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Lot 135

English Scenery, [In] One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views, first edition, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1891, illustrated with two named-view topographical chromolithographs per leaf, original pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, [1]

Lot 137

European Literature - [Boccaccio (Giovanni)], Le Decameron de Jean Boccace, five-volume set, Londres [i.e. Paris]: Pierre Prault], 1757-1761, illustrated with engraved title-pages, full-page plates and vignettes by Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773), contemporary Spanish calf gilt (faults, worn, chipped, rubbed, losses), all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, [Cohen-de Ricci 158-61], 8vo, (5), (faults); Bindings, Ducray-Duminil (François Guillaume), La Fontaine Sainte-Catherine [...], four-volume set, first edition, Paris: Chez Ménard et Raymond, 1813, uniformly bound in contemporary Scottish Regency bindings by Morison & Co of Perth, their ticket, of quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, contemporary Scottish plain armorial bookplates to each pastedown: Seggieden, 12mo, (4); Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, two-volume set, Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1879, contemporary green morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo, (2); further 18th century and later bindings and literature, [33]

Lot 141

Game, Hunting and Stalking - Baillie-Grohman (W.A.), Sport in the Alps [...], with Numerous Illustrations and Photographs from Life, first edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Anon, Three in Norway, fourth edition, London: Longmans [...], 1888, 19th century library binding, 8vo, (1); Arseniev (V.K.), Dersu the Trapper, With 3 maps, first English edition, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1941, cloth only, 8vo, (1); further Russian interest; Colquhoun's Moor and the Loch, 1888, cloth, 8vo, (1); Cecil Aldin, (2); H. Hesketh Prichard, (3); Robert Surtees, (2); British Fungi, 1888; other natural history; etc., [approx. 25]

Lot 142

Game, Hunting and Stalking - Millais (John Guille, FZS), British Deer and their Horns, with 185 Text and Full-page Illustrations, first edition, London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1897, illustrated with lithographs, electrogravures, off-sets after sketches by Landseer and after photographs, in-text illustrations, etc., relayed pictorial cloth, refreshed flyleaves, top-edge gilt, others uncut, card slipcase, folio (39.5cm x 32cm), [1]Provenance: Robert Mowbray Howard, JP, DL (1854-1928), of Hampton Lodge, Seale, Surrey, his armorial bookplate and inscribed in pencil: No. 130/Large book case in Sitting-room.

Lot 144

Game, Hunting and Stalking in Asia and Africa - Bell (W.D.M.), The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, Long Beach: Safari Press, 2002, pictorial dustjacket over black leatherette binding, 4to, (1); Kinloch (Brigadier General Alexander A.A., Late The King's Royal Rifle Corps), Large Game Shooting in Thibet (sic), The Himalayas, Northern & Central India, copy no. 331 from a limited edition of 500 copies from The Asian Series, John Culler & Sons, 1995, blue leather gilt as issued, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ochre-coloured cloth slipcase, 4to, (1); Batten (John) & Allen (Gordon, illustrator), The Best of Sheep Hunting, Clinton: Amwell Press, 1985, pictorial cloth, pictorial slipcase en suite, 8vo, (1); Wallace (Harold Frank, FRGS, FZS), The Big Game of Central and Western Asia, copy no. 168 from a limited edition of 300 copies, David A H Grayling, 1992, yellow cloth, 8vo, (1); Quincey (J. Wong), Chinese Hunter, first edition, London: Robert Hale Limited, 1939, ex-lib, 8vo, (1); etc., [6]

Lot 145

Game, Hunting and Stalking in the Highlands - Oates (Ian, illustrator), two books: Breadalbane (The Marchioness), The High Tops of Black Mount, copy no. 160 from a limited edition of 275 copies, [&] Sobieski (John) & Stuart (Charles Edward), Lays of the Deer Forest, copy no. 276 from a limited edition of 350 copies, Diss: Published by Antony Atha Publishers Ltd, Printed by The Moxon Press, 1987 & 1985, contemporary cloth pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, slipcases en suite, oblong 4to, (2); MacLennan (Kenneth), Memories of Strathvaich, first and only edition, [Tewkesbury]: [Privately] Printed by Beshara Press Ltd., 1992, bound in green cloth gilt by F.F. Allsopp, 8vo, (1); Speed (Lancelot), A Sojourn in the Highlands, copy no. 15 from a limited edition of 400 copies, David A H Grayling: 1996, original cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Fitzherbert (Cuthbert), The Prince and the Pedlar, limited to 400 copies, David A H Grayling: 2000, original cloth, oblong 4to, (1); further Grayling imprints, 1996-2000, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (5), [10]

Lot 147

Genealogy and Heraldry - Provincial Yorkshire Imprint, Banks (Sir T.C., Bart.), Baronia Anglica Concentrata [...], two-volume set, first edition, Ripon: Printed for the Author by William Harrison, 1843-44, rebacked contemporary moiré cloth boards, 4to, (2); another copy, later rebacked green cloth, 4to, (2); Crisp (Frederick Arthur, editor), two sets: Visitation of Ireland, six-volume set, facsimiles of the original imprints, blue wrappers, 4to, (12); Family Notes/Harrison-Branfill, second edition, [Printed] for Private Circulation, 1897, original armorial cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Hall (Winifred), Canting and Allusive Arms of England and Wales, 1966, blue buckram, 8vo, (1); Clay (J.W., F.S.A.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire: Exeter: Wm Pollard & Co. Ltd., 1894, later 20th century buckram, 4to, (1), [&] Parts IX & X only, Exeter: Wm. Pollard & Co. Ltd., 1909-1912, original wrappers, 4to, (2); Howard (Joseph Jackson, editor) & Crisp (Frederick Arthur, editor), Visitation of England and Wales, volumes 7 & 9 only, numbers 386 & 140 out of a limited edition of 500, [London]: Privately Printed [at the Private Press of F.A. Crisp, Grove Park], 1899 & 1901, gilt vellum over cloth, 4to, (2); George's Genealogical Tables [...], fifth edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916, cloth over boards, oblong 4to, (1); De Ruvigny (Marquis, editor), The Nobilities of Europe, London: Melville and Company, 1910, original cloth, large 8vo, (1); Burke's General Armory, reprint of the 1884 edition, large 8vo, (1); The Genealogist, volume XVII only, 1901, three-quarter calf, 8vo, (1); etc., [32]

