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ROSS (Alan & John MINTON, illustrator): 'Time Was Away...a Notebook in Corsica': London, John Lehmann, 1948: FIRST EDITION: publishers yellow cloth with dustwrapper, a very good clean copy with minor wear to corners, 8vo: PRISCO (Michele) 'Heirs of the Wind..', London, Derek Verschoyle, 1955: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, publishers blue cloth with dustjacket, very good: together with a quantity of other literature and first editions over 3 shelves, generally in very good condition. (3 shelves)

DICKENS (Charles): Christmas Books: comprising: 'The Chimes: a Goblin Story', 5th edition, 1845: 'Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', FIRST EDITION 1848: 'The Cricket on the Hearth', FIRST EDITION 1846 and 'The Battle of Life', FIRST EDITION 1846: all publishers red cloth, much worn with spines frayed and deficient, backstrip and lower board lacking to 'Cricket on the Hearth', joints broken and blocks shaken, various ink ownership to early leaves, the group for sale with all faults and not subject to return, 12mo. (4)

CUALA PRESS: SYNGE (J M): 'Deirdre of the Sorrows; a Play..': Churchtown, Cuala Press, 1910. FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies, half title in red, woodcut device to title, text in red and black throughout, original linen backed blue paper covered boards, printed label to spine, minor wear else VG, 8vo: with 'Poems and Translations', 1909. (2)

FINE BINDING: SCROPE (William): 'Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed..': London, John Murray, 1843: FIRST EDITION: additional lithograph to pictorial title, 12 lithograph plates (several partially hand-coloured), fine early 20thc full red crushed  morocco by Sotheran, teg, richly gilt with fish and line devices to compartments and corners, gilt inner dentels, original cloth bound in at rear, lightest wear but an excellent copy, tall 8vo. (1)

YEATS (William Butler): 'Michael Robartes and the Dancer..': FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies, title with woodcut candle vignette printed in red, partially unopened as issued, toning to free endpapers (as often), original linen-backed printed boards, 8vo. Dundrum, Cuala Press, 1920. A very good copy. (1)

MACLEAY (Kenneth & Vincent Brooks, lithographer): 'Highlanders of Scotland': London, Mr Mitchell, Publisher to the Queen, 1870: FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 31 coloured lithographic plates, mounted onto card, boarded and captioned in gilt, each with bibliographic and historical notice in letterpress, publishers red bevel-edged boards, gilt lettered and decorated, aeg, corners bumped and some rubbing to edges, some scuffs to spine with ends a little frayed, but a good clean copy, some scattered foxing, elephant folio: together with a looseleaf folio containing 9 duplicate plates from the same. (3)

POTTER (Beatrix): 'The Tale of Tom Kitten': London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1907: FIRST EDITION. Publishers brown paper boards with pictorial onlay to upper cover, white lettering to front and spine, pictorial endpapers, half title, dated to title page, 26 colour plates by the author (one detached), 12mo: 'The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes': FIRST EDITION, 1911, original green paper boards with pictorial onlay to upper, lettered in white, pictorial endpapers, VG with minor wear: plus 2 other titles by Potter. (4)

GUILLIM (John): 'A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof then hath beene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method, whereinto it is now reduced by the industry of Joh. Guillim purseuant of armes...': FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue: London, printed by William Hall for Raphe Mab., 1611: title page within architectural woodcut border (laid down and with some losses to foreedge, a few early ink markings at head): numerous woodcut armorials, a few full  page, many with early hand colouring: colophon dated 1610, 2 or 3 leaves with long closed tears, scattered minor stains and smudges but a good copy overall, 19th century vellum covered boards with black morocco label, edges red, small folio: together with a 1679 edition of the same work, some leaves repaired, plate of Lord Belasyse not present but 3 plates not called for by Lowndes bound in, contemporary blind ruled calf boards sometime rebacked, folio. (2)

ALDOUS HUXLEY, SIGNED: 'Rotunda..a Selection of the Works from Aldous Huxley': London, Chatto & Windus, 1932: FIRST EDITION: 'Point Counter Point', London, 1934: FIRST EDITION: both inscribed by author to front free endpapers: original green/tan cloth, without dustjackets, second named a little rubbed and damp marked to edges but good copies overall, both 8vo. (2)

RUSSELL (George William): ' By Still Waters, Lyrical Poems Old and New by A.E..': Dundrum, Dun Emer Press, 1906. Published by Elizabeth C Yeats. FIRST EDITION, original linen backed grey boards, lettered to upper, cloth and free endpapers a little browned else a very good copy, 8vo. (1)

INDIA: SLEEMAN (Lieutenant-Colonel W H): 'Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official..': London, J Hatchard & Son, 1844: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols, chromolithographed frontispieces and 30 plates, tissue guards, spotting round end leaves, marbled endpapers, later dark half-calf over green cloth boards, teg, spines gilt lettered direct with 5 raised bands, a good set, 8vo. (2)

MURDOCH (Iris): 'An Unofficial Rose': London, Chatto & Windus, 1962: FIRST EDITION: publishers green cloth with dustjacket, some bumping and browning to extrems, 8vo: with 26 other volumes across one shelf, novels/poetry, mostly first editions, generally VG in d/j, 8vo: (One shelf)

