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Africa.- Alexander (Capt. James Edward) Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 18 engraved plates (heavily browned), 2 maps, wood-engraved illustrations, later half morocco, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1837.

King (John) Lectures vpon Ionas, deliuered at Yorke in the yeare of our Lorde 1594, 3 parts in 1, second edition, title with large woodcut printer's devices, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, part of final blank preserved, which bears a contemporary ink index, first title soiled, some worming in text, mostly in small areas, but more pronounced to upper left corners of c. 2O-2R, 2C1 lower corner torn away, touching the odd letter, sig. 2Y frayed, stained and spotted, lightly browned, later calf, new leather label to spine, ring stain to upper cover, worn, [STC 14977; Madan I, p.46], Oxford, by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be solde [in London, by Joan Brome] in Paules Church-yarde at the signe of the Bible, 1599.⁂ John King (d.1621) Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1607-1610, Bishop of London 1611-1621. According to Samuel Purchas he entertained Pocahontas while she was in London in 1617.

Aleman (Mateo) The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman Dr Alfarache, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, second issue, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, short marginal tears (2C6, 2P4), occasional faint marginal staining, lacking 3G6 (?blank) and endpapers, near contemporary, gilt, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached, [STC 289], folio, for Edward Blount, 1623.

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) Lucan's Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole ten bookes. Englished, by Thomas May., first edition of this translation, engraved title with preceding leaf of metrical explanation, dedicatory ff. cancelled, as usual (some supplied in facsimile), [STC 16887], printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Iones. and Iohn Marriott, 1627 bound with May (Thomas) Continuation of Lucan's historicall poem till the death of Julius Cæsar, '2d edition corrected & amended', engraved pictorial title, lacking blanks, outer margin of title strengthened, just touching image, small piece of upper part of this repair missing, [STC 17712], Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for James Boler, 1633, together 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century polished calf, gilt, rebacked, 8vo

NO RESERVE Gaffarel (Jacques) Unheard-of Curiosities: concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians; the Horoscopes of the Patriarkes..., translated by Edmund Chilmead, first English edition, with initial leaf 'Testimony that Leo Allatius gives...', 8pp. bookseller's catalogue at end, lacking 2 folding woodcut plates of Celestial Hebrew Alphabet (as often), contemporary ink inscription to head of title, with later ink inscription "John Hewetson...1858" in ink to verso of initial leaf and neat extensive annotations in ink & pencil to some leaves of text and endpapers, old half calf, spine ruled in gilt with black roan label, rubbed, lower joint split, [Wing G105], 8vo, by G.D. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650.

Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treatises of the Intended Marriage of Qu: Elizsbeth ... comprised in Letters of Negotiation, first edition, lacking title and frontispiece, both supplied in facsimile, lacking front free endpaper, occasional faint spotting, short marginal tear (B3), small hole affecting odd letter (O4), minor marginal soiling to one or two leaves, bookplate, later calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, [Wing D1453], folio, by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1655.

NO RESERVE Mountaineering.- Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, first edition, George Lowe's copy, with his bookplate, frontispiece, plates, 4 maps, of which 3 folding, occasional spotting, original cloth, backstrip detaching, corners worn, stained and rubbed, 1934; and 2 others, Mountaineering & Travel, v.s. (3)⁂ George Lowe (1924-2013) mountaineer, explorer and educator.

Echard (Laurence) The gazetteer's, or Newsman's interpreter: being a geographical index of all the considerable cities, patriarchships, bishopricks, universities, dukedoms, earldoms, and such like; imperial and Hance towns, ports, forts, castles &c. in Europe, first edition, double column, lacking final f. (continuation of advertisements), title little frayed, water-stained, some spotting and finger-marking, lightly browned, disbound, but holding firm, [Wing E144A], 12mo, Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the Kings Arms next St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1692.⁂ Rare at auction (the last copy we can trace sold in 1963), and scarce in institutions (ESTC records 7 copies). Echard (1630-1720) was an English historian and clergyman.

NO RESERVE Bouhours (Dominique) The art of criticism: or, the method of making a right judgment upon subjects of wit and learning. Translated from the best edition of the French, of the famous Father Bohours [sic], by a person of quality. In four dialogues, first edition in English, 2 parts in 1, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for D. Brown...and A. Roper, 1705.⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only two copies (Edinburgh and Folger). A more common variant spells the author's name correctly on the title.

