitor' both signed. (17)

(Pacific Islands) Twelve works Walter E. Traprock. 'The Cruise of the Kawa. Wanderings in the South Seas,' first edition, original cloth slightly grubby, lacks dj and map, photographic plates complete, vg, G. P. Putman's Sons, New York and London, 1921; Jack McLaren. 'My Odyssey,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to endpapers and edge of text block, b+w plates good, Jonathan Cape, London, 1923; Robert Gibbings. 'Over Reefs,' first trade edition, original cloth will gilt decorations, scarce unclipped dj, ex libris label, spotting to edge of text block, good to vg, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1948; Sverre Holmsen. 'Singing Coral,' translated by Joan Bulman, first English edition, bookplate of Sir Raymond Edward Priestley MC (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974), original cloth, unclipped dj, heavy spotting to endpapers and edge of text block, James Barrie, London, 1951; Sir George Grey. 'Polynesian Mythology & Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealanders. As Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs,' the New Universal Library, original cloth with gilt decorations to the spine, some light spotting, George Routledge & Sons, London, n.d; With seven other works mostly reprints. (12) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Cornwall) Nine works P.A.S. Pool. 'The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance,' signed and inscribed to title page, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, light spotting to edge of text block, plates, vg, Published by the Corporation of Penzance, 1974; J. C. Tregarthen. 'wild Life at the Land's End,' first edition, original cloth, plates, vg, John Murray, London, 1904; Cyril Noall. 'A History of Cornish Mail- and Stage-Coaches,' first edition, unclipped dj, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1963; With six other works on Cornwall including a limp back of the P.A.S. Pool. (9)

Herman Melville Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; A Sequel to Typee; Or the Marquesas Islanders New edition, original pebbled cloth a little grubby with gilt lettering to spine just readable, blind stamps and ink stamps to first few pages including frontis and title page, some light finger soiling, a tidy early copy, John Murray, London, 1861. From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

William Borlase The Natural History of Cornwall First edition, contemporary full calf, morocco label and raised band to spine, front hinge slightly splitting but holding firm, ex libris label to front pastedown H. W. Lewer, xix, list of subscribers, 28 engraved plates as called for, errata leaf at end, pp.326 runs true, spotting throughout particularly to the margins, a good to vg copy, Printed for the Author by W. Jackson, Oxford, 1758.

(Cornish Art) Eighteen good works Alan Bowness (intro). 'Naum Gabo. Sixty Years of Constructivism,' exhibition catalogue, card wraps, b+w illustrations throughout, vg, The Tate Gallery, 1987; David Baxandall. 'Ben Nicholson,' fold line to front card wrap, illustrations, Arit in Progress series, Methuen, London, 1962; Andrew Lanyon. 'The First and Last Straw,' card wraps, string bound, illustrations pasted in, vg, 1994; Sven Berlin. 'the Coat of Many Colours, first edition, unclipped dj, vg, Redcliffe, Bristol, 1994; Lynne Green. 'W. Barns-Graham. A Studio Life,' first edition, unclipped dj somewhat creased, vg, Lund Humphries, London, 2001; Roger Bristow. 'Terry Frost. A Painter's Life,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, Sansom & Company, Bristol, 2013; With twelve other works about the artists, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Alfred Wallis, Bryan Winter, Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Barbara Hepworth. (18)A very good collection

Erasmus (Desiderius) Adagiorum omnium, quae a Junio, caeterisque, post Erasmi Chiliadas, in lucem prodierunt, epitome, Contemporary full vellum with leather thong clasps, MS title to spine, light scratches to rear board, later ink signature to front free endpaper, signature scratched out above publisher's woodcut device on the title page, head and tailpieces, some scattered light spotting worsening to the index, pp.477 runs true, vg to fine, scarce in such fine condition, Apud Aegidium Beys, sub singo Lilij albi, via Iacobrae, Parisiis, 1583.The Adagia is a collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, mostly sourced from classical texts, compiled and annotated by Erasmus of Rotterdam. First published in Paris in 1500 when Erasmus was in his early thirties, it originally contained 818 proverbs. Over his lifetime, Erasmus expanded the collection through about twenty editions, eventually amassing 4,151 proverbs. In 1515, he renamed the work Adagiorum Chiliades, a title that remained until the final edition in 1533. The collection features major literary figures such as Cicero, Horace, Aristophanes, and Plato, along with lesser-known authors, and includes many quotations in Greek and Aramaic.

J. M. Barrie Peter and Wendy First book edition, first impression, original green cloth with ornate pictorial gilt tooling, lightly soiled but a good bright gilt, front joint cracking but intact, ex owner inscription to ffep, frontis and pictorial title page, 'Peter Pan Flew in' and 'Hook or Me This Time' plates are loose, 13 plates as called for, [viii], pp.267, collated complete, some sporadic spotting, a good copy with a bright cloth, Hodder & Stoughton, [No date but 1911, ink inscription to ffep dated 1911 also].

(Antarctic Exploration) Douglas Mawson The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 First edition, two volumes, original cloth with silver gilt device to front boards, rebacked spines with a thin cloth showing holes to original cloth, new endpapers, date stamp to title pages some spotting in and around plates, a good set, William Heinemann, London, 1915. (2)

Arthur WRAGG (1903-1976) A Warm Greeting Mixed media on paper, 55cm x 51cm.Believed to be from a commissioned but unpublished edition of Aesop's Fables.Frederick Roberts Johnson and Arthur Wragg, two friends who met whilst training to become commercial artists, moved together to Polperro in 1924, staying at 'The House on the Props'. They had somewhat contrasting styles which somehow sometimes overlapped; Wragg's style was likened to David Low and Victor 'Vicky Weisz, sharing within his lifetime the same respect and public interest as the two aforementioned. His work was also regularly compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, though Wragg's own heroes were Cruickshank, Albrecht Durer and William Blake, the latter being someone he was also compared to within his lifetime. Wragg's first book was hugely successful, having to be reprinted three times in one year and it became Book of The Year in America.Frederick Roberts Johnson was a very succesful commercial artist and was often the one who usually went to London in search of commissions for the pair. He often used the name 'Essex' or 'Sax', drawing funnies for Punch, Everyman magazine and Tribune, as well as advertisements for Lyons Tea Shops and producing dustjacket book illustrations for various authors. His style was more varied and experimental, with impressionism, cubism and abstract examples of his work within the sale.

