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India and Egypt. Colvin (Ian), The Life of General Dyer, first edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, recto and verso gutters split but holding textblock well, original blue cloth, 8vo, Cecil (The Late Lord Edward, KCMG, DSO), The Leisure of an Egyptian Official, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, n.d. [1921], portrait frontispiece, loosely-inserted TLS from Hatfield House, the Cecil's ancestral home, original cloth, sunned spine, uncut, Sir Henry Peto's copy, inscription and armorial bookplate, 8vo, [&] Sitwell (Constance), Lotus and Pyramid, copy no. 120/400, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, original marbled cloth, uncut, 8vo, (3)

Folio Society. Martin (George R.R.) & Burton (Jonathan, illustrator), A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, two-volume set, first edition thus, first impressions, 2019, colour plates, issued with a bound map of The Known World, original metallic cloth, pictorial upper-covers, dark-stained top-edges, worn slipcase en suite, (3)

Medical. Salmon (William, Professor of Physick (sic)), Synopsis Medicinæ, first dition, London: Printed by W. Godbid, for R. Jones, 1671, lacking general title-page, divisional titles of books II & III black-ruled, lacking all before *8, incomplete, extant signatures collating: *8, A³, B-M⁸, N1, [N8], O-Z⁸, 2A⁸, 2B2-8, 2C-2Z⁸, 3A⁸, 3B⁵, all before B tatty and with some lower-marginal chipped losses, some toning, browning and stains in places, not affecting legibility of text, numerous in-text astrological tables, recently bound in repurposed 19th c English legal vellum manuscript, 8vo, [Wing S454], [&] Buchan (William, MD), Domestic Medicine, sixth edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan, et al., 1779, early-mid 19th c morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, (2)

Children's and Juvenile Books. Crane (Walter, illustrator), How Jessie Was Lost, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1868], chromolithographic printing, 8pp, original pictorials, wrappers, creased and starting to split, but OK-good, 8vo, idem., The Three Bears, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [inscription dated 1874], a defective copy, original wrappers, heavily worn, 8vo, Robinson (Gordon, illustrator), The ABC of Nursery Rhyme, New York: Sam L Gabriel Sons & Company, n.d. [c. 1920], original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Disney (Walt), Mickey Mouse and Bobo the Elephant, first edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935, illustrated, original pictorial papered boards, slight twist, scuffs and light chips, lacks ffep, 16mo, [Ireland] Erin's Hope. Irish Church Mission Juvenile Magazine, January, 1886, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Anon, Plenty To Do. Birds' Nest Stories No. 20., Dublin: George Drought, 1884, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 16mo, an Irish chapbook, n.d. [c. 1830], later manila wrappers, 12mo, (7)

The Inklings. Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, first edition, twelfth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1961, frontispiece, original pictorial dustjackets, chipped, creased and some light handling grime, green cloth, spine with sunned spots, cartographic endpapers, 12mo

Quaker Tracts. [Americana] Bownas (Samuel), An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England, second edition, first edition with this title, London: Samuel Clark, 1760, [ii], 28pp, bound in a sammelband of thirty-two further tracts, from both American and English presses, the latter both London and provincial, 18th-19th c:  Anon, Dress and Worldy Compliance. Philadelphia: Sold by Jacob Smedley, 1872, 43pp;The Christians' Principle Exemplified. Philadelphia: Published by the Tract Association of Friends, n.d., 4pp;William Penn's Exhortation, idem., 4pp;The Christian's Joy, idem., 2pp;Address to the Ocean, s.l., s.n., n.d., 1pp;A Concise Account of the Religious Society of Friends [...], Philadelphia: Published by the Tract Association of Friends, n.d., 20pp;On Women Preaching. Manchester: John Harrison, 1841, 14pp;Another copy of no. 6, bound-in by mistake;Remarks on Gay and Costly Apparel. Philadelphia: Tract Assoction of Friends, n.d., 12pp;An Account of the Religious Experience and some of the Trials of [...] Susanna Lightfoot. Manchester: John Harrison, n.d., 23, [1]pp;A Sketch of the Life of William Penn, Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, n.d., 32pp;Penington (Isaac), On the [...] Unchangeable Nature of God's Truth. Nottingham: G. Batters, 1854, 4pp;A Short Narrative of [...] Isaac Sharples, London: James Phillips and Sons, 1798, 21, [1]pp;A Short Memoir of Andrew Underhill, second edition, York: W. Alexander & Son, et al., 1827, 35pp;A Brief Member of Solomon Underhill, York: idem., 1827, 35, [1]pp;Penn (William), Innocency, Manchester: William Irwin, n.d., 8pp;Some Account of John Spalding, Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt's Sons, n.d., 72pp;Memorial of Thomas Evans, Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store, 1870, [ii], 137-162pp;Brief Remarks on the Fall of Man [...], London: Thomas Harrild, n.d., 4pp;The Sea Robbers' Cave, London: E. Couchman & Co., 1876, 4pp;Led by the Spirit of God, Leominster: The Orphans' Printing Press, n.d., 4pp;Individual Duty [...], idem., n.d., 4pp; Tuke (Henry), On Prayer, London: E. Couchman & Co., 1873, 4pp; Job Thomas, idem, 1876, 4pp; Letter by the Missionary, Dr. Judson, to a Convert, idem, 1876, 4pp;On Cruelty to Animals, idem, 1872, 4pp;John Gratton, idem, 1873, 8pp;Robert Barclay. Philadelphia: The Tract Association of Friends, n.d., 18pp; Colley (Thomas), A Tender Salutation in Gospel Love, third edition, London: James Phillips and Son, 1799, vi, 7-23, [1]pp;Hodgson (William), A Brief Account of the Sorrowful Lapse from First Principles in the Religious Society of Friends. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1862, 16pp; Bownas (Samuel), An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England, second edition, London: Samuel Clark, 1760, [ii], 28pp; A Short Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Patience Brayton, New-York, Printed: London: Reprinted and Sold by William Phillips, 1802, 144pp;An Historical and Descriptive Account of Leamington and Warwick, second edition, Warwick: Printed at the Advertiser-Office, et al., 1822, iv, 139, [5], folding plate, trimmed; the collection prefixed by two MS contents leaves, bound as one in Victorian tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, split joints but holding, gilt lettering piece, red speckled edges, 12mo (18 x 11.5cm) Provenance: This Book Belongs to Friends' Library. Belper Meeting [Derbyshire]. No. 166; 19th c book label to recto pastedown.