[Ancillon (Charles)] Eunuchism Displayed. Describing all the Different Sorts of Eunuchs, first edition, title within ruled border, 12pp. bookseller's catalogue at end, lacking A1 (?initial blank) as usual but also D12 of text, contemporary ink inscription "Isaac Wood 1718" to head of preliminary leaf, some light browning, engraved bookplate of Frederick Parr, contemporary panelled sheep, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, 12mo, for E.Curll, 1718.⁂ Translation by Robert Samber of Ancillon's Traité des Eunuques of 1707, published by the notorious and unscrupulous bookseller Edmund Curll.

Regicides.- History of the King-Killers (The), 12 monthly parts in 2 vol., second edition vol.1, first edition vol.2, ?lacking engraved frontispiece, each part with separate title, browned, vol.1 with final blank, L2 in Part III and L3 in part V both torn and repaired (the latter rather crudely), modern calf, red morocco labels, 8vo, S.Redmayne, 1719-20.⁂ The title of the first continues: "Or, the 30th of January Commemorated: containing the Lives of Thirty One Fanatick Saints, famous for Treason, Rebellion, &c. Being one for every Day in the Month". The second title continues: "Or, the Fanatick Martyrology...".

Slavery.- [?Haywood (Eliza)] Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America..., first edition, half-title, issue with "and sold" at end of second line of imprint on title and p.1 with woodcut head-piece of cherub and catchword "Words" at foot, 7pp.advertisements at end, some leaves becoming loose, contemporary calf with double gilt fillet border, spine ruled in gilt with green roan label, a little rubbed and marked, joints cracked, 8vo, for J.Freeman, 1743.⁂ Novel based on the life of, and sometimes attributed to, James Annesley who claimed that his uncle, the Earl of Anglesey, had sold him into slavery in an attempt to secure the title for himself. He eventually returned to London and took his uncle to court, successfully retrieving his estates but not his titles before he died in 1744. The story inspired many writers, notably Smollett in Peregrine Pickle, Scott in Guy Mannering, and R.L.Stevenson in Kidnapped.The work takes place partly on plantations in Delaware; sequels were published in two volumes in 1743 and 1747.

Slavery.- Sharp (Granville) The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God, compared with The unbound Chains of the African Traders and British American Slaveholders. With a copious Appendix, first edition, advertisement at end, [Sabin 79823], for B. White, and E. and C. Dilly, 1776, bound with, An Address to the People of England: being the Protest of a Private Person ..., without advertisements at end, 1778, and, A Tract on the Law of Nature and Principles of Action in Man, half-title, inscribed 'The Gift of the Author to J Wills' on verso, without advertisements at end, [Goldsmiths' 11651], for B. White; and E. and C. Dilly, 1775, together 3 works bound as 1, previous owners ink index to front free endpaper, occasional faint spotting, broken lower hinge, contemporary half-calf, lower board lacking marbled paper, rubbed and worn, 8vo.⁂ Granville Sharp (1735-1816) was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of slavery, and in 1787 the founder of Freetown in Sierra Leone, for freed African slaves.

Vice & Debauchery.- [Bourn (Benjamin)] A Sure Guide to Hell...By Belzebub, A New Edition, corrected, lightly browned, especially margins at beginning and end, modern panelled calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label, spine very slightly faded, 12mo, Peter Imp, [?1751].⁂ Satirical guide to young people on how to be admitted to hell through a variety of vices, first published in 1750, possibly in Dublin. Despite being reprinted several times it is still reasonably scarce; of this edition ESTC lists only one UK copy (Bodleian, Oxford) and another 4 in America. Library Hub adds another 4 copies in the UK but not in the British Library.