Graham Green Eleven first editions 'The Quiet American,' first edition, original cloth, some mould staining to front board, vg unclipped dj, very light spotting to edge of text block, generally vg, William Heinemann, London, 1955; 'Our Man in Havana,' first edition, original cloth, nibbles and tape repairs to clipped dj, small amount of spotting, vg, Heinemann, London, 1958; With a later edition; 'The End of the Affair,' first edition, original cloth with some sun bleaching to spine, loss to unclipped dj, small amount of spotting to edge of dj, generally vg, William Heinemann, London, 1951; 'A Burnt-Out Case,' first English edition, original cloth, vg, Heinemann, London, 1961; With six other first editions, all in vg condition. (11)

(South Sea Islands) Julius L. Brenchley Jottings During The Cruise of HMS Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 First edition, original green cloth with gilt tooled device to front board and gilt lettering to spine, light spotting to cloth but generally vg, inner front joint slightly cracked, spotting and toning to prelims, staining to fore edge starting at v and diminishing to p.67 not affecting text, spotting to edge of text block and sporadically, good to vg text block, xvi, pp.487, collated complete, Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1873.This volume has particularly fine text engravings depicting aspects of daily life of the South Sea Islanders: individual portraits of the King and Queen of Tonga, a Samoan chief; ear, nose and neck ornaments; native art and architecture. The 50 natural history plates (many hand coloured) include the following: 21 Bird plates with 27 figures; 4 Reptile plates with 9 figures; 10 Fish plates with 12 figures; 7 Shell plates with 32 figures; 8 Insect plates with 27 figures. From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Signed) Andrew Lanyon Three signed works and one other 'The Loose Connection: A build up of static in art,' signed, limited edition, No.173/253, profuse with images mostly tipped in, original cloth, unclipped dj, slip case, vg to fine, published by the author, Newlyn, 1992; 'Room to Manoeuvre,' signed, limited edition, No.190/200, profuse with images mostly tipped in, original cloth, unclipped dj, slip case, vg to fine, published by the author, letterpress by Denis Stevens, St. Ives, litho plates by St. Ives Printing and Printing Company, 1998; 'The Quick-Change Act,' signed, limited edition, No.19/250, profuse with images mostly tipped in, original cloth, unclipped dj, slip case, vg to fine, published by the author, Nancegollan, 1997; 'The Unjustified Text,' first limited edition unsigned and numbered, unclipped dj with 'Show Copy' written to front, some spotting externally, vg, published by the author, Newlyn, 1995. (4)

After Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) Two proofs or spare prints made for the 1967 publication, (the misnamed) “Captain Cook’s Florilegium” by The Lion and Unicorn Press. A remarkable pair of uncoloured copper engravings in elephant folio format, each leaf measuring 63cm x 50.5cm, with engraved plate marks of 45.5cm x 29.5cm. Both prints show signs of age, including spotting and heavy toning to the versos, and notably lack plate numbers, laid paper, [c.1960].One engraving depicts Barringtonia Calyptrata (Australia), while the other shows Ipomoea Illustris (Tahiti), both drawn on the first Endeavour trip. These works are after Sydney Parkinson, the artist engaged by Joseph Banks during Captain Cook’s first voyage (1768–1771). Parkinson’s botanical illustrations were later published in Banks' Florilegium: The Plants Collected on Captain Cook's First Voyage Around the World (1980), but these engravings seem to predate that edition. (2)

MOTTISTONE, Lord My Horse Warrior First edition, an uncommon volume with unclipped dj, cream paper dust jacket with red lettering to front and spine, dj is in fair condition, grubby and stained, spine darkened, top and bottom of spine missing, large section missing at front cover, stain to back cover (wax), chipped along edges, blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine, black illustration of a horse to front board, light water stains to covers, light stains towards bottom of front board, mild wear and mild bumping to corners,Decorative endpages. FEP has previous owner's book plate. Light foxing to endpages, textblock is cracked but holding between ffep and half-title page, all plates are present, the pages are mostly clean, and bright, though there is occasional light foxing. Illustrated by A. J. Munnings, Hodder & Stoughton, 1934.

Eric Newby The Last Grain Race First edition, small nibbles and tears to unclipped dj, frontis loosening, b+w photographic plates, light toning throughout, vg, Secker & Warburg, 1956.

H. C. Elphinstone & Harry D. Jones, W. Edmund M. Reilly Siege of Sebastopol, 1854-5, Journal of the Operations Conducted by the Corps of Royal Engineers Parts I & II, with 'An Account of the Artillery Operations Conducted by the Royal Artillery and Royal Naval Brigade Before Sebastopol In 1854 and 1855,' first edition, three volumes, quarto, original uniform embossed red coth sun faded to spines with gilt titles, ex libris Courtney Library with customary shelf label to spine and label to front pastedown, presentation slip from the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury tipped in, vg to fine, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode, London, 1859. (3)Vol I- vi, pp.299, some sporadic spotting and toning, fold out frontis lithograph and title page, five large fold out lithograph maps and charts to rear.Vol II- Lithographed titled page, pp.593, Appendix pp.595-638.vol III- vii, pp.273.

