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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

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, very slight rubbing to extremities, laminate just lifting at corners and along fore edge of front wrapper, faint creases to head of front and rear wrappers, text-block toned as usual, small marginal hole in pp. 35/6 [Errington A1 (aa)]Note: First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, with all the requisite points: the copyright page dated 1997, credited to 'Joanne Rowling', with no space between 'Thomas Taylor', and with the number line descending from 10 to 1; page 53 with '1 wand' repeated; and retaining the misprint 'Philospher's' on the rear wrapper. Provenance: Purchased new by the current vendor in 1997.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, text-block toned as usual, dust jacket spine-panel slightly faded [not in Errington]Note: The third impression was the first to be issued with a dust jacket.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, spine gently rolled, a hint of rumpling to foot of jacket spine-panel, school prize plate mounted to front free endpaper, an excellent copy [Errington A2(a)]; and 9 others: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, London: Ted Smart, 1998 (first Ted Smart edition, first impression, original boards, spine rolled, loss to spine-ends, tips bumped and worn,text-block toned, closed tear in pp. 163-6, [Errington A1(b)]); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Illustrations by Mary Grandpré, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000 ('American deluxe edition', original green morocco gilt, [Errington A4(d)]; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London: Bloomsbury, 1999 (2 copies: first edition, second impression, case-bound issue, original boards, dust jacket spine sunned; first edition, first impression, paperback issue); The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows (all first editions, first impressions, original boards, dust jackets); and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, 2008 (first edition, first impression, original boards) (10)

Broughton, Thomas Duer Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809 Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. London: John Murray, 1813. First edition, 4to (26.6 x 20.8cm), 20th-century half calf to style, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, retaining directions to the binder leaf, half-title discarded, light offsetting, modern tissue-guards laid in [Abbey Travel 433], together with 11 other works on India (these not collated), including: Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (first edition, contemporary quarter skiver, book-label of Ronald Munro Ferguson, presumably the 1st Viscount Novar and governor-general of Australia, 1860-1934); 'Outline of Political, Territorial and Administrative Changes in the Punjab (Earliest Times up to 1947. V. S. Suri, Director of Archives, Punjab', Patiala: Punjab State Archives, 1966 (roneoed typescript, 73 ff., folio); Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (4to, contemporary blue half calf); The House of Bagrian, Lahore: Lion Press, c.1930 (oblong folio, original half cloth, halftone photographic plates, wear to spine); W. F. B. Laurie, Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1887-8 (2 volumes, new edition of volume one, 8vo, original cloth, volume 2 frontispiece loose); William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, 1822 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half russia, joints cracked, some covers near detached); D. Warren, The Motor Car in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (8vo, contemporary quarter leather by M. Narsimlu of Hyderabad, library markings to title-page); and similar (14)

Tolkien, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1966. Second editions, first impressions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 3 folding maps, light rubbing to jacket extremities; Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young. Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, blank endpapers, p. [ix] unpaginated (first state), contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine rolled, rear cover water-stained, extremities rubbed and bumped, rear inner hinge tender, numeric ink-stamp to final page, a few other internal marks; Pratchett, Terry. Mort. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket (price-clipped, with publisher's overprice sticker), ownership inscription to front pastedown; and 3 others (Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, 1991, signed by Pratchett and co-author Neil Gaiman; ibid., Interesting Times, 1994; A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1927, fifth edition) (8)

Scotland Works by Scottish authors or relating to Scotland comprising: Colquhoun, Patrick. A Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire. London: J. Mawman, 1814. First edition, 4to., modern quarter calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, title lightly spotted; McNicol, Donald Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. London: T. Cadell, 1779. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, bookplate of Robert Pipon Marett, some slight browning and light, scattered foxing; Mackenzie, Peter Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Glasgow: John Tweed, 1865. 3 volumes, 8vo, photographic frontispiece with author's facsimile inscription, 11 further portraits, plate, contemporary half calf gilt with red and green morocco labels to spine, neat ownership signatures and some news clippings pasted to endpapers, a little browning in places (5)

