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Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1901. Red & black title page, frontispiece, all plates as called for, two pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents good, clean, bright; some light spotting to protective tissue-guard and title; some discolouration and offsetting to endpapers; owner inscriptions for 1901 and 1915; binding solid with discolouration and wear to extremities and headcaps

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, fifth issue, hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, signed by the author in bold blue ink on dedication page, 'To Rory, Sorry I missed you! J K Rowling'. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid, boards clean and vibrant with a couple of bumps at lower edges; dust-jacket clean and bold, well-preserved with some light knocks at edges. The second novel in the Harry Potter seriesProvenance: Edinburgh Book Festival, 1998. Vendor was meant to attend with a friend (who took the book along in his absence), hence the inscription from Rowling

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; a very pale stain at the top edge of a few pages; light owner inscription in pencil; binding tight and solid, very well-preserved (appears unread); faint crease at lower front cover with knock to extreme corner; a couple of very faint marks/scratches to cover. A very good example

Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, facsimile of the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, Irish University Press, 1969. Limited edition numbered 69 of 100 copies bound in vellum by Desmond Smith at the Irish University Press bindery, housed in slipcase. Very well-preserved, clean, bright. Together with Some Hints on Pattern Designing, by William Morris, first edition, London: Longmans, 1899, printed at the Chiswick Press, and Some Great Churches in France, by William Morris and Walter Pater, Maine: Thomas B Mosher, 1903, one of 425 copies printed on Japan Vellum (3)

Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca, first edition, London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. Contents generally good with toning and occasional light spotting; slight wear and small crease to blank leaves at rear; binding solid with light rubbing to spine and light wear to corners; a little dusty

Harris, Moses. Natural System of Colours, [second edition, considered almost as scarce as the first], London: Printed by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1811. Edited by Thomas Martyn and dedicated to the second President of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West. Association copy, originally belonging to Benjamin West but not inscribed. Quarto, half crushed morocco with paper-covered boards and morocco title label lettered in gilt. Title, dedication, address (two pages), text complete in 11 pages, and complete with three hand-coloured plates: Prismatic, Compound, Examples. Loosely inserted sheet of pencil-sketched circles. Contents generally very good, the hand-colouring well-preserved and vibrant; dedication page bearing manufacturer's watermark (J Whatman 1808); some light, even toning (more noticeable in some places than others); protective tissue-guards present for the first two plates; tissue-guards foxed; occasional pale marks/spots in places; very faint creasing and light wear to edges in places; boards rubbed and worn, contents loose, loss to the leather at spineVery scarce. Only a few copies of the first edition are known to exist (including the Royal Academy's copy, which is lacking the third plate). In 1963, Faber Birren published 'a facsimile edition of what is perhaps the rarest known book in the literature of color'. This second edition is considered almost as rare as the firstProvenance: By descent. Vendor's late husband was descended on his mother's side from noted artist Benjamin West PRA (American, 1738-1820). It is known that West was greatly interested in the discipline of colour theoryDr Alexandra Loske has kindly provided the following comments for inclusion in this catalogue:'This is a very exciting book to appear in a public auction. It may be a short work, but it is one the most influential and beautiful books in Western colour history. The entomologist Moses Harris was the first to introduce detailed colour wheels in English literature on colour, in the late 18th century. This splendid second edition, published posthumously in 1811, is evidence of the increasing interest in colour in the 19th century, and in Enlightenment sources. Only a year earlier the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had published his substantial Zur Farbenlehre (On the Doctrine of Colours), and shortly after the British "Colourman" George Field wrote his first of many books on colour theory. Fewer than ten copies of the first and second editions of Harris's book are recorded. I have inspected almost all of them, and the quality of the hand-coloured plates in this copy is outstanding.'Dr Alexandra Loske, colour historian and author of Colour: A Visual History (2019), University of Sussex and Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museums

Wooster, David. Alpine Plants, first & second series (two volumes), second edition, London: George Bell & Sons, 1874, publisher's blue embossed buckram lettered in gilt, illustrated with numerous chromolithographic plates. Together with A New British Flora: British Wild Flowers In Their Natural Haunts, in six volumes, London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1919, publisher's gilt blue cloth. Contents generally good, clean, bright, occasional light marks and wear; bindings generally solid with bumps and wear in places (8)

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid; covers clean and vibrant; dust-jacket very good and vibrant; very faint knocks to edges of dust-jacket. An excellent copy. The second novel in the Harry Potter series

Morris, Rev. F. O. A History of British Butterflies, first edition, London: Groombridge & Sons, 1857. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 71 hand-coloured lithographic plates, plus two uncoloured lithographic plates, bearing bookplates for Thomas W. Daltry and The Daltry Library, plus various pasted ephemera relating to the North Staffordshire Field Club. Plates generally well-preserved and vibrant; intermittent foxing throughout (mostly confined to text pages); binding tight and solid with slight wear to extremities