Lot 15

Antiquarianism and Topography - Strutt (Joseph) & Cox (J. Charles, editor), The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England [...], London: Methuen & Co., [n.d., 1903], original cloth, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, (1); Thoresby (Ralph) & Whitaker (Thomas Dunham, editor), Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes (sic, Leeds) [...], second edition, Leeds: Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816, defective title-page water-stained upper-right angle throughout, engraved plates, 20th century blue quarter-cloth over marbled boards, folio (43.5cm x 28cm), (1); Haslewood (The Rev. Francis), The Parish of Chislet, Kent [...], signed and dedicated by the author, one of 205 copies, first and only edition, Ipswich: Privately Printed/To be had only of the Author, 1887, original cloth, 4to, (1); Bateman (John), The Acre-ocracy of England [...], first edition, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876, original cloth over caricatural boards, 8vo, (1); Armorial Binding, Glencross (Reginald M.), Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1559-1571, Exeter: William Pollard, 1912, contemporary vellum, the lower-cover blocked and illuminated in gilt and polychrome with the coat of arms of Frederick Arthur Crisp, his copy, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Lay Subsidy Roll, A.D. 1603, for the County of Worcester [...], Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1901, original green cloth, 4to, (1); Historic Thanet, London: 1891, cloth, 8vo, (1); Wharton's Law Lexicon, third edition, London: 1864, interleaved with MS notes, contemporary quarter-calf, 4to, (1); The Inner Temple Record, 1896, 4to, (1); The Home Counties Magazine, three harlequin volumes, 8vo, (3); other volumes, provenance, including Sir Anthony Wagner, the herald; etc., [19]

Lot 151

Golding (William), Lord of the Flies: a novel, first edition, second impression, London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954, pictorial dustjacket designed by Anthony Gross, red cloth, 8vo, [1]

Lot 155

Horse Racing - Prince Monolulu (Ras) & White (Sidney H.), I Gotta Horse: The Autobiography, with 15 Illustrations, first edition, London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, [n.d., 1950] pictorial dustjacket over black cloth, 8vo, [1]

Lot 16

Antiquarianism and Topography, London - Grangerized Copy, Select Views of London and its Environs; Containing A Collection of Highly-Finished Engravings [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: Published by Vernon and Hood, 1804-1805, extra-illustrated with 39 plates, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards (a trifle tired), marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary armorial bookplates printed in blue and monogrammed WNF, later inscribed Charles P. Gorley, Jr/Barbara Gorley, 4to, (2); Illustrated London, London: Brain & Payne, [n.d., c. 1850/1860], engraved title-page only, illustrated with named-view stipple engravings, contemporary quarter-calf over cloth, contemporaneous ink MS presentation inscription dated 1860, 8vo, (1); etc., (3), [6]

Lot 160

Ireland, Yeats (W.B.), Poems, first edition thus, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, ex-lib, 8vo, (1); [Russell (George William), The Interpreters, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1922, original blue cloth only, 8vo, (1); further 19th century and 20th century literature, including Herbert's Remains, London: Pickering, 1848, rebacked calf, 8vo, (1); Chesterton (George Laval), Revelations of Prison Life [...], third edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (1); Tinker (Chauncey Brewster), Rasselas in the New World, copy no. 24 from an edition of 75 (of which 25 were for sale), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925, original boards, 8vo, (1); Thomas Gray; etc., various leather and part-leather bindings, including morocco, calf, and occasionally vellum, some cloth, mostly 8vo, [approx. 70]

Lot 162

Jane (Fred. T.), The Torpedo in Peace and War, with Numerous Illustrations by the Author, first edition, London: W. Thacker & Co., 1898, later quarter-calf over original cloth boards, oblong 4to, (1); [Kane (Elisha Kent)], The Search for Franklin [...], with Illustrations, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1882, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Sandeau (Jules) & Black (Robert, translator), Seagull Rock, first English edition, London: Sampson Low [...], illustrated, original pictorial cloth, 16mo, (1); Geoffrey Jenkins first editions, pictorial dustjackets, (4); Clive Cussler first editions, (2); Polar Exploration; the sea; naval and submarine warfare, [18]

Lot 172

Japan, Language - Vaccari (Oreste), Vaccari's Standard English-Japanese Dictionary [...], The Unabridged Edition, first edition, Tokyo: Vaccari's Language Institute, 1967, contemporary red quarter-morocco over cloth gilt, 4to, (1); further dictionaries; manuals of Japanese writing, various; grammars; Kanji; etc., [3 small boxes]

Lot 173

Kipling (Rudyard): Barrack-Room Ballads, and other Verses, seventh edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1897, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Taber (I.W., illustrator), 'Captains Courageous': A Story of the Grand Banks, first edition, second impression, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Something of Myself [...], first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937, original red cloth, 8vo, (1); early 20th century and later Macmillan imprints, their leather and cloth Kipling bindings, various sizes; etc., [approx. 45]

Lot 175

Lindsay (David), A Voyage to Arcturus, first edition, first issue, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920, pp: [viii], 303, [1] (colophon), 8 (publisher's adverts), well-rebacked contemporary red cloth only, refreshed endpapers somewhat tightening the prelims, 8vo, [1] This title by David Lindsay is considered a seminal work of science fiction. The author's first book printed in an issue of 1500 copies, was not originally a great success, with only 596 of the issue being sold on publication.

