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China - Wright (The Rev. George Newenham) & Allom (Thomas, illustrator), China, In a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire, four-volume set, first edition, [London]: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1843], each volume with additional steel-engraved title-pages, illustrated topographical named-view steel engravings, contemporary pictorial red cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, cream yellow endpapers, 4to, [Cordier Sinica 80-81; Lust 363], [4]

Classics - Livy & Ruperti (Georg Alexander, editor), T. Livii Patavini Historiarvm [...], six-volume set, first edition thus, Göttingen: Carl Friedrich Günther Ruprecht, 1807-1808, contemporary English Regency diced calf gilt, marbled edges, drab endpapers, 8vo, (6); Horace, The Odes and Satyrs [...], London: Jacob Tonson, 1715, contemporary calf (covers present but detached), armorial spine crested in gilt, flyleaf with ink MS ownership inscription: C Hart/August 1/1802, 12mo, (1); Virgil & Dryden (John), The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis, three-volume set, sixth edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1730, contemporary calf (tired), volume I title with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: S: Phellps/1735, 12mo, (3); miscellaneous volumes of Homer, including Pope's translation, (4); etc., [15]

Cooke (John Henry), Ida, or The Mystery of the Nun's Grave at Vale Royal Abbey, Chester: An Historical Novel [...], signed by the author, 152 of the 300 limited quarto editions, first and only edition, Chester: Phillipson & Golder, 1912, title-page printed in red and black, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, contemporary quarter-vellum over lettered yellow cloth, top-edge cut, the others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Cookery - Cust (The Honourable Lady), The Invalid's Own Book: A Collection of Recipes from Various Books and Various Countries, first edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853, contemporary pink cloth, 12mo, (1); Dods (Mistress Margaret), [pseud. Johnstone (Mrs Christian Isobel], The Cook and Housewife's Manual [...], seventh edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842, defective title-page, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Cre-Fydd, Meals for the Million [...], second edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1869, contemporary cloth, 12mo, (1); Holland (Mrs Mary), The Complete Economical Cook [...], fourteenth edition, London: Thomas Tegg, 1839, rebacked contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Bishop (Frederick), The Wife's Own Book of Cookery [...], Illustrated with 250 Descriptive Engravings, ?first edition, London: Ward and Lock, [n.d., ?1856], contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Beaty-Pownall (S), A Book of Sauces, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1896, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Francatelli (Charles Elmé), The Modern Cook [...], twenty-sixth edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (1); [Rundell (Maria)], The New System of Domestic Cookery [...], London: William Tegg and Co., 1876, rebacked contemporary cloth, 12mo, (1), [8]

Cookery - De Mauduit (Vicomte) & Shepard (Mary, illustrator), The Vicomte in the Kithcenette [...], first edition, London: Stanley Nott, 1934, pictorial dustjacket, cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Madge's Book of Cookery [...], London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1901, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Landon (Major James Henry), The Pytchley Book of Refined Cookery, fifth edition, London: [n.d.], red cloth, 8vo, (1); Bradshaw (Grace), The High School Cookery Book, with Diagrams, London: 1916, cloth over wrappers, 8vo, (1); Provincial Kent Imprint, Brownscombe (Mrs W.), 228 Common Sense Recipes [...], Maidstone: 1906, cloth over advert-printed boards, 8vo, (1); Henry (May), Halford (Kate), & Bright (G. Lilian, illustrator), Dainty Dinners and Dishes for Jewish Families, third edition, London: 1916, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Macrae (Mrs Stuart), The Ingle-Nook Cookery Book, London: 1910, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Anton (Mrs G.), The Modern Cookery Book, Containing 500 Practical and Favourite Recipes, Kidderminster: 1911, blue cloth, tall 8vo, (1); two copies, Craies (Euterpe), Recipes from East and West, London: [1912], blue cloth, 8vo, (2); Tested Recipes, London: 1907, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Peel's Savouries Simplified, London: [n.d.], original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Charles Herman Senn, (3); Filippini's Desserts; etc., [31]

Cookery - Jewish Cuisine, Hertz (Rebecca), Die Praktische Israelitische Ko?chin [...], ?first edition, Hamburg: B. G. Berendsohn, 1869, entirely printed in Fraktur, contemporary cloth over boards, 8vo, (1); Landemare (Georgina) & Nankivell (Selma, illustrator), Recipes from No. 10, Some Practical Recipes for Discerning Cooks, first edition, London: Collins, 1958, cloth boards only, 8vo, (1); Miss Smallwood's Goodies: East Sweetmeat Making at Home, second edition, [n.d.], original wrappers, square 12mo, (1); three copies, Mrs Beeton's Household Management, mixed 20th century editions, (3); The Hay System, first edition, London: 1938, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Saxon (Edgar), Simple and Attractive Food Reform, Rochford: 1948, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); two copies, Good Things, Made, Said & Done, for Every Home & Household, twenty-sixth & thirty-fourth editions, Leeds: 1890 & 1896, contemporary cloth, 24mo, (2); Morphy (Countess), The Polyglot Cookery Books: English-German, two-volume set, London: 1954, 8vo, (2); Folio Society, (1); Larousse Gastronomique; etc., [20]