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, first edition thus, London: Harrap, 1928. Quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth, top edge gilt, eight colour plates and 30 black & white illustrations within the text. Contents good and bright with spotting to opening leaves and outer page edges; Ex Libris bookplate obscuring owner inscription on front free endpaper; binding good, tight, solid, light wear to cloth at extremities

Bacon, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, first complete edition, first issue, London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker, 1625. Small quarto, contemporary calf boards, rebacked. Text complete in 340 pages, plus opening blank leaf, title page, and Epistle Dedicatorie to Duke of Buckingham; lacking The Table (two leaves). Owner inscription on title page, 'John Cranch, 1796'; heavily inscribed to opening endpapers, blank leaf and verso of title, 'Elogies on the illustrious author'; occasional marginalia throughout; the second leaf of Dedication with trimmed margins and pasted copper-engraved portrait of the author. Pale dampstaining to pages; old tape hinging title to blank leaf; loosely inserted auction/catalogue clipping

Rutherforth, Thomas. A System of Natural Philosophy, first edition, Vol.II only, Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1748, illustrated with engraved scientific plates and folding world map, full contemporary panelled calf, lower board detached. Scarce. Astronomy Interest

Johnson, John. Typographia or the Printers' Instructor, first edition, in two volumes, London: Longman, 1824. Contemporary cloth with recent paper title labels. Contents generally good, clean, bright, occasional light spots/marks; cloth with wear, splitting to joints, corners bumped (2)

Collection of three signed books, comprising: 1. Rosen, Michael. Michael Rosen's Sad Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake, first edition, hardback, London: Walker Books Ltd., 2004, signed by the author in bold blue ink on title page. Contents very good, clean, bright; covers good and bright with several bumps to edges of boards/spine. 2. Awdry, Rev W. Small Railway Engines, first edition, London: Kaye & Ward Limited, 1967, signed by the author in blue ink on title page. No. 22 in the Railway Series. Publisher's brown cloth, lacking dust-jacket; internally good, clean, bright. 3. Briggs, Raymond. Ethel & Ernest, hardback, London: Jonathan Cape, 1999, signed by the author in blue ink on title page. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding very good (3)

J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, hardback, signed by the author in black ink on title page ('To Joely, J K Rowling', with hologram sticker), London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Contents very good, clean, bright; small pale mark on title page and again opposite with faint wear to gutter; one very small ink mark to lower edge of text block; binding tight and solid, boards very good and bright; vibrant well-preserved dust-jacket with light bumping at edges and a couple of very faint marks. The seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's laminated pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual light toning to page edges; a small scuff to fore-edge just lightly chipping into the extreme edges of paper; binding very well-preserved, tight, solid, laminate entirely present, boards and spine bold and vibrant; the very faintest of wear to extreme corners; incredibly light bumping to headcaps; incredibly faint rubbing and tiny marks to laminate. The author's debut novel and first in the Harry Potter series. Very scarce. Only 500 copies were printed of this true first issue hardback, and 300 of those were sent to schools and libraries - this being one of the more desirable 200

Fawcett, Douglas. The Zermatt Dialogues: Constituting the Outlines of a Philosophy of Mysticism Mainly on Problems of Cosmic Import, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1931. Presentation copy signed by the author on front free endpaper. Octavo, gilt blue cloth, dust-jacket. Contents good, clean, bright; some toning/marks to outer edges of text-block and endpapers; binding tight and solid; some wear/loss to dust-jacket

Milne, A. A. The Christopher Robin Verses, first edition, London: Methuen, 1932. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, 12 colour plates plus further black & white illustrations within the text. Contents generally good with occasional spots, toning to endpapers, owner inscription on ffep; binding tight and solid with a couple of marks and a bump to rear corner; lacking dust-jacket. Together with Fifty Caricatures, by Max Beerbohm, London: Heinemann, 1913, publisher's gilt green cloth, and The Beach, by Alex Garland, uncorrected proof copy, London: Viking, 1996 (3)

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual very light toning to page edges; a few pages with tiny nicks to extreme edges and light fold-lines to a few corners; a couple of very faint marks in places; a very faint diagonal crease and light cockling to opening leaves; binding badly worn with splitting/loss to joints/edges/corners; only remnants of publisher's laminate present at extreme inner edges of boards; a sticker across base of spine, with a small patch of loss to pictorial boards at either side (upper and lower board). The author's debut novel and first in the Harry Potter series. Very scarce. One of only 500 copies, 300 of which were sent to libraries and schoolsProvenance: Purchased by the vendor 15 years ago at a table-top sale. Bearing Edinburgh City Libraries label and barcode to front free endpaper, stamped 'WITHDRAWN', with a long list of date stamps ranging from 15 December 1997 to 12 October 1999. Edinburgh City Libraries stamp and pencil details on copyright pageEdinburgh has long been regarded by many as "the home of Harry Potter"

