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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.

Antiquarian books, 18th and 19th century Large collection of works, including Scottish interest comprising: Army List. A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines. [London]: War-Office, 1791. Thirty-ninth edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), contemporary tree calf, bookplate of Sir George Russell Clerk (1801-1889), British civil servant in India, rubbed [ESTC T170302: 3 copies in UK libraries]; Robinson, Mary. Poems. London: J. Bell, 1791. First edition, 8vo (18.5 x 11.3cm), contemporary marbled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, contemporary gift inscription ('To Miss Everett, by Mrs Lettsom as a token of friendship & esteem', bookplates ('Chute Lodge, 1816' and John Adam, motto 'crux mihi grata quies'), front board near-detached [ESTC T99736]; Scruton, James. The Practical Counting House; or, Calculation and Accountantship Illustrated. Glasgow: James Duncan, 1777. First edition, 8vo (20.6 x 12.5cm), contemporary marbled sheep, covers detached [ESTC T196938: 5 UK copies]; [Topham, Edward]. Letters from Edinburgh; written in the Years 1774 and 1774: containing some Observations on ... the Scotch Nation during a Six Months Residence in Edinburgh. London: J. Dodsley, 1776. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12.6cm), contemporary sheep, front joint partly cracked, front free endpaper absent, worming to foot of title and dedication, occasional soiling [ESTC T137107]; [Robertson, Joseph]. The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and it's [sic] Islands. Edinburgh: for J. Thomson Junr & Co., 1806. Third edition, 12mo (17.6 x 9.9cm), contemporary tree calf by Forsyth of Elgin, engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (coloured in outline; closed handling tears), 16 further maps; and 27 others (these not collated), including: Jonathan Swift, The Works, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1741-6 (7 volumes of 8?, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed, together with a uniformly-bound copy of Miscellanies, The Last Volume, London: B. Motte, 1727); Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland, 1764 (first edition, folio, contemporary half calf, label renewed, 10 engraved heraldic plates, moderate browning and damp-staining, old paper-reinforcement to inner hinges); idem, The Baronage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1798 (first edition, 1 volume bound in 2, folio, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style, contemporary annotations to endpapers and margins; William Hawkins, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. London, 1739 (third edition, 2 volumes in 1, folio contemporary calf, joints cracked, wear, contemporary trade card of the New Printing-Office, Norwich, 1723 to front pastedown); Thomas Wood, A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law, London, 1730 (fourth edition, folio, contemporary calf, joints cracked, loss to leather; idem, An Institute of the Laws of England, 1734 (fifth edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, worn, engraved portrait frontispiece); William Maver, Johnson's English Dictionary, Glasgow, 1809 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn); Earl of Selkirk, Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, 1805 (first edition, uncut in original boards, joints cracked, title-leaf and conjugate tipped in, 'Castle Grant, 1805' inscribed on title); Robert Southey, Roderick, 1815 (second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary purple half calf); Warton et al., Essays on Gothic Architecture, 1808 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf gilt, worn); Robert Burns, The Life and Works, Edinburgh, 1815 (4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn); and similar, mainly in contemporary leather bindings (46)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Golf Collection of club histories and other works including: Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Edinburgh: Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, glassine dust jacket, 7 halftone photographic plates; McLaren, R. M. The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers 1744-1944. Edinburgh: [no publisher, c.1944]. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, printed label to front, 23 pp., spots to label and page-edges, Miller, T. D. The History of the Royal Perth Golfing Society. Perth: Munro Press, Ltd., 1935. First edition, large 8vo, original cloth, water-stained with concomitant rippling to text-block, bookplate of Melvin Gray (1848-1936, brother of Euphemia 'Effie' Gray); Caw, William. King James VI. Golf Club, Record and Records. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, Limited, 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, 4 plates; Lysander, J. F. Gullane. A Poem. Edinburgh: John Robertson, 1887. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 mounted albumen-print photographs (collation unknown); Johnston, Alastair J. The Clapcott Papers. Edinburgh: privately published, 1985. First edition, one of 400 copies only, 8vo, original blue cloth, slipcase; Cunningham, And[rew] S. The Golf Clubs round Largo Bay. Leven: Purves & Cunningham, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; and 9 others similar, including one on cricket (16)Note: Library Hub traces six copies only for Gullane, and two for The Golf Clubs round Largo Bay.

Edinburgh 2 volumes comprising: Maitland, William. The History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neil. 1753. First edition, folio, large folding plan and 20 engraved plates, contemporary full dark brown calf, backstrip in panels, red label, leather strip torn from front cover, head and tail of spine worn; Shepherd, T.H. Modern Athens, displayed in a Series of Views of Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century. London: Jones & Co., 1829, 4to, engraved title and 100 engraved plates, mounted on india paper, bound with: Jones & Co. [Views of the Seats] London, Jones. 1829, 80 engraved views on 40 plates (of 296 views on 148 plates), tissue guards lacks title; contemporary green calf, spine gilt in panels, red label, gilt tooled, all edges gilt, top board with small tear, very slightly rubbed (2)

Miscellaneous books including music comprising: Hook, James. Six English Canzonetts for two and three voices. London: C and S. Thompson, [?1780], oblong 4to, engraved title and music, [2], 16; Bishop, H. Six New Minuets and Six Cotillons... to which is added a Minuet and Gavot by Gardel. Longman and Broderip, [c.1780], oblong 4to, [2], 19, engraved title & music; [Incomplete engraved dance score], comprising pp. 73-84, pp. 1-12; pp. 1-12, with dance instructions beneath music, no titles; Bishop, H. Six New Minuets and Twelve Country Dances. London: Longman and Broderip, [c.1780], oblong 4to, engraved title and music, [4], 22; contemporary half calf, worn, lower cover detached, with contemporary inscription of Miss Frances Dickinson and Martha Colepeper; Evelyn, John. Silva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees. York, 1801, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait and 44 plates, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; Humphreys, T.N. and J.O. Westwood. British Moths and their Transformations. 1854. 2 volumes, 4to, 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary green morocco, gilt, g.e., tissue guards, bindings rubbed; Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland... new edition. 1892. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, spine discoloured, some spotting; Lang, Andrew. Books and Bookmen. 1887, inscribed "for Longman, from the author, who deplores the lack of inner margin!", original quarter cloth, endpaper spotted, binding slightly soiled; "Grey Owl" Pilgrims of the Wild. July 1937, signed on title page, original cloth, slightly spotted; Trollope, Anthony. The Warden, 1925; The Small House at Allington, 1925; Barchester Towers, 1925; Doctor Thorne, 1925; Last Chronicle of Barset, 1925; Framley Parsonage. 1925, all red half morocco by Zaehnsdorf; sold not subject to return (14)

Ellicott, Andrew The Journal of Andrew Ellicott Late Commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the year 1796, the year 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800: for determining the boundary between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America... Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1803. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of William Emory Quinby and Canadarqua Library, rubbed, with some marking to lower board, with 5 (of 8) folding charts and diagrams in Appendix only and lacking the 6 folding engraved maps, a couple of closed tears to plates, marginal dampstaining and some spotting

European travel and others 8 volumes including: Billmark, Carl Johann. [Pittoresk Resetur fran Stockholm till Neapel. Paris, 1852]. Folio, 12 (of 100) lithographed plates after Billmark, 19th century green quarter morocco, lettered in gilt, 2 plates slightly frayed in margin, 1 slightly dampstained, rubbed; Hughes, John. Views of the South of France, chiefly on the Rhone, engraved by W.B. Cooke, George Cooke and J.C. Allen, from drawings by P. Dewint. London: H. Leggatt, 1830. Folio, large paper copy, 24 engraved plates on india paper, contemporary green quarter morocco, cloth sides, some spotting, corners rubbed; Lear, Edward. Views in the Seven Ionian Islands. Oldham, 1979. Folio, facsimile edition, 1/1000 copies, original green cloth; Cox, David. A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1814. First edition, Oblong folio (480 x 310mm) 47 of 56 plates (24 soft ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints, 7 (of 16) coloured aquatints), contemporary maroon half-morocco, maroon gilt label on top board, rubbed, [Abbey Life 115]; Trollope, T.A. Italy from the Alps to the Arno. London, 1892. Large 4to, plates, illustrations, original red cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Virtue & Co., publishers. Switzerland and the Bavarian Highlands. London, [c.1880], large thick 4to, plates, illustrations, modern half calf, spine gilt, stamps of the Cripplegate Institute; Koebel, W.H. The Romance of the River Plate. London, 1914. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth (8)