Cookery - two copies, Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book [...], London: 1906 & 1923, b/w and colour plates, contemporary bindings, large 8vo, (2); Dowie (Minnie), Mrs Minnie Dowie's Cookery Book and Household Management, Comprising 900 Cookery Recipes [...], first and ?only edition, London: Maclaren & Company, [n.d., c. 1900], b/w portrait frontispiece, cloth, 8vo, (1); Richards (A.A.), Tomato and Cucumber Culture, second edition, London: 1946, pictorial dustjacket, cloth, 8vo, (1); Lister (Stephen), [psued. Gerahty (Digby George), & BIRO (illustrator), Fit for a Bishop, or How to keep a Fat Priest in Prime Condition, first edition, third printing, London: Peter Davies, 1959, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [12]

Dart (John), Westmonasterium, or The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster [...], To which is added Westminster Abbey, A Poem [...], two volumes bound as one, of which volume I is the thick paper issue, first edition, London: Printed & Sold by James Cole [...], [1723-24], copperplate-printed, illustrated with a portrait mezzotint of the author by John Faber Junior (1684- 1756), 136 engravings (of which 4 are two-page) and inclusive of the 7 plates of subscribers' coats of arms, engraved historiated initials and in-text vignettes, later 19th century calf gilt (disbound, chipped, rubbed, and with losses (including the spine)), folio (41.5cm x 26.5cm), [1]

De La Motte Fouqué (Friedrich), Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), & Courtney (W.L., translator), Undine, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, 1909, title-page printed in black and green, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial blue cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, 8vo, [1]

Decorative Art - MacQuoid (Percy, R.I.), A History of English Furniture, four-volume set, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, [n.d., ?1938], colour plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folios, (4); Jourdain (M.), English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650) [...], first edition, London: B.T. Batsford, 1924, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folio, (1); Lenygon (Francis), Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760, second edition, London: B.T. Batsford, 1927, b/w plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folio, (1), [6]

Detmold (Edward J., illustrator), The Fables of Æsop, first trade edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1909], tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, 4to, [1]

Dickens (Charles) & Browne (Hablot K., illustrator), Little Dorrit, first edition thus, first issue, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, quires CC and DD transposed, lacking etched frontispiece and additional title-page, a few neat marginal repairs, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, the back sympathetically refurbished, the interior pastedowns reinforced at the gutter, 8vo, [1]First issue with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" at page 371; "William" instead of "Frederick" on page 317, line 27; and the name "Rigaud" appears instead of "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473.

Domesticity - Local Provincial Imprint, Anon, [Selwyn (John Murray)], The Servant's Companion, and Useful Guide [...], Containing Numerous useful Receipts and Tales, By An Experienced Housekeeper, first edition, Derby: Printed by G. Wilkins and Son, [n.d., c. 1820], pp: iv, 5, 60, contemporary limp calf enclosing original pink paper wrappers, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: W.A. Nicholson, Mar: 2/1821, 8vo, (1); Periodical, The Family Economist; A Penny Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Moral, Physical, and Domestic Improvement of the Industrious Classes, 1848-1853, bound as two volumes, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (2), [3]

Edwardian and Later Politics - Autographed by Stanley Baldwin, Grondona (L. St. Clare), The Kangaroo Keeps on Talking [...], With an Introduction by [...] Stanley Baldwin (which here is signed by him in ink MS), second impression, London: The Victoria Publishing House, 1924, cloth, 8vo, (1); Raymond (E.T.), Mr. Lloyd George: A Biography, first edition, London: Collins, 1922, rare with dustjacket, cloth, 8vo, (1); Du Parcq (Herbert), Life of David Lloyd George, four-volume set, London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1912, contemporary red cloth, 4to, (1); Balfour (Arthur, M.P.), Decadence: Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, first and only edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1908, blue cloth, Ex Libris Fergus Wood M.A., Oxon. Clerk, 8vo, (1); Asquith (The Earl of Oxford &), Speeches, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1927, d/j, black cloth, 8vo, (1); Asquith's memoirs, two-volume set, (2); etc., [15]