GOLDSMITH (Oliver): 'The Citizen of the World: or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London...': London, printed for J Newbery, 1762. FIRST COLLECTED EDITON, 2 vols bound in one, final blank leaf not present to second, later cloth backed boards, much worn and scuffed: together with a 19thc French edition of The Dance of Death, folding chromolithographic strip panorama (split at several folds, some old repairs, for sale with all faults): with 4 other misc. books. (Sm.Box)

ROWLING (J K): 'Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets': FIRST EDITION: Bloomsbury, 1998: original boards without dustjacket, slight lean toward upper, spine a little sunned, slight knock to edges and corners, no inscriptions or other markings, a good copy: with 11 other volumes from the Harry Potter series, some duplicates, some first editions. (12)

CLOCKS & WATCHES: SYMONDS (R W): 'Thomas Tompion..His Life & Work': London, Batsford, 1951: FIRST EDITION: signed by author in blue ink to FFE: publishers blue cloth, a little rubbed with spine sunned, 4to: with 39 other volumes on clocks and watches. (40)

YEATS (William Butler): 'The Wild Swans at Coole, other verses and a play in verse..': Churchtown Dundrum, Cuala Press, 1917: FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies: woodcut charging unicorn device by Robert Gregory and colophon printed in red, publishers linen-backed blue boards, printed label to spine, lettered in black to upper, slight browning to spine head and very minor wear else a very good copy, partially unopened, 8vo. (1)

BEHAN (Brendan): 'Borstal Boy': London, Hutchinson, 1958: FIRST EDITION. Publishers plum cloth with dustjacket, minor edge wear else VG, 8vo: with 16 others, Irish literature, including other titles by Behan, some first editions, generally in very good condition. (17)

MILNE (Alan Alexander): Winnie The Pooh series in deluxe bindings, comprising: 'When We Were Very Young', (17th edition, 1928); 'The House at Pooh Corner' (FIRST EDITION, 1928); 'Now We Are Six', (4th edition, 1928); and 'Winnie The Pooh', (6th edition, 1928): uniform original blue publishers crushed morocco gilt, each title with 5 differing characters from the drawings by E H Shepard gilt to upper covers, gilt ruled and lettered, spines a little sunned, light wear and rubbing, some minor scuffs and marks but an attractive set overall, 12mo. (4)

CUALA PRESS: TYNAN (Katharine): 'Twenty One Poems; selected by W B Yeats..': Dun Emer Press, 1907. FIRST EDITION THUS, printer's device to title page, woodcut by Elinor Monsell, linen backed blue/grey boards with matching endpapers, edges untrimmed, mid-20thc bookplate by Jack B Yeats to upper pastedown: together with: YEATS (W B) 'Discoveries: a Volume of Essays..': Dun Emer Press, 1907. FIRST EDITION, original linen backed boards, lettered in black to upper, glassine wrapper, both 8vo. The final two books published by the Dun Emer Press, prior to renaming as Cuala Press. (2)

GOGARTY (Oliver St John): 'An Offering of Swans': Dublin, Cuala Press, 1923: FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies: original linen-backed boards, printed label to spine and lettered in black to upper, retaining plain dustwrapper (portions of loss to spine and corners), modern bookseller's label to upper pastedown, edges partially unopened, a very good copy, 8vo. (1)

MAUGHAM (Somerset): 'Liza of Lambeth...': London, T Fisher Unwin, 1897: FIRST EDITION: publishers green cloth gilt, slight lean to upper board, a little rubbed, lower hinge partially frayed, small 8vo: together with Jubilee edition of same title, limited to 1000 copies and signed by Maugham. (2)

DAHL (Roald): 'My Uncle Oswald..': London, Michael Joseph, 1979: FIRST EDITION, publishers blue cloth with d/w, light toning and marks else VG: together with a quantity of other literature over 4 shelves, all G-VG in d/w, some first editions. (Qty)

YEATS (William Butler): 'Synge and the Ireland of his Time...with note concerning a walk through Connemara with him by Jack Butler Yeats..': FIRST EDITION, Churchtown, Cuala Press, 1911: one of 350 copies: original linen-backed grey boards, upper lettered in black, a very good copy, 8vo. (1)

A rare copy of the First Edition Beano Annual published before the appearance of Dennis The Menace, the 1940 Beano book was issued around the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, it came a year after the weekly comic was first brought out by Dundee based D.C. Thompson in July 1938

Five children's books to include 'The Golden Age' and 'Dream Days' by Kenneth Grahame, 'The King Of The Golden River' by John Ruskin, a first edition of 'Le Petit Prince' by Antoine De Saint-Exupery and 'Sausages & Sundials' by Langford Reed (5)

Burckhardt (John Lewis). Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1829, engraved folding map, 4 engraved plates, scattered spotting, first quire with obtrusive paper repair to foot of gutter, library stamp to final text leaf, contemporary calf, utilitarian reback in black cloth, earlier red morocco title label relaid, rubbed and marked, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Blackmer 239 (2nd edition). 'Burckhardt undertook the journey to Mecca in 1814, disguised as an Arab; he had long since used the name Sheik Ibrahim in his travels, which he began in 1809 under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks and the African Association. Burckhardt's description of the Hedjaz was the first accurate one to reach Europe'.