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] 14 signed works comprising: Sangschaw. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, front free-endpaper signed "Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth gilt; Idem. Penny Wheep. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Alex McGill, hoping he'll never in actual virtuous practice have to descend to anything so mild as "penny wheep" C.M. Grieve ("Hugh McDiarmid").", original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & sons Ltd., 1930. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Gordon Bottomley, in admiration and affection. C.M. Grieve, Liverpool, December 1930", original blue cloth gilt; Idem. The Islands of Scotland... London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1939. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "For my friend A.A.S. Keir with every high regard. Hugh MacDiarmid, Aberdeen. Oct. 1963", original purple cloth; Idem. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Edinburgh, 1962. Fourth edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Finlay J. MacDonald with every high regard from Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth, dust-jacket; Idem. The Fire of the Spirit, two poems. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 8vo, 'extra' copy of 350 signed copies, original wrappers; Idem. On a Raised Beach: a poem. Preston: The Harris Press, 1967. Oblong 4to, signed by MacDiarmid, original wrappers; Idem. Direadh I, II and III. Frenich: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. 4to, number 200 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original red quarter morocco, slipcase; Idem. Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: William Maclellan, [n.d.] 8vo, inscribed: "To Helen with love from Hugh MacDiarmid. June.1945." original quarter cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. Lap of Honour. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967. 8vo, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid to the front free-endpaper, original paper-covered boards, dust jacket; Idem. Contemporary Scottish Studies. Edinburgh: The Scottish Educational Journal, [n.d.] 4to, signed to the front free-endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket; Idem. Complete Poems. London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, [1978.] 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, signed, slipcase; Wright, Gordon. MacDiarmid, an illustrated biography... Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, [1977]. 4to, original wrappers, signed; and 10 photographs of Hugh MacDiarmid (24)

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] 16 works by or honouring MacDiarmid, mostly signed comprising: Macdiarmid, Hugh. Penny Wheep. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. Three Hymns to Lenin. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd, [n.d.] 8vo, MacDiarmid's signature to front free endpaper, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. The Company I've Kept. London: Hutchison, 1966. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to front free endpaper: "Signed for my friend Norman Peterkin with every high regard. Hugh MacDiarmid 4th March 1967", original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. The Company I've Kept. London: Hutchison, 1966. Uncorrected proof copy, 8vo, inscribed to the half-title: "Inscribed with best wishes for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson "Hugh MacDiarmid" (Christopher Grieve)", original orange wrappers; Idem. Stony Limits and Scots Unbound. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd, 1956. 12mo, inscribed: "To Michael with love from his father, "Hugh MacDiarmid." Christmas 1956", original card covers, dust-jacket; Idem. Collected Poems. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. 8vo, inscribed: "Signed with pleasure for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth gilt, glassine jacket torn; Idem. Direadh I, II and III. Frenich, Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. 4to, number 25 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original red quarter morocco gilt over paper-covered boards, slipcase; Idem. A Lap of Honour. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967. First edition, 8vo, signed from George Mackay Brown to Charlie Senior on 5th March 1968, original red paper-covered boards, dust-jacket; Idem. Scottish Eccentrics. London: George Routledge & sons, Ltd., 1936. 8vo, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid on the title-page, original red cloth gilt; Idem. The Uncanny Scot. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original cloth, dust-jackets; Idem. [Four signed pamphlets by MacDiarmid, comprising:] The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Robert Burns, signed to Neil M. Gunn in 1926; When the Rat-Race is Over..., 1962, number 39 of 40 copies; Metaphysics and Poetry, 1975, number 6 of 25 copies; Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1968, number 8 of 350 copies; Duval, K.D. & Sydney Goodsir Smith, editors. Hugh MacDiarmid, a festschrift. Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962. 8vo, with a signed manuscript poem by MacDiarmid to the limitation verso: "Perfect. I found a pigeon's skull on the machair,/All the bones pure, white, and dry, and chalky,/ But perfect...", one of fifty special signed copies, with a loosely inserted poem by Valda Grieve, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Mackenzie, Compton, and others. Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid... Preston: Akros Publications, 1967. 8vo, signed Hugh MacDiarmid, original quarter morocco gilt over paper-covered boards (16)

