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[Travel/Botany] Reginald Farrer collection: On The Eaves of The World illustrated 1926 in 2 volumes gilt cloth in dust-wrappers, My Rock Garden 1907 first edition in gilt decorated cloth, In A Yorkshire Garden 1909 first edition original cloth, The English Rock-Garden 1925 in 2 volumes, The Rainbow Bridge 1921 first edition in gilt lettered cloth. Farrer's Last Journey Upper Burma by E.H.M. Cox 1926 and The Plant Introductions of Reginald Farrer 1930 first edition limited to 500 copies with coloured plates, gilt cloth (9)    

A Modern Herbal by Mrs. Grieve published Cape 1931 first edition in 2 volumes with many plates, The English Vegetable Garden, Country Life (c.1910) original cloth, The Vegetable Garden by MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux, English edition published under direction of W. Robinson 1905 first edition, Vegetables & Their Cultivation by Sanders 1920 with colour plates and other illustrations, The Fruit Garden by Bunyard & Thomas 1904 illustrated, Fruit Growing Modern Cultural Methods with 8 colour plates and 60 photographic illustrations, Fruit And Its Cultivation by Sanders (c.1920) second edition, Daffodil Growing for Pleasure & Profit by Calvert 1929 with 236 plates, bound in half leather with gilt titles (9)   

The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794) by Arthur T. Bolton published Country Life 1922 in 2 folio volumes first edition fully illustrated and volume 2 with colour frontispiece and bound in gilt lettered cloth with raised gilt medallion portraits on front covers, The Work of Robert Adam by Geoffrey Beard 1978 first edition with 60 colour plates & 181 black & white illustrations this being one of 150 specially bound & signed copies (3) 

The Unknown Horn of Africa, An Exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River by F.L. James with map and drawings, published George Philip 1888 first edition in gilt picture cloth, A Course of Water-Colour Painting by R.P. Leitch with 24 coloured plates published Cassell (c1880s) with tipped in coloured plates in original gilt cloth (2)

Spode and His Successors A History of the Pottery Stoke-on-Trent 1765-1865 by Arthur Hayden with 24 coloured plates and 64 black & white illustrations, 1925 first edition gilt lettered cloth with coloured centre piece, Old Spode by T.G. Cannon with 57 plates (c.1920s), Antique Blue & White Spode by Williams 1949, Spode by Leonard Whiter 1970, Spode’s Willow Pattern & other Designs by Copeland, Spode Printed Ware by Drakard & Holdway 1983 (6)

Orchids : Their Culture and Management by W. Watson with Descriptions of Species, list of Hybrids and detailed Cultural Directions by H.J. Chapman, illustrated with 20 coloured plates and engravings 1903 New Edition in gilt decorated cloth, About Orchids A Chat by Frederick Boyle with coloured illustrations Chapman & Hall 1893 first edition in gilt decorated cloth, British Orchids by  A.D. Webster 1898 enlarged edition and Orchids for the Outdoor Garden by A.W. Darnell with 22 illustrations by the author 1930 first edition (4)      

Beverley Nichols: A collection of books to include Laughter on the Stairs 1955, Sunlight on the Lawn 1956, No Place Like Home 1936, Evensong 1932, New of England 1938, The Fool Hath Said 1936, Crazy Pavements 1927, Village in a Valley 1934 illustrated Rex Whistler, Green Grows the City 1939 etc, many first edition and some dust-wrappers (15)  

The Flora of The Alps being a description of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to Switzerland...mountain districts of France, Italy and Austria etc by Alfred W. Bennett with 120 coloured plates 1898 in 2 volumes in gilt cloth, Alpine Flowers & Rock Gardens illustrated with mounted colour plates described by Walter Wright (c.1910) in pictorial cloth gilt, Alpine Flowers For Gardens by W. Robinson 1903 revised third edition in gilt cloth, Alpines & Bog Plants by Reginald Farrer 1908 first edition illustrated (inscribed to Horace Walpole), Alpine Flowers by Dr. Gustav Hegi 1930 with coloured plates (6) 

Hutchinson's Popular Botany The Living Plant from Seed to Fruit by A.E. Knight & Edward Step with approximately 1000 beautiful illustrations including numerous coloured plates (1912) first edition in 18 Parts as issued in original wrappers, The Gardener's Assistant A Practical & Scientific Exposition of the Art of Gardening in all its Branches by Robert Thompson illustrated in colour and black & white published Gresham 1906 in 2 volumes new edition in leather backed cloth with gilt lettered leather labels together with a volume of English Botany with hand-coloured plates in half-leather          