Flint (William Russell, illustrator), The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's, number 34 from a limited edition of 500, Now Printed in the Authorised Version [...], London: Philip Lee Warner/Publisher to the Medici Society, 1909, printed on Riccardi paper, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, loosely inserted invitation to Flint's eponymous exhibition at The Medici Society's Galleries, Piccadilly, London, W., hessian cloth over grey papered boards, upper-cover with printed title-label, 4to, (1); Models of Propriety, first edition, second impression, London: 1951, in-text sepia illustrations, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 4to, (1); Works by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, 1962, colour plates, original wrappers, 8vo, (1), [3]

Gardening - Dami (Luigi), Il Giardino Italiano, first edition, Milano: Casa Editrice D'Arte Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1924, pp: 61, [iv], 351 b/w full-page illustrations of Renaissance and later prints and photographs of Italian formal gardens, contemporary green cloth, gilt-lettered black roan labels to upper-cover and spine, folio (34.5cm x 25.5cm), [1]

Gardening - Green (David), Gardener to Queen Anne: Henry Wise (1653-1738) and the Formal Garden, first edition, Oxford University Press: 1956, pp: xx, 232, frontispiece and a further 53 b/w plates, 1 in-text illustration after Sir James Thornhill, pictorial dustjacket designed by Felix Kelly, green cloth boards, 4to, [1]

Gay (The late Mr John), Fables, two-volume set, mixed editions: volume I, fifth edition, volume II, first edition, London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts, [&], J. and P. Knapton, 1737-1738, volume I with title-page vignette and in-text copperplate engravings by Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) after various hands, volume II with a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and full-page engravings by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin (1698-1755), after Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773), contemporary calf (rubbed and worn, with a few losses), 8vo, [2] Provenance: Sir George Beaumont, 6th Baronet Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire (1726?1762), volume II with his contemporary ink MS ownership inscription dated April the 18th/1739, his later Chippendale Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of volume I only. The pastedowns are illustrated, presumably by the baronet with pen and ink drawings of horsemen, horses, and facial studies.

Geology - Goldschmidt (The Late V.M.) & Muir (Alex, editor), Geochemistry, first edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954, dustjacket over blue buckram, 8vo, (1); Dines (H.G.), The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England, two-volume set, first and only edition, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956, folding loose maps, b/w plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2); Africa, Colonial geology surveys and reports, primarily Tanganyika, including The Mineral Resources of Tanganyika Territory, third edition, 1946, green cloth, 8vo, others, original wrappers, (20); Tanzania and Kilimanjaro, (4); UK regional geological surveys, all with original wrappers; some geological society journals and offprints; hardback reference, some academic imprints; etc., [approx. 50]

Golden Cockerel Press - Chamfort (Nicolas) & Mathers (E. Powys, translator), Maxims and Considerations, two-volume set, number 251 from a limited edition of 550, 1926, titles printed in red, blue, and black, contemporary vellum over blue papered boards, fragmentary pictorial dustjackets, untrimmed edges, a couple of sporadic blind stamps, 8vo, (2); Scott (Walter Sidney, editor), two titles: Shelley at Oxford [...], [&] Harriet & Mary [...], numbers 315 & 353 from a limited edition of 500, printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, gilt-lettered morocco over blue buckram, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, (2); Coppard (Alfred Edgar) & Gibbings (Robert, illustrator), The Hundredth Story, first book printed in 'Golden Cockerel' type, number 433 from a limited edition of 1,000, 1931, contemporary green morocco over patterned boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, stamped, top-edge gilt, other untrimmed, pictorial bookplate: Séan Ó Corcora, 8vo, (1); Whitfield (Christopher) & Sandford (Lettice, illustrator), Lady from Yesterday, 1939, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Miller (Patrick) & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), Ana the Runner: A Treatise for Princes & Generals Attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul, 1937, original wrappers (chipped spine), 8vo, (1); Calderon (V.G.), Phibbs (Richard, translator), & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), The White Llama, being La Venganza del Condor, 1938, original wrappers, 8vo, (1), [8]

Golden Cockerel Press - Lucas (Frank Laurence, translator) & Severin (Mark, illustrator), The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, A New Translation [...], with Ten Engravings, first edition, number 264 from a limited edition of 750, The Golden Cockerel Press: 1948, printed in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types on Arnold's mould-made paper, parallel verse in English and Ancient Greek, pp: 35, [1] (colophon), black quarter-morocco over terracotta cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamped, vertically gilt-lettered back flanked by fleurons, the pictorial upper-cover gilt with the Birth of Aphrodite, untrimmed edges, tall 8vo, [1]