(Kiribati and Tuvalu Islands) 'The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: Its Zoology, Botany, Ethnology, and General Structure Based on Collections Made by Mr. Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney,' parts 1-10 bound in one volume, original printed thin card wraps bound in, pp.609, plates and vignette illustrations, vg, Published by Order of the Trustees, R. Etheridge, Sydney, 1896-1900; Mrs. Edgeworth David. 'Funafuti. Or Three Months on a Coral Island: An Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition,' original cloth with gilt lettering, ex libris Mark L. Sykes, spotting to endpapers, text block loosening from binding, b+w photographic frontis and plates, fold out map, some sporadic spotting, good to vg, pp.318, john Murray, London, 1899; Donald Gilbert Kennedy. 'Field Notes on the Culture of Vaitupu, Ellice Islands,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, plates and fold out map, vg, Thomas Avery & sons, New Plymouth, 1931. (3) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Ornithology) Fifty two works John Gooders (ed). 'Birds of Ocean and Estuary', 'Birds of Mountain and Moorland', 'Birds of Marsh and Shore', 'Birds of Heath and Woodland' and 'Birds of Hedgerow and Garden', all unclipped dj's, light sun bleaching to spines, colour illustrations throughout, vg, Orbis Publishing, London, 1978; Eric Hosking. 'Hosking's Birds. Fifty Years of Photographing Wildlife,' unclipped dj, Pelham Books, 1979; 'Waders,' unclipped dj, Pelham Books, 1983; 'Antarctic Wildlife,' unclipped dj, Croom Helm, 1982; Eric Hosking and Cyril W. Newberry. 'Birds of the Day,' first edition, original cloth, lacks dj, Collins, London, 1944; C. F. Tunnicliffe. 'Sketches of Bird Life,' first edition, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, fine, Victor Gollancz, London, 1981; 'A sketchbook of Birds,' first edition, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, fine, Victor Gollancz, London, 1979; Candace Savage. 'Bird Brains. The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays,' first edition, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, fine, Greystone Books, Vancouver, 1995; Robert Burton. 'Bird Behaviour,' unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, fine, Guild Publishing, London, 1985; Robert Hudson. 'Threatened Birds of Europe,' unclipped dj, fine, MacMillan, London, 1975; Geraldine Lux Flanagan and Sean Morris. ' unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, Kestrel Books, 1975; Charles E. Raven. 'In Praise of Birds,' first edition thus, lacks dj, original cloth, vg, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1950; Eric Simms and Robert Gillmor (illustrations). 'A Natural History of British Birds,' first edition, unclipped dj, vg, J. M. Dent & sons, London, 1983; With thirty five other works. (52 in two boxes)

Jane Austen Mansfield Park First edition, rebound in a modern full cloth, facsimile 'Standard Edition' title page, frontis and engraved titlepage, original titlepage, some spotting and ginger soiling but a generally good text block, Richard Bentley, London, 1833; With a collection of mostly 1st editions including, ‘Brideshead Revisited’ – Waugh E. 1945 – 1st Ed; ‘Cockroaches and Diamonds’ – Goss J. – 1937 – 1st Ed; ‘7 Must Die’ – Bellah J. W. – 1938 – 1st Ed; ‘Jasmine Leigh’ – C.C. Fraser-Tytler – 1871; ‘High Nile – A Novel of Egypt’ – 1st Ed – 1933. (6)

(Art interest) Four works Andrew Lanyon. "The Loose Connection." signed limited edition 204/253, original slipcase, 1992, vg; 'Second Nature,' signed limited edition 28/250, slip,1989 vg; Terry Frost; 'Painting in the 1980's,' card wraps, illustrated throughout, University of Reading, 1986; With a copy of 'Art and Design' first issue, Ure Smith PTY, Sydney, 1949. (4)

DICKENS, Charles Oliver Twist Brown leather with brown marbled boards, spine is missing, leather is worn at corners with boards beneath are showing through, boards are worn, covers have become detached from text block, as have ffep and all pages up to and including the title page, marbled endpages, pages are frequently spotted, 367 pp, Baudry's European Library, Paris, 1839.Unusual edition published in France, one year after the first edition.

(Cambridge University) Granta Magazine Three bound volumes from 1909-1912 Uniform blue cloth with some finger soiling, vol 1910/11 with Denys Garstin book plate designed by Crosbie Garstin and eleven ms signatures to front pastedown, one inscribed To the Editor of the "Granta" With kind regards from Keble Howard, vg; L. callender (ed). 'The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems 7 Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are published at the Sign of the Windmill,' first edition, cloth backed boards, plates complete, contains short stories by Crosbie Garstin, William Heinemann, London, 1923; 'The Windsor Magazine for Men and Women,' volume I and II in a uniform green cloth, plates and illustrations throughout, Ward, Lock & Bowden, London, 1895; Alfred Tennyson. 'The Works of Tennyson in Thirteen Volumes,' fine original blue cloth, red ink edge, split to original card box, C. Kegan Paul & Co, London, 1878. (7)From the working library of art historian David Tovey

Langston Hughes Fine Clothes To The Jew First edition, cloth backed boards, signed by Plunket Greene to ffep, some spotting, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1927; Mr Pratt. 'The Lower World,' first edition, rebound in a full green calf with gilt lettering to spine, half title, facsimile dedication, some sporadic spotting, vg, Whittingham and Rowland for Sharpe and Hailes, London, 1810; W. Tonkin. 'The Mine of Pearls,' original pebbled cloth with bevelled edge, some toning but vg, A. H. Swiss, Devonport, n.d; Arthur Dillon. 'Orpheus,' 1st Ed 1907; 'Leto Suppliant,' 1st Ed, 1909; With one other work. (6)

(Cornish Nationalism) John Angarrack Three works (six books) 'Breaking the Chains,' first edition, card wraps, vg, Stannary Publications, Camborne, 1999; 'Our Future is History. Identity, Law, and the Cornish Question,' first edition, vg, Independent Press, 2002; 'Scat t'Larrups? Resist and Survive,' first edition, vg, Independent Press, 2002; With a defunct copy of F. W. L. Stockdale's 'Excursions in the County of Cornwall,' 1824, with just three of the fifty issued plates. (7)

John Maynard Keynes The End of Laissez-Faire First edition, original cloth backed boards sun bleached to edges, paper label to spine, dj torn and split, toning to endpapers, ink line to pp.49 and 50 in the text, a generally vg text block, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1926. The End of Laissez Faire was based on the Sidney Ball Lecture given by Keynes at Oxford in November 1924 and on a lecture given by him at the University of Berlin in June 1926. A good copy of an increasingly scarce work.

(India) Emma Roberts Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan and Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society First edition, three volumes, rebound in a quarter brown leather, half title, corners of text block rounded off, vg text block, Wm. H. Allen and Co, 1835. (3)

Jack Kerouac Lonesome Traveller First UK edition, dust wrapper with small tears to edge and spine with slight loss, Andre Deutsch, London, 1962.

John Dryden (trans) The Works of Virgil Third volume only, ealry edition, full calf rubbed and chipped, red and black printed title page, frontis and good quality plates throughout, cluster of small wormholes to foot margin running to first half of text block, good to vg, Jacob Tonson, London, 1790.