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, hardback, signed by the author in black ink on title page ('To Hazel, J K Rowling', with hologram sticker), London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Together with provenance: original admittance card/ticket for the signing event at Natural History Museum, 20 July 2007; unused activities sheet from the event; three deflated/unused balloons from the event; three unused stickers; 'Moonlight Signing' ticket with handwritten number; original orange paper gift bag from the event; original poster; red HB pencil, plus three cinema tickets for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (12/07/2007) and an advertisement for Deathly Hallows audiobook. Book contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid with vibrant well-preserved dust-jacket (unread); a few light bumps to boards beneath dust-jacket; ephemera in excellent condition. The seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series

Willoughby-Meade, G. Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, first UK edition, London: Constable, 1928. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. Contents generally good, clean, bright, some very pale spotting to opening leaves; binding with bumping to headcaps, splitting to cloth at joints, creasing to spine

Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Gift Set: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fifth impression ("10 9 8 7 6 5"), hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 1997; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, tenth impression ("10"), hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Complete with slipcase depicting each cover (one on each side). Contents generally good and bright with some pale spotting to opening leaves of each volume; bindings tight and solid, boards well-preserved if a little dusty; dust-jackets with a couple of short tears, dirt to spines, a couple of light creases; slipcase well-preserved but dust/dirt along top edge

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents with usual light toning to page edges, pale spots and occasional marks; worm damage through corner of pages throughout; lacking front free endpaper and half-title (presumably a library copy at some point, but with no reference to this); binding badly worn, lacking laminate, loss to spine/edges/corners/headcaps; spine crudely reinforced with tape. As found. Very scarce. Only 500 copies were printed of this true first issue hardback, and 300 of those were sent to schools and libraries

[SOCIETY OF FRIENDS PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING]: A COLLECTION OF MEMORIALS CONCERNING DIVERS DECEASED MINISTERS AND OTHERS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY AND PARTS ADJACENT FROM NEARLY THE FIRST SETTLEMENT THEREOF TO THE YEAR 1787 WITH SOME OF THE LAST EXPRESSIONS AND EXHORTATIONS OF MANY OF THEM, Philadelphia printed, London reprinted and sold by J Phillips, 1788, 1st English edition, old calf worn, lacks blanks

SIMON TAYLOR: JOHN GEORGE AND THE HWMS, THE FIRST RACING TEAM TO FLY THE FLAG FOR BRITAIN, Sherborne, Evero Publishing, 2019, 1st edition, 2 vols, both signed, original cloth, d/ws, slip-case (2)

EUGENE FIELD: LULLABY-LAND, SONGS OF CHILDHOOD, ed Kenneth Grahame, ill Charles Robinson, London, John Lane, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons [1898], 1st edition, inscription on half title, original pictorial cloth gilt + FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL, ill Reginald B Birch, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893, 1st edition, illustrations collated complete, lacks half title, pencil inscription on half title, original pictorial cloth v worn, lacking part of spine + ALEXANDER DUMAS AND OTHERS: THE GOLDEN FAIRY BOOK, ill H R Millar, New York, D Appleton & Co, 1894, 1st edition, inscription on first blank, original cloth gilt + L J BRIDGMAN: GUESS, New York, Dodge Publishing Co, 1901, inscription on ffep, 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn (4)

JULIAN STAFFORD CORBETT & HERBERT WILLIAM RICHMOND (EDS): PRIVATE PAPERS OF GEORGE SECOND EARL SPENCER, FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY 1794-1801, [London] for the Navy Records Society, 1913-24, 1st edition, 4 vols, original two-tone cloth gilt + WILLIAM GORDON PERRIN & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (EDS): THE KEITH PAPERS, [London] for the Navy Records Society, 1927-60, 1st edition, 5 vols, vol 1 signed and inscribed by Warren Royal Dawson to C J Britton, original two-tone cloth gilt, (7)

GEORGE FOX: COMPASSION TO THE CAPTIVES WHEREIN IS SHEWN UNTO THEM THE WAY OF GOD WHICH IS BUT ONE, WHICH IS NOT KNOWN IN THE MANY SECTS AND OPINIONS THAT ARE IN THE DARK WORLD BUT IN THE LIGHT WHICH COMES FROM CHRIST WHICH CONDEMNS THE WORLD WITH ITS DEEDS SO THEY THAT LIVE IN THE MANY SECTS AND OPINIONS THEIR WAYS SEEN AND DENIED BY THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT WHO DWELL IN HIM WHO IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE..., London, printed for Robert Wilson, 1662, 1st edition, lacks first leaf of index bound in before title, otherwise complete, collates [4] 3-279 lacks blanks, contemporary calf worn, scarce

JOHN RUSKIN: 2 titles: THE ART OF ENGLAND, LECTURES GIVEN IN OXFORD, Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1884, 4to, contemporary half calf worn; THE STORM CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TWO LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LONDON INSTITUTION, Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1884, 1st edition, 4to, contemporary half calf worn, uniform with first work (2)