Golden Cockerel Press - Travel, Swire (Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert, R.N.), The Voyage of the Challenger: A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, two-volume set, first edition, copy number 167 from a limited edition of 300, The Golden Cockerel Press: 1938, printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper, hand-coloured frontispieces, monochrome in-text illustrations, volume I with map endpapers (recto only), gilt pictorial vellum-coloured buckram over teal cloth, slipcase en suite, folios (32cm x 20cm), [2]

Hitler (Adolf), Mein Hitler, Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes In One, London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., October 1939, portrait frontispiece, contemporary cloth (splits, worn), 8vo, (1); Left Book Club Editions, Heiden (Konrad) & Manheim (Ralph), Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Powers, Books I & II (complete, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944, papered boards, 8vo, (2), &, Citizen Toussaint, 1945, conforming binding, 8vo, (1); Vansittart (Sir Robert), Black Record: Germans Past and Present, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1941, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); etc., [6]

Housman (Clemence) & (Laurence, illustrator), The Were-Wolf, first edition, London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1896, title-page printed in orange, pp: [iv], 123, [1] (colophon leaf); 16 (publisher's catalogue), illustrated with 6 wood engravings, each of which are monogrammed within the platemark and prefixed with their own captioned paper guard, contemporary cloth gilt (faded, bleached), edges untrimmed, 8vo, [1] The Were-Wolf features Laurence Housman's last illustrations, by 1898 he had "stopped producing book illustration since the strain of his intricate drawings affected his poor eyesight" (Zipes).Provenance: Halsey Ricardo (1854-1928), Aesthetic Movement architect and designer, some time partner of William de Morgan (1839-1917); his ink MS ownership inscription to front flyleaf.

India - Railwayana, Indian Imprint, Brinkworth (R.E.), Locomotive Maintenance (Carriage and Wagon, Shop and Shed Practice) and Operation, ?first and only edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., Ltd., 1938, b/w fold-out plans and charts, in-text illustrations and diagrams, contemporary cloth over boards, 4to, [1]

Ingoldsby (Thomas), [pseud. Barham (Richard Harris)], & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, first edition thus, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907, title-page printed in olive and sepia, tipped-in colour plate, contemporary pictorial cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, tipped-in MS label to endpaper, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, [1]

Irving (Washington) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Rip Van Winkle, first special edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary brown sheep, pictorial gilt and lettering direct, pictorial endpapers, top-edge gilt, 4to, [1]

Latchford (Benjamin), The Loriner, Opinions and Observations on Biddle-Bits and the Suitable Bitting of Horse, with Illustrations [...], first and only edition, London: Printed by Nichols, Son, & Co., 1871, illustrated with full-page lithographs, rebacked contemporary green cloth board, upper-cover gilt-lettered, 4to, [1]

Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence (T.E.), The Mint: A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross, first edition, No. 1089 of a limited edition of 2000, London: Jonathan Cape, 1955, printed at the Alden Press, Oxford, on Spalding & Hodge paper, contemporary blue morocco gilt over blue cloth by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd., London, marbled endpapers, as issued, with papered slip case en suite, 4to, (1); two copies, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph, third and fifth impressions, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, the third impression complete with dustjacket, contemporary cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Garnett (David, editor), The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Graves (Robert), Lawrence and the Arabs, third impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1937, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1), [5]

Legal History, the Commonwealth of England & the Cromwellian Protectorate - Sheppard (William), An Epitome of all the Common & Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in force. Wherein more than Fifteen hundred of the hardest Words or Terms of the Law are Explained; And all the most useful and profitable Heads or Titles of the Law by way of Common Place, Largely, Plainly, and Methodically handled. With an Alphabetical Tables, first edition, London: Printed for W. Lee [...], 1656, printed in Roman and Italic, black-ruled title-page, historiated and foliate initials, collates complete: [A1-A4], b-e2, B- [I4], K-[T4], V-[V4], X-Z4, Aa-[Ii4], Kk-[Tt4], Vv-[Vv4], Xx-[Zz4], Aaa-[Iii4], Kkk-[Uuu4], Xxx-[Zzz4], Aaaa-[Iiii4], Kkkk-[Uuuu4], Xxxx-[Zzzz4], Aaaaa-[Iiiii4], Kkkkk-[Uuuuu4], Xxxxx-[Zzzzz4], Aaaaaa-[Iiiiii4], Kkkkkk-[Uuuuuu4], Xxxxxx-[Zzzzzz4], Aaaaaaa-[Eeeeeee2], contemporary legal calf, blind-ruled, lower-cover exposed board only, spine perished in places but holding, the top fore-edge horizontally inscribed with the author's surname, 4to, [1]