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] Collection of pamphlets by or relating to Hugh comprising: Trevlyn, Valda (wife of Hugh MacDiarmid). Two Poems. [Verona]: printed for Valda, G[iovanni] M[ardersteig], [Officina Bodoni], 1970. First edition, one of 15 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, 5 pp., inscribed by Trevlyn on the title-page 'For Christopher, with all my love, Valda, 25/11/70', presumably to her husband Christopher Murray Grieve (i.e. Hugh MacDiarmid); MacDiarmid, Hugh. Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid recently discovered among Letters to his Schoolmaster and Friend George Ogilvie. Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. First edition, one of 50 copies signed by author and editor from the total edition of 300, 8vo, original, wrappers; Idem. Second Hymn to Lenin. Thakeham: Valda Trevlyn, c.1932. 2 copies, first editions, one being one 100 copies signed by the author and additionally inscribed 'To my good friend Neil M. Gunn [...]' and with laid-in autograph letter signed ('Chris'), the other out-of-series and inscribed by the author 'To Barbara Niven, with gratitude and all comradely feelings [...], 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. Five Bits of Miller. London: for the author, 1934. First edition, one of 40 copies signed by the author, this copy additionally inscribed 'To my friend G. S. Whithorn from Hugh MacDiarmid, London, June 1934', 4to, original wrappers; Idem. The MacDiarmids. A Conversation. Hugh MacDiarmid and Duncan Glen. Recorded at Brownsbank ... 1968. [Preston]: Akros, 1970. 2 copies, first editions, each one of 55 copies signed by MacDiarmid and Glen, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. A Political Speech. Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. the ugly birds without wings. Edinburgh: Allan Donaldson, 1962. 2 copies, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. David Hume. Scotland's Greatest Son. Edinburgh: The Paperback, 1961. Oblong 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933. Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1963. 4to, original wrappers; Glen, Duncan. The Literary Masks of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: Drumalban Press, 1964. First edition, one of 55 copies signed and hand-illustrated by the author, 4to, original wrappers; and 12 others including 2 more by Trevlyn (High Death, Falkland: K D Duval, 1970, one of 100 copies only, single sheet of blue hand-made paper folded twice, inscribed 'For William & Mary, Valda Trevlyn'; A Sea-Girl's Cry, 1971, one of 100 copies, signed), and various studies of MacDiarmid (30)Note: Three copies of Two Poems traced in libraries world-wide, all in the USA.

Mitchell, J. Leslie [pseudonym: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935] Spartacus London: Jarrolds, 1934. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, binding rubbed and worn, text-block toned, a few spots and marks, front free endpaper removed, dust jacket chipped, spotted and toned, damp-stain to spine-panel, front panel abradedNote: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'For C. M. Grieve, Hugh MacDiarmid, from Jas Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon' on the title-page. A superb Scottish Renaissance association copy. Spartacus is considered the best novel written by Mitchell, author of the Scots Quair trilogy, under his real name. He and MacDiarmid were co-authors of The Scottish Scene, published in 1934.

Rowling, J. K., and others One City Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005. 8vo, original orange cloth, spine and covers lettered in white, silhouette of the Edinburgh skyline in blue along foot, patterned endpapers, slipcase, rubbing to cover designNote: First edition, signed limited issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by J. K. Rowling, author of the introduction, and Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith, each of whom wrote a specially commissioned short story set in Edinburgh; the collection was published to benefit the OneCity Trust. The signed limited issue was not publicly available for sale (private information from the publisher).