(South Pacific Islands) Twelve good works Austin Coates. 'Western Pacific Islands,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, b+w photographic plates, vg, HMSO, London, 1970; Margaret Gardiner. 'Footprints on Malekula. a memoir of Bernard Deacon,' unclipped dj designed by Terry Frost, illustrations, fine, Free Association Books, London, 1987; Stuart Inder. 'Tales of Papua New Guinea. Insights, Experiences, Reminiscences,' signed and inscribed to ffep by the editor, first edition, illustrations throughout, fine, Retired Officers Association of Papua New Guinea Inc, Australia, 2001; Sir Harry Luke. 'From a South Seas Diary 1938-1942,' first edition, lacks dj, cloth backed boards, b+w photographic plates, light spotting to edge of dj, vg, Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945; Bengt Danielsson. 'Forgotten Islands of the South Seas,' first English edition, clipped dj, plates, The Adventurers Club, London, 1956; With seven other works. (12) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(South Pacific Islands) Twelve good works Frederick O'Brien. 'Mystic Isles of the South Seas,' first edition, decorative cloth, xv, numerous b+w photographic plates, fold out map, pp.534, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1921; 'White Shadows in the South Seas,' first edition, decorative clove, racked inner hinge, sporadic light spotting to edge of text block, plates, xii, pp.450, vg, The Century Co, New York, 1920; [Pembroke, George Robert Charles, Earl of, and George Kingsley]. 'South Sea Bubbles. By the Earl and The Doctor,' third edition, original red cloth with bevelled edges,rubbed and bumped with some staining, ex libris Archibald Anderson Watt, pp.312, pp.12 publishers catalogue to rear, good, Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1872; Lieut-Colonel T. R. St. Johnston. 'The Islanders of the Pacific,' first edition, vg original blue cloth, heavy spotting throughout, b+w photographic plates, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1921; Major A. J. A. Douglas and P. H. Johnson. 'The South Seas of To-day,' first edition, staining to original cloth, text block loosening from binding, b+w photographic plates and three charts, fair to good with the text block being good, Cassell and Company, London, 1926; Frank Burnett. 'Through Tropical Seas,' first edition, vg cloth with gilt lettering, gilt top edge, heavy spotting throughout, plates, Francis Griffiths, London, 1910; Sir Harry Luke. 'Queen Salote and Her Kingdom,' original cloth, plates, vg, Putnam, London, 1954; With five other works including 'Notes from my Sea Log' by Louis Becke. (12) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Pottery and Porcelain) Richard Champion and Hugh Owen Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - Being a History of the Manufacture of "The True Porcelain" 'With an Account of the Delft, Earthenware and Enamel Glass Works from Original Sources,' boards debound and lacking backstrip, some spotting and loose plates, fair to good, Printed Privatley for the Author, By John bellows, Gloucester, 1873; Alexandre Brongniart. 'Traite des Arts Ceramiques ou des Poteries,' Deuxieme Edition, half black morocco with marbled boards, compartmentalized spine with morocco label and gilt decorations, light rubbing to extremities, ex libris label Courtney Library gifted by Cyril & Jean Staal, marbled edge, pp.80, sixty plates, spotting throughout, good, Bechet Jeune, Paris, 1854; With two volume set of the 1844 edition, again with some spotting; William Burton. 'Porcelain. A Sketch of its Nature, Art and Manufacture,' first edition, original cloth, ex libris label, 50 plates, vg, Cassell & Company, London, [1906]; Dora M. Billington. 'The Technique of Pottery', third impression, B.T. Batsford, 1962; With five other works on Pottery and Ceramics. (11)

(Maritime Art) Eleven good works Alex A. Hurst. 'Thomas Somerscales. Marine Artist,' first edition, unclipped dj, ink owner signature neatly signed to ffep, illustrated throughout, spotting to edge of text block, vg, Teredo Books, Brighton, 1988; Rita Chancellor and Austin Hawkins. 'John Chancellor's Classic Maritime Paintings,' first edition, unclipped dj with price label, illustrations throughout, vg, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1989; 'The Maritime Paintings of John Chancellor,' second impression, unclipped dj with price label, illustrations throughout, vg, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1990; Roy Cross, Derek Gardner, John Groves, Geoff Hunt, Mark Myers. 'The Tall Ship in Art,' signed by Mark Myers to title page, first edition, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, vg, Blanford, London, 1998; Frank Kitson. 'When Brittania Ruled the Waves. The Heyday of the Royal Navy Through the Paintings of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kitson,' first edition, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, vg to fine, Halsgrove, Somerset, 2007; Adrian Vincent. '19th Century Maritime Watercolours,' first edition, tear to unclipped dj, vg, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1989; With five others.

(Signed ALS) John le Carre 'The Constant Gardener,' Slipped in ALS on 9 Gainsborough Gardens, London headed paper; 'Dear Carol & Geoffrey, We are temporary exiles from Cornwall, & shall be, alas, until the New Year- we seem to be on the road constantly, last week New York + Germany, Italy looming etc. Anyway, we look forward to an agreeable schmooze when we all can make it back to base, + meanwhile here's a proof copy of my latest effusion, out mid- December, official pub. date early Jan. Love to you both from both of us.....,' proof copy, card wraps, nibbles and tears to dj, vg, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001; With a trade first edition, signed and inscribed to the title page 'For Carol + Geoffrey with love from David aka John le Carre (retired president of the Anti-Retirement League)', vg, to fine. (2)From the estate of Sir Geoffrey and Lady Carol Holland. Being sold on behalf of the arts educational charity, Little Parc Owles Trust.

(Pakistan) Captain Gregory Rich (Cantoment Magistrate) The Mutiny in Sialkot. With a brief description of the Cantonment from 1852 to 1857. First and only edition with a print run of 1,000 copies, original pebbled cloth with faded gilt lettering to front board, cloth is somewhat sun faded, ex libris label Courtney Library to front pastedown, ink gift inscription to ffep dated 1923, a fine text block, pp. 80, scarce with WorldCat showing copies in just six libraries (three in the UK), Privately printed by P. N. Handa, Handa Printing Press, 1924.In his preface, Rich writes, "since coming to the station I have heard many tales of massacres that are said to have taken place in Sialkot during the mutiny; of ghost stories connected with different bungalows and the Church; and have often been asked for further details. In trying to discover what actually did occur, I found that most of the information was contained in old records and book long since out of print and of which only one or two copies are still available".

John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come .... Printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678 [i.e. c.1890], without initial and final blanks, small 8vo, rebound in a modern full leather.A skilful facsimile of the unprocurable first edition.

