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English Civil War Collection of biographies, memoirs and letters, 17th-18th century including: [Baron, William]. A Just Defence of the Royal Martyr K. Charles I. From the many False and Malicious Aspersions in Ludlow's Memoirs, and some Other Virulent Libels of that Kind. London: for A. Roper, R. Bassett, W. Turner, 1699. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.5cm), 19th-century half calf, gilt spine, backstrip gilt-lettered 'Parish Library Castleton' along front board, browning, a few damp-stains, marginal spill-burn in ³N4 [ESTC R13963; Wing B897]; Warwick, Sir Philip. Memoires of the Reigne of King Charles I. With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1701. First edition. [Bound with:] Idem. A Discourse of Government. London: for Mat. Wotton [and others], 1701. Second edition. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19 x 11.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, Memoires half-title with engraved portrait verso, Earl of Rosebery bookplate [ESTC T63889 & T61708; 7 UK copies for A Discourse]; [Kimber, Isaac]. The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: for J. Brother and T. Cox, 1724. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 12cm), contemporary panelled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, book-label (John Rutherfurd, Esq, of Edgerston, possibly the member of parliament for Roxburghshire, noted as a soldier and councillor in New York, 1712-1754), head of front joint worn, frontispiece damp-stained, pale damp-staining elsewhere, a2 (index) torn with loss of text [ESTC T134562]; Noble, Mark. The Lives of the English Regicides. London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Montagu Burgoyne (1758-1836), politician and writer, numbering-pieces perished; Baillie, Robert. Letters and Journals, written by the deceased ... Principal of the University of Glasgow ... Containing an Impartial Account of Public Transactions ... both in England and Scotland, from 1637 to 1662. Edinburgh: W. Gray, 1775. First edition, second issue, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels; and 7 others (these not fully collated): Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II, 1795 (new edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt); William Harris, An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, 1766 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of Robert Shafto of Benwell, spines worn); Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, A Collection of the State Letters, Dublin, 1743 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss); Thomas Carte, A Collection of Original Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, found among the Duke of Ormond's Papers, 1739 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, bookplates of John Campbell of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, joints cracking); [Thomas Birch], An Inquiry into the Share, which King Charles I. had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan, 1756 (second edition), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked at head and foot); Thomas Skinner, The Life of General Monk, 1723 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, inner hinges strengthened); Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1727 (fourth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked) (23)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

English Civil War Collection of pamphlets comprising: Englands Third Alarm to Warre: stirring up the Whole Land as One Man, to help the Lord, and His Servant David (all the Faithfull in the World) against most Bloudy Adversaries, Mighty Hunters before the Lord. London: Thomas Underhill, 1643. First edition, 4to (17.9 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, light browning, marginal damp-stains [ESTC R9479, 11 copies world-wide; Wing E3058]; An Agreement of the People for a Firme and present Peace, upon Grounds of Common-Right and Freedome; as it was proposed by the Agents of the Five Regiments of Horse. [London: no printer], 1647. First edition, 4to (18.2 x 12.4cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 14 pp. [ESTC R204468, 7 UK copies; Wing A780]; Mercy in her Exaltation. Or, a Soveraigne Antidote against Fear of the Second Death. In a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Daniel Taylor Esq; in Stephens Coleman Street London. [By John Goodwin]. London: F. Macock for H. Eversden, 1655. First edition, 4to (17.8 x 13.4cm), modern cloth, woodcut mourning border to title-page, browning [ESTC R202308, 9 UK copies; Wing G1181]; His Highnesse the Lord Protector's Speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber, the one on Munday the 4th of September; the other on Tuesday the 12. of September 1654. London: for G. Sawbridge, 1654. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (18.8 x 13.4cm), modern calf, browning, part 1 with closed marginal tear in C3 and marginal spill-burn in E3 [ESTC R207635; Wing C7175]; The Royalists Defence: vindicating the King's Proceedings in the Late Warre made against him. [By Charles Dallison]. [London: no printer], 1648. First edition, 4to (18 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, errata leaf, browning [ESTC R5148; Wing D138]; The Case of the Kingdom stated, according to the Proper Interests of the severall Parties Ingaged. [By Marchamont Nedham]. London: [no printer], 1647. Third edition ('with Addition by the Author') 4to (18.8 x 13cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 6 9-16 pp., browning, title-page slightly chipped along fore edge, quire B shaved at foot [ESTC R40043; Wing N380]; Killing No Murder: briefly discoursed in Three Questions. By Col. Titus, alias William Allen. London: Reprinted in the Year 1689. 8vo (18.8 x 11.2cm), modern quarter leather, browning, A2 bound after A4 [ESTC R214304 (third variant); Wing T1312]; and 2 others, one defective, the other later (George Wilson, Bribes no Perquisites: or, the Case of the Earl of Macclesfield, 1726) (9)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington and his Other Works; some wherof are now first publish'd from his Manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an Exact Account of his Life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1700. First collected edition, folio (30.8 x 19.4cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, engraved frontispiece, portrait after Sir Peter Lely, plate ('The Manner and Use of the Ballot'), advertisement leaf, variable light spotting and browning [ESTC R9111; Wing H816]; Brady, Robert. An Introduction to the Old English History, comprehended in three several Tracts. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. First edition, folio (31 x 19.2cm), 20th-century quarter sheep, marbled sides to style, browning, 2N3 slit for cancellation (the cancel also present)[ESTC R34414; Wing B4194]; Thomas May. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the Third, M. DC. XL. With a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Years. London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio (28.8 x 17.6cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black, light damp-staining to lower fore corners [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410]; Walker, Edward. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions: viz. I. The Happy Progress and Succes of the Arms of K. Charles I [...]. London: by W. N. for Sam. Keble, 1705. First edition, folio (34.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved headpieces and initial, full-page engraved portrait of Charles I, engraved folding plate, bookplate (Thomas Bagnall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) to title-page verso, variable spotting and browning; Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford: William Turner, 1635. Third edition ('revised ... besides the addition of two entire bookes not formerly published'), folio (27.8 x 18.5cm), modern half calf, engraved additional title-page, letterpress explanation leaf ('The argument of the front and of the worke'), retaining medial blanks 3E4 and 4A4, contemporary ownership inscription ('Ex libris Thomas Wadland') to letterpress title-page, occasional light browning, a few marks [ESTC S120609; STC 12613]; and 3 others (these not collated): Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary [to] Oliver's Usurpation, 1746 (first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, modern quarter morocco, engraved frontispieces, all edges untrimmed, possibly a large-paper copy); William Howell, An Institution of General History, or the History of the World, 1680 (second edition, folio, modern cloth); Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of the Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly from the Original Papers of ... Ralph Winwood, 1725 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, without portrait) (11)Note: John Toland's influential edition of the works of James Harrington was an important component in his project to introduce republican ideas to an 18th-century audience, and 'provided a foundation for the whig intellectual tradition that influenced Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Law Group of English legal treatises, 17th-18th century comprising: Wiseman, Sir Robert. The Law of Laws: or, the Excellency of the Civil Law, above all other Humane Laws whatsoever. London: by F. G. for R. Royston, 1657 [i.e. 1658]. First edition, 4to (18.3 x 14cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, large armorial devices gilt to covers, title-page in red and black [ESTC R204077; Wing W3113]; Swinburne, Henry. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1611. Second edition ('Newly corrected and augmented with Sundry Principall Additions'), 4to (17.8 x 13.2cm), 18th-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, initial blank apparently original, terminal errata leaf, old ink inscription ('Norton Place') to front pastedown, front joint cracked, A8, 2G8 and 2X8-2Y1 stained, a few side-notes in quire A just shaved [ESTC S118063; STC 23548]; Foley, Robert. Laws relating to the Poor, from the Forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the Third of King George II. London: for T. Woodward, 1739. First edition, 8vo (20 x 11.5cm), contemporary calf, advertisement leaf, contemporary bookplate (James Nelthorpe), rubbed, joints superficially cracked [ESTC T113188: 6 copies in UK libraries); Dalrymple, John. An Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain. London: A. Millar, 1757. First edition, 8vo (19.8 x 12.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, worm-track to foot of first few leaves not affecting text, corner of title-page excised [ESTC N9414]; Hale, Sir Matthew. The Original Institution, Power and Jurisdiction of Parliaments. London: Jacob Tonson [and others], 1707. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 11.7cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, browning; Selden, John. The Historie of Tithes. [London: no printer], 1618. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary limp vellum, title-page in red and black, bookplate (Angus MacDonald, M.D.), lacking final leaf (f4) and free endpapers, damp-staining to front and rear, closed tear in P2 [ESTC S117046; Pforzheimer 857; STC 22172.3]; and 6 others: Richard Brathwait, The English Gentleman, 1630 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, damp-staining, lacking additional engraved title-page and 'Draught of the Frontispiece' leaf, also without final part 'Three Choices of Marriage' as in the variant noted by ESTC); Richard Bradley, The Country Gentleman and Farmer's Monthly Director, 1732 (sixth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, bound after a defective copy of The Country Lady's Director, lacking prelims); [John Godolphin, Repertorium canonicum, 1680] (4to, contemporary calf, lacking at least the title-page); [Remigio Nannini, Civill Considerations upon many and sundrie Histories, 1601] (4to, contemporary calf, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in modern manuscript); Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Office, 1762 (seventh edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, small worm-track to front of volume 1 touching imprint in title-page, set not collated); and William Leybourn, Panarithmologia: or, the Trader's Sure Guide, 1727 (fourth edition, 8vo, browning and damp-staining) (14)Note: One other copy of The Law of Laws traced at auction, in 1965; the work is an argument for the revival of Roman law and for the recourse to civil law 'where our own law fails'. 'Unlike other contemporary reformers [Wiseman] also argued for the legalization of torture to extract confessions' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Abbott, Henry Antiquities of Rome London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition, large folio (57.6 x 41.6cm), contemporary half calf (front board gilt-lettered 'Charleton' and with gilt calf title-label 'Rome' to centre), letterpress title-page, etched panorama of Rome on 4 folding sheets, 24 sepia aquatint plates, descriptive text-leaf to each plate, tissue-guards, backstrip perished, panorama with faint spotting and offsetting in places and first sheet with faint crease across one corner, plates faintly offset onto text-leaves through tissue-guards [Abbey Travel 179]Note: Rare. The work seems often to have been broken up for its spectacular plates, here all present and in excellent condition. Provenance: Charleton House, Fife.