NO RESERVE World.- Montagu (Irving) Wonderings of a War Artist, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, ink and gilt stamps of Manchester Artillery Officers' Library, W.H. Allen & Co., 1889 § Muston (Rev. Dr. Alexis) The Israel of the Alps: A History of the Persecutions of the Waldenses, translated by William Hazlitt, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title, plates and vignettes, occasional spotting, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, spine faded, 1852; and 5 others, Travel, including a French edition of Shackleton in original pictorial cloth (defective), v.s. (7)

NO RESERVE Cranstoun of Corehouse's set.- Pütter (Johann Stephan) An Historical development of the present political constitution of the Germanic empire, 3 vol., first edition in English, half-titles, engraved pictorial dedication f., occasional spotting and staining, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt and with red morocco labels (that of vol.1 lacking), joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners little worn rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 14103], 8vo, Printed for T. Payne and Son [and others], 1790. ⁂ Provenance: George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850) was a Scottish advocate, judge, satirist, and friend of Sir Walter Scott and the linguist Lord Monboddo (engraved armorial bookplates).

NO RESERVE Prostitution.- Dodd (Rev. William) The Magdalen, or, history of the first penitent prostitute received into that charitable asylum. With anecdotes of other penitents, engraved frontispiece, this detaching, occasional spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, covers detached, worn at extremities, rubbed, 8vo, Printed by T. Maiden for Ann Lemoine, 1801.⁂ A rare edition of this epistolary novel, with no copies recorded by Library Hub.

Economics.- Eden (Sir Frederic Morton) Eight Letters on the Peace and on the Commerce and Manufactures of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, spine faded, rubbed, [Sabin 21824], 8vo, J. Wright, 1802.⁂ Rare.

NO RESERVE Blunt (John Elijah) A History of the Establishment and Residence of The Jews in England, first edition, lightly browned title, occasional faint spotting, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, ink-stamp to title obscuring imprint, abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, modern cloth, 8vo, 1830.

Kennedy (James) Conversations on Religion with Lord Byron and others, large paper copy, typewritten slip tipped-in 'only 12 copies of this large-paper edition (issued simultaneously with the octavo edition) were printed. The present location of the other eleven copies is unknown', front free endpaper detached, occasional faint spotting, without the facsimile of other editions, advertisements at end, signature 'D' becoming loose, broken upper hinge, ex-library with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps, original drab boards, lacking spine label, rubbed, 1830 § Prospectus of the First Complete and Uniform Edition of the Works of the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron, ex-library with pencil shelfmark to title verso, modern cloth-backed boards, 1831 § Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Poetical Works ..., 12 vol., half-titles, titles dated in pencil, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, contemporary parchment spine, modern boards and printed spine labels, browned spines, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, [1891-92]; 4to & 12mo (14)⁂ The last is also known as 'The Bijou Byron.'

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, first issue, additional engraved title, frontispiece and 41 plates by R. Seymour and H.K.Browne ("Phiz"), occasional light toning to plates, contemporary straight-grain morocco with red and brown morocco spine labels, gilt in compartments, g.e., inner dentelles with ornate floral pattern, joints very lightly rubbed and covers lightly stained but overall a remarkably handsome copy, 8vo, 1837.

Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, 40 plates by H.K.Browne ("Phiz"), with the explanation of the accident to plate 17 in part 9, all but 3 lacking the "Household Words" slip, parts 2 6, 7, 11, 13, 16 and 19/20 lacking 1 or 2 additional slips, part 1 lacking the "Mott" and "Camomile" advertisements, all other slips and advertisements otherwise as called for, foxing to plates, original wrappers, parts 1, 10 and 19/20 with upper or lower cover detached, some chipping and tearing, especially to spines, light creasing, preserved in custom folding chemise and slip-case, [Hatton & Cleaver p.273-304], 8vo, 1852-53.

NO RESERVE Nolan (Edward Henry) The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia, 7 vol., plates and illustrations, some spotting or toning, some pages carelessly opened, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines bumped, 1856 § Alderson (General E. A. H.) Pink and Scarlet, first edition, tipped-in plates by Lionel Edwards, some light spotting, original cloth, worn, 1913 § Smyth (John) Great Stories of the Victoria Cross, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, with additionally signed Christmas card loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, 1977; and c.85 others, mainly military and general history, v.s. (c.90)

Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Virginians, first edition in the original 24 parts, plates and illustrations, advertisements, occasional spotting or browning, original yellow paper wrappers, some small blind-stamps or ownership names partially removed to upper wrappers, lightly faded and rubbed, some spines worn, upper wrappers to parts 20 & 24 detached, housed in 2 modern drop-back boxes, 8vo, 1857-9.