Scottish poetry Collection of works, 18th-19th century comprising: Beattie, James. Original Poems and Translations. London [i.e. Aberdeen: printed by F. Douglas?], sold by A. Millar, 1760. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 13.5cm), 19th-century maroon half roan, toning, a few spots and marks [ESTC T136422]; Idem. The Minstrel, in two Books: with some other Poems. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1779. First edition, 8vo (22.1 x 13.5cm), bound uniformly with the preceding item, spotting and toning [ESTC T133063]; Wedderburn, James, John & Robert, attrib. A Specimen of a Book intituled, ane Compendious Booke, of Godly and Spiritual Sangs ... with Augmentation of sundrie Gude and Godly Ballates, not contained in the first edition. Edinburgh: W. Ruddman, J. Richardson, and Company, 1765. 8vo (16.5 x 9.4cm), later quarter morocco, ff. E2-3 tipped in [ESTC T127755]; Hewit, Alexander, 'the Berwickshire Ploughman'. Poems on Various Subjects (English and Scotch). Berwick-upon-Tweed: for the author, c.1820. First edition, large 12mo (17.1 x 10.2cm), contemporary red morocco, rubbed, spotting and soiling, marginal tear to D5; Stoddart, Thomas Tod. Songs of the Seasons and Other Poems. Kelso: J. & J. H. Rutherfurd, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 mounted albumen print photographs; and 25 others (these not collated), including: William Barclay, Callirhoe ... the Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen: Burnett and Retti, 1799; James Hogg, The Mountain Bard, 1807 (first edition, contemporary marbled sheep, front board near detached); idem, The Pilgrims of the Sun, 1815 (first edition, annotated 'large paper', later half calf, rebacked, Abercairny bookplate); Henry A. Bright, Some Account of the Glenriddell MSS. of Burns's Poems, Printed for Private Distribution, 1874 (first edition, contemporary quarter morocco, autograph letter signed from Bright tipped in, bookplate of Sir William Stirling Maxwell); Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes etc. In Three Parts. Selected by David Wilson, Teacher of Music, Edinburgh, Edinburgh: sold by the editor at his house, c.1750? (8vo, contemporary red quarter sheep, 56 pp., browning; no other copy traced); The Widowed Heart. A Poem, Glasgow: printed for the author for private circulation, 1845 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth; no other copy traced); John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Heirs ... in the Scottish Dialect, 1809 (first edition, original boards); various other provincial Scottish imprints; and similar (30)

Smith, Sydney Goodsir Collection of inscribed copies and limited editions including: Omens. Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1955. 3 copies, first editions, numbers 2, 9 and 33 of 300, the first inscribed to Smith by his wife Hazel together with 10 bars of manuscript music in her hand, the others inscribed by Smith for Hazel, both 8vo, original wrappers; Orpheus and Eurydice. Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1955. First edition, the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 50 copies signed by author and artist and with hand-coloured frontispiece, from the total edition of 300, this copy additionally inscribed 'Sydney, I love thee for ever, Hazel, April 1955', 8vo, original wrappers; Carotid Cornucopius. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1947. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, each inscribed by the author ('The Auk'), one for Peter Russell, the other for Tommy Thin; The Deevil's Waltz. Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1946. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author 'To Cedric Thorpe Davie [Scottish composer, 1913-1983], avec mes sentiments les plus profonds [...]'; Figs and Thistles. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. 2 copies, first editions, signed limited issue (one of 100 copies) and trade issue, the latter inscribed by the author and with laid-in autograph letter signed, both to 'Mrs Brown', identified in pencilled note as mother of George MacKay Brown; together with 7 others by Smith (Carotid Cornucopius, 1964; Kynd Kittock's Land, 1965, 3 copies; The Wanderer, 1943; Gowdspink in Reekie, 1974; Gavin Douglas: A Selection from his Poetry, 1959; Skail Wind, 1941), all signed or inscribed except for Skail Wind, Smith's personal copy of Rilke, Selected Poems,1941 (with his ownership inscription), and 10 by other Scottish poets including William Soutar, some inscribed (29)

Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27. First edition, large-paper copy, 3 volumes, large folio (49.2 x 31.5cm), later tan half morocco by J. Leighton of Brewer Street, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 52 engraved maps and plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates, most plates marked proof, occasional light spotting; Samuel, Nathaniel. The History of Hertfordshire. London: [no publisher], 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, [8] 368 pp. engraved folding map, binding worn, front joint cracked [ESTC T36381, calling for [8] 369 [1] pp. with the final leaf unsigned, this not present in e.g. the Yale copy, and the text apparently ending on p. 368]; Chalmers, George. Caledonia: or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the most Ancient to the Present Times. London: for T. Cadell, 1810-10-24. Second, first and first editions, all on large paper, 3 volumes, 4to (33.5 x 24.5cm), later tree calf gilt with twin morocco labels, engraved folding map, 5 plans, folding table, bookplates (motto 'Fortes fortuna juvat'), volume 1 head of front joint cracked; Bruce, J. Collingwood. Incised Markings on Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, and Other Places. London: for private circulation, 1869. First edition, large folio (62 x 58cm), contemporary half morocco, 32 tinted lithographic plates, spotting, wear to head of spine with commensurate paper-erosion to head of gutter throughout, touching images of double-page plates, otherwise affecting guards and margins; Gordon, Sir Robert. A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Folio, uncut in original boards, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, damp-stained; arms; and folding manuscript facsimile), wear to covers: Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 2 volumes 1 in, 4to (26 x 20.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved map, 110 engraved plates including 2 additional vignette title-pages (10)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo [Jones]. London: printed by James Flesher, [1655]. First edition, folio (27.7 x 18.2cm), disbound, lacking E2, portrait frontispiece and 4 folding woodcut plates (of 7; the remaining plates with old repairs), with 3 initial blanks (all detached), title-page defective, browning, damp-staining towards front. With profuse ink marginalia throughout in a contemporary hand (closely trimmed in places; occasional concomitant paper corrosion), in English and occasionally Latin (and a few phrases in French), unrelated or only tangential to the printed text, in a rambling, scurrilous and repetitive style, with numerous references to 17th-century figures and events, and exhibiting a fixation with large sums of money, the printed dedication 'To the Favourers of Antiquity' (A4) signed 'Pembroke & Muntgomrye' in the same hand as the marginalia, the signature asterisked with an accompanying annotation by an 18th-century hand, 'This Philip E. of Pembroke and Mongomery [sic], was the writer of these wild notes. A Wood woud have less belyed him, in calling him a mad man, than in saying he was illiterate & coud not write his name', 19th-century annotation to initial blank, 'There is reason to believe that the notes scrawled upon these pages are written by the Philip Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery to whom the book is dedicated, E. D.'Note: The dedicatee of the work was Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), though the 'writer of these wild notes' is more likely to have been his son, the infamous seventh earl (1653-1683), also Philip, who succeeded in 1674 and 'quickly acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous and violent behaviour' (ODNB). He was reported by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1680) to keep at the family seat of Wilton House a menagerie of exotic animals, was committed to the Tower for blasphemy, and killed two men in separate drunken incidents, escaping punishment first through claiming privilege of peerage, and second by royal pardon. The character who emerges from these annotations is obsessed with money, and those who have it, motifs which recur throughout a bewildering variety of ravings, doggerel verse and arbitrary lists, written in spelling eccentric even for the period, altogether suggesting a person of entirely unsound mind. If he was not the earl of Pembroke, references to Wilton House and Ramsbury suggest that he at least thought he was, and the annotations are perhaps dateable to the 1660s on the basis of a recollection that 'some 40 or rather 44 years agoe, there was a great faction betwixt ye Digberians & ye Buckingamians' (p. 26); another remark, 'How ould art thou? fifteen come Lent. If Christmasse lasted all ye year, then what should become of Lent' (p. 15), suggests that the annotator was an exact contemporary of the seventh earl's. Further examples include: 'If hee be mad as my Lady Harewood says whose tongue is not slaunder it is rather for wantinge ye ten thousand pounds an year his father promisd to give him tha[n] yt hee thinkes 6000 an year to bee too mutch for him to manage with Wilton & Ramesberye' (p. [vi]); 'And was it not strange, that in one week His Grace should loose one thousand pounds at gleeke? or 4000 ls at gleeke. Hath hee burned ye teats of her virginity? Certayneley that ould woeman wanted businesse that sette London bridge afyre, shee did [?] the city of London to ye value of cent mil escu au moins' (p. 1) 'The house of ye Howards is now goinge towards theyre woonted declininge, for when they are great, they emprison & beat, & then ye sunne leaves shining then thousand hee & shee hereticks, ten thousand hee & shee Armineans, ten thousand hee & shee Armenians, London lickpenny, Lincolne lickpenny, Mrs Sarah Graunty widdow hath a 1000 an year land of inheritance to live on' (p. 14); 'Ravilliack Crummewell is to bee pulld apeices wth 4 wild horses upon London streets & then to bee hang draiwen & quartered not decapite[d]' (p. 31); 'Hinnico Jones alias Iniguity Jones a justice of peace of ye qudrum and custos rotilorum hath for keepinge ye kinges houses in repayre deaux cens mil escu per an, three score thousand ls starlinge an year and well payed hee is 4 score years ould. Midwife Mrs Bullard midwife Mrs Whiteby midwife Mrs Cutler twoo parsons widdowes' (p. 34); 'Mathew Cardroe lyeth heer, whooe drunke too mutch of bottle bear. I care noe more to kill them in bravado then forto drinke a pipe of Trinidado [...] Tom Tippett uppe & downe doth walke & cannott see himself in his owne optick glasse' (p. 41); 'Wilton House Ramsberye house Pembrokes Earl Pembrokes & Muntgomeryes then Lord Chamberlaynes. Personal suppositum intelligens ten of 20 ls an year augmentation monye to ye Greeke lecture or buildinge at Cambridge, Oxford Caius de Antiquitate Cantabrigi' (p. 43); 'I kneaw ye 3 Mackullyes taylours all three Scottshmen & brothers ye woorst of them dyed woorth twenty-thousand pounds they three dyed in all woorth three score thousand starlinge deaux cens mil escu au moins' (p. 50); 'I was nurst 2 years at Mourtleack two years togither [...] by Nurse Beck, whoe nurst ould mad Besse Tallmatch' (p. 61); 'Sr Ferauncis Cranes hanginges all ye suits at Mourtleck upon ye Thames where I was nurst cost ten thousand pounds at least. Hee made my Lord keeper Williams ye 4 seasons of ye year & sould them to him for £500 Sir Firauncis Crane of Grafton Auditour Crane' (p. 63); 'Hee & shee marquesse Ormonde, hee & shee Marquesse Toosmond, Hee & shee Marquesse Desmond, Rabshekais & Achitophells, Madam you must bee whippt at a cart stayble, or you shall ride in a dunge cart, or have rotten eggs throwne at you[r] Irish honour' (p. 69).