Law Collection of English legal treatises and reports, 17th-18th century comprising: Davies, Sir John. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley, Resolves et Adjudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1628. Second edition, folio (28 x 17.3cm), 20th-century half leather, text mainly in black letter, woodcut title devices and initials, typographic headpieces, initial blank present, early marginalia, ownership inscriptions to title-page ('Robert Wm Osborne, November 1844' and 'Robt Molesworth'), damp-staining to lower margins, occasional browning [ESTC S123364; STC 6362]; Dalton, Michael. Officium Vicecomitum. The Office and Authoritie of Sherifs. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1623. First edition, folio (28 x 18.5cm), contemporary blind-ruled calf, strapwork woodcut border to title-page, damp-staining and concomitant softening and fraying in fore margins (causing slight loss to title-page border, text otherwise unaffected), either free endpapers or initial and final blanks discarded [ESTC S107284; STC 6212]; Sheppard, William. An Epitome of all the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation. London: for W. Lee [and others], 1656. First edition, folio (28.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, endpapers renewed, browning, old ink-stain to 5F1-2 obscuring a few words, [ESTC R10939; Wing S3184]; Blount, Thomas. Nomo-Lexikon [graece]. A Law Dictionary. London: for H. Herringman [and others], 1691. Second edition ('with some corrections, and the addition of above six hundred words'), folio (31 x 18.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn, spill-burns in 2R2 and 3O1, closed tear in 3Y2 [ESTC R11153; Wing B3341]; and 7 others (these not collated): Les Reports de Sir William Jones ... un des justices del' Banck le Roy, 1675 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, browning); Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of the Exchequer ... collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, 1693 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, imprimatur leaf, contemporary marginalia, browning); The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, 1725 (first edition, large folio, contemporary tan calf, imprimatur leaf, bookplate of Sir John Cope, Bart); Michael Dalton, The Country Justice, 1727 (folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, hole in half-title/advertisement leaf); Giles Jacob, A New Law-Dictionary, 1736 (third edition, folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked); John Selden, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government in England, 1760 (fifth edition, 4to, contemporary calf, bookplate of Thomas Dundas of Upleatham, Yorkshire); Daines Barrington, Observations on the more Ancient Statutes, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap. XXVII, 1769 (4to, contemporary quarter calf, front board detached, closed tear in title-page) (11)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Religion in 17th-century England Collection of treatises including: Owen, John. Vindicae Evangelicae or The Mystery of the Gospell vindicated, and Socianisme examined. Oxford: Leon. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1655. First and only edition, 4to (17.8 x 13.2cm), later half sheep, retaining medial blank I4, Hebrew types, worn, joints superficially cracked, quire 4H with tears to lower inner corner costing a few letters [ESTC R203109; Wing O823]; Stillingfleet, Edward. Origines sacrae. Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith. London: by R. W. for Henry Mortlock, 1666. Third edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.8 x 13.4cm, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, Hebrew types, spine worn and extremities worn, front joint cracked [ESTC R10486; Wing S5618]; [Allestree, Richard]. The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. London: by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1683. 8vo (18.2 x 11.4cm), contemporary calf, gilt panels to covers, imprimatur leaf, engraved vignette of St Paul's Cathedral in flames to title-page, 2 engraved plates, advertisement leaf, 18th-century bookplate (William Bray, possibly the noted antiquary, 1736-1832), ownership inscriptions to title-page, front cover bowed, rear free endpaper discarded; Lloyd, William. An Historical Account of Church-Government as it was in Great Britain and Ireland, when they first received the Christian Religion. London: by M. Flesher, for Charles Brome, 1684. Second edition, 8vo (18 x 10.5cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, occasional damp-staining [ESTC R36869; Wing L2682]; Perkins, William. The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience. London: by J. L. and are to be sold by Thomas Pierrepont, 1651. 4to (18.2 x 13.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep, rebacked (front board near-detached), small tear in P7; and 11 others (these not fully collated), contemporary bindings, including: John Flavel, [The Fountain of Life] Opened: or, a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, 1673 (first edition, head of title-page torn away, ESTC R20462: four copies in UK libraries); Richard Allestree, The Whole Duty of Man, 2 copies, 1711 and [1743]; idem, The Gentleman's Calling, 1717 (lacking portrait); John Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana: being Inscriptions on the Monuments of Several Eminent Persons deceased in or since the Year 1650, to the end of the Year 1679 [-1680, to ... 1699; 1700, to ... 1715], 3 works, 1718-18-17 (first work rear board near-detached); Thomas Gouge, The Works, 1706; Samuel Clarke, A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, 1732 (eighth edition); Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion, 1791; Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1722 (fifth edition, 2 volumes, 9 engraved folding plates only); William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, 1795 (fourth edition, 2 volumes, front covers detached); [John Goodwin, An Exposition of the Nineth Chapter of ... Romans, 1653] (lacking title-page) (20)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Selden, John Titles of Honor London: by William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631. Second edition, folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined retaining old label, title-page in red and black, frequent Anglo-Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), corners worn, front inner hinge gone, browning, damp-staining to gutter of prelims and occasionally to fore margins later on, title-page with closed tear in gutter, 5Y3 torn (most of text intact), final blank discarded [ESTC S117044; STC 22178]; Willis, Browne. A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle [etc.]. London: for R. Gosling, 1727. First edition, 4to (24.5 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, half-title, 20 engraved plates (all but one folding), engraved armorial bookplate of the Barons Kenyon, 'Peel Library' inscribed above, old reinforcement to inner hinges [ESTC T93608]; Weever, John. Antient Funeral Monuments of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent. London: by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767. Second edition (first published in 1631), 4to (26.5 x 20cm), contemporary marbled half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, folding table, woodcuts in text, bookplate of Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), publisher and map- seller [ESTC ST28052]; and 5 others (these not collated): John Evelyn, Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees ... With Notes by A. Hunter, 1786 (2 volumes, 4to, modern half leather, engraved plates); Roger North, Examen ... into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, 1740 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn, joints cracked); [John Hughes, editor], A Complete History of England, 1719 (second edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portraits, joints cracked); John Tillotson, The Works, 1728 (mixed editions, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait, spines worn); John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

17th-century England and English Civil War Collection of bindings, 19th century including: Lonsdale, John Lowther, Viscount. Memoir of the Reign of James II. York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1808. First edition, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title, inscribed 'For Lord Redesdale, with Lord Lonsdale's Comps, Janr 23d 1808', recipient's ownership inscription to title-page, joints cracked); Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, Knight, LL.D., the Friend of the Earl of Strafford. London: John Nichols and Son, 1810. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, marked, Syston Park bookplate; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1836. New edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, Clan Macaulay bookplates; Idem. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by Himself. Oxford: at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Vaughan, Robert, editor. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels, Eton leaving inscription; Calamy, Edmund. An Historical Account of My Own Life. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, merlion device gilt to spines, headcaps worn; [English Civil War]. Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First. London: R. Wilks, 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, bookplates of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899) re-imposed; and approx. 20 others similar (e.g. Gilbert Burnet, History of his own Time, 1766, third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, portrait; Godfrey Goodman, The Court of King James the First, 1839, 2 volumes; Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, 1808; William Lilly's History of his Life and Times, from the Year 1602 to 1681, 1823, contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt, etc.), the lot sold as bindings, not subject to return (approx. 50 volumes)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620]; Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130]; 'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409]; Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737]; Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814]; and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.

18th-century English books Collection of works on various subjects including: Povey, Charles. The Virgin in Eden: or, the State of Innocecy. Deliver'd by Way of Image and Description. Presenting a Nobleman, a Student, and Heiress, on their Progress from Sodom to Canaan ... To which are added, Pamela's Letters proved to be Immodest Romances painted in Images of Virtue. London: J. Roberts, 1741. First edition, 8vo (19.2 x 12.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked, extremities rubbed [ESTC T133871: four copies in UK libraries]; Swift, Jonathan. The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. London: A. Millar, 1758. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), contemporary half calf, spine and boards renewed [ESTC T151042]; Wintringham, Clifton, senior. Commentarium nosologicum orbos epidemicos et aeris variationes in urbe Eboracensi licisque vicinis. London: William Bowyer, 1733. Second edition, 8vo (19.9 x 12.4cm), contemporary inscription '[...] Ex dono Gul. Fordyce Eq' to title-page (possibly referring to noted Scottish physician William Fordyce, 1724-1792), contemporary calf spine, covers lacking, spotting to title-page and occasionally elsewhere, adhesive staining to blank verso of final leaf [ESTC T151042: 500 copies printed]; Xenophon. The Banquet, done from the Greek ... By James Welwood. London: John Barnes; and Andrew Bell, 1710. First edition thus, 8vo (17 x 10cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked [ESTC T145158]; and 18 others (these not collated), including: John Keill, Introductio ad ad veram astronomiam, 1721 ('Editio secunda', 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan calf); Edmund Burke, Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, 1796 (8vo, contemporary tree calf, marginal excision from title-page); Colin Maclaurin, A Treatise of Algebra, 1756 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, front cover detached); Jonathan Swift, The Sermons, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1763 (8vo, 20th-century cloth); David Moyses [Moysie], Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1755 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked); The Life and Adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew ... the King of Beggars, 1782 (8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked); A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, 1785 (third edition, 12mo, later green sheep, repairs); and similar (22)Note: Another edition of Wintringham's work, a treatise on diseases in the city of York, appeared in 1727, but at 64 pp. is considerably shorter than the present second edition, which has 168 pp.