* English playing cards. Standard pattern, J. & W. Mitchell of Birmingham, circa 1890, a complete deck (without joker?) of 52 colour printed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts printed in four colours, decorative ace of spades with maker's details and registration number, indices, dust- and finger-soiled, toned and marked, 7S with small corner crease, rounded corners, versos ornamental design in white on brown, each card 89 x 63 mm, together with: Deakin's Political Playing Cards, Willis & Co, 1881, double-ended courts with caricatures of named political figures, ace of spades with title and maker, triplicate type indices on pip cards, dusty, few minor marks, KC with tiny edge tear, rounded corners, versos red ornate pattern on yellow, each card 89 x 64 mm, with original titled two-part box, plus: Standard type WY2, Woolley & Co, circa 1875, a complete Piquet deck of 32 colour printed playing cards (French suits), double-ended unturned courts, Woolley ace of spades type 1, no indices, square corners, dusty, versos plain blue, each card 94 x 65 mm, with five other decks by Willis: Deakin's Political Playing Cards 2nd edition, 1887; standard deck, circa 1878, double-ended unturned courts, one ways pips, no indices, square corners, ornate colourful floral pattern versos; standard deck, circa 1880, double-ended unturned courts, one way pips, no indices, slightly rounded corners, pink floral versos; standard deck, circa 1885, triplicate indices obscuring pip signs on courts, double-ended turned courts, two way pips, versos Chinese style with bird, fish and lady with fan in red on yellow; standard deck, circa 1885, triplicate indices obscuring parts of courts (eg. weapons), with suit signs opposite to usual, versos brown red & black shadows of men playing cards in a window, and three other decks by Woolley: Eureka Harrys, circa 1880, with original two-part box (defective); standard pack, circa 1887, double-ended turned, small indices, original Great Mogul Eureka wrapper; standard pack, circa 1880, courts printed in black & red, later use as a fortune-telling pack with most cards having ink manuscript 'Fortunes' added to one end, all complete, various conditions, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 11 display boards/cards, most boards encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similarQTY: (11)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Plainbacks M43 & M105. An unusual manufacturer who only produced playing cards for a few years.

Haggard (H. Rider). Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; or remarks on recent events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal, 1st edition, London: Trubner & Co., 1882, light scattered spotting, original green cloth gilt, a few light marks, 8vo, together with: Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; or remarks on recent events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal, 2nd edition, London: Trübner & Co, 1888, neat contemporary ownership inscription in black ink to head of title, rear hinge cracked, original blue cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Whatmore NF1. The author's first book, of which 750 copies were printed. It performed poorly, after a year only 154 copies had been sold.

[Gerard, John]. [The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London by John Norton, 1597], 1392, [66] pp., lacking title, portrait and all preliminary leaves, with initial gathering (A1) from another copy (reduced margins and repair to fore-margin of A1), with numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, page 61 misnumbered 63 (corrected in manuscript), index incomplete at rear lacking final 3 leaves after Iiiii1, few index leaves torn with occasional loss and some repairs, occasional spotting and few marks, light damp-staining at rear of volume, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, maroon skiver title label to spine, boards lightly rubbed, folio (32.3 x 22 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).Henrey 154; Hunt 174; Nissen 698; STC 11750.The first edition includes the first recorded illustration of a potato, p.781.

D'Urfey (Thomas). Wit and Marth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument. Most of the songs being new set, 6 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Printed W. Pearson, for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head..., 1719[-20], engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by George Virtue to first volume, letterpress music to text throughout, volume 6 with small woodcut portrait of Shakespeare to title, 19th-century armorial bookplate of Joshua Platt, and Frederic Perkins, Chipstead Place, Kent to front endpapers (the latter pasted over the bookplate of Joshua Platt in each volume except volume one), further bookplate of Eric S. Quayle to verso of front endpaper, all edges gilt, early 19th century gilt-decorated dark blue straight-grained full morocco, lightly rubbed to spines and edges, 12moQTY: (6)NOTE:Day and Murrie 236-240 & 242.; Grolier, Wither to Prior 341.Attractive copy of the most famous song book of its day, which originated in a single volume of songs and catches published with the title An Antidote Against Melancholy: made up in Pills in 1661.

Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1871, wood-engraved illustrations, some light spotting to titles and endpapers, bookplates of Francis Wedgwood, contemporary tan calf by D. Dilworth, Newcastle, spines with green labels and gilt-decorated, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Francis Wedgwood, Barlaston (1800-1888, grandson of potter Josiah Wedgwood), bookplates.Freeman 937. 'The word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of The origin of species in the following year.' (Freeman p. 129).

Simpson (William). The Seat of the War in the East, first and second series bound together, 1st edition, London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855-56, tinted lithograph titles, dedication leaf, 79 tinted lithograph plates, a few detaching, occasional light spotting, all edges gilt, hinges reinforced, contemporary brown morocco gilt over original boards, joints and edges a little rubbed, some fading to covers, folio, 55.5 x 36 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 237.