A Natural History of British Grasses by E.J. Lowe with Coloured Illustrations published Groombridge 1858 first edition with chromolithographic plates in leather backed boards, Select Ferns and Lycopods British and Exotic comprising 900 choice species with illustrations by Benjamin Samuel Williams 1868 first edition, European Ferns by James Britten with coloured illustrations from nature by D. Blair (c.1870s) chromolithographic plates bound in gilt decorated cloth, The British Ferns by George Johnson 1867 illustrated, Wayside & Woodland Ferns by Edward Step (5)  

[Local Interest] Catalogue of The Trees & Shrubs At Westonbirt in the Collection of The Late Lieut-Col. Sir George Lindsay Holford Compiled by A. Bruce Jackson, published Oxford 1927 first edition with portraits and 66 plates the whole printed on hand-made paper and bound in gilt lettered cloth and Trees of Westonbirt School by Sylvia Y. Barkley (c.1952) with illustrations and folding plan, bound in half leather (2)   

The Botanical Atlas A Guide to The Practical Study of Plants by D. M’Alpine published Johnston 1883 first edition comprising Phanerogams and Cryptogams in 2 volumes with full-page chromolithographic plates bound in gilt and black decorated cloth, The Florist and Pomologist and Suburban Gardener A Pictorial Monthly Magazine by Thomas Moore 1880 first edition with 24 (of 30) chromolithographic plates & woodcuts in gilt decorated cloth (3)   

Mediaeval Gardens ‘Flowery Medes’ and other Arrangements of Herbs, Flowers and Shrubs Grown in the Middle Ages with some account of Tudor, Elizabethan and Stuart Gardens by the Late Sir Frank Crisp, Baronet, edited by his daughter with illustrations from original sources collected by the author, published John Lane 1924 first edition in 2 volumes limited edition (Ex. Neasham Hall) in gilt and black decorated cloth (2)   

James Lees-Milne collection of books to include: Another Self with a wood engraving by Reynolds Stone 1970 first edition, The Age of Indigo Jones 1953, Through Wood and Dale 1998, A Mingled Measure 1994, Prophesying Peace 1977, Midway on the Waves 1985, The Bachelor Duke 1991, Some Cotswold Country Houses 1987, Last Stuarts 1983, various diaries and others, mostly in dust-wrappers (21)    

Victorian scrap album with two pencil drawings by H Goode dated 1836, printed diagrams of ship building and ships, flags, mariners compass design, portrait of Nelson etc together with Shipyard Practice as Applied to Warship Construction by Neil McDermaid with diagrams, 1911 first edition 

Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, Sept. 1st. 1787, printed title, dedication, advertisement and contents page, 47 (complete as list, with the West Riding on two sheets) engraved maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, tissue guard and page of descriptive text, subscribers list bound at the rear, remains of old wax seals to the pastedowns, old library stamp to the front pastedown, old ownership stamp and ink stain to first front blank, contemporary half calf gilt, bumped and worn, 4toQty: (1)NOTESChubb. CCLX.

Wells (Edward). The Young Gentleman’s Astronomy, Chronology, and Dialling, Containing such Elements of the said Arts or Sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known, 1st edition, 3 parts in one volume, James Knapton, 1712, general title and separate titles to each of the three parts, 4 pages adverts at end of first part, 25 engraved plates, illustrations in text, engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope M.D. and ink signature ink of T. Trollope, 18th-century calf, 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe rare first edition of Wells’s compendium aimed at attracting and educating ‘Young Gentlemen’.

Mary Rose. Narrative of the loss of the Mary Rose, at Spithead, July 20, 1545, from original manuscripts, &c. &c., 1st edition, Portsea: S. Horsey, Sen, 1842, 96 pages, some ink marks to title and few other leaves mostly towards rear of volume, light browning, dust-soiling and damp staining, front free endpaper discarded, all edges gilt (rubbed), original polished wooden boards (using timber recovered from the Mary Rose), sheep spine, 32mo (9 x 5.3 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESScarce. Only one UK institutional location for this edition found (British Library). A history of the ship's demise first published by Samuel Horsey in 1842; a second edition appeared in 1849, also bound in wood salvaged from the wreck.

Berkenhout (John). First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry, 1st edition, T. Cadell, 1788, 2 folding titles, 7 plates including 1 double-page, advert leaf at rear, some spotting, especially to title, recent antique-style half calf gilt, 8voQty: (1)

[Hill, John]. Lucina sine concubitu, A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most Incontestible Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may Conceive and be brought to Bed without any Commerce with Man, 1st edition, M. Cooper, 1750, [4], 48 pages, a little soiling to half-title, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 8voQty: (1)NOTESA rare copy of the first edition of a work reprinted many times and in several languages. It represents Hill's revenge for his rejection by the Royal Society and in amusing and ironic style he announces his discovery that in fact the foetus is a little air-borne 'animalcula'.