Children's and Juvenile Books. [Lepidoptery] The Emperor's Rout, first edition, London: Charles Tilt, 1831, 4 hand-coloured lithographic plates of butterflies (no. 2 bound out of sequence), original wrappers, perished spine and former repair, contents with movement, 8vo, Dilworth (Thomas), The Schoolmasters Assistant [...], nineteenth edition, London: Printed and Sold by Richard and Henry Causton (Successors to the late Mr. Henry Kent), 1776, torn portrait frontispiece, split and all before A2 detached from text block, otherwise unexamined thereafter, contemporary sheep, disbound, 12mo, Anon, The Good Child; or, Sweet Home. London: Printed and Sold by Dean & Munday, n.d. [inscription dated 1833], tatty with a few chips, somewhat soiled in places, crudely hand-coloured in-text wood engravings, contemporary wrappers, ?originals from publisher's waste, 16mo, Anon, The History of Whittington and His Cat. London: Printed and Published at W.S. Fortey's Wholesale Juvenile Book Warehouse, n.d. [c. 1840], 8pp, in-text illustrations, some crudely hand-coloured, original pictorial yellow wrappers, some teats and creases, 8vo, Ainslie (Kathleen), "Me and Catherine Susan", London: Castell Brothers Ltd, 1903, lithograph printed, tatty, original pictorial wrappers, 16mo, two uncollated chap books, (7)

South Africa, Travel and Natural History. Green (Lawrence G.), These Wonders to Behold, signed by the author, first edition, Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1959, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, [botany] Flügge-de Smidt (R.A.H.), Flowers by the Roadside, ?the author's own annotated copy, Johannesburg, 1947, tipped-in typed annotations &/or corrections, ffep inscribed with the author's name, original boards, 4to, [ornithology] Gill's First Guide to South African Birds, Winifred Shand's copy with bird-watching manuscript, first edition, Maskew Miller Limited, 1936, MSS loosely-inserted and inscribed across the interior of the original publisher's dustjacket, chipped and torn, over blue cloth, 8vo, Keynes (Simon, editor), Quentin Keynes: Explorer, film-maker, lecturer and book-collector, 1921-2003, inscribed by the editor, copy no. 191/500, Cambridge, 2004, dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, Elsie Garrett Rice, etc., (8)

South Africa, Literature. Campbell (Roy), five works, including The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, original publisher's dustjacket with some splits and stains, terracotta cloth, 8vo, [&] Flowering Reeds: a poem, association copy, first edition, London: Boriswood Limited, printed at The Alcuin Press, 1933, original publisher's dustjacket over green cloth, loosely-inserted author's autograph, 8vo, Van der Post (Laurence), Venture to the Interior, signed by the author, first edition, London: The Hogarth Press, 1952, original publisher's dustjacket, torn and chipped, blue cloth, 8vo, another signed copy, but the first Book Society edition in association with The Hogarth Press, original dustjacket, worn, over blue cloth, 8vo, two further van der Post first editions, one of which is signed, [&] Lyster (Lynn) [pseud. of Miller (Thomas Leander)], Ballads of the Veld-Land, inscribed presentation copy from the author, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913, lacking ffep, inscribed half-title, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (10)  Provenance: 1st: Frank Templeton Prince (1912-2003), poet and academic, his copy; dustjacket with dated ink MS ownership inscription: Frank Prince,/August, 1938.

Woolf (Virginia), six Hogarth Press imprints, The Waves, first edition, 1931, Between the Acts, first edition, second impression, July 1941, Mrs. Dalloway, third edition, second impression, 1933, The Common Reader, third edition, 1929, A Room of One's Own, first edition, fourth impression, 1929, [&] Flush: A Biography, second edition, November 1933, all in original publisher's cloth only, slightly sunned and worn, and lacking dustjackets, 8vo, with two further Hogarth Press titles, Sackville-West (Vita), The Edwardians, first edition, second impression, 1930, original orange cloth only, sunned spine, 8vo, [&] Lee (Laurie), Cider with Rosie, first edition, 1959, original pictorial dustjacket designed by John Ward, publisher's green cloth, 8vo, (8)

India. Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart), No. 9. The History of India: The Hindu and Mahomedan Periods. Translated and Published into Urdu by The Scientific Society, first edition thus, Allygurh [i.e. Aligarh]: Printed at the Secretary Syud Ahmud's Private Press, 1866, cropped and repaired title, wormhole and some trails throughout the browned text, some loss of letters, perhaps not of sense, approx. [20]ff with patched repairs, uneven edges, later 20th c leather gilt over cloth, 8vo Printed at the private Aligarh press of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI, FRAS (1817-1898), Indian Muslim reformer, pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India (which in turn lead to the Pakistan Movement), philosopher and educationalist.

Music. [Oratorio] Handel (George Frideric), Messiah, n.d. [early 19th c], 411pp manuscript full score, contemporary straight-grained morocco boards only, disbound, folio (37.2 x 28.4cm), & Jackson (William, of Exeter), Elegies, second edition, London: Printed for the Author. Sold by R. Bremner, in the Strand, and most other Music Shops, n.d. [c.1765-70], [bound - and issued? - with] idem, Twelve Songs, Set to Music, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at the Music Shops, n.d. [c. 1765-1770], each with engraved copperplate-printed title-page and scores, preliminary letterpress leaves, pp: v, [1], 41; [ii], iii, [1], 2-42, contemporary reverse calf, panelled in blind, detached, split and chipped, upper-cover lettered in manuscript, folio (32.5 x 25cm), (2)

Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Portraictures (sic), first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, at the Sign of the Phœnix in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1677, double-column, pp: [vii], 507, [1] (blank), 8 (The Index of Armes (sic)), [36] (indexes), repaired black and red title-page, pages 201-204 supplied in early 19th c pen-and-ink facsimile, double-page county map and 10 double-page plates only, of which 3 have been repaired, 3 full-page plates, occasional, light worm trails in places, mostly marginal, occasionally within text, but with no loss of sense, a couple of leaves soiled, rebacked and recornered calf gilt of c1800, contemporary red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, folio (35.6 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: James Thorpe, armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, recto blank with MS ownership inscription: James Thorpe, 1842.