L'Estrange (Sir Roger, Kt), Fables, of Aesop/And other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions, first edition, London: Printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J. Hindmarsh, 1692, some Gothic Black Letter printing, lacking portrait frontispiece, 1 etched and engraved plate, repaired title-page with chipped loss to lower-right margin, rebacked and relayed contemporary two-tone panelled calf, refreshed endpapers, 4to, [Wing A706], [1]

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

Literature - Utopian Novel, [Berington (Simon)], The Memoirs of Sigr Gaudentio di Lucca [...], first edition, London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1737, 20th century institutional quarter-morocco over red buckram, their stamps, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription dated 1755, 8vo, (1); Byron (Lord), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt, second edition, London: John Murray, 1812, contemporary marbled boards (detached, perished spine), 8vo, (1); Dickens (Charles), Bleak House, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, crudely repaired contemporary binidng, 8vo, (faults), (1); Poems on Affiars of State [...], volume IV, London: 1707, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, later blind-blocked with the armorial supralibros of Gerald Poynton Mander (1885 -1951), the Midlands antiquarian and bibliophile, is Tettenhall Wood library book label to pastedown, 8vo, (1); Inchbald's Farces, six-volumes only, London: 1815, 12mo, (6); two miscellaneous pocket volumes of Shakespeare, (2); further 18th century pocket volumes and bindings, various; Virgil's Aeneid, Plutarch, and other Classics; Izaak Walton's Compleat (sic) Angler, facsimile of the 1653 first edition, leather, 8vo, (1); The Waverley Dickens, various; etc., [2 boxes]

Local Interest - Clay (Philip S.) & Richards (J.H.), City of Nottingham: Official Record of the Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria [...], first and only edition, Nottingham: James Bell & Son, 1898, red-ruled, illustrated, green cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Wylie's Old and New Nottingham, [n.d., 1853], cloth (faults), 8vo, (1); Sutton (John F.), The Date-Book of Nottingham, 1750-1850, first edition, London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1852, fold-out panorama, cloth, 8vo, (1); Gerring (Charles), A History of the Parish of Gedling [...], first and only edition, Nottingham: Murray's, 1908, cloth, 8vo, (1); Hill (The Rev. Arthur du Boulay, M.A., Rector), East Bridgford, Notts.: The Story of an English Village, first and only edition, Oxford: University Press, 1932, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); further 19th century and later parish histories, various; Southwell; St Mary's, Nottingham, and other ecclesiological studies; Russell (J.W.), Basford Guardians, 1815-1930: Records and Recollections, Nottingham: "Trader" Office, [n.d.], cloth, 8vo, (1); The Nottingham Athenæum [...], Volume I, 1860-61, half-calf, 8vo, (1); another, Volume III, 1862, red cloth, 8vo, (1); The Nottingham Magazine [...], November, 1885 - April, 1886, cloth, 8vo, (1); Borough of Nottingham Annual Accounts, 1880-81, cloth, 8vo, (1); Report of the Nottingham Church Congress, October 1871, London: W. Wells Gardner, [n.d., ?1872], cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [approx. 40]

Local Interest - Large Paper Copy, Rayner (Samuel), The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall: Illustrated by Thirty-Two Highly Finished Drawings; with an Account of the Hall in its Present State, two-volume set, subscribers' first edition, Derby: Robert Moseley, 1836, pp: [x], 20; 21-53, [iii], illustrated with stone lithographs printed on India paper and roll-mounted onto thick paper leaves, some of which are in the Proof State and lettered accordingly, contemporary green moiré silk boards, gilt-lettered upper-covers, pastedowns with contemporary Moseley and Derbyshire Museum tickets, engraved and printed on red paper, some loosely-inserted related ephemera, medium folios (43cm x 34.5cm), [2]

Local Interest - Military History, Wylly (Colonel H.C., C.B.): The 1st and 2nd Battalions The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in the Great War, first edition, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., [n.d., 1926], fold-out and loosely inserted maps, contemporary three-quarter morocco over cloth gilt, the cover centred by the regimental badge, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, the regimental museum's copy, their neat stamp to recto of front-free endpaper, 4to, (1); another copy, similar, cloth, (1); History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions/The Sherwood Foresters/Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 1710-1914, two-volume set, first edition, Frome and London: Butler & Tanner Ltd., 1929, fold-out and full-page maps and plates, contemporary two-tone cloth, 4to, (2); Periodical, 2nd Vol. Batt. Sherwood Foresters Gazette, Volumes I-II: No. 1, November 1st, 1894 - No. 23, September 1st, 1896, contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered covers, 4to, (2); Regimental Annuals, 1932-1938, contemporary two-tone cloth, 8vo, (7); another, 1932, (1); [14]