Lot 176

Literature - Flaubert (Gustave) & Hannigan (D.F., translator), Sentimental Education [...], two-volume set, first English edition, London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1898, illustrated, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, 8vo, (2); De Balzac (Honoré) & Prescott Wormeley (Katharine, translator), Philosophical Studies/La Comédie Humaine [...], twenty-eight volumes, London: The Athenaeum Press, [n.d., c. 1900], contemporary red cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (28); Doré (Gustave, illustrator), Balzac's Droll Stories, London: John Camden Hotten, [n.d., c. 1875], original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Rabelais, (2); Baudelaire, (2); Montaigne; further English translations of French literature, mostly 8vo, [46]

Lot 177

Literature - Shakespeare (William) & Robinson (William Heath, illustrator), Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dreams, first edition thus, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1914, pictorial half-title and title-page, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, top-edge trimmed only, 4to, (1); La Fontaine (Jean), Buning (J.W.F. Werumeus, editor), & Oosting (Jeanne Bieruma, illustrator), De Krekel En De Mier/En Andere Fabels, number 79 from a limited edition of 1000, numbered and signed by the editor and illustrator, first and only edition thus, Amsterdam: A.J.G. Strengholt, [n.d., 1945], printed in French and Dutch, title-page and colophon printed in red and black, red initials, each French fable with explanatory Dutch commentary to verso, and illustrated with a drypoint etching, contemporary gilt-lettered vellum over blue papered board, trimmed edges, large 8vo, (1), [2]

Lot 178

Local Interest - Coke (Annie Sacheverel, of Brookhill Hall, Alfreton), Poems, Huddersfield: Alfred Jubb & Son, Limited, 1892, 27pp, illustrated with 4 named-view lithographs of Brookhill Hall and its stable, contemporary card wrappers, the upper-cover lettered in gilt and decorated with the Coke arms, tassel strung, crimpled edges, 8vo, (1); Jewitt (Llewellyn, F.S.A., editor), Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire [...], ?first edition, Edinburgh: 1866, illustrated, some contemporary ink MS annotations, contemporary green cloth, 12mo, (1), [2]

Lot 179

Local Interest - Leigh (Charles, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Ph?nician, Armenian, Armenian, Greek and Roman Antiquities in those Parts, first edition, Oxford: Printed for the Author [...], 1700, black double-ruled title, lacking portrait frontispiece; pp: Book I: [xxii], 4 (subscribers), [2], 2 plates of coats of arms, 2-page county map by Herman Moll, 164, [1] (errata), [165-196] with 9 copperplate etched plates; Book II: [ii], 97, [1] (blank), [i] (errata), 1 copperplate etched plate; Book III (mispaginated but complete): 79, 72-80, [iii] (postscript and errata), 81-112 with 10 copperplate etched plates, [35] (index and advertisement), [1] (blank), late 19th/early 20th century tan morocco over textured buckram boards, folio (36.5cm x 24cm), [1] Provenance: Midland Railway Institute, Derby: Reference Library, No. R2968, their armorial binding, book label, and tipped-in notice.

Lot 18

Architecture - Author's Presentation Copy to Howard Colvin, Whistler (Laurence), The Imagination of Vanbrugh and His Fellow Artists, first edition, London: B.T. Batsford Limited, 1954, the title-page and verso of [A8] with wood engravings by Whistler, each printed in black on a green ground, pp: xv, 269, 140 b/w illustrations, contemporary black cloth, gilt to a Baroque design, 8vo (32cm x 22cm), [1]Provenance: Sir Howard Colvin, CVO, CBE FBA, FRHistS, FSA (1919-2007), British architectural historian; presented to him by the author, flyleaf with author's autographed ink MS inscription: "For Howard Colvin ~ with evert good wish, & lasting gratitude, from Laurence Whistler/May 1954".

Lot 180

Local Markeaton Hall Provenance - Clark (Hugh, Heraldic Engraver), A Concise History of Knighthood [...], The whole imbellished (sic) with 82 Copper Plates [...], two-volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan [...], 1784, pp: x, [1] (blank), 285; [ii], 268, [1] (advert), 82 copperplate engravings as called for, contemporary calf over marbled boards, yellow-stained edges, 8vo, [2] Provenance: 1) Nicholas Nicholas (née Heath; d. 1807), of Boy Court, Ulcombe Kent, his ink MS ownership inscription to each pastedown. Nicholas was a friend and later brother-in-law of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire; and as a member of the Markeaton Hunt was painted as such by Joseph Wright of Derby, ARA, in c. 1762-63. Born Heath, in 1772 he assumed the surname to Nicholas to comply with inheriting the manor of Ulcombe; 2) reputedly purchased from the sale at Newnham Hall, Daventry, Northamptonshire, sold by Christie's on behalf of the Executors of Lt.-Colonel John Chandos-Pole, CVO, OBE. Though the books were purchased in a mixed lot, a portrait miniature of Nicholas by Ozias Humphry, RA, Lot 287, was also sold and illustrated in the catalogue.

Lot 188

Medical - Harwood (B., M.D., F.R.S. and F.S.A., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge, &c.), A System of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, volume I (all published), first and only edition, Cambridge: Printed by J. Burges/Printer to the University [...], 1796, pp: [iv], 72, illustrated with 15 engraved anatomical plates (as called for), loosely-inserted advertisement, contemporary wrappers, 4to, [1]

Lot 189

Medical - Ireland, Warner ([The Reverend Ferdinando], L.D.D.), A Full and Plain Account of the Gout; From whence will be clearly seen, the Folly, or the Baseness, of all Pretenders to the Cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some New and Important Instructions for its Relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart, [first Irish edition], The Second Edition Corrected, To which is added an Index, Printed for James Williams, Dublin 1769, pp: xviii, 19-243, [i], 20th century in-keeping half-calf and marbled boards, preserved gilt-lettered morocco title label, raised spine bands, 18th century and later ink MS ownership inscriptions to title-page, some 18th century ink MS annotations and marginalia in places throughout, 8vo, [1]

Lot 191

Milman (Henry Hart): The History of Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism on the Roman Empire, three-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1840, [&] History of Latin Christianity; including that of The Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V, six-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1854, uniformly bound in half-calf over marbled boards by Hunt of Ipswich, his ticket to each pastedown, speckled red edges, 8vo, (9); thirteen various Victorian and Edwardian decorative pictorial cloth bindings, 8vo, (13), [22]Provenance: William Tomlin of Suffolk, contemporary plain armorial bookplates to each pastedown of the HHM volumes.