(Shipping Line Histories) A wonderful collection. Scarce works 'Bugsier, Reederei und Bergungs A. G. Shipping, Towage and Salvage Company, Hamberg. Nordischer Bergungsverein, Northern Salvage Association, Hamberg. W. Schuchmann, Bremerhaven,' printed paper wraps with small tears and nibbles, string bound, ex libris label Courtney Library, top fore edge corner dog eared throughout, forty seven b+w photographic illustrations tipped in, with descriptive text in German and English, three colour maps, good to very good, scarce, Drudkerei-Gesellschaft Hartung & Co, Hamburg, [c.1927]; 'Seventy Adventurous Years. The Story of the Bank Line 1885-1955,' Blue cloth, ex libris, illustrated throughout, fine, reprinted from The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool, 1956; A. H. John. 'A Liverpool Merchant House. Being the History of Alfred Booth and Company,' first edition, unclipped dj, ex libris, fine, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959; George Blake. 'The Ben Line. The History of Wm. Thomson & Co. of Leith and Edinburgh, and of the Ships owned and Managed by them 1825-1955,' first edition, ex libris, clipped dj, plates, fine, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1956; 'The Michail A Karageorgis Group of Companies,' full faux leather with gilt decoration to front board, ex libris, illustrated throughout, fine, rare, no imprint or date; With a large collection of other works including the Donaldson Line, Eagle Tankers, Canadian Pacific, Chapman of Newcastle, The Constantine Group, Cory Fleet, Rederiaktieselskabet Dannebrog &c. &c. too many to list. (30+)

(Ornithology) Klaus Malling Olsen nd Hans Larsson. 'Skuas and Jaegers. A Guide to the Skuas Jaegers of the World,' first English editon, unclipped dj, illustrations and plates, Pica Press, Sussex, GMB, The Netherlands, 1997; Hans Winkler, David A. Christie and David Nurney. 'Woodpeckers. A Guide to the Woodpeckers, Piculets and Wrynecks of the World,' first English edition, unclipped dj, illustrations, fine, Pica Press, Sussex, Russell Friedman Books, South Africa, 1995; Clive Byers, Urban Olsson and Jon Curson. 'Buntings and Sparrows. A Guide to the Buntings and North American Sparrows,' first English edition, unclipped dj, fine, Pica Press, Sussex, 1995; R. B. Treleaven. 'In Pursuit of the Peregrine,' first edition, unclipped dj, fin, Tiercel SB Publishing, Herts, 1998; Desmond Nerthsole-Thompson. 'The Dotterel,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, Collins, 1973; 'The Snow Bunting,' second edition, unclipped dj, fine, Peregrine Books, Leeds, 1993; John Sparks and Tony Soper. 'Penguins,' second impression, unclipped dj, fine, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1968; Nine issues from the Hamlyn Species Guide series, all fine; Kenneth Richmond. 'Wild Venture. A Bird-Watcher in Scotland,' first edition, small nibbles to unclipped dj, fine text block, Geoffrey Bles, London, 1958; With twenty two other works and a collection of booklets. (Q)

(Agriculture, Soils, Weeds and Pests etc) Forty eight good works John Morton. 'The Nature and Property of soils; Their connexion with the Geological Formation on Which They Rest.....,' third edition, later cloth with morocco label, ex libris to front pastedown Ernest Ridley Debenham (1865-1952, Debenhams Ltd), Courtney Library label to ffep, some light sporadic spotting, vg, James Ridgway, London, 1842; Primrose McConnell. 'the Elements of Agricultural Geology: A Scientific Aid to Practical Farming,' original green cloth with gilt lettering, ex libris label, frontis fold out map detached, plates and illustrations, spotting to edge of text block, vg, Crosby Lockwood and Son, London, 1902; Eleanor A. Ormerod. 'A Manual of Injurious Insects, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy for Their Attacks to Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit....,' first edition, original embossed cloth, label to front pastedown reads Presented to the Library of the Royal Institution of Cornwall by John D. Enys...1904 (1837–1912, naturalist and botanist of Enys House), vignette engravings throughout, vg, W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, London, [n.d. but preface dated 1881]; With a second edition; Sir E. John Russell. 'The World of the Soil,' first edition, original green cloth, small nibbles to near fine unclipped dj, ex libris label, plates, vg to fine, The New Naturalist, Collins, London, 1957; Kenneth Mellanby. 'Pesticides and Pollution,' first edition, small nibbles to near fine unclipped dj, ex libris label, plates, vg to fine, The New Naturalist, Collins, London, 1967; G. R. Clark. 'The Study of the Soil in the Field,' fourth edition, 1957; Sir. A. D. Hall and G. W. Robinson. 'The Soil,' reprint, 1945; Brian T. Bunting. 'The Geography of Soil,' 2nd ed, 1967; Hugh Hammond Bennett. 'Elements of Soil Conservation,' 1st ed 5th imp, 1947; Sir E. John Russell. 'Soil Conditions & Plant Growth,' 8th ed, 1950; G. V. Jacks. 'Soil,' 1st ed, dj, 1954; C. S. Piper. 'Soil and Plant Analysis,' 2ndimp, 1944; C. Harold Wright. 'Soil Analysis,' 2nd ed, 1939; C. W. Rose. 'Agricultural Physics,' 1st ed, 1966; R. Adams, Clifford O. Jensoen and Paul M. Althouse. 'Introduction to Agricultural Biochemistry,' 1st ed, 1951; Arthur H. Savory. 'Grain and Chaff from an English Manor,' 1927; Donald E. H. Frear (ed). 'Agricultural Chemistry,' 2 vols, reprint, 1952; G. E. Fussell. 'The Farmers Tools 1500-1900,' 1st ed, 1952; Frank Hollis. 'Tractors on the Move,' 1st ed, 1963; Harold Bennett. 'Saga of the Steam Plough,' 1st ed, 1965; George H. Clark. 'Farm Weeds of Canada,' 2nd ed, 1909; Sir Charles A. Cameron and C. M. Aikman. 'Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry,' 17th ed, 1894; Walter Conrad Muenscher. 'Weeds,' 11th ed, 1952; 'Farm Weeds An aid to their recognition,' Shell Chemical Company, n.d; J. H. G. Lebon. 'the Evolution of Our Countryside,'; H. F. Barne. 'Gall Midges of Economic Importance,' two copies, 1946; E. C. Large. 'The Advance of the Fungi,' reprint, 1950; Ernst Gram, Prosper Bovien and Chr. Stapel. 'Recognition of Diseases and Pests of Farm Crops,' 1st ed, 1958; 'Common Farm Weeds Illustrated,' 1st ed, 1952; C. L. Walton. 'Farmers Warfare,' 1st, 1947; R. Randal Phillips. 'The Servantless House,' 1st ed, 1923; Hubert Martin (ed). 'Insecticide and Fungicide Handbook,'; Eleanor A. Ormerod. 'A Text-Book of Agricultural Entomology,' 2nd ed, 1892; D. H. Robinson and S. G. Jary. 'Agricultural Entomology,' 1st ed, n.d; Kenneth M. Smith. 'A Textbook of Agricultural Entomology,' 1st ed, 1931. (48)

J. R. R. Tolkien Tree and Leaf First edition, facsimile signature to title page, ex libris Andover Public Library with ink library stamps, a few condition issues with large chip to head of spine being the worst, brown tape marks to endpapers, spotting to edge of text block, fair to good, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1964.Despite flaws, an increasingly scarce Tolkien first edition.