Lansdell (Henry). Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv, 2 volumes, 1st American edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885, albumen print portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and double-page wood engraved frontispiece to volume 2, two folding maps and numerous wood engraved plates (some double-page), wood engraved illustrations, library stamps at front & rear, library labels to rear endpapers, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed mostly to extremities, 8vo, together with: Ibid., Through Siberia, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882, albumen print portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and wood engraved frontispiece to volume 2, two folding maps and numerous wood engraved plates (some double-page), damp staining at rear of first volume, original cloth, worn and marked, 8vo, plus one other by the same other, Chinese Central Asia, A Ride to Little Tibet, volume 1 only (of 2), New York, 1894Qty: (5)

Pennant (Thomas). A Tour in Wales MDCCLXXIII [& MDCCLXX], 2 volumes, London: Henry Hughes, 1773, engraved titles with contemporary ownership signature to upper margin of Warren W.R. Peacocke, numerous engraved plates including some folding, bookplate of Warren Peacocke of Efford to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, contrasting morocco labels to spines, joints to first volume cracked and slight wear, 4to, together with: Strutt (Joseph), Glig-gamena angel-deod. Or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..., 2nd edition, London: T. Bensley for White & Co., Longman, Hurst et al., 1810, hand-colour engraved frontispiece and plates, armorial bookplate of Alfred Chadwick to upper pastedown, contemporary marbled boards with recent calf spine & corners, 4to, Brayley (Edward Wedlake), A Topographical History of Surrey, 5 volumes, London: G. Willis, 1850, titles in red & black, numerous engraved plates, maps & plans, some folding, occasional damp staining (particularly to volume 5), original cloth, spines faded, some joints split, 8vo, Thornton (Thomas), A Sporting Tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that country..., 2 volumes in one, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, numerous uncoloured aquatint plates (many folding), modern green quarter morocco, 4to, Shakespeare (William), The works of Shakspere, Imperial edition, edited by Charles Knight, 2 volumes, London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., [1873-76], engraved frontispieces, additional engraved titles and numerous plates, occasional scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated brown morocco, spines slightly faded, large folio, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian etc., including art history referenceQty: (3 cartons)

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Kitchener, Herbert, 1850-1916, 1st Earl Kitchener]. British Field Marshal who played a central role in the early part of World War One. An archive of research documents and letters, etc., compiled by Donald McCormick in the late 1950s, in connection with his book The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death (1959) including an Autograph Letter Signed by Joe Angus, a Gunner with the Orkney Territorial Forces and the first person in authority to raise the alarm of the sinking of HMS Hampshire, in part, ‘I was sent to Birsay on patrol duty, as it happened I was on duty that memorable night from 8 pm until 12 o’clock midnight, when just before 9 pm a cruiser came in sight, I hadn’t been looking very long when all of a sudden a cloud of smoke & flame burst up from behind the bridge… The cruiser was passing Marwick Hd. when the explosion occurred, and she gradually sank down by the bow, when about fifteen minutes after she disappeared out of sight… I immediately reported the disaster… The news of the sinking was reported about 9 pm; it was after mid-night 12 o’clock before any vessel was sighted near where the cruiser went down. It was a stormy night for June… The sailors must have had a terrible night being cast adrift in such seas; quite a number reached the shore and were left to perish. There were only thirteen survivors and one died shortly after. Bodies came ashore for several weeks after…’, further letters (including a series from Ernest Marwick of the Orkney Herald) providing first-hand accounts of the events following the sinking and the questionable actions of the Admiralty in the immediate aftermath including the prevention of sending out a lifeboat (‘She was not launched, although Mr. Thomson was anxious to send her out. It is stated that Mr. Thomson met with the utmost discourtesy, some say abuse, from the authorities…’) and dismissing the story of a secret salvage of HMS Hampshire having taken place as a myth, a number of letters (most congratulatory although a few dismissing McCormick’s theories as poppycock) written following the publication of his work including 5 from Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, several from the politician Irene Ward (in one briefly referring to the Admiralty refusing McCormick access, and in another remarking ‘I think that for the record the Admiralty ought to be pressed to divulge what they know’), some correspondence regarding German U-boat captains, letters from the Admiralty (‘I am commanded… to inform you that if advantage is taken of the facilities offered… you will be required to submit the whole of your manuscript, and to amend any part of it for reasons of public interest, regardless of the source from which your information is obtained’), a small number of letters from Antony Terry, foreign correspondent and investigative journalist with The Sunday Times, various related newspaper clippings (one detailing Rasputin’s link with Kitchener’s death) etc., plus a first edition of The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, (Putnam, 1959)Qty: (approx. 85)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming. On 5 June 1916 Kitchener was making his way to Russia on HMS Hampshire to attend negotiations with Tsar Nicholas II when in bad weather the ship struck a German mine west of Orkney, Scotland, and sank. The Field Marshal was among 737 who died. Kitchener’s great fame, the suddenness of his death, and its apparently convenient timing for a number of parties gave almost immediate rise to a number of conspiracy theories about his death.

