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CRICKET - HEDLEY VERITY (YORKSHIRE) BIOGRAPHY BY ALAN HILL  176 page hardback. First edition. Good condition.

CRICKET - CHRIS GAYLE (WEST INDIES) SIX MACHINE HAND SIGNED  275 page hardback. First edition.   Very good condition.  

CRICKET - D'OLIVEIRA AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY  176 page hardback. First edition. Good condition.

A HISTORY OF WEST INDIES CRICKET BY GARY SOBERS 127 page hardback. First edition. Good condition. Dust wrapper worn.

CRICKET - SACHIN TENDULKAR (INDIA) PLAYING IT MY WAY. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY  486 page hardback. First edition. Very good condition.

CRICKET - LORD HARRIS BY JAMES D. COLDHAM 171 page hardback. First edition.   Good condition.

CRICKET - A CENTURY OF WISDEN LIMITED EDITION OF 500 208 page hardback. First edition. Very good condition.

Oil paint on canvas depicting motherhood "Study for the drama of a mother", Trento Longaretti (Treviglio, 1916 - Bergamo, 2017). Cm 70x60. Signed lower left. Dated 1977-78 on the back. "The debut in the art world of Trento Longaretti dates back to the late '30s through participation in the" Littoriali dell'Arte "and won numerous awards such as the Mylius Prize and the Prize Stanga, also he participates in the first and second edition of the Bergamo Prize. it reaches international recognition in 1942 exposing the Venice Biennale and the "Exhibition of the artists in arms" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. in 1952 he was invited to the national Quadrennial in Rome and the following year won the national competition for the Carrara Academy of Bergamo direction along the painting Chair, a position that will last until 1978. The themes dear to Longaretti such as motherboards, the world of the humble and the human condition, are reported through the use of an existentialist painting, which renews the figurative tradition, giving ethereality and warmth, making us feel instinctively that feeling of melancholy and loneliness, that permeates the entire production. We can see the intense creative process, through the pictorial study that presents the framework in question, grimy and frenetic brushstrokes hide in fact, a careful and thorough investigation of light and shadow, creating a scene full of drama and tragedy. His works are in the Vatican, in Milan Cathedral, the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, the Duomo di Novara. His paintings are in the Museum of Modern Art in Basel, in the Vatican Museums, the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Piacenza, in the Pinacoteca Carrara in Bergamo, in the Civic Gallery of Gallarate, in the Modern Art Gallery in Milan, the Museo della Permanente in Milan." ASOR Studio

A quantity of pre and post WWII car racing related volumes, including Nichols (Ian) & Carslake (Kent) Motoring Intente (first edition), Birkin Bt (Sir Henry (Tim)) Full Throttle, Georgano (G N) Brooklands, and others (6)Condition ReportCondition report

Three Grand Prix Racing reference volumes, Hawthorn (Mike) Champion Year: My Battle for the Driver’s World Title (first edition), Monkhouse (George) Motor Racing with Mercedes-Benz and Hough (Richard) British Grand Prix (from the library of the late Peter Henley), all with dust jackets (3) (w.a.f.)

Two Moorcroft pottery wall plates, the first for Spitalfields Temple Mills 1991, impressed mark with the City of London to the back, the second the limited edition year plate for 1996, Morning Glory, diameter 21.5cm

Scalextric - 1960s go-kart, boxed with internal packaging; and four early catalogues comprising first edition January 1960, second edition, fourth edition and seventh edition (5) - Condition Report

Five Gund teddy bears, comprising two large examples first edition The Bear Necessity 9541 256/500, and limited edition Gray Lord 9522 424/460, plus first edition Strawberry Sue Preme 9536 349/375, second edition Hanna 95071 289/300, and Calvin 6471. - Condition Report

AN AMERICAN FIRST EDITION OF 'HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS'