19th-century fiction Collection of triple-decker novels comprising: Barrie, J. M. The Little Minister. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, initial blank and half-title to each volume, 16 pp. advertisements to volume 1, ownership inscriptions of Campbell Douglas (1828-1910), noted architect, to front front free endpapers, rubbed and bumped, spines rolled, variable spotting and staining, volume 1 final quire (P) with shallow burn-hole to lower margin [Sadleir 167]; Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [Isabella]. The Manchester Man. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1876. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, half-titles, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, slightly rubbed and marked, spines rolled, tips bumped and showing through, volume 2 recased and relined (spine stained), half-titles spotted [Sadleir 154: 'A factual story of Manchester during the first 30 years of the nineteenth century'; contains reference to the Peterloo massacre]; [Holford, Mary Anne]. Strathrowan. A Tale of Modern Life. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, pp. [4] 297, [2] 304, [2] 358, half-title to volume 1, rubbed, tips bumped, volume 1 inner hinges cracked, light cracking to others [not in Sadleir]; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Refugees. A Tale of Two Continents. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition (1,000 copies printed), 3 volumes, 8vo, [8] 227, [4] 214, [4] 304, 24 pp. advertisements to volume 1 (dated 3/93), original green cloth, bindings shaken, soiled and worn, Grant's Library labels to front covers, variable spotting and staining, volume 2 signature 2 loose, signature 6 starting, volume 3 water-stained and front cover bowed [not in Sadleir]; together with 4 other triple-deckers (these not fully collated): George Meredith, One of our Conquerors, 1891 (first edition, original blue cloth); [Sarah Ellis née Stickney], Family Secrets, [c.1843] (first edition, contemporary green half skiver, 31 engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages); [John Galt], The Spaewife; a Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, 1823 (first edition, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered); Walter Besant, Herr Paulus, 1888 (first edition, contemporary quarter roan, volume 1 with loss to headcap); and one double-decker, H. S. Merriman, From One Generation to Another, 1892 (original cloth) (26)Note: Library Hub traces three copies only of Strathrowan (BL, Cambridge, NLS).

19th-century literature Collection of works by various authors including: Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock & Bowden Limited, [1895]. Second edition, 8vo, original vellum-backed boards, 8 pp. advertisements, front joint split through, tips worn [Mason 330]; Dickens, Charles. The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life. London: Chapman and Hall [-Bradbury and Evans], 1845-46-46. 3 works, first editions, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, engraved frontispiece and vignette title to each work (Chimes vignette title in first state, Battle vignette title in fourth state), Cricket and Battle each with advertisement leaf (the former in second state), bindings rubbed and marked, wear to spines and extremities, spines rolled, Cricket rear joint split, Battle front inner hinge broken, Chimes frontispiece and vignette title spotted [Smith II:5, 6, 8]; Idem. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, 8vo (21.1 x 12.8cm), contemporary green half morocco by Carss of Glasgow, half-title, directions to the binder leaf, 43 engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, plates in early state with page numbers and no imprints (but the Buss plates replaced), plates spotted and browned; Trollope, Anthony. Travelling Sketches. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, a superb copy, entirely unopened; Ibsen, Henrik. Bygmester Solness. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1892. First edition of The Master Builder, 8vo, original decorative green cloth gilt; and 12 others (these not collated), including: Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844 (first edition, contemporary diced calf, worn); Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake, 1869 (Mauchlinware binding); John Ruskin, Praeterita, 1900 (second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf); idem, Elements of Drawing, 1857 (first edition, original cloth); William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, 1895 (one of 50 copies on Whatman paper, original cloth, slipcase); Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, London: George Routledge and Co., 1852 (contemporary half calf); William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out, [1890] (first edition, original cloth, frontispiece); Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy, 1848 (first edition, original cloth); Hans Christian Andersen, Tales from Denmark. Translated by Charles Boner, 1849 (second edition, original boards, backstrip lacking); Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864 (first edition, bookplate of Cecil Deedes, 1843-1920, clergyman); Mary Martha Sherwood, The History of John Marten, 1844 (first edition, original cloth); Frances Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, 1840 (first one-volume edition, original cloth) (21)

Antiquarian literature Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century comprising: Hooker (Richard). The Works, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: for Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook, 1666. Folio (36.5 x 22.8cm), contemporary red goatskin, large gilt arms to covers comprising prince’s crown above monogram ‘V A’ (or reverse) between ostrich feathers, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, bookplate of the dukes of Portland (two arms counter-embowed, vested and gloved each holding an ostrich feather), front cover detached [ESTC R11910]; Ruscelli, Girolamo. Le imprese illustri, aggiuntovi nuovam[en]te il quarto libro da Vincenzo Ruscelli. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi senesi, 1584. 4to (24.1 x 17.5cm), old calf, 4 engraved title-pages, 2 folding plates (signed O2-3 and 2B3-2), engraved emblems throughout the text (many full-page), bookplate of John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (1680-1741), styled as the Earl of Roxburghe, front board loose, variable browning and mottling throughout, 2R1 loose, a few early headlines shaved [Adams R955]; Antoninus Florentinus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint. [Summe majoris, part 2 only of 4]. Lyon: Jean Cleyn, [1506]. Folio in 8s (29.5 x 20cm), modern leather backing wooden boards, text in double column, gothic letter, 68 lines and headline, contemporary hand-painted initials and capital strokes throughout (in red or blue), old vellum manuscript fragment bound in at rear, lacking first quire (A), last leaf apparently blank (otherwise final quire lacking a leaf) [Adams A1214]; and 8 others (these not collated), including: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655-61-73 (3 volumes, folio, modern calf, engraved plates); Silius Italicus, De bello Punico, Lyon, 1547 (16mo, later binding); Giovanni Pietro Valeriano Bolzani, Hieorglyphica, Frankfurt, 1678 (4to, modern tan morocco gilt); Tacitus, Opere, Venice: Giunti, 1620 (4to, contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page, front inner hinge gone); Galen, Omnium operum, Venice: Valgrisi, 1562 (3 volumes only, of 10, folio, modern bindings, repairs); Ben Jonson, Workes, 1616 (first collected edition, volume one only, folio, modern orange morocco, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in photocopy); Biondi, An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, 1641 (lacking engraved title-page); and similar (16)

[Ballet] The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French London: G. Robinson [and others], [1782]-3. First edition in English, 3 volumes in 1, 8vo (21.1 x 12cm), recent blue half morocco, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [9] vi-lxviii 227 [5], [4] 258, [6] vii-xi [3] 3-330, toning, light spotting, ownership inscription effaced from half-title, frontispiece browned and more heavily spotted, occasional pencil-markings [ESTC N25828]Note: Very rare: ESTC traces nine copies in libraries world-wide; two copies traced at auction, the last in 1985. Jean-Georges Noverre's concept of ballet d'action revolutionised the performance of classical ballet. Volumes 1-2 comprise a translation of his Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, first published in 1760; the third volume contains treatments of his ballets The Danaides, Rinaldo and Armida, Adela of Ponthieu, The Graces, The Horatii and Curiatii, Agamemnon Revenged, and Apelles and Campaspe.

[Brooke, Frances] The History of Emily Montague London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 4 volumes, 12mo (16.7 x 9.7cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco labels, golden fleece motifs gilt to spine compartments (see note), half-titles, errata leaf to volume 4, volume 1 final leaf of text (L12) discarded [ESTC T72176; Sabin 8240] (4)Note: First edition of the first novel set and written in Canada. Brooke was in Quebec between 1763 and 1767, accompanying her husband who was chaplain to the British garrison. 'In the late eighteenth century the work also became a kind of guidebook for visitors to Quebec' (ODNB). Provenance: The Hon. George Baillie (c.1721-1797; ownership inscription to title-pages, engraved armorial bookplate of his antecedent George Ballie to front pastedowns, armorial binding); thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington.

[Cleland, John] Memoirs of *********** ** ************ [a Woman of Pleasure] London: printed for G. Fenton in the Strand, [?1755], 2 volumes, 12mo, 232pp. + 252pp., typographic ornament on title-pages, contemporary calf, gilt rule to boards, volume number gilt stamped to spines, ownership inscription 'M.F. Heise, 1785' on front free endpapers, the free endpapers also with small unobtrusive blindstamp of a ?princely coronet with initials 'W.W.', slightly rubbed, joints split or partly split, occasional light spotting, [ESTC T84804: BL copy only]; with a single contemporary manuscript annotation 'Navarino' in lower margin of page 191 volume 1 referencing the word 'untoward' which is underlinedNote: A very early edition of the first and the most famous erotic or pornographic novel in English. 'The novel, consisting of two letters addressed by the fictional character Frances “Fanny” Hill to a “Madam,” recounts in vivid and explicit detail Fanny’s transgressive sexual experiences from her adolescence through her middle age' (University of Indiana, 'Banned Books', online). The novel was perhaps the most heavily challenged book in court, in both England and the United States. It was first published unabridged in the United States by Putnam in 1963, but it was not until the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Memoirs v. Massachussets (383 U.S. 413) in March 1966, that the ban imposed by the Attorney General of Massachusetts was lifted. Cleland [1710-1789] composed his novel while serving a sentence for debt in the Fleet Prison. According to his own testimony, it was written largely from boredom and, the early chapters anyway, was based on an idea '... originally give me by a young gentleman of the greatest hopes I ever knew, above eighteen years ago, on an occasion immaterial to mention here'. Volume one appeared about November 1748, and volume two was published in early February the following year. Both were printed by Thomas Parker for Ralph Griffiths and advertised in the press at three shillings each volume. 'In November 1749, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the author, publisher and printer of the book and by the end of the month, Cleland, Griffiths and Parker... were all on bail and awaiting trial' (Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, p.66). The bookseller and publisher Ralph Griffiths blamed everything on his brother, Fenton Griffiths, whose inverted name, G. Fenton, was used for the book's false imprint. When examined before Lord Stanhope, the Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's office on 13 November 1749 Ralph Griffiths said he had sold about 60 sets of the said work. Cleland in his defence argued ingeniously that had he not been prosecuted the work would have died a quiet death and added, somewhat maliciously, that the clergy were amongst the keenest buyers of the work. Cleland and his associates were found guilty in court, and the novel was withdrawn, at least officially, from circulation. Despite losing the case, however, Cleland seems to have escaped lightly; no record of any punishment exists. Foxon states: 'There were four editions in which the title-page reads, with minor variations, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: printed for G. Fenton, 1749'; at least one of them was probably printed on the continent. Shortly after his release, Cleland produced a heavily bowdlerized version of the Memoirs, entitled Memoirs of Fanny Hill, which was published in March 1750. Ralph Griffiths was again prosecuted for this publication at the instigation of Bishops of the Church of England. In his defence Griffiths argued that he saw nothing wrong with the book as all the details of the sexual encounters had been omitted from the text. Indeed the book, as a result, is significantly shorter than the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Readers however did not embrace this watered down version of the more racy original which circulated widely in underground form for over two hundred years. The number of copies of the first edition of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is unknown but if Ralph Griffiths's claim that he had sold about sixty copies between November 1748 and November 1749 is true, it seems unlikely that more than a few hundred at most were ever printed. The number of copies printed of the present edition is also unknown but is probably no greater than the first edition. No copies of this edition are recorded being sold at auction since 1975. David Foxon notes "Editions C & D [with 1749 on the title-page], like the undated Memoirs of ********** cannot at present be dated at all precisely; probably they never will". ESTC notes the date as "? 1755". The copy of this edition reproduced in Eighteenth Century Collections Online has the front endpaper inscribed and dated 1759, indicating that this edition must have been printed by 1759 at the very latest. David Foxon. Libertine Literature in England 166-1745, Appendix. 1964