Incunabula Leaves. A group of 18 printed leaves from various incunabula, circa 1470s/1490s, including 2 leaves from Marchesinus, Mammotractus super Bibliam, Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 1476, with rubricated capitals and highlighted paragraph headings, plus one similar from Guilelmus Paraldus, Summa de viciis, Cologne: Heinrcih Quentell, 1479, plus 4 further unidentified incunabula leaves with rubrication and 3 leaves without including two index leaves, plus 8 leaves from the first Gruninger edition of Terence’s Comoedie, Strasbourg, 1496, six of the leaves with woodcut theatre scenes, all folioQty: (18)

Johnstone (Christian Isobel). Clan-Albin: A National Tale, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, London: printed for Longman, Hurst..., 1815, marginal loss to pp.9 of volume 1, some light toning, spotting & offsetting throughout, all in publishers original uniform blue boards & paper spines, volume 1 spine repaired with tape, boards & spines rubbed & marked with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, Philosophy In Sport made Science in Earnest; being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports, 3 volumes, new edition, London, 1831, black & white illustrations, some light spotting, publishers original uniform brown boards, tear to the foot of volume I spine, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8voQty: (7)NOTESFrom the Methuen Library, Corsham Court.

Saul (Edward). Historical & Philosophical Account of the Barometer, or Weather-Glass. Wherein the Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, the Causes of its different Gravitation are assign’d and explain’d..., 1st edition, A. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, 1730, later grey boards with contrasting spine, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFirst edition of a work which was reprinted in 1735 and again in 1766.

[Keill, James]. The Anatomy of the Human Body Abridged; or, a Short and Full View of all the Parts of the Body. Together with their Several Uses drawn from the Compositions and Structures, 1st edition, William Keblewhite, 1698, modern antique-style polished calf, 12moQty: (1)NOTESThe first edition of this popular book which went through many editions was published anonymously, but the dedication to Edward Tyson bears his printed name.

Monro (Alexander). Observations, Anatomical and Physiological, wherein Dr. Hunter’s Claim to some Discoveries is examined, 1st edition, Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1758, 2 engraved plates, faint 19th-century library stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute on title, and on plate I stamp of the Birmingham General Hospital, recent grey-paper boards, 8voQty: (1)NOTESA good copy of this famous and bitter dispute between William Hunter and Alexander Munro Secundus, which began with the publication in 1757 by Munro in Berlin of a pamphlet ‘De Venis Lymphaticis’ and reprinted in 1761 and 1770 and claimed that he, and not Hunter, had first correctly described the general communications of the lymphatic system.

Holder (William). A Discourse Concerning Time, with Application of the Natural Day and Lunar Month, and Solar Year, as Natural; and as such are derived from them; as Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use, 2nd edition, Phil. Monkton, 1701, advert leaf at rear, a little light damp staining to upper edges of final leaves, modern antique-style panelled calf, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFirst published in 1694 and with a third edition published in 1712.

Hall (A. Rupert & Marie Boas Hall). The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 9 volumes, 1st editions, Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965-73, monochrome frontispieces, some minor toning to the endpapers, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, volumes 1 & 7 dust jackets price-clipped, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot with minor tears, 8vo, together with: Grassby (Richard), The English Gentleman in Trade, the life and works of Sir Dudley North, 1641-1691, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, monochrome portrait frontispiece, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, 8vo Skilliter (S. A.), William Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578-1582, A documentary study of the first Anglo-Ottoman relations, 1st edition, Oxford: University Press, 1977, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, minor rubbing to head & foot of the covers, 8vo, and other modern scholarly Tudor & Stuart history reference, including publications by H.M.S.O., Routledge, The British Academy, Universities of Yale, Manchester, Princeton, Exeter, Georgia, Oxford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8voQty: (5 shelves )

Chesney (Francis Rawdon). Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868, 45 lithograph plates, most tinted, a few folding, 2 maps (one folding with splits along folds in rear pocket), 24 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting and offsetting, contemporary ownership signature of C.F. Staunton M.D. at head of title, his inscription to half title, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine faded and repaired at ends, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESAtabey 236: "This is the concluding portion of Chesney's account of the Euphrates Expedition, not a later edition of the first part. In addition to the reconstructed section of Chesney's original manuscript which had been lost in the 1830's, it contains the journals of Captain Charlewood and of General J.B.B. Estcourt, an account of Helfer's visit to the Arabian desert, and Ainsworth's account of Constantinople." Not in Abbey or Blackmer.

Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, 3 volumes, 6th edition, London: John Murray, 1840, engraved frontispiece to first volume, engraved plates (some folding), few illustrations to text, sewing in volume 2 partly broken, original cloth-backed boards, joints to volume 1 split and spine worn, 8vo, together with: Beckford (Peter), Thoughts on Hunting, in a series of familiar letters to a friend, London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, [1820], half-title, engraved frontispiece, title within woodcut border with later signature to upper blank margin, wood engraved vignettes, light spotting, bookplate of Lily Dent to upper pastedown, contemporary green calf by J. Cox of Aberystwyth, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, [Walsh, John Henry], The Greyhound. A Treatise on the Art of Breeding, Rearing, and Training Greyhounds for Public Running..., by Stonehenge, new edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1875, engraved frontispiece and wood engraved illustrations, occasional finger-soiling and scattered spotting, hinges split, top edge gilt, contemporary green quarter morocco gilt, cloth sides worn to upper outer corners, 8voQty: (5)

Euphrates Expedition. Euphrates Expedition. Return to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 3 July 1837, for Copy of Instructions to Colonel Chesney, the Officer commanding the Euphrates Expedition; together with Abstract of Correspondence and Accounts of Expenditure relative to that Enterprise. India Board, July 1837. (Sir John Hobhouse), Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 17 July 1837, 77 pp., press cutting pasted at front, a little marginal soiling, folio, bound with Rich (Claudius James). Second Memoir on Babylon: Containing an Inquiry into the Correspondence between the Ancient Descriptions of Babylon and the Remains still Visible on the Site. Suggested by the "Remarks" of Major Rennel published in the Archaeologia, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 58 pp., 3 folding engraved plates (some soiling), 8vo, disbound, bound with 2 others: The Loss of the Tigris. A Poem in Two Cantos with notes. Inscribed to the Commander, Officers and Men of the Euphrates Expedition, by Henry Richardson, 1st edition, 1840, 63 pp., frontispiece and 2 lithograph plates, 8vo, disbound, and three extracts by W. Francis Ainsworth: Three Days Lost in Taurus/A Day and Night on the Banks of the Euphrates/Thapsacus, the Fatal Pass, 8vo, all bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, folioQty: (1)NOTESFirst item, the parliamentary committee report very rare, no institutional copy located. After Chesney had conducted his preliminary survey of the Euphrates alone, floating down the river on a raft, "a parliamentary committee recommended a full-scale expedition, and two steamships were assembled near Bir in 1835, near the property of John Barker (q.v.). During the voyage the S.S. Tigris sank and after many difficulties the S.S. Euphrates finally reached Basra." (Blackmer 337). Parliament agreed funds of £20,000 for the expedition, which had the twofold aims of establishing an overland trade route from India to Britain, thereby avoiding the lengthy sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, and to check Russian ambitions in the Near East.

Gibson (William). The Farrier's New Guide, Containing, First, The Anatomy of a Horse... Secondly, An Account of all the Diseases incident to horses..., 2 parts in one volume, 8th edition, London: T. Longman, 1735, folding frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, armorial bookplate & ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary notations to endpapers, light occasional spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary calf, joints worn, boards rubbed, corners bumped, 8voQty: (1)

Beckman (John). A History of Inventions and Discoveries, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, Walker & Co. et al, 1814, contemporary polished calf with gilt-decorated spines, short split to lower front hinge of volume 2, some wear to head of spine of volume 3, hinges of volume 4 split but holding, 8voQty: (4)NOTESA handsome copy of this work which was first published in German between 1782 and 1805. It was first published in English in 3 volumes in 1797 and here enlarged into 4 volumes.