Lot 193

Milton (John), Paradise Lost [?], two-volume set, sixth edition thus, London: J. and R. Tonson, 1763, portrait frontispiece in volume I, later 19th century cloth, 8vo, (2); The Spectator, eight-volume set, London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1747, engraved figural title-page vignettes, contemporary calf, marbled endpapers, Spade Shield Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: John Boyd, 8vo, (8); Temple (Sir William, Bart), The Works, four-volume set, Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour [?], 1754, contemporary speckled calf, later 18th century Spade Shield Armorial bookplate to each pastedown: Alexander Lord Salton (sic, Saltoun), 8vo, (4); ( Hughes (John, editor), The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, six-volume set, first edition thus, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1715, engraved frontispiece to volume I, some plates, contemporary calf gilt, 12mo, (6); Ayscough (George Edward, editor), The Works of George Lord Lyttelton [?], first edition thus, London: J. Dodsley, 1774, portrait frontispiece, contemporary russia gilt over marbled boards, 4to, (1); Lyttelton (George, Lord), The Works [?], The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, three-volume set, London: Printed; And Sold by J. Osborn [?], 1736, contemporary panelled calf, 12mo, (3); Myrtle (Marmaduke, Gent), The Lover, Written in Imitation of the Tatler [?], To which is added The Reader [?], London: Printed By and For J. Nichols, 1789, contemporary mottled calf gilt, marbled endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplate: Hicks, 8vo, (1), [24]

Lot 194

Miscellaneous - Ashmore (Marion) & Aldin (Cecil, illustrator), Lost, Stolen, or Strayed: The Adventures of an Aberdeen Terrier, first edition, second impression, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, October, 1931, pictorial dustjacket, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Circus, nine Bertram Mills Circus programmes, Olympia, London, mostly late 1940s/1950s, original wrappers, (9); Nixon (Mima), Royal Palaces & Gardens, London: A. & C. Black, 1916, tipped-in colour plates, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Memento Mori, No. 5, Selected Designs of Marble Memorials, [n.d., c. 1920], b/w illustrations, red cloth, small folio, (1); Ephemera, a 20th century diorama, Tim's Telescopic View of Her Majesty's Coronation, 1952/To Celebrate the Silver Jubilee, 1977, original pictorial sleeve, (1); two late Victorian/Edwardian scrapbooks, various, (2); 1958 Radio Times scrapbook, (1); Ship's Log Book, two civilian sailor's summer holiday manuscript journals, 1960 & 1962, (2); two schoolboy stamp albums, barely-filled, GB and Commonwealth, but including one Victorian penny red stamp, (2), [22]

Lot 196

Miscellaneous - Classical Greek Poetry, Winterton (Ralph, editor), Poetæ minores Græci [...], [Cambridge]: Joann. Field [...], 1667, defective title, worm trail to C3, unexamined but apparently OK after, contemporary calf, some pencil annotations, 8vo, (1); Old Masters, Fielding (T.H.), The Knowledge and Restoration of Old Paintings [...], first edition, London: Ackermann and Co., 1847, original cloth (chipped back), 12mo, (1); Wright's History of France, three-volume set, The London Printing and Publishing Company, [n.d., c. 1860], illustrated, quarter-morocco over marbled boards, 4to, (3); Smiles (Samuel), Self-Help [...], London: John Murray, 1879, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Robinson (Charles, illustrator) & Canton (William, editor), The True Annals of Fairy-Land, [n.d., 1900], original cloth, 8vo, (1); Johnson's Dictionary, 1855, 24mo, (1); Edwardian tree calf prize binding, 8vo, (1); Waverley Novels, three part-leather bindings, 8vo, (3) Churchill (Winston S.), A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four-volume set, first editions, Cassell: 1956-1958, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (4); Shakespeare in Music, 1901; Criminal Paris, 1926; fishing; early 20th century and later cookery, (4); Shakespeare's Plays, (2); mid-19th century and later literature, various bindings, including original cloth, pictorial, mostly 8vo; etc., [approx. 35]

Lot 198

Miscellaneous - Crosby-Fiske-Forster, NFPA Handbook of Fire Protection, tenth edition, Boston: 1948, contemporary red cloth, rounded corners, 8vo, (1); Travel, Schweitzer (Albert), From My African Notebook, first English edition, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1938, cloth, 8vo, (1); Ainsworth (W.F., editor), All Round the World: An Illustrated Record [...], First & Second Series, London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, 1873 and onwards, printed in double-columns, wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations, fold-out chromolithographic maps, 20th century institutional green quarter-morocco over cloth gilt, their bookplates and neat stamps, 4to, (2); Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom [...], Illustrated by Several Hundred Figures, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, 1850, contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, (1); science and natural history works, part and full-leather bindings, (2); Hoppus's Table for Measuring, twenty-first edition, London: 1834, full sheep, 8vo, (1); trade chemical receipt book, 1926, cloth, 8vo, (1); Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States, Washington: 1875, 8vo, (1); etc., [15]

Lot 2

[Mandeville (Bernard)], The Fables of the Bees, Part II, first edition of an entirely new set of six dialogues from Mandeville, London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1729, black-ruled title-page, pp: [1], xxxi, [1] (errata), 432, [24] (index), contemporary marbled calf gilt, 8vo, (1); a later edition, The Fables of the Bees [...], two-volume set, ninth edition, Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gray and W. Peters, 1755, disbound, 12mo, (2), [3] Provenance: 1st: Rodolph De Salis/1932, his dated ink MS ownership inscription.

Lot 200

Miscellaneous - Gardening, Maxwell (Sir Herbert, Bt) & Wilson (Mary G., illustrator), Scottish Gardens [...], first edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, colour plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, top-edge gilt, 4to, (1); Thompson (Robert), The Gardener's Assistant [...], London: Blackie & Son, [n.d., 1859], printed in parallel columns, hand-coloured botanical plates, b.w in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-calf (split, worn), 8vo, (1); Fish (D.T., editor), Cassell's Popular Gardening, With numerous Illustrations, four-volume set, Subscription Edition, London: 1893, full-page botanical chromolithographs, contemporary green cloth, 8vo, (4); Hole (S. Reynolds, Dean of Rochester), A Book About the Garden and the Gardener, fourth edition, London: 1899, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Weaver (Sir Lawrence), Tradition and Modernity in Plasterwork, Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork, London: G. Jackson & Sons Ltd, 1928, contemporary vellum over papered boards, d/j, 4to, (1); Trade Catalogue, Oriental Carpets, [n.d., c. 1905]; photography; atlas; royal commemoratives; etc., [23]

