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Suba (Susanne, 1913-2012). A collection of original drawings for works by Emily Eden, 13 pen & ink drawings, comprising 8 with grisaille watercolour on card, for 'The Semi-Attached Couple' by Emily Eden, and a cover design on tracing paper for the same book (edge-frayed), and 4 pen & ink drawings with black crayon on paper, for 'The Semi-Detached House' by Emily Eden, all signed, 1 or 2 faint creases, 10 approximately 39.5 x 29 cm, others smaller, together with a copy of the 1947 edition of The Semi-Attached Couple for which the first suite of drawings were drawn, published Cambridge: The Riverside Press, original cloth, 8vo QTY: (14)NOTE:Hungarian-born artist Susanne Suba began studying art with her father, Miklos, an architect and painter. She lived most of her life in the US, where she became a book illustrator, designer of dust jackets and caricaturist. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Crane (Walter). The First of May, A Fairy Masque presented in a series of 52 designs, London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1881, 56 photogravures (numbered I-LVI) on india wove, mounted on thick card, printed by Goupil and Co., lacking the signed limitation leaf, light scattered spotting, a few leaves with marginal damp-stain to upper right, loosely contained in original green morocco portfolio, large oblong folio (500 x 415mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, this is considered one of Crane's finest illustrative achievements, and was greatly admired by Burne-Jones, to whom Crane is clearly indebted stylistically.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1912, colour illustrations throughout, one leaf with vertical crease to right-hand side, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper rubbed with slight surface loss to fore-margin, inscribed on half-title and front and rear endpapers by Annie Maria Harris née Armitt, original green boards with inset rectangular panel to upper cover, spine faded, 16mo.QTY: (1)NOTE:Inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'Mary Mackenzie from Mrs. Stanford Harris, Rydal Cottage, August 1912' and with six stanzas of verse by Annie Harris née Armitt on the front free endpaper and rear endpapers, beginning 'In memory of Rydal/Where Mary lived awhile ...', initialled 'A.M.H' on both pastedowns; the half-title additionally inscribed 'I think Jemima Puddle/Was a very foolish duck;/She made a wretched muddle,/And scarce deserved her luck. A.M.H.'For the first edition of 1908 see Linder, p.427; Quinby 14.Annie Maria Armitt (1850-1933), one of three gifted and well-educated sisters, was a novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. Unusually for the time Mr Armitt wanted to give his talented daughters a first class education, but in 1867 this plan went awry when their father died suddenly leaving the trio facing severe financial difficulties. Undaunted however, together they opened a school in Eccles, Lancashire, which thrived, allowing them to travel and continue their own studies.In 1912 the youngest sister, Mary Louisa, founded The Armitt Library, now known as The Armitt, a museum, library and gallery, devoted to preserving and sharing the cultural heritage of the Lake District. Beatrix Potter was one of the Armitt’s earliest supporters, and the collection holds a number of her family’s books, her own first edition copies of her books, and a large number of botanical watercolours by her. Annie Armitt married Stanford Harris in 1877 and went to live near Hawkshead in the Lake District. In 1882 Mary and Sophia received a substantial legacy and in 1894 they moved to Rydal, where they lived with Annie, now widowed, for the rest of their lives. Here the sisters enjoyed socialising with a large circle of distinguished friends, including John Ruskin as well as Beatrix Potter.

Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), [privately printed in Ambleside for the author], 1929, colour frontispiece, 5 colour plates, illustrations, one or two short closed tears, previous owner inscription of Ann Barlow, 1946 at front, original cloth-backed boards, some mottled damp stains to spine, corners slightly bumped, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition of 100 privately printed copies. First published in Philadelphia by David Mackay in 1929, the author had intended the book to be published in the US only as she felt that the stories were 'too personal - too autobiographical' for the English market. However in order to obtain the English copyright she requested one hundred sheets to be sent over to have them bound privately, by George Middleton, printers and publishers of Ambleside, Westmorland. "In the privately bound copies of The Fairy Caravan, the first eighteen pages of the American edition, including the preface and dedication page, were discarded, and a new set of pages printed at Ambleside. An additional page was added on which were sketches of dogs she knew, with their names written underneath. On the title page, Beatrix Potter used her married name, Beatrix Heelis." (Linder pp. 292-295).

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, London: William Heinemann, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting, bookplate of Arthur Waugh, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, light soiling to covers, 4to, limited edition of 20 presentation copies from the publisher, from a total edition of 1150, together with Irish Fairy Tales, by James Stephens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London: Macmillan & Co., 1920, 15 mounted colour plates only (of 16, lacking plate opposite p. 40), some spotting and toning to endpapers, bookplate, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, covers a little rubbed and toned with some light edge wear, 4to, limited signed edition of 520 copiesQTY: (2)NOTE:First work inscribed "To Arthur Waugh, with the publisher's kind regards & good, good wishes, 10 Sep. 1910', and further inscription to limitation leaf "also twenty copies for presentation of which this in one [No.[ 00, Wm. Heinemann"Arthur Waugh (1866-1943) was an author, critic and publisher, and father of authors Alec and Evelyn Waugh.

Hughes-Stanton (Blair). The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, limited numbered copy, Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991, numerous wood-engravings, original black quarter morocco gilt, slipcase, 4to, 75 of 112 copies, together with:Pilcher (Velona). The Searcher, A War Play, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1929, numerous wood-engravings, leaves lightly toned, original blue cloth, dust jacket, slightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The first title is the limited edition with 8 extra engravings from 'Primeval Gods'.

Anderson (Doris Garland). Nigger Lover, 1st edition, London: L. N. Fowler & Co., Ltd., [1938], photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, and two other full-page photographs of Garland Anderson and the couple leaving Honalulu, some light spotting to preliminary leaves and outer margins, ink presentation inscription from Garland Anderson to front endpaper 'All success from Garland Anderson to Mrs A. Hawkesford', original black cloth, lettered in white, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An impressionistic account of an inter-racial marriage between a white English woman and the black American Playwright Garland Anderson whose play Appearances was the first series play by a black writer to be produced on broadway, in 1925, where it ran for twenty-three performances before being transferred to London.

Cromie (Robert). The Crack of Doom, 1895; The Next Crusade, 1896; A Plunge into Space, 2nd edition, [1891]; The Lost Liner, [1898], 1st editions, frontispiece and title illustrations to A Plunge into Space, advertisements, a little light spotting, some toning to endpapers, tear and marginal loss to The Crack of Doom half title, previous owner inscriptions at front, original cloth, Crack of Doom and Lost Liner spines with some fading, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Uncommon science fiction titles by Northern Irish novelist Robert Cromie (1855-1907), The Crack of Doom contains the first description of an atomic explosion, A Plunge into Space has the preface by Jules Verne and precedes H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon by 10 years.

Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel, 1st US edition, New York: George H. Doran, [1914], 7 plates by Arthur I. Keller (frontispiece detached), a little light offsetting and toning, previous owner signature, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, a few small stains to covers, letter 'n' in Conan in gilt to upper cover partially rubbed, 8vo, together with His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1917, advertisements at end, endpapers a little toned, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, plus The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1927, a little light spotting, endpapers lightly toned, original cloth, some fading to spine, 8vo, together with The Sign of Four, 3rd edition, 1893QTY: (4)NOTE:The Valley of Fear was first published in New York, preceding the first Uk edition by 3 months.