British composers Collection of manuscript music scores comprising: Henschel, Sir Isidore Georg (1850-1934). [Psalm CXXX for five-part chorus, solo voices and orchestra], c.1878. 97 pp., probably secretarial, with Henschel's autograph title and presentation inscription, 'Der Hundert und Dreissigste Psalm Davids, für fünfstimmigen Chor, Solostimmen und Orchester ... gesetzt von Georg Henschel. Frau Amelia Lehmann, zum Andenken, London am 29 Juni 1877, 10. July [sic] 1878' to front free endpaper and pastedown, 33 x 26cm, contemporary quarter cloth binding; Beale, William George Frederick (fl. c.1855-75). 'Symphony in F Minor', 1872. 66 ff., autograph, 23.2 x 29.2cm, contemporary cloth; Turpin, Edmund Hart (1835-1917). 'Grand Mass in D Minor' [and:] 'Mass in Ab', c.1865. 2 works, 122 ff. and 188 pp., both probably autograph, in purple ink, Grand Mass with penciled annotation ('Grand Mass in D Minor (Unpublished). Composed for the use of St Barnabas Cathedral Nottingham by E. H. Turpin, late organist and choirmaster there (about 1865), with instrumental accompaniments') to initial blank, both 28 x 23cm, in contemporary half roan (worn); together with: volume of manuscript scores for guitar (spine dated 1831, 74 ff. + blanks, songs with guitar accompaniment, including 'The Muleteer', 'Flow on thou Shining River, Portuguese Romance', 'Auld Lang Syne', Weber's 'Choeur des chasseurs de Robin des bois', etc., in the same hand); volume of manuscript scores in different hands, mounted on stubs; a collection of some 40 autograph letters signed from Edinburgh organist Thomas H. Collinson (1865-1928) to 'My dear precentor', c.1907-12; and a collection of engraved music (not collated): Beethoven, Air with Variations for the Piano Forte, London: Broderip & Wilkinson, c.1805, and VIII Variations on a Celebrated Air in the Opera of "Richard Coeur de Lion" for the Piano Forte, London: Goulding, Phipps, D'Almaine & Co., c.1805 (2 works, original wrappers); Nathaniel Gow, The Vocal Melodies of Scotland, Edinburgh: Nathaniel Gow, c.1820 (2 parts in 1 volume, other pieces bound in at rear); Niel Gow & Son's [sic], Part First [Fourth] of the Complete Repository of Original Scots Slow Strathspeys and Dances, Edinburgh: Robert Purdie, c.1820 (third edition, 'corrected and improved'); John Parry, The London Collection of Glees, Duetts and Catches, c.1829 (2 volumes); A Select Collection of Scottish Airs for the Voice ... by Pleyel, Kozeluch and Haydn, Edinburgh: G. Thomson, 1801-3 (3 volumes) (15 volumes + folder of letters)Note: The recipient of this manuscript copy of Henschel's setting of Psalm CXXX was apparently fellow composer Amelia Lehmann (née Chambers, 1838-1903). William George Frederick Beale appears in a notice in the London Gazette (7 April 1857, p. 1292) as a 'Professor of Music' also known under the names of William Morgan Smith and William Horatio Smith.

