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Steuart, John Robert [A Description of Some Ancient Monuments... still existing in Lydia and Phrygia, supposed to be Tombs of the Early Kings]. [? London: c. 1842], folio (51 x 34.5cm), 17 lithographed plates, original cloth-backed marbled wrappers, with paper lettering piece to upper wrapper, small chip to blank lower corner of first three plates, and a couple of short tears to lower margin, the first plate lightly spotted, wrappers a bit worn, without text (see footnote)Note: Note: This edition, possibly a remainder edition, does not have the title or 15pp. of text which appears in the Bohn 1842 edition. The lettering piece on the upper wrapper also differs from the Bohn title, reading "Seventeen Plates of Ancient Monuments still existing in Lydia and Phyrgia, supposed to be tombs of the early Kings. Price One Guinea". The captions are in English but the details of lithographer and artist are in French: "C. Deangelis d'après l'esquisse de J.R. Steuart". According to an "Advertisement" noted in the Blackmer copy of the James Bohn 1842 edition the plates were prepared as part of a project to publish his entire journal which Steuart reluctantly abandoned.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated... a new edition. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-30. 4 volumes, folio, 2 engraved portraits and 191 engraved plates, some engraved vignettes in the text, corrections and errata leaf bound into volume 3, list of subscribers at end of volume 4, some plates a little dust-soiled, slight dampstain to lower corner in volume 2, some spotting, small stamp of Leicester Society of Architects to corner of all plates, morocco bookplates of Leicester and Leicestershire Society of Architects, modern half calf retaining old marbled boards, spines giltNote: Note: A later edition of one of the greatest works on the antiquities of Greece, first published 1762-1816. Copies are occasionally found with engraved titles.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Darwin, Charles Collection of works all published by John Murray, 8vo, in contemporary half calf by Mudie, twin morocco labels to spines, gilt tooling to compartments, arms of the University Club, Edinburgh gilt to front boards, stylised zig-zag roll gilt to backstrips, bindings variably rubbed, contents slightly toned, Freeman numbers given in square brackets:1) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872. First edition, first issue, vi 374 pp., 7 heliotype plates (numbered in roman; 3 folding), advertisements (2C2-3) discarded, with an initial binder's blank (possibly the original blank, signature b1), front joint restored, toning, intermittent damp-staining at foot, C5-6 nicked along top edges, a few marks [1141];2) The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880. First edition, second thousand, iii-x 592 pp., half-title and advertisements discarded, very shallow tide-mark to lower margins never touching text [1326];3) Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle', 1876. Second edition, 5 folding plates (first plate with short split to one fold) [276];4) The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1888. [Second edition], fourth thousand, half-title [843];5) The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 1888. Second edition, revised, fourth thousand, half-title [808];6) The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1888. Second edition [1254];7) The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, 1888. [Second edition], third thousand, [1283];8) The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1888. Second edition, revised, sixth thousand, 2 volumes [889];9) A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' round the World, 1888. Seventeenth thousand, front joint repaired [46];10) Insectivorous Plants, 1888. Second edition, revised by Francis Darwin [1225];11) The Formation of Vegetable Mould, 1888. First edition, tenth thousand [1372]the lot sold as seen

Swan, Rev. Charles Journal of a Voyage up the Mediterranean principally among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in Asia Minor: including many interesting particulars relative to The Greek Revolution, especially a Journey through Maina to the camp of Ibrahim Pacha. London: C. & J. Rivington, 1826. First edition, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, joints partly splitNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Tennent, James Emerson A Picture of Greece in 1825 as exhibited in the personal narratives of James Emerson Esq., Count Pecchio and W.H. Humphreys Esq. Comprising a Detailed Account of the Events of the late Campaign, and Sketches of the Principal Military, Naval and Political Chiefs. London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, half-title and engraved portrait in volume 1, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume 2, early ownership inscription at head of titles of Wm. Jno. Sharp Gatewick, original boards, uncut, spines somewhat worn, upper hinge of volume 1 weakNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Greece 3 French 18th-century works Savary [Claude-Etienne] Lettres sur la Grèce. Paris: Onfroi, 1788. First edition, 8vo, half-title, folding map and folding plate, Privilege leaf at end, contemporary mottled calf, upper joint split; Sestini, l'abbé Domenico. Voyage dans la Grèce Asiatique, a la péninsule de Cyzique, a Brusse et a Nicée. Londres: et se trouve a Paris: Leroy, 1789. First French edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt;Spon, Jacob and George Wheler. Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece et du Levant. The Hague: Rutgert Alberts, 1724. 12mo, volume 2 only, engraved frontispiece, folding map and 13 plates, contemporary calf, rubbedNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Tobin, Lady Catherine Shadows of the East, or slight sketches of Scenery, Persons and Customs, from Observations during a Tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece. London: Longmans [&c.], 1855. First edition, large 8vo, 3 double-page maps hand-coloured in outline, 17 tinted lithographed plates, tissue guards, original decorative red cloth gilt, g.e., some spotting to some plates, joints split, slightly wornNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Trant, Captain Thomas Abercromby Narrative of a Journey through Greece, in 1830 With Remarks upon the actual state of the Naval and Military Power of the Ottoman Empire. London: H. Colburn, 1830. First edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, 3 illustrations in text, contemporary half calf, lettered on spine 'Trant's Works, vol. II. Greece', bookplate of John Stuart Coxon, slightly spottedNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Watkins, Thomas Travels through Swisserland [sic], Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople; through part of Greece, Ragusa and the Dalmation Isles. London: T. Cadell, 1792. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, errata leaves for volumes 1 and 2 bound in volume 2, contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked, upper hinge of volume 1 a bit weak (2)Note: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Wilkins, William Atheniensia, or Remarks on the Topography and Buildings of Athens London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, 8vo, folding plan and double-page engraved plate, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, slightly spottedNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Wilkinson, William An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia London: Longman [&c.], 1820. First edition, 8vo, [xi], 294, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbedNote: Note: The appendix is by Thomas Gordon, the historian of the Greek Revolution, and a close friend of Wilkinson.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Wyse, Sir Thomas An Excursion in the Peloponnesus in the year 1858 London: Day & Son, 1865. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, map and 24 plates, original blindstamped maroon cloth, spines slightly faded, small nick at head of volume 2, some spotting to volume 2 titleNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