Johnston (John Moore). Heterogenea, or Medley. For the Benefit of the Poor, 1st edition, Downpatrick: printed by James Parks, 1803, xxxi, 285 pages, printed on pale blue-grey paper with 3 flyleaves before half-title, subscribers' list (pp. xvii-xxx), first flyleaf with later ownership inscription of 'James Orr, Villa Antoinette [Cannes]', with additional inscription beneath in the same hand, 'Now living at Rosenthal, Knyveton Road, Bournemouth, January 28th 1891, given him by his Kinsman Gavin Orr, Ballylesson Lisburne, Co Down & Antrim, Ireland', marginal pencil marks throughout, a little spotting and occasional light browning, uncut, 19th-century half roan over cloth, rubbed, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Very rare, WorldCat locates 9 copies.Provenance: The names James Orr [Newtonards] and John Orr, Ballyolly, are marked in pencil and presumably related to James Orr whose ownership inscription is at the front of the book. Neither the subscriber or owner seem likely to be James Orr, the Bard of Ballycarry (1770-1816).

Darwin (Charles). A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Ray Society, 1851-54, 40 engraved plates (including 3 partly hand-coloured), 2 further plates at beginning of each volume (both marked [p.]3*, one folding), blind stamp to titles, one plate and final leaves, some scattered spotting to plates, browning to margins of first and last leaves, modern dark green half morocco, 8vo QTY: (2)NOTE:Freeman 339; Norman 589.Published as nos. 21 and 25 of the Ray Society, this is Darwin's only contribution to formal taxonomy, probably printed in about 800 copies.

Moggridge (John Traherne). Contributions to the Flora of Mentone and to a Winter Flora of the Riviera including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1871, 99 hand-coloured lithographic plates, booksellers ticket to front pastedown, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some pencil marginalia, some spotting to first and last few gatherings, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco with gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with:Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology…, Systematic Catalogue of the Isle of Anglesey in Latin, English and Welsh…, 2 parts bound in 1, London: W. Merchant, 1813, one engraved plate with a little hand colouring, light spotting and dust soiling, untrimmed, previous ownership inscriptions to title page, light spotting throughout, 20th-century half-calf, a little rubbed and worn with small areas of loss to spine and joints, title label detached, 8vo,Walcott (John). Flora Britannica Indigena: or Plates of the indigenous Plant of Great Britain: with their Descriptions taken from Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, Bath: S. Hazard, 1778, engraved frontispiece plus 169 engraved botanical plates (some with contemporary ink manuscript corrections to a few leaves with original titles lightly struck through), previous ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary manuscript annotations to title, modern quarter calf with gilt lettering to spine, small 4to (220 x 130 mm),Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending such Plants as grow wild in the County of Bedford, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, with occasional remarks…, 1st edition Bedford: W. Smith, 1798, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, errata bound to rear, pink stain to lower margin from Cc to end (affecting 3 plates), water stain to leaves Oo to end, contemporary diced calf sympathetically re-backed with title label to spine, slightly rubbed, 4to (215 x 130 mm), and Hurtley (Thomas). A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire, London: The Logographic Press, 1786, 3 engraved plates including folding frontispiece (tears to title where folded, some ink marginalia, modern grey paper covered boards with paper title label, 8vo, The Berries and Heaths of Rannoch by a Snowdrop, London: George Bell and Sons, 1881, 13 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, original red cloth binding, large 8vo, plus two othersQTY: (8)NOTE:Rees 1549 for Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology.Henrey II, p.73 for Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis.

E[velyn] (J[ohn]). Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets, 1st edition, London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1699, folding table, spotting and browning throughout, lacks initial blank and final errata leaf, title frayed along gutter margin and near detached, bookplate of ‘Capt. W. Hext, R. N., Lancarfe’, contemporary panelled calf, some wear with leather loss from biopredation, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Bitting p. 149; Cagle 669; Hunt 401; Henrey 117; Keynes 105; Oxford p. 46; Wing E3480. First edition of this uncommon ‘cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavoured with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century’ (Hunt).

Fuchs (Leonhart). [Primi de stirpium historia commentatiorum tomi vivae imagines..., 1st octavo edition, Basel: Michael Isengrin,1545], a-ii8, kk2, 516 pages, each with a full-page woodcut illustration and mostly with near-contemporary ink annotations in English and Latin, lacks all 12 preliminary leaves (A8 - B4), some mostly marginal light damp staining throughout, a few heavier spots and small stains at front and elsewhere, slight damp-fraying to foremargins of final leaves and single wormhole to last three leaves, 19th-century half-calf gilt over marbled boards, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo (165 x 110 mm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams F1127; Nissen BBI 661.The first octavo edition of Fuchs's Herbal using smaller woodcuts than in the first volume of Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium, published in Basel in 1542.