India. [Sri Lanka] Map of Ceylon, London: Edward Stanford, October 2nd, 1882, steel engraving, contemporary hand-coloured delineation, 20 paper sheets laid on linen, 68 x 55.5cm, folding into contemporary cloth boards, advertising pastedowns, India: Pictorial and Descriptive, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1888, frontispiece, full-page plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, folio (30.5 x 23cm), Trevelyan (George Otto, MP), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1876, original publisher's cloth, uncut, book label: F.M. D'Alquen Esq., 8 Montpelier Terrace, Brighton, Candler's Youth and the East, first edition, 1924, original cloth, 8vo, Fleming's News from Tartary, 1937, cloth, 8vo, Forbes-Mitchell's Great Mutiny, 1895, 8vo, etc., (9)

Art. Moore (Henry), Heads, Figures and Ideas, with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson, first edition, trade edition, London: George Rainkind, 1958, lithograph printed at The Curwen Press, Thirteen Standing Stones auto-lithograph frontispiece in four colours, unsigned and unnumbered by the artist, but with his signature watermark, a particularly clean and fresh copy, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, mostly clean and crisp, but with some chips and wear, cloth over pictorial boards, slight wear, folio (48 x 33.5cm)

Creswell (Henry), Sliding Sands, triple-decker novel, first edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1890, ex-Ordnance Store Department, Weedon copies, their labels, original publisher's cloth, uncut, 8vo, Benson (E.F.), David Blaize, second edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Verney (Lady), Stone Edge, first edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1868, plates, original cloth, sunned, 8vo, Daudet (Alphonse), Sappho: Parisian Manners, first English edition, London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886, plates, original publisher's pictorial cloth, uncut, 8vo, Wallace (Edgar), The Four Just Men, first edition, first impression, London: The Tallis Press, 1905, lacking folding frontispiece, with the perforated £500 Solution Competition slip to verso, original cloth, 8vo, [Sewell (Elizabeth Missing)], Ursula. A Tale of Country Life, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1858, half-titles, original publisher's blue boards, uncut, advertising endpapers, 8vo, Jerome (Jerome K.), Three Men in a Boat, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889, original cloth, 8vo, Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth von Arnim, 'Ouida', Washington Irving, Sherlock Holmes, Tom Racquet, etc., (19)

Politics and History. [Miège (Guy)], The Present State of Great-Britain and Ireland, third edition, London: Printed for J.H. for J. Nicholson, et al., 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece, black-ruled general and divisional titles, folding map, [issued with] The Present State Of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany, dated 1715, folding map and table, contemporary panelled calf, chipped, later label, 8vo, Chamberlayne (Edward), Angliæ Notitia; or the Present State of England, eighth edition, In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. for J. Martyn, Printers to the Royal Society, et al., 1674, engraved title-page, divisional titles black-ruled, engraved title and A1-4 of the first part repaired, otherwise unexamined, the second part defective with only nine repaired preliminary leaves, late 19th/early 20th c half-morocco over cloth by G. & J. Greening of Bradford, their ticket, 12mo, [Campbell (John)], The Present State of Europe, third edition, London: Thomas Longman, and Charles Hitch, et al., 1752, contemporary calf, later label, 8vo, Jacob's Complete Court-Keeper, fifth edition, 1752, facsimile title-page, 20th c calf, 8vo, Almanach Royal, Paris: Veuve d'Houry, 1738, 20th c brown morocco, the spine preserving traces of original binding, 8vo, [&] Debrett's Royal Kalendar, n.d. [c. 1790], defective, engraved plates of coats of arms and further heraldry, rebacked calf, 8vo, (6)

History, Politics, & Military. Anon, The Exorbitant Grants of William the III, second edition, London, s.n., 1703, 28pp, tatty but stable, some fore-margins repaired, ex-lib, their binding and some markings, 4to, Britannia in Mourning [...], second edition, London: J. Huggonson, 1742, 72pp, stained title, institutional binding, some markings, 8vo, 8vo in 4s, The Life of William Cobbett, Esq. Late MP for Oldham, first edition, Manchester: William Willis, 1835, early lithograph portrait frontispiece, 216pp, original publisher's cloth, 12mo in 6s, [William (John)], A Calm Examination into the Causes of the Present Alarm in the Empire, first edition, London: J. Bew, 1793, half-title, some former staining, somewhat tatty in places, stitched as issued, 8vo, [Smuggling] General Order [at Horse-guards] 30th October, 1807. [London]: Printed by W. Clowes & Co., 8pp, [bound with ] Abstract of Acts of Parliament, Empowering Officers and Men in His Majesty's Service to Seize Smuggling Vessels and Smuggled Goods. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1807, 24pp, institutional morocco over cloth, some of their markings, 8vo, Burdett's Address to the Prince Regent, sixth edition, London: John Morton, 1812, ex-lib binding and markings, 8vo, [Battle of Waterloo] A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving, London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1815, 4pp, disbound, institutional wrappers, 4to, Bulwer (Henry Lytton, MP), The Lords, The Government, and The Country, Exeter: Thos. Besley, 1837, 28pp, institutional boards and some markings, 8vo, [English Civil War] Journal of the Siege of Lathom House, Lancashire, 1823, ex-lib, their bindings and marks, 8vo, (9)

Medical. Two Monographs on Malaria and the Parasites of Malarial Fever. I. - Marchiafava and Bignami. II. - Mannaberg, first English editions of both treaties, London: The New Sydenham Society, 1894, original publisher's cloth, some fading and lightly worn losses, both pastedown gutters split but holding, red-stained edges, 8vo, [poison] Roget (Peter M., MD), A Case of Recovery from the Effects of Arsenic [...], s.l., s.n., read 1811, 137-180pp, later wrappers, 8vo, [Royal College of Physicians] Rolleston (H.D.), The Goulstonian Lectures on the Suprarenal Bodies, first edition, London: Printed at the Office of the British Medical Association, 1895, later wrappers, 8vo, [West (Charles)], How to Nurse Sick Children [...], facsimile of the 1854 edition, cloth, 8vo, a defective copy of Brooke's Dispensary, some ephemera, (6)