Local Interest - Natural History - Ornithology, Whitaker (J.), Notes on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, first and only edition, Nottingham: Walter Black & Co., Ltd., 1907, title-page in red and black, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, some in-text illustrations, contemporary red cloth, 8vo, (1); Carr (J.W.), The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire, Nottingham: Published for the Nottingham Naturalist's Society, 1916, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]

Local Interest - Scarce Large Paper Copy, Croston (James, F.S.A.), Chantrey's Peak Scenery, or Views in Derbyshire [...], with Historical and Topographical Descriptions, first edition, large paper copy, Derby: Frank Murray, 1886, illustrated with 29 full-page wood-engraved plates after Francis Chantrey, contemporary green buckram, gilt-lettered spine, 4to, [1]

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

Medical - Rare Pharmacology: First & Only Edition, Ball (John, M.D., Author of the Modern Practice of Physic), A New Compendious Dispensatory: or, A Select Body Of the most Useful, Accurate, Elegant Medicines, Both Official and Extemporaneous, For the Several Disorders incident to the Human Body/Wherein is contained, in a Summary Way, All that is essentially necessary, either with respect to Physic or Surgery, to answer every Medicinal Intention of Cure/To which is subjoined, The Use, Virtues, and Dose of each particular Form or Prescription/And to render this Compendium still more useful, is added, besides an Index of Medicines, A copious Table of Diseases, With Remedies for their respective Cures/A Work of general Utility, designed and properly calculated as well for the Benefit of private Families, as of young Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, first and only edition, London: Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar), 1769, pp: xii, 310, [2] (advert), 18th century design contemporary calf gilt over marbled boards, refreshed endpapers and flyleaves, 8vo, [1]

Military History - World War One, (Evans (Captain H.K.D., M.C.) & Laing (Major N.O. Laing, D.S.O.), The 4th (Queen's Own Hussars in the Great War, with a Foreword by Right Hon. Winston Churchill, P.C., first and only edition, Aldershot: Printed for the Regimental Committee by Gale & Polden Limited, 1920, illustrated with 7 maps (both full-page and folding) and b/w plates, finely bound in contemporary blue half-morocco over cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Miscellaneous - Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1834, London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1833, steel engravings, rich in those of Indian topography and architecture, contemporary gilt roan over cloth, 4to, (1); Provincial Kent Imprint, Goldfinch (John), The Builder's Concomitant [...], first and only edition, Dover: J. Johnson, 1846, blac-ruled, contemporary black roan over marbled boards, 12mo, (1); Gill (The Rev. William Wyatt), Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, first edition, London: Henry S. King and Co., 1876, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Southey (Robert), The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham [...], two-volume set bound as one, fifth edition, London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811, contemporary Regency diced calf gilt, 8vo, (1); India, Brock (The Rev. William), A Biographical Sketch of Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B., third edition, London: James Nisbet and Co., 1858, portrait frontispiece, contemporary cloth, 12mo, (1); Prize Binding, Smiles (Samuel), Character, London: John Murray, 1896), Merchant Taylors' School prize armorial binding of scarlet calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (1); Tennyson (Alfred), Idylls of the King, first edition, London: Strahan and Co., 1869, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Lubbock, On the Senses of Animals, London: 1888, cloth, 8vo, (1); Gathorne-Hardy, Salmon, London: 1898, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [12]

Modern Fiction - James Bond, 007, Fleming (Ian), six Pan Books paperbacks, comprising Casino Royale, 21st printing, 1965; Moonraker, 20th printing, 1965; From Russia, With Love, 19th printing, 1965; Thunderball, 14th printing, 1965; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 4th printing, 1965; You Only Live Twice, 3rd printing, 1966, (6); Doyle (Arthur Conan), Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Long Stories, first edition in one volume, London: John Murray, 1929, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Penguin Book vintage paperbacks; Edgar Wallace pictorial paperbacks; White Circle Pocket Novels, various; further retro crime stories; P.G. Wodehouse; D.H. Lawrence; other 19th century and later works, various; encyclopaedias, bindings; qty

Natural History ? Bindings, Lydon (Alexander Francis, illustrator), two works: Scripture Quadrupeds, Containing a Description of the Animals Mentioned in the Bible, with Coloured Illustrations, first edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1858, additional hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page, illustrated with 31 full-page hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, contemporary Mill Hill School prize binding of armorial black calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, inscribed presentation plate, 8vo, (1); [uniform with] Scripture Birds [?], first edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, [n.d., ?1858], additional hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page, illustrated with 31 full-page hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, green calf gilt binding en suite with the latter, inscribed presentation plate, 8vo, (1); Botany, Hulme (F. Edward, F.L.S., F.S.A.), Familiar Wild Flowers, Series 1-5, first editions, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [n.d., 1877-1885], each illustrated with 40 coloured chromolithograph plates, monochrome in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, brown endpapers, 8vo, (4); Ornithology, Wood (The Rev. J.G.) & Weir (Harrison, illustrator), My Feathered Friends, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860, illustrated with wood engravings, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, edges untrimmed, 8vo, (1), [8]