A first edition hardback Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

* Weissenborn (Hellmut, 1898-1982). River Landscape in Asturias, North West Spain, coloured chalks, and black ink on brown paper, signed lower right, 355 x 535 mm (14 x 21 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed, together with: Poole (Monica, 1921-2003). Winter Wood, 1956, wood engraving on ivory paper, from the published edition of 25 impressions, signed, titled and numbered 15/25 in pencil, image size 204 x 167 mm (8 x 6.6 ins) with margins, framed and glazed, plus: Topolski (Feliks, 1907-1989) . The Nizam's Garden Party, colour lithograph, unsigned, 45.5 x 61 cm (18 x 24 ins), framed and glazedQty: (3)NOTESProvenance (for the first work): Private Collection, Gloucestershire, UK; purchased at the Harrington Road Gallery, London, SW7, circa 1970.

The Kings and Queens of England first edition sterling proof set consisting of forty three medals in presentation case (most certificates are missing) by John Pinches

BANKSY (born 1975)Girl with Balloon, 2004 signed, dated, numbered 82/150 and further inscribed AP/DN in pencilscreenprint in colours60 x 50cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16in).with the publisher's blindstamp, Pictures on Walls, LondonFootnotes:This lot has been inspected by Pest Control and the Certificate of Authenticity is in the process of being issued.Possibly one of the most iconic artworks of the 21st century, Banksy Girl with Balloon has acquired a notoriety to which few contemporary works can lay claim. A favourite with the public and collectors alike, it was elected 'Britain's favourite work of art' in a Samsung poll in 2017. Its fame is based not only on the minimal design, universal message and straightforward approach, but also on the various events punctuating the life of the artwork.Originally created as a stencil mural on Waterloo Bridge on the Southbank, London, in 2002, with the inscription There is Always Hope written nearby, the stencil was eventually painted over by the council. This was to be the fate of other murals of this image in various locations across London and none remain today. One of these, stencilled on a wall in Shoreditch, London, was removed in 2014, exhibited at the controversial exhibition Stealing Banksy? and eventually sold at auction. In the meantime, Banksy had created a limited edition print of the image in 2004, of which 150 were signed, such as the present impression. With the idea of making his stencil work accessible to all, the print was offered through the print house collective Pictures on Walls, who describe their first encounter with Banksy about producing a screenprint of Girl with Balloon as follows,Some idiot from Bristol came into the office after a night spraying the streets and showed us what he'd been up to. 'Maybe that would work as a print' - we thought, its only two colours, how could we screw that up?By 2007 the print was already making its first appearance at auction and, ironically, as Banksy's original stencils were removed from their walls one after the other, his prints proliferated, and his visibility and status increased.By 2014, there were not many people who did not know about Banksy, and who did not instantly recognize Girl with Balloon. In March that year, Banksy re-worked the original image at the occasion of the third anniversary of the Syrian conflict, with the little girl wearing a headscarf. The motif was also projected onto the Eiffel Tower and the Nelson's Column to raise awareness about the devastating conflict and remind us all that the image was, first and foremost, a symbol of hope, rallying support for the victims of the war. Celebrities joined the campaign which quickly went viral. In the context of this sale dedicated to Pop and Street Art, Banksy can be seen as following the example of Keith Haring, whose murals and print projects contained charged political messages (lot 10 –Untitled 2, from Free South Africa). On another level, he also follows in the steps of another iconic Pop artist, Andy Warhol, in the way he carefully and playfully handles his image and his success, never scared to remind everyone – and the art world in particular – of the irony with which he responds to his celebrity status. One of the most famous instances of this – an event that acted as the pinnacle to the renown of Girl with Balloon – occurred in 2018 when one version on canvas, moments after selling over £1M at auction, started to automatically self-destruct through a hidden shredding mechanism that had been placed in the frame by the artist years before. Making headlines the world over, appropriately renamed Love is in the Bin by Banksy afterwards, and happily kept by the new owner, the image went from a universal symbol of hope, to achieving a cult status as one of the best art stunts ever orchestrated. Today Girl with Balloon is the artist's most sought-after print.The symbolism of the work should not be overlooked. For his most recent project, a boat Banksy financed to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean Sea, it is a painting of the little girl again that adorns the boat, this time wearing a life vest and holding a heart-shaped buoy, with the same gesture as the Girl with Balloon. A reminder that hope remains the main message of this iconic work, which is also what gives it the timelessness that is essential to all great and iconic artworks. We are delighted to be offering both the present signed impression and an unsigned impression (lot 95) of this celebrated print in the sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MILITARY EPHEMERA: a quantity in box, largely World War II period printed matter inc. 'Memorandum on the RAF Mobile Field Hospital' (A.M. pamphlet 169, First Edition June 1944): Royal Air Force Journal, various numbers inc. Victory in Europe issue: programme of RAF Display at Hendon Saturday 27th June 1936: wartime ration books, HMSO publications, some photographic material etc. (A box)