Joyce (James), Ulysses, first trade edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1937, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket, worn, toned, chipped and with slight scuffs, reinforced at its internal folds, over green cloth gilt, 8vo

Quaker. Woolman (John, Of Mount Holly, in the Jerseys, North America, deceased), Serious Consideration on Various Subjects of Importance. With some of his Dying Expressions, London: Printed and Sold by Mary Hinde, 1773, general and divisional title-pages, pp: [vi], 137, [3] (publisher's advert), lacking ffep, contemporary sheep, split, the spine crudely tacked with sellotape, now falling off, 12mo, Churchman (John, Late of Nottingham, in Pennsylvania, deceased), An Account of the Gospel Labours, first UK edition, Philadelphia, Printed. London: Reprinted by James Phillips, 1781, defective title-page with loss of title's first two words, pp: vii, 351, [1] (advert), later 19th c brown calf over cloth, 8vo, Tomkins (John), Piety Promoted, in a Collection of Dying Sayings of Many of the People Called Quakers, two parts issued as one, London: Printed and Sold by William Phillips, 1812, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, 12mo, [&]  Persecution Exposed, in some Memoirs Relating to the Sufferings of John Whiting, and Many others of the People called Quakers, second edition, London: James Phillips, 1791, contemporary sheep, rubbed, upper-cover split and crudely tacked-on, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: 2nd: 1) Thomas Bodilly, of Cornwall?, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription to author's preface. 2) Louisa E. Gilkes (née Kingston; 1814-1881), married Gilbert Gilkes at the Plymouth Meeting House, 1835; 19th c inscription to ffep. 3rd: W & E Greenwood, Rochester, 1819, recto blank with dated inscription. 4th: Thos Binns, ffep with contemporary ink MS inscription.

Americana, Quakers. Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends Towards the Indian Tribes in the Settlement of the Colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a Brief Narrative of their Labours for the Civilization and Christian Instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1843. Published by the Aborigines' Committee of The Meeting for Sufferings, first edition, London: Edward Marsh, 1844, pp: [iv], x, 11-247, most gatherings unopened, map frontispiece (Aboriginal America, East of the Mississippi) and folding map (A Map of North America, denoting the boundaries of the Yearly Meeting of Friends and the locations of the various Indian Tribes), lithographed by H. Clark after James Bowden, hand-coloured &/or delineated in watercolour, the folding map with a stable marginal tear, original publisher's brown cloth, split upper-joint, chipped spine, 8vo    Provenance: John Massey from his affectionate Father, 6th March 1844; ffep with contemporary ink MS presentation inscription. Probably descendants of a John Massey, noted 18th c Lincolnshire Quaker, appointed by the Meetings for Sufferings to manage the Ackworth school 'intended for the education of children of Friends who were not "in affluent circumstances" ' (Burtt, Quakerism in Lincolnshire, 1989, pages 70-72).

Folk Lore. Ritson (Joseph), Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads, now extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, two-volume set, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, illustrated with 80 wood engravings by Bewick printed on China paper, 9 etchings from paintings by A.H. Tourrier and E. Buckman, original publisher's parchment over cloth, pictorial gilt, split spines but holding, top-edge gilt, others uncut, idem., volume II only, second edition, London: William Pickering, 1832, in-text illustrations, ex-lib, their cloth binding, 8vo, [Scott (Sir Walter)], Robin Hood, volume II only, first edition, ex-lib, their binding, 12mo, [&] Egan (Pierce, the Younger), Robin Hood and Little John; or, the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, first edition thus, London: Foster and Hextall, 1840, 8 plates, some repairs, contemporary papered boards, rebacked, 8vo, (5)

[Atlas] Moll (Herman, Geographer), A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, &c. With The Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, &c. [...], first edition, London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux Court in the Strand, Tho. Bowles, et al., 1724, double-page letterpress title, 50 engraved maps, of which 2 are folding maps of Roman Britain and England & Wales with the Channel Islands, and 48 double-page county and regional maps, the latter with antiquarian borders of antiquities and coins, some bound out of sequence and transposed, title-page with pencilled scribbles, the first quarter or so of the atlas with a gnawed upper-right margin, with paper loss but not affecting any map or marginal vignette, and growing fainter throughout, additionally the Sussex leaf is repaired, Herefordshire margin chipped with loss, yet not affecting map, Yorkshire repaired and its margin defective, as well as the following maps, the West, East and North Ridings of Yorkshire and then much less apparent come The County Palatine of Durham, Westmorland margin stained, some chips and uneven margins in places throughout, contemporary speckled calf, outlined in gilt, disbound, the boards chipped, scuffed and rubbed, 4to

Quaker. Pitt (George), Some Observations in America, first edition thus, Glasgow: Robert Smeal, 1882, 29pp, original wrappers, chipped, 8vo, Shillitoe (Thomas), Journal of [...], two-volume set, London: Harvey and Darton, 1839, half-titles, original publisher's cloth, some wear, 8vo, Jordan (Richard), A Journal [...], Philadelphia Printed: London: Harvey and Darton, 1829, 19th c cloth, uncut, 12mo, Barclay's Apology, thirteenth edition, Manchester: William Irwin, 1869, original publisher's cloth by Hatton & Thomas of Manchester, their ticket, 8vo, Walton (Joseph), Incidents Illustrating the Doctrines and History of the Society of Friends, Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store, 1897, original cloth, 8vo, Perry (Charles), A Brief Exposition and Vindication of [...] Society Friends, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1885, original cloth, 8vo, others, George Fox, Elizabeth Ashbridge and Raistrick's Quakers in Science and Industry, 1968, dj, hb, 8vo, (11)  Provenance: 2nd: 1) Martha Walpole, 19th c ink MS inscription to ffep of vol. I. 2) Henry Bell, Sommerville, Waterford, [Ireland], MS inscription to recto pastedown of vol. I. 3rd: Thomas Pye, Swainshead, MS inscription. 4th: William H. Joad, 1918, stamp.