Faulks (Sebastian, writing as Ian Fleming). Devil May Care, Bentley Special Series Edition, Penguin Books in association with Bentley Motors, 2008, cast and polished 1:43 scale model of the R-type Bentley inset in the text, red leather endpapers, all edges red, original black leather, covers with Bentley diamond pattern stitching in red, Bentley 'Flying B' radiator cap design stamped to upper cover and spine, contained in original plexiglass slipcase and cardboard box, 4to, together with a limited edition copy of the same work, Michael Joseph in association with Waterstones, 2008, limited signed edition 126/500, with a set of Royal Mail James Bond stamps and contained in hinged felt fitted box, 8vo QTY: (2)NOTE:First book limited edition 183/300.

Forester (C.S.) The African Queen, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1935, slight toning to half title, original cloth, slight fading to spine, a little rubbed at ends, a couple of small splits along joints, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Uncommon first English edition.

Gibran (Kahlil). The Prophet, 1st edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, frontispiece, 11 monochrome plates after the author, contemporary presentation inscription "From George & Emily, Xmas 1923" to front endpaper (a little offsetting from press cutting loosely inserted), top edge black, original cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt with circular vignette stamped in gilt, lower corners slightly bumped, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A good copy of the first edition of Kahlil Gibran's most famous prose poem, some 2000 copies printed. The book's popularity subsequently soared, and the work has been translated into 100 languages and has never been out of print. Lebanese-born poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) moved with his family to Boston in 1895; His first works were written in Arabic, and his first book in English The Madman was published by Knopf in 1918. The Prophet deals with many themes of human life as told through the 'prophet' Ali Mustafa. Gibran's poetry was strongly influenced by his own Maronite Christian faith as well as the Baha'i Faith (he had met Abdu'l Bahá in 1911-12) and Sufism, as well as poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Arabic art and European Classicism.

Graves (Robert). But Still it Goes On, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1930, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First edition, first issue with The Child She Bare italicized on page 157. The sequel to Good-Bye To All That.

Graves (Robert). Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, one or two light finger marks, original salmon cloth, dust jacket, professionally restored at spine ends, head of rear panel and folds, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:First edition, first state with the passages on pages 290 & 341-343. These were included without Siegfried Sassoon's permission and a second issue hastily printed with asterisks on the blank pages where the offending material had been removed.

Greene (Graham). Journey Without Maps, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1936, frontispiece, numerous black and white plates after photographs, cartographic endpapers and pastedowns, half-title, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, lightly spotted, original yellow cloth, rubbed and dust-soiled, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:One of the scarcer Greene titles and his first travel book, it describes his travels through Liberia.

Johns (W.E.). Biggles in France, 1st edition, The Boys' Friend Library, No. 501, 7 November 1935, 96 pages, double column, a little corner creasing and curling, original printed wrappers with pictorial upper wrapper, single staple somewhat rusted with resultant stain, slightly dust-soiled, spine partly torn with paper damage near centre of spine with partial loss of lettering, 'BOYS' FRIEN[D LIBRARY]', very small loss to upper outer corner, small 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:A good copy of one of the rarest and most fragile first edition Biggles titles, with no markings or repairs.

Plath (Sylvia). The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, 1st edition, dust jacket only, London: Heinemann, 1963, price-clipped, tape repairs to head and tail of spine and front flap fold and verso, marginal restoration to portion of rear panel, spine and flap-folds, creased in places with some rubbing to extremities, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Tabor A4a.1.A rare first edition dust jacket of The Bell Jar, Plath's only novel. According to Tabor, only a 'token quantity' of the book was printed.

Sackville-West (Victoria). Chatterton: A Drama in Three Acts, 1st edition, presentation copy, Sevenoaks: J. Salmon, 1909, presentation inscription from the author to her 'Aunt Mary, from Vita, ?, 1910' to upper margin of front free endpaper, half-title, three corrections to pages 42 and 50 (possibly in the author's hand?), armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to front pastedown (laid over another bookplate), endpapers toned, a few leaves lightly creased, contemporary (possibly original) blue cloth gilt, lightly rubbed and marked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A1.Extremely scarce, Sackville-West's first published work. Presentation copy to 'Aunt Mary', presumably Lady Leonora Mary Sackville. The book was printed at the author's expense when she was 16 years old, costing £5. It is thought that only 100 copies were produced.This copy has textual corrections possibly in the author's hand. On page 42 a question mark has been added to the third line and 'meblows' has been changed to two words on the fifth line. On page 50 'these' has been changed to 'them' on the twenty-third line. It is possible this was for a time the author's own copy.

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, 4 colour plates by the author, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, occasional light spotting, presentation inscription to half title, dated 1940, map endpapers, Blackwell ticket to front pastedown. original green pictorial cloth, small stains at foot of spine and covers, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The second impression, published in the same year as the first, and the first with the colour plates.

Waugh (Evelyn). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1928, frontispiece and 5 plates by the author, a little light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper "Carl Winter, 1928, Coll Exon. Oxon.", original cloth, spine slightly rubbed at ends, in dustwrapper, pale toning to spine, a few chips and nicks at folds (generally a very good copy)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Carl Winter (1906-1966), art historian and museum curator, who worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum before moving to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946, at which time he also became a Fellow of Trinity College. Together with Patrick Trevor-Roper and Peter Wildeblood, Carl Winter gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, whose report led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Winter's evidence was given anonymously as 'Mr White'. His testimony was portrayed in the BBC television dramatisation Consenting Adults.Connolly, The Modern Movement, 58. First edition, first issue of the author's first novel with the names "Martin Gaythorn-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" unchanged on pages 168-69.The author's first novel, with his own illustrations, in the dust jacket also designed by him. After the book was rejected for indecency by Duckworth (the publisher of his earlier biography of Rossetti), Waugh offered the manuscript to Chapman & Hall, but he did so while his father, who was the managing director of the firm, was away on holiday. The acting-director agreed to publish the novel and Arthur Waugh returned to London to discover that his son was his firm's newest author. When Arthur Waugh's biography was published three years later, however, Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, the two novels published under his directorship of Chapman & Hall, were not mentioned.

Waugh (Evelyn). Scoop. A Novel About Journalists, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1938, 1st issue with the '8' in the publication date indistinct and 'as' the final word on p. 88, original cloth, 1st issue dust jacket with 'Daily Beast' masthead, small repairs and restorations at spine ends, foot of rear panel and folds, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First edition, first issue of Waugh's satire on Fleet Stree journalism, with the 'Daily Beast' masthead, a pastiche which was removed from the second issue jacket after Lord Beaverbrook, proprietor of the Daily Express threatened to sue due to the similarity with the Daily Express masthead.