[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". Silas Marner, first edition, half-title, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, hinge repaired with tape, covers lightly stained, [Sadleir 819; Wolff 2063], 1861; The Spanish Gypsy, first edition, spine discoloured, 1868; Adam Bede, 3 vol., second edition, 1859, bookplates to pastedown, some spotting, original blind-stamped cloth, spine ends bumped and creased, 8vo (5)

[Evans (Mary Ann)], "George Eliot". Felix Holt, 3 vol., first edition, bookplates to pastedown, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, lightly rubbed, spine ends frayed, 8vo, 1866.

NO RESERVE Devon.- Jenkins (Alexander) The History and Description of the City of Exeter and its Environs, first edition, extra illustrated, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, detached and loosely inserted, small split to fold, 2 engraved maps, 19 engraved plates, one or two newspaper clippings tipped-in, manuscript note dated 1885 to front free endpaper verso, occasional marginal annotations, spotting, bookplate, ex-library with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps, contemporary vellum, gilt, upper joint beginning to split but holding firm, rubbed, Exeter, P. Hedgeland, 1806.

NO RESERVE Temperance.- Richardson (Benjamin Ward) The temperance lesson book, first edition, occasional spotting, edges foxed, original cloth, some staining, W. Tweedie and Co., 1878; and 5 others, 19th century school books, 1 a German children's Bible with hand-coloured plates, v.s. (6)

NO RESERVE First World War.- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 6 vol., maps and illustrations, light finger-soiling, original cloth, very lightly rubbed, still an attractive set, 1916-1920 § Bloch (I. S.) Modern Weapons and Modern War, first English edition, very lightly wormed, embossed ownership stamp to browned endpapers, very occasional light spotting, original cloth, 1900 § Stern (Sir Albert) Tanks, 1914-1918, plates, title and endpaper browned, original pictorial cloth, white pen number to spine, spine a little darkened, 1919; and c.80 others, First World War and military history, including a signed photograph of Viscount Richard Haldane, first Secretary of War, as well as an A.L.s from First Baron John Fisher, v.s. (c.85)

NO RESERVE Byron (Robert).- Bryce (James) Modern Democracies, 2 vol., first edition, Robert Byron's copy with loosely-inserted invoice made out to him listing this and several other works, also with the signature of Dr.Rohan Butler, 1921 § Spengler (Oswald) The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality, Robert Byron's copy with his signature to front free endpaper and notes to rear endpapers, 1926 § Wang (Ching-Wei) China's Problems and their Solution, Shanghai, 1934 § Puppet State of "Manchukuo" (The), Shanghai, 1935, the last two presentation copies from the editor Li Tang, some folding maps or tables, original cloth, a little rubbed, the second with spine detached; and c.15 others, history, politics etc. including a few magazines with articles by Robert Byron (2 on Hitler and the 1938 Nuremberg rally in The Spectator August 1987 and another 'The Story of Oil' in The Geographical Magazine of January 1941), v.s. (c.20)⁂ Byron attended the last Nuremberg rally in 1938 with Unity Mitford although he was highly critical of Hitler and the Nazi regime.Dr. Rohan Butler (1917-96), historian and civil servant, senior editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939, and author of The Roots of National Socialism, 1783-1933, 1941 and Choiseul: Father and Son, 1719-1754, 1980. He was brother-in-law to Robert Byron.See also lots x-xxx