Germany and Holland 5 volumes comprising: Hills, Robert. Sketches in Flanders and Holland, with some account of a Tour through parts of those Countries, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo. London: J. Haines and J. Turner, 1816. First edition, 4to, 36 sepia aquatint plates, including 1 folding panorama (Waterloo) and 5 hand-coloured costume plates, maroon half morocco, unobtrusive library blindstamps of the Royal United Service Institution, and their bookplate with disposal stamp, very occasional light spotting; Batty, Capt. Robert. German Scenery from drawings made in 1820. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1823. First edition, 4to, engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 60 engraved plates, contemporary green morocco, spine gilt, uncut, a tall copy; James, J.T. Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia and Poland during the years 1813 and 1814. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, 4to, 18 sepia aquatint or etched plates, original boards, uncut, neatly rebacked reusing original paper label, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Trolleholmiae; Carr, Sir John. A Tour through Holland, along the Right and Left banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First edition, 4to, engraved map and 20 sepia aquatints, contemporary calf, preliminary leaves lightly browned, slightly rubbed; Kampen, N.G. van. The History and Topography of Holland and Belgium. London: G. Virtue, [1837], 8vo, engraved title, folding map and 61 plates after W.H. Bartlett, tissue guards, contemporary half calf, some spotting, upper joint slightly split at head of spine (5)

Good, Frank Mason Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery including some of its most Ancient Temples, etc. etc. London: A. Shapcott, [1874]. First edition, oblong 4to, original cloth, tinted lithographic title-page, 20 albumen print photographs (10 x 16.5cm), on linen-hinged card mounts as issued, mounts with lithographic captions and borders, tissue-guards throughout, covers sunned, front inner hinge cracked, initial blank spotted [Gernsheim 584]Note: Rare: no copies traced in libraries. 'Frank Mason Good is best known for his series of views of the Middle East taken on four separate tours of the area in the 1860s and 1870s. He first travelled to Egypt as assistant to Francis Frith in late 1857. He joined the Photographic Society in 1864, and in 1880 served as a judge of its annual exhibition' (National Portrait Gallery, online). Provenance: Contemporary prize plate to front pastedown, awarded to A. Yuille, address at head 56 Penywern Road; 'Yuille' is possibly a misspelling, as the orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1833-1885) is known to have lived on the same street. Images of the binding and all plates are available on the Lyon & Turnbull website.

Hooker, William Jackson Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Second edition ('with additions'), 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 13cm), contemporary cloth, [8] cvi 369, [2] 391 [15] pp., half-titles, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), 3 engraved maps (2 folding; one printed in bistre), letterpress table (facing volume 2 p. 238), inscribed 'To Mrs Dennistoun, with the most respectful compliments of the author, 1826' on half-title of volume 1, spotting and offsetting; Campbell, Walter. The Old Forest Ranger; or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and on the Plains. London: How and Parsons, 1842. First edition, 8vo, original quarter morocco, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, tissue-guards, spine worn, tips bumped and showing through, spotting to endpapers and a few plates, quires I-K working loose [not in Abbey]; and 6 others (not fully collated): John Matheson, England to Delhi, 1870 (first edition, 4to, original red cloth, inscribed 'James M. Hall Esqr, with the author's compliments', front inner hinge cracked; James Young Simpson, Side-Lights on Siberia: Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System, 1898 (first edition, 8vo, original green cloth); George Milne Rae, The Syrian Church in India, 1892 (first edition, 8vo, original red cloth); Daniel Bruun, The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia, 1898 (first edition in English, 8vo, original brown cloth); Sir William Andrew, Euphrates Valley Route to India, 1882 (second edition, large 8vo, original orange cloth); and a signal book for the [Royal] Northern Yacht Club, 1829 (8vo, contemporary calf, front board detached, flags added in watercolour) (9)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Lawrence, T.E. 10 volumes comprising: Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1935. 4to, first trade edition, plates, original buckram, spine faded; Revolt in the Desert. 1927, dustwrapper spine browned and dustwrapper with a couple of small losses; Revolt in the Desert. 1927, original buckram, spine slightly faded; The Mint. 1955, 3 copies, first editions, dustwrappers lightly soiled; The Letters. 1938. First edition, original buckram, dustwrapper rather soiled; Letters to T.E. Lawrence. 1962, original buckram, dustwrapper; Aldington, Richard. Lawrence of Arabia. 1955, 2 copies, first editions, both dustwrappers slightly frayed (10)

Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la Paris; Arthus Bertrand, [1868-74]. First edition, 3 volumes (text volumes 1-2 of 3, and atlas volume), 4to (36 x 27cm), later black quarter morocco, text-volume pagination [4] iii [1] 388, [4] 222 [6] pp., half-titles, text-volumes with original wrappers bound in (laid on card), volume 1 with 4 folding chromolithographic geological maps or profiles (numbered 1-4, including duplicates of 3-4), volume 2 with 2 folding maps, atlas volume with 59 photogravure plates by Charles Nègre (of 64: lacking nos. 2, 55, 61, 63, 64), a suite of 18 numbered plates titled ‘Voyage de M. Mauss’ (including 4 maps and plans, one folding, the rest tinted lithographs by Eugène Ciceri from photographs by Vignes or Sauvaire), folding colour map, folding engraved plate ('Le segor'), variable spotting [Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography I pp. 982-5 (Nègre); Parr & Badger I p. 33; Röhricht 2824] (3)Note: A pioneering work of photographic book illustration.

Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company, 1811. First edition, 4to (28.8 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, half-title, 3 engraved maps (one folding and hand-coloured), 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 6 engraved plates, 15 engravings in text, 4 folding tables, tissue-guards, spotting to engraved plates and to maps, closed handling tear to folding map [Abbey Travel 160; Tooley 313]; Beechey, Frederick William. A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty's Ship Dorothea and Trent. London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.6cm), 20th-century half calf, ix [3] 351 [1] pp., 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 folding lithographic panoramas, folding lithographic chart, unopened towards rear, gift inscription dated 1857 to dedication leaf verso, marginal damp-staining to engraved plates, one panorama with short closed tear at fold [Arctic Bibliography 1230; Sabin 4329]; Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), 20th-century half calf, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-title discarded, spotting and browning, folding map with repaired closed tear [Sabin 78171]; Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1818. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt-stamps of the Northern Lighthouse Board to spines, half-titles discarded, title-pages transposed and spines misnumbered, engraved folding map (backed on linen), 15 engraved or etched plates (including 'Icelandic Female in her Bridal Dress', not listed), directions to the binder leaf, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages; Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, half-title, errata leaf, I5 in first state, Q7 and U6 in second state, contemporary ownership inscription ('C Glencairn, Moffat') to title-page, closed marginal tear in R2, a few stains [ESTC T53594; Rothschild 456]; Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. Chester: John Monk, 1774. First edition, 4to (24.3 x 18.5cm), engraved title-page, 44 engraved plates, ink-stamps of Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, deaccession stamp to title-page), spotting; and 2 others (these not collated: Sir John Richardson, The Polar Regions, Edinburgh, 1861, first edition, 8vo, contemporary prize-binding of green calf gilt, half-title, engraved folding map; James Wilson, A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles, Edinburgh, 1842, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, plates and map) (10)