Wells (H.G.) The Autocracy of Mr. Parham. His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, monochrome illustrations (one detaching), slight toning to textblock, a few spots, original cloth, repaired tear at head of spine, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, signed by the author to front endpaper, together with First and Last Things. The Definitive edition, The Thinker's Library No. 1, London: Watts & Co., [1952], advertisement leaf at end, endpapers a little toned, original cloth, small splits to upper joint, 8vo, inscribed by the author to front endpaper: "Best wishes, H.G. Wells"QTY: (2)

Wingfield (R.D). A Touch of Frost, 1st edition, London: Constable, 1990, leave margins lightly toned, original black cloth, dust jacket, faintly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Frost at Christmas, 1st UK edition, London: Constable, 1989, front free endpaper and first text leaf separated to gutter, original black cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, withA Touch of Frost, signed limited edition, Hassocks: Ralph Spurrier, 1998, signed by the author to limitation page, original orange cloth, 8vo, number 52 of 350, with Night Frost, 1st edition, London: Constable, 1992, signed by the author to title, original black cloth, dust jacket, 8vo with 4 others by WingfieldQTY: (8)

Wodehouse (P.G.) My Man Jeeves, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: George Newnes, [1919], 1st issue printed by Butler and Tanner, advertisement leaf at end, lacking front and rear endpapers, original cloth, upper cover with designs in blind, spine lettered and decorated in black, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:McIlvaine A22a. The first introduction of the irrepressible characters Jeeves and Wooster.

Harry Potter first edition vols. incl. 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' (x2) and 'Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix',etc.

Warhol, Andy (1928 Pittsburgh/PA – New York City 1987) "Andy Warhol's Index (Book)", First Printing, Edition Random House, Inc., New York. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen, Pop-Ups, etc. L. Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, Kanten des Einbandes best.

Patek Philippe. A fine and rare 18K gold manual wind chronograph wristwatchReference: 533Date: Purchased 1940Movement: 23-jewel manual wind, adjusted to 8 positions, double Seal of Geneva, No.862463Dial: Silvered, applied gilt dot hour markers with Roman numeral 12 and 6, black outer base scale, subsidiary dials at 3 and 9 for running seconds and 30 minute recording, gilt pointed baton hands, blued steel centre chronograph handCase: Polished round, snap on back, crown flanked by twin squared chronograph pushers, No.621724Strap/Bracelet: Associated black leatherBuckle/Clasp: Associated gilt buckleSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 33mm Accompaniments: Patek Philippe service caseFootnotes:The Reference 533 first appeared in 1937. It is regarded by many Patek Philippe aficionados as the quintessential vintage chronograph because of its elegantly simple Calatrava case and characteristic flat bezel. The Reference 130 houses the same movement Calibre 13' but it is aesthetically distinguished by a concave bezel.Although its production run lasted for 20 years, the 533 was made in very restricted numbers. It is estimated that the total production was around 350 pieces. Of those, the majority were cased in pink gold and fitted with a pink gold dial. The model is illustrated in Patek Philippe Wristwatches by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, second edition, p. 264.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Cartier. A fine and rare Limited Edition platinum manual wind wristwatchModel: ClocheReference: 4338, Limited Edition No.074/100Date: Purchased 18th October 2021Movement: Jewelled Cal.1917 MC manual windDial: Silvered, black Roman numeral hour markers, black outer minute track with 5 minute markers, secret signature at 7, blued steel sword handsCase: Brushed and polished bell form, back secured by 4 screws, cabochon set crownStrap/Bracelet: Black Cartier alligator leatherBuckle/Clasp: Signed platinum buckleSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 29mm Accompaniments: Cartier box, outer card, International WarrantyFootnotes:The Cloche first appeared in the Cartier collection in the 1920's, starting out as a brooch watch designed to be pinned to garments. French for 'bell', the Cloche was first made into a wristwatch in 1921 and has appeared sporadically in Cartier collections ever since.The current lot is from a limited edition of just 100 pieces launched last year and is numbered 074.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Audemars Piguet. A fine and rare Limited Edition titanium automatic calendar chronograph bracelet watchModel: Royal Oak Chronograph 'City of Sails' Crew Member EditionReference: 25860IS.O.1110IS.01Date: Circa 2000Movement: Jewelled automaticDial: Blue waffle pattern, yellow baton hour markers with luminous inserts, yellow outer minute divisions with Arabic 5 minute markers, sunken subsidiary dials at 3, 6 and 9 for seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour recording, date aperture between 4 and 5, yellow baton hands with luminous inserts Case: Brushed and polished tonneau form, back secured by 8 screws, 8 screws to bezel, screw down crown flanked by twin screw down pushers, No.E-29381Strap/Bracelet: Fitted brushed linkBuckle/Clasp: Signed folding claspSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 41mmFootnotes:The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak series is regarded by many as the quintessential sports watch. The iconic design revered by horological connoisseurs is instantly recognizable with its structured strongbox case with structurally integral octagonal bezel secured by eight hexagonal screws. The Royal Oak - City of Sails was the very first model developed to commemorate the Swiss challengers in the 2000 America's Cup competition held in Auckland, New Zealand, known as the 'City of Sails'. The model was made in a limited edition of 300 examples, distinguished by its colourful blue dial accompanied with yellow numerals and hands. The current example is made even more exclusive as it was one of the few watches made specifically for the Crew Members.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Cartier. A fine and rare Limited Edition 18K rose gold manual wind jump hour wristwatchModel: Tank à GuichetsReference: 2817, Limited Edition No.061/100Date: Circa 2006Movement: 19-jewel Cal.9752 MC manual wind, micro regulationDial: Apertures for jumping Arabic numerals and minutes Case: Brushed rectangular, back secured by 8 screwsStrap/Bracelet: Black Cartier alligator leatherBuckle/Clasp: Signed 18K rose gold folding claspSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 27mmFootnotes:The current lot was inspired by the 'Tank à Guichets' - the very contemporary and unusual first Jump hour model produced by Cartier in 1928. The original version was an exceedingly rare watch at the time and was often seen on the wrist of Duke Ellington. Nowadays it is rarely seen outside of a museum. The present model was part of the Collection Privée Cartier Paris (CPCP) of 2006. The Collection Privée marks a transitional period in Cartier's watchmaking history. After several years of focusing mainly on lady's quartz watches, Cartier delved into their archives and brought back historic designs that hadn't been in production for many years. The focus of the Collection Privée was on high quality design, movements and craftsmanship. The Collection Privée was offered for ten years, from 1998 to 2008. This particular model was produced in a limited number of just 100 pieces.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Exclusive first edition model bus collection- mint in box x 7

A rare limited edition (219/500) Britains first Christmas coin commemorative silver cover 2016.