NO RESERVE Byron (Robert).- Zervos (Dr. Skevos) La Question du Dodécanèse et ses Documents Diplomatiques, first edition, text in French and Greek, original wrappers, worn, spine torn and frayed, Athens, 1926; Eikonographemene e Dodecanesos...[Illustratated History of the Dodecanese], vol.1 only, text in Greek, inscribed by the author to Robert Byron in Greek at head of title, original cloth, damp-stained, Athens, 1930 § § Daily Review of the Foreign Press issued by the General Staff, War Office. Special Greek Supplement dealing with the Régime under Constantine, one of 200 copies, double column, stapled, January 1918 § Lawson (J.C.) Tales of Aegean Intrigue, first edition, John Mavrogordato's copy with his signature in Greek, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 1920, some maps, plates and illustrations; and c.15 others, pamphlets etc., on modern Greece including a second edition of the first with loosely-inserted signed photographic portrait of the author, an offprint of an article on 'The Balkan Situation' by Byron as "Balcanicus" for The Political Quarterly 1933, and several parliamentary reports concerning Greece, particularly the revolution in October 1862 and the election of Prince William of Denmark as King of Greece, v.s. (c.20)⁂ In 1925 Byron's first travels took him to Greece, a country for which he had a passionate admiration and where, as a member of the family of Lord Byron, he was well received. He published a number of works on late Hellenism of which The Byzantine Achievement of 1920 is the most satisfying, but this group of items shows his additional interest in the modern state of Greece.Dr Skevos Zervos (1875-66) was a surgeon, a traditional free naked sponge-diver, and benefactor to Greece. The first work concerns events leading up to the transfer of sovereignty of the Dodecanese from Turkey to Italy at the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. In 1919 Skevos had attended the Paris Peace Conference with the Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos in an attempt to regain the Dodecanese and he was present when the United Nations officially returned the region to Greece in 1948. The third item records press reports on the Greek White Book, Venizelos's speech of August 26th 1917, and the evacuation of Roupel. The last is an account of a Naval Intelligence Officer's time in Crete with the RNVR in World War I.

NO RESERVE Byron (Robert).- Millet (Gabriel) & D.Talbot Rice. Byzantine Painting at Trebizond, first edition, Robert Byron's copy with his pencil notes to rear free endpaper, original cloth, 1936; Peirce (H.) & Royall Tyler. Byzantine Art, with ink correction in Byron's hand on p.27, 1926; L'Art Byzantin, 2 vol., vol.2 signed presentation copy from the authors inscribed on half-title original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some spotting and soiling, a few ink scribbles to upper cover, Paris, 1932-34 § Bréhier (Louis) L'Art Byzantin, signed by Byron on front free endpaper and with notes loosely inserted, original printed wrappers, lower lacking, Paris, 1924 § Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Exposition d'Art Byzantin, with extensive ink annotations to text and sketches to rear cover, original wrappers, worn, covers detached, Paris, 1931, plates and illustrations; and a bundle of others on Greek and Byzantine art including articles by Byron on Mount Athos, 4 etchings of Mount Athos by L.Kogevinas, 2 drawings of Greek orthodox priests, and others with signature and/or notes by Byron, v.s. (sm.qty)⁂ Robert Byron met David Talbot Rice at Oxford and they explored the monasteries of Mount Athos together, resulting in Byron's book The Station which was published in 1928. In 1929 came Byron'sThe Byzantine Achievement and in 1930 their joint project The Birth of Western Painting. The third item, Peirce & Tyler's L'Art Byzantin, was all that was published of a projected five-volume work, with vol.1 devoted to the 4th & 5th centuries and vol.2 to the 6th century.

NO RESERVE Byron (Robert).- Arlington (L.C.) & Harold Acton, translators & editors. Famous Chinese Plays, inscribed by Harold Acton to Robert Byron "To good old Bob with much sentiment from Harold" on one of Acton's cards printed with Chinese address and mounted on front pastedown, 1937 § Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath, sixth printing, inscribed to Robert Byron "To R.B....Your fertile, stimulating step will always be welcome..." on front free endpaper, New York, 1939 § Epstein (Jacob) The Sculptor Speaks...to Arnold L.Haskell, first edition, signed by Byron on front free endpaper, 1931 § Waugh (Evelyn) Mr. Loveday's Little Outing..., first edition, frontispiece by Thomas Derrick, numbers in pencil ?by Byron on rear pastedown, original Flexiback binding with cloth-reinforced hinges, 1936 § James (Edward) The Gardener who Saw God, second edition, with photograph of the author tipped to front free endpaper and ink verse signed "John" on verso, 1937 § Betjeman (John) Mount Zion or In Touch with the Infinite, first edition, printed on blue and pink paper, plates, damp-staining to front endpapers, original boards with label to upper cover, lacking spine (as usual), James Press, [1931], some plates or illustrations, all but the last original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.20 others including some signed by and/or with notes by Byron, some issues of The Architectural Review or Country Life with articles by him on Oxford, Broadcasting House, London, the 1937 Coronation etc., and 3 watercolours on board by him of a factory scene and 2 rural landscapes, v.s. (c.25)⁂ Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, Edward James and John Betjeman were all contemporaries of Byron's at Oxford. The last item was Betjeman's first book and was published by Edward James.