West Africa and Slavery 10 volumes Collier, Sir G.R, Sir Charles MacCarthy, and other Official Sources. West African Sketches, compiled from the Reports of. 1824. 8vo, later inscription at head of title, original boards, uncut, rebacked; Geschiedenis van het Britsche Gezantschap in het Jaar 1817, aan den Koning van Ashantee. Amsterdam: J.C. van Kesteren, 1820. 8vo, coloured frontispiece, half calf, title repaired, frontispiece trimmed, some soiling; Lee, Mrs R. (formerly Mrs T. Edward Bowdich). Stories of Strange Lands. 1835. 8vo, First edition, lithographed plates, original cloth, slightly spotted; Alexander, James Edward. Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa. 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, map, modern quarter calf, several library stamps, some staining and spotting; Bowdich, T. Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. 1873. 8vo, folding map, original brown cloth gilt, library stamps to title; Ramseyer and Kuhne. Four Years in Ashantee. 1878. Second edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth; Kemp, Rev. Dennis. Nine Years at the Gold Coast. 1898, 8vo, presentation copy from the author, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Macdonald, George. The Gold Coast past and present. 1898. 8vo, plates, original cloth, a few small stains, new endpapers, slightly rubbed; Moore, D. and F.G. Guggisberg. We two in West Africa. 1909. 8vo, plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed; sold not subject to returnNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

[Glasse, Hannah] The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy ... By a Lady London: printed for the author, 1747. Second edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5cm), 19th-century dark red half calf, [2] iv [28] 330 pp., binding rubbed, light even browning, title-page more heavily browned, slightly soiled and with small hole costing a few letters, newspaper cutting mounted on rear blank offset onto final page [ESTC T69536; Maclean p. 59]Note: Note: A rare complete copy of the second edition, the same year as the first, which was in folio format. ESTC traces eight copies in libraries world-wide, and the list of subscribers records some 280 names, most of them women.

Miscellaneous works 18 volumes Bell, John. Observations on Italy. Edinburgh & London, 1825. First edition, 4to, 9 engraved plates, contemporary calf, some dampstaining, rebacked, rubbed; [Lewis, Matthew Gregory] The Monk. London: J. Bell, 1797. Third edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, lightly rubbed;Hogg, James. The Brownie of Bodsbeck. Edinburgh, 1818. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, half-titles, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;[Midwifery] Aristotle's Compleat and Experienc'd Midwife... second edition. London: Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1711. 12mo, [ii], iv, 280, [iv], engraved frontispiece (laid down), folding woodcut plate loosely inserted at end, later calf, quite a few pages trimmed by binder with some loss;[Stonestreet, J.G.] Bodiam Castle, a Poem. London, 1818. 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e.;James, J.T. The Italian Schools of Painting. London, 1820. 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, slightly rubbed;Sheridan, Thomas. Lectures on the Art of Reading. London, 1805, 12mo, contemporary tree calf gilt; Goethe. Faust. Vingt-six gravures d'apres les dessins de Retzsch. Paris, 1829. oblong 8vo, plates, contemporary green morocco gilt;Lithgow, William. Travels & Voyages through Europe, Asia and Africa for Nineteen Years. Leith, 1814. 8vo, frontispiece, modern quarter calf, title & frontispiece spotted; National History and Views of London, with its Environs. London: Allan, Bell & Co., 1834. 8vo, engraved title, plates, original boards, some spotting; Wilson, William Rae. Records of a Route through France and Italy. London, 1835. 8vo, uncoloured aquatint plates, contemporary half calf, slight dampstaining;Layard, A.H. A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. 1858. 8vo, plates, contemporary calf; Thackeray, W.M. Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. 1864. 8vo, contemporary half calf;Postel, Guillaume. De republica seu magistratibus. Leiden: J. Maire, 1645. 16mo, engraved portrait, 18th century calf;Hugo, Hermannus. Pia Desideria. Antwerp: Lucam de Potter, 1668. 16mo, engraved title, engravings in text, 18th century calf, some headlines trimmed, rubbed; sold not subject to returnNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Owen, Robert A New View of Society or Essays on the Formation of the Human Character. New-Harmony: printed at the office of the New-Harmony Gazette, for the Community, 1825. ?First American edition, 8vo, 115pp., contemporary half calf, slightly wormed in lower margin, occasionally extending into text at end, rebacked, some dampstaining, tiny hole to last leaf affecting one wordNote: Note: Other American editions were published in 1825 by E. Bliss & E. White in New York and by Lumen Watson in Cincinnati, but as this edition was published and printed in New Harmony, the utopian community established by Owen at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825, it most probably takes priority over the other two editions.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

[Newton, Isaac] - The Royal Society The Philosophical Transactions and collections, to the end of the year MDCC, abridged... (vols 1-3) by John Lowthorp. The fifth edition; (vols 4-5) by Henry Jones. The third edition; (vols 6-7) by John Eames and John Martyn; (vols 8-11) by John Martyn. London: W. Innys and others, 1749; vols 6-7: J. Brotherton and others, 1736; vols 8-9: W. Innys and others, 1747; vols 10-11: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1756, 11 volumes, 4to, 309 (of 317) folding engraved plates, 2 (unnumbered) folding tables, contemporary calf, morocco lettering pieces, occasional light spotting, head of a few spines slightly rubbedNote: Note: The Abridgements cover the Transactions from their beginning in 1665 to 1750, but in fact the most important papers are substantially complete. Chapter III of volume 1 is entitled 'Opticks' and includes all of Newton's founding papers on the subject as well as the debate generated thereby, commencing with the famous 'A New Theory About Light & Colours' of 1672. In his biography of Newton, Michael White notes that Newton's Opticks, published in 1704, was based largely on the manuscripts composed some thirty years earlier and published in the Philosophical Transactions. Further papers on optics appear in subsequent volumes. 'If all the books in the world except the Philosophical Transactions were destroyed, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the vast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, although incompletely, recorded' (Huxley, quoted in Norman). It would be impossible to overestimate the historical importance of the Philosophical Transactions, which was first published and financed by Henry Oldenburg from March 1664-65 for the new Royal Society (founded in 1662), and, following his death, published by the Society itself. Nearly every contemporary British scientist and numerous foreign scientists contributed extensively to the Transactions in its first hundred years. Contributors include Thorbern Bergman, Edward Berkeley, Boerhaave, Boscovitch, Borelli, Boyle, Celsius, Euler, Fahrenheit, Ferguson, Flamstead, Franklin, Hales, Halley, Harvey, Hevelius, Hooke, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Leibnitz, Locke, Malpighi, Morgagni, Newton, Petty, Ray, Redi, Steno, Swammerdam, Wren, and numerous others. Sold as a periodical not subject to return

[Hunt, Leigh] The Rebellion of the Beasts or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! By a Late Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge. London: J. & H. L. Hunt, 1825. 8vo (16.4 x 10cm), contemporary half calf, 165 pp., advertisement leaf, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper and p. [iii], variable spotting, some leaves dog-eared, a few other marksNote: Note: Rare first edition of this anonymous political satire identified as a precursor to Animal Farm and usually attributed to Leigh Hunt. It tells of a Cambridge student, John Sprat, who discovers in Magdalene College library a recipe for a potion which enables him to grant animals the power of speech, resulting in an animal insurrection led by an ass he originally encounters on Parker's Piece. We trace no other copy appearing at auction since 1968, realising $67.

Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8vo, original reddish-brown cloth, half-title, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved illustrations in text, all edges gilt, binding faded and marked, spine rolled, and with loss to head and foot, rear joint partly split, tips bumped and worn, free endpapers and advertisement leaf (M4) excised, inner hinges cracked (webbing visible) finger-soiling, several leaves dog-eared, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, pencil markings to half-title, one plate ('Scrooge's third visitor') loose [Smith II 4]Note: Note: First edition (text uncorrected), first issue with 'Stave I' as the chapter heading on p. [1] (reading 'Stave One' in later copies), second state with the title-page in red and blue and dated 1843, and green endpapers; in Todd's first-issue binding (front cover with 'closest interval between blind-stamping left margin and left extremity of gilt wreath: 14-15 mm'), in which numerous states of text and endpapers are encountered. In this copy the full stop after 'gloom' at page 21, line 22 is faint, which according to Smith is characteristic of the second edition, but otherwise all textual points agree with those listed for the first edition.All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to be donated to Oxfam GB.

[Polidori, John] The Vampyre; a Tale London: for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition, second Sherwood issue, 8vo, original wrappers, 84 pp., half-title, 16 + 4 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, edges untrimmed, contemporary manuscript title in brown ink to front wrapper and similar attribution to Polidori on half-title, ownership inscription 'H. Senhouse, 1819' to inside front wrapper, loss of paper on spine, upper and lower cords partially split but holding [Viets III]Note: Note: The work was first published earlier the same year by Henry Colburn, who sold the sheets to Sherwood in response to the controversy surrounding the false attribution of the work to Lord Byron. Sherwood's first issue retained the attribution on the half-title and title-page. For this second issue both leaves were reset, but the rest of the text was unchanged. Byron himself publicly disavowed the work, publishing his 'Fragment' of his own vampire story as an addendum to his poem Mazeppa, a copy of which is included with the lot (Mazeppa, A Poem, London: John Murray, 1819, first edition, 8vo, original wrappers, half-title, 72 pp., 8 pp. advertisements, ownership inscription 'H. Senhouse', damp-staining, spine cracked, held by one cord only).Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First UK edition, 8vo (17.5 x 11cm), early-20th-century green half calf gilt, pp. [8] 141 pp., half-title, spine sunned, joints and corners rubbed, spotting to binder's blanks, half-title, title-page and final page of text, pencilled ownership inscription 'H. S. Churchill' to title

Literature and theology Collection of works, 17th-19th century Newbery, Elizabeth (publisher). Anecdotes of Mary; or, the Good Governess. By the Author of the History of the Davenport Family. London: for E. Newbery, 1795. 12mo, contemporary marbled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. advertisements, spotting, marginal damp-staining to frontispiece, free endpaper removed [ESTC T95414, tracing 7 copies in UK libraries; Roscoe J328];Jurieu, Pierre. The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies ... Proving, that the Papacy is the Antichristian Kingdom. London: [no printer], 1687. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary sheep [R6542]; Scott, John. The Christian Life, from its Beginning to its Consummation in Glory. London: for Walter Kettilby, 1683. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, engraved frontispiece, spill-burn in X6 [ESTC R220710];Grotius, Hugo. De veritate religionis Christianae. Edio adcuratior. London: Paul and Isaac Vaillant, 1718. 8vo, contemporary sheep, engraved frontispiece, rubbed, joints cracked [ESTC N17247];and approx. 20 others (these not collated), including: Fenelon, Dialogues of the Dead, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1755 (2 volumes, contemporary sheep, 2 copies on ESTC); New Testament in Greek, London: Jacob Tonson, 1714 (contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn); A New Version of the Psalms, Aberdeen, 1771 (contemporary sheep); The Confession of Faith ... third edition, 1688 (contemporary panelled calf); Robert South, Posthumous Works, 1717 (contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece); Richard Baxter, A Paraphrase on the New Testament ... The third edition, corrected, 1701 (contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece); Cicero, De natura deorum, Cambridge, 1723 (contemporary panelled calf); idem, Of the Nature of the Gods, 1741 (contemporary sprinkled sheep); finely bound copies of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning; and similarNote: Note: Anecdotes of Mary; or, the Good Governess, held to be an imitation of Sarah Fielding's novel The Governess, has been identified as an influence on Victorian writing on governesses (see Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros, 'The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing', in Ayres, ed., Silent Voices, Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers, 2003).

Economics Collection of works on banking and monetary theory [Turner, Thomas]. The Case of the Bankers and their Creditors. 2 copies, [London]: [no publisher], 1674. Both first editions, 4to, in 19th-century tan half calf, with bookplates of the Institute of Bankers of Scotland to front pastedowns, associated ink-stamps to title-pages, one copy trimmed to side-notes of a few leaves, A4 with sliver of fore margin consequently reattached, B4 v. top line shaved, spine worn, the other copy closely trimmed throughout, with side-notes, catch-words and signature-marks frequently shaved, backstrip perished [ESTC R23756];Idem. The Case of the Bankers and their Creditors ... The third impression, with additions amounting to a third part more than hath been at any time before printed. London: [no publisher], 1675. Presentation copy, inscribed 'This for my honoured friend Sr Humphrey Brigges Baronet, from the author his love and service' on initial blank, 8vo, contemporary sheep, bookplates (Corbet Corbet; Richard Corbet of Adderley; Institute of Bankers in Scotland] spine worn, front cover detached [ESTC R217081;Maitland, James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale. An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth and into the means and causes of its increase. Edinburgh: for A. Constable, London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. First edition, 8vo, [viii], 482, folding table, contemporary tree calf, bookplate and ink-stamp of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, rubbed, front cover detached;Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount. A Letter to Sir William Windham. II. Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation. III. A Letter to Mr. Pope. London: printed for the editor, 1753. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century half calf, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, rubbed, joints cracked, spotting [ESTC N2688];Keynes, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, bookplate of the Library of Mistakes;and 4 others