* French costume playing cards. Fashion plate pack, Paris: Migeon, circa 1850, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, KS with maker's name, dusty, some toning, scarce spotting and minor marks, some pip cards creased, AS with small corner chip, 4S soiled, versos plain pink, each card 84 x 56 mm, together with: Cartes Parisiennes, Paris: [for] Le Caméléon, ou le Propagateur des Modes, circa 1850, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), all pip signs gilt (lightly rubbed in places), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, JS with engraver's name Beyer, JH with artist's name Janet-Lange, and with address of the publisher, JD with printer's name Pierrat, aces with decorative gilt garlands around pip signs, dusty, occasional minor spots or marks (mainly to pip cards), versos plain blue, each card 86 x 55 mm, plus: Cartes françaises avec personnages anglais, Paris: O. Gibert, circa 1856, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts, the kings and queens portraying named historic British characters, the jacks in historic costume, JS with maker's name, some light spotting or brown marks (mainly to pip cards), versos plain blue, each card 84 x 56 mm, with two other French costume decks: one by Avril, circa 1865, single-figured courts (using Gibert's plates), kings and queens portraying named historic French characters, 52 complete; the other by Le Bourgeois, circa 1870, historic British characters deck (as Gibert above), with scenic aces, imprint on all aces and courts, rounded corners, gilt edges, 52 complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 5 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Cartorama 63 #68 (with vari-coloured suit signs); Cary, FRA 349 (the later Le Bourgeois edition); Fournier, France 249 (the later Le Bourgeois edition); Ortiz-Patiño #46 (with scenic aces).Second item: Cary, FRA 388; Tilley, p.158. Pierrat is known to have printed Cartes Parisiennes for Le Caméléon (see Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, p.108 for an example).Third item: Cartorama 58 #100 (the much later Le Bourgeois edition); Cary, FRA 346 (the later Avril edition).

[Ray, John]. Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium [-Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis], 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Jo. Martin, Ja. Allestry, Tho. Dicas, 1660, cancel title with London imprint printed in red and black (with inked out signature to upper blank margin), woodcut device to final leaf with manuscript note to verso regarding the title pages of the 1660 edition, browning, occasional light damp-staining to initial leaves, 19th-century inscription to front flyleaf 'Wm. Kirby the gift of Revett, Sheppard' (the name Revett Sheppard ink stamped within oval border surround, early 19th-century half calf, upper joint split, lower joint cracked, extremities worn, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Keynes 2; Wing R383A.A scarce example with the cancel title-page bearing the London imprint. 'Ray's first essay in scientific botany, though not without faults, was a most remarkable achievement ... a small and unpretentious book ... it has many bibliographical attractions, beginning with two title-pages in black and red carrying a Cambridge imprint. It seems that the first title-page, printed on the second leaf, contained two errors in Latinity, so that it was set up a second time and imposed on the first leaf originally intended to be a blank. The binder should then have cancelled the second leaf with the incorrect title, but his imperfect scholarship was an erratic guide, with the result that sometimes one title-page was cancelled, sometimes the other, or, occasionally, neither. ... The book was printed at Cambridge by John Field. ... According to Ray's friend, John Worthington, Master of Jesus College, the whole impression was bought by another London bookseller, James Allestry, and his partners, but this cannot be true, for although the book is occasionally found with a cancel title-page bearing the London imprint of John Martin..., this form of title-page is rare compared with the Cambridge imprint. Only four copies of the London issue are recorded below as compared with eighteen of the Cambridge issue. More probably only the smaller part of the edition was transferred, and if any copies remained in Allestry's shop in St. Paul's Churchyard in 1666 they would probably have been destroyed in the Great Fire. Also the interest of the book was largely local, and it is likely to have found a readier sale in Cambridge than in London' (Keynes, pages 1-2).

Threlkeld (Caleb). Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Alphabetice Dispositarum. Sive Commemtatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertium Dublinensibus institua. Being a Short Treatise of Native Plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the vicinity of Dublin, 1st edition, second issue, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for F. Davys, Richard Norris and Josiah Worrall, 1727, lower blank margin to title excised, without the 4 pp. list of subscribers, contemporary blind panelled calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, round dark mark to upper board, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:[Henrey 1431].The first flora of Ireland.

Machiavelli (Niccolò). Tutte le Opere, 5 parts in 1 vol., second Testina edition, [?Geneva], 1550 [but 1620], general title with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, one double-page woodcut illustration (dell’arte della Guerra), some browning and a few scattered stains to second part (Tito Livio), L’Asino d’oro [part 5] supplied twice with different typesetting and paginations, the first with intermittent brown staining at head of pp. 1-46 affecting some text, the second with some overall browning and a final blank, final part Il Principe with woodcut portrait of Machiavelli, some overall spotting and occasional browning, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Pagination: [4], 8, 351, [1] (Historie Fiorentine); 14, [2, blank], 304 (Tito Livio); 168 (dell’arte della Guerra); 170 (L’Asino d’oro); 158, [2, blank] (L’Asino d’oro); [4], 116 pp. (Il Principe). Second of the five ‘Testina’ editions of Machiavelli's collected works, spuriously dated 1550 but printed in the 17th century, so named for the small woodcut portrait on the title. [Adams M7] which includes the 170-page version of L’Asino d’oro.