LAWRENCE (T E): 'The Mint' London, Jonathan Cape, 1955: First Edition, 4to, publishers blue cloth, spine sunned: together with 30 other vols, misc military reference and related, various sizes, some in dustjacket, generally in good condition. (One shelf)

Polar.- Atlas.- Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy. Ice Atlas of the Northern Hemisphere, first edition, 'Index Chart' as front pastedown, full- and half-page maps and charts, divisional titles, tables, general title lightly browned and with stain to lower corner, occasional spotting or light staining, original ring-bound pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth, corners bumped, little marked and rubbed, overall a good copy, large folio, Washington, D.C., 1946.⁂ Rare in commerce.

NO RESERVE London.- Cross (Joseph) Cross's New Plan of London, 1828, first edition, showing from Canonbury to Camberwell, and from Hyde Park to East India Dock, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 660 x 1000 mm (26 x 39 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, several splits and tears to folds, the upper right corner detached with taped in, surface dirt and browning, folding without slipcase, 8vo, 1828Literature:Howgego 317 (1)

NO RESERVE London.- Thompson (George) A New Map of London and its Environs, from an original Survey, Extending 8 Miles East and West 6 1/4 Miles North & South..., first edition, showing from Paddington to East India Docks, and Clapton to Camberwell, with decorative border and large calligraphic title, engraving with hand-colouring, 640 x 795 mm (25 1/4 x 31 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, numerous splits to folds, upper left section attached with tape, some spotting and browning, folding without slipcase, 8vo, Reeves & Hoare, 1823.

A LIMITED EDITION FOUR PIECE ROYAL DOULTON GROUP 'EDWARDIAN STRING QUARTET' comprising HN 3704 'First Violin' numbered 176/1500; HN3705 'Second Violin'; HN3706 'Viola' numbered 124/1500; HN3707 'Cello' numbered 164/1500

BREWERIANA - TWO TAUNTON CIDER MUGS comprising a rare Wade twin-handled mug, Silver Jubilee 1977, limited edition of 2500, produced in error with the words 'Her Royal Highness' rather than 'Her Majesty' (most of the production run is believed to have been destroyed), 8.25cm high; and a Wade single-handled mug 'Presented in recognition of outstanding devotion to duty at Taunton Cider's first OPEN DAY, 5th May 1986', limited edition of 160, 11cm high.

[CHILDRENS] Milne, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, Methuen, London, 1928, pink cloth gilt, top edges gilt, silhouette endpapers, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, octavo (two short fore-edges tears to front free endpaper, taped verso); together with a special facsimile edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1999, octavo; and Bond, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington, first U.S. edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960, yellow boards (lacking dustjacket), illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, octavo, (3).

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Wodehouse, P.G. The Code of the Woosters, first edition, Jenkins, London, 1938, green cloth, octavo; together with Sunset at Blandings, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1977, blue boards, dustjacket (non price-clipped), octavo, (2).