(Farming) Five good works John Curtis. ' Farm Insects: Being the Natural History and Economy of the Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland,' first edition, contemporary half polished calf, spine with gilt tooling and morocco label, label stuck to front board, marbled endpapers and text block edge, Courtney Library label pasted to verso of binders leaf, 16 hand coloured plates as called for, numerous vignette engravings throughout, a very good copy, Blackie and Son, Glasgow, 1860; With another copy in its original embossed cloth, inner front joint split with vg text block loosening; Robert Somerville. 'Outlines of the Fifteenth General Report from the Board of Agriculture. On the Subject of Manures,' first edition, near contemporary card boards rubbed, ex libris to pastedown, half title, advertisement, vi, contents, pp.89-36, some contemporary ink notes to margins, vg, W. Bulmer and Co, London, 1795; J. C. Nesbit. 'On Agricultural Chemistry, and the Nature and Properties of Peruvian Guano,' original embossed cloth with gilt lettering, ex libris label to front pastedown, advertisement, pp.126, three steel vignette engravings, vg to fine, Longman and Co, London, [c.1856]; Jethro Tull and Alexander Burnett. 'Tillage A Substitute for Manure Illustrated by the Principles of Modern Agricultural Science, and the Precepts and Practice of Jethro Tull....The Particulars of Lois Weedon Husbandry, and Other Instances of Tull's Method of Farming by Alexander Burnett,' original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering, slight sun discolouring to the spine, ex libris label, x, pp.212, xxiv, viii, errata, vg to fine, Whittaker and Co, London, 1859. (5)

(Bindings) John Ruskin Modern Painters Five volumes, vol I seventh edition, vol II fifth edition, vol III second edition, vol IV second edition, vol V first edition, uniform full red textured calf, raised bands with gilt lettering and decorations to spines, spines a little rubbed, wormhole towards the foot and rear of vol II, gilt edge, marbled endpapers, plates, a very good set, 1867, 1869, 1867, 1868 and 1860 (respectively). (5)

Robert Louis and Mrs M. I. Stevenson Twelve works R. L. Stevenson. '....Memoirs,' first edition, colour card wraps, b+w photographic plates tipped onto rectos with corresponding text on opposite rectos, some light spotting to edges of leaves, vg, T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1912; 'The Letters of.....,' two volumes, original dark blue cloth, frontis, some spotting, Methuen and Co, London, 1902; 'In the South Seas,' original dark blue cloth, sporadic light spotting, vg, Chatto and Windus, London, 1900; With four works by Robert Louis; Mrs M.I. Stevenson. 'Letters from Samoa 1891-1895,' first edition, original red cloth with paper label to back strip, frontis image of the author, spotting to edge of text block, vg, Methuen & Co, London, 1906; 'The Cruise of "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands,' first UK edition, original cloth, frontis photograph, b+w photographs throughout, Chatto & Windus, London, 1915; Thomson Murray MacCallum and Jessie E. MacCullum (illustrator). 'Adrift in the South Seas Including Adventures with Robert Louis Stevenson,' first edition, ex library stock for Seale South Sea Island Collection Pacific Grove Public Library with blind stamps and ink stamps etc, original cloth detaching from text block, fair to good, Wetzel Publishing Co, Los Angeles, 1934. (12) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Rural History and Economics) Forty good works Esther Copley. 'Cottage Comforts, With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience; Enlivened with Authentic Anecdotes,' thirteenth edition, lacks ffep and frontis, original cloth with reapairs, vg text block, Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1836; Henry Carter. 'The Control of the Drink Trade. A Contribution to National Efficiency 1915-1917,' first edition, original green cloth, ex libris label Courtney Library opposite title page (with blind stamp), spotting to edge f text block, good to vg, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1918; C. S. and C. S. Orwin. 'The Open Fields,' first edition, original blue cloth, ex libris, vg to fine, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1938; With a second edition, fine unclipped dj; Stanhope A. Forbes. 'Sketches of English Life and Character,' first edition, gilt cloth somewhat sun faded, ex libris, gilt top edge, plates tipped in, vg, T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London, 1909; Donald McDonald. 'Agricultural Writers, from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800; With thirty five other works including G. E. Lewis's 'Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay', 'Edith Oliver 'Country Moods and Tensers', H. J. Massingham 'The Wisdom of the Fields' &c. &c. (40)

William Saroyan Little Children First UK edition, original cloth, small nibbles to unclipped dj, pp.259, vg, Faber and Faber, London, 1937.A collection of seventeen stories about children and their world, soome of the children are the author himself. Rare with original dustwrapper.