McLeod, John Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, gilt stamp of Londonderry Public Library to front board, etched portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light browning to margins and plates [Abbey Travel 559]; Medhurst, Walter H. China: its State and Prospects, with Especial Referenve to the Spread of the Gosepl. London: John Snow, 1838. First edition, third thousand, 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, Baxtertype frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates, folding map, contemporary and near-contemporary gift inscriptions to title-page and front pastedown, bookplate (Duncan Darrock of Gourock), spine strengthened, variable spotting, repair to folding map verso, [Abbey Travel 539]; Smyth, William Henry, & F. Lowe. Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition, 8vo contemporary half calf, 10 lithographic or wood-engraved plates, 3 maps of which 2 folding, spotting to lithographic plates and adjacent text-leaves, non-folding map shaved along fore edge; Tennent, Sir J. Emerson. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon ... including a Monograph of the Elephant and a Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training it. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, wood-engraved plates and text-illustrations; Barneby, W. Henry. The New Far West and the Old Far East, being Notes of a Tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc. London: Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original maroon pictorial morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8 plates from photographs, 3 folding maps, inscribed 'Margaret C. Barneby, on her birthday, Nov 20th 1890, from her affec. father, the author' on the half-title, a few scuffs to binding; Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1904. First edition, 4to, original cloth (recased), folding map, numerous plates (mainly photographic), laid-in albumen print photograph of Simla and carbon typescript headed 'Trial of Diwan Mul Raj (Governor of Multan), by Sita Ram Kohli, M.A. Punjab Government Publications' (5 ff.), marks to binding, text-block toned, occasional spotting (6)

Monro, Donald Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides... to which is added: I. An Account of Hirta and Rona; by Sir George McKenzie ... never before published. II. A Description of Saint Kilda, by Mr Alexander Buchan ... III. A Voyage to Saint Kilda in 1697, by M. Martin. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1774. First edition, 8vo (16.5 x 10cm), c.1900 red half morocco, soiling, a few marginal tears, L6 repaired [ESTC T90619: no copies outside the UK], together with 17 others, Scottish interest (these not fully collated), including: John Rushworth, Historical Collections ... Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James Anno 1618, London, 1659 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits, engraved folding map in good condition, binding rubbed, front joint repaired); David Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1825 (third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, a bright copy); Gilbert Hutcheson, Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace [etc.], Edinburgh, 1809 (second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, spines rubbed); William John Napier, A Treatise on Practical Store-Farming, as Applicable to the Mountainous Region of Etterick Forest, Edinburgh, 1822 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt, Napier bookplate); John Loudon McAdam, Remarks on the Present System of Road Making, London, 1820 (third edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards); Johnstone, An Account ... of Draining Land, Edinburgh, 1797 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, covers detached); David Brewster, Plates Illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1811 (first edition, 4to, contemporary boards); and similar (22)

Mountaineering 26 volumes comprising: King, Rev. S.W. The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps. 1858, folding map at end, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Edwards, Amelia B. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites. [1889], original pictorial cloth; Whymper, Edward. Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. 1892, original cloth, folding map in pocket at end; Blackburn, Henry. The Pyrenees. 1867, original cloth, spine faded; Conway, Sir William M. The Alps from End to End. Westminster, 1895, brown morocco; Knight, E.F. Where three Empires meet. 1895, original cloth; Smith, W.P.H. and H.C. Hart. Climbing in the British Isles. 1895, 2 volumes, original cloth, spine faded; Spender, Harold. Through the High Pyrenees. 1898, original buckram; Tyndall, John. Hours of Exercise in the Alps. 1899, contemporary half calf, spine gilt; Fitz Gerald, E.A. The Highest Andes. A Record of the first ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato. 1899, original cloth, slightly rubbed, Mudie's Library label to cover; Enock, C.R. The Andes and the Amazon. 1908, original pictorial cloth; Conway, Sir Martin. The Bolivian Andes. A Record of Climbing and Exploration. Harper & Bros, 1901, original cloth; Roget, F.F. Ski-Runs in the High Alps. 1913, original pictorial cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Dutton, E.A.T. Kenya Mountain. 1929, original cloth, faded; Kirkpatrick, W.T. Alpine Days and Nights. 1932, original cloth; Pilley, Dorothy. Climbing Days. 1935, original cloth, spine spotted; Chapman, F. Spencer. Watkins' Last Expedition. 1934. First edition, original cloth; Freshfield, Douglas W. Below the Snow Line. 1923, original cloth; Freshfield, Douglas W. Italian Alps. 1937, pictorial dustwrapper; Wills, Sir Alfred. Wanderings among the High Alps. 1937, pictorial dustwrapper; Russell, Scott. Mountain Prospect. 1946, dustwrapper; King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. 1947, original cloth; Shipton, Eric. That Untravelled World. 1977, dustwrapper; Shipton, Eric. Mountains of Tartary. Hodder, n.d., dustwrapper slightly frayed; sold as a collection not subject to return (26)

North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives comprising: Franklin, Sir John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823 [i.e. 1828]. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, 31 plates (including 9 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 hand-coloured engravings, the rest uncoloured engravings) and 4 engraved folding maps, plates offset, uncoloured engraved plates and adjacent text-leaves browned, maps mounted on linen stubs and somewhat spotted and offset, one map ('An Outline' with short closed tear to inner fold), manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Nissen ZBI 1419; Sabin 25624]; Idem. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827. London: John Murray, 1828. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt uniform with the preceding work, 31 engraved plates, 6 engraved folding maps, light browning to plates, maps mounted on linen stubs, browning to 'Discoveries made by British Officers' map, variable light offsetting to others, repaired tears to text-leaves P4 and (in Appendix) d3, manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 26228]; Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, [8] xxix [3] 310 [5] iv-clxxix pp., 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved charts (several folding), errata slip, Appendix sig. c1 folding, plates and charts variably spotted and offset, nos. 16-18 bound out of order, repaired closed tears in Y3 and 'Chart of ... Baffin's Bay' [Nissen ZBI 3096; Sabin 58860]; Idem. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1824. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf uniform with the preceding work, [8] xxx [2] 571 [1] pp., 31 engraved or aquatint plates and charts including frontispiece, 4 engraved folding charts, 4 engraved folding plates of coastal profiles, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves [Sabin 58864] Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to (30.1 x 22.8cm), contemporary tan calf decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, 30 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured, 'Discoveries in the Arctic Regions' map folding; lacking 'Tulluachiu and Family' plate), errata leaf (not mentioned in Abbey), inscribed 'To ... Johan Gustav Roof with the authors best regards, June 1835, John Ross' on the title-page, front joint repaired, rear joint cracked, marginal repair to title-page, offsetting and marginal tissue-consolidation to 'Discoveries' map, spotting to a few plates [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] (5)Note: Second and first editions respectively of Franklin's two works. The second edition of the Narrative of a Journey is described as such in the Introduction (p. xiv), and is extended to 784 from 768 pp.; the title-page remains dated 1823, but it was 'presumably produced to accompany the second volume' on its appearance in 1828 (Abbey).