[Arnold, Matthew, i.e. 'A'] The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems, 1st edition, London: R. Fellowes, 1849, bookplate of R. E. Bartlett, original green blindstamped cloth gilt, some fading to spine, a few very small splits to joints, 8vo, together with Masefield (John). Salt-Water Ballads, 1st edition, London: Grant Richards, 1902, a little light spotting, some toning to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, top edge gilt, original blue buckram, spine slightly faded, house in modern chemise and navy blue morocco slipcase by Riviere & Son, spine a little darkened, 8vo, plus Bridges (Robert). Poems, 1st edition, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1875, endpapers toned, ownership signature of Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, US born essayist and critic), original cloth, paper label to spine, spine darkened, label a little rubbed and toned, 8vo, the poet's first book, with 5 others including The Chinese Lion, by Mary Webb, 1917 (limited edition 317/350), The Last Blackbird and other lines, by Ralph Hodgson, 1907,A. P. Herbert's Poor Poems and Rotten Rhynes, Winchester, 1910, and Selected Poems by Nora Chesson, 5 parts, 1906QTY: (8)

Dodoens (Rembert). Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, 2nd edition, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1569, title with woodcut Plantin device (with small repair & 'Reading Library' in vertical later manuscript to the right of device), 109 full-page woodcut botanical illustrations by Gerard van Kampen after Pieter van der Borcht, some with contemporary hand-colouring, a few identified in early manuscript, occasional early marginalia, occasional light toning and dust-soiling, small paint splashes to pp.11-12, later calf, rebacked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams D 715; Hunt 104; Nissen BBI 514; Pritzel 2347.Second edition revised, first published in Antwerp in 1568. One of the earliest treatises on ornamental and fragrant garden plants, and includes recent introductions from Asia, He describes plants such as the rose, violet, lily, iris, narcissus, anemone, and carnation and herbs marjoram, lavender and thyme

Huxley (Thomas Henry). On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, 1st edition, London: Robert Hardwicke, 1862, half-title, 2 pp. of advertisements at end, with additional 16 pp. publisher's advertisement list bound in published October 1862, hinges lightly cracked, original blind embossed green cloth, light white dusting to cloth grain of upper board, slightly frayed at head of spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An uncommon first edition bound from the original blue wrappered pamphlets printed separately after the lectures (which were given in Nov-Dec 1862). The book was reset and reissued with an 1863 title page which is sometimes taken as the first edition.

Haggard (H. Rider). King Solomon's Mines, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Cassell & Company, 1885, 2 folding plates (duplicated, loose), publisher's catalogue at end, hinges cracked, small W. H. Smith blindstamp to head of front free endpaper, original red pictorial cloth gilt, marked with some wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Sadleir 1089; Whatmore F3; Wolff 2863.The scarce first issue with "Bamamgwato" for "Bamangwato" on p. 10, line 14; "to let twins to live" for "to let twins live" on p. 122, line 27; and "wrod" instead of "word" on p. 307, line 29, and with publisher's catalogue dated 5 G. 8.85.

Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: John Murray, 1871, half-titles, 16 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear of each volume, wood-engraved illustrations in-text throughout, hinges cracked in volume one with rear hinge separated, front free endpaper in volume one loose (with ownership inscription to verso), preliminary and rear leaves spotted, original publisher's green blindstamped cloth gilt, marked and rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Freeman 938. The work in which Darwin uses the word 'evolution' for the first time (page 2 in first volume).

Hitt (Thomas). Treatise of Fruit-Trees..., 3rd edition, London: Printed for Robinson and Roberts, 1768, 7 engraved plates, directions to binder bound to rear, contemporary previous ownership inscription to title page, library blind stamp to title page and a few other leaves, original sheep boards, new spine with morocco title label and gilt lettering, wear with some loss to boards, corners bumped with loss, 8vo, together with:Abercrombie (John). The Gardener's Pocket Journal, or Daily Assistant in the modern practice of English Gardening..., 6th edition, London: Crosby and Letterman, 1801, engraved frontispiece (repair to head of plate with loss), endpapers renewed, modern paper covers, 12mo,Birket Foster (Myles, illustrator). English Forests and Forest Trees, Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive, London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1853, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title page, full page engraved illustrations, sewing weakening in places, binder's ticket to rear pastedown, original green blind embossed cloth by Westleys & Co, spine faded, extremities frayed with joints showing in places, 8vo and three other volumes relating to gardening QTY: (6)NOTE:Henrey 850 for the first work.

Darwin (Charles). The Power of Movement in Plants..., assisted by Francis Darwin, 1st Edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1880, half-title, advertisements bound to rear dated May 1878, minor spotting to first and last gatherings, hinges tender, sewing weakening in places, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to joints and edges, light splashing to upper cover, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 1325.