(South Pacific Islands) Fourty one works Arthur Grimble. 'Migrations, Myth and Magic from The Gilbert Islands. Early Writings of....arranged and illustrated by Rosemary Grimble,' first edition, slipped in card with inscription an signature from Rosemary Grimble, original cloth, unclipped dj, illustrated, some very light spotting, vg, Routledge & Keegan Paul, Lond, 1972; 'A Pattern of Islands,' thirteenth edition, clipped dj, vg, Jogn Murray, 1969; 'Return to the Islands,' fifth impression, clipped dj, vg, John Murray, 1970; Klaus-Friedrich Koch (ed) and H. E. Maude (introduction). 'Logs in the Current of the Sea. Neli Lifuka's Story o Kioa and the Vaitupu Colonists,' first edition, unclipped dj, vg, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978; Simati Faaniu, Vinaka Ielemia et al. 'Tuvalu. A History,' first edition, unclipped dj, vg, Institute of Pacific Studies, Ministry of Social Services, Tuvalu, 1983; 'The Epic of Tarawa,' original cloth, tears and loss to clipped dj, bright pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout, Odhams Press Limited, London, n.d; 'Stewarts Handbook of the Pacific Islands,' rebound in modern cloth with original printed wraps, lacks map, pp.556, small amount of sporadic spotting, bibliography of island works vg, McCarron, Stewart & Co, Sydney, 1922; Sister Alaima Talu, Mikaere Baraniko, Keina Bate et al. 'Kiribati. Aspects of History,' first edition, unclipped dj, colour plates, vg, Prepared for the Occasion of the Independence of Kiribati, 1979; With three other copies, two limp backs and one in Gilbertese; 'Among those Present. The Official Story of the Pacific Islands at War,' rebound in modern cloth, original paper wraps bound in, b+w photographic illustrations, vg, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1946; Robert Sherrod. 'Tarawa. The Story of a Battle,' reprint, original cloth, facsimile letter printed to front pastedown with a sample of Tarawa sand pasted on, plates, vg, The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, Texas, 1973; Frederick O'Brien. 'Mystic Isles of the South Seas,' first edition, original cloth, b+w photographic plates, vg, Garden City Publishing Company in, New York, 1921; Thomas Gilbert. 'Voyage from New South Wales to Canton, In the Year 1788. with Views of the Islands Discovered,' facsimile, fold out plates to rear, N. Isreal, Amsterdam, Da Capo Press, New York, 1968; R. W, Robson (ed). 'Pacific Islands Year-Book 1935-6,' printed card wraps, fold out map, advertisements, vg, Pacific Publications, Sydney, 1935; Norman Laing. 'The Settlement of the Hua. A History of The Huia and adjacent parts of the Manukau Harbour,' first edition, one of 2,000 copies, card warps, ink inscription to title page, sepia illustrations throughout, vg, Lincoln Printing Company, Aukland, 1985; With twenty five other works. (41) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Artic Exploration) Fridtjof Nansen The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-96, or "Farthest North" First edition, two volumes, decorative pictorial cloth, rubbed to extremities otherwise lovely and bright, gilt edge, light sporadic spotting to prelims, plates and illustrations, a very good example, George Newnes, London, 1898; Alexander Fisher. 'A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majestiy's Ships Hecla and Gripper, in the Years 1819 & 1820,' presented to the Royal Artillery...?...Squadron, with ink inscription ffep, ink stamp of the 22nd Company Southern Division, R.A, a somewhat defunct copy with the rear board debound and loss to a map, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1821. (3)

(Pacific Islands) Eleven good works Alfred St. Johnston. 'Camping Among Cannibals,' first edition, original dark green cloth, slightly cocked with cracked inner joints, pp.327, vg, MacMillan, London, 1883; E. Hadfield. 'Among the Natives of the Loyalty Group,' first edition, original cloth rubbed, text block loosening slightly, spotting to edge of text block, b+w photographic plates, pp.316, good, MacMillan and Co, London, 1920; Peripatetic Parson. 'Parts of the Pacific,' rebound in a red cloth with original gilt decorated cloth pasted to front board, frontis and illustrations, pp.388, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, London, 1896; R. Wardlaw Thompson. 'My Trip in the John Williams,' original decorative cloth stained, staining throughout, b+w photographic illustrations throughout, scarce, London Missinary Society, 1900; Isabella L. Bird. 'The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands,' popular edition, original clothtoning with some creases, fold out map, steel engravings throughout, good, John Murray, London, 1905; With six other works including Andersen's 'Myths and Legends of the Polynesians' in a library binding. (11) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.

(Signed) Peter Rose George Tinworth......Chronology of Principal Works Signed to title page, faux leather boards with colour illustration pasted to front board, illustrated throughout, vg, C.D.N. Corporation, LA, 1982; Oliver Hill. 'The Garden of Adonis,' first edition, 46 tipped-in photographic plates, some spotting, original cloth gilt, 4to, London: Philip Allan, 1923. (2)

Owen Simmons Book of Bread First edition, 4to, original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, staining to rear cover, 2 tipped-in silver bromide prints on black card, 8 tipped-in black and white prints, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, advertisements and index to rear, some light finger soiling, generally vg, Maclaren & Sons, London, [1903.]

Hamzeh Carr Illustrations The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo First trade edition, original cloth with pictorial decorations, sporadic spotting throughout, plates, good to vg, John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1924.

The New Naturalist Monographs Twenty works John Buxton. 'The Redstart,' no.2, first edition, price clipped, vg, 1950; Stuart Mill. 'The Yellow Wagtail,' No.4, first edition, unclipped dj, vg, 1950; E.M. Nicholson. 'Birds & Men,' No.17, first edition, price clipped, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, good to vg, 1951; D. Summer-Smith. 'The House Sparrow,' no.19, first edition, unclipped dj, vg, 1963; Niko Tinbergen. 'the Herring Gull's Word,' No.9, reprint, unclipped dj, vg, 1971; With fourteen others including E.E. Ellis 'The Broads', R.K. Murton 'Man & Birds', Eric Simms 'Woodland Birds' &c. &c. all vg with unclipped dj's, mostly first editions. (20)A very tidy collection

(Maritime) Seventy five fine works Sir Percival Griffiths. 'A History of the Inchcape Group,' first edition, original blue cloth, ex libris label Courtney Library, colour frontis, fine, Inchape 7 Co, London, 1977; T. A. Bushall. '"Royal Mail" A Centenary History of the Royal Mail Line 1839-1939,' second impression, original blue cloth, plates, vg, Trade and Travel Publications, London, [c.1939]; J. C. Arnell. 'Atlantic Mails. A history of the mail service between Great Britain and Canada to 1889,' first edition, unclipped dj, ex libris, illustrated throughout, vg, The National Postal Museum, Ottawa, 1980; Wray Vamplew. 'Salvesen of Leith,' first edition, unclipped dj, ex libris, plates, fine, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh and London, 1975; A Large collection of Ship Line histiries and booklets including Dampfschifffaharts-Gesellschaft "Hansa", Graeme Somner, Leifhoegh & Co, H. Hogarth & Sons, The Hunting Fleet, Irish Shipping Limited, Union Fleet, Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland' &c. &c; With sixty other works. (75)