Olearius, Adam [The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein] [To the great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia ... Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo ... from Persia, into the East-Indies] .[London: for Thomas Dring, and John Starkey, 1662]. First edition in English, folio (27.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, recornered and relined, browning, frontispiece and title-page absent, 3 engraved portraits ('Michael Federowitz Great Duke of Moscovie', with small marginal tear, old pencil marks; 'Shach Sefi King of Persia'; 'The Lively Portraict of the Great Mogol'), 7 engraved folding maps, of which 2 ('The Course of the Great River Wolga' and 'A New Map of Persia') both substantially torn away, 'A New Map of Liefland' closely trimmed, 'A New Map of Muscovy' with worming to top margin not affecting image, verso with various naive early sketches (two human faces, a partridge and a cat) and old repair to closed tear, 'A Map of ye Province of Kilan' slightly friable along top and bottom edges, closely trimmed along top, 'A Map of the East Indies' with old repair to verso of central fold, closely trimmed and slightly nicked and rumpled along fore edge, early naive sketches verso, 'An Exact of Mapp of China' rumpled, small holes to intersections of folds, small hole in frame along inner edge, text-leaves with a few spill-burns and closed tears [ESTC R21580; Wing O269]

Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars Together with an Account of Several Remarkable Things, concerning the Religion, Manners, and Customes of both Nations, but especially of the latter ... now rendred [sic] English. London: printed by W. Godbid, and sold by M. Pitt, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.5 x 10.5cm), modern calf ruled in blind, 4 pp. advertisements, early ownership inscription (Abraham Perrot) to title-page, light browning, variable spotting to margins and outer leaves, title-page slightly chipped, marginal hole in I3, final leaf silked, a few other marks [Cordier Sinica 627; ESTC R33642; Wing P200]

Park, Mungo Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799. First edition, 4to (28.2 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, edges untrimmed, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 plates, 3 folding maps, postscript leaf and 2 leaves of engraved music bound after title-page, toning, maps offset [ESTC N13836]; Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig. Travels in Arabia, comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as Sacred. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 12cm), modern half sheep, pp. xxii 452, [2] 431, 5 engraved folding maps and plans (including Mecca and Medina), no half-titles (if issued), spotting and damp-staining to maps and plans, large route map repaired, ink-stamps of Stirling District Library to title and final page of each volume [Blackmer 239; Macro 627]; Laborde, Léon de. Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition in English, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for (engraved or lithographic), 8 + 4 pp. advertisements to rear, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, binding sunned [Macro 1386]; Stothert, William. A Narrative of the Principal Events of the Campaigns of 1809, 1810, & 1811, in Spain and Portugal, interspersed with Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners. London: P. Martin, 1812. First edition, 8vo (21.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary blue half roan, engraved folding map frontispiece, errata leaf, quire H nicked and torn at foot (text intact); and 2 others: John Drinkwater, A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar, 1790 (4th edition, 4to, contemporary blue half roan, 10 engraved folding maps and plates, spotted, map facing p. 205 with repaired closed tear, text not collated); and a photograph album, c.1880, albumen prints, including views of Halifax (Novia Scotia), Kingston (Jamaica), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), St Vincent, railway construction on the Rio Blanco in Honduras, Newcastle Barracks (Jamaica), and an inspection of the West India Regiment (Jamaica), these all 20 x 13cm, red half morocco binding (7)Note: Second edition of Burckhardt's work, presumed to follow the quarto edition published the same year.

Pinelli, Bartolomeo Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole Rome: Luigi Fabri, 1822. First edition, oblong folio (45 x 59.8cm), contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, etched title-page, 26 etched plates (presumably extra-illustrated with one plate from another work by Pinelli, not identified), light spotting; Idem. Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi. Rome: Giovanni Scudellari, 1817. First edition, oblong 4to (16.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, etched title-page, 49 etched plates (of 50: lacking plate 38), contemporary ownership inscription 'David Dundas' (by family repute the British army officer Sir David Dundas, 1735-1820), occasional spotting (2)

Richardson, Sir John Arctic Searching Expedition A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, titles gilt to spines, blind rules to spines and covers, viii 413, viii 426 pp., 10 lithographic colour plates including frontispieces, hand-coloured folding map, 32 pp. advertisements, very light fraying to spine-ends, damp-stain to frontispiece of volume 2, light marginal spotting to a few other plates, cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges (possibly original) [Arctic Bibliography 14489; Sabin 71025; Stafleu & Cowan 9170] (2)Note: '[Richardson's] search for Franklin in 1847–9 was a model of careful planning and good execution, with no loss of life, no injuries, no shortages of food, and no lack of shelter. He shared the reasonable belief that some of Franklin's party survived the sinking of the Erebus and Terror and discovered the north-west passage before they died; and he argued for his old friend in The Times when McClure later claimed to have completed the discovery of the passage' (ODNB). The plates in the present work are mainly depictions of the Kutchin (Gwichʼin) people native to Alaska and Canada.

Scotland Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century including: [Monipennie, John]. Certayne Matters concerning the Realme of Scotland. London: for John Flasket, 1603. Second edition, 4to (18.1 x 13.2cm), 20th-century boards, spine defective, light browning, occasional staining, headlines often shaved, repairs to title-page (A1) and B1-2 obscuring a few letters, title page with contemporary annotations and a pen trial, final leaf N1/A2 with closed tear in gutter [ESTC S112838]; Hamilton, James, 1st Duke of Hamilton. [Incipit:] Whereas some have given out that by the Act of Councell [...]. Edinburgh: Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, 1638. 4to (18.5 x 13.2cm), modern boards, typographic headpieces, woodcut initials, retaining final blank (C4), book-label of noted bibliographer F. S. Ferguson (1878-1967), slight toning [ESTC S103719]; Charles I. [Incipit:] Charles, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. To our lovits [blank] messengers, our sheriffs [...], greeting. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1638. 4to (17.8 x 13cm), modern boards, woodcut headpiece (royal arms) and initial, F. S. Ferguson book-label [ESTC S116895]; Ward, Richard. The Analysis, and Application of the Sacred and Solemne League Covenant. London: J. Dollam, 1643. First edition, 4to (19.5 x 15.3cm), disbound, slightly dust-soiled, tide-mark to foot, edges nicked [ESTC R5685]; [Covenanters]. A True and Impartial Account of the Examinations and Confessions of the several Execrable Conspirators against the King and his Government in Scotland. London: Andrew Forrester, 1691. First edition, folio (28.7 x 18.7cm), disbound, final 2 leaves near detached and with closed tears [ESTC R21336]; [Medicine]. [Drop-head title:] Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session the Petition of John Monro Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh humbly sheweth that where in the competition betwixt your petition, as executor to the deceast Lieutenant Nisbet, and Janet Nisbet, executrix ... debated last week before the Lord Justice Clerk, 7 February 1701. Folio, 3 [1] pp., disbound, deckle edges, stitched together with an apparent continuation of the petition and 'Answers for Janet Nisebet and Peter Bell Merchant in Slagow her Husband ... to the Petition of John Monro against them], 2 and [2] pp., one with closed tear, [Defoe, Daniel]. Observations on the Fifth Article of the Treaty of Union, humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament, relating to Foreign Ships, [Edinburgh: no printer, 1706]. 4to (19.3 x 15.2cm), 20th-century quarter skiver, 4 pp., browned, bookplate of Robert A. S. Macfie (1868-1935), authority on the Roma [ESTC T55499: 10 UK copies, of which 7 in the National Library of Scotland]; Idem. A Short View of the Present State of the Protestant Religion in Britain, Edinburgh: [no printer], 1707. 8vo (18.4 x 11.4cm), 20th-century quarter skiver, a few page-numbers shaved, Macfie ownership inscription [ESTC T55491: 7 UK copies]; Almanac. Perth's True Almanack; or a New Prognostication for the Year of our Lord 1719 ... Calculated exactly (according to Art) for the Meridian of the Town of Perth ... by Mr. Patrick Stobie, Edinburgh: John Moncur, 1719. 8vo (14.8 x 9.4cm), A-B8, [32 pp.], eclipse woodcut on A4 r., detailed contemporary annotations to rear blanks, stitched in contemporary marbled wrappers (split along spine but remaining attached), final 2 leaves closely trimmed at head; and 12 others similar (these not collated), including 5 Acts of Parliament, 18th century (e.g. To prevent the infamous Practice of Stock-jobbing, 1734; For Settling and Establishing a Court of Exchequre in the North Part of Great Britain called Scotland, 1708; For rebuilding the Tron Church of the City of Glasgow [...], 1793, etc.; all disbound) (21)Note: Item 1 (Monipennie) was first published c.1594. Item 2 concerns the continuance of episcopal government in Scotland and was later published with other works as An Explanation of the Meaning of the Oath and the Covenant. No editions of The Petition of John Monro Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh or Perth's True Almanack traced in ESTC. The two Defoe pamphlets are notably rare in commerce.