Lot 202

Miscellaneous - Pogány (Willy, illustrator), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, London: George G. Harrap & Co., [n.d., c. 1919], tipped-in colour plates, original red reverse calf, gilt and blind, 8vo, (1); Fellowes (Daisy) & Vertès [(Marcel), illustrator)], Sundays: A Fantasy, first edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960, pictorial dustjacket (chipped), pink cloth, 8vo, (1); Botany, Flowers from the Holy Land, an olivewood herbarium, illustrated with pressed flowers and colour plates, oblong 8vo, (1); Exploration, Signed First Edition, Fuchs (Sir Vivian) & Hillary (Sir Edmund), The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition 1955-58, tipped-in autographed bookplate from the author, London: Cassell, 1958, blue cloth only, 8vo, (1); Cookery: Beeton's Every-Day Cookery [...], London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Jewish Cooking, (1); [Dickens (Charles)], Sketches by "Boz", London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Charles Schulz, (2); Eyam, Daniel's Plague Village, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); homeopathy; etc., [29]

Lot 204

Miscellaneous, including Art and Illustration - Gibson (Charles Dana), Eighty Drawings, Including The Weaker Sex [...], first edition, London: John Lane, 1903, illustrated, contemporary cloth over pictorial boards, oblong folio, (1); Alghieri (Dante), Cary (The Rev. Henry Francis, translator), & Doré (Gustave, illustrator), The Vision of Dante [...], London: Cassell, 1903, monochrome off-set plates, cloth over papered boards, 4to, (1); The Phil May Folio [...], portrait frontispiece signed by the artist-author, London: W. Thacker & Co., [n.d.], cloth, folio, (1); Die Königin Luise [...], Berlin: 1896, pictorial boards, oblong 4to, (1); The Pilgrimage of Truth, London: 1895, folio, (1); Leech (John, illustrator), Pictures of Life and Character: Fourth Series, London: 1864, roan over pictorial boards, oblong folio, (1); Sparrow (Walter Shaw): Henry Alken, With Eight Plates in Colour and Sixty-four Subjects in Half-tone, number 246 from a limited edition of 250, London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1927, ochre buckram gilt, top-edge gilt, 4to, (1); A Book of Sporting Painters, With One Hundred and Thirty-Six Illustrations, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1931, green cloth, 4to, (1), [8]

Lot 205

Miscellaneous, including Literature - Dickens (Charles): Bleak House, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, crudely repaired contemporary binidng, 8vo, (1), [&] Sketches by Boz [...], volume II only, third edition, London: John Macrone, 1837, disbound, 8vo, (1); Byron, second edition, disbound, 8vo, (1); Trollope (Anthony), The Last Chronicles of Barset, volume II only, first edition, disbound, 8vo, (1); 18th century Georgian and 19th century leather bindings, various; Travel, Chambers (W.), Something of Italy, first edition, Edinburgh & London: W. & R. Chambers, 1862, illustrated, contemporary half-calf, 8vo, (1); Inchbald's Farces, part-morocco bindings; early 19th century volumes, uncut and in original publisher's boards; etc., [approx. 35]

Lot 206

Modern First Editions - Waugh (Evelyn), Sword of Honour Trilogy: Unconditional Surrender, first edition, [&] Men at Arms, first edition, third impression, London: Chapman & Hall, 1961 & 1964, pictorial dustjackets over black cloth gilt, 8vo, (2); Chevalier (Tracy), Remarkable Creatures, first edition, London: HarperCollins, 2009, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Mitchell (David): Cloud Atlas, first edition, third impression, [&] The Bone Clocks, London: Sceptre, 2004 & 2014, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (2); signed Jim Crace; etc., [9]

Lot 207

Monckton Milnes (Richard, Lord Houghton) & Stovin Venables (George, Q.C.) Some Writings and Speeches [...] in the Last Year of His Life, with a Notice in Memoriam, presentation memorial copy, first and only edition, London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888, contemporary vellum gilt, the upper-cover blocked in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [1] Provenance: 'This memorial of a friend is presented to George Armytage Esqr by Lord Houghton's sister Dow:r Lady Galway/August 1888', ink manuscript presentation inscription to front-free endpaper; George John Armytage, F.S.A, his Golden Age armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Lot 208

Morris (William, preface), Arts and Crafts Essays/By Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, first edition, London: Rivington, Percival, & Co., 1893, original red boards, 8vo, (1); Miller (Fred), Art Crafts for Amateurs, with Numerous Illustrations, first edition, London: H. Virtue & Co Ltd., 1901, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]

Lot 209

Music - ?Unrecorded, Cox (John), The Lincolnshire Harmony [...], Engrav'd & Printed by the Author at Langtoft, near Bourn (sic), Lincolnshire, [n.d., c. 1770], only 3pp of copper-printing, the rest ?supplied in contemporary ink MS with contents and musical notation: [ii], 126ff, contemporary calf over boards, title-page recto with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: William Cragg, His Book, January, 27, 1788/Thurlby, oblong 4to, (1); Provincial Leicestershire Imprint, The Second Book of the Voice of Melody, Being a Collection of the Most Curious Psalm-Tunes Extant, in Four Parts; with Variety of Hymns and Anthems [...], second edition, Waltham, Leicestershire: Collected, Printed, and Sold by William East, Grantham: Mr Whiteman Stationer, 1750, copperplate-printed, engraved title-page, incomplete but complimented and bound with further scores in contemporaneous ink manuscript, contemporary panelled calf (faults and losses), slightly later rebacked with a tacked-on strip, the upper-cover blocked in gilt: In Butler (John Butler repeated in MS on the title-page), oblong 4to, (1); Handel (George Frideric), Redemption: A Sacred Oratorio [...], London: Printed for Rt. Birchall at his Musical Circulating Library, [n.d., 1814], defective title-page, prelims and the first few pages, some marginal repairs in places throughout the score, contemporary calf (faults), folio, (1); a Regency and later sammelband of sheet music, gilt-tooled leather over marbled boards, folio, (1); etc., [8]

Lot 214

Natural History - Digby (Bassett, FRGS), The Mammoth, and Mammoth-Hunting in North-East Siberia, first edition, London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1926, institutional morocco over cloth, ex-lib, 8vo, (1); further works on extinct animals, (2); Wood's Nature's Teachings, [n.d., c. 1870], original cloth, 8vo, (1); Vere (Francis), Lessons of Piltdown, first edition, The Evolution Protest Movement, 1959, original wrappers, 4to, (1); Corliss (William R., compiler), Science Frontiers: Some Anomalies and Curiosities of Nature, first edition, Glen Arm: The Sourcebook Project, 1994, p/b, 4to, (1); further natural and other-worldly mysteries, (4), [10]