(Signed) Gregorio Prieto Illustrations Six works 'El Molino de Gregorio Prieto en Valdepnas,' signed and inscribed to ffep, thin card wraps with image pasted on, illustrations throughout, vg, Coeccion El Molino, Madrid, [c.1954]; Henry Thomas (trans). 'The Crafty Farmer. A Spanish Folk-Tale.....,' first edition thus, vg yellow boards with a small tear to head of spine, original glassine wrap with small tears, light toning spots to prelims, light spotting to edge of text block, vg, The Dolphin Bookshop Editions, London, 1938; Miguel Torga. 'Farrusco The Black Bird and Other Stories From the Portuguese....,' first English edition, unclipped dj, light spotting to edge of text block, vg, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1950; With three other works illustrated by Prieto including The Sonnets of William Shakespeare. (6)

(Signed and Inscribed) Bernard Leach Kenzan's Edo Densho (1964 facsimile edition), string bound with a paper label on the front wrap bearing Bernard Leach's initials and date handwritten. The front free endpaper includes an inscription: 'Exact reproduction of the Edo Densho described & translated in my book Kenzan and His Tradition. These are Ninsei's notes written out in black by Kenzan whose own comments are added in red ink', The work is housed in a card case, also initialed and dated by Leach, accompanied by a supplemental booklet by Yamato Bunkakan. Both are enclosed in a cloth clamshell box, in a fine condition.Bernard Leach. 'Kenzan and His Tradition. The Lives and Times of Koetsu, Sotatsu, Korin and Kenzan,' first edition, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, vg to fine, Faber and Fabe, London, 1961.The Borough of St. Ives, Cornwall booklets for Barbara Hepworth & Bernard Leach to commemorate the conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough, 1968. In the original acetate slipcase.'Bernard Leach Ceramics-Oriental Objects d'Art,' sales catalogue, W. H. Lane & Son, Thursday 29th May 1980, Penzanze. (5)

(Mining) Fifteen very good works 'South African School of Mines and Technology. Calendar for the Year 1912,' first and only edition, original cloth with silver gold lettering to front board giving a different title of 'Day Calendar and Evening Class Prospectus', ex libris label Courtney Library, pp.7 of advertisements to front, b+w photographic frontis, plates with some being fold outs, vg to fine, appears to be very scarce with no references on WorldCat found, lacks an imprint (the cataloguer can not find a reference), Johannesburg, 1912; 'The Diamond Prospecting Core Drill,' lacks wraps, ex libris label pasted to front, nibbles and ink stains, staple bound, pp.16, no imprint but most likely Royal Institution of Cornwall, Netherton and Worth, Truro, 1893; Frederick Colyer. 'Pumps and Pumping Machinery,' second edition, two volumes, original cloth with gilt tooled lettering, rubbed to extremities, ex libris Courtney Library, pp.200, profuse with fold out charts to the rear, E. &. F. N. Spon, London, 1892; William T. Molyneux. 'C.M.A. Sectionlised with Amendments and New General Regulations,' fourth edition revised, original cloth, ex libris, vg, Thomas Wall and Sons, The Science and Art of Mining Office, Wigan, 1926; W. O. Alexander. 'A Brief Review of the Developments of the Copper, Zinc and Brass Industries in Great Britain from A. D. 1500 to 1900,' pp.389 to 427, staple bound, Volume 1, No.15, Review, Published by Murex Ltd, Essex, 1955; Stephen Michell. 'Mine Drainage. Being a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct-Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery,' first edition, original binding with gilt lettering to spine with splits to hinges, tear to ffep, ex libris, Rebecca Hussey Book Charity and St Just Literary Institution ink stamps throughout, pp.277, plus 48 pages of adverts at the back being a catalogue of books pub by Crosby Lockwood & Co etc, a scarce work, Crosby Lockwood and Co, London, 1881 (Michell was an expert on contemporary mining technology. He co-authored an essay ‘’The Cornish System of Mine Drainage’’ prior to writing this comprehensive survey); With nine other good works including by W. A. Macleod, Bennet H. Brough, John MitchellRhead and Sexton &c, &c. (15)

(Ornithology) Seven good works Hadoram Shirihai. 'The Birds of Israel. A Complete Avifauna ad Bird Atlas of Israel....,' first Uk edition, small tear to unclipped dj, colour plates, fine, Academic Press, London, 1996; W. D. Snow and Perrins. 'The Birds of the Western Paleartic. Concise Edition,' first editions, two volumes, cased, unclipped dj's, fine, Oxford University Press, 1998; Ward J M Hagemeijer and Michael J Blair. 'The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1997; Chris Wernham, Mike Toms, John Marchant, Jacquie Clark, Gavin Siriwardena & Stephen Baille (ed). 'The Migration Atlas. Movements of the Birds of Britain and Ireland,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 2002. H. P. Sitters (Cmpiler). 'Tetrad Atlas of Breeding Bird of Devon,' first edition, illustrations throughout, fine, Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society, 1988; J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler and A. R. Heryet (ed). 'Birds of Oxfordshire,' first editio, fine, Pisces Publication, 1992; James A. Hancock, James A. Kushlan and M. Philip Kahl. 'Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World,' first edition, unclipped dj, Academic Press, London, 1992. (8)

Andrew Lanyon Nine works 'Now You See It. A Cornish Illusion,' 161/250, string bound, card slip, colour images tipped in, Denis Stevens, St. Ives, 1994; 'Roundabout West Cornwall or Penwith by Car,' string bound, card slip, colour images tipped in, Denis Stevens, St. Ives, [c.1994]; 'Ineffable Passion,' 178/200, string bound, card slip, colour images tipped in, Denis Stevens, St. Ives, 1998; 'The First and Last Straw. A Sou'western,' string bound, card slip, colour images tipped in, [Denis Stevens, St. Ives, c.1994]; 'The Only Non-Slip Dodo Mat in the World,' second edition, card wraps, R. Booth Print, Penryn, 2013; 'The Musings of Creatures Imagined in a Barren Land,' first edition, card wraps, Andrew Lanyon and Falmouth Art Gallery, 2016; 'The Evolution of Humans From Plants,' thin card wraps, string bound, 'Rough Tracks' CD loosely inserted, Andrew Lanyon, n.d; Andrew Lanyon, Dr Roger Slack and Peter Mates. 'Old Iron. Alfred Wallis,' 116/200, unclipped dj, original cloth, card slip, illustrations tipped in, Denis Stevens, St Ives, 1998; 'A Fairy Find,' first combined volume, original decorative cloth lightly soiled, illustrated throughout, Portobelo Books, London, 2006. (9)