Natural History - Colonial Africa, Zimbabwe/Zambia - Government of Northern Rhodesia/A Report on a Faunal Survey of Northern Rhodesia, with Especial Reference to Game, Elephant Control and National Park, Parts A-D as called for, as a two-volume set, first and only edition, Livingstone: Printed and Published by the Government Printer, 1934, pp: [1], xii, 500; Part D clamshell box with maps A-K and Game Warden's Report: Index to Checklist, cloth over printed boards, 8vo, [2] Provenance: Cicely Kate Ricardo Bertram, JP (1912?1999), her ownership stamps to each cover. Kate Bertram was a British academic specialising in East African and Palestinian fisheries, and working with her husband Colin Bertram on sirenea. Part of the 1930s "Cambridge School" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa.

Natural History and Science - [Pluche (Noël Antoine)] & Humphreys ([Samuel], translator), Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd [...], volumes I, III, & IV only, mixed second and fourth editions, London: J. and J. Pemberton, 1739, illustrated with fold-out and full-page engravings, contemporary speckled calf (faults), 12mo, (3); Cherveul (M.E.) & Spanton (John, translator), The Laws of Contrast of Colour [...], first edition thus, yet the second edition overall, London: George Routledge, 1858, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Step (Edward, editor), Anne Pratt's Flowering Plants, eleven parts only, London: Frederick Warne & Co., [n.d., 1899-1905], full-page botanical chromolithographs, original wrappers (splits, faults), (11); Webber (C.W.), Romance of Natural History: or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1853, contemporary pictorial red cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Howitt (William), The Rural Life of England, third edition, London: Longman [...], 1862, illustrated with wood engravings, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); angling;

Natural History, Geology - Livingstone (Alec), Minerals of Scotland: Past and Present, first and only edition, National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited: 2002, illustrated, pictorial wrappers, p/b, oblong 4to, (1); Grimaldi (David A.), Amber: Window to the Past, first edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, d/j, h/b, 4to, (1), [2]

Nonesuch Press, The Holy Bible, The Authorized or King James Version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha/In three volumes with reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon, first edition thus, London: 1963, Designed by Francis Meynell and printed by Brooke Crutchley, Printer to the University, at the University Press Cambridge, titles in elaborate borders, contemporary green cloth gilt, as issued, 8vo, (3); Binding, The Holy Bible, London [n.d., mid-20th century], Jerusalem olivewood boards, 32mo, (1); Edmundson's Journal, second edition, London: 1774, rebacked contemporary speckled calf, 8vo, (1); Gregory (George, D.D.), An History of the Christian Church [...], volume I only, London: 1795, b/w engravings, contemporary speckled calf binding, over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Gisborne (Thomas, M.A.), An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex, second edition, London: T. Cadell jun. [...], 1797, disbound, 8vo, (1); Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Kelly's Edition, London: [n.d., c. 1825], disbound, 8vo, (1); etc., various scripture, theology, and philosophy, [9]

Piracy - Provincial Imprint, Douglas (T.), Lives and Exploits of the Most Celebrated Pirates and Sea Robbers, first edition, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Published by W. & T. Fordyce, 1841, pp: vi, 349, [1] (blank), [ii] (publisher's catalogue), contemporary cloth, 12mo, [1]Provenance: Steven Weston/His Book/Denby/Derbyshire/ 1852, various ink MS ownership inscriptions.

Political and Social Theory and History, Philosophy - Banton (Michael), White and Coloured: The behaviour of British people towards coloured immigrants, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, dustjacket over symbolic two-tone cloth, 8vo, (1); Filmer (Sir Robert) & Laslett (Peter, editor), Patriarcha [...], first edition thus, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Greenleaf, Order, Empiricism and Politics: Two Traditions of English Political Thought, 1964, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Chaboud, Machiavelli & The Renaissance, 1960, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Green, Political Obligation, second impression, 1963, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Bridgen, The Labour Party [...] 1900-1924, 2009, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Kondon, Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment, 2012, h/b, 8vo, (1); Decline of Jute, 2010, h/b, 8vo, (1); further economics, including Adam Smith; further academic titles and imprints, mostly h/b; trade unionism; etc., [approx. 65]