[TRAVEL] Baker, Sir Samuel. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1867, half calf (upper hinge weak; lower hinge split open), portrait frontispiece, a further twenty-three plate illustrations, two maps (one folding, torn without loss and with paper reinforcement verso), octavo.

[MISCELLANEOUS] [Defoe, Daniel]. The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern, first edition, two parts in one volume, for Warner, London, 1726, full panelled leather (upper board detached; lower board loose), engraved frontispiece (with excised head and now laid down to front pastedown), octavo. Note: This lot sold with all faults, not subject to return.

[MISCELLANEOUS] Joyce, P.W. The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, three volumes, The Educational Co. of Ireland / Longmans, Green & Co., Dublin / London, no date, original green cloth, octavo; Archer, Ian W. The History of the Haberdashers' Company, first edition, Phillimore, Chichester, 1991, navy blue cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and eighteen other works, (22).

Two boxes of pictures, prints etc - CD Hiebert limited edition signed prints, First Light Wolves, Call of The North, Elk, Call of The North Bald Eagle, Call of The North Great Northern Divers, First Light Osprey and First Light Black Bear

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, published by Jonathon Cape, 1952 first edition, no dust jacket

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)Kurt Benirschke, 'Vanishing Animals', Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986 (Feldman & Schellmann IIIB.51-67) The complete volume, with sixteen colour plates after screenprints by Andy Warhol, with text in English, from the first edition, signed and hand-illustrated by the artist with a butterfly in black felt-tip pen, further signed in black felt tip pen on title page, and on pages 47, 53 and 59, printed by H. Stürtz AG, Würzburg, Germany, bound as issued, with original dust jacket and acetate wrapper, 270 x 270mm (10 5/8 x 10 5/8in)(Folio)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)L'Atelier de Cannes, cover for 'Ces peintres nos amis, Vol. II' (Mourlot 279; Bloch 794) Lithograph printed in colours, 1956, on Arches, first produced in 1965 as a frontispiece for the book 'Dans l'Atelier de Picasso', this impression used as the cover of the volume 'Ces Peintres Nos Amis', Vol. II, with the colours reworked by the artist, from an edition of 250, printed and published by Mourlot, Paris in 1960, without the conjoined leaf and with the vertical fold at left edge as issued, 445 x 331mm (17 1/2 x 13in)(SH)(unframed)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

2 Special Edition die cast Lledo 3 piece box sets designed exclusively for the Co-op Dairy (5506/6000) (1175/6500) plus 4 boxed die cast Exclusive First Editions (Buses) & 4 boxed die cast Urban Rider model cars

Professor Anthony Slinn (B.1937) Three limited edition prints entitled 'The First Man', 'Homo Sapiens' and 'Figures of Sicily', all pencil signed, dated and numbered, 52 x 33cm, together with a watercolour study of a church by Eve Phelan and two further prints (6)

O'Connor (V.C. Scott). The Silken East, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hutchinson & Co., 1904, folding map and panorama, 20 colour plates, black & white illustrations from photographs, some slight water wrinkling, inner hinges near broken and crudely repaired at rear of volume 1, top edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt with gilt designs to upper covers, rubbed, spine ends and joints frayed, damp-stained affecting upper spine and lower board of volume 1 and top outer corner of lower board of volume 2, large 8vo, together with: Muriel (F.M. & Swinhoe, Rodway C.J.) , Pictures from Lotus Land, 1st edition, Rangoon & London: Rowe & Co., [1924], 24 mounted colour or sepia photogravure plates, some scattered spotting, heaviest on first plate, second plate with short closed tear, original pictorial linen wrappers with spine tie, oblong folio, Swinhoe (Rodway & Jones, T. Martin) , The Incomplete Guide to Burma, 1st edition, Rangoon: Rangoon Times Press, circa 1920, 35 pp., black & white illustrations throughout, a little finger soiling, original pictorial wrappers with spine tie, soiled, small oblong folioQty: (4)