NO RESERVE First World War.- Bacon (R. H.) The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet, 2 vol., first edition, plates, ex-library copy with stamps and markings, original cloth, gilt, 1929 § Callwell (C.E.) Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Works, 2 vol., plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, frayed and browned, 1927 § Insall (A. J.) and G. T. Watson, The Western Front Then and Now, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, spine bumped, dust-jacket, lightly chipped at extremities; and 80 others, First World War, v.s. (c.85)

NO RESERVE War literature.- Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly chipped to spine ends, spine faded, else a crisp copy, 1930 § Brooke (Rupert) The Collected Poems, photogravure frontispiece, presentation inscription to front free endpaper, later half Scotch deerskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, extremities lightly scuffed, 1918 § Barbusse (Henri) Under Fire, translated by Fitzwater Wray, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little chipped and stained, 1917; and c.60 others, mostly war literature or similar, v.s. (c.65)⁂ The copy of Brooke's Collected Poems is a specially bound presentation copy to Robert Hugh Geoghegan by his colleagues at the Textile Branch of the Ministry of Munitions "as a token of their appreciation at having had hte privilege of working with him throughout he most critical period of the Great War" by his colleagues in a neat hand.

NO RESERVE Suffrage movement.- Pankhurst (E. Sylvia) The Home Front: a Mirror to Life in England during the World War, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, one or two short marginal tears, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, modern cloth, 8vo, 1932.

London.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 14 engraved plates by Hollar, 12 folding or double-page, 2 with tears (repaired), 30 engraved illustrations (29 full-page), title in red and black, lacking A1 (blank), small stain to title, occasional off-setting and faint spotting, new endpapers, later-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, [Wing D2482; Pforzheimer 341], folio, Tho. Warren, 1658.

Peake (Mervyn).- Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) Household Tales, first edition, half-title, illustrated double-page title, plates and illustrations by Mervyn Peake, original cloth, dust-jacket, loss to spine head, chipping to spine and edges, 1946 § Peake (Mervyn) The Craft of the Lead Pencil, first edition, illustrations, spotting, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 1966; A Reverie of Bone, number 169 of 300 copies, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1967; and ephemera relating to Peake and his works and contributions to periodicals, and various Peake society pamphlets, v.s. (small qty).

NO RESERVE Second World War.- Churchill (Sir Winston) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, very light occasional spots, original cloth, dust-jackets, vol.1 with small portion of loss to spine head and lower wrapper, spine lightly faded, else a very good set, 1948; The World Crisis, 1911-1918, 2 vol., original cloth, gilt, 1938; and c.150 others, Second World War, v.s. (c.150)

NO RESERVE Philby (Harry St John Bridger) Arabian Jubilee, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, spine a little faded, 1952 § Lawrence (T.E.) Revolt in the Desert, first American edition, plates, folding map, pictorial endpapers by Eric Kennington, lightly damp-stained at beginning, upper hinge weak, original cloth, rubbed and stained, gouges to spine, New York, 1927 § Scott (Lt.-Cdr. Peter) The Battle of the Narrow Seas, first edition, [1946] § Buchan (John) Memory Hold-the-Door, first edition, 1940 § Churchill (Sir Winston) The Island Race, 1964 § Mandela (Nelson) Conversations with Myself, 2010, illustrations, original cloth, the last with dust-jacket, the first four rubbed; and a quantity of others, miscellaneous, history, biography, art etc., v.s. (c.90)

NO RESERVE Shakespeare (William) The Norton Facsimile. The First Folio of Shakespeare, second edition, previous owner's ink inscription to half-title verso, original morocco-backed decorative cloth, original slipcase, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, New York & London, W. W. Norton, 1996.