ERIC GILL: 4 titles: DRAWINGS FROM LIFE, London, Hague & Gill, 1940, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w; FIRST NUDES, London, Neville Spearman, 1954, 1st trade edition, original cloth; 25 NUDES, London, Cassell, 1988, 3rd edition, original cloth, d/w; THE ENGRAVINGS, ed Christopher Skelton, London, Herbert Press, 1990, 1st trade edition, book plate of Derek Cottam, 4to, original blind stamped cloth, d/w + DAVID PEACE: ERIC GILL, THE INSCRIPTIONS, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, London, Herbert Press, 1994, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w + ANTHONY HOYLAND: ERIC GILL NUPTIALS OF GOD, Maidstone, Crescent Moon, 2008, 2nd edition, original pictorial wraps, all titles vgc and from the collection of Derek Cottam (6)

JOHN GOUGH: A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS FROM THEIR FIRST RISE TO THE PRESENT TIME..., Dublin, printed for Robert Jackson, 1789-90, 1st edition, 4 vols, old calf worn, vol 3 calf darkened, lacks ffep and some soiling at front, vols 1-3 ex-Malton Friends Library, vol 4 Friends Meeting House library label on top board (4)

GEORGE FOX: A JOURNAL OR HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE TRAVELS SUFFERINGS CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE AND LABOUR OF LOVE IN THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY OF THAT ANCIENT EMINENT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT OF CHRIST, GEORGE FOX..., London for Thomas Northcott, 1694, 1st edition, lacks all before page 5, pages 5-10 detached, pages 5-8 damaged with some losses, first 2 leaves of "The First Table" only, large 4to, old quarter calf worn (a/f)

EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES AND ADVICES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS HELD IN LONDON FROM ITS FIRST INSTITUTION, London, W Phillips, 1802, 2nd edition, 4to, old half calf v worn, top board near detached + [ELIZABETH DUDLEY] [ED]: THE LIFE OF MARY DUDLEY INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF HER RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENTS AND EXTRACTS FROM HER LETTERS WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF HER DAUGHTER HANNAH DUDLEY, London, printed for the editor, 1825, 1st edition, contemporary drab boards, lacks backstrip, top board ffep and title page detached + JOHN KENDALL: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF JOHN KENDALL TO WHICH ARE ADDED LETTERS WRITTEN ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS TO HIS FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE AND OTHER PIECES, London, William Phillips, 1815, 12mo, old calf ex-Lothersdale Skipton Friends library + DAVID FERRIS: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF DAVID FERRERS, AN APPROVED MINISTER IN THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS LATE OF WILMINGTON IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE, Philadelphia printed York re-printed and sold by W Alexander & Son, 1825, 1st edition, 2pp adverts at end, 12mo, contemporary drab boards, v worn, top board and a few early leaves detached (4)

A COLLECTION OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND CLAUSES OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO THOSE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS WHO ARE USUALLY CALLED BY THE NAME OF QUAKERS FROM THE YEAR 1688, London, Luke Hinde, 1767, 1st edition, some worm damage, mainly marginal but affecting some text, 4to, old blind stamped calf worn + EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES AND ADVICES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS HELD IN LONDON FROM ITS FIRST INSTITUTION, London, W Phillips, 1802, 2nd edition, 4to, old calf worn, top board detached (2)

ROBERT BARCLAY: AN APOLOGY FOR THE TRUE CHRISTIAN DIVINITY AS THE SAME IS HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE CALLED IN SCORN QUAKERS BEING A FULL EXPLANATION AND VINDICATION OF THEIR PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES, [Aberdeen, John Forbes], 1678, 1st edition in English, a translation of "Theologiae Vere Christianae Apologia", collates [24], 412, [28], text block weak between pages 292-293 resulting in pages 293-294 with small closed tear, contemporary ownership signatures on first (detached) blank and book plate of Bishop Samuel Kirschbaum Knight (1862-1932), earlier armorial book plate of Thomas Griffith, MA on front paste down, small 4to, contemporary calf, very worn, top board hanging by a thread

SIR THOMAS BYAM MARTIN: LETTERS AND PAPERS OF, ed Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, 1903, 1898, 1901, 1st editions, 3 vols, original two-tone cloth gilt + JOHN JERVIS, VISCOUNT ST VINCENT: LETTERS OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET THE EARL OF ST VINCENT WHILST THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY 1801-1804, ed David Bonner Smith, 1922-27, 2 vols, original two-tone cloth gilt + HAROLD COOKE GUTTERIDGE: NELSON AND THE NEAPOLITAN JACOBINS, 1903, 1st edition, original two-tone cloth gilt + HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT NELSON: NELSON'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS 1785-1831, ed George Prideaux Brabant Naish, 1958, 1st edition, original two-tone cloth gilt + CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, BARON COLLINGWOOD: THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF, ed Edward Hughes, 1957, 1st edition, original two-tone cloth gilt, all vols published for The Navy Records Society (8)