Scotland Collection of archaeological monographs including: Beveridge, Erskine. Coll and Tiree. Their Prehistoric Forts and Ecclesiastical Antiquities. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1903. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 300, 4to, original quarter morocco, all plates as called for, spine sunned and rubbed; Smith, G. Gregory. The Book of Islay. Documents illustrating the History of the Island. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1895. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, original half morocco, presentation plate to front pastedown, binding rubbed; Ramsay, Lucy. The Stent Book and Acts of the Balliary of Islay 1718-1843. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1890. First edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, original half morocco, inscribed 'To James M. Hall Esqre of Killearn, with kindest regards from Lucy Ramsay, July 1891' on initial blank, some stripping to morocco; Graham, Robert C. The Carved Stones of Islay. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1895. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for; Napier, James. Folk Lore: or, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within this Century. Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1879. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'G. L. Gomme Esq, with the authors respects' on title-page, bookplate of Sir Laurence Gomme (1853-1916), folklorist, penciled marginalia, spine-label chipped, tips bumped; Fergusson, James. A Short Essay on the Age and Uses of Brochs and the Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney Islands and the North of Scotland. London: William Mullan and Son, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'Dr Hooker C.B., from the author, M[ar]ch 77' on title-page, the recipient probably Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911; appointed CB in 1879); Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox. Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore, on the Borders of Dorset and Wilts [volume 3 titled 'Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke]. [London]: printed privately, 1887-1905. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, numerous plates (not fully collated), inscribed 'Col Murdoch Smith, from the author' on volume 1 title-page (likely to be the noted archaeologist, 1835-1900), volume 1 inner hinges cracked; and 3 others: George C. Williamson, Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century ... New and Revised Edition of William Boyne's Work, 1889 (first edition, one of 25 copies of this size, 2 volumes, 4to, original quarter morocco), A List of Persons concerned in the Rebellion, Edinburgh: privately printed for the Earl of Rosebery, 1890 (first edition, one of 25 copies on large paper, this copy presented to the Dowager Countess of Seafield 8vo, lacking backstrip), H. Cameron Gillies, The Place-Names of Argyll, 1906 (first edition, one of 100 copies) (15)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Scotland Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th including: Napier, John, of Merchiston. A Plaine Discoverie of the Whole Revelation of St John. Edinburgh: Andro Wilson, 1645. Fifth edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.1 x 13.8cm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, browning and damp-staining, errata leaf discarded [ESTC R209880]; Grose, Francis The Antiquities of Scotland. London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797. Folio, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down (front joint partly cracked), engraved title-page with vignette, 185 engraved plates (of 191), without text and map, marginal spotting; Hogg, James. The Jacobite relics of Scotland: being the Songs, Airs and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819-21. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13cm), contemporary green calf gilt; [Erskine, John]. The Principles of the Law of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1764. 8vo (19.7 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, [ESTC T84162: 10 copies world-wide]; Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs Supplication, or, the Scotch-Hudibras. A Mock-Poem. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1751. First edition under this title, 8vo (15 x 9.5cm), contemporary sheep, spotting, front inner hinge tender [ESTC T140222]; Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord. Arguments and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases, before the High Court of Justiciary, and other Supreme Courts, in Scotland. Edinburgh: for J. Bell, 1774. First edition, 4to (25.7 x 20cm), front joint cracked [ESTC T94367]; Mackenzie, Sir George. The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1699. Folio, 20th-century half calf, title-page crudely repaired [ESTC R19368]; Hamilton, James George Hamilton, Duke of. Memorial ... against the Person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas. [Edinburgh?]: [no publisher], 1767. 9 parts in 1 volume, 4to, 19th-century half morocco, front cover detached [ESTC T118950]; Britton, John. Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. With heraldic and genealogical notices of the Beckford family. London: printed for the author, 1823. First edition, apparently one of 30 large-paper copies with 'proofs and etchings' (there were also 270 standard large-paper copies and 500 small-paper copies), 4to, original boards (printed label to front, with contemporary annotation 'Proofs and etchings'), half-title, 14 engraved plates numbered 1-10 (all marked 'proof', plates 3-6 each present in two states; plates 9-10 hand-coloured aquatints); tissue-guards, bookplate ('Anna Maria Powell, Sarum ... 1824', a Richard Powell M. D. recorded in the list of subscribers for a large-paper copy), front board detached, marginal spotting; Rabelais, François. The Works … done out of French, by Sir Thomas Urchard [sic], Knight, Mr. Motteux, and others. London: James Woodward, 1708. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece to the first volume [ESTC T52476]; and 4 others: John Slezer, Theatrum Scotiae, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, first edition, one of 250 copies, large folio, 69 facsimile plates (including one double-page prospect of Edinburgh), the additional plate to the list of 68 being the plans of Thirlestane Castle, coloured coat of arms on the title-page, numerous other coloured coats of arms separately printed and mounted as headpieces, lacking spine and front board, rear board detached; Francisque-Michel, A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language, 1882, one of 500 copies, spine worn; John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, 1825, front inner hinge gone; Archaeological scotica, Volume IV, Part First, 1831), the lot sold as seen (17)Provenance: The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Shackleton, Ernest H. South The Story of Shackleton's last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, colour frontispiece, all halftone plates as called for, folding map, ownership inscription 'Ernest Welsby 1925' and 'Alan Williams, Cardiff, Mar 1988' to front pastedown, fraying to spine-ends, wear to corners, a few marks to sides, front inner hinge cracked and very tender, rear inner hinge superficially cracked, text-block toned, half-title browned, extensive closed tear in folding map (repaired verso), a few spots and marksNote: Association copy, inscribed by Shackleton's second-in-command Frank Wild on the half-title, 'To Vince, from those who appreciate his worth & villanies [sic], Frank Wild', and additionally signed below Wild's inscription by the expedition's surgeon James McIlroy ('J. A. McIlroy, (Mick)'). The recipient is likely to have been John Vincent (1884-1931), bosun on the voyage, though later demoted to able seaman on account of his aggressive behaviour. He was selected by Shackleton as one of five men to accompany him on the James Caird on the journey to South Georgia while Wild was left in command at Elephant Island; on the return to England he was one of only a handful of expedition members not to be recommended by Shackleton for the Polar Medal.

Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, titles and pictorial vignettes in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including folding panorama and 3 folding maps in end-pocket), errata slip, bindings marked, browning to endpapers, very occasional light spotting, volume 2 frontispiece dog-eared; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, lacking plate facing volume 1 p. 137 (Mount Minto: Admiralty Range), spines toned, spotting; Idem. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, all plates as called for (volume 2 with duplicate of the sketch map to face p. 284 bound in before p. 252), variable spotting, erosion to upper fore corners of volume 1 pp. 460 to end; Mill, Hugh Robert. The Life of Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. 8vo, original cloth, 11 plates, inscribed 'Presented to Shackleton House, Hounslow College by Cecily Shackleton, 1938' on the front free endpaper, with a quotation from Robert Browning in the same hand (Cecily Shackleton, 1906-1957, was the daughter of Ernest), covers sunned; Nansen, Fridtjof. "Farthest North". London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial blue-green cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, closed tear in general map, Idem. In Northern Mists. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, tipped-in colour frontispieces, extremities rubbed, spines toned Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, incomplete (lacking at least the frontispiece in volume 1), covers marked, spotting, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked (13)

Sibbald, Sir Robert The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross Edinburgh: James Watson, 1710. First edition, folio (28.7 x 17.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, decorative frames to covers in blind, engraved folding plate, 18th-century bookplate of George Craufurd (motto 'Quod tibi hoc alteri') to title-page verso, contemporary marginalia to p. 144, binding rubbed, traces of bookplate to front pastedown, front free endpaper with section torn away, small marginal worm-track from quire Z (text never affected), remains a very good copy, unrestored [ESTC T130125]; 'Anacreon'. [Anacreontea]. Done into English out of the Original Greek. Oxford: by L. Lichfield for Anthony Stephens, 1683. First edition in English, 8vo (15.8 x 9.8cm), 19th-century half calf, damp-staining, spill-burn to L3, bound with an edition of Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd (1820) at rear [ESTC R7394; Pforzheimer 224; Wing A3046]; Du Moulin, Lewis. A Short and True Account of the Several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome. London: printed in the year, 1680. First edition, 4to (19.7 x 14.5cm), contemporary half calf, title-page browned and dust-soiled, worm-track in gutter occasionally affecting text [ESTC R35667; Wing D2553]; Maurice, Henry. A Vindication of the Primitive Church and Diocesan Episcopacy. London: for Moses Pitt, 1682. First edition, 8vo (18.7 x 10.8cm), contemporary calf, rubbed [ESTC R21664; Wing M1371] (4)

Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations of the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps; Idem. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition, 4to, later quarter leather, gilt roundel from original cloth binding mounted to front board, half-title, all plates and folding panoramas as called for, folding map (with closed tear); Howard-Bury, C. K., C. G. Bruce, and E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. First editions, 3 works, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, pale markings to cloth, Mount Everest tips bumped and worn, Assault cloth sunned; and 8 others (these not fully collated): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals, 1855 ('new edition, carefully revised and condensed', 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, wood-engraved frontispieces, colour plate, volume 2 inner hinges strengthened); Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 1871 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); idem, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); Edmund Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa, 1905 (fourth impression, 8vo original cloth, inscribed 'Claude Auchinleck, from M. E. A., October 1906', spine strengthened); Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, 1903 (first edition, Australasian issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, recent red crushed half morocco); Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, rubbed); Robert Byron, First Russian then Tibet, 1933 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, 1910 (2nd impression, 8vo, original cloth) (16)

Sykes, Mark Through Five Turkish Provinces London: Bickers and Son, 1900. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, photographic onlays to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispiece, 20 halftone plates, folding map, bookplate (Adrian Sykes), spine sunned and rolled, markings to fore edge of front board, tips bumped, endpapers brownedNote: The author's first book, describing a journey from Damascus to Batumi (modern-day Georgia) via Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Lake Van and Tbilisi. Rare at auction and in libraries.

Travel 20 volumes comprising: Fellowes, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817. London, 1818. First edition, 8vo, 15 plates (11 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 etchings & 1 vignette - as called for), original boards, uncut, cloth chemise, slipcase; Du Chaillu, Paul B. Land of the Midnight Sun. New York, 1882. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, folding map in pocket; Symes, Michael. Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Edinburgh, 1827. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, frontispieces, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides; Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. 1897, 2 volumes, original pictorial cloth; Grogan, E.S. and A.H. Sharp. From the Cape to Cairo. 1900, seemingly inscribed by the author with a picture of an elephant and the dates 1874-1901 (or 1874-1961), original pictorial cloth; Fullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot... after Sperm Whales. 1900, 6th impression (2nd edition), original pictorial cloth; Lynam, C.C. The Log of the Blue Dragoon 1892-1904. 1907, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Baxter, George. The Pictorial Album or Cabinet of Paintings. Containing eleven designs executed in oil colours. 4to, pictorial title and 10 plates, original pictorial morocco gilt rather rubbed, folding box; Evans, Capt. Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. Nov. 1921, original cloth; Rutter, Owen. Through Formosa. 1923, original cloth; Enriquez, Major C.M. Ceylon past and present. [c.1920], original cloth; Gann, Thomas. Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes... Maya Lands. 1926, original cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1928, original cloth; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. 1937, original cloth, lightly soiled; Gordon, Seton. Amid Snowy Wasters.. Spitsbergen. 1922, original cloth, rubbed; [St. Andrews] Saint Andrews as it was and as it is. Cupar, 1838. 12mo, additional engraved title, plates, original cloth; Thomas, Bertram. Arabia Felix, across the empty quarter. 1932, original cloth; Scott, Hugh. In the high Yemen. 1942, original cloth; sold as a collection not subject to return (20)

Travel Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century comprising: [North America, West Indies, etc.].The Colonial Journal. Vol. I. January to July, 1816. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [and others], 1816. 3 numbers in 1 volume, 8vo (23.8 x 14cm), contemporary half calf, 7 engraved plates (of which 2 hand-coloured and 2 in sepia, one of the latter in aquatint), including views (e.g. 'A View of Hall-head Sugar-plantation, Jamaica' as frontispiece) and zoological subjects, plates spotted and offset, occasional damp-staining [Sabin 14688]; East India Company. Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George. Madras: Athenaeum Press, 1845. Oblong 8vo, contemporary marbled card wrappers, [9] ff., lithographed throughout; Hunt, George Henry. Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign, London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.7cm), contemporary half calf, 7 tinted lithographic plate, bookplate of the Barons Napier; [Logan, John]. A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings Esquire, Late Governor General of Bengal. London: for John Stockdale; and John Murray, 1788. 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), modern boards, half-title, advertisements to rear, damp-staining to front, small repair to head of title-page [ESTC T143514]; and 13 others (these not collated), including: Regulations for the West African Frontier Force, 1922 (8vo, original printed wrappers); William Cole, Life in the Niger, or, the Journal of an African Trade, 1862 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, spine rolled); J. W. Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, Adelaide, 1878 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, spine rolled); Horace Greeley, an Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, New York, 1860 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Historical Sketches Illustrative of the Life of M. De Lafayette, New York: for the author, 1824 (first edition, 8vo); and similar (17)Note: Three volumes only of the Colonial Journal were published, the last in 1818; one other copy traced in auction records a partial run containing numbers 1-6 of the total nine, sold in 1980. Contents include 'An Account of the Colony at Pitcairn's Island', 'On the Agriculture of the West Indies', 'An Account of New Connecticut', 'The Fur-Trade of Louisiana ... by the late Merriwether Lewis', 'Actual Legal Condition of the Slaves in Jamaica', and similar articles. No other copy of Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George traced in libraries or commercial records.

Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1728. First edition in English, 2 volumes, folio (34.1 x 22cm), modern leatherette, [8] 487 [1] 180, [2] 80 79-220 143 [1] 196 [24] 3 [1] pp., 71 engraved portrait plates, 5 maps and plans (all but one folding), title-pages dust-soiled, occasional marginal finger-soiling, a few other marks, plates 11 and 47 and unnumbered plate facing volume 2 p. 108 browned, plate 48 stained, map of Malta and Gozo in volume 2 with partial split along one fold, volume 1 leaves 3D1 and 5K1 with repaired closed tears extending into text, short repaired tears to lower margins of a few other leaves (e.g. 3E1, 3L1, 4H1-2, 5S2, 5Z1), marginal loss and attempted repaired to 5Z2, volume 2 2O2 with loss to lower margin, 2M2, 3H1 and *T1 each with closed tear extending into text, 3K2 extensively repaired [ESTC T53873; cf. Cobham-Jeffery p. 62] (2)Note: First published in French in 1726.

Darwin, Charles On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised by London: John Murray, 1862. 8vo in 12s, original maroon cloth (recased), spine and covers lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, brown coated endpapers, vi 365 pp., folding wood-engraved plate, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, 32 pp. advertisements dated December 1861, corners slightly bumped [Freeman 208]Note: First edition, presentation copy of Darwin's first published work after the Origin of Species, inscribed 'From the author' on the initial blank in a clerical hand. 'Darwin called the book a "flank movement" on the enemy, meaning that it tackled the question of design in nature. He maintained that the ornate ridges and horns of orchid flowers, and the complex internal arrangements, were not beauty for its own sake, or created for the delight of humans, but adaptations to facilitate reproduction. They existed to ensure cross-pollination by insects. If they were regarded as functional flowers, rather than beautiful ones, natural selection could explain their origin' (ODNB). Some 2,000 copies were printed. Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, by family repute acquired by him from a bookseller in Cambridge c.1950.