Dickens (Charles), The Works of, The Pocket Volume Edition, thirty-volume set bound in fifteen volumes, first edition thus, London: Chapman and Hall, 1880, half-titles, contemporary half-calf over cloth bindings, lettering pieces, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo (14.5 x 10.5cm), (15)

Modern Firsts & other Literature. Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, first edition thus, London: Chapman & Hall and The Book Society, May 1945, original publisher's cloth only, spine sunned, 8vo, Connolly (Cyril), Ideas and Places, first edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson Limited, 1953, original publisher's dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Hemingway (Ernest), A Farewell to Arms, first UK edition, second state (correct 'serious' on p. 66), London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, original cloth only, spine sunned, 8vo, Beerbohm (Max), Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story, second edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1947, original publisher's dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, various others, predominantly fiction, including Alec Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Beverley Nichols, etc., 8vo, (approx. 60)

James Bond, 007. Fleming (Ian), three Book Club first editions, Dr No, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, [&] The Man with the Golden Gun, 1958, 1963, & 1965, Dr No lacking ffep, original publisher's pictorial dustjackets over cloth, 8vo, [&] Markham (Robert), Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1968, original publisher's surreal pictorial dustjacket designed by Tom Adams, black cloth, 8vo, (4) Each dustjacket with varying degrees of wear, ditto each of the text block edges.

The Inklings. Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Lord of the Rings trilogy, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, first edition, thirteenth impression, The Two Towers & The Return of the King, first editions, tenth impressions, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1963, full-page and folding maps, original publisher's pictorial paper dustjackets over red cloth, the jackets with varying degrees of toned handling, occasional scuffs and some chips, the Fellowship being somewhat tattier compared to its fellows and somewhat twisted, top-edges stained red, 8vo, (3)

Drama & the Theatre. [Vanbrugh (John)], A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, From immorality and Prophaneness (sic), first edition, London: Printed for H. Walwyn, at the Three Legs in the Poultrey (sic), against Stocks-Market, 1698, black-ruled title-page, half-title, [ii], 79pp, clean and crisp copy, later 20th c institutional buckram, their markings and plates to pastedown only, but for a discreet title blind-stamp, 8vo, [Wing V59] Vanbrugh's scarce contribution to the pamphlet war provoked by Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, published the same year. Provenance: Anne Howard, contemporary early female ownership inscription to title.

Travel. Leprette (Fernard) & Goar (Lillian, translator), Egypt: Land of the Nile, first edition thus, Cairo: R. Schindler, 1939, contemporary linen cover illustrated in pen-and-ink with caricatures and scenes of Egyptian antiquities, topography and domestic life, over original wrappers, 8vo, [RAF] Houghton (George W., Squadron Leader), The Flew Through the Sand, second edition, Cairo: R. Schindler, n.d. [1942], similarly bound to the latter in contemporary linen over the original wrappers, in this case the linen signed by various members of RAF Middle East Command stationed in Cairo during World War Two, 8vo, Beaton (Cecil), Near East, first edition, second impression, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., Summer, 1943, original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, Russell Pasha, etc., (6) Provenance: 1st & 2nd: A.L. Simnett, Christmas [&] December 1942, ink manuscript inscriptions to each ffep; presumably an RAF serviceman on active duty.

India. Matthews (Captain A.N., Bengal Artillery, translator), Mishcàt-ul-Maśábìh' [Mishkat al-Masabih], or a Collection of the Most Authentic Traditions, Regarding the Actions and Sayings of Muh'ammed [Muhammad]; Exhibiting the Origin of the Manners and Customs; the Civil, Religious and Military Policy of the Muslemàns [Muslims]. Translated from the original Arabic [...], two-volume set, first English edition, Calcutta: Printed by T. Hubbard, at the Hindoostanee (sic; Hindustani) Press, 1809-10, [vi], ix, [1] (blank), vi, 386, [lacking 387-390], 391-665 pp; [ii], vi, 388, [lacking 389-420], 421-817, [1] (blank), [12] (index) pp, volume I with portions of staining, growing fainter and just discernible by signature G1, U1 detached with tatty margin, varying degrees of mostly marginal worm trails, when occasionally affecting letters not resulting in loss of sense, nevertheless no worming between signatures W-2B, 3F1 tatty with a thinning corner margin, upper-margin of 7P1 onwards with graduating losses, including the verso board, volume II affected by marginal worm trails in places throughout, with loss of lettering but not sense to the glosses of signatures 3G-3K, 3W-4D tatty wormed edges only, 5S-5X with worm trail in text but no loss of sense, X8-9B running-title worm trail with slight loss of letters, 9B-9H with tatty marginal worming, as well inner-margin of title-page repaired, 2G1 torn with no loss, signature 2O tatty and the torn inner-margin just holding, signature 7Q trimmed &/or bound askew, 8H-L8 holed inner-margin without loss of text, 9E-9H repaired outer-margins, 9H2-9K repaired inner-margin with some loss, [9L] repaired upper-margin, contemporary russia gilt over marbled boards, some wear and losses, red-speckled edges, 4to, (2)

Bindings. [Kempis (Thomas à)], L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction inédite du XVIIₑ siècle [...], first edition thus, ?large paper copy, Paris: Adrien Le Clere & Co., Editeurs, 1869, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, divisional titles and pictorial colophon leaf, each book with engraved frontispieces, finely bound by Gruel in Renaissance Revival red morocco, signed, the covers blocked in bind with a border of humanists' profiles in laurel wreaths, centred by rectangular reserve of fleur-de-lis and further foliage, outlined with rolled gilt knots and blind-ruled fillets, six-compartment spine with raised bands, lettered in the second, the sixth with a coronet over WM monogram and binder's signature, the upper-cover with 4.6cm l vertical joint split affecting the first-compartment only, otherwise the lightest of shelf wear, gilt fillet turn-in, foliate rolled dentelles, medieval style gold and purple Gruel  endpapers, incorporating Gruel Relieur, all edges gilt, 8vo, Vogüé (Eugène-Melchior de) & Burnard (Eugène, illustrator), Les Paraboles, Nancy-Paris-Stasbourg: Berger-Levrault, Éditeurs, 1908, contemporary red three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo, [&] Flaubert's Salammbô, Paris, 1905, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (3)  Provenance: 2nd: Ex Libris Alfred et Blanche de Curzon. 