[Book of Common Prayer, in Latin verse] Liturgica sacra ... deducta a Rand[olph] Gilpin [London?: no publisher], 1657. 8vo (14 x 8.5cm), contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, blind panels to sides, title-page and blanks repaired, ownership inscription 'E libris Gulielmi Burlington' to title-page [ESTC R504668];Lord's Prayer; polyglot. Oratio Dominica. [In Greek:] Polyglottos, polymorphos. Nimirum, plus centum linguis, versionibus, aut characteribus reddite et expressa. Editio novissima, speciminibus variis quam priores, comitatior. London: Dan. Brown, Chr. Bateman, and W. Innys, 1713. 4to, disbound, specimens of the Lord's Prayer in numerous languages throughout the text, engraved and typographic, 5 engraved plates (showing: Lord's Prayer in various Middle Eastern languages; the Phoenician and Siculo-Punic alphabets; the Ottoman Turkish alphabet; a pronunciation guide for various Semitic languages; and 'Analysis Orationis Dominicae', comprising a grammatical analysis of the Lord's Prayer in Middle Eastern languages), plates re-guarded, spotting, half-title discarded, title-page repaired to no loss of text, B4 with marginal excision and tear costing text on verso, similar excision to C3 (no text apparently lacking), final leaf repaired just touching a few letters [ESTC T119927];[Church of England]. The Church of England-Man's Private Devotions: being a Collection of Prayers out of the Common-Prayer Book ... by the Author of The Week's Preparation to the Sacrament [part 2: The Holy-Days: or, the Feasts and Fasts, as they are observed in the Church of England]. London: for T. Longman, and C. Hitch, 1749. 2 parts in 1 volume, 12mo, contemporary sprinkled sheep, pp. [4] 57 [8] 40, engraved frontispiece, front joint cracked;and 8 others (these not collated): Thomas Secker, Eight Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Oxford and Canterbury, 1799, fifth edition, Sylloge confessionum sub tempus reformandae ecclesia editarum, 1804, Edward Stillingfleet, Origines sacrae, 1797, new edition, 2 volumes, these 3 works all in fine contemporary tan calf prize-bindings with 'Mr Hulme's exhibition, Mr. Parker, Braz. Coll [i.e. Brasenose College, Oxford], 1805' gilt to front boards; John Gregory, The Works, 1671, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved title vignette, frequent Hebrew types; Joseph White, Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, 1792, fourth edition, contemporary sprinkled calf; Breviarum Suessionense ... pars Hiemalis, 1742, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco, gilt edges; and 2 similar Note: Note: The first work (Liturgica Sacra) is a rendering of the Book of Common Prayer produced at a time when the BCP had been proscribed by the Commonwealth. There were two issues, both dated 1657; this issue contains an extra final gathering (K) with errata and additional text, and ESTC traces two copies only, at Eton (the author's alma mater, to whom the work is dedicated) and Edinburgh. ESTC does not call for any plates in this edition of the Oratio Dominica and it has not been established how many are required for a complete copy. The third work (The Church of England-Man's Private Devotions) was first published in 1696; this edition is untraced.

Baskerville, John (printer) The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1769-71. Folio (41 x 25.5cm), contemporary reversed calf, decorative blind panels to sides, sigs. A-13K2 (-13K2, cancelled), ownership inscription of one Richard Eaton dated 1792 to front free endpaper, related 19th-century family genealogy to pastedowns and endpapers (commencing with Richard Eaton, 'a most estimable man in every social relation and of unshaken probity [who] died at Ashover [Derbyshire], 1842 [...]', tear to head of spine, old paper reinforcement to title-page just touching periphery of calligraphic text 'Original Tongues', slightly browned [ESTC T93103, 'sometimes found with engravings'; Herbert 1210], together with 3 others (these not collated: Ofspring Blackall, The Works, 1723, first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece; Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, 1683, first edition, 2 volumes, folio, later reversed calf, lacking portrait, water-damage to front of volume 2; Copper-Plates delivered with the First Fifty Numbers of Howard's New Royal Encyclopaedia and Cyclopaedia, c.1790, folio, contemporary quarter calf, engraved plates)Note: Note: First Baskerville edition of the Bible printed at Birmingham; he had previously produced editions at Cambridge while printer to the university.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1887. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5cm), contemporary half cloth, xiv [2] 182 [2] pp., spine rolled and stitching strained between pp. 34-5, a few subsequent gatherings proud as a result, browning, pp. 137/8 creased in gutter, a few other marksNote: Note: First edition of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche's most important work on politics and ethics, one of 600 copies printed.

Lowry, L. S. (1887-1976) The Paintings of L. S. Lowry Oils and Watercolours. With an Introduction and Notes by Mervyn Levy. London: Jupiter Books, 1975. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original blue cloth, dust jacket, signed by Lowry and Levy on the title-page, together with a limited edition print, '"L. S. Lowry" sketch for a bronze plaque bas-relief', one of 300, signed by the artist Louis Solomon, dust jacket spine sunned, spotting to top edge of text-block

Nicholson, William An Alphabet London: William Heinemann, 1898 [i.e. 1897]. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original pictorial boards, 26 lithographic plates in colours, similar vignette to title-page, edges dyed red, tipped-in advertisement slip, spine slightly defective at head, extremities wornNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Spender, Stephen, and David Hockney China Diary London: Thames & Hudson, 1982. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,000 copies signed by Spender and Hockney on the frontispiece, and including an original five-colour folding lithograph by Hockney, titled 'Red Square and the Forbidden City' and signed and numbered by the artist (one of 1,000). 4to, original red cloth, the lithograph preserved in original red card chemise with folding protective tissue-guard laid in, book and lithographic both housed in original card box with red printed labelNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Indian Mutiny Group of works on the Siege of Lucknow ex libris Thomas Knight, defender of the garrison 1) A Personal Journal of the Siege of Lucknow. By Captain R. P. Anderson. London: W. Thacker and Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 6 pp. advertisements, inscribed 'Thomas Knight, Late Hospital Sergt, 32 Regt, one of the garrison of Lucknow', covers very rubbed and marked, inner hinges cracked, occasional soiling;2) A Memoir, Letters, and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton ... Chaplain of Lucknow. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary red half roan, 3 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, extra-illustrated with a folding watercolour of the colours of the Cornwall Light Infantry (bound in at rear), inscribed 'Presented to Hospital Sergeant Thomas Knight 32 Regt by a sincere friend Mrs E. Polehampton, London, 18 Novr 1858' on the original front free endpaper (retained in rebinding), pencilled ownership inscription (Thos Knight, 18 Nov 1858) to initial blank, pencilled annotations to endpapers, toning throughout, occasional finger-soiling and other marks, frontispiece with short marginal tear, one plate chipped in margin, I7 repaired in fore margin;3) The Defence of Lucknow. A Diary ... by a Staff Officer [Thomas Fourness Wilson]. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1858. Second edition, 16mo, contemporary red half morocco, engraved plan (laid down), inscribed '32 Regt, Thomas Knight, one of the defenders of' on title-page, binding marked, contents toned and with a few spots and marks;4) The Siege of Lucknow. A Diary. By the Honourable Lady Inglis. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'Mr T. Knight, with his old friend Colonel Murphy's compliments and kind regards, May 1892' on half-title;5) The Relief of Lucknow. From an Unpublished Work, by the Guide, T. H. Kavanagh, Esq. (Victoria Cross,) Assistant Commissioner in Oudh. London: W. S. Kirkland & Co., 1860. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary calf, 58 pp., spotting, this work without indication of Thomas Knight's ownershipNote: Note: Thomas Knight, hospital sergeant at Lucknow, is described in Polehampton's account as 'a very good man and brave soldier' (the relevant page, 253, is annotated in the present copy). Library Hub traces five copies only for Anderson's work; one other copy of Kavanagh's work traced, in the Royal Collection.