NO RESERVE Blackmore (R.D.) Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor, tipped-in colour plates by Charles E.Brittan and Charles E.Brock, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, covers slightly damp-stained, dust-jacket, frayed and lacking spine panel, [c.1930] § Tschiffely (A.F.) The Tale of Two Horses, first edition, illustrations by the author, original cloth, 1934 § Uttley (Alison) Hare and Guy Fawkes, colour illustrations by Margaret Tempest, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, a little frayed, 1956 § Lear (Linda) Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, original boards, dust-jacket, 2007; and c.65 others, literature, mostly children's, v.s. (c.70)

NO RESERVE Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies, first edition, first or second printing, with notice board lettering on p.14, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, some light soiling, pictorial endpapers, original brown boards with mounted colour illustration, lacking spine, lower cover detached, rubbing and light soiling, [Linder p.428; Quinby 16], 1909; and 26 others, Beatrix Potter reprints and others, v.s. (27)

Scotland.- [Burt (Edward)] Letters from A Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plan frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, spine labels on wrong volumes, a little rubbed, 1754; and a second edition of the same, 8vo (4)

NO RESERVE Messel (Oliver) .- Shakespeare (William) Romeo and Juliet, first edition, below dedication, 8 mounted colour plates, original cloth, dust-jacket spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1936; and The Vein in the Marble, 4to (2)

Big Game.- Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their Horns, first edition, frontispiece, 10 plates, illustrations, many full-page, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine head, folio, 1897.

Motor Racing.- Boddy (William ) The History of Brooklands Motor Course, first edition, first impression, signed by the author on half-title, portrait frontispiece, black and white plates, light foxing to half-title, title and frontispiece, otherwise clean, original cloth, dust-jacket, covers lightly soiled, spine and folds toned, 4to, 1957.

NO RESERVE Winter sports.- Lunn (Arnold) A History of Ski-ing, first edition, frontispiece, half-title, 24 plates, illustrations, ex-library with abrasion marks to front endpapers where labels removed, contemporary cloth, shelf-mark to spine foot, [Neate L71], 8vo, Oxford & London, 1927.

NO RESERVE Birds.- Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 3 folding colour maps, plates and illustrations, earlier bookplate of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie to vol. 1., original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1930.

Botany.- Salmon (William) Botanologia: The English Herbal, first edition, additional engraved title, title in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations, without 6pp. Index morborum (as often), staining (mostly to corners), occasional marginal tears and odd loss to corners (not affecting text), worming to margins, small hole affecting text (8H1), scattered spotting, later morocco backed boards, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, loss to spine extremities, [Henrey 1308; Hunt 426], folio, by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710.

Gardening.- Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary, 3 vol. inc. supplement, vol. 1 & supplement first editions, vol. 2 second edition, engraved frontispiece (vol. 1), 11 engraved plates (3 folding), illustrations, list of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, occasional faint spotting, bookplate (vol. 1), all but supplement contemporary calf, rubbed, loss to corners and spine extremities, supplement with contemporary calf backed boards, rubbed and worn, [Henrey 1101; 1104; 1107], folio, 1731-40.

NO RESERVE Horses, Dogs etc.- Brooke (Brig. Geoffrey) Horsemanship: The Way of a Man with a Horse, Lonsdale Library vol.I, [c.1930] § Smith (A.Croxton) Hounds & Dogs; Their Care, Training & Working..., Lonsdale Library vol.XIII, 1932 § Edwards (Lionel) Horses and Ponies: A Book of Sketches, occasional spotting, [c.1930] § Egerton (Judy) George Stubbs 1724-1806, original wrappers, 1984 § Fairley (John) Great Racehorses in Art, Oxford, 1984 § Booth (Stanley) Sir Alfred Munnings 1878-1959, signed by the author on title, 1986 § Maxwell (Gavin) The Rocks Remain, first edition, 1963, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the fourth original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jacket, some a little rubbed and faded; and c.55 others on field sports, natural history etc., mostly horses and dogs, 8vo & 4to (c.60)

NO RESERVE China.- Balfour (Frederic H.) Waifs and Strays from the Far East, first edition, original pictorial cloth, slightly stained and rubbed, 8vo, 1876.⁂ 'Printed at the Celestial Empire Office, Shanghai'. Balfour was a eminent sinologist, living in Shanghai during the Victorian Era. Editor of the North China Daily News, he was also a respected international correspondent. Chapters cover topics such as, Chinese Jews, Buddhism, Chinese Theory on Creation, opium, Japanese Influence on China, secret societies and their political significance.