Kings of Wessex, Ecgberht (802-39), Penny, London (as king of the Mercians), [829], Rædmund, + ecgberht rex m around cross potent, rev. + red: m:v d:h. in three lines, divided by beaded bars, 1.36g/9h (Naismith L31.1-2 var. [this rev. type unrecorded]; SCBI BM 1069 var.; N 585 var.; S 1037 var.). Edge slightly curved at 11 o’clock, otherwise very fine, orange earthen patina, extremely rare and important £6,000-£8,000 --- Provenance: Found in North Yorkshire, 2022 (EMC 2022.0208) The silver pence minted by the West Saxon king Ecgberht (802-839) at the London mint are of great historical importance. They adhere, in the most explicit way, to the sentiment expressed by Mark Blackburn when he wrote that ‘for the ninth century, above all others, the coinage has a fundamental contribution to make to our knowledge of political history’. While of relatively humble appearance, these coins offer exceptional testimony to perhaps the most important event of the first four decades of that century; the West Saxon conquest of London in 829. Ecgberht’s victory, and his subsequent assumption of the title ‘king of the Mercians’ signalled a major adjustment to the political and military hierarchy of the Southumbrian kingdoms. It established a precedent which was to be followed some fifty years later by his grandson, Alfred, during the struggle against the Vikings. These coins bear witness to the strength of Ecgberht's position, the willingness of at least some within Mercia to accept him as their legitimate king, if only for a fleeting moment, and the malleability of coinage as tool for disseminating political messages at the time. Ecgberht was the son of Ealhmund, a man of West Saxon royal stock who probably ruled as king in Kent during the early 780s. Following a period of enforced exile on the continent, Ecgberht returned to England on the occasion of the death of his rival Beorhtric in 802 to claim the West Saxon throne. We know little of the new king’s actions during the first two decades of the ninth century and there is no indication that Ecgberht exerted any influence outside of West Saxon territory. However, the collapse of Mercian authority in the early 820s opened the way for a complete reversal in this regard. Ultimately it was a decisive battle fought between the men of Wessex and Mercia in 825 at Ellendun, near the modern village of Wroughton, which signalled the end of the Mercian Supremacy. Before long West Saxon authority was recognised in Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex. Thereafter followed four years of relative peace before, as the chronicler put it, Ecgberht ‘conquered the kingdom of the Mercians, and everything south of the Humber’. These latter victories proved short lived, and by 830 the West Saxon king had ceded the newly won territory (and the London mint) back to Mercian hands. Nevertheless, Wessex was to remain the dominant force of the ninth century and it was the royal line established by Ecgberht that would eventually go on to unify all of England under a single king. It is unfortunate that Ecgberht’s London pennies are so excessively rare. Naismith’s corpus listed just four examples. Two, derived from the 1893 at Middle Temple hoard, are housed within the British Museum’s collection. Another, chipped and ragged, was published as part of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection in 1958, although its provenance before that date was unrecorded. The final piece known to Naismith, a large fragment with much of the legend missing, formed part of the illustrious Lockett collection. Before that it was found in the cabinets of Grantley and Wickham. In the decade following the publication of Naismith’s corpus an additional three coins were discovered and recorded on the Early Medieval Corpus database. Interestingly these recent finds, much like Lockett’s example, are all in a poor state of preservation. Those found in 2011 (EMC 2011.0217) and 2012 (EMC 2012.0321) at Long Straton and Findon respectively, were mere fragments, while the most recently excavated specimen, from near Hockcliffe (EMC 2021.0187), appears badly chipped and cracked. The coin offered for sale here is seemingly only the eighth known example of Ecgberht’s London coinage and the only complete and materially-sound specimen available to commerce. Works cited: M.A.S Blackburn and D.N. Dumville 1998 (eds), Kings, Currency and Alliances: History and Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century (Woodbridge) Keynes, S., 1993. ‘The Control of Kent in the Ninth Century’, EME 2, 111-31 Naismith, R., 2011. The Coinage of Southern England 796–865, BNS Special Publication 8, 2 vols. (London) Naismith, R., 2017. Medieval European Coinage, with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. 8: Britain and Ireland (c.400-1066) Naismith, R., 2019. ‘Two important coins of the Mercian Supremacy’, BNJ 89, 203-8 Stenton, F., 1971. Anglo-Saxon England. Third Edition (Oxford)

Cork (Richard). Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London/Berkeley: Gordon Fraser /University of California Press, 1975-76 (respectively), numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, volume 2 dust jacket price-clipped, covers lightly marked, folio, together with;Petrova (Yeugenia), Abstraction in Russia XX Century, 1st edition, St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, folio, plus Von Vegesack (Alexander), Czech Cubism, architecture, furniture, and decorative arts 1910-1925, Montréal: Laurence King, 1992, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Petrova (Evgeniya et al), Malevich, Artist and Theoretician, Paris: Flammarion, 1990, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus other Russian & European modern art reference books, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves )

Henty (G. A.). No Surrender! A Tale of The Rising in La Vendée, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899The Dragon and the Raven, Or, The Days of King Alfred, London: Blackie and SonFacing Death, or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit, a tale of the coal mines, London: Blackie and SonOn The Irrawaddy, a story of the First Burmese War, new edition, London: Blackie and Son, lacking front endpaper, period inscription to the half-title, plus 8 further volumes by G. A. Henty, some light toning & spotting, all original pictorial cloth, some spines slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, together with;Love Peacock (Thomas), Gryll Grange, London: Macmillan and Co., 1896, black & white illustrations by F. H. Townsend, period inscription to the front endpapers, some light toning, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th-century pictorial cloth literature, including Alexandre Dumas (12 volumes), Charles Dickens, E. V. Lucas, all in original cloth, G/VG, 8voQTY: (5 shelves )

Williams (David). The History of Monmouthshire... Illustrated and ornamented by views of its Principal Landscapes, Ruins, and Residences, by John Gardnor, Vicar of Battersea, London: Printed by H. Baldwin, 1796, engraved map and 36 uncoloured aquatint plates, folding pedigree, ink stamp to verso of title and upper margin of B1 and verso of final leaf, repaired closed tear to F1, upper blank margin of T3 & T4 torn, some toning and browning, scattered spotting, 19th century half calf, morocco reback, board corners rubbed, 4to (Abbey, Scenery 537), together with:William (Peter), Mynegeir ysgrythyrol: neu ddangoseg egwyddorol o'r holl ymadroddion yn yr Hen Destament a'r Newydd..., Carmarthen: Jonathan Harris, 1809, some browning and scattered spotting, first & last leaves frayed to outer corners, 20th century cloth, 4to, plus four others, The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis Grose, volume 7 only (Wales), new edition, 1797; The Island Chapel of St. Twrog in Severn and the Manors of Tintern Parva and Trellech, by James G. Wood, Newport: Mullock & Sons, Ltd., 1922; Y Gofadail Fethodistaidd, sef Pregethau gan nifer o weinidogion ymadawedig y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Gyffin, Conwy: David Williams, 1884, and Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J.R. Abbey, A bibliographical catalogue, reprinted, 1972QTY: (6)

Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds (Land Birds/Water Birds), 2 volumes, Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1805, numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, volume I with old owner's name in pencil 'J Ramsay' to head of first leaf of preface, light marginal finger soiling, marbled edges, contemporary full calf gilt, blind rollwork decoration to board borders and spine, spines rubbed and scuffed, with minor wear, volume II with A1-B1 becoming detached at foot, light waterstaining to final leaf of text and rear endpapers, 4to, together with The General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition, Newcastle Upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Bellboy, & T. Bewick, 1792, wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Longuet Higgins MA, and partial bookseller's label of Burnham of Northampton, above, marbled endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, recased retaining original spine, gilt rollwork decoration to board borders, heavily rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Charles Longuet Higgins MA was a British scholar and benefactor of Turvey, Bedfordshire.