Basilisk Press. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, 2 volumes, limited edition, London: Basilisk Press, 1974-75, the first volume a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in red and black, the second volume with illustrations including many tipped in, first volume uncut, original patterned cloth from a design by William Morris in slipcase, slipcase slightly rubbed, folio, limited edition of 515 un-numbered copiesQty: (2)

Ozanam (Jacques). Recreations Mathematical and Physical; Laying Down, and Solving many Profitable and Delightful Problems of Arithmetick, Geometry, Opticks, Economicks, Cosmography, Mechanics, Physicks, and Pyrotechny, 1st edition in English, R. Bonwick et al, 1708, [38], 129, 192-530, [4] pages, 28 engraved plates and numerous woodcuts, 4 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, some light browning, armorial bookplate of Bosville with the signature on the bookplate of Godfrey Bosville (1654-1714, J.P. and High Sheriff of Yorkshire), contemporary panelled calf, old reback preserving original label, some corner wear, 8voQty: (1)NOTESESTC T99808. Scarce first English edition of this much reprinted work first published in Paris in 1694. The work also covers card games, conjuring, sundials, water clocks and so forth.

Pennant (Thomas). History of Quadrupeds, 2 volumes, London: B. & J. White, 1793, engraved vignette title to each and 111 plates by Peter Mazell (correct as listed), occasional closed tears mostly to blank margins (including two repaired closed tears in volume 2), scattered spotting throughout, edges untrimmed, modern tan calf by H. Smith of Norwich, blind diced panel to boards, 4to, together with: Ibid., British Zoology, 4 volumes, 4th edition, Warrington: printed by William Eyres for Benjamin White, London, 1776-1777, 284 engraved plates only including divisional titles (a few folding, lacking plate of samlet & trout), leaf a4 of preface to first volume with diagonal excision to upper blank margin, occasional spotting & some offsetting, armorial bookplate of John Daniel to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 4toQty: (6)

Pennant (Thomas). The Journey from Chester to London, London: B. White, 1782, engraved title and 22 plates, scattered spotting, browning and some offsetting, contemporary navy blue half calf, gilt decorated spine, marbled sides, joints rubbed and some wear at head of spine, 4to, together with: Ibid., A Tour in Scotland. MMDCCLXIX, Chester: printed by John Monk, 1771, 18 engraved plates, name of author written to title, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked at head, 8vo, [Young, Arthur], A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 3rd edition, corrected & enlarged, London: W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, T. Cadell, et al., 1772, engraved frontispiece and one other plate, 5 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, light scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, modern half calf, marbled sides, 8vo, and three others, Pennant (Thomas), A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor, 1801, contemporary half calf, large 4to; Smith (Henry Ecroyd), Reliquiae Isurianae: The remains of the Roman Isurium, (now Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire), 1852, folding lithograph frontispiece (with repaired closed tear), and numerous plates (some folding), modern maroon mock leather, large 4to; and Allen (Thomas & Whittock, Nathaniel), History of the Counties of Surrey and Sussex, 1829, engraved title to first volume (without title to second volume), numerous engraved plates on India paper, modern half sheep, marbled sides, 8voQty: (7)

Watkins (John). Life, Poetry, and Letters of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer. With an abstract of his politics, 1st edition, London: John Mortimer, 1850, original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and some soiling, with a little fraying to head and foot of spine, ownership signature of Edgell Rickword, dated 31.3.39 to front endpaper, 8vo, together with: Walton (Izaak, and Charles Cotton). The Complete Angler, extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original paintings and drawings, by first-rate artists. To which are added, an introductory essay... and illustrative notes, 3rd edition, London, J. Major, 1835, monochrome engraved plates (one re-hinged), all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated morocco, worn, with upper cover detached, and some loss to head of spine, 8vo Pocock (Noel). Below zero, A Travesty of Winter Sport, with verses adapted to the occasion by A. E. Johnson, London: Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1910, tipped-in colour plates, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and soiled, a little fraying to spine, 4to, and other antiquarian and illustrated books, some leather-bound, including Adam's Sinchronological Chart or Map of History, circa 1870, T. E. Lawrence, A Brief Record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1919, & Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 11th impression, 1938 (in worn dustwrapper), John Lovell, The Swiss Family Robinson, Cassell Petter and Galpin, circa 1860s (very good copy in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth), Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry Clarke, London, George C. Harrap, re-printed 1931, original green cloth, spine somewhat faded and near-detached, 2 early to mid 19th-century scrap albums, containing drawings, watercolours, engravings and a few photographs with manuscript verse, The Duenna: A Comic Opera, London, printed for E. Johnson, 1776, etc.Qty: (3 or 4 cartons)

Abi Zayd (Ibn). First Steps in Muslim Jurisprudence: consisting of excerpts from Bakurat al-sa'd of Ibn Abu Zayd, translated by Alexander David Russell and Abdullah Al-Ma'M?n Suhrawardy, 1st edition, London, Luzac and Co, 1963, 121pp., original boards, some mild toning to boards & spine, 8voQty: (1)NOTESScarce, has never appeared at auction. From the library of Edward Henderson (1917-1995), British diplomat and Ambassador to Qatar.