EDWARD MILLIGEN BELOE: OUR BOROUGH, OUR CHURCHES (KINGS LYNN, NORFOLK) WITH AN AFTER-WORK THE ART OF THE RENAISSANCE IN KINGS LYNN, Cambridge, MacMilland & Bowes, 1899, 1st edition, frontis detached, 4to, original cloth gilt, top edges gilt + WALTER RYE: A LIST OF COAT ARMOUR USED IN NORFOLK BEFORE THE DATE OF THE FIRST HERALDS VISITATION OF 1563, Norwich, Roberts & Co, 1917 (25) (21) numbered (7) and signed, 4to, original printed boards worn (2)

Books - Farjeon, Eleanor, Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard, first edition 1921, W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, dedicated and signed Easter 1960 by Farjeon, with typed letter of a previous book owner reminiscing about Farjeon, with newspaper clipping Condition: Wear to spine and front and back cover, some pages having stains, would advise viewing in person prior to bidding or telephone department for further information - **General condition consistent with age

Books - Fleming, Ian - Three first edition James Bond novels comprising; The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), You Only Live Twice (no dust jacket) (1964), For Your Eyes Only (no dust jacket) (1960) and later edition, together with Adventure No.1 and 2 of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Magical Car (1964) 80 Condition: Some wear to the covers and spines of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang editions, staining to some of the pages of some of the other editions with general wear. The Man with the Golden Gun having some wear to the corners of the dust jacket **General condition consistent with age

Curwen Press. Collection comprising: Adam 300, 1966, pictorial cloth covers and dust-jacket by Jean Cocteau; Willobie His Avisa, 1926, pictorial cloth; How to Write a Village History, 1930, paper boards; The Child, by Rabindranath Tagore, 1931, paper boards with matching dust-jacket; Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Loan Exhibition, 1922 (two copies), limited edition of 500, paper boards (6)

Crompton, Richmal. William's Treasure Trove, first edition, London: George Newnes Limited, 1962. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, 'All good wishes, Richmal Crompton'. Octavo, gilt green cloth, lacking dust-jacket. Good, clean, bright

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, first edition thus, London: Heinemann, 1905. Quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth, 50 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, plus frontispiece. Plates generally well-preserved and bright, a couple of the tissue-guards with spotting/wear; text pages with foxing throughout; boards bumped, cloth with wear to extremities

Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's dark brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine with blind-embossed skeletal hand on upper board, unclipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright; some light discolouration to outer edges of text-block; neat contemporary owner inscription on front free endpaper; a couple of very small, light marks on endpapers; binding very good, lightly bumped to corners; dust-jacket with splitting and short tears

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Hand and Soul, limited edition numbered 66 of 125 (110 issued for sale), Hilversum: Printed by S. H. de Roos at De Heuvelpers, 1929. Octavo, full vellum lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers (matching slipcase), title in red ink, first capital hand-coloured blue and red. Contents generally very good, a few light spots and marks; binding well-preserved. Complete with slipcase

Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, first edition thus, London: Heinemann, [1907]. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth, 12 colour plates (all but one with captioned tissue-guards) plus further black & white illustrations within the text, publisher's advertisement for Rip Van Winkle at front, advertisement for The Children & The Pictures at rear, poem by Austin Dobson. Contents with occasional marks, spots, erased pencil; gift inscription for Christmas 1907 on verso of front free endpaper, later owner inscription (neat and small) on ffep; binding with discolouration to spine, wear and loss to cloth at headcaps/corners

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', no dropped line of text error on p.7. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid; covers clean and vibrant; dust-jacket very good and vibrant. An excellent copy. The third novel in the Harry Potter series

λ Caroline Wallace (British), Lord Gyllene, 1999An impressive patinated bronze model of a race horse, portrayed standing, with a dog and cat resting by its feet; the rectangular plinth initialled and dated CW 99 to the maquette, and with central presentation inscription for the horse's owner STANLEY W. CLARKE ESQ. CBE and Mrs CLARKE, the horse life-sized, the base 300cm wide, 102cm deepProvenance: The Animal Health Trust, previously displayed at the National Horseracing MuseumCommissioned from the artist for the Animal Health Trust by Sir Stanley Clarke CBE, owner of Lord Gyllene. Sir Stanley commissioned two sculptures, one of which is presented here. The other stands in his own garden in Staffordshire.Lord Gyllene was a New Zealand-bred racehorse and winner of the 1997 Grand National at Aintree. The 1997 edition of the Grand National is perhaps best-remembered for being the first delayed instalment in the race's history, having been postponed for two days to a Monday due to suspected bomb threats at the racecourse. Caroline Wallace is regarded as one of the nation's foremost equine and sporting sculptors. Her previous commissions include Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's racehorse 'Special Cargo' for Sandown Park racecourse and 'Double Trigger' for Doncaster racecourse. She has exhibited across the UK and internationally, and a number of her works are said to be in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Condition Report: Please note a condition report is not currently available for this lot.Condition Report Disclaimer