Lawrence (John). The Clergy-Man's Recreation: shewing, the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Garden, three parts in one, 5th edition, London: printed for Bernard Lintott, 1717, [The Gentleman's Recreation, 2nd edition,1717 & the Ladie's recreation by Charles Evelyn, 1st edition, 1717], 6 engraved plates consisting of frontispiece to each part and three folding plates, a few marks, first part with some marginal stains towards front, contemporary paneled calf, marked and somewhat worn, 8vo, together with[Whately, Thomas]. Observations on Modern Gardening, illustrated by descriptions 4th edition, London: T. Payne & Son., 1777, pale water stain to lower outer edges, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed and some wear to joints and edges, plusCulley (George). Observations on Live Stock, containing hints for choosing and improving the best breeds of the most useful kinds of domestic animals, 1st edition, London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1786, water staining to front and rear of volume, errata at end, contemporary half calf gilt-decorated spine, andTaylor (Samuel). Angling in all its Branches, reduced to a complete science: being the result of more than forty years real practice and strict observation throughout the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: T. W. Longman and O. Rees, 1800, contemporary sheep with morocco label to spine, scuffed and some wear, plus other antiquarian interest, mostly natural history, but including Peter Walsch, Four Letters on several subjects, to persons of quality. The fourth being an answer to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln book, Entituled, popery, &c., 1686, W. Henry, Arthur & Alfred E. Hill, Antonio Stratavari, His Life and Work (1644-1677), 2nd edition, 1909, etc. QTY: (24)

Millais (John Guille). A Breath from the Veldt, 1st edition, London: Henry Sotheran, 1895, etched frontispiece, 12 etched plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary previous owner inscription, bookplates of Alan Thornton, top edge gilt, spine a little toned with vertical crease, short tears at head, folio, together with British Deer and their Horns, 1st edition, London: Henry Sotheran, 1897, colour frontispiece, 10 plates, illustrations, library stamp to title verso, Wrea Head College bookplate, topedge gilt, original cloth, rebacked, a little toned, folio, plus Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, 1st edition, 1907QTY: (3)NOTE:First work Czech pp.114-115.

Venables (Robert). The Experienced Angler, or, Angling Improv'd. Being a general discourse of Angling. Imparting the aptest ways and choicest experiments for the taking of most sorts of fish in pond or river, 4th edition much enlarged, London: Richard Marriot, 1676, [15], 96, [6]p., additional engraved title (A1), engraved illustrations to text, some light dust-soiling, bound with 20th century blank leaves at rear, modern dark green morocco, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco labels, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing V185. This work also formed the third part of 'The Universal angler, made so, by three books of fishing, the first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton Esq., the third by Col. Robert Venables'. Each part was available to be purchased individually or together.

Williams (A.M.). Etchings of Celebrated Shorthorns, 1st edition, London: John Thornton, 1881, fifteen fine etched plates, with tissue guards (few guards frayed to lower edges), some light toning to initial leaves of text and plate margins and scattered spotting, lower outer right corners of final three plates a little damp mottled (small area of insect damage holes to lower blank margin of final plate), all edges gilt, original maroon boards, title in gilt to upper cover, covers worn with some loss to lower outer corners, oblong folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Scarce, with only one UK institutional location found (National Trust Libraries).According to the preface this was to be the first volume in a series. Accompanying text written by John Thornton.

Mallet (Allain Manesson). Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreisses, parts 1-3 (of 5), 1st edition in German, Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684-5, 3 engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved portraits, 327 engraved plates only, early initials to title and additional engraved title, a few leaves lightly dust-soiled (mostly confined to margins), contemporary calf, front board cracked to verso, joints rubbed, 4to (220 x 150 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:VD17 39:129237P.The first part ('Beschreibung der Himmels und Erd-Kugel') is cosmographical; parts two and three cover Asia and Africa. The plates include maps, plans, costumes, views, astronomical instruments, and various cosmographical projections. They are numbered inconsistently, with a few lacunae and some numbers occurring twice, and several single plates bearing two consecutive numbers (more details are available on request). Mallet's voluminous work was first published in French in 1683.

England & Wales. Browne (Christopher), Untitled map of the Kingdom of England, Philip Overton & Thomas Bowles, circa 1720, uncoloured engraved map on four irregularly sized sheets, each formed by conjoined maps, the map of central England lacking the extension showing west Pembrokeshire, trimmed with thread margins (as issued), some creasing, old folds, sizes vary from 425 x 550 mm to 445 x 1420 mm,QTY: (4)NOTE:R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750 Browne 2 state 3. A very unusual map, first published as a wall map in about 1700. In its original form, the map had a large cartouche in the upper right, however, as a result of its popularity, it was published in a travelling format, with only the salient details necessary for someone venturing beyond an area they were familiar with. This format saved on weight and bulk and could be presented in a rolled or folded form. Its size seems to have predicated against it surviving in any numbers and today it is a scarce map. Philip Overton and Thomas Bowles acquired the plates in 1712 and under their imprint, it was advertised in the 'Monthly Catalogue' of 1717 and copies were also bound up in editions of the 'English Gentleman's Guide' where it was advertised as '.... made portable for Cloak-Bag, Portmanteau or Pocket'. The last edition was around 1760 by Robert Sayer and Thomas Bowles.

Hodges (Charles, publisher). Geographical playing cards, London, 1827, the complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 13: pike heads (blue), trefoils (green), hearts (red), and diamonds (gold), each suit representing a continent (Europe, America, Asia, Africa), the court cards depicting individuals from that continent and heightened with gold, King of Spades (George Washington) card with hand-painted crown to upper left corner, each pip card numbered 2-10 depicting a map of the named country, and the 4 aces with a map of the relevant continent, no tax stamp or duty ace apparent, gilt edges, plain versos, scarce minor spotting or faint marks, Austria with small brown marks towards right side, each card 96 x 63mm, with original rules booklet entitled ‘A Brief Explanation of the Countries, &c. Represented by the New Geographical Playing Cards’, all edges gilt, original blue watered silk wrapper, mark to rear cover, a little wear to extremities, 12mo, 32 cards corner mounted onto 2 lightweight display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (these cards not examined out of display boards), the remaining cards and booklet contained together in contemporary dark green morocco slipcase, with lift-off lid, rubbed and lightly marked, with a little wear to extremities, all surfaces blind-tooled, front of lid with gilt-lettered ‘Geographical’, each display board 54.5 x 40cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Hargrave, p.179; Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.134-136; Mann, Collecting Playing Cards, p.161; Morley, p.139; Ortiz-Patino collection, 14.The accompanying booklet describes the various figures portrayed on the court cards and the countries they represent, for example Saladin (for Egypt) as King of Clubs, and Robespierre (for France) as Knave of Hearts, noting that these characters are depicted “by tasteful and accurate representations”. The booklet takes pains to note that “Washington, though he was in reality the President of a republic, yet, as the principal individual connected with the history of the United States, is here represented as the King of Spades.” The booklet goes on to boast of “the accuracy and beauty of the geographical engravings (which are executed in the first style by an eminent artist)”.According to Sylvia Mann (All Cards on the Table), this pack of Geographical cards was a copy of a French pack from 1825, and was made for Hodges by Stopforth & Son. Mann states that this pack, together with the related Astronomical pack by Hodges, were “the last of the finely engraved English packs (p.136). H.T. Morley describes these as “a very artistic pack” and the court cards as “very finely engraved and beautifully finished in gold and colours”.This pack was later reissued by William and Henry Rock. However in their edition the suit signs are initially printed in black and then stencilled in colours, whereas the suit signs in the Hodges set were printed (outlines and hatching) in colour before adding the stencilling - as here. In addition, the Hodges edition has the hand-painted crown added to the King of Spades card, which the Rock edition lacks.

Italy. Mortier (Pierre), Bergamo Ville des Venitiens dans le Bergamasque...., Amsterdam [1700 - 24], uncoloured engraved city plan, 16 point key plan to the lower right, old folds, trimmed within platemark bottom left for binding purposes, slight spotting, occasional marginal closed tears, 445 x 605 mm, together with Jaillot (Alexis Hubert). Carte Particuliere des Pays qui sont Situez entre le Rhein, la Sarre, la Moselle, et la Basse Alsace..., circa 1700, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, on six conjoined sheets, laid on later linen, old folds, some marginal fraying, slight dust soiling, 1395 x 1020 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The old folds on the first described item would indicate that this example is possibly from a later edition of Blaeu's town book, published by R.C. Alberts in 1724.