Hagiography. Rader (Matthäus), Bavaria Sancta, volume I only, first edition, Monachii [Monaco]: Apud Raphaëlem Sadelerum [Raphael Sadler], 1615, lacking engraved title-page and all plates, extant off-setting from their presence, colophon vignette excised with losses to errata verso, infrequent in-text engravings, further in-text woodcut historiated initials and footers, contemporaneous calf gilt, probably English, the covers blocked in gilt with a graduating double-fillet enclosing the letter S repeated four times, the angles with urns of floral stems, worn, split but holding, red-speckled edges, folio (32 x 22cm)

Medical. [Americana] Hey (William), Practical Observations in Surgery, Illustrated with Cases and Plates, first American edition, Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, 1805, [viii], [9]-332, [12] (index and publisher's advert), 9 full-page plates engraved by Benjamin Tanner, some off-setting, later mid-19th c black half-calf over marbled boards, the spine relaid on black cloth, top-edge cut and stained red, others uncut, ffeps split, 8vo, Hilton (John, FRS) & Jacobson (W.H.A., FRCS, editor), On Rest and Pain, second edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1877, in-text illustrations, original cloth, 8vo, Young (James K.), A Manual and Atlas of Orthopedic Surgery, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1911, illustrated, original publisher's red cloth, 4to, Cope (Sir Zachary), William Cheselden, 1668-1752, first edition, Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1953, original dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Treves (Sir Frederick, Bart), The Elephant Man, first edition, 1923, original cloth, 8vo, Albee's Bone-Graft Surgery, first edition, 1917, red cloth, 8vo, Bristow's Treatment of Joint and Muscle Injuries, first edition, 1917, original red cloth, split, 8vo, Leechbook, 1934, dj, hb, 8vo, others, including anatomy, orthopaedics, Hippocrates, etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (16) Provenance: The library of Roger Tilston Austin, consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon; later Honorary Librarian of the Leicester Medical Society and its President (2002).

Miscellaneous. Shakespeare (William) & Malone (Edmond, editor), The Plays, volume I only, first edition thus, London Printed by H. Baldwin, et al., 1790, original boards, uncut, 8vo, further Shakespeare, [Crime] Illustrated Life, Career, and Trial of William Palmer, of Rugeley, London: Ward and Lock, 1856, cloth, split and worn, 8vo, Wilson (James Grant, editor), The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, four volumes, London: Blackie & Son, n.d. [1876], double-column, engraved portrait plates, original publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, all edges gilt, 8vo, Sadlier (Michael, translator), Pétain-Laval Conspiracy, first English edition, second impression, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1942, original wrappers, 8vo, Hand-book to The English Lakes, sixth edition, Kendal: T. Atkinson, 1851, folding map, original green wrappers, 8vo, further topography, six volumes by or about Winston Churchill, Murray's English Reader, seventh edition, York, 1807, sheep, 12mo, further primers and didactics, The Chemist & Druggist, volume II, 1861, 8vo, Rickman's Gothic Architecture, seventh edition, 1881, cloth, 8vo, Smedley's Spiritual Manifestations, 1900, 8vo, Dickens's Pickwick Papers, 1847, three-quarter calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Crimean War, British Colonies, Milton, boxing, Derbyshire interest, bindings, etc., mixed sizes, (approx. 35)

Waugh (Evelyn), Edmund Campion, first trade edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935, split but holding, original publisher's cloth only, worn but OK, 8vo, idem. & Stone (Reynolds, illustrator), The Holy Places, copy no. 360/950, London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952, in-text illustrations, unopened, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket with torn loss and some losses, but OK, clean red buckram, red top-edge, others uncut, 4to, idem., The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox [...], first edition, [London]: Chapman & Hall, 1959, original pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, another copy, lacking ffep, blue cloth only, 8vo, idem., Helena, first edition, ? impression, London: Chapman & Hall, 1950, original publisher's dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, another copy, blue cloth only, 8vo, (6)

Japan. Benneville (James S. de, translator), Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki, first edition thus, Yokohama, 1915, half-title, colour frontispiece, folding map, b/w illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth, bone toggles and silk ties, 8vo

Modern Firsts & Others. Trevelyan (Julian), Indigo Days, first edition, London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957, original pictorial dustjacket designed by the author, blue cloth, 8vo, Murdoch (Iris), The Bell, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1958, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Charles Mozley, worn, blue cloth, 8vo, Sackville-West (Vita), No Signposts in the Sea, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1961, dustjacket designed by Charles Gorham, hb, 8vo, Hilton (James), Catherine Herself, second edition, second impression, London: Macmillan, 1939, pictorial dustjacket, original cloth, 8vo, others, including several works by Angus Wilson, Henry Miller, P.G. Wodehouse, Compton Mackenzie, Beverley Nichols, Charles Morgan, Dennis Wheatley, etc., principally with their original publisher's dustjackets, etc., (approx. 80)

Americana. Herrera (Antonio de) & Stevens (Captain John, translator), The General History of the Vase Continent and Islands of America, Commonly call'd, The West-Indies, volume VI only (but complete in itself), first edition thus, London: Printed for Jer. Batley at the Dove in Pater-noster-row, 1726, red and black title-page, 1 folding plate (The People of Florida Sacrificing their first Born to the Sun), defective final publisher's catalogue leaf, disbound, 8vo, [Genealogy] Early Maltby, with Some Roades (sic) History and that of the Maulsby Family in America, signed presentation copy from the author, sole edition, Baltimore: Ella K. Barnard, 1909, full-page and folding plates and pedigrees, split, original blue cloth, 8vo, Taylor (Rev. Isaac), Scenes in America, second edition, London: J. Harris and Son, 1822, half-title, folding map frontispiece, plates, lacking ffep, original publisher's red roan gilt over pictorial papered boards, 12mo, [Slavery] Stowe (Harriet Beecher), The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, London: Clarke, Beeton, and Co., n.d., original publisher's cloth, uncut, 8vo, Conrad Aiken first edition, etc., (7)

Sweden. Pufendorf (Samuel von), The Compleat (sic) History of Sweden, from its Origin to this Time [...], two parts in one, first English edition, London: Printed by J. Brudenell, for Joseph Wild at the Elephant at Charing-Cross, 1702, black-ruled title-page, contemporary speckled calf, covers with blind-ruled double-fillet, chipped, rubbed and split, but holding OK-good, red-speckled edges, fore-edge with tacked-on contemporaneous lettered MS library label: History of Sweden, 8vo  Provenance: 1) John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown (1673-1744), Jacobean armorial bookplate to recto pastedown. 2) Carberry Tower, Library, X:2, the East Lothian country house of the Barons Elphinstone, their library label to recto pastedown.