Letters from Iceland, by W H Auden and Louis MacNeice, first edition published by Faber & Faber, 1937, together with Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice, published by Faber & Faber, 1953 edition, and The Collected Poems of C Day Lewis, published by Jonathan Cape & The Hogarth Press, 1954

Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell, 1962, first edition, published by Faber & Faber

Siegfried's Journey, by Siegfried Sassoon, published by Faber & Faber, 1945 first edition, together with Meredith, by Siegfried Sassoon, published by Constable & Co, 1948 first edition, The Testament of Beauty, by Robert Bridges, published by the Clarendon Press, 1945 edition, The Ballard of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde, 1899 edition, and Democracy & The Arts, by Rupert Brooke, published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946 first edition

A.A Milne, 'The House at Pooh Corner', first edition 1928, together with 'Winnie the Pooh', fourth edition; 'Now we are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young' (4)

A box of books and ordnance survey maps to include a first edition 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

Axel Herman Haig (1835-1921). First Communion in Amiens Cathedral (1891) Etching, monogrammed and dated in the plate, hand signed lower right. From an edition of 450. Presented in a substantial mahogany frame with applied and engraved ecclesiastically themed decoration. Note this is one of Haig’s earliest engravings, in later years he wrote ‘the interior of this Cathedral still is to me all that is most pure and beautiful in Gothic form’.

Zwinger,T.Zwinger,T. Theatrum Botanicum. Das ist: Neu Vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, worin Zwinger,T. Zwinger,T. Theatrum Botanicum. Das ist: Neu Vollkommenes Kräuter-Buch, worinnen Allerhand Erdgewächse der Bäumen, Stauden und Kräutern, welche allen vier Theilen der Welt, sonderlich aber in Europa herfür kommen... 5 Tle. in 1 Bd. Basel, Bertsche 1696. Fol. Mit gest. Front., 1 gefalt. Kupferst.-Portr. u. über 1200 Textholzschn. 5 nn. Bl., 995 S., 26 nn. Bl. Prgt. d. Zt. mit hs. Rtit. (Stark fl., Vdeckel mit Federproben u. Kritzelei, Deckelbezug tls. abgelöst u. am Vdeckel mit Klebestreifen unschön fixiert). VD17 3:000174P. Nissen BBI 1311. Pritzel 10532. - Erste Basler Ausg. dieses überaus reich illustr., ursprünglich auf dem Werk von Pier Andrea Mattioli fußenden, erstmals 1586 aufgelegten Kräuterbuchs. - Block nach Drucktit. gebrochen, die ersten Blätter etw. unschön neu angefalzt u. nicht sachgemäß eingehängt, das Portrait mit größeren Einrissen, ferner alt aufgez., wobei der überstehende Bezug eingefaltet u. der Bildbereich dadurch beeinträchtigt wurde. Der Textteil ansonsten nur gering gebräunt und von guter Erhaltung. - First Basel edition of this richly illustrated herbal, first published in 1586. 5 parts in 1 volume. With engraved fronstispiece, 1 copper engraved portrait and more than 1200 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary vellum, severely stained, front board damaged. Book block broken, portrait with tears, slightly browned.

Marsigli,L.F.Marsigli,L.F. Histoire physique de la mer. Ouvrage enrichi de figures dess Marsigli,L.F. Marsigli,L.F. Histoire physique de la mer. Ouvrage enrichi de figures dessinees d'apres le naturel. Amsterdam, Aux depens de la compagnie 1725. Fol. Mit gest. Front., gest. Titelvign., 2 dplblgr. gest. Karten u. 50 (2 dplblgr.) Kupfertaf. 4 nn. Bl., XI, 173 S. Ldr. d. Zt. (Gelenke angeplatzt, best.). Erste und wohl einzige Ausgabe. - Poggendorff II, 59. Nissen, ZBI, 2699. DSB IX, 134 f. Koeman IV, 421: 'This work on oceanography contains the first printed chart with depth-lines.' - Frühes Werk über Ozeanographie, übersetzt von Jean Leclerc und mit einem Vorwort versehen von Hermann Boerhaave. - Marsigli ist durch sein großangelegtes Werk über die Donau bekannt geworden. Im vorliegenden Werk gibt er seine Erfahrungen und Versuchsergebnisse aus dem Maritim-Laboratorium in Marseille bekannt, einem von ihm im Jahre 1706 gegründeten Institut. - 'In it he treated problems which until then had been veiled by error and legend. Marsili examined every aspect of the subiect: the morphology of the basin and relationships between the lands under and above water; the water's properties (color, temperature, salinity) and its motion (waves, currents, tides); and the biology of the sea, which fore-told the advent of marine botany. Among the plants he numbered animals like corals, which before bis time had been regarded as inorganic matter'. - Tls. leicht fleckig, N.a.V. - First and probably only edition. With engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, 2 engraved maps and 50 copper plates. Contemporary leather (joints cracked, bumped). Partly slightly stained.