Playfair (R. Lambert & Gunther, Albert C.L.G.). The Fishes of Zanzibar, Acanthopterygii by... Lambert, Pharyngognathi etc. by... Gunther, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1866, 21 lithographed plates by G.H. Ford or G. Smit, comprising 6 hand-coloured plates, and 15 uncoloured lithographed plates on india paper (mounted), a few plates with 1 or 2 minor spots, not touching images (except plate 1 just touching), plates 1-5 with small stain to lower blank margins, preliminary blank with authorial ink presentation inscription 'Sir H.E. Bartle Frere from the authors London 11.4.67', hinges cracked, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary green morocco gilt, extremities rubbed with a little wear, front joint partly cracked, front cover with small skinned area relaid, rear cover slightly bowed, the panelled covers with inner panel surrounded by a foliage roll flanked by fillets and dog-tooth rolls, stylised flower-spray tools to corners, the outer border comprising triple fillets, the spine gilt-panelled between gilt-decorated raised bands, gilt-lettered direct in second compartment, gilt fillet on edges, gilt floral roll on turn-ins, 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Sir Henry Edward Bartle Frere. Sold at Christie's, 8 April 2004, lot 599. Nissen ZBI 3187; Wood p.520. An important presentation copy of this rare ichthyological work. Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815-1884) served as the first Governor of Bombay between 1862 and 1867. In the final paragraph of the preface to the present work the authors note that 'We desire to record our thanks to the Government of Bombay for the liberal measure of assistance it has accorded to this work by taking 100 copies. This has enabled us to illustrate all the most important species, and for that end to secure the valuable services of Mr. [George Henry] Ford, whose ability as a zoological artist is too well known to require notice'. The work is based on the collections formed by Playfair during the 'course of a residence of many years at Aden and Zanzibar, during which he made frequent trips to the African coast and the adjacent islands' (preface). This first edition is scarce, but a limited edition reprint of this work, with an updated introduction, was published in California in 1971.

Stigand (C.H. & Lyell, D.D.). Central African Game and its Spoor, 1st edition, Horace Cox, 'Field' Office, 1906, monochrome plates, including many after photographs, 2 folding plates of elephant and hippopotamus tracks (one creased to outer edge, and with closed tear, without loss), bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to front pastedown, original orange cloth, rubbed and some light soiling and marks, 4to, together with: Lyell (Denis D.). The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1929, monochrome illustrations, mostly to text, bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to front pastedown, original pale brown cloth, lightly rubbed, plus: Ward (Rowland), Records of Big Game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights and horn & tusk measurements, 5th edition, 1907, and 8th edition, 1922, monochrome illustrations, both original red cloth gilt, the 1907 signed to head of title by Courtney Brocklehurst, and dated 1908, the first title with inner hinges cracked and somewhat loosened, some light soiling to covers, and spine faded, second volume somewhat rubbed, 8voQty: (4)

Storer (James). History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, 4 vols. in 2, 1814-19, additional engraved titles, numerous engraved plates, armorial bookplate of Benjamin Haworth to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, elaborate gilt & blind decorated spines, gilt rule & blind rollwork border to boards, 8vo, and another copy of the same work, edges untrimmed, bound in four volumes, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, tall 8vo, together with: Newbery (F., & Carnan, T., publishers) , A Description of England and Wales, 10 volumes, (vol. 2 - 2nd edition, vols. 2-10 1st edition), 1769-1775, numerous engraved plates, some spotting, offsetting and browning, text-block to first volume split in two, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels (some labels lacking), worn, 12mo, Dugdale (Thomas) , Curiosities of Great Britain. England & Wales Delineated, 4 volumes, London: L. Tallis, [1853?-1860], engraved frontispieces and titles, numerous engraved plates and double-page maps, near contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo, Storer (James) , Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, 10 volumes, London: W. Clarke, J. Carpenter & H.D. Symonds, 1807-11, engraved titles and numerous plates, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary diced calf gilt, green morocco title labels (few lacking), extremities rubbed, 16mo in 8sQty: (30)

Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds (Land & Water Birds), 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804, half-title to volume 1 and bound with A Supplement to the History of British Birds, Parts I & II (Land & Water Birds), [2nd edition], Newcastle, 1821 [1822], numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, some scattered light spotting, armorial bookplate of James Richard Wigram to upper pastedowns and his signature to upper blank margins of general titles to each volume, all edges gilt, 19th century calf by Francis Bedford, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, upper joint of volume 1 & lower joint of volume 2 slightly cracked, 8voQty: (2)NOTESLand Birds - Roscoe 14b, price altered in manuscript from 13s to 18s. Water Birds - Roscoe 17b, variant A with vignettes at pp. 136, 269 & 359 in first state. Supplement to Land Birds - Roscoe 29b, includes green-headed bunting. Supplement to Water Birds - Roscoe 30b, includes young kittiwake.

Beacon or Becon (Richard). Solon h is Follie, or a Politique Discourse, touching the Reformation of common-weales conquered, declined or corrupted. By Richard Beacon, Gent., Student of Grayes Inne, and sometimes her Maiesties Attorney of the Province of Mounster in Irelande, 1st edition, Oxford: Ioseph Barnes, Printer to the Universitie, 1594, [12], 114, [2] pp., first leaf blank except for signature between two ornaments, last leaf blank, some small tissue and paper repairs to worming in outer margins and upper outer corners, not affecting text, minor tissue repairs to both outer corners of first leaf verso, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco gilt, small 4to (200 x 155 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. STC 1653. One of the three great Elizabethan socio-political treatises on Ireland by Englishmen who were or had been resident there. The last identified copy (possibly this one) of this rarity at auction was sold in 1998.

Bible [Latin]. Biblia ad Vetustissima Exemplaria Nunc recens castigata. In quibus, præterea, quæ subsequens Præfatio indicat, capita singula ita versibus distincta sunt, ut numeri præfixi, lectorem non remorentur, & loca quæsita tanquam digito demonstrent, Venice: Apud Haeredes Nicolai Bevilaquae & socios, 1576, elaborate woodcut architectural title page with vignette of St Jerome and the lion below title (repeated on *4r,) the borders with scroll work and grotesques, woodcut decorative headpieces, large historiated initials & numerous small decorative initials, tailpieces and other decorations, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout including some repetitions (includes some after Holbein, Bernard Salomon and Pierre Eskrich), lacking 1 leaf of OT (from Marks Gospel, pages 655/656) and also lacking 24 leaves of index and final colophon leaf at end, some light toning, occasional dampstains and minor spotting, few small worm trails to upper margins of few leaves, two leaves with repaired closed tears, modern dark blue morocco, title & date in gilt to spine, some darkening and discolouration, folio (385 x 255 mmQty: (1)NOTESRuth Mortimer, Harvard College Library, Italian 16th Century Books, Volume 1, pages 86-88, No. 62. According to Mortimer the xylographic title indicates an earlier setting in which the vertical columns are also transposed, and our copy conforms to all her points for the first issue. "The Old Testament blocks measure 55 x 78 mm (2¼" x 3 1/8") extended to column width by ornamental side-strips, with a few larger blocks, 115 x 73 mm, in Exodus and Kings. The New Testament blocks are 55 x 48 mm. The artist of these illustrations worked from various sources, notably the three sets of woodcuts by Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon, and Pierre Eskrich, introduced at Lyons from 1538 to 1562 and widely used in Bibles and picture books. This Venetian set also has scenes not usually illustrated". Not listed in Darlow and Moule who only list the Louvain Latin Bible of 1547 (6129) on whose text this Venetian printing is based, and the 1572 Junta Venice edition also based on the Louvain version (6157).