Adams, Richard Watership Down London: Rex Collings, 1972. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, folding map to rear, dust jacket, inscribed by the author 'Yours sincerely, Richard Adams, London February, 1983' on the title-page, spine slightly rolled and with concomitant faint longitudinal crease, pale marks to front cover of binding and from spine-panel of dust jacket (possibly from removal of label), light rubbing to extremities of binding, endpapers renewed, manuscript numerals to verso of title-page, small stain to fore edge of prelims including title-page

Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility with an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond, 1899. First edition thus, 8vo, original decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece, illustrations throughout (several full-page), later ownership inscription to half-title, spine rolled, a couple of pale marks to front cover, rear cover rubbed, tips bumped

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice. With ... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson London: George Allen, 1894. First Thomson edition, trade issue, 8vo, original blue cloth, Peacock design gilt to front board, all edges gilt, illustrations throughout, binding very worn, spine rolled and with short tear to foot, a few minor spots to contents [Keynes 82], together with 7 others: another copy of Pride and Prejudice, 1894, first Thomson edition, possibly a later issue, taller than the previous copy and in a plain cloth binding, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; A. A. Milne, Now We Are Six, 1927, first edition, original cloth; idem, The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, first edition, original cloth, spine sunned; Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 1897, first edition, original cloth, spine sunned and worn, front inner hinge tender, rear free endpaper lacking and rear inner hinge cracked; idem, The Green Fairy Book, 1893, second edition, original cloth, spotting; Arthur Rackham, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, c.1910, original cloth; Gwynedd M. Hudson, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy, c.1920, original cloth, dust jacket

Dulac, Edmund (illustrator) Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 500 signed by the artist, 4to, original pictorial japon gilt, 23 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, covers dust-soiled, ties detached (and laid in), extremities slightly bumped, text-leaves and mounts of plates toned, light spotting to endpapersNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspian The Return to Narnia. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue boards, spine lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket, map endpapers, colour frontispiece, illustrations in text, spine rolled, light spotting and damp-staining to endpapers, small damp-stain to foot of half-title, frontispiece and title-page, dust jacket nicked, toned and marked, not price-clippedNote: Note: The second published book in the Narnia series.

Nielsen, Kay (illustrator) In Powder and Crinoline Old Fairy Tales, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 500 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original green pictorial vellum gilt, 26 colour plates (frontispiece mounted, remaining plates tipped in, all as issued), captioned tissue-guards, bookplate (Leonard James Shrubsall), extremities of binding rubbed, covers slightly sprung, ties perished, endpapers spotted, text-leaves tonedNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Deluxe set of the Harry Potter books, inscribed in each volume comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Chamber of Secrets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of Fire; Order of the Phoenix; Half-Blood Prince. London: Bloomsbury, [2005]. 6 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, with pictorial onlays to front covers, all edges gilt, housed in original blue cloth slipcase Note: Note: Deluxe set, inscribed by J. K. Rowling on the half-title of each volume for Harrison Cockburn, newborn son of her daughter's teacher at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, the inspiration for Hogwarts, with an autograph letter from Rowling to Cockburn's father presenting the set (signed 'Jo and Neil Murray' and written on two sides of a single sheet of her personal stationery incorporating a facsimile signature and embossed gilt owl vignette, in envelope addressed by Rowling to 'Mr Cockburn'). The inscription in The Philosopher's Stone reads 'Welcome to the world, Harrison! With best wishes, J K Rowling', that in the Half-Blood Prince 'To Harrison Cockburn, This Book was born the same year as you! J K Rowling x' (dated Edinburgh 2005); the remaining inscriptions are variously addressed to Harrison or Harry and all are signed 'J K Rowling'. All published: The Deathly Hallows did not appear until 2007. The Half-Blood Prince is a first deluxe edition.

Lear, Edward Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, etc. London: Richard Bentley, 1852. First edition, large 8vo, original blue cloth, half-title, 2 lithographic maps, 20 tinted lithographic plates, 4 pp. advertisements, small slit to front joint, mottling to front cover, a few plates slightly spotted, E2-7 working loose (held by top cord), pp. 62-3 stained [Abbey Travel 175];Pardoe, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, from Original Drawings by W. H. Bartlett. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 4to, contemporary green half calf, 2 engraved portraits, additional vignette title-page, map and all plates as called for, binding rubbed, spotting to frontispiece portrait and vignette title, marginal tide-mark to last few plates;Beattie, William. The Danube ... From Sketches taken on the Spot, by Abresch, and drawn by W. H. Bartlett. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 4to, contemporary green half calf uniform with the preceding work, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, 2 maps, and all plates as called for, binding rubbed, rear joint partly cracked, spotting and marginal damp-staining to first few leaves;Light, William. Sicilian Scenery from Drawings by P. De Wint. The Original Sketches by Major Light. London: Rodwell & Martin, c.1823. Tall 8vo, contemporary green morocco, curvilinear gilt panels to covers, engraved title-page, 61 engraved plates (one listed as a 'vignette'), tissue-guards, binding rubbed, loss to head of spine, front free endpaper loose, occasional spotting;Batty, Elizabeth Frances. Italian Scenery, from Drawings made in 1817. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. Tall 8vo, contemporary green morocco uniform with the preceding work, engraved title-page, 61 engraved plates (including one not listed), tissue-guards, binding rubbed, front free endpaper, initial blank and title-page working loose, variable spotting;and 2 others (these not collated: Cockburn, Swiss Scenery, 1820, and Batty, French Scenery, 1822)

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, signed by the author London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, signed by the author on the dedication page, spine-ends very slightly bumped, text-block toned, dust jacket with very light rumpling along top and bottom edges [Errington A9(a)]Note: Provenance: According to the vendor's recollection, signed at the time of publication at the Assembly Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh; admission to the signing was by a 'golden ticket' inserted at random into a limited number of copies made available for sale with trade booksellers.