Darwin, Charles Group of early editions London: John Murray, 1876-91. 6 works, all 8vo, original green cloth, light spotting to outer leaves, titles comprising: A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology, 1889, engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket, front inner hinge partly cracked [Freeman 21]; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, first edition, fifth thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown [Freeman 226]; Insectivorous Plants. 1876, first edition, fourth thousand, errata slip, largely unopened, [Freeman 293]; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. Second edition, 1878, 32 pp. advertisements, partly unopened, head of spine and front cover smoke-damaged [Freeman 298]; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, 1881. First edition, fifth thousand (corrected), contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to initial blank [Freeman 321]; The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880. First edition, second thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, contemporary bookplate (George Evelyn Cower), cloth slightly marked [Freeman 312] (6)

Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, tenth thousand, 8vo, original green sand-grain cloth, xxiii [1] 596 pp., half-title, folding lithographic plate, 32 pp. advertisements dated 1868, ownership inscriptions 'Fred. J. Warner, Winchester 1870' and 'W. T. Sharp' to front free endpaper and half-title respectively, occasional pencilled marginalia, cloth rubbed, loss to head of spine, front joint cracked, tips bumped and worn, inner hinges strengthened, spotting to half-title, plate and advertisements [Freeman F436]Note: The fifth edition was the first to use the phrase 'survival of the fittest', taken from Herbert Spencer.

Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West including: Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (several tinted), 2 maps (one folding), spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map; Idem. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece numbered VI*, 9 lithographic plates numbered I-IX (collation not established); Lewis, Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half pigskin, 10 maps (several folding); Woodward, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: John Stacy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, hand-coloured folding lithographic map as frontispiece, similar folding plate of geological cross-sections, 6 lithographic plates, bookplate of botanist and geologist Clement Reid (1853-1916); Wood, Searles V. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. I. Univalves [Vol. II. Bivalves; Supplement ... Univalves and Bivalves; Second Supplement; Third Supplement]. London: for the Palaeontographical Society, 1848. First edition, 4 volumes in 3 (Second and Third Supplements issued as volume 4), 4to, contemporary half calf, inscribed 'Dr. Milne Edwards, from S. V. Wood, with Compts', numerous engraved plates; Hales, Stephen. Statistical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys [and others], 1731. Second edition (first published in 1727), 8vo, contemporary calf, 19 engraved plates, bookplate of botanist Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), rubbed, front joint cracked, occasional light browning, initial blank (with contemporary gift inscription) loose); Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. Second edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates (counted in pagination and register), folding map; and 16 others, including Lyell, The Antiquity of Man, 1863 (third edition), Curtis, Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 1812 (fifth edition), Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1829, and similar (25)Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, many works with his bookplate.

[Hill, John] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening ... Compiled and digested from the Papers of the Late Celebrated Mr. [Thomas] Hale. London: for T. Osborne [and others], 1757. First edition, folio (40.5 x 26cm), contemporary panelled calf, 60 engraved plates, covers detached, spine split between signatures 4D and 4E, toning, frontispiece chipped, creased and detached, title-page and preface leaf spotted and detached, occasional spotting elsewhere, plates slightly offset, contents leaf (a1) bound at rear, early manuscript notes (list of contents) laid in, sold as a collection of plates [ESTC T32413; Henrey 776; Nissen BBI 880]

Houghton, William British Fresh-Water Fishes London: William Mackenzie, 1879. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 40 chromoxylographic plates (of 41); Grandville, J. J. Les metamorphoses du jour. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garniere frères, 1869. Large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, all edges gilt, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-page, all showing anthropomorphic animals, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting; Idem. Les fleurs animées. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garnier frères, c.1870. 2 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, green vellum tips, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-pages (all but 2 hand-coloured), variable spotting; [Darton & Co., publishers]. [The Child's Own Book of Animals], c.1847. Oblong folio, original cloth, recased, title-page discarded, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates each with leaf of descriptive text, binding sunned and marked, plates slightly toned and spotted, a few text-leaves nicked or frayed; Jardine, Sir William. British Salmonidae. London: Decimus, 1979. Facsimile edition, one of 500 copies, large folio, original quarter morocco, colour plates, slipcase; and 2 others on angling (9)

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun] Commentarii in sex libros Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565. Folio (363 x 245mm), [86] leaves, 1459, [1] p., [6] leaves; full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli, numerous page-width woodcut illustrations of plants, flowers and animals, woodcut printer's device on title-pages and final verso, woodcut initials, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine, bookplate reading 'GOM' to paste-down endpaper, early ownership signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to title-page, a few very neat annotations to index in an early hand, ties lacking, covers a little soiled A tall fine copy of the monumental edition of the most important medico-botanical encyclopaedia of the sixteenth centuryNote: "First enlarged edition... the 1565 edition is the first augmented by Mattioli's fuller notes and has always been the most valued for its completeness" (Hunt). Although Mattioli wrote on a range of subjects, and published translations of non-medical works, he is most celebrated for his work on botany and medicine, and of these works his best known are his translations of, and commentaries on, Dioscorides' De medica material. Mattioli's first Italian translation from the Greek was published in Venice in 1544, and its 'original purpose was relatively modest: it was to provide doctors and apothecaries with a practical treatise in Italian with a commentary that would enable them to identify the medicinal plants mentioned by Dioscorides' (DSB IX, p.179). Further, expanded editions followed in 1548, 1550 and 1552, and the success of these editions, led Mattioli to translate the work into Latin in 1554. This translation was "enriched by synonyms in various languages, provided with a special commentary, and accompanied by numerous illustrations valuable for the identification of Dioscorides simples [which] rendered the work accessible to scholars throughout Europe. From then Mattioli's name was linked with that of Dioscorides" (DSB IX, p.179). In addition to identifying the plants originally described by Dioscorides, Mattioli added descriptions of some plants not in Dioscorides and not of any known medical use, thus marking a transition from the study of plants as a field of medicine to a study of interest in its own right. In addition, the woodcuts in Mattioli's work were of an extremely high standard, allowing recognition of the plant even when the text was obscure. A noteworthy inclusion is an early variety of tomato, the first documented example of the vegetable being grown and eaten in Europe. This wealth of additional material transformed Dioscorides' work from an antiquarian text into a contemporary physician's vade mecum, enhanced by Mattioli's own observations and many of his own drawings, which remained in print virtually continuously until the 18th century. The 1565 edition, described by Brunet as 'la plus estimée', is considered the best for both its illustrations (first used here in a Latin edition), and text. The fine woodcut illustrations extend across the full width of the page: those of plants are by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck (originally cut for Mattioli's New Kretterbuch (Prague: 1563), with the exception of 'Eruca sylvestris') and 'those of the Animals are new' BM(NH). Reference: Hunt 94. Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. The library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) was the largest private collection of books in Scotland at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is significant both in itself and because of the life of its owner. Of a legal and landed family - the estate of Saltoun lay not far from Edinburgh in the fertile country of East Lothian - Andrew Fletcher is famous in his own country as a consistent and eloquent opponent of the Union with England in 1707, a stance for which he became known as "the Patriot". But he was also a political thinker of intelligence and originality, author of a series of tracts on militias and standing armies, on the economic and social condition of Scotland, on the issues facing the Scottish parliament before the Union, and, more generally, on the political prospects of Europe and its smaller states in particular in the face of the ambitions of Louis XIV. Informing both his political and his literary activity was a lifetime of travel, much of it in the Netherlands (and some of it in enforced political exile), but extending to France, Spain and Germany, and possibly further afield still (Fletcher spoke and wrote Italian). It was almost certainly on these travels that Fletcher acquired the greater part of his library. [Willems, P.J.M. Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, or the Extraordinary Library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Reconstructed and Systematically Arranged. Wassennar, 1999]

Millais, John G. British Diving Ducks London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 450 copies only, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, 74 colour, photogravure or collotype plates after Archibald Thorburn and others, spines faded, volume 1 headcap frayed, a few marks to sides, spotting to a few plates and adjacent text-leaves [Mullens & Swann p. 406; Nissen IVB 633; Zimmer p. 436]; Rickman, Philip. A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches. [Holt]: Curpotten Limited, 1979. First edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist, folio, original crushed green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 32 colour plates and photographic portrait (all mounted), slipcase; Boot, Jeremy (illustrator). Nocturnal Birds of Australia. [By] Richard Schodde, Ian J. Mason. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the authors and artist, folio, original leatherette, with a limited edition print by Jeremy Boot (one of 500, signed by Boot) laid in (4)