Pallas,P.S.Pallas,P.S. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in Pallas,P.S. Pallas,P.S. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. Transl. from the German (by W. Blagdon). 2 Bde. London, Strahan 1802-03. 4°. Mit 50 (43 kolor., 23 gefalt.) Aquatintataf., 28 (23 kolor.) Vignetten in Aquatinta, 5 gefalt. und gest. Karten und 1 Abb. XXIII, 552; XXX S., 1 Bl., 523 S. Neue Hldrbde. (Deckel fleckig, Ecken beschabt). Nissen, ZBI 3065. Vgl. Graesse V, 109. Erste englische Ausgabe. - Pallas (1741-1811) bereiste im Auftrag der Petersburger Akademie in den Jahren 1768-74 Russland und Sibirien bis zum Amur. Sein bedeutender Reisebericht beschreibt die geographischen, geologischen, zoologischen, archäologischen und völkerkundlichen Eigenheiten des Landes. Die hervorragenden, gut erhaltenen Kupfer gehen auf den Leipziger Künstler C.G. Geißler zurück, der Pallas auf seiner Reise begleitete. Sie zeigen u.a. Kostüme und Trachten verschiedener Völker, Pflanzen, Tiere, Gebäude, Münzen und Inschriften. - Breitrandiges, gering gebräuntes Ex. - Exlibris Henry Jardine. - First English edition. 2 volumes. With 50 aquatint plates, 28 aquatint vignettes and 5 engraved maps. Modern half leather (stained, rubbed). Slightly browned. Bookplate Henry Jardine.

Hugo de Sancto Victore.Hugo de Sancto Victore. De sacramentis Christianae fidei. 2 Büc Hugo de Sancto Victore. Hugo de Sancto Victore. De sacramentis Christianae fidei. 2 Bücher in 1 Bd. (Straßburg, Drucker des Jordanus von Quedlinburg von 1483 (= G. Husner), 30. Juli 1485). Fol. Got. Typ., 2 Sp., 46-47 Z. 156 (von 160; ohne Titelbl. u. 3 w. Bl.) nn. Bl. (= 68 von 70, ohne Titelbl. u. das le. w. u. 88 statt 90, ohne 2 w. Bl.). Durchgehend rubriziert u. mit zahlr. eingemalten Initialen in Rot u. Blau sowie Schmuckinitialen in Federzeichnung. Mod. Ldr. mit Streicheisenlinien in Lwd.-Schuber. GW 13631. Hain 9025. BMC I, 133. Goff H 535. Polain (B) 2034. - Erste und wohl einzige vollständige Ausgabe des 15. Jahrhunderts. Lediglich Buch 2 war bereits 1477 bei Zainer in Augsburg erschienen; Hain nennt noch einen sonst nicht nachzuweisenden Druck von 1495. - Zur Zuschreibung des Druckes an Georg Husner vgl. Vouilleme 149. - Breitrandiges Exemplar auf starkem Papier, ohne die beiden w. Bl. zwischen Buch 1 und 2 u. ohne d. w. Schlußbl. sowie Titelbl. zu Buch 1. - Vereinzelt leicht wasserrandig. Mehrere Unterstreichungen u. Marginalien von alter Hand. In den Blattränd. tls. leicht fl. - First edition of both books. - Without title and three blanks (70, 71 & 160). Rubricated throughout and with numerous initials in red and larger initials in red and blue with elegant penwork decoration, early annotations, some deckle edges, modern tooled calf, slipcase. - Provenienz: P. Goudanus, early inscription at head of first leaf; Carmelite convent of Bruges, inscription at head of first leaf; Claude François Cusin, assesseur criminel of Beaujeu, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on old endleaves; Metropolitan Chapter of Paris, library stamp at foot of first leaf; Colleción Alfageme-Fontanals, name on spine.

Beaumont,(J.F.)A.de.Beaumont,(J.F.)A.de. Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, in the Year Beaumont,(J.F.)A.de. Beaumont,(J.F.)A.de. Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, in the YearMDCCLXXXVI. From Italy to Germany, through Tyrol. London, Clarke etc. 1792. Gr.Fol. VIII, 82 S., 1 Bl., 10 Aquatinta-Taf. in Braundruck (Sepia) v. C. Apostool nach Beaumont (8) u. H. Meyer, 1 gest. Kte. Hldr. um 1900. (Kaum berieb., gering best., kl. Schabstellen). Abbey 50; Cox I, 161; Dreyer 42; Nebehay/W. 83; W'ber 329; nicht bei Colas, Hiler u. Lipperh. - Erste Ausgabe. - Die prächtigen Tafeln mit acht malerischen Ansichten u. zwei Kostümdarstellungen. Die Karte von Beaumont zeigt 'places connected with the Route from Venice to Fussen in Swabia'. - Unkoloriertes Expl. Die Kte. mit geringem Abklatsch auf Seite 1. Titel etwas angestaubt, die Ränder leicht gebräunt. S. III/IV mit unterem repariertem Randeinriss (ca. 10 cm im w. Rand). Im übrigen vereinz. etwas stockfl., die Tafeln meist jedoch bis zum Plattenrand sauber und wohlerhalten. Einige oberste u. wenige seitl. w. Ränder wellig bzw. auch gebräunt oder angestaubt u. mit wenigen minimalen reparierten Einrissen (le. Bl. und Tafeln gegen Ende). Durchgehend ein oberes Eselsohr angeknickt und geglättet, bei den ersten beiden Bll. mit gegl. Faltspur. Insgesamt schönes breitrandiges Exemplar. - First edition. With 10 aquatint plates and 1 engraved map. Half leather around 1900, slightly rubbed and bumped. Partly slightly browned, occasionally somewhat foxing, p. III/IV with repaired tear.