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Poems London: by N. Biggs, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third edition, 12mo (15.5 x 9.6cm), contemporary marbled calf, advertisement leaf to rear, bookplate (Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baron Gilmour, 1857-1939), rubbed, joints cracked; Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original wrappers, half-title, 4 pp. advertisements (dated November 1816), bookplate to half-title (J. R. Hutchinson, motto 'perseverando'), housed in customer green cloth chemise and slipcase with a copy of The Siege of Corinth, 1816, second edition, 8vo, original wrappers, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplate; Idem. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with Doge's speech on p.151 beginning 'What crimes?'), 8vo, original boards, half-title, advertisement leaf, inner hinges strengthened, occasional spotting; and 19 others, poetry (these not collated), including: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Two Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1854 (first edition, original wrappers); Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 1852 (first edition, original wrappers); William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, 1870 (Centenary Edition, 6 volumes, contemporary straight-grain red morocco); Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV. and XVI, 1824 (first edition, boards, Baron Gilmour bookplate); Swinburne, A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876 (4 copies, first editions, original wrappers); and similar including more by Byron (27)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4 Autograph Centenary Edition, number 20 of 600 sets with a leaf of Emerson's autograph manuscript tipped into the first volume. 12 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14cm), original green crushed half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 56 photogravure plates, the set partly unopened, spines sunned (12)Provenance: Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.

Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translation from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 9.5cm), contemporary 'Spanish' calf, neatly rebacked to style, Greek-key roll and twin fillet frame gilt to covers, marbled endpapers and edges, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., engraved armorial bookplates (Thomas J. Woodward) (3)Note: Rare provincial English edition of the unauthorised continuation of Don Quixote, first published in Spanish in 1614, and in English in 1705; Library Hub traces three copies only.

Machiavelli, Niccolo The Florentine History in VIII Books Now exactly translated from the Italian. London: for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674. Second edition in English, 8vo (17 x 10.6cm), contemporary tree sheep, rebacked and relined, engraved portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription 'James Espinasse, Gray's Inn' to initial blank, his bookplate to front pastedown (presumably reimposed), toning, browning and occasional damp-staining to margins, worm-track to lower margin in quires A-D (repaired in frontispiece and title-page), title-page marked, 2A7 and 2B7 with marginal repairs, a few other marks [ESTC R22284; Wing M136]Note: Uncommon. The first edition in English appeared in 1595.

North American literature Collection of works, 19th-20th century including: [Irving, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-VII.]. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1819-20. First editions, early printings, 7 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (20.6 x 13cm), contemporary maroon calf, parts 1-2 continuously paginated, remaining parts separately paginated, penciled annotation 'Bound from the parts [...] 2nd printing' to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscriptions to title-pages, bindings sunned and rubbed; [Early Canadian printing]. The Rising Village, with Other Poems. By Oliver Goldsmith. A Descendant of the Author of "The Deserted Village". Saint John, New Brunswick: published for the author by John McMillan, 1834. 12mo, contemporary cloth, 144 pp., bookplate (Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave), light wear to spine; [Ball, Charles]. Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave. New York: H. Dayton, 1860. 8vo, original blue cloth, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, binding rubbed, spine rolled, pp. 265-8 repaired; Faulkner, William. Salmagundi. And a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway. Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. One of 525 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, light splitting to front joint; Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved additional vignette title-pages, front free endpapers with ownership inscriptions 'Benjamin W. Crowninshield', either the US politician (1772-1851) or his grandson (1837–1892), spines sunned; and 12 others, including Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c.1911 (inscribed by the author), Robert Wilson, Poems, Boston, 1856 (first edition, with secretarial presentation inscription), Hermann Scheffauer, Looms of Life, New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1908 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Richard Eberhart, Thirty One Sonnets, New York: Eakins Press, 1967 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Liam O'Flaherty, The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927 (first edition, signed by the author, additionally inscribed by British composer Kaikhosru Sorabji, 1892-1988 'To my dear friend Frank Holliday very affectionately ... K. 30/9/43'), Sir Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, 1852 (second edition, original cloth), and similar (19)

Pamphlets Collection of plays and tracts, 17th-19th century including: [Vanbrugh, Sir John]. The Provok'd Wife: a Comedy as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. London: for Richard Wellington, 1698. 4to, early-20th-century morocco, bookplate of Duff Cooper (1890-1954, British politician), bound without half-title, spotting and browning, tape-repairs to K1 and K4 (the repairs extending into text in the latter, not affecting legibility) [ESTC R3704: eight copies in UK libraries; first published the previous year]; [Swift, Jonathan]. The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace, Paraphras'd and Address'd to Richard St--le, London: for A. Dodd, 1714. 4to, 20th-century sheep, browning [ESTC T35561; first published the previous year]; [Defoe, Daniel]. A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: a Satyr level'd at Treachery and Ambition: calculated to the Nativity of the Rapparee Plott, and the Modesty of the Jacobite Clergy. [London:] printed in the year 1691. First edition, 4to, 20th-century green morocco, retaining final blank (E4), slightly browned, closely trimmed at head, [ESTC R4948, four copies only in UK libraries]; Idem. A Word about a New Election, that the People of England may see the Happy Difference between English Liberty and French Slavery. [London]: printed in the year 1710. First edition, 8vo, modern boards, browning, closely trimmed at foot shaving a few catchwords [ESTC T70864]; Idem. An Essay upon Literature ... proving that the two Tables, written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first Writing in the World; and that all other Alphabets derive from the Hebrew. London: for Tho[mas] Bowles [and others], 1726. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 quarter morocco [ESTC T70337: eight copies in UK libraries]; Jonson, Ben. Horace, his Art of Poetrie, made English [extracted from The Workes, 1640]. [London: printed by Richard Bishop], 1640. Folio, modern boards, 29 pp., slightly browned, damp-staining; and approx. 25 others (these not collated), including William Whitehead, Elegies. With an Ode to the Tiber, 1757 (half-title, engraved title-vignette), Thomas Southern, Oroonoko, A Tragedy, 1735, William Grimston, The Lawyer's Fortune ... A Comedy, 1736, Thomas Arne, The Guardian Out-witted, 1764, Arthur Murphy, The Desert Island, a Dramatic Poem, 1760, and similar, mainly in modern wrappers or disbound, a theatrical sammelband (containing e.g. Macklin, Love a-la-Mode, 1784, Sheridan, The Duenna, 1784, Southern, Isabella or the Fatal Marriage ... altered by D. Garrick, 1785, etc., Dryden & Lee, Oedipus, 1784, etc.), and similar (approx. 30)

Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is now acted at the Theatre Royal London: by H[enry]. H[ills]. Jun. for Hen[ry] Herringman and R[ichard] Bentley, and sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, [c.1695]. 4to (21.8 x 16.8cm), 20th-century crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, signatures A-H4, 64 pp. (paginated [2] 1 4-18 91 20-29 20 31-40 33-48 57 50-51 60-61 54-55 64), evenly browned, signature-marks added in pencil, short closed tear to foot of E4 extending into one word either side, small ink-stain to final leaf obscuring a few letters [Bartlett 113; ESTC R11165, five copies in UK libraries; Wing S2923]Note: Third quarto edition, the first of four undated quartos following two dated editions of 1684 and 1691, conforming to all the points in Bartlett in respect of pagination, signatures and catch-words, except for page 28, which is correctly numbered in our copy but misnumbered 18 in her collation.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus By the Author of The Last man, Perkin Warbeck, etc. etc. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a New Introduction by the Author. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 8vo (16.4 x 10.2cm), contemporary half sheep, morocco-grain blue cloth sides, pp. [5] vi-xii 204; [5] 4-163 [3], letterpress series-title ('Standard Novels No. IX'), engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page to Frankenstein, half-title to The Ghost-Seer, advertisement leaf to rear, binding rubbed, shallow chip to head of spine, short split to head of front joint, ink-stamps (Royal Alyth Public Library) to series-title, frontispiece recto, upper margin of vignette-title, Frankenstein p. 115, and Ghost-Seer title-page and p. 7, ink underlining and marginalia to Frankenstein pp. 12 and 148, a few other marks [Sadleir 3734a.9]Note: First Bentley edition of Frankenstein, extensively revised by the author, the third edition overall. Published as the ninth volume in Bentley's Standard Novels series (the volume also containing the first part only of Schiller's The Ghost-Seer), it was also the first illustrated edition, and the first in one volume. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, the second edition appearing in 1823.

Statius, Publius Papinius; Gibbon, Hume and James, 26 volumes comprising: Statius, Publius Papinius. Sylvarum libri quinque. Thebaidos libri duodecim. Achilleidos duo (Orthographia). [Venice: in academia Aldi Romani, November 1502; in aedibus Aldi, August 1502]. 8vo (14.9 x 9.5cm), Orthographia bound first, text in italics, woodcut Aldine device at end of Orthographia, with blank leaf i8, small partial library stamp on verso of Orthographia, 18th century red morocco gilt with gilt initials WPG and motto 'For My Duchus', rubbed, upper cover detached, [Aldo Manuzio tipografo 69; Edit16 36141; Renouard 35/7]; Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1797. 11 (of 12) volumes, contemporary calf gilt; Hume, David. The History of England. 1807. 8 volumes [complete], contemporary calf; James, William. The Naval History of Great Britain. 1826, volumes 1-5 (of 6), contemporary half calf, spines gilt; and 1 odd volume (26)Note: The first Aldine edition of all the surviving works of Statius, along with an orthography of Greek terms found in Statius.