Taps Selected Poems Of The Great War 1st Edition Complied by Theodore Roosevelt JR & Grantland Rice published by Doubleday, Dorian & Co 1932, Edward Newton, This Book-Collecting Game, with illustrations, Boston Little, Brown and Company 1928, Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Death Of Cenone Akbars Dream" 1st Edition published by Macmillan & Co 1892 with a green hard back and gilt writing to the spine, A. C. Bradley "Oxford Lectures On Poetry" published by Macmillan & Co Ltd 1909 leather spine with gilt writing and 821 inscribed to the spine, Boni Lloyd Battaglia "The Fireside Book Of Favorite American Songs" published by Simon & Schuster 1952, Mary Cable "American Manners & Morals" with dust jacket published by American Heritage New York 1969, Mary & Vincent Price "A Treasury Of Great Recipes" 1st Edition and 1st printing published by Ampersand Press Inc 1965, Elijah Petty "Journey To Pleasant Hill" Signed First Edition published by the University Of Texas 1982 (8) 

SEARLE RONALD: (1920-2011) English artist, satirical cartoonist & illustrator, the creator of St. Trinian's School. A signed and inscribed unbound copy of Forty Drawings by Ronald Searle, with an introduction by Frank Kendon, First Edition published by the University Press, Cambridge, 1946, being Searle's first book and featuring forty monochrome plates of drawings made by Searle whilst a Prisoner of War in Singapore during World War II and selected from his first exhibition at the Cambridge School of Art in December 1945. Signed and inscribed by Searle in black ink to the preliminary blank, 'For my co-jailbird and scenery daubing friend John Beckerley, Ronald Searle', and dated January 1947 in his hand. Lacking the covers and paper wrappers and with a few pages loose. Some age wear, light creasing, minor foxing and a few small tears, otherwise about G

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French Poet and Novelist. A.L.S., Victor Hugo, two pages, to two separate pages, 8vo, Guernesey, 20th May 1856, to Jules Thalberg, in Liege, in French. Hugo congratulates his correspondent for his painting works and supports and guides him regarding the edition of a book, stating in part `Je viens de recevoir, monsieur, vos belles compositions d´après les trois premieres ballades. Ce sont de véritables symphonies visibles sur ces trois motifs; tout y est, invention, grace, teneur, poésie, c´est un monument que vous élevez là et vous y consacrez tout votre beau talent…. Et si vous vous déterminez a completer cette superbe oeuvre, écrivez-le moi, et j´écrirai moi-même a mes éditeurs de mon côté…´ (“I have just received, sir, your beautiful compositions based on the first three ballads. They are veritable symphonies visible on these three motifs; everything is there, invention, grace, content, poetry, it is a monument that you are erecting there and you are devoting all your beautiful talent to it…. And if you decide to complete this superb work, write to me, and I will write myself to my editors on my side..”) With address leaf in Hugo´s hand, bearing a small black seal to the last page. Very small overall creasing, otherwise G to VG

HUGHES LANGSTON: (1901-1967) American poet, a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of American Writers' Congress, edited by Henry Hart, First Edition published by International Publishers, New York, 1935. The book serves as a record of the first Congress of American Writers and includes contributions by Louis Aragon, John Dos Passos, Malcolm Cowley and Langston Hughes. Signed and inscribed by Hughes in dark fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper and dated New York, 13th November 1938 in his hand. Bound in the publisher's original grey cloth and with a black title to the cover and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a couple of slight marks to the spine, VG

MONTESQUIEU: (1689-1755) Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu. French Judge, Historian and political Philosopher. Montesquieu is the main source of separation of powers which is today implemented in many constitutions all over the world. His work The Spirit of Law (1748), anonymously published, strongly influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States when drafting the Constitution. Very rare L.S., Montesquieu, two pages, 4to, Bordeaux, 19th October 1748, to monsieur Titon Dutillet, in French. A very cleanly written letter, Montesquieu stating in part `J´ai reçu Monsieur la lettre obligeante que vous m´avez fait l´honneur de m´écrire au sujet de ma nouvelle Edition de la Grandeur des Romains, il serait bien flateur pour moi qu´elle eut plû a un homme aussi connoisseur que vous et don't l´esprit est rempli de tant de belles choses…´ ("I received Sir the obliging letter that you have had the honour to write to me about my new Edition of the Grandeur des Romains, it would be very flattering for me if it had pleased a man as connoisseur as you and whose mind is filled with so many beautiful things…") Montesquieu further refers to his correspondent´s work, saying `Des que je fus arrive ici, mon premier soin fut de remettre a Mr. De Sarrau votre ouvrage immortel le Parnasse Français´ ("As soon as I arrived here, my first goal was to deliver to Mr. De Sarrau your immortal work, le Parnasse Français (the French Parnassus)") With address leaf, written in his hand, bearing a red wax seal in fine condition. VG Evrard Titon du Tillet (1677-1762) French officer under Louis XIV, Captain of the Dragoons, war Commissioner and butler to the Duchess of Burgundy. Titon du Tillet wanted to erect a monument to the glory of the King on which men of letters and artists would have figured. The project only led to the writing of "La description du Parnasse Français", rich in information on the literary and musical life of the time.

WARNE SHANE: (1969-2022) Australian cricketer. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Shane Warne's Century - My Top 100 Test Cricketers, First edition published by Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd., Edinburgh, 2008. Signed by Warne in bold black ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Together with a second book signed, being a paperback edition of My Autobiography by Shane Warne, published by Coronet Books, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2002. Signed by Warne in blue ink to the half-title page, later adding an inscription in black ink in his hand. Also including Geoffrey Boycott (1940- ) English cricketer. Book signed, being a hardback edition of In the Fast Lane - West Indies Tour 1981, First edition published by Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1981. Signed by Boycott in blue ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some extensive tears). G to about VG, 3

BURROUGHS WILLIAM S.: (1914-1997) American writer, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation. A signed printed copy of an extract from Burroughs's Junky, comprising eight 4to pages neatly removed from a copy of Christopher Street magazine, c.1977. Signed ('William S. Burroughs') by Burroughs immediately above his printed name and title to the first page. The pages are neatly joined together with a single staple to the centre of the upper edge. Accompanied by an original unsigned 5 x 3.5 photograph of Burroughs seated in a head and shoulders pose with poet and author Allen Ginsberg and poet Philip Whalen standing immediately behind in three-quarter length poses. Annotated in fountain pen ink in an unidentified hand to the lower border and again annotated to the verso with the name and address of Pamela Sanderson at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. VG, 2 Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict was Burroughs's first published work and is semi-autobiographical, focusing on the writer's life as a drug user and dealer. It was initially published in 1953 under the pseudonym of William Lee. Penguin Books published a complete edition of the original text under the title Junky in 1977, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.

RUSHDIE SALMAN: (1947-     ) British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent, author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses (1988). Book signed, being a hardback edition of The Ground Beneath Her Feet, First edition published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1999. Signed by Rushdie with his name alone in black ink to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG

FAULKNER WILLIAM: (1897-1962) American writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1949. Book signed, being a hardback edition of A Fable, First Edition published by Random House, New York, 1954. Limited edition number 939 of 1000 copies, signed and numbered by Faulkner in bold blue fountain pen ink to the limitations page. Printed on rag paper and top edge black, bound in the publisher's original decorative black cloth and with gold and silver title and lettering to the spine, Contained in the original card slipcase (some light staining and age wear, and minor scuffs and tears to the printed label). Lacking the glassine jacket. About VG

MANDELA NELSON: (1918-2013) South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who served as the first President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. A printed 4to edition of Time magazine, Vol. 143, No. 19, 9th May 1994, featuring a colour image of Mandela to the front cover, signed and inscribed in bold silver ink by Mandela at the head of the cover and dated 22nd March 1997 in his hand. Some light age wear, scuffing and slight creasing, about VG