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, inscribed by the author London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, fifth impression, case-bound issue, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, inscribed by the author 'to Matthew and David, best wishes J K Rowling' on the front free endpaper, text-block toned, extremities slightly bumped, minor creasing and delamination along top and bottom edges of dust jacket

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed by cast members London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, thirtieth impression, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, signed on the inside front wrapper and half-title, by Rupert Grint (in gold ink), James and Oliver Phelps, and Jason Isaacs, who respectively played Ron Weasley, Fred and George Weasley and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films

Children's and illustrated books Large collection of works, many signed Pullman, Philip. Northern Lights. London: Scholastic Limited, 2008. 2 copies, signed limited editions, each one of 3000 copies signed and numbered by Pullman, original boards, dust jackets, slipcases;Hughes, Ted. Collected Animal Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First collected edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, single slipcase, signed by Ted Hughes and illustrator Chris Riddell on volume 1 half-title;Idem. Flowers and Insects, some Birds and a Pair of Spiders. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Ted Hughes on the title-page, and inscribed by Lisa Baskin (wife of the illustrator Leonard Baskin and an artist in her own right) on front free endpaper;Idem. Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by illustrator Chris Riddell on the title-page;Idem. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. Illustrated by Jackie Morris. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. First edition thus, 4to, original pictorial boards, signed and with an original pen-and-ink sketch by the illustrator on the title-pagePratchett, Terry. Eric. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Terry Pratchett on the title-page;Bond, Michael. Paddington's Storybook [and:] Paddington and the Grand Tour. London: Collins [-HarperCollins], 1983 & 2002. 2 works, 4to, original boards, dust jackets, respectively inscribed and signed by the author, second work jacket price-clipped;Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, c.1920. 4to, recent green full morocco, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;Ransome, Arthur. Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. In Rhyme. Illustrated by Mackenzie. London: Nisbet & Co., c.1920. 4to, original pictorial cloth, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;Nielsen, Kay (illustrator). Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original green moiré cloth with lavish pictorial design to sides, spine sunned, torn dust jacket laid in;Idem. In Power and Crinoline. Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original quarter cloth, tipped-in colour plates, binding slightly soiled, front inner hinge cracked;Doyle, Richard and J. R. Planché. An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew in Pictures and Verse. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1865?]. Presumed first edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, sig. B working loose;and 15 others, including works by Kathleen Hale, Michael Morpurgo (signed), Michael Foreman (signed), Ivor Cutler (signed), and more

Douglas, Norman Collection of works including: In the Beginning, privately printed, 1927, one of 700 copies signed by the author, original patterned boards, largely unopened, paper lifting on spine; Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology, privately printed, 1927, one of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy additionally with a typed letter signed by the author, original boards, covers discoloured, wear to corners; How About Europe?, privately printed, 1929, one of 500 copies signed by the author, original patterned boards, dust jacket (chipped, tape-repair to rear panel); One Day, The Hours Press, 1929, 2 copies, each one of 200 (including the tête-de-tirage, copy number 1, binding rubbed and marked, foot of spine chipped); London Street Games, 1916, first edition, original cloth, together with:Hogarth Press. Collection of works, including: Joan Adeney Easdale, Amber Innocent, 1939 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell); Virginia Woolf, A Letter to a Young Poet, 1932 (first edition, original wrappers; and 5 further pamphlets;Housman, A. E. A Shropshire Lad. London: Riccardi Press, 1914. One of 1000 copies, 4to, original cloth-backed boards (discoloured);Idem. More Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Out-of-series copy from the edition of 379, 8vo, original orange quarter morocco, spotting to front;and 3 othersNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.

Fleming, Ian Dr No London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, pale markings to boards, edges spotted, dust jacket chipped, rubbed and soiled and with split along front joint [Gilbert A6a (1.3.)], together with Patricia Highsmith, Little Tales of Misogyny, New York: Penzler Books, 1986, first edition, deluxe issue, one of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author, 8vo, original cloth, slipcase Note: Note: First edition, first impression, second-state binding, with the 'Honeychile' silhouette on the front board (plain in the first state).

Fleming, Ian Dr No London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First edition, first impression, second-state binding, 8vo, original cloth with Honeychile silhouette in brown to front board, dust jacket, spine very slightly rolled, dust jacket with a few very shallow nicks to head of spine panel, small abrasion to upper fore corner of front panel [Gilbert A6a (1.3)]

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] Collection of signed copies including: Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish Garden. Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original laminated boards, each signed by MacDiarmid and Trevlyn on the front free endpaper;Cunninghame Graham. A Centenary Study. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 3 inscribed by MacDiarmid (recipients comprising Ian S. Munro, Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, and F. G. Scott), one signed by MacDiarmid and additionally inscribed author of the foreword R. E. Muirhead;The Uncanny Scott. London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1968. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 40 copies bound in blue buckram and signed by MacDiarmid, together with 2 copies of the trade issue, both signed by MacDiarmid, all with the dust jackets;Ulysses' Bow. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977. Broadside (22.5 x 14.6cm), signed by MacDiarmid, in original cloth chemise with printed label to front ('This is one of ten copies on Hodgkinson hand-made paper');Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edinburgh: Colin H. Hamilton, 1963. First edition, one of 35 copies signed by the author and specially bound, from the total edition of 135, 8vo, original cloth, glassine dust jacket;and 12 others including: Song of the Seraphim, [no date], each one of 100 copies signed by MacDiarmid; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1962, fourth edition, signed by MacDiarmid; Annals of the Five Senses, new edition, 1983, inscribed by Valda Trevlyn; Joseph Chiari, Collected Poems, with a Preface by Hugh MacDiarmid, London: Enitharmon Press, 1978, 2 copies, each one of 30 signed by Chiari, 8vo, original red quarter morocco; and similar (some unsigned)