Illustrated Books. Harling (Robert), Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious, Published for The Shenval Press by Faber and Faber Limited, 1946, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Leighton (Clare), Sometime -- Never, London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1939, lacking ffep, cloth only, 8vo, idem, Fray Mario, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1939, wooduct frontispiece, dj, hb, 8vo, idem, The Sea & The Jungle, first edition thus, London: Duckworth, 1930, dj, hb, 8vo, Ayrton (Michael), The Minotaur, London: Published privately by Genevieve Restaurants, 1970, original publisher's pictorial papered boards, 4to, Ardizzone (Edward, illustrator), Pictures on the Pavement, London: Michael Joseph, 1955, pictorial dj, cloth, 8vo, idem, Peacock Pie, 1946, dj, hb, 8vo, Gibbings (Robert), Iorana!, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1932, ffep and rear pastedown with ex-lib markings, otherwise good, original cloth over papered boards, 8vo, Reynolds Stone, Arthur Watts, etc., (11)

Numismatics. Bizot [(Pierre)], Histoire metallique de la Republique de Hollande, first edition, Paris: Daniel Horthemels, 1687, additional engraved title-page, [viii], 317, [12] (index), 10 full-page plates (of 12), further in-text engraved illustrations of coins, medals, the Colbert arms and historiated initials, chipped engraved title, its letterpress counterpart with excised portion, pages 176/177 and 220/221 with half-page tears, occasional further tears and/or chips, but marginal, stable and not affecting text, pages 311 onwards with stained upper-margins, contemporary vellum over boards, occasional foxing, some leaves browned, folio (39 x 26cm)

Bonaparte (Lucien), Butler (The Rev. Samuel, DD, translator), & Hodgson (The Rev. Francis, AM, translator), Charlemagne; or the Church Delivered. An Epic Poem, in twenty-four books, two-volume set, first English edition, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, slightly-offset, contemporary diced calf gilt, spine somewhat sunned, rubbed, speckled edges, 4to, (2)

Children's Books. Uttley (Alison), a collection of twenty-eight works, including Townsend (William, illustrator), Moonshine and Magic, first edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932, original publisher's pictorial cloth only, wear and some grime, back joint split, slight twist, 8vo, High Meadows, first edition, London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1938, lacking ffep, original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, 15 association copies, being works with tipped-in Christmas printed cards from the authoress, mostly unsigned, some volumes inscribed by the authoress &/or with tipped-in ALS & TLS,various titles, only one with original pictorial dustjacket, others with trimmed dustjackets tipped-in, 8vo, Tunnicliffe (C.F., RA, illustrator), The Button-Box and other essays, first edition, 1968, dj, hb, 8vo, Kennedy (A.E.), Macduff, first edition, 1950, cloth  only, 8vo, etc., (28) Provenance: the fifteen association copies: 1) Audrey Cecil Walsh (1899-1998), of Cheshire, who became acquainted with Uttley during the latter's residency in the county (1924-38). Following Uttley's move to Thackers, Beaconsfield, Buckingamshire, the relationship continued, which these books testify to. 2) Sold by Elizabeth Sykes Books to David Brady, an Uttley researcher, from whom the present vendor purchased the collection.

Bible. The Holy Bible, [issued and bound with] The Book of Common Prayer, [&] The Whole Book of Psalms, three parts in one, first Oxford edition, first printing (i.e. Bible colophon dated 1673), Oxford: At the Theater, 1675, Bible and BCP with additional engraved title-pages, BCP letterpress title defective and the Bible's tatty, double-column, uneven text block with some movement, some staining, otherwise unexamined, contemporary and later manuscript genealogical notices of the Burt family, contemporary calf over boards, panelled and tooled in blind, some worn losses, spine missing strip, red-stained edges, 4to in 8s, [Herbert 719]

Illustrated and Children's Books. Dulac (Edmund, illustrator) & FitzGerald (Edward, translator), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., tipped-in colour plates, original red cloth, pictorial gilt, 4to, Haggard (H. Rider) & Hood (G.P. Jacomb, illustrator), Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch, first edition, plates, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, Du Maurier (George), Peter Ibbetson [&] Trilby, London: Osgood, et al., 1892 & 1896, in-text illustrations, uniformly bound in early 20th c blue three-quarter calf gilt over cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Wehnert's Grimm's Household Stories, 1901, cloth, 8vo, Carl Andersen, 1877, Rackham's Gulliver's Travels, n.d., original cloth, 8vo, etc., (8)

Travel, Turkey. Hill (Aaron, Gent.), A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire In all its Branches, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold, by John Mayo, 1709, black-ruled title-page reinforced at gutter, lacking portrait frontispiece, pp: [viii], xxvii, [viii], 339, 6 engraved and etched plate with accompanying explanatory letter-press leaves, 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, folio in 4s (34.5 x 23.5cm)  Provenance: Sarah Cholmley, March ye 8th: 1709 (Cholmondeley?), contemporary original female ownership manuscript inscription to ffep.