Harris (John). Lexicon Technicum: Or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Dan Brown, Tim Goodwin, et al, 1704-1710, titles printed in red and black, each volume with 7 engraved plates, volume 1 lacking the portrait of Harris, some light browning to a few leaves in the second volume and a worm track in the upper inner margin of volume 1 affecting title of preliminaries but not near text, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines relaid, slight variation in panelling on boards, folioQty: (2)NOTESSubscriber's copy with the signature of Richard Wyne, a subscriber in each volume. Isaac Newton was another subscriber to this first important modern scientific encylopaedia.

Dallington (Sir Robert). Aphorismes civill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, 1st edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Edward Blount, 1613, engraved portrait of Prince Charles to title verso, woodcut printer's device on title, marginal damp-staining throughout (occasionally affecting text), lacking boards, spine extremities bumped with loss, lacking two raised bands, 4toQty: (1)STC 6197.Dallington first presented Prince Henry with Guicciardini's manuscript of Aphorisms in 1609. However after the Prince's untimely passing, Dallington edited the work, publishing it in 1613 with a new dedication to his younger brother Charles.

Malcolm (James Peller). Views within Twelve Miles Round London ... and described by Mr. Lysons in his Environs of London, vol.1 [all published], London: printed by John Nichols, 1800, 73 engraved plates (few hand-coloured or partially so), some spotting mostly to margins, front endpaper with armorial bookplate of William Danby, and bookplate of Robert Frederick Green 1909, and two 20th century ownership inscriptions, contemporary half calf, red morocco title label to upper board, spine worn with loss, 4to, together with: Ibid., Londinium Redivivum, or, an ancient history and modern description of London..., 4 volumes, London: printed by John Nichols & Son, 1803-07, engraved titles, 45 engraved plates, scattered spotting and some toning, Syndale bookplate to upper pastedowns, hinges repaired, contemporary gilt & blind panelled calf, rebacked, spines rubbed, 4to, Seymour (Robert), An Accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: with a complete history of ST. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey..., London: printed and sold by the booksellers in City Town and Country, 1736, light toning, armorial bookplate of Samuel Ryland to upper pastedown, contemporary reversed calf, remnants of morocco title label to spine, upper joint cracked, head of spine frayed, 4to, Perlin (Etienne), Description des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse. Compose? par Estienne Perlin, Par[is] 1558. Histoire de l'entreee de la Reine Mere dans la Grande Bretagne, par P. de la Serre, [Par[is] 1639. Illustrated with cuts and English notes, London: Re-printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for T. Payne and W. Brown, 1775, two engraved plates (one folding), scattered spotting and toning, later endpapers, all edge gilt, contemporary calf, gilt embossed armorial crest with Earl's coronet above to centre of each board, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine, darkened & rubbed to spine, 4to, and four other volumes, Pennant (Thomas), Some Account of London, 2nd edition, 1791, and Knight (Charles), London, 6 volumes in three, 1851Qty: (11)NOTESFirst title - ESTC T100696 (only four locations found). The entry in ESTC describes the composition of the volume as titlepage, two leaves of ’Index to Malcolm’s plates for Lysons’s Environs of London.’, and seventy plates. The example in this lot contains 73 plates.

Bayley (John). The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, 2 volumes, London: T. Cadell, 1821-25, half-titles, 27 engraved plates (including frontispiece to first volume and one double-page plate), notice to binders slip present, edges untrimmed, 20th century cloth-backed boards, 4to, together with: Pennant (Thomas), Of London, 1st edition, London: Robert Faulder, 1790, engraved portrait frontispiece and title, folding engraved plan, 13 engraved plates (including two double-page), light scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of William Long to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, gilt ruled border to boards, joints slightly cracked, light fraying at head & foot of spine, 4to, Dibdin (Thomas Frognall), Aedes Althorpianae; or An Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John Earl Spencer..., volume 1 only (of 2), London: Shakspere Press, 1822, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece spotted and offset to title, 30 engraved plates (including double-page plan), few engraved illustrations on India paper, some offsetting and spotting, Hull Subscription Library label to upper pastedown (dated Aug. 14 1850), contemporary gilt decorated calf, modern amateur reback, 4toQty: (4)

Richardson (John). The Philosophical Principles of the Science of Brewing; containing Theoretic Hints on an improved Practice of Brewing Malt-Liquors; and Statical Estimates of the Materials for Brewing, or A Treatise on the Application and Use of the Saccharometer; being New Editions, corrected, of those Treatises, with the addition of the Use of the Saccharometer Simplified..., 1st edition, York: A. Ward et al, 1788, folding plate, signed by the author (as often) on the postscript (page 247), contemporary calf, some wear to head and foot of spine, and upper board, 8voQty: (1)NOTESAn uncommon work in the first edition. Richardson, from Hull in Yorkshire, is noted as the first writer to treat brewing processes scientifically.