O'Brian, Patrick 23 first editions by Patrick O'Brian, 1 American edition, and 6 others comprising a full set of the Aubrey/Maturin novels (and several others):Master and Commander. 1970 [first British edition];Post Captain. 1972; H.M.S. Surprise. 1973;The Mauritius Command. 1977;Desolation Island. 1978;The Fortune of War. 1979;The Surgeon's Mate. 1980;The Ionian Mission. 1981;Treason's Harbour. 1983;The Far Side of the World. 1984;The Reverse of the Medal. 1986;The Letter of Marque. 1988;The Thirteen Gun Salute. 1989;The Nutmeg of Consolation. 1991;Clarissa Oaks. 1992;The Wine-Dark Sea. 1993;The Commodore. 1994;The Yellow Admiral. 1997;The Hundred Days, 1998;Blue at the Mizzen. 1999;all first editions [Master & Commander first British edition, see footnote], dustwrappers, none price clipped, all protected in clear plastic jackets, slight wear to dustwrappers of Master and Commander, Post Captain and H.M.S. Surprise;The Unknown Shore. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First edition, dust-jacket price clipped and rubbed;Collected Short Stories, 1994, dustwrapper;The Frozen Flame. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. First edition, original red cloth, no dustwrapper, lacks front free endpaper, small ink note to front endpaper;Men of War. New York. New York, 1995, first American edition, dustwrapper;Tolstoy, Nikolai. Patrick O'Brian, the Making of a Novelist. 2004, dustwrapper;Grossman, A.C and L.C. Thomas. Lobscouse & Spotted Dog.. Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. New York, 1997, dustwrapper;King, Dean. Patrick O'Brian, a life revealed. New York, 2000, dustwrapper;Cunningham, A.E. Patrick O'Brian. Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. 1994;Cunningham, A.E. Patrick O'Brian: a bibliography of first printings and first British printings. Thrommett Books, York, 1986, wrappers;Book & Magazine Collector. Dec. 2003 issue, featuring 'A Collector's Guide to the Books of Patrick O'Brian', wrappersNote: Note: A full set of the Aubrey/Maturin novels with the exception of the posthumously published The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) plus several other volumes. Master and Commander was the only novel in the series which was first published in America [by J.B. Lippincott].

Ludolf, Hiob A New History of Ethiopia The Second Edition. To which is added, a New and Exact Map ... a Preface ... the Life of Gregorius Abba ... and the Author's Opinion of some other Writers concerning Ethiopia. London: Samuel Smith, 1684. Folio (34.5 x 21cm), 20th-century panelled calf, engraved folding map, 9 plates (mainly zoological; all but one folding), bound without the letterpress genealogical table between pp. 192-3, moderate browning, marginal worming to initial [38] pp. (with very slight effect on map), small hole in botanical plate facing p. 48 and zoological plate facing p. 57 ('A Description of the Apes'), a few other marks [ESTC R7119];Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768 [...] 1773. Edinburgh: by J. Ruthven for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to (28 x 23cm), 19th-century half calf, 58 engraved plates including 4 plans, 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects, 2 folding maps (of 3: lacking 'Chart of Solomon's Voyage to Tarshish'), retaining half-titles to volumes 2-3 only, variable spotting and browning, repairs to volumes 1 and 4 title-pages and 'Cerastes' plate in volume 5, bookplates of William Hodgson Cadogan [ESTC T51608; Nissen ZBI 617] Note: Note: Second edition in English of Ludolf's work, though described by ESTC as more accurately a reissue of the first edition in English of 1682, with a cancel title-page, added preface and map.

Tragara Press Large collection of proof copies from the publisher's archive Unbound (in loose sheets or bifolia) unless otherwise stated, most unbound items preserved in envelope or card chemise, many items with printer's manuscript corrections, the collection comprising:1) Oscar Wilde. Hellenism, 1979. Proof copy (before the edition of 95), wrappers;2) Oscar Wilde. A Study by John E. Barlas, 1978. Proof copy on pink Ingres paper (before the edition of 100), initialled by Alan Anderson;3) Vincent O'Sullivan. Selected Letters, 1993. 2 copies: corrected proofs; proof copy on Abbey Mills paper, initialled and dated by Alan Anderson, wrappers (eventual print run: 50 copies);4) John Gray. The Kiss. Translated from the French of Theodore de Banville, 1983. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 145);5) Aubrey Beardsley. An Obituary Memoir by John Gray, 1980. Proof copy (before the edition of 95);6) Some Unpublished Poems by John Gray, 1987. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 145);7) Stéphane Mallarmé. Poésies, translated by Arthur Symons, 1986. Proofs (before the edition of 150);8) W. B. Yeats. A Reminiscence by Frank O' Connor, 1982. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 125);9) A Garland for Stephen Spender. Arranged by Barry Humphries, 1991. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 150);10) Uncollected Poems by Lillian Bowes Lyon, 1981. One of 6 copies proof copies on Glastonbury paper (before the edition of 95), initialled and dated by Alan Anderson, wrappers;11) A Perfect Description of Scotland attributed to Sir Anthony Weldon, [no date]. Uncompleted trial copy (annotated by Alan Anderson, 'a reprint commissioned by the late Ian Grant, bookseller, who 12) intended to write an introduction. This was never done, and the work was abandoned'), wrappers;13) Roy Fuller. Mianserin Sonnets, 1984. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 135);14) Twelfth Night. A Personal View by Roy Fuller, 1985. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 135);15) Poetry and Fiction. Reflections on three Nineteenth Century Authors by Lionel Johnson, 1982. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 95);16) Hand and Eye. An Anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell, 1977. 'Proofs in first state' (annotation to card chemise);17) Vernon Watkins. Elegy for the Latest Dead, 1977. Proof copy on Turkey Mill paper (before the edition of 120), with label on envelope reading 'Unique trial copy', wrappers;18) John Sanderson. Reefs Bibliophilic. An Address to the Amtmann Circle, 1984. Proof copy (before the edition of 200), wrappers;19) 1948 and 1984 by Julian Symons. The Second Orwell Memorial Lecture, 1984. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 135);20) Herbert Read. Pursuits and Verdicts. With a Preface by Graham Greene, 1983. 2 copies: proofs and corrected proofs (before the edition of 125);21) To Newbury to buy an Old Book. Lawrence Clark Powell, 1973. Proof copy (marked 'rough proof - spoiled sheets'), before the edition of 120;22) Memoirs of Frieda Lawrence by Martha Gordon Crotch. Proof copy on hand-made paper (before the edition of 175);23) Theodore Wratislaw. Three Nineties Studies. W. B. Yeats, John Gray, Aubrey Beardsley, 1980. 3 copies: galley proofs, corrected proofs, and proofs on Amalfi paper;24) From the Nineties. Some Translations of Baudelaire and Verlaine, 1982. Various sheets (label on envelope: 'The printer's first rough proofs and corrected proofs');25) The Object of an Affair and Other Poems. Julian Symons, 1974. Incomplete proof sheets;26) Ten Poems by Morley Jamieson, 1978. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 210);27) 'Proofs of Holy Writ' by Rudyard Kipling, 1981. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 125);28) Montague Summers. A Talk by Timothy d'Arch Smith, 1984. Corrected proofs (before the edition of 110) (approx. 30)Note: Note: The Tragara Press was founded in Edinburgh in 1953 by printer Alan Anderson (1922-2016) and operated until 1991.