Lot 216

Natural History and Science - Mitchell (James), A Dictionary of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology [...], ?first edition, London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips, and Co., 1823, printed in double-columns, engraved fold-out and full-page plates, some of which are hand-coloured, contemporary calf, 12mo, (1); Buffon's Natural History, two-volume set, London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1866, hand-coloured plates, contemporary quarter-calf (disbound), 4to, (2); Goldsmith's Natural History, two-volume set, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [n.d., c. 1850], hand-coloured plates, contemporary quarter-calf, 4to, (2); Darwin (Francis, editor), Charles Darwin [...], with Portrait, first edition, London: John Murray, 1892, original green cloth, 8vo, (1); Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, first edition, second impression, Oxford University Press: 1976, pictorial d/j over cloth, 8vo, (1); Saleeby [(Caleb)], Organic Evolution, ?first edition, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [n.d., 1905], original cloth, 8vo, (1); Hogg (Jabez), The Microscope [...], first edition, London: The Illustrated London Library, 1854, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Coleman (W.S.), British Butterflies [...], with Illustrations Printed in Colours [...], London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [n.d., c. 1890], original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Pepper's Boy's Playbook of Science, second edition, 1860, in-text illustrations, original pictorial red cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Ophthalmology, Ishihara (Dr. Shinobu), Tests for Colour-Blindness, ninth edition, London: H.K. Lewis & Co., 1948, 32 colour plates, original cloth, 8vo, (1); The New Naturalist, two first editions, pictorial dustjackets over green cloth, 8vo, (2); Blaikie (F.M.B., illustrator), four works by Theodore Wood, original cloth, 8vo, (4); botany; ornithology; etc., [29]

Lot 218

Natural History, Geology - Buckland (The Rev. William, D.D.), The Bridgewater Treatises: VI, Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with reference to Natural Theology, two-volume set, first edition, London: William Pickering, 1836, pp: xvi, 599, [1] (errata); vii, [1] (blank), 110, 69 geological and paleontological lithograph plates (the first of which is printed over two sheets of six-folds and hand-coloured), 111-128 (index), early 20th century calf, marbled edges, 8vo, (1); Prestwich (Joseph), On Certain Phenomena/Belonging to the Close of the Last Geological Period and on their Bearing upon the Tradition of the Flood, author's presentation copy, first and only edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1895, half-title inscribed in ink MS: With the author's regards, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Curwen (E. Cecil, editor), The Journal of Gideon Mantell, Surgeon and Geologist, 1818-1852, Oxford University Press: 1940, original cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [4]Provenance: 1st: Vernon Brelsford, ink MS ownership inscription to each title-page; 2nd: Edith Lyttelton Gell (1860-1944), her pictorial-armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Lot 219

Natural History, Geology - Local Interest, Mawe (John), The Mineralogy of Derbyshire: with a Description of the Most Interesting Mines in the North of England, in Scotland, and in Wales; and an Analysis of Mr. William's Work, Intitled (sic) "The Mineral Kingdom.", Subjoined is A Glossary of the Terms and Phrases used by Miners in Derbyshire, first and only edition, London: Printed and Sold by William Phillips [...], 1802, pp: xv, [1] (blank), 211, [1] (blank), illustrated with 3 strata plates and 1 county map, original publisher's board, later 19th century ink MS presentation inscription, 8vo, [1]

Lot 220

Natural History, Geology - Miller (Hugh): Sketch-Book of Popular Geology, seventh edition, London: William P. Nimmo, 1874, (1); The Testimony of the Rocks [...], Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1869, (1); Footprints of the Creator [...], twentieth edition, London and Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1879, (1); further non-geological works by Miller, including, Bayne (Peter, editor), The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller, two-volume set, first edition, London: Strahan & Co., 1871, (2), others (2), all in original red cloth, mixed size 8vo, [7]

Lot 221

Natural History, Geology, Mineralogy - Brauns (Dr Reinhard), Das Mineralreich, first edition thus, Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, 1903, pp: [iv], 440, illustrated with a chromolithographed frontispiece and 82 plates as called for, original quarter-morocco over green cloth gilt (slightly tired), red-stained edges, foliate endpapers, 4to, [1]

Lot 223

Nazi Germany, Third Reich - Wehrmacht Propaganda, 1939 Invasion of Poland - Von Wedel (Hasso) & Hansen (Heinrich), Die Soldaten des Führers im Felde, first edition and only edition, Munich: Raumbild Verlag Otto Schönstein, 1939, printed in Fraktur, illustrated with 100 stereograph viewing cards (as called for) and complete with original folding aluminium lenses, 5 tipped-in plates and 3 tipped-in maps, contemporary green cloth over bevelled boards, the upper-cover lettered in black, 4to, [1]

Lot 224

Netherlands - Semple (Miss, illustrator), The Costume of the Netherlands, Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings After Drawings from Nature [...] with Descriptions in English and French, first edition, London: Ackerman's Repository of Arts, March 1st, 1817, the title-page with an aquatint vignette and further illustrated with 30 full-page aquatint plates as called for, the accompanying letterpress leaves with parallel English and French text, finely bound in contemporary Regency purple straight-grained morocco (upper-cover detached, chipped spine, rubbed and scuffed losses), the covers with a gilt roll of anthemions and leafy foliage, enclosing a similar blind roll, the seven-compartment spine lettered in the second, the remainder enclosing foliate leafy bosses, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, folio (36.5cm x 26.5cm), [Tooley 449; Not in Abbey], [1]