Scheuchzer,J.J.Scheuchzer,J.J. Geestelyke Natuurkunde, Uitgegeven in de Latynsche Taale Scheuchzer,J.J. Scheuchzer,J.J. Geestelyke Natuurkunde, Uitgegeven in de Latynsche Taale. In't N ederduits vertaald. 15 in 8 Bdn. Amsterdam, P.Schenk 1735-39. Fol. Mit gest. Front., 2 gest. Portr. von Pintz nach de Marees und Laub nach Heidegger in Schabkunstmanier, 15 (wdh.) gest. Tvign. u. 758 (statt 760) tls. dplblgr. Kupfern v. J.A.Pfeffel (u.a.) nach J.M.Füßli. Hldrbde. d. Zt. mit Rverg. u. Rsch. (Stärker best. u. berieb., Vdeckel v. Bd. 8 mit Bezugsfehlstelle). Nissen ZBI 3661. Vgl. Faber du Faur 1855. Lanckoronska/Oehler I, 32. Horn/Schenckling 19267. NDB XXXIV, 710ff. (jeweils dt. Ausg.). - Erste u. einzige niederländische Ausg. der 'Kupfer-Bibel oder Physica sacra' (Augsburg 1731-35) mit den Kupfertafeln der Originalausg. nach J.M.Füßli. - Am Ende des XIII. Teils Sprung der Seitenzahlen von 1501 auf 1555. Bd. 8 ohne hint. flieg. Vors. Breitrandiges Ex. Gering gebräunt, stellenweise leicht fl. Gutes Ex. - First and only Dutch edition. 15 parts in 8 volumes. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved portraits and 758 (of 760) copper engravings. Contemporary half leather (severely bumped and rubbed). Copy with wide margins. Volume 8 without back flyleaf. Slightly browned, partly slightly stained. Good copy. partly damaged (partly repaired). Partly stained, waterstained, worming, 1 sheet with chipping, partly slightly browned.

(Zurlauben,B.F.D. u. J.B. de Laborde).(Zurlauben,B.F.D. u. J.B. de Laborde). Tableaux t (Zurlauben,B.F.D. u. J.B. de Laborde). (Zurlauben,B.F.D. u. J.B. de Laborde). Tableaux topographiques, pittoresqes, historiques, moraux, politiques, litteraires de la Suisse. 2 Tle. in in 5 Bdn. Paris, Clousier und Lamy 1780-88. Imp.Fol. Mit gest. Frontisp., gest. Titel, 2 gest. Kopfvign. (mit gest. Doppelportr. der beiden Verf. u. kl. Wappenkupf.), 6 dplblgr. Kupferstichkarten und 242 (davon 1 gefalt.) Kupfertaf. Kalbsldrbde. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Deckel-, Steh- u. Innenkantfileten, Rverg., Rsch. u. Marmorschnitt. (Etw. berieb. u. best.). Brunet V, 1546. Cohen/R. 1075f. Ebert 24278. Fürstenberg 46, 101, 110 u. 151. Lonchamp 3362. Sander 2065. Wäber I, 38. - Erste Ausgabe eines der schönsten Schweizer Ansichtenwerke. - Die Kupfer (v. de Longueil, Masquelier, Née u. a. nach Chatelet, Le Barbier, Moreau le jeune u. a.) größtenteils mit Ansichten, ferner einige Karten, einige Kostümdarstellungen, Portraits usw. - - Die Tafeln, tls. mit mehreren Kupfern gezählt von 1-277, die große Schweizkarte wohl außerhalb der Zählung. - Ex. mit Tafel- und das Subskribentenverzeichnis sowie mit den meisten Seidenhemdchen. - Tls. minimal gebräunt u. stockfleckig. In den breiten Blatträndern tls. minimal angestaubt. - Dekorativ gebundenes Ex. - First edition of this work of Swiss views. Two parts in 5 volumes. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved titles, 6 engraved maps and 242 (1 folded) engraved plates. Contemporary leather, partly rubbed and bumped. Partly slightly browned and foxing, slightly dusty.