Tragara Press Collection of limited editions relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle including:1) A Letter from Oscar Wilde [to Ellen Terry], 1954. One of 40 copies;2) Oscar Wilde. A Study by John E. Barlas, 1974. One of 100 copies;3) Some Early Poems and Fragments by Oscar Wilde, 1974. One of 75 copies;4) Oscar Wilde. Letters to Graham Hill, 1978. One of 25 copies on Amalfi paper, from the total edition of 26;5) Berneval. An Unpublished Letter by Oscar Wilde, 1981. 2 copies: one of three special copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper signed by Alan Anderson (not mentioned in the stated limitation), and one of 75 copies on Ingres d'Arches;6) Oscar Wilde: Graham Hill. A Brief Friendship, 1982. 2 copies, each one of 75 on Ingres d'Arches;7) Oscar Wilde on Vegetarianism. An Unpublished Letter to Violet Fane, 1991. One of 140 copies, this copy additionally inscribed by the editor Jeremy Mason;8) Wilde and the Night, 1994. 4 copies, each one of 85 signed by the editor Jeremy Reed, including one from the first 12 'specially bound in hand-marbled wrappers', one unnumbered and inscribed 'printer's proof copy', and one additionally inscribed by the editor;9) A Phial. By John Gray, 1954. One of 25 copies;10) On Hymn Writing by John Gray, 1977. One of 95 copies on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper, from the total edition of 117;11) John Gray. The Kiss. Translated from the French of Theodore de Banville, 1983. One of 115 copies on W. S. Vellum from the total edition of 145;12) A Friendship of the Nineties. Letters between John Gray & Pierre Louys, 1984. One of 120 copies; 13) Some Unpublished Poems by John Gray, 1987. One of 25 copies on Vélin d'Arches, from the total edition of 145;14) Old Gough by John Gray, 1990. 3 copies, comprising one of 20 on Barcham Green hand-made paper, one of 55 standard copies, and a set of corrected page proofs;15) Master of Fallen Years by Vincent O'Sullivan, 1990. One of 75 copies;16) In Quiet by Vincent O'Sullivan, 1954. One of 35 copies;17) Vincent O'Sullivan. Apollinaire a Letter to the Editor of the Dublin Magazine, 1970. One of 70 copies;18) Tancrède Martel. A Memoir, 1973. 2 copies, each one of 55;19) Some Letters of Vincent O'Sullivan to A. J. A. Symons, 1975. 2 copies: one of 20 copies on Barcham Green 'Charter Oak' paper and one of 110 copies on Strathmore 'Grandee' paper;20) Vincent O'Sullivan. Fifteen Letters to Seumas O'Sullivan, 1979. 3 copies, each one of 100 on Abbey Mills paper;21) The Next Room by Vincent O'Sullivan, 1988. 2 copies, comprising one of 30 on Gainsborough paper, and one of 115 standard copies;22) Olivia Mist by Vincent O'Sullivan, 2009. One of 65 copies on Accent Fresco paper;23) Lionel Johnson. Selected Letters, 1988. 2 copies: one of 30 copies on Brigadoon paper, and one of 120 standard copies;24) Lionel Johnson. Some Letters to Richard Le Gallienne, 1979. 2 copies: one of 20 copies on Amalfi paper, and one of 75 standard copiesNote: Note: A Phial. By John Gray (1954) was the first book printed by the Tragara Press. The Tragara Press was founded in Edinburgh in 1953 by printer Alan Anderson (1922-2016) and operated until 1991.

Gill, Eric (1882-1940) Carved presentation plaque on wood, 1908 recto with incised inscription 'An Graf Kessler, MCMVIII', verso with incised inscription 'A E R GILL carver' (the initial 'R' with Elizabethan-style cadel), shaped and scalloped edges, together with another panel with similar edges but no inscription, the two together intended as a case for a presentation address on vellum for Harry, Graf von Kessler by Edward Johnston (not present), and accompanied by an autograph letter signed from Johnston to Gill presenting the address, dated Laurencekirk, 1908 ('Dear Gill, I hope this will do [...]', 4 pp.), partial loss of conjoining wooden supports [Evan Gill, Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill, 145]Note: Note:Harry, Graf von Kessler (1868-1932) was 'the first of Gill's grand patrons, and their relationship is an interesting one because it set a pattern of success which was continued and which brought him commissions of the calibre he needed' (Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, 2011 edition, p. 95). Gill's first commission from Kessler was for a set of title-pages and headings for the Grossherzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe of classic German authors. These were Gill's 'earliest typographic work' (Evan Gill, Eric Gill: A Bibliography, no. 302); between the wars he worked frequently for Kessler's Cranach Press.Provenance:1) Evan Gill, brother and bibliographer of Eric Gill, listed as 'now in the collection of Evan R. Gill' in The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill (1964).2) Sotheby's, London, 14th March 1979, lot 254 (sold for £400 to G. F. Sims, bookseller, Hurst, Berkshire).3) Property of an English collector.

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Tony Bullimore, Record Breaking Yachtsman signed Mayday Rescue at Sea FDC, This Benham first day cover is limited edition number 330 of 2500 and has 6 official stamps and 2 post marks dating 13th March 2008, Southampton. Information inserts included. Tony Bullimore (15 January 1939 - 31 July 2018) was a British businessman and international yachtsman. He is known especially for being rescued on 10 January 1997 during a sailing race after he had been presumed dead. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

The Red Arrows Limited and First Edition Stamp Sheet featuring The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team with 10 x 1st Class Stamps number 0947 of 1500. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

A Celtic Book of Days by S Costley and C Knightly Hardback Book 1998 First Edition published by Thames and Hudson Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99