Lot 225

Novels - Richardson (Samuel), The History of Sir Grandison [?], seven-volume set, London: J. Nunn [?], 1820, later 19th century armorial calf over cloth boards by Birdsall of Northampton, gilt crest and bookplates of: Sir George John Armytage, Baronet, FSA, 12mo in 6s, (12); [Smith (Horace)], The Tor Hill, three-volume set, first edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1826, original publisher?s boards, the Hayhurst copy, his bookplate, 8vo, [Sadleir 3110], (3); [Ward (Robert Plumer)], De Vere; or, The Man of Independence, four-volume set, first and only edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1827, contemporary maroon quarter-roan over marbled boards, the Hayhurst copy, his bookplate, 12mo, (4); Duke of Grafton?s Copy, [Gleig (George Robert)], The Subaltern, first and only edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1825, Wakefield Lodge bookplate, 8vo, (1); Anon, The Pastor Chief [?], three-volume set, first and only edition, London: Cunningham & Mortimer, [n.d., 1843], refreshed contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, the Hayhurst copy, with his bookplate, 12mo in 6s, (3); Tauchnitz novels, (5); etc., various bindings, [30]

Lot 229

Pennant (Thomas): Some Account of London, The Fourth Edition, with Considerable Additions, large paper copy, London: Printed for Robert Faulder, 1805, pp: [vi], 415, [8] (index), illustrated with 112 engravings (including the fold-out panorama of Elizabethan London), contemporary diced calf, gilt double-fillets and blind-rolled with anthemions, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, (1); the third edition, [London]: Printed for John Archer, 1791, some plates, contemporary publisher's boards only (perished spine), upper-cover with contemporary bookseller's ticket: Grant Bolton & Co., Dame Street, Dublin, some indistinct early 19th century and later ownership inscriptions, loosely-inserted ephemera, 8vo, (1); The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq., first edition, London: Sold by Benjamin and John White [...], 1793, pp: [vi], 144, illustrated with 4 engravings (including the hand-coloured satirical Church Militant caricature), rebacked contemporary marbled boards, edges uncut, 4to, (1); A Tour in Wales, volume II only, London: Benjamin West, 1784, illustrated, contemporary diced calf blind, 4to, (1), [4]Provenance: 1st: 1) Thomas Fisher, contemporary ink MS inscription to title-page; 2) Richard Baggallay (?1816-1888, ?later Sir Richard, the Attorney General and MP), his Plain Armorial bookplate.

Lot 23

Austen (Jane) - Austen Leigh (William) & Knight (Montagu George), Chawton Manor and its Owners: A Family History, with Portraits and Illustrations, first and only edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911, contemporary vellum gilt over green cloth, the upper-cover blocked in gilt with Knight's crest, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, [1] Provenance: Ex Libris A. Bethune Morgan, contemporary monogrammed bookplate engraved by Herbert Wauthier (1881-1964).

Lot 230

Persia and the Qajar Dynasty - Author's Presentation Copy, [Morier (Sir James Justinian)], The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, three-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1824, half-titles present, pp: [ii], lxxv, [1] (blank), 272; [iv], 403, [i] (colophon); [iv], 388, [i] (colophon), 20th century blue half-calf gilt over marbled boards, by Paul Dodge of Leicester, loosely-inserted MS note, contemporary red-speckled edges, 12mo, [3] Provenance: 1) Presented by the author, volume I half-title inscribed in contemporary ink MS: 'From the Author'; 2) R.H. Inglis, ?possibly the author's recipient, his 19th century armorial ink stamp to verso of each title-page.

Lot 237

Poetry - The Romantics and Italy - Moore (Thomas), Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance, tenth edition, London: Longman [...], 1820, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary ink MS inscription, 8vo, (1); [Bartlett (William Henry)], Pictures from Sicily, first and only edition, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1853, black-ruled throughout, illustrated with steel-engraved plates and maps, in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial binding of red cloth gilt, rebacked and relayed, top-edge gilt, 4to, (1); Rogers (Samuel), The Poetical Works, London: Edward Moxon, 1856, contemporary blue morocco, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); Cowper's Table-Talk, London: 1817, quarter-calf, 8vo, (1); Jesse (Captain), The Life of Beau Brummell, two-volume set, London: The Navarre Society Limited, 1927, illustrated, contemporary red cloth, gilt armorial, conforming dustjackets, 8vo, (2); further Regency life; Byron, Keats, etc; other works on the English in Italy and the literary scene, [23]

Lot 238

Poetry - Thomas (Dylan), Collected Poems, 1934-1952, first collected edition, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1952, dustjacket (chipped, some tears) over blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Duffy (Carol Ann), New Selected Poems, 1984-2004, first edition, London: Picador, 2004, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Eliot (T.S.), Little Gidding, first edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1942, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); another Eliot first edition, (1); Drinkwater (John), The Collected Poems, 1908-1922, London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1923, red cloth, 8vo, (2); Meredith (George), Poems, Memorial Edition, three-volume set, London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1910, green cloth gilt, neat ex-lib, 8vo, (3); John Betjeman; William Morris; etc., [25]

Lot 239

Poetry & Literature - early 20th century Neo-Romantics and the Brideshead Generation, including Sitwell (Edith), The Collected Poems, first edition thus, [London]: Duckworth, dustjacket over black cloth, 8vo, (1); Marsh (Edward, translator), Fables of La Fontaine, two-volume set, second impression thus, London: 1925, 8vo, (2); John Betjeman; Vita Sackville-West; T.S. Eliot; Bruce Chatwin; Sacheverell Sitwell; earlier English literature, including academic histories, Chaucer, Swift, Dr Johnson; etc., [2 boxes]

Lot 24

Austen (Jane) - Austen-Leigh (J.E., Her Nephew, Vicar of Bray, Berks), A Memoirs of Jane Austen, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1870, red-ruled throughout, title printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, all-edges uncut, 8vo, (1); Brabourne (Edward, Lord, editor), Letters of Jane Austen, two-volume set, first edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, upper-cover with Mudie's Select Library labels, all-edges uncut, 8vo, (2), [3]