Darwin (Charles). The Power of Movement in Plants..., assisted by Francis Darwin, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1880, illustrations to text, advertisements bound to rear dated May 1878, Officers and Garrison Library, Fort William stamps in purple and black ink to title page and front free endpaper, wormholes affecting gatherings at front and rear, crudely repaired endpapers and hinges, original green cloth gilt, peppered wormholes to areas around joints, spine and boards marked, head cap and foot fraying, 8vo, together with: Insectivorous Plants, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1875, illustrations to text, spotting to first and last few gatherings, previous ownership inscription erased with paper covering to verso of front free endpaper, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to joints and edges, head cap and foot worn, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Freeman 1325 for the first work, Freeman 1217 for the second.

Floyer (John). The Preternatural State of Animal Humours Described, by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation. And the cure of each particular cacochymia, 1st edition, London: W. Downing for Michael Johnson, 1696, spotting, faint ink stamp to title, endpapers renewed, antique-style quarter calf gilt, 8vo, together with:The Ancient Psychrolousia Revived: Or, An Essay to Prove Cold Bathing Both Safe and Useful, in Four Letters, 1st edition, London: Sam Smith and Benj. Walford, 1702, errata leaf at rear, a few leaves lightly damp-stained, front hinge tender, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, some light wear to extremities, 8vo, plusA Treatise of the Asthma, Divided into Four Parts, 3rd edition, London: R. Wilkin, 1726, bookplate of Birmingham Medical Institute to front free endpaper, Birmingham Hospital Library ink stamps to lower margin of title and a few text leaves, lightly spotted, endpapers renewed, 19th-century maroon cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, with a Readex Compact edition of Diderot's Recueil de Planches (1969)QTY: (4)NOTE:Wing 1389; 1390 respectively for first two works (latter for first edition).

[Darwin, Erasmus]. The Botanic Garden. A poem in two parts, 2 volumes, mixed editions, (volume I 1st edition 1791, volume II, 2nd edition 1790) London: J. Johnson, 1790-91, engraved allegorical frontispieces, 18 engraved plates, including one signed by William Blake, a few others by Henry Fuseli after Blake, some offsetting, spotting and toning, bookplates, contemporary calf, upper covers detached, spines rubbed and lacking labels, 4to, together with Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: J. Johnson, 1796, 6 hand-coloured plates, 4 uncoloured plates, a little minor spotting, contemporary calf, previous owner blindstamp to upper covers, rebacked, a little rubbed and stained, 4toQTY: (4)NOTE:First work Henrey 470. Part II of the Botanic Garden was first published in Lichfield in 1789.

Green (Thomas). The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of all the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean system. Specifying the uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures, with the best methods of Propagation, and the most recent Agricultural Improvements, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, revised and improved, London: Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, [1824], additional engraved title to volume 1, 109 engraved plates (including frontispiece to volume 2 which is laid-down to front free endpaper), three plates completely or partially neatly hand-coloured (majority uncoloured), occasional light spotting and offsetting, 20th-century half calf, 4to, together with:Thornton (Robert John). A Family Herbal: or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants..., 2nd edition, considerably enlarged and improved, London: R. and R. Crosby and Co., 1814, wood engraved illustrations by Bewick, light toning, edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed boards, large 8vo, plus others related including Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind..., London: Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory-Office; and by Champante and Whitrow, [1795?]; and Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal..., to which are now first annexed his English Physician Enlarged..., London: Thomas Kelly, 1819QTY: (5)

Darwin (Charles). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1868, woodcut illustrations to text throughout, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear of volume one, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear of volume two, hinges slightly tender, original publisher's green blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly marked and rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Freeman 877.The first issue with the publisher's name on one line on the spine, 5 errata on 6 lines in volume one and 9 errata on 7 lines in volume two. The work contains the first appearance of the phrase 'survival of the fittest' in any of Darwin's works (p. 6 of 1st volume).

[Mascall, Leonard]. [A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to Plant and Graffe all sortes of Trees, how to set stones, and sowe Pepins, to make wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. With diuers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, deuided into seauen chapters, as hereafter more playnely shall appeare, wyth an addition in the ende of this booke, of certayne Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall, 3rd English edition, London: John Wright, 1575], [20], 88, [10], title lacking (loosely inserted photocopy facsimile provided), largely printed in black letter, full-page woodcut to C3, two woodcut illustrations (including 1 hand-coloured), few woodcut initials and decorations, leaves Piii and Piv frayed and torn to blank margins, leaves Aii-Aiv, Piii and Piv lined with tissue to verso, some light surface skinning to verso of leaf Piv and with early ownership signature 'Leonard Megar(?), his book 1628', leaves Cii and Ciii (full-page woodcut) repaired to upper outer blank corners, some light dust-soiling, occasional small damp-stains and few marks, modern brown buckram, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).Henrey 17; STC 17575.This is the third English edition, which was first published in England in 1569. The majority of the text is from David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et de faire Pépinières de sauvageaux (Paris, 1552). All English editions are relatively rare.Frederick Roach was one of the most acclaimed fruit experts of the 20th century. He decided on a career in horticulture aged 10 while helping to run his father's rectory garden in Toft, Lincolnshire. During the Second World War Roach was part of the Dig for Victory campaign and, in 1946, he was made chief horticultural officer of the newly formed National Agricultural Advisory Service. He became successively regional fruit adviser for the South West and South East before taking the post of national fruit adviser. Retirement from the ministry in 1972 triggered a whole new career as consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and to the World Bank.Roach's book, Cultivated Fruits of Britain, Their Origin and History (1985), is still regarded as a bible for many fruit experts. This was followed by the descriptive texts for Hooker's Finest Fruits, which was published with the Royal Horticultural Society in 1989. In 1966 he was awarded the Ridley Medal of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers. The Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1978. Other illustrious winners of the award include Gertrude Jekyll (1928), Francis Kingdon-Ward (1934), Vita Sackville-West (1955), Harold Hillier (1957), Roy Lancaster (1972), David Austin (1994) and Stefan Buczacki (2010).