War of the Spanish Succession; Battle of Blenheim Pamphlet volume 5 works in 1 volume, 4to (19.6 x 15cm), 19th-century half calf (rubbed), front pastedown with bookplate of the Dukes of Marlborough, clipped signature 'Duke of Marlborough' and pencilled gift inscription dated 1895, contents comprise: 1. The History of the Campaigne in Germany and the Netherlands, for the Year 1705. Under the Command of his Excellency, John Duke of Marlborough ... With a Particular Account of the forcing the French Lines, and of the Officers kill'd and taken Prisoners on that Account. London: B. Bragg, 1705. First edition, [4] 55 [1] pp., browning, 'The' in title and one headline shaved [ESTC N8029: five copies in libraries world-wide]; 2. The Hero of the Age: or, Duke of Marlborough. In Three Parts. I. Pindarick. II. Heroick. Being a Description of the Late Battel at Bleinheim [sic]. III. An Ode. London: Benjamin Bragg, 1705. First edition, [4] 24 pp., closely trimmed at head and foot shaving a few page-numbers, catchwords and part of the last line of the main text on pp. [3] and 5, old staining and dust-soiling to final leaf [not in ESTC]; 3. Glukopikra [graece]: or, Miscellanies Melancholly and Diverting. Occasioned chiefly by the Death of a Late Incomparable and Truly Noble Lady. By Way of Pastoral. London: A. Baldwin 1704. First edition, [2] 30 pp., a few marks [ESTC N17829: six copies in libraries world-wide]; 4. Mareschal Tallard's Aid-de-Camp: his Account of the Battle of Bleinheim written by him from Strasburg, to Monsieur de Chamillard, a Minister of State in France; and intercepted, and sent over to a Foreign Minister, residing in England. London: John Nutt, 1704. First edition, [2] 10 11 [1] pp., title-page faded and marked, occasional soiling, without map [ESTC T75760]; 5. An Exact Account of the Siege of Namur: with a Perfect Diary of the Campagne in Flanders, from the King's Departure from Kensington, May the 12th. to his Return to London, Octob. 11th. 1695. By a Gentleman attending his Majesty during the whole Campagne. London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1695. First edition, [4] 56 pp., browning, a few marks [ESTC R31463: 11 copies world-wide]Note: The History of the Campaigne in Germany and the Netherlands is sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. The dedication of the second work, The Hero of the Age, is signed 'Jasper Robins'; a copy is listed in the printed catalogue of what became Dr Williams's Library (Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate, 1841, volume 2, p. 291), but the work is not in ESTC and no other copies are traced. The third work, Glukopikra, is a verse dialogue of unidentified authorship and contains a reference to the Duke of Marlborough at p. 27: 'M[enalcas]: By Sea and Land he knows how to command, / He Bembo is by Sea, Churchill by Land: / Th[yrsis]. Th'illustrious Marlborough! in whom alone / We have them all consummated in one'.

Wilde, Oscar [The Works] London: Methuen and Co, 1908. [The Picture of Dorian Gray with imprint Paris: Charles Carrington]. First collected edition, one of 1000 sets on handmade paper, 15 volumes in 14 (For the Love of the King and Miscellanies bound in 1), 8vo (20.6 x 14.2cm), contemporary red half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookseller's description (E. Joseph) laid in, spines faded and with a few marks, a little foxing to a few volumes (A Woman of No Importance; The Poems; An Ideal Husband), occasional dust-soiling (particularly to final leaves); Shakespeare, William. The Plays ... the Fifth Edition, revised and augmented by Isaac Reed. London: J. Johnson [and others], 1803. 20 volumes (of 21: without final volume, containing Titus Andronicus), 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, Greek key roll gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt, spines faded; Kipling, Rudyard. The Writings in Prose and Verse. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897-1900. 17 volumes (of 38; this set originally comprising 20; lacking volumes 3, 19 and 20, plus 21-38), 8vo (21 x 13.8cm), 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt, bookplates of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, Scottish-American industrialist and benefactor), fading to spines (52)Provenance: Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.

Bates, H. E. Collection of signed limited editions comprising: The Hessian Prisoner. With a Line Drawing by John Austen and a Foreword by Edward Garnett. London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930. First edition, one of 550 copies signed by the author, tall 8vo, original red cloth, spine sunned; Mrs Esmond's Life. London: privately printed, 1931. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original yellow cloth; A Threshing Day. London: W. and G. Foyle, 1931. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue cloth, binding faded in places; The Story without an End and The Country Doctor. London: The White Owl Press, 1932. First edition, one of 130 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original yellow cloth, a few faint marks to covers; Sally Go Round the Moon. London: The White Owl Press, 1932. First edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth; The Duet. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. First edition, one of 250 copies signed by the artist, from the total edition of 285, 8vo, original cloth, spotting to endpapers; The Tinkers of Elstow. Illustrations by Randolph Schwabe. The Story of the Royal Ordnance factory managed by J. Lyons & Company Limited for the Ministry of Supply during the World War of 1919-1945. [London: no publisher], c.1945. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author and artist, 8vo, original blue sheep, printed on hand-made paper, covers rubbed and scuffed, head of spine pulled; and 16 others by Bates, including Seven Tales and Alexander, 1929 (one of 1000 copies) (23)

Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. First UK edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, label of library suppliers A & B Cox to front pastedown, each cover attached to dust jacket by strip of self-adhesive tape over top and bottom edge, jacket with resulting stain to top edge of front and rear panel, rubbing along extremities, and a couple of nicks, together with The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988-90 (5 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, similar condition) (6)Note: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Dilke, Lady [Emilia Francis] The Shrine of Death and Other Stories London: George Routledge & Sons, 1886. First edition, trade issue, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, bookplate, covers rubbed, spotting to endpapers; Haggard, H. Rider. She. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original cloth, double-page colour lithographic frontispiece, advertisement leaf, spine rolled, frontispiece working loose and with contemporary ownership inscription recto; Wodehouse, P. G. Mike. A Public School Story. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 12 plates, ex-library with associated markings, frontispiece frayed, plate facing p. 228 apparently supplied from another copy; and 10 others, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, London: Kegan Paul [etc.], 1933 (second edition, original cloth), Shane Leslie, The Oppidan, 1922 (first edition, inscribed 'To my brother of the Cape and Sword, Shane Leslie, in the first year of the pontificate of the Holiness of Pius XI', bookplate of Viscount Tredegar), Walter de la Mare, The Connoisseur, 1926 (limited edition, one of 250, signed by the author, damp-staining to binding), Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus and his Legends of the Old Plantation, London: David Bogue, 1881 (first UK edition, original cloth, 4 plates, shaken, toned, spotting), Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries, 1904 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket), Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Antony, London: H. S. Nichols, 1895 ('authorised edition', original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a bright copy), Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, 1917 (first edition, original cloth, excision from front free endpaper), E. M. Forster, The Eternal Moment, 1928 (first edition, original cloth, ownership inscription of Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree), and a volume of manuscript poetry, 'Poems, 1913-14, Charles Graves' (46 pp., title en collage, contents including 'Dedication to Modern Scottish Poetry: To Lewis Spence', 'The Ilex Tree, Garsington', 'Junks off Hong Kong', etc.) (12)

Dowson, Ernest Decorations: in Verse and Prose, London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to (19 x 13.7cm), contemporary half morocco gilt, half-title, colophon leaf, edges untrimmed, original vellum front cover bound in at rear. Together with 26 others, poetry, 19th and early 20th century, including: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta and Calydon, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1865 (first edition, 4to, original cream cloth gilt to a design by D. G. Rossetti, bevelled boards, bookplate of T. M. Bruce Gardyne, covers marked, first two quires shaken); Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 (pirate edition?, 8vo original cloth); Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal, Paris: Louis Conard, 1922 (8vo, contemporary half morocco, inscribed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988), British composer, 'You ought to possess a good copy of this remarkable poet's work, bless you, yours ever, K' on initial blank); J. E. Flecker, The Letters of J. E. Flecker to Frank Savery, London: Beaumont Press, 1926 (one of 80 copies printed on japon and signed by editor, artist and publisher, 8vo, original half vellum); [Lady Margaret Sackville], Bertrud and Other Dramatic Poems, Edinburgh: William Brown, 1911 (first edition, out-of-series copy from the total edition of 200, 8vo, original limp vellum, tawed deerskin ties, printed on Van Gelder paper, partly unopened, photogravure frontispiece offset); Robert Eyres Landor, Selections from his Poetry and Prose ... by Eric Partridge, London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 (one of 155 copies on handmade paper, signed); [Australiana], The Explorer and Other Poems, by M. C., Melbourne: George Robertson, 1874 (first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, largely unopened); and similar, many signed by the author (27)

Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. 8vo, original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, contemporary bookseller's ticket (Gotham Book Mart, New York) to rear pastedown, a few extra specks of gilt to front board around title, text-block toned [Gallup A6a]Note: First edition, first impression, number 657 of 1000 copies, intermediate state, with the correct reading of 'mountains' on p. 41 (line 339) as in the 'first copies' (Gallup), but with the figures in the colophon only 2mm high as in later copies.

European literature Collection of works in French and other languages comprising: Proust, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896. First edition, folio (29.5 x 20cm), later half morocco, 14 tinted plates, partly unopened, original wrappers bound in; Eluard, Paul. Le dur désir de durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Philadelphia: Grey Falcon Press, & London, Trianon Press, 1950. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original wrappers, colour frontispiece; Gide, André. Montaigne. An Essay in Two Parts. London: Blackamore Press, 1929. One of 800 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth; Gautier, Théophile. Musée secret ... pointes sèches originales de Mya. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1932. One of 875 copies on vélin d'Arches, folio, original wrappers, 10 plates, glassine dust jacket, plates and text in unbound bifolia as issued, spotting; Claudel, Paul. Les Euménides d'Eschyle. Paris: Nouvelle revue française, 1920. One of 100 copies 'sur papier Whatman à la forme ... réservés aux bibliophiles de la Nouvelle revue française', 4to, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket, edges untrimmed and unopened, glassine dust-soiled; Boiardo, Matteo Maria, conte di Scandiano. Sonetti e canzone. Milan: Societa tip. dei classici italiani, 1845. One of 250 copies only, 4to (24.2 x 18.6cm), 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, title-page vignette hand-coloured, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (wide margins); Gallo, Agostino. Elogio storico di Antonio Gagini scultore ed architetto palermitano. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1821. 4to (26.5 x 19cm), later half morocco, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 pp., light staining to final leaf, Baron Napier bookplate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Jena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. 'Jubilee edition' (Jubiläumsausgabe), one of 1000 copies on Van Gelder paper, 4to, original blind-stamped brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with one clasp (of two); and 6 others similar (14)Note: Les plaisirs et les jours was Proust's first published book.