Computing and mechanisation.- Diebold (John) Automation. The Advent of the Automatic Factory, first edition, ink ownership inscription and stamp to endpaper, original boards, some light foxing, light toning to head and foot, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, light toning, spine ends and corners chipped, a few very short closed tears and light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, New York, 1952.⁂ A rare and important work that originated many of the concepts around data processing and utilisation that are used today. Diebold is credited with coining the word 'automation' in its present meaning.

Gemoloy.- Haüy (René-Just) Traité des Caractères Physiques des Pierres Précieuses, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved plates at end, browning and spotting, bookplate, later morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, Paris, 1817.⁂ 'The first determinative gemology worthy of the name' - Sinkakis.

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Marsh (Dr. J. C. Lory) Lectures on Nursing: short notes addressed to nurses on what to do and what to avoid ..., second edition, presentation copy from author, original limp cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 1865; On Nursing, an Explanation of some of the Advantages Attending the Establishment of Training Institutions for Nurses, third edition, original printed wrappers, ink-stamp to upper cover, remnants of stamp to lower cover, 1865, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, small 8vo, (2). ⁂ Scarce. Only 4 of the first on Library Hub, at BL, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and National Library of Scotland. The second unrecorded on Library Hub.

NO RESERVE Medicine.- White (Charles) Cases in Surgery, with Remarks. Part the First [all published]...An Essay on the Ligature of Arteries by J.Aikin, first edition, 7 folding engraved plates, with explanation of plates leaf and errata leaf at end, contemporary ink signature of J.Thackeray to head of title, ex-Bedford General Infirmary library copy with stamps, engraved bookplate of T.Bond surgeon, contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed, spine worn and split at head, 8vo, for W.Johnson, 1770.⁂ Thomas Bond (1740-1821), Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, from 1779 to 1813. Joseph Thackeray, M.D. (1784-1832), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, student at the medical schools of London and Edinburgh and later Physician to the Bedford General Infirmary.

NO RESERVE Wyld (Samuel) The Practical Surveyor, or the Art of Land-Measuring made easy, fifth edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 folding plates, previous owner's ink signature to title, spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners, 1764 § [Ribright (Thomas)] A Description of the Air-Pump, made in the Form of a Table, first edition, folding engraved plate, lacking pp.17-24 (final 4 leaves), pencil diagrams to plate verso, scattered faint spotting, later paper wrappers, by the maker Thomas Ribright, 1759, 8vo (2)⁂ The last is scarce with only 6 copies on ESTC, 2 in the UK and 4 in the US.

Reformation.- Verstegan (Richard) Theatre des Cruautez des Heretiques de nostre temps, first French edition, 2 parts in 1, engraved pictorial title and 27 etched illustrations only (of 29, lacking K2 and K3), in first part F4 and G1 with marginal defects and F4 minor loss of text, in second part E2 and E3 horizontal whole page tears with paper restoration, some light browning, staining and finger soiling, later calf-backed boards, spine slightly chipped, [Adams T443], 4to, Antwerp, Adrien Hubert, 1588.⁂ A Catholic convert and Anglo-Dutch by descent in exile from the Reformation in Paris, Rome and Antwerp, Verstegan (or Rowlands as he is also known) was perhaps particularly well suited to feeling the upheavals and trauma caused by the Reformation in so many countries. Having already written on the suffering of priest back in England, this particular work, with its etching of torture scenes, was aimed at documenting the atrocities committed by certain different Protestant groups: 'the cruelties of the schismatics in England'; 'the horrible cruelties of the Huguenots in France'; 'the barbarous cruelties of the wretches in the Low Countries' and 'persecutions of the Catholics by the Machiavellist Protestants in England and Ireland'. The final etching in this martyrology is the execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this shocking regicide then only a year past.

Sir Henry Blount's copy.- Bartoli (Daniello) La ricreatione del savio in discorso con la natura e con Dio libri due, first edition, Sir Henry Blount's copy, half-title, engraved plate, a8 imprimatur, occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned, loose in contemporary limp vellum, titled in ink on spine, soiled, 8vo, Rome, Ignatio de' Lazzeri, 1659.⁂ Sir Henry Blount's copy of a rare work, with his signature and ?price paid for the volume to foot of title and two marginal ink notes (p.399 in Italian and p.413 in Latin, along with some underlining). Blount (1602-1682) was an English landowner, extensive traveler in Europe and the Levant and author, best known for his A Voyage into the Levant , 1636.