Lenthall (John, publisher). A set of 49 (of 52) playing card maps and two explanation cards, circa 1717, uncoloured engraved playing cards in the first state, minor staining and handling marks, each approximately 95 x 60 mm, contained in a modern purpose-made book box in panelled calf with a chemise and recess for the cardsQTY: (49)NOTE:Kathleen Wowk. Playing Cards of the World p.96. Sylvia Mann Collecting Playing Cards. p.136. Sylvia Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.132. A very scarce item of English cartographic history with very few collections in existence. This John Lenthall edition is a re-issue of Robert Morden's playing card maps but without the normal foliate borders which identify a Lenthall issue. Extant examples are rare with the Bodleian Library holding eighteen cards, The Beineke Library at Yale has seventeen cards, and the British Library and Cambridge University Library have none. Although advertised for over thirty years very few copies are recorded in existence today. We cannot find any record of a near-complete pack in this first state and must conclude that it is probably unique.

Simpson (William). The Seat of War in the East, first & second series bound as one, 1st edition, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855, tinted lithographic title-page and 79 plates with tissue-guards, scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, large folio (56 x 37 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 237: 'These plates are indeed an impressive piece of work, not only artistically and technically, but also as pictorial reporting. Simpson must in this way rank as an early war correspondent.'Lots 20-36, which mostly concern the Crimean War of 1853-56 and include direct reportage on the war, are being sold in aid of Ukrainian journalism in the current war in Ukraine, the funds donated to journalists located with the support of British-Ukrainian Aid (Charity Registered in England and Wales 1164472).

Theophylactus (Archbishop of Ochrida, circa 1050-1108). In quatuor Evangelia enarrationes, denuo recognitae. Joanne Oecolampadio interprete, Basel, Andreas Cratander, March 1525, [8], 221 leaves, plus final blank, with woodcut device to verso (?8, a-z6, A-M6, N8), title within elaborate woodcut border, depicting God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit surrounded by a heavenly host, symbols of the four evangelists, and the thirteen apostles, contemporary ownership inscription in ink below the title date 'Mychaell Shirbroke booke', first page of main text with elaborate decorative woodcut border, with large woodcut initial to verso, numerous smaller woodcut initials throughout, several woodcut head- and tail-pieces, colophon to verso of N7, with contemporary manuscript inscription in brown ink below 'Ex libris Cuthberti Shirbroke de Thurveton infra decanatum de Broke Norwicens diocesis cl[er]ici', occasional contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink to margins (presumably by Cuthbert Shirbroke or Sherbrooke), unobtrusive peppering of worm, mainly to front of volume, not affecting legibility, marginal waterstaining to the second half of the work, becoming somewhat heavier to the final 12 leaves, minor marginal fraying to first and last few leaves (not affecting text), contemporary blind-decorated full calf upper and lower covers only, over modern antique-style brown calf over wooden boards, with clasps (thongs renewed), folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Cuthbert Sherbrooke of Norfolk, rector of Rockland and Thurton (Thurveton), active 1530-1537, with his inscription below the colophon on N7.A number of books bearing Sherbrooke's ownership inscription were discovered in 1912 in a locked cupboard at Oxton Hall in Nottinghamshire, and were sold at Sotheby's the same year (28 June, lots 439-465), amongst which the present work was presumably included. Four volumes belonging to Cuthbert Sherbrooke are identified by Margaret Lane Ford in Private Ownership of Printed Books, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (2014), pages 212-13. See Bernard Quaritch, Manuscript Waste, 2019, item 11.Adams T587; BM STC German, 113.Second edition of Theophylactus' commentary on the New Testament, translated by Johann Oecolampades.

Maximus of Tyre. Maximi Tyrii Philosophi Platonici Sermones sive Diputationes, [Geneva]: Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographi, 1557, [8], 363 (i.e. 263), collation: *4, a-q8, r4, Greek text, engraved printer's device to title, contemporary ownership signature in ink to front blank: 'ffran. Plomer', early (circa 1700) ownership annotation in ink to title: 'In Usum Scholae Guilsburiensis Hund Librorum Legavit. Jos. Worting, No. 172', contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript, some marks amd light soiling, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams M 939; Renouard, Estienne, 115:2.First edition of the ethical and philosophical writings of Maximus of Tyre (circa 125-185 A.D.), the reputed teacher of Marcus Aurelius.This volume was beqeathed, according to the title annotation, to the Guildford Free School. The school dates its founding to the death of Robert Beckingham in 1509 who left provision in his will to 'make a free scole at the Towne of Guldford'; in 1512 a governing body was set up to form the school. The school's Old Building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is the home of a rare example of a chained library. It was established on the death of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in 1575. Although defined as a 'free' school, the first statutes of governance, approved in 1608, saw the introduction of school fees at the rate of 4 shillings per annum, along with the school's first admissions test.

Tasso (Torquato). La Gierusalemme Liberata, Geneva, Girolamo Bartoli, 1590, engraved title, 20 full-page engraved illustrations by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci after Bernardo Castello, woodcut cartouches and ornaments, a few burn marks, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplate of Sir William Burrell (1732-1796, 2nd baronet) pasted to title verso, hinges breaking, all edges green, early 18th century red morocco gilt, lower cover detached, joints cracked, spine and edges rubbed, small folioQTY: (3)NOTE:Adams T243; Cicognara 1112. First illustrated edition of Tasso's epic Siege of Jerusalem.

Beza (Theodore). Poemata varia. Sylvae. Elegiae. Epitaphia. Epigrammata. Icones. Emblemata. Cato Censorius. Omnia ab ipso auctore in unum nunc corpus collecta & recognita, Geneva: [Henricus Stephanus], 1597-[1598], [16], 372 p., engraved portrait frontispiece, printer's woodcut device to title and engraved armorials to verso, Emblemata illustrated with 40 fine woodcut illustrations each within an elaborate border, some toning and occasional spotting, 19th century marbled endpapers with recent cloth hinges, Pickering Bookseller label to upper pastedown, late 18th century speckled calf, rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine with later maroon labels, gilt borders to boards, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Schreiber, The Estiennes 227; Renouard 1598, no. 4; Landwehr, 156a.First edition of the collected poetry of Calvin's successor in Geneva, including poems in four languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French. "...The Emblemata are illustrated with 40 fine cuts, each within an elaborate border." (Schreiber).

Hayward (John). The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the first. William the second. Henrie the first. Written by I.H., Imprinted at London by R.B[arker], 1613, [8], 32, 41-139, [1], 140-314, [1] p., woodcut head- & tail-piece to title, some running titles cropped (mostly to initial leaves), bound with, Hayward (John), The First Part of the life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by I.H., Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe [i.e. Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet], 1599 [i.e. 1629?], [8], 149, [1] p., small rust hole to L2, without final blank leaf (V4), pencil markings throughout volume, light dust-soiling, later endpapers, contemporary speckled calf with initials NL to centre of each board (initials to upper board inverted), old reback, upper joint split, extremities rubbed & worn, board corners worn and showing, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:1. STC (2nd ed.), 13000; ESTC S103916; Pforzheimer, 460. "King Harold about the closing of the evening, as he was busie in sustaining his armie, both with voyce and with hand, was strooke with an arrow through the left eye into his braines, of which wound hee presently died." p.732. STC 12997; ESTC S103910; Pforzheimer, 458. This edition has a square of fleurons on the title page. A2r, line 22 has "Teucer" with the first "e" inverted.