Fleming, Ian Moonraker London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, first impression, state B, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, covers unevenly damp-stained and slightly bowed, text-block toned, strip of browning to each free endpaper, ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, dust jacket toned, spine-panel rubbed and with light fraying to headcap, damp-staining to rear flap, a few other nicks and marks [Gilbert A3a 1.2/3]

Fleming, Ian Casino Royale London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition, 8vo, library rebind with green cloth spine over black cloth boards, bookplate of the St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library, several pages with some soiling, a few repairs to inner margins; Burton, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. 3 volumes, 8vo, 14 plates, majority of folding map lacking, two plans (folding plan torn), red quarter morocco library bindings, stamps and bookplates of Crewe Public Libraries, internal soiling, a few tears, spines rubbed and cracked (4)

Arabic printing Kitab zabur Dawud al-malik wa'l-nabi [title in Arabic, i.e. The Psalms of David]. [London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge], 1725. 8vo in half-sheets (18.8 x 11cm), contemporary red half morocco gilt, edges sprinkled blue, [6] 230 pp., Arabic types throughout, title-page hand-ruled in red, moderate browning, a few marks; Rossi, Giambernardo de. Dizionario storico degli autori Arabi pieu celebri e delle principali loro opere. Parma: Stamperia imperiale, 1807. 8vo (22.6 x 15.4cm), contemporary wrappers, viii 196 [4] pp., spine defective, quires held by top two cords only; Keppel, Sir George Roos- (editor). Tarikh da Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi [Title in Pashto, i.e. History of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi]. Lahore: Nulkishwar Press, c.1900. 4to (26 x 19.8cm), contemporary half cloth, 65 pp., Pashto text, lithographed throughout, decorative title-page, rear inner hinge cracked: and 6 others similar, including: Roos-Keppel (editor), Ganj-i Pushtu. Tasnif da Mawlawi Ahmad [title in Pashto, i.e. Treasury of Pashto, compiled by Mawlawi Ahmad], Lahore: Nulkishwar Press, [1893?], 4to, Pashto text, lithographed throughout, apparently bound without pp. 81-9; [Urdu poetry], Bagh wa-bahar [title in Urdu], London: William Watts, 1851, 8vo, contemporary half roan, 259 pp.; Qur'an, c.1850, lithographed throughout with interlinear Persian or Urdu translation, lacking at least the first leaf (with the Fatiha), worming, bookplate of William Muir, possibly the orientalist (1819-1905); and Hebrew items (9)Note: The text of this 1725 edition of the Psalms in Arabic is a revision by Sulayman ibn Ya’qub al-Salihani, commonly known as Salomon Negri, of the translation by ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl al-Antaki published at Aleppo in 1706. ‘The whole impression, consisting of upwards of six thousand copies, was sent abroad, so that a copy of it is now rarely to be seen’ (William Brown, The History of the Propagation of Christianity, 1814, volume 2, p. 632).

Fleming, Ian For Your Eyes Only London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, first impression, binding A, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, tips of rear board bumped [Gilbert A8a 1.1]; The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first impression, second state, binding A, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket [Gilbert A13a 1.2]; Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 3 copies, first editions, first impressions, various issues, 8vo, dust jackets (one with publisher's overprice sticker of 16s; i.e. second issue [Gilbert A14a 1.3]; two price-clipped, one of these with publisher's price-sticker '£4.95', i.e. fourth issue [Gilbert A14a 1.5]); and 7 others, including The Spy Who Loved Me, New York: Viking, 1962 (first US edition, dust jacket), For Your Eyes Only, 1960 (second impression, dust jacket), Colonel Sun, 1968 (first edition, dust jacket), and 4 by Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter, 1948, first edition, frayed dust jacket; Stamboul Train, 1932, 2 copies, first editions, second issues, original cloth, one with tender front inner hinge; The Lost Childhood, 1951, first edition, dust jacket, bookplate of Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press) (12)

Gorodetsky, Sergei (1884-1967) Angel Armeniy. Stikhotvoreniya [Title in Russian; 'The Angel of Tiflis [Tbilisi]: [no publisher], 1918. 8vo, 32 pp. (17.7 x 13.5cm), wire-stitched, head- and tailpieces from bas-reliefs in the Akdamar monastery (Lake Van, modern Turkey), inscribed by the author in Russian on dedication leaf recto 'Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?] s druzhecki privetlivy, Sergey Gorodetsky, [1]920 IV Baku' ('To Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?], with friendliest greetings, Sergei Gorodetsky, 1920 IV Baku'), disbound, browned, together with 11 others, Russian literature, including Boris Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1957 [i.e. 1958] (first trade edition in Russian, original light green boards, later-issue dust jacket), Leon Trotzky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918 (original blue-green cloth, portrait frontispiece) (12)Note: Sergei Gorodetsky co-founded the Acmeist movement in Russian poetry with Nikolay Gumilev; outside poetry his works include the scenario for Prokofiev's ballet Ala i Lolli (later reworked for orchestra as the Scythian Suite), and a 1933 Sovietised rewrite of the libretto for Glinka's A Life for the Tsar. Some sources cite the first edition of Angel Armeniy as appearing in 1917, others in 1918; we have been unable to trace another copy.

Heaney, Seamus The Door Stands Open: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004 [Dublin]: The Irish Writers' Centre Limited, printed and made in Poland by the Book Art Museum, Lodz, 2005. 'Special edition', one of 250 copies signed by Heaney, 4to, original stainless-steel covers, grey cloth spine, integral silkscreened 'mixed media wrap', black card chemise with Heaney's signature printed in silver, text mainly on light blue handwoven paper; Hughes, Ted. Tales from Ovid. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original quarter cloth, slipcase; Idem. T. S. Eliot: A Tribute. [London]: privately printed by Faber and Faber, 1987. First edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue wrappers, retaining glassine inner chemise and card wrapper; Durrell, Laurence. The Red Limbo Lingo. A Poetry Notebook. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition, one of 1200 numbered copies, this copy inscribed by the author for Yehudi and Diana Menuhin on mounted card slip, and with the recipients' bookplate, 4to, original red cloth, slipcase; and 20 others, modern literature, all signed limited editions, including Ian McEwan, Other Minds, Bridgewater Press, 2001, 2 copies, each one of 100; Graham Greene, How Father Quixote became a Monsignor, 1980, one of 330; idem, Why the Epigraph?, 1980, one of 950; V. S. Naipaul, Two Worlds, Nobel Lecture, December 7 2001, 2002, one of 58 from the total edition of 70 (front board water-damaged); William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth, 1991, one of 400 (with cardboard slipcase); John Updike, Getting the Words Out, 1988, one of 250; and similar (24)Note: The Door Stands Open was published to mark the death of Polish author Czeslaw Milosz, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980; there was also a 'deluxe' edition of 60 copies with an autograph quotation by Heaney.

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge dyed blue, dust jacket (with printed price 7s. 6d. net, unclipped), bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, spine rolled, text-block toned, dust jacket with a few nicks and chips along top and bottom edges, rubbed along joints and extremities, spine browned, front and rear panels very slightly toned, small transverse tear to rear panel, pencilled annotation to rear flap ('This novel shows a strong DHL influence')Lot amendment 20/06/2022: Please note that a small section at the head of the dust jacket spine-panel which appears intact in the catalogue image is detached: additional photographs are available via the Lyon and Turnbull website.

Huxley, Aldous Collection of works comprising: Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original yellow cloth, bookplate, binding dust-soiled and rubbed, spine rolled spine-label slightly chipped, a few marks internally); The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems, Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918 (first edition, 8vo, original patterned wrappers, wear to spine, front inner hinge cracked, a few spots); The Discovery, A Comedy in Five Acts written by Mrs Frances Sheridan, adapted for the Modern Stage by Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, 1924 (limited edition, one of 210 copies only, 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards; and 12 others including Selected Poems, 1925 (first edition, original boards), Brief Candles, 1930 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket), Antic Hay, 1923 (first edition, original cloth), Those Barren Leaves, 1923 (first edition, original cloth), and similar. Together with: Fowles, John. Collection of signed or inscribed copies, comprising: The Aristos, 1965 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles' on title-page); The Ebony Tower, 1974 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles' on title-page; Daniel Martin, 1977 (first edition, price-clipped dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles'); Mantissa, 1982 (first edition, dust jacket, inscribed, 'Ronnie and [?], affectionately, John'; Cinderella, 1974 (first edition, 4to, price-clipped and nicked dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles, Lyme Regis, 1995'); The Tree, 1979 (first edition, oblong 4to, price-clipped dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles, Lyme Regis, 30.3.1996'; John Fowles, The Journals: Volume 1, 2003 (first edition, dust jacket, signed 'John Fowles'); The Magus, 1998 (paperback edition, inscribed); and 6 others by Fowles, not signed or inscribed; and approx. 50 others, modern first editions, mainly in dust jackets, including A. S. Byatt, Kingsley Amis, C. P. Snow, Pamela Handsford Johnson (including Blessed Above Women, 1936, original cloth, the author's second novel, scarce), Lawrence Durrell, and similar (approx. 80)

Joyce, James Ulysses London: for the Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. First UK edition, one of 2,000 copies, 4to, original blue paper backstrip (covers lacking), edges untrimmed, partly unopened, retaining the 2 initial blanks, half-title and colophon leaf, lacking errata and rear blank, first blank chipped, marginal tears to a few other leaves where clumsily opened, finger-mark to half-title, corners of outer leaves slightly creased, a good binding copy [Slocum & Cahoon 18]