Private Presses - Peele (Cecily, illustrator), The Encylopædia of British Bogies, first edition, Oxford: The Alley Workshops, [n.d., 1939], [52]pp, illustrated with 24 woodcuts accompanied by quotations from literature and folk-lore, contemporary pictorial board, 8vo, (1); Gray (Thomas) & O'Connor (John, illustrator), Elegy/Written in a Country Church-Yard, London: The Rodale Press, 1955, 21pp, printed on pale green paper, illustrated with 7 woodcuts printed in green or brown, original cloth over pictorial boards, transparent lettered dust wrapper as issued, calligraphic ink MS ownership inscription and bookplate of Tom Westley (lecturer in typography), 8vo in 4s, (1); Ryder (John), A Suite of Fleurons [...], London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1956, gilt-lettered parchment over marbled boards, 12mo, (1); Binding, Earle (George Chester), "Love's not Time's Fool.", London: "Clarion" Office, [n.d., c. 1900], 36pp, contemporary Arts and Crafts limp brown calf binding, the upper-cover panelled in relief and lettered in blind, 16mo, (1); others, not private presses, including Keats (John) & Sandheim (May, illustrator), Isbaella [...], London: George Routledge, [n.d., 1910], copperplate etching frontispiece, contemporary cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); etc., [8]

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Cinderella, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, 1919, tipped-in colour frontispiece, b/w silhouette plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial boards only, pictorial endpapers, 8vo, [1]

Railwayana - Robinson (William Heath, illustrator), Railway Ribaldry, Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour, first edition, [London]: Published by The Great Western Railway, Paddington Station, W.2., 1935, pictorial wrappers as issued, 8vo, [1]

Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter: The Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fifth printing, 1997, (1); The Chamber of Secrets, first edition, twentieth printing, 1998, (1); The Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, second printing, 1999, (1); Goblet of Fire, first edition, eighth printing, 2000, (1); Order of the Phoenix, first edition, 2003, (1); The Half-Blood Prince, first edition, 2005, (1); The Deathly Hallows, first edition, 2007, (1), all Bloomsbury imprints, pictorial dustjackets over pictorial dustjackets, 8vo, [7]

Russia - [Alexander (William)], Costume of Russia/Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians, Illustrated in Sixty-Four Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions, ?first octavo edition, London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket; By Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, [n.d., c. 1825], some of the leaves watermarked and dated: J. Green & Son/1825, pp: [ii], iv, [ii] (contents leaf), 64 hand-coloured stipple engravings and letterpress leaves, as called for, rebacked and retaining two fragmentary gilt-lettered morocco pieces, contemporary marbled boards with morocco corners, upper-cover with publisher's paper label, drab endpapers, untrimmed edges, large 8vo (25.5cm x 19.5cm), [Not in Abbey; Colas 2359], [1]Provenance: 1) Henry Owen Aryane, [? 1791-1848, later of New South Wales, Australia], contemporary Plain Armorial bookplate; later examined by Roger Griffiths of Sotheby's, 4th October, 1984, postcard en suite inscribed with a suggested estimate of £75-£100.

Russia - The Crimean War, Nolan (E.H., Ph.D., LL.D.), The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia, two-volume set, first edition, London: James S. Virtue, [n.d., 1856], printed in double-columns, engraved title-pages and full-page steel engravings, some coloured two-page maps, contemporary half-calf over pictorial cloth gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, large 8vo, (2); 20th century Soviet imprints and literature, Russian language and speaking books, various, (7), [9]

Shakespeare - [Halliwell (James Orchard)], A Fragment of Mr. J.O. Halliwell's "Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare"/For Presents Only, number 18 from a limited edition of 50 (inscribed in ink MS on the title-page, ?by the author), London: Printed by J.E. Adlard, 1874, printed in parallel columns, various pagination, pp: 4, 86-91 (being the Appendix to the First Part), contemporary cloth (chipped, disbound), later institutional inscription, stamps, and bookplate, crown folio (39cm x 28.5cm), [1]

Shakespeare (William) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), A Midsummer Night's Dream, first edition, third impression, London: William Heinemann, October 1912, pictorial title-page, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, [1]

Shakespeare (William) & Robinson (William Heath, illustrator), Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dreams, first edition thus, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1914, pictorial half-title and title-page, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, top-edge trimmed only, 4to, [1]

Shelley (Percy Bysshe) & Robinson (Charles, illustrator), The Sensitive Plant, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, [n.d., ?1911], pictorial title-page, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates, in-text vignettes, contemporary purple limp leather (the faded spine perished in a few small places), upper-cover elaborately pictorial gilt, foliate endpapers, top-edge gilt, 4to, [1]