Lambarde (William). Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Justices of Peace, in foure bookes, Revised, corrected, and enlarged, in the eighth yeere of the peaceable Raigne of our most gracious King James. First collected by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne gent, London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Companie of Stationers, 1614, title within ornamental border, some early underscoring, bound with, Lambarde (William), The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be adioyned, the severall offices of Church Ministers, and Churchwardens, and Overseers for the Poore, surveyours of the highwaies, and distributors of the prouision against noisome fowle and vermine. First collected by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne gent. and enlarged in the yeare. 1610, London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Companie of Stationers, 1614, without final blank, few worm holes to last few leaves, some damp staining and scattered spotting throughout volume, later endpapers (lacking front free endpaper), contemporary calf, old reback with loss of lower spine panel, lower board detached, board edges and corners worn (board corners showing), 8vo, together with:London, The freemen of London’s necessary and useful companion: or, the citizens birth-right, With The Foreigners and Aliens best Instructor..., London: Printed by W. Pearson for J. Baker, 1707, light dust-soiling, damp staining and browning, contemporary half calf, joints and extremities worn, 12mo (ESTC T139506, A reissue of the 1706 London edition, with the title page partially reset),Marine Society, The Bye-Laws and Regulations of the Marine Society, incorporated in MDCCLXXII, with the several instructions, form of indentures, and other instruments used by it, 5th edition, London: Printed by Strahan & Preston, 1809, half-title and engraved frontispiece, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 12mo,Court of Chancery, Observations upon the power exercised by the Court of Chancery, of depriving a father of the custody of his children, London: John Miller, 1828, half-title, contemporary half calf, spine rubbed, slim 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Lambarde - STC (2nd ed.) 15173; ESTC S108212 and STC (2nd ed.) 15159; ESTC S108250.

Crooke (Helkiah). Mikrokosmographia. A Description of the Body of Man. Together with the controversies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, Printed at London: by Thomas and Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor, 1631, letterpress title with first word in Greek characters and with woodcut illustration (left blank margin torn & crudely repaired, with adhesive browning), numerous woodcut illustrations throughout volume, without additional engraved title and lacking leaves N5, V5, X2, X3 & a5, two leaves misbound at front of volume after letterpress title (leaves f2 contents and errata leaf, both leaves with repaired closed tears & tissue-lined to each side), e6 at rear of volume torn to lower half of leaf with loss, occasional repaired closed tears to margins, some margins discreetly repaired (mostly to initial leaves, modern dark brown calf, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S107279; STC (2nd ed.), 6063; Russell, K.F. Brit. anatomy (2nd ed.), 223.ESTC S107279; STC (2nd ed.), 6063; Russell, K.F. Brit. anatomy (2nd ed.), 223. The chief sources are "De corporis humani fabrica" by Caspar Bauhin and "Historia anatomica humani corporis" by André Du Laurens. "An explanation of the fashion and vse of three and fifty instruments of chirurgery. Gathered out of Ambrosius Pareus .. and done into English .. by H.C. [i.e. Crooke]" has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "London printed for Michael Sparke. 1631.".

Ogilby (John). The Fables of Aesop, paraphras'd in verse, and adorn'd with sculpture, 1st edition thus, 4 parts in 1, London: Thomas Warren, 1651, engraved frontispiece and 80 plates by Hollar, Stoop and Barlow after Francis Cleyn (lacking portrait and plate 35), a few plates with touches of old colouring, frontispiece with a little fraying to edges, with small loss to upper outer corner, B3 facing fable 3, D2 facing fable 7, and B[b]3 facing fable 25 with loss of text at foot, a few minor closed tears and other marks, early armorial bookplate with motto 'Abi et Fac-Simile' to front pastedown, with old catalogue description below, 20th century owner's ticket of Miss Carys Roberts, Cambridge to front free endpaper, contemporary Cambridge gilt panelled calf cornered with foliate ciphers, 19th century reback with red morocco title label, somewhat worn, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing A689.First edition of Ogilby's translation. 'To call these versions paraphrases is misleading... they are original treatments of familiar themes. Ogilby gives free play to his imagination as he retells the fables with so many amplifications of homely detail and classical allusions that what would ordinarily have been eighty-one pages or a little more becomes two hundred and thirty-six' (Hodnett, Francis Barlow, First Master of English Book Illustration, p. 79).

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, In Four Bookes. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the principal Kingdomes, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Henry Seile, 1652, additional engraved title to first volume (small hole to upper blank margin, dust-soiled, lined to verso), initial titles to both volumes with signature of "John Evelyn [Junior] Durate &c Virg: aen: 1.1", four double-page engraved maps (Europe, Asia, Africa, and Americas), each map cropped to edges with some loss, first volume with ink stain to fore-edge blank margins of leaves 2Q1 & 2Q2 and closed tear to 2Q6, lower outer blank corner of 2S4 torn away, front free endpapers with manuscript press mark D6:8, front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Evelyn Bart. and 20th century John Evelyn library 'J.E' bookplate, attractive contemporary speckled calf, with elaborate gilt decorated spines, upper joint of first volume cracked at head & foot, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: John Evelyn, junior (1655-1699), son of John Evelyn, writer, diarist & gardener, 1620-1706; The Evelyn Library, Christie's December 1, 1977, lot 740, where purchased by Desmond Burgess for £200.Wing H1689; ESTC R5447.Books 1-3, the two parts of book 4, and the Appendix each have separate dated title page; register attempts to be continuous. Pagination is separate except for book 4, part 2, which is continuous with part 1.

[Sandys, George]. Anglorum speculum, or The Worthies of England, in Church and State. Alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained; wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age. Also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county, and the most flourishing cities and towns therein, London: John Wright and William Thackary, 1684, [8], 224, 369-596, 739-974, [20]p., light toning, armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine, 8vo (Wing S22A; ESTC R7882), together with:Sacheverell (Henry), The Tryal of Doctor Henry Sacheverell, before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors; upon an impeachment..., Dublin: Re-printed by A. Rhames and F. Dickson, for E. Dobson, P. Campbell, J. Gill, [& others], 1710, light toning and dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt decorated spine and maroon morocco title label, board edges rubbed, folio,Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of), The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor’s Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667..., 3 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759, front endpaper with Hobart crest bookplate and armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon, contemporary speckled calf, upper joint of first volume weak and few others cracked, 8vo,Bolingbroke (Henry St. John, Viscount), Letters on the study and use of history, 2 volumes, London: A. Millar, 1752, occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, joints split and board corners worn, 8vo,Lowhen (Baron von), The analysis of nobility, in its origin; as military, mercantile, and literary; proofs, privileges, duties, acquisition, and forfeiture thereof, interspersed with several curious Monuments of History, relating to Laws of Chivalry, Creations, Degradations, Justs, Tournaments, Combats, &c. Translated from the original German of Baron von Lowhen. With Notes collected from the best English Antiquarians, and other Authors, London: J. Robinson, 1754, some toning and spotting, endpapers renewed and with armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, maroon morocco title label, board edges worn, 8vo,[Leake, Stephen Martin], Nummi Britannici Historia: Or an Account of English Money, from the Conquest to the Uniting of the two Kingdoms by James I. and of Great Britain to the Present Time, 1st edition, 1626 [but 1726], four engraved plates, armorial bookplate of Sir John Rushout Bt. to upper pastedown and armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, red morocco title label, 8vo, and seven other 18th & 19th century antiquarianQTY: (16)