Lawrence, D. H., Joseph Conrad, Norman Douglas and others Collection of works comprising: Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. London: P. R. Stephensen, 1929. 'Definitive edition' (Roberts), one of 500 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket (slightly chipped at spine ends) [Roberts A47c]; Idem. The Story of Doctor Manente, being the Tenth and Last Story from the Suppers of A. F. Grazzini called Il Lasca. Translation and Introduction by D. H. Lawrence, Florence: G. Orioli, 1912. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 200 'special copies ... on Binda hand-made paper' signed by the author, 8vo, original simulated vellum with matching slipcase, slipcase slightly distressed [Roberts A45a]; Idem. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: privately printed [verso of title: by the Tipografia Giuntina], 1928. 'Second edition, limited to 200 copies' (i.e. first edition, cheap-paper issue), square 8vo, contemporary black cloth, [4] 365 pp., original wrappers bound in, browning (stronger in margins), pencilled marginalia and underlining, a few closed marginal tears, pp. 207/8 loose [Roberts A42b]; Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts. London: privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First edition thus, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue boards, white paper backstrip, dust jacket, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, largely unopened, duplicate spine-label tipped to rear blank; Idem. Three Plays. Laughing Anne, One Day More and The Secret Agent. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934. First edition thus, 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket, inscribed 'To Harold and Ada, affectionately from their friend Jessie Conrad, 1934' on the front free endpaper, spotting to edges and outer leaves; Douglas, Norman. How About Europe? Some Footnotes on East and West. Florence: privately printed, 1929. First edition, one of 550 copies numbered and signed by the author, 8vo, original patterned boards, inscribed 'To my great ... generous and dearly loved friend Frank (Frank Holliday), from ... K (Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji), June 10 MCMLIII, Corfu [...]' on the front free endpaper; and 6 others, comprising: Joseph Conrad, The Rover, 1923 (first edition, later blue calf gilt by Bayntun); Norman Douglas, Together, 1923 (large-paper issue, one of 250 copies signed by Douglas); idem, Summer Islands, 1931 (one of 550 copies signed by Douglas); W. Somerset Maugham, The Vagrant Mood, 1952 (one of 500 copies, signed); T. E. Lawrence, The Mint, 1955 (one of 2000 copies, 4to, original quarter morocco, slipcase); and a gelatin silver print photograph of Jo Davidson's bust of D. H. Lawrence inscribed on verso of mount 'This photograph belongs to Martin Secker' (12)Note: Harold Goodburn (1891-1966), recipient of this copy of Conrad's Three Plays, was tutor to Conrad's son John (1906-1982) at the King's School, Canterbury.

Minton, John (illustrator) Time was Away A Notebook in Corsica. Written by Alan Ross. London: John Lehmann, 1949. First edition, 4to, original yellow cloth, 8 lithographic plates in colours, dust jacket (a few shallow nicks, closed tear to foot of front panel); Pushkin, Alexander. The Queen of Spades. London: Blackamore Press, Limited, 1928. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum (there were also 250 copies on Rives, and 35 copies not for sale), 4to, original black boards (dyed japon?), colour-printed wood-engravings by A. Alexeieff throughout, joints partially split, slipcase; and 5 others: Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Secker & Warburg, 1955-54-6 (first edition in English, second impression of volume 1, first impressions of volumes 2-3, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets); Malachi Whitaker, Frost in April, Jonathan Cape, 1929 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket). H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah [on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska], William Heinemann Ltd, 1931 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author); Vivien Gribble (illustrator), Sixe idillia, London: Duckworth & Co, 1922 (one of 380 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, this copy inscribed to Naomi Mitchison by her husband Richard, 1922); Wood Lea Press, The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, 1987 (one of 750 copies, folio, original quarter cloth, slipcase); Fleece Press, Dear Mercia, Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, 1991 (one of 350 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth, slipcase) (10)Note: This edition of The Queen of Spades by Pushkin is 'the first to contain a full English version of the original text'; no other copies of this deluxe issue traced in auction records.

Modernism and Bloomsbury Collection of works including: Eliot, T. S. Ara Vus Prec. London: Ovid Press, 1919. First edition, number 53 of 264 copies, original black paper boards (early binding), yellow cloth backstrip, 55 pp., woodcut initials and colophon device, edges untrimmed, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, boards rubbed, text-block detached from binding, a few leaves sometime dog-eared with concomitant faint creasing; Lewis, Wyndham. The Caliph's Design. Architects! Where is your Vortex! London: The Egoist Ltd., 1919. First edition, [one of 1,000 copies], 8vo, original marbled paper wrappers over card, spine sunned, small split to foot of front joint; 'H. D.' Hymen. London: Egoist Press, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original patterned card wrappers, Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth, ownership inscription of Hugh MacDiarmid ('C. M. Grieve') to front free endpaper, half-title and title-page creased; Sackville-West, Vita. Poems of West & East. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, halftone frontispiece, publisher's review-copy blind stamp to title-page, covers slightly discoloured, light marginal spotting; and 12 others, including: Edith Sitwell, The Mother and Other Poems, 1915 (first edition, original wrappers, chipped); Lytton Strachey, Pope: The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925, 1925 (first edition, contemporary purple half morocco by J. Van West); Virginia Woolf, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, 1950 (first edition, dust jacket repaired); Edwin Muir, The Structure of the Novel, Hogarth Press, 1928 (first edition, inscribed 'To Dora, with love & a happy new year, Edwin'); Baron Corvo, The Venice Letters, London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1974 (one of 200 copies); and similar (17)

World War I writers Collection of works by Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others comprising: Thomas, Edward. Rose Acre Papers. London: Lanthorn Press, 1904. First edition, small 8vo, original blue quarter cloth: Idem. The Woodland Life. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. 4to, original cloth (second state of binding, slightly marked); Idem. These Things the Poets Said. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1935. First edition, one of 150 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, woodcut title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces in colours, unopened, dust jacket chipped at head of spine, endpapers browned; Idem. Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original boards, photogravure portrait frontispiece; Idem. A Literary Pilgrim in England. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, with the rare dust jacket (the statement 'second edition' on front flap apparently referring to Thomas's work Maurice Maeterlinck, advertised below), all plates as called for; Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original cloth, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), B. H. Blackwell compliments slip inscribed 'sent by instruction of Mr G. R. Mitchison' mounted to front free endpaper; and 17 others, all in original cloth or boards unless stated, including: 5 by Edward Thomas (e.g. The Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 1915, first edition, with the rare dust jacket, chipped); Rupert Brooke, 1914 and other Poems, 1915 (first edition, first impression, front free endpaper excised); Wilfred Owen, Poems, 1921 (first edition, second impression); Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack, 1918 (first edition, contemporary cloth); 'Restalrig', War Blasts and Other Poems, Edinburgh: Leith Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1915 (2 copies, both inscribed by the author); Vignettes of War from the Notebook of a Journalist in Arms, by the Late Lieutenant Hugh G. Garland, Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., c.1920; If I Goes West! By a Tommy, 1918 (review copy blind stamp); Ballads of Battle, by Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee 1st/4th Battalion Black Watch, 1916 (dust jacket); and similar (23)

Botero, Giovanni Relationi universali novamente reviste, corrette, et ampliate. Et aggiontovi in questa ultima impressione la figurata descrittione intagliata in rame, di tutti i paesi del mondo. Brescia: Compagnia Bresciana, 1599. 4 parts in 1 volume, 4to (21.5 x 16.2cm), contemporary limp vellum, (contemporary manuscript spine- and catch-titles), engraved general title-page, letterpress title-pages each with woodcut device to parts 2-4, 110 engraved maps in the text, medial blank c4 retained, toning, a few marks, engraved title-page (sig. †1) loose, frayed along fore margin, remaining leaves of initial quire (†2-4) absent, damp-staining to a few early leaves in part I (quires c-A), part 1 f. 2G2 torn at lower fore corner not affecting text, part 2 f. A3 with short closed tear in fore margin, browning to quires L-M [Adams B2559; Edit16 CNCE 7301; this edition not in Sabin]Note: Botero's hugely influential encyclopaedia of the countries and peoples of the world was first published in Rome between 1591 and 1596. His sources included Acosta for Spanish America, and Maffei for Brazil and China. The maps include China, Persia, India, Syria, Anatolia, Malta, Cyprus, the Ottoman empire, central and east Asia including Japan and a section of the New World ('Tartariae sive magni chami [sic] regni tipus'), the African empire of the mythical Prester John ('Presbiteri Johannis sive Abissinorum imperii descriptio'), and the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia. (The maps of China and Persia are duplicated in parts I and II.)

Cuala Press The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, bookplate (W. F. Lyle, dated 1942), a few bumps to extremities, jacket in two parts; Yeats, Jack Butler. Life in the West of Ireland. Dublin: Maunsel and Company Ltd., 1912. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 150, 4to, original blue cloth, dust jacket, 8 mounted colour plates , 16 tipped-in halftone plates, without the original sketch by Yeats, dust jacket sunned and chipped, auctioneers' ticket to front panel; Idem, illustrator. Irishmen All, by George A. Birmingham. London: T. N. Foulis, 1913. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original green cloth, each with 12 tipped-in colour plates by Yeats, one spine sunned; and 14 others, Irish interest, including Vincent O'Sullivan, Poems, 1896, first edition, original boards, spine defective; [Somerville and Ross], Through Connemara in a Governess Cart, 1893, first edition, original cloth; The Humours of Donnybrook, c.1820, broadsheet ballad with 4 hand-coloured woodcuts; James Joyce, Verbannte: Schauspiel in Drei Akten, Zürich, 1919 (original wrappers); 5 Cuala Press hand-coloured cards; Derek Mahon, Resistance Days, Gallery Press, 2001 (one of 175 copies, signed); and similar (18)