Coke (Edward). The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: or, a Commentary upon Littleton,..., 12th edition, London: printed by E. & R. Nutt, & R. Gosling, 1738, black & white portrait frontispiece, folding plate to pp.19, some light spotting & toning throughout, rebound with modern calf spine retaining contemporary full calf boards, boards rubbed with minor loss, folio, together with: Hale (Matthew), Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of the Pleas of the Crown, 2 volumes, London: printed by E. & R. Nutt, & R. Gosling, 1736, black & white engraved folding portrait frontispiece, some light toning & offsetting, rebound with modern calf spine retaining contemporary full calf boards, boards slightly rubbed with minor loss, folio Blackstone (Edward), Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 volumes, 13th edition, London: printed by A. Strahan, 1800, 4 black & white portrait frontispieces, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some minor marginal toning, contemporary uniform 'tree' calf, hinges cracked, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 18th & 19th-century law reference, including A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason,..., 11 volumes (bound in 6), by Francis Hargrave, 4th edition, London: printed by T. Wright, 1776, folio, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (approximately 110 volumes)Qty: (6 shelves & a carton)

* Dodd (George). Dodd’s Curiosities of Industry, 1st edition, H. Lea, [1852?],portrait frontispiece of Benjamin Franklin, advert leaf, 14 separately paginated sections, each of 24 pages, pp. 3-10 of ‘Gold’ torn across and neatly repaired, uncut and largely unopened, original cloth gilt, 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe first collected edition of a series of papers on British industries; the paper on ‘the Calculating and Registering machines contains a 6-page account of Babbage’s Difference Engine no. 1 and a notice of the Analytical Machine.

Ian Fleming: The Book Club editions of James Bond Stories, including Thunderball, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, and You Only Live Twice, and other books (10)J.K.Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hardback First Edition 2005 with dust cover; Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Hardback First Edition 2007 with dust cover; paperback editions of The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, all Bloomsbury; The Tales of Beedle the Bard 2008 (6)

MASEFIELD, John, Odtaa, 1926. Signed limited edition of 275 copies, quarter vellum; The Taking of Helen, 1923, signed limited edition of 780 copies, quarter vellum; Minnie Maylow's Story, 1931, signed limited edition of 375 copies, brown cloth, cloth marked; The Dream, no date, signed by John and Judith Mansfield; and 5 other John Masefield first editions (9)

FLEMING, Ian, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963, first edition. Price-clipped dust wrapper, a little silver fish damage at head and tail of dust wrapper spine

GREENE, Graham, A Burnt-Out Case. Heinemann, 1st edition 1961, in dust wrapper. With other modern first editions (3 boxes)

After Tim Nolan (British, late 20th/21stC). Lightning F.6, special edition print to commemorate the first flight of English electric P1 WG760 on the 4th August 1954, limited edition 402/450, signed, and signed by Jimmy Dell and Roland Beamont, 50cm x 85cm.

A Franklin Mint The Worlds Greatest Bank Notes silver ingot collection, first edition proof set, limited edition, cased with certificates.

in the years 1797 and 1798. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1801-04. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 1 folding map, bookplate of James Graham, contemporary diced russia gilt, map with tiny hole at centre fold and strengthened on verso, joints rubbed, vol. 2 joints splitting, a very few pages spotted

London: Richard Phillips, [1807], First edition, 4to, folding map, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, map slightly spotted, slightly rubbed

Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1770. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary calf, head of spine slightly rubbed

Edinburgh: John Bell &c., 1788. First edition, 4to, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, black morocco label

London: for the author, 1756. First edition, 4to, folding frontispiece and 13 folding plates, strip torn from lower margin of two Contents leaves, contemporary half calf, title-page very soiled, binding worn; Ferguson, James Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles... eighth edition. London, 1790. 8vo, folding frontispiece and 17 folding plates, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label, short tear to plate 10

London: Darton & Harvey, 1805, First edition, 2 volumes, folio, engraved titles & 84 plates, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, slight dampstain to inner upper corner of volume 2 towards end, tear at foot of spine of second volume