[James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766]. A Letter from a Gentleman at the Court of St. Germains, to one of his friends in England; containing a memorial about methods for setting the Pretender on the throne of Great Britain. Found at Doway, after the taking of that Town. Translated from the French copy, printed at Cologne by Peter Marteau, London: [s.n.], 1710, 47,[1]p., some water staining and browning, bound with: [Prussian officer], A remarkable dialogue, which lately happened in the gardens of Luxembourg at Paris, between an old impartial English Whig, and a nonjuror of the Church of England, concerning the Young Chevalier; ... By a Prussian officer, Edenburgh [sic, i.e. London]: printed in the year 1748. Sold in London, Dublin, Paris, and Holland, 1748, [4],103,[1]p., half-title in the form of a title page (repair to upper left blank corner), dust-soiled mostly to half-title and final leaf, bound with, [James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766], Memoirs of the Chevalier de St. George: with some private passages of the life of ... King James II. Never before Publish’d., London: Printed in the year, 1712, 62 [i.e.78]p., half-title discarded, signature R. Watts at head of title, occasional underscoring, light water staining, bookplate of David Murray to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th century dark green morocco with elaborate gilt decorations, covers incorporating repeating coronet motifs, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:1. ESTC T66275; Moore 189. Variously attributed to Pierre Des Maiseaux, Daniel Defoe, and Arthur Maynwaring. For authorship controversy see Moore 189 and Snyder in Literatur als Kritik des Lebens (Heidelberg, 1975) p.123. Moore suggests that Des Maiseaux was only responsible for the French translation, but this undoubtedly appeared first - it is possible that he was the author. The Cologne imprint of that edition, however, is probably false.2. ESTC T71919. The imprint is false on the evidence of the ornaments, also found in a similarily made up pamphlet bearing a 1748 London imprint, and entitled ’A familiar instructive dialogue, which happened last week’.. The imprint is false on the evidence of the ornaments, also found in a similarily made up pamphlet bearing a 1748 London imprint, and entitled ’A familiar instructive dialogue, which happened last week’.3. ESTC N61382. Pp.27-34 are correctly numbered; the word "publish’d" in title is capitalized, and the rule on the title page is straight.

[Defoe, Daniel]. The History of the Wars, of his present Majesty Charles XII, King of Sweden, from his first landing in Denmark, to his return from Turkey to Pomerania, by a Scots gentleman in the Sweedish Service, 1st edition, London: A Bell, T. Varnam, J. Osborn, W. Taylor and J. Baker, 1715, title page with armorial bookplate of Robert Lowndes dated 1702 to verso, approximately 35 leaves with blue ink stain to tips of right blank corners, 20th century manuscript reference not to front free endpaper, contemporary blind panelled calf, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, 8vo (Moore 322; ESTC T65952), together with:Erasmus (Desiderius), Moriæ Encomium; or, a Panegyrick upon Folly ... Done into English [by W. Kennet], and illustrated with above fifty curious cuts, designed and drawn by H. Holbeine. To which is prefix'd, Erasmus's Epistle to Sir Thomas More, and an account of H. Holbeine's pictures, etc. and where to be seen, London: J. Woodward, 1709, engraved portrait frontispiece, 46 engraved illustrations to 28 plates and four illustrations to text, title page with early signature Wm. Wyce(?), some light dust-soiling and occasional damp stains throughout, contemporary panelled calf, morocco reback with gilt and blind decoration, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, Bailey (Nathan), An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 2nd edition, with large additions, London: E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth [& others], 1724, old ink spot to a4, contemporary blind panelled calf, upper board detached, lacking title label to spine and with wear at head & foot, board edges worn, 8vo,Shakespeare (William), The Works of Shakespear in Nine Volumes. With a Glossary. Carefully printed from the Oxford Edition in Quarto, 1744, 9 volumes, London: J. & P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman [& others], 1751, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, imprint to volumes 2-8 dated 1750, ownership inscription to front free pastedowns 'Messrs. Brown & Stockhouse, Stainforth, 1796' and first volume with manuscript provenance note to front free endpaper 'these volumes were formerly in the possession of the Ingleby family at Lawkland Hall, William Addison 1931', contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed with some title labels lacking, 12mo,Malden (Henry), An Account of King's College-Chapel, in Cambridge ..., including a Character of Henry VI and a Short History of the Foundation of his two Colleges, King's and Eton..., Cambridge: printed for the author, by Fletcher & Hodson, 1769, etched portrait frontispiece and single engraved plate, front free endpaper with ownership 'T. Kerrich M.C.C. 1800', contemporary dutch gilt floral wrappers, spine worn, 8vo, plus other 18th and early 19th century antiquarian, including a defective and worn copy of [Dodsley, Robert, compiler], The Preceptor: containing a general course of Education: Wherein the first principles of polite learning are laid down in a way most suitable for trying the genius, and advancing the instruction of youth, 2 volumes, London: R. Dodsley, 1748, 32 engraved plates and maps (of 33), many torn with loss, heavy dust-soiling and fraying particularly to plates, title with the ownership inscription of the literary critic and author Rose of Kilravock (1747-1815) and with her armorial bookplate to front pastedowns, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo (this work contained contributions by Samuel Johnson)QTY: (23)

Delany (Patrick). Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift [by J. R., i.e. Patrick Delany], containing several singular anecdotes relating to the character and conduct of that great Genius, and the most deservedly celebrated Stella. In a series of letters to his Lordship. To which are added two original pieces of the same author (excellent in their kind) never before publish'd, 1st edition, London: Printed and sold by W. Reeve and A. Linde, 1754, [16], 310p., some light toning, front pastedown with contemporary ownership of John Denne dated 1754, hinges split, contemporary calf with morocco title label to spine, spine worn and joints split at head and foot, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Teerink 1343; Rothschild 789.This work contains the first publication of Swift's 'On Good Manners and Good Breeding', and 'To a Friend who had been much abused in many inveterate Libels'.John Denne D.D. (1693–1767) was born at Littlebourne, Kent, the eldest son of John Denne. He was educated at Sandwich grammar school, King's School, Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1712, M.A. 1716, D.D. 1728. He was tutor and fellow of his college. Denne was ordained in 1716, and presented to the perpetual curacy of St Benedict's Church, Cambridge. He became rector of Norton-by-Daventry, Northamptonshire, in 1721, exchanging the living in 1723 for the vicarage of St Leonard's, Shoreditch. From 1725-28 he delivered the Boyle lectures. In 1728 he became archdeacon and prebendary of Rochester and also held the vicarage of St Margaret's Church, Rochester. In 1731 Denne resigned his Rochester parish for the rectory of St. Mary's Church, Lambeth. He was for some time prolocutor of the lower house of convocation. From about 1759 he suffered from ill-health and died on 5 August 1767, and was buried in Rochester Cathedral.