Sitwelliana. Sitwell (Osbert), Before the Bombardment, first edition, third impression, London: Duckworth, 1927, original cloth, 8vo, multiple copies of his autobiography, sets, part-sets and harlequin volumes, mixed editions, imprints and dates, some with original pictorial dustjackets, Sitwell (Sacheverell), From My Home, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1931, cloth, 8vo, Edith Sitwell, further works by or about the siblings, various, mixed bindings and sizes, (approx. 50)

Ferriar (John, M.D.), Illustrations of Sterne: with Other Essays and Verses, first edition, London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, 1798, half-title and final advertisement leaf, lacking ffep, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and split, but holding, 8vo, [&] Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, eleventh edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820, rebacked calf, worn and rubbed, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (2)

Travel. Patterson (Lieut.-Col. J.H., DSO), In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909, full-page plates and maps, ex school library copy, only pastedown and prelims with their labels and/or stamps, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, spine with slight shelf numbering, 8vo, Anson (George, Esq. (Late Lord Anson)) & Walter (Richard, Chaplain of the Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition, compiler), A Voyage Round the World, two-volume set bound as one, Edinburgh: Printed by Alex. Chapman and Co, 1796, defective world map frontispiece, foxed, contemporary sheep over boards, rubbed, chipped and split, crudely repaired with tacked-on sellotape, 12mo, Guiana, Clare Leighton the illustrator, etc., (5)

The Inklings. Tolkien (J.R.R.) & Baynes (Pauline, illustrator), The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and other verses from The Red Book, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962, original publisher's dustjacket over pictorial papered boards, 8vo

Children's and Juvenile Books. Defoe [(Daniel)], The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner [...], London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846, [iii]-xxiv, 442, lacking half-title, some soiled leaves, in-text illustrations by Harvey and Whimper, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, worn, 8vo, Dickson (R.W.), A Grammar of the First Principles of Agriculture, London: Richard Phillips, 1810, folding plates, contemporary green roan upper-cover only, 12mo, [Hack (Maria)], Stories of Animals, third edition, London: Harvey and Darton, 1826, original publisher's roan over marbled boards, detached, 8vo, Hewlett (Esther), The Little Cowslip-Gatherers, London: William Darton, n.d. [?1824], original publisher's roan over marbled boards, perished, movement, 12mo, Bewick (Thomas, illustrator) Trimmer's Fabulous Histories, fifteenth edition, London: Thomas Ward and Co., n.d. [c. 1830], original publisher's cloth, 12mo, [Fenn (Ellenor)], The Family Miscellany [...], Selected by Mrs. Lovechild, London: J. Harris, 1805, lacks frontispiece as apparently called for, contemporary roan over marbled boards, 12mo, etc., (9) But for Robinson Crusoe, the lot is sold uncollated and as such not liable to return.

Lane (Edward William, translator), Poole (Edward Stanley, editor), & Harvey (William, illustrator), The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainment [...], three-volume set, first edition thus, London: John Murray, 1859, additional wood-engraved title-pages, rare in original publisher's green cloth, gilt to an Islamic design lettered spines, slight wear, holding well, uncut, 8vo, (3)

Sassoon (Siegfried), Satirical Poems, signed by the author, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926, half-title, occasional foxed spot, inner-gutter split but holding, original publisher's cloth, gilt lettered, spine sunned, top edge cut, others uncut, 8vo

Miscellaneous. Musaeus Grammaticus & Röver (Matthias, editor), [...] Musaei Grammatici de Herone et Leandro carmen, Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Theodorum Haak, 1737, additional engraved title-page, later 18th c English calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Bingley (Rev. William), Travels in Asia, from Modern Writers, first edition, London: Harvey and Darton, 1822, half-title, plates, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, lifting spine compartment, contemporary bookseller's ticket: Binns of Bath, 12mo, Prade (Jean Royer de), Histoire d'Allemagne, two-volume set, Paris: Augustin Besoigne, 1683, engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf gilt, speckled edges, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: 1st: Reverend Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), classical scholar and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (1831-1855); his 19th c armorial bookplate. 3rd: George Baillie (1664-1738), of Mellerstain House, near Kelso, Scotland; his bookplate to each pastedown, The Hon:ble George Baillie Esq:r/one of the Lords of the Treasury/1724, engraved by Andrew Johnston.

Prince (John), Danmonii orientales illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon [...], first edition, Exeter: Printed by Sam. Farley, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London; and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop in Exon, 1701, black-ruled title-page, erroneous pagination, lacking signatures 7B² only, in-text illustrations of coats of arms, occasional marginal glosses and heraldic corrections in a contemporary hand, the odd ink stain and stable marginal tear, original recto and verso blanks annotated in a slightly later 18th c hand, later Regency russia boards, armorial covers rolled in blind and enclosed within a double-line gilt fillet, rebacked, later gilt-lettered morocco piece, contemporary gilt edges and green endpapers, the former with Regency binder's ticket, folio (38.5 x 25.5cm) Provenance: 1) Ar: Chichester, recto blank and title-page with contemporary ink MS ownership inscription, the glosses and corrections almost certainly by the same hand. 2) Sir Richard Borough, 1st Baronet (1756-1837), of Ham Common, Surrey, and later Coolock Park, Co. Dublin; his armorial supralibros to each cover.

Cookery. Beeton (Mrs. Isabella), The Book of Household Management, first edition thus, London: S.O. Beeton, 1861, chromolithographed additional title-page with 248 Strand address, 12 colour plates, one of which is now trimmed and loosely-inserted, numerous b/w in-text illustrations and diagrams, split and uneven text block, which is somewhat tatty, some leaves loosening, fewer loose, original publisher's cloth boards, gilt lettered, rebacked, 8vo

Modern Firsts. Thomas (Dylan), Quite Early One Morning: broadcasts, first edition, second impression, London: J.M Dent & Sons Ltd, November 1954, original publisher's dustjacket, some chips, loss to top of spine, over blue cloth, 8vo, Shaw (Robert), The Hiding Place, first edition, second impression, London: Chatto & Windus, October 1959, original publisher's dustjacket designed by John Woodcock, over pale blue cloth, 8vo, [&] Hemingway (Ernest), Islands in the Stream, first edition, London: Collins, 1970, dj, hb, 8vo, (3)

Woolf (Virginia), four association copies from the library of one of her biographers, each Uniform Editions from The Hogarth Press, comprising Mrs. Dalloway, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1929, original publisher's dustjacket over green cloth, spine faded, scuffed and chipped, further light wear, ffep with contemporaneous ink MS presentation inscription, A Room of One's Own, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1931, original cloth, fading, Flush: A Biography, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1933, frontispiece, original publisher's dustjacket over green cloth, faded spine with tears, [&] Orlando: A Biography, sixth impression, 1949, original dustjacket over green cloth, some fading and wear, 8vo, (4)  Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard, author of 'The Unknown Virginia Woolf ' (first published 1978).