Private press Collection of works comprising: St Dominic's Press. The Hand Press. An Essay written and printed by Hand for the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, by H. D. C. Pepler. Ditchling Common: St Dominic's Press, 1934. One of 250 copies signed by Pepler, 4to, original blue cloth with integral white wraparound band; Idem. Le bœuf et l'âne et deux autres pièces pour marionnettes, 1930. One of 120 copies, 4to, original black quarter sheep, slipcase, spine and slipcase rubbed; Gill, Eric.The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. One of 550 copies signed by Gill, 8vo, original black cloth gilt; Golden Cockerel Press. A Ballad upon a Wedding by Sir John Suckling. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious, 1922. One of 375 copies, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket (a few chips and spots); Idem. The Twelve Moneths by Nicholas Breton. Edited by Brian Rhys, with Wood Engravings by Eric Ravilious, 1927. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original orange buckram, dust jacket, initials printed in red, bookplate (Herbert B. Luria), text-leaves toned; and 6 others: Golden Cockerel Press, The Puppet Show by Martin Armstrong, 1922, ownership inscription of Naomi Mitchison, apparently autograph; Dropmore Press, Images from the Progress of the Seasons by Edward Shanks, with Decorations by Charles Berry, 1947, one of 450 copies, contemporary green quarter morocco; Max Plowman, First Poems, 1913; Eric Gill, Social Justice and the Stations of the Cross, 1929; Ian Fleming, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, first edition, dust jacket, association copy, signed by Bond girl Maud Adams ('Maud Adams, "Octopussy"') on the half-title; and 1 other (11)

Baker, Sir Samuel W.  Ismailia A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, portrait frontispieces, 2 maps (one folding), 51 wood-engraved plates, 55 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscriptions, later ownership inscription to volume 1, wear to extremities, front inner hinges cracking, spotting to endpapers and frontispieces, folding map spotted and with old repairs verso, damp-staining to last few plates in volume 2; Idem. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding), 22 wood-engraved plates (23 listed; the Coor and Bayard illustrations are one plate), ink-stamp (Baron de Worms, Milton Park, Egham) to title-page, bookplate (motto 'vinctus non victus'), wear to extremities, spotting to prelims, inner hinges slightly cracked; Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo (21.4 x 13cm), modern sheep, all plates and maps as called for; Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, later half roan, all plates and maps as called for; Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales. London: T. & W. Boone, 1839. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), modern green half morocco, xxi [3] 355, ix [3] 415 pp., engraved vignette title-pages (unsigned), 50 plates (of 51: lacking plate 27, 'Chaeropus ecaudatus'), nearly all lithographic, several hand-coloured or folding, 4 pp. advertisements, original front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription 'Emmeline Sophia Mackenzie ... from her brother Donald Hume Macleod 10th September 1840' bound in after title-page (Macleod was a British army officer and early settler in western Australia), ink-stamps 'F. A. Dundas, essayez' to p. 1 of each volume, volume 1 lacking text-leaf O1, plates spotted, a few damp-stained, marginal consolidation to plates 13 and 15; and 11 others: Sir Samuel W. Baker, The Albert N'yanza, London, 1866 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, recased, lacking route map); [Egypt], A History of the Operations of the French and British Armies in Egypt, from the Landing of Bonaparte to the Restoration of the Ottoman Power ... By Several Gentlemen, Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle: K. Anderson, 1809-10 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates, folding plan, woodcut tailpieces by Bewick, map of Egypt absent, browning and damp-staining, repair to one plate); Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa, New York, 1890 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, lacking 'Map of the Great Forest Region' in volume 1 end-pocket); idem, How I Found Livingstone, 1872 (first edition, 8vo, 20th-century cloth with section from original cloth binding laid onto front board, incomplete, lacking 2 maps); A. M. , Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, London, 1890 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map); C. G. Schillings, In Wildest Africa, New York, 1907 (large 8vo, original cloth); Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, London, 1932 (first edition, original cloth, half-title and frontispiece working loose); Adolphus Slade, Turkey, Greece and Malta, London, 1837 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, lacking frontispieces); Dufferin, A Yacht Voyage, Toronto, 1873, original cloth, inscribed by the author; and 2 unrelated (Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1832, contemporary tree calf, rebacked; P. Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1824, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates) (22)

Illustrated and private press books Collection of works including: Bawden, Edward (illustrator). Well on the Road. Words, Christopher Bradby. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, 1935. First edition, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; Previous Parrot Press. Tryphema Press. The Ghost of a Great Lodge. A Short Story by Olive Cook, with Drawings by Walter Hoyle, 1999. One of 148 copies signed by author and illustrator, 4to, original patterned boards; Idem. Walter Hoyle. To Sicily with Edward Bawden. With an Introduction by Olive Cook, 1998. One of 350 copies signed by Walter Hoyle and Olive Cook, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; Celandine Press. R. S. Thomas. Destinations, with Illustrations by Paul Nash, 1985. One of 300 copies, tall narrow 8vo, tipped-in colour plates, laid-in tissue-guards; Incline Press. Alan Powers, Barry Kitts, Ronald Maddox. In Place of Toothpaste. Three Essays celebrating the Watercolour Painting of Eric Ravilious, 2004. One of 250 copies, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, tipped-in colour plates; Stourton Press. To John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday, 1983. One of 900 copies, Tall 8vo, original pictorial boards; and approx. 35 others, including Edward Bawden & George Mackie, Historical Ballads of Denmark, Edinburgh: University Press, 1958 (one of 750 copies, this copy inscribed by Mackie to Frank Collieson, original boards, dust jacket), John Betjeman, Continual Dew, 1937 (first edition, dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, price-clipped), idem, First and Last Loves, 1952 (first edition, dust jacket designed by John Piper, price-clipped), Claud Lovat Fraser (illustrator), Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton, The Poetry Bookshop, 1922 (first edition), 5 Merivale Editions signed limited prints, King Penguins, and similar (approx. 40)

Carroll, Lewis Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but later]. First edition in Italian, 8vo, original red cloth (secondary binding with covers ruled in blind), pictorial roundels gilt to covers, top edge gilt, illustrations by John Tenniel throughout, a fine copy, together with 13 others, including others by Carroll (Alice, German edition, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, [1869], spine rolled inner hinges split, and English edition, eighty-third thousand, 1886, spine rolled, front free endpaper detached; and Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded,1889-93; all in original cloth), limited editions (Clare Leighton, illustrator, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 1929, one of 1500 copies signed by Leighton; Caradoc Press, The Defence of Poesie ... by Sir Philip Sidney, 1906, one of 350 copies, 4to, original quarter sheep; Ballantyne Press, Unto this Last by John Ruskin, 1902, one of 400 copies on paper, 4to, original vellum; Shakespeare Head Press, Nimphidia, 1924); and Robert Burns, Kilmarnock Complete Edition of Burns's Poems and Songs, Kilmarnock: James McKie, 1869-70 (one of 600 sets, signed by the publisher, 4 volumes, 8vo, original boards) (13)

Dali, Salvador (illustrator) Macbeth. [By] William Shakespeare New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,1946. First edition thus, 8vo, original patterned paper boards, slipcase with pictorial onlay; Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1909]. First edition thus, trade issue, square 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 13 colour plates; Idem. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson. [London]: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., c.1930. 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 12 mounted colour plates; Idem. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. London: Walker Books, 1999. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 1000 copies signed by the illustrator, 4to, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase; Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1930. First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, 6 colour plates; and 13 others including Joel Chandler Harris, Daddy Jake the Runaway and Other Stories, 1890 (first UK edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth), 9 others by Beatrix Potter (later issues or Centenary editions), and similar (18)

British photographic incunabula Collection of 19 works including: Findlay, J. R. Hatton House. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1875. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 21 Woodburytypes, inscribed 'Archibald Wilkie Esq of Ormiston, with kind regards [?] J R F, April 1875' on the half-title [not in Gernsheim]; Payn, James. The Lakes in Sunshine: being Photographic and Other Pictures of the Lake District of Westmorland and North Lancashire. Windermere: J. Garnett, 1867. First edition, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 16 albumen prints [Gernsheim 391]; Wright, William Samuel. The Loved Haunts of Cowper; or the Photographic Remembrancer or Olney and Weston. Olney: William Samuel Wright, 1867. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, 15 albumen prints, 3 further plates, ownership inscription dated 1875 to title-page, annotations in the same hand to mounts and photographs [Gernsheim 353, counting all the plates as albumen prints]; Grosart, Alexander B. The Works of Michael Bruce. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co., 1865. First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, 10 albumen prints, spotting [Gernsheim 290]; Howitt, William. The Ruined Abbeys of the Border ... With Photographic Illustrations by Wilson and Thompson. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1865. First edition thus, 4to, original cloth, 6 albumen prints (one to front cover) [Gernsheim 282]; Mares, Frederick H. Photographs of Co. Wicklow, with Descriptive Letterpress. Glasgow: Andrew Duthie, 1867. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 12 albumen prints [Gernsheim 374]; Burns, Archibald. Picturesque "Bits" from Old Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First edition, 4to, original green cloth, 15 albumen prints (several lifting) [Gernsheim 428]; Kennedy, W. Clark, The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Eton: Ingalton and Drake, 1868. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 4 hand-coloured albumen prints [Gernsheim 436]; and 11 others, including George Eliot, Romola, two editions, William Blackwood, c.1880?, and Tauchnitz, 1863 (2 volumes), both in decorative japon bindings and illustrated with albumen prints of Florence, with cloth dust jackets and slipcases; album of 22 hand-coloured albumen prints of Japanese scenes and 'types', c.1870?, album of albumen prints of Pompeii; W. Lawrence, Photographs of Irish Scenery: The Lakes of Killarney, c.1870; James Watson, Smail's Guide to Jedburgh and Vicinity, 1880, fourth edition; and similar (19)

Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931. First Shepard-illustrated edition (thirty-eighth overall), 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge dyed green, dust jacket, spine rolled, a few pale marks to covers, light spotting to outer leaves and edges, dust jacket spine darkened and mottled, light dust-soiling and a few trivial marks to panels; Idem. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A. A. Milne and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. One of 2200 copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers, 4to, original quarter cloth, 16 mounted colour plates, slipcase; Idem. The Golden Age. With Illustrations and Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 275 copies signed by Kenneth Grahame and E. H. Shepard and printed on rag paper, 8vo, original quarter vellum, slipcase, spine rolled, endpapers browned; Idem. First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows". Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945. 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere; and 1 other (5)

Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Jonathan London: J. M. Dent & Co., & New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1909. First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, one of 750 copies signed and numbered by Rackham, 4to, original cream cloth lettered in gilt, 13 colour plates (tipped in as issued), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, lower fore corners bumped, retaining one silk tie only (of four; one laid in), endpapers marked and abraded, frontispiece creased across one corner