Lot 241

Politics, Economics, and Law - Levi (Leone), On Taxation: How it is raised and how it is expended, first edition, London: John W. Parker and Son, 1860, rebacked marbled boards, Colonial Office Library stamps, 8vo, (1); [Green (William)], Portraits of the Late and Present Administration [...], London: Printed for the Author, 1807, contemporary red morocco gilt over marbled boards, 12mo, (1); Green (William), Plans of Economy [...], Bath: Printed (for the Author) By Wood and Cunningham, 1812, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, 12mo in 6s, (1); Peace Society Tracts, 1817-1825, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); The Letters of Junius [...], two-volume set, [London]: Printed for Richard Philips, contemporary calf, contemporary lady's ink MS ownership inscription: Dow:r Lady Vernon, 8vo, (2); Statutes at large for the Preservation of Game, [London: 1726], lacking title-page and all after [k4] (unexamined between), mostly printed in Gothic Black Letter, rebacked contemporary calf, 8vo, (1); A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament, In 1694, and 1695 [...] Upon Late Briberies and Corrupt Practices, London, 1695, 62pp only, disbound, 4to, (1); Britain's Remembrancer, fourth edition, London: 1747, later cloth over boards, (1); an early-mid 19th century quarter-calf sammelband, enclosing two pamphlets on political theory, 8vo, (1); Spencer (The Rev. Thomas), The Parson's Dream and the Queen's Speech; or, the Corn Laws and the National Debt, London: John Green, 1843, later boards, (1); The Acre-Ocracy of England, 1876, original publisher's caricatural pictorial boards as issued, 8vo, (1); Queen v. Palmer, 1856, trial report, quarter-calf, 8vo, (1); 19th century and later Co-Operative Society, various; railwayana; etc., [1 box]

Lot 245

Private Presses - The Golden Cockerel Press, De Chair (Somerset), The Golden Carpet, Published by Permission of the War Office, first edition, copy no. 275 from a limited edition of 500, Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter, 7th April, 1943, in 14pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, photogravure portrait frontispiece, loosely-inserted publisher's announcement, green morocco gilt over ochre buckram, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, stamped, top-edge gilt, cartographic endpapers after maps by the author, 4to, (1); Folio Press: De La Mare (Walter) & Beck (Ian Archie, illustrator), Motley, and other poems, [&] Kipling (Rudyard) & Ribbons (Ian, illustrator), Barrack-Room Ballads, both 1991, cloth over patterned boards, top-edges gilt, others uncut, glasserine wrappers, 8vo, (2); eleven Folio Society imprints, ten of which are poetry, various dates, bindings, and sizes, (11), [14]

Lot 246

Pullman (Philip): His Dark Materials, three-volume set, comprising: Northern Lights, first edition, eleventh impression, 1995; The Subtle Knife, first edition, ninth impression, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, first edition, fifth impression, 2000, all Scholastic Press, pictorial dustjackets illustrated by David Scutt, cloth bindings, 8vo, (3); Lawrence (John, illustrator), Lyra's Oxford, first edition, 2003, red cloth, 8vo, (1), [4]

Lot 250

Roman Britain, Archaeology - Roy (The Late William, F.R.S., F.S.A.), The Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain, Published by the Order, and at the Expence (sic) of, The Society of Antiquaries of London, first and only edition, London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1793, textually complete, pp: [12], [i]-xvi, [1]-206, [2]; illustrated with 40 double and full-page engraved maps and antiquarian plates (lacking plate 35: plan of Roman wall at Grime's Dyke (sic)), first quire loosening, contemporary marbled board and endpapers, rebacked calf with numbered library label, front-free endpaper and secondary title-page with neat marginal library stamps, elephant folio (55cm x 38cm), [1]

Lot 254

Royalty - Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953), Annotated By and Later Presented By George V's Consort, Cust (Sir Lionel, KCVO, FSA), Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, "for confidential reference only", first and only edition, London: Harrison and Sons, 1910, 119pp, verso with 6pp of tipped-in dialogue between Queen Mary and her maternal aunt Princess Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Sterlitz (1822-1916) viz. the identity of the sitters in the Duke of Cumberland's portrait miniatures, now in the Royal Collection, (presumably accompanied by photographs when sent, now absent), each question and accompanying answer is inscribed in ink manuscript on Buckingham Palace writing-paper, and later annotated in pencil by a separate hand, original silk over boards, the upper-cover stamped and lettered in gilt, all-edges gilt, 4to, (1); un-associated and un-inscribed volume, Bunt (Cyril G.E.), Windsor Castle: The Fairhaven Collection, copy number 78 from a limited edition of 500, Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1949, blue cloth, 4to, (1), [2]Provenance: 1st: Presented by Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953), via Lady Mary Trefusis (née Lygon; 1869-1927), one of the queen's Ladies-In-Waiting, to George Charles Williamson (1858-1942), of Burgh House, Hampstead, London, the art historian and portrait miniature expert; the recto pastedown with his book label, the flyleaf inscribed in MS pencil: "Given to me by Her Majesty The Queen/July 28. 1912" and with a tipped-in 5pp ink MS letter from Lady Mary, on Buckingham Palace writing-paper, inscribed and dated July 28 1912. Commanded to write on the Queen's behalf, Lady Mary thanks Williamson for his assistance (& photographs) in Queen Mary's efforts to codify the Royal Collection's portrait miniatures, and asks for another copy of a photograph so she can ask the Grand Duke of Hesse or Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse; she presents this book, "The Queen is sending you (to keep) a copy of the list of the portrait miniatures at Windsor Castle - it is of course for Confidential reference only." The letter goes on to say that "[t]he Queen would be deeply interested to have a set of photographs of the miniatures belonging to the Duchess of ?Northumberland", presumably for kleptomaniacal purposes.

Lot 261

Scotland, Jacobitism & Jacobite - The Proceedings Against Sir John Fenwick, Bar., Upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason [...], [n.p.]: Printed in the Year, 1698, later 17th century design leather, Großherzogliche Bibliothek (Neustrelitz) library stamp to verso of title-page, 8vo, (1); Some Private Passages Relating to William Paul, a Clergyman, and John Esq; Before, and After, their Condemnation [...], London: R. Burleigh, 1716, later 20th century leather over cloth, ex-lib stamps to title-page and last leaf, 8vo in 4s, (1); Whitaker [(Thomas Dunham)], De Motu per Britanniam Civico Annis MDCCXLV et MDCCXLVI [...], Londini: J. & J.B. Nichols, 1809, later blue cloth, 8vo, (1); further works on the 1715 and 1745 Rebellions, late 19th century and later; Highland Clearances, Sutherland As It Was: or, how a country may be ruined, Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1843, 20th century green morocco over cloth, 8vo, (1); A Dictionary of the Scottish Language [...], Edinburgh: Printed for James Sawers, 1818, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Lindsay (Lord), Lives of the Lindsays; or, A Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, three-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1849, contemporary calf, 8vo, (3); etc., [20]

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