Mill (John Stuart). On Liberty, 1st edition, London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859, 207pp., advertisements at rear not present, top edge gilt, 20th century red half morocco (by Bayntun, Bath), spine lettered in gilt, 8vo, together with Principles of Political Economy with some of their applications to social philosophy, 2 volumes, sixth edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865, some spotting to endpapers, and first and last leaf of text to each volume, marbled edges and endpapers, inner hinges restrengthened, contemporary full tree calf with gilt armorial to centre of each board bearing the motto 'Manners Makyth the Man', recased with original spines laid down (with a little loss), 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Printing and the Mind of Man 345: 'Many of Mill's ideas are the now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought and speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognised the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannise over a minority'.

Beechey (Frederick William). A Voyage of Discovery Towards The North Pole, performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Captain David Buchan, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1843, 6 engraved plates (including 2 folding panoramas), folding map in front pocket, ownership ink stamp to head of title, a few leaves with loss to outer blank margin, original blue blindstamped cloth gilt, spine and upper cover faded, 8vo, together with:Back (George). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1836, folding map, 16 engraved plates, smaller illustrations and tables in-text, publisher's advertisements at rear, endpapers stained, a few spots, gutter of preliminaries wormed with stitching perishing, original blindstamped grey cloth gilt, head of lower joint split, lightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, withHuxley (Leonard). Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, based on materials collected and arranged by Lady Hooker, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1918, 9 black and white illustrations (including frontispieces), folding map at rear of volume one, small ownership inscription in blue ink to head of front free endpaper, original blue cloth gilt, marked and rubbed, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Hill 97; Sabin 4329 (for first work).

Somerville (Edith OEnone & Martin Ross). The Real Charlotte, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Ward and Downey, 1894, half-titles for volumes I & II only (lacking in volume III), pages 17 & 43 in volume I, 113 in volume II & 111 in volumes III detached and frayed to inner margins from where stitched, one or two small tears, stitching weak in places, a few light marks, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, lacking spines, 8vo, together with An Incorruptible Irishman. Being an account of Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe, and his wife Nancy Crampton, and their times, 1767-1843, 1st edition, London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1932, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, endpapers a little toned, contemporary presentation inscription, original cloth, spine and cover margins faded, 8vo, signed to title by Edith Somerville, plus 10 others by the authors including 1st editions All on the Irish Shore. Irish Sketches, 1903, Further Experiences of an Irish R. M., 1908, Mount Music, 1919, and Stray-Aways, 1920 QTY: (14)NOTE:First work Sadleir 3127; Wolff 6480. The Real Charlotte is regarded a classic of Irish literature and written by the collaborative Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin Ross (writing as 'Martin Ross'), their first book An Irish Cousin was published in 1889.

Darwin (Charles). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1st Edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1872, 7 heliotype plates (three folding) numbered in Roman, booksellers ticket of H. T. Cooke & Son, booksellers to other Queen, Warwick to front pastedown, advertisements bound to rear, some pages untrimmed, minor spotting to first few leaves, hinges tender, sewing weakening in places, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to joints and edges, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 1141.An unusual variation of the first state, as the plates are numbered in Roman numerals as opposed to Arabic.

Darwin (Charles). On The Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, London: John Murray, 1860, half-title, folding lithographic diagram, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements bound at end, armorial bookplate of John V. Stewart to front pastedown, Edmonds & Remnants binder's ticket at foot of rear pastedown, head of front free endpaper and half-title with small tear resulting in loss, preliminary leaves lightly spotted, original publisher's green blindstamped cloth gilt (Freeman's variant 'b' binding), foot of upper cover with a few small faint marks, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 376. 'Certainly the most important biological book ever written'.An excellent example. The 1250 copies of the first edition of 1859 were sold out almost immediately and this revised second edition (identified by “fifth thousand” on the title page) was published some 3 months later. In a very important addition to his text, Darwin here tries to reconcile the theory of evolution with the traditional conception of God’s creation of the world.

Borlase (William). Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter to the reverend Charles Lyttelton, LL.D. Dean of Exeter, and F. R. S., 1st edition, Oxford: printed by W. Jackson, 1756, half-title, 4 folding plates (2 supplied in facsimile), engraved illustration, first plate with folds reinforced to verso, p. 41 repaired, a few small marginal wormholes, some light offsetting, endpapers renewed, bookplates of William Morshead and Sir Warwick Morshead, contemporary calf, rebacked, a few repairs, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott p. 106.