* Caxton (William, printer). [Leaf from the first edition of Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon], Westminster: William Caxton, 18 August 1480, signature [A3], 40 lines, lettre bâtarde, spotting, a few marginal holes, folio (39.4 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESDuff 113; GW 6670 (II); ESTC S106519; STC 13440a; not in Goff. A single leaf from Caxton's thirty-leaf excerpt of the sections relating to Britain from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon , the first edition of the work in any form (and often catalogued under the title Here endeth the discripcion of Britayne , taken from the colophon); Caxton did not print the full text until 1482. This leaf contains the end of the third chapter, 'Of the worthynes and prerogatives', and the beginning of the fourth chapter, 'Of the mervailles & wondres'.

Chevreau (Urbain). Histoire du monde, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: widow of Edmé Martin, and Jean Boudot, 1686, engraved frontispiece, title-vignettes, headpieces and initials, variable toning, occasional damp-staining, closed tear to volume 1 title-pag,e contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines, rubbed and marked, tips worn, 4to (24.8 x 17.5 cm), together with: Larrey (Isaac de). L'heritière de Guyenne, ou histoire d'Eleonor, fille de Guillaume, dernier duc de Guyenne, femme de Louis VII, roy de France, et en-suite de Henri II roy d'angleterre, 1st edition, Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1691, marginal repair to H3, contemporary marbled calf gilt, gilt arms effaced from covers, 8vo (18.5 x 11.8 cm), Bouhours (Dominique). Histoire de P. d'Aubusson-la-Feuillade, grand maître de Rhodes, 4th edition ('augmentée'), Paris: Goujoun, Brunot, 1806, half-title, closed tear in pp. 21/2, contemporary marbled calf gilt, 4to (25.6 x 18.4 cm), [Versailles]. Versailles. Salle des croisades, Paris: Ch. Gavard, c.1840, 3 parts in 1 volume, 28 hand-coloured plates depicting coats of arms heightened in silver and gold, 16 engraved portrait plates ( collation unknown), ink stamp to part 1 plate 9, gilt edges, contemporary red half morocco, folio (35.8 x 27.4 cm), Pomponius Mela & Gaius Julius Solinus. De situ orbis. Aethici cosmographia. Cum notis variorum, Leiden: Hieronymus de Vogel, 1646, engraved title-page, damp-staining, contemporary vellum, 12mo (12.5 x 7 cm), Cesnola (Luigi Palma di). Cypern, seine alten Städte, Gräber und Tempel, 1st edition in German, Jena: Hermann Costenoble, 1879, 108 plates, 2 maps, original cloth, 8vo, Letronne (Antoine Jean). Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de l'Egypte pendant la domination des Grecs et des Romains, 1st edition, Paris: Boulland-Tardiue, 1823, 3 epigraphic facsimile plates of which 1 folding, pp. 125/6 torn without loss, contemporary quarter morocco, green vellum tips, 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm)Qty: (9)NOTESCobham-Jeffery p. 59 for Palma di Cesnola's work, which was first published in 1877.

Greco (Gioachino). Chess made Easy. With Additional Games and Openings, illustrated with Remarks and General Rules. The whole so contrived, that any Person may Learn to play in a few Days, without any farther Assistance, 1st edition in English, London: for J. and P. Knapton, 1750, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding plate of a chess board, small tide-mark to foot of first few leaves, folding plate trimmed with loss of columns A-B, modern panelled calf, gilt spine, 12mo (11.9 x 7 cm), together with: Walker (George). A New Treatise on Chess, 1st edition, London: Walker and Son, 1832, engraved frontispiece, spotting, original glazed cloth, rebacked, paper label to front board (chipped), large 12mo in 6s (19 x 11 cm), ibid. Chess and Chess-Players: consisting of Original Stories and Sketches, 1st collected edition, London: Charles