Davidson, Allan A. South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia... The Central Australian Exploration Syndicate...1898 to 1900. Adelaide: By Authority, C.E. Bristow, 1905. Folio, South Australia no.27, large folding map and large folding plan (each with some closed tears), brown cloth, text-block loose, bookplate of the Comité Bruxellois pour la Restauration de la B.U.L. and a subsequent inscription in black ink; Hamada, Kosaku P'i - Tzu - Wo. [Archaeologia Orientalis Volume I] Prehistoric Sites by the River Pi-liu-ho, South Manchuria. Tokyo / Kyoto: The Toa-Kokogaku-Kwai, or the Far-Eastern Archaeological Society, 1929. Folio, frontispiece, 2 folding tables, 68 plates, with a gift inscription to the front free-endpaper dated 1949, original red half cloth gilt, text-block split with spine partially detached; Soules, François (translator) Affaires De L'Inde Depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756... jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783. London and Paris: Buisson, 1788. First edition. 8vo, two volumes, fold-out map in volume II, contemporary calf, gilt spine, bookplates of Monsieur Laplagne Barri, some dust-soiling and damp-staining, endpapers detaching from boards, binding wormed in places, edges bumped (4)

Baskin, Leonard (illustrator) William Shakespeare: Othello [Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press], 1973. Folio, text in unbound bifolia, signed and numbered 1/200 by Baskin on the colophon leaf, 10 woodcut plates on Japanese paper, each numbered 1/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, with a suite of duplicate plates, each numbered 1x/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, all loose as issued in the original solander boxNote: First edition, deluxe issue, the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 200 copies with an additional suite of woodcuts and available only from the Kennedy Galleries in New York; there were also 200 bound copies. This is the second and final published volume of the never-completed Gehenna Shakespeare; the first volume was Titus Andronicus, which appeared in 1970.

Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976) 'Little office worker', 1953 Pen-and-ink sketch, signed 'Yours sincerely[?], L. S. Lowry 1953, Plough Inn', on manila paper (apparently an envelope), with various other signatures, mounted, framed and glazed, annotated on backboard ('Little office worker drawn by Mr Lowry ... L S Lowry signed 1960's envelope with Arthur Worton, at the Plough Inn (2nd visit) Saturday afternoon ...'), together with a copy of Mervyn Levy, The Paintings of L. S. Lowry, 1975, first edition, trade issue, signed by Lowry in pencil on the frontispiece, original cloth, dust jacket, front free endpaper excised (2)

Miro, Joan Femmes Texte de Claude Simon. [Paris]: Maeght, 1965. First edition, trade issue, large folio, [9]-20 pp. text, woodcut frontispiece in colours, similar vignettes to title-page and colophon leaf, 23 offset lithographic plates in colours, all loose as issued in yellow wrappers, housed in original yellow card portfolio, ties extant, very slightly distressed at extremities; Chagall, Marc. Chagall Lithographe. [Volume 1 of 6]. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1960]. First edition in German, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 11 lithographic plates, illustrations throughout the text; Beaulieu, Paul. O visages ... poème satirique de Jean-Louis Vallas. Paris: aux dépens d'un amateur, 1952. First edition, one of 67 copies on Vergé pur chiffon, from the total edition of 85, 4to, 33 etched plates, text, in bifolia, loose as issued in original wrappers and card folder; Jansem, Jean. Oeuvres graphiques. New York: Touchstone Publisher Ltd., 1970. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 8 lithographic plates; Manet, Edouard. The Raven. Poem by Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1978. 'Limited edition' (limitation not stated), large folio, 16 pp. text, 4 lithographic plates, all loose as issued in portfolio and slipcase (slipcase partially split at foot) (5)

Nevinson, C. R. W. Modern War Paintings With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. First edition, 4to, original green quarter cloth, green paper boards, printed labels to spine and front cover, dust jacket, colour lithographic frontispiece ('The Column on the March') signed by Nevinson in pencil and with captioned tissue-guard, 24 monochrome plates, peripheral toning to boards, corners bumped, dust jacket with toned spine, chipping to head and foot of spine and joints, short closed tear to head of front panel, a few small marks; Bone, Muirhead. Glasgow. Fifty Drawings. Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1911. 'Special edition', number 2 of 110 copies (of which 10 were for presentation) with a signed original etching, comprising text volume (folio, original wrappers, partly unopened), signed etching (in window-mount), and 53 unbound plates (each on separate card mount and including duplicates of plates 3, 11 and 36), all in portfolio as issued; Binyon, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli. An Essay in Pictorial Criticism. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 275 copies, folio, original quarter vellum, etched frontispiece by Muirhead Bone (signed by the artist), 23 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards browned; Burns, Robert (1869-1941). Scots Ballads. London: Seeley Service & Co Limited, [1939]. First edition, one of 320 copies only, folio, original quarter cloth, printed on japon, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; [Chromolithography]. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W & G Hudsley, Architects. London: Day & Son, 1865. 4to, original decorative cloth, 20 chromolithographic leaves, gutta percha perished and contents loose; Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books, New Arabian Nights. A New Edition; Ballads. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888-89-90. 3 works, large-paper editions, each one of 100 copies only, 4to, original cream cloth, slightly marked, tips bumped (8)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Douze lithographies Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1948. First edition,folio, one of 600 copies on vélin supérieur from the total edition of 750, 12 lithographic plates in colours, all text as called for (in bifolia, comprising: half-title and limitation page; title-page, 3 pp. introduction, list of plates, justification page), all loose as issued in original quarter cloth portfolio (portfolio marked, ties extant), 4 unrelated prints laid in

Tealby, Norman (1885-?) Original illustrations for Ivan the Fool and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy, 8 ink drawings for plates in 2 or more colours, all signed with artist’s monogram, each approximately 21 x 13cm and laid-down to board; 15 black and white drawings, 14 signed with artist’s monogram, various sizes; 1 black and white design for dust-jacket, signed with artist’s monogram, 28.5 x 40cm; together with 6 proofs (30)Note: These illustrations were executed for A & C Black's edition of Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool and Other Tales which was first published in 1931. Provenance: From the archive of Bloomsbury Publishing, who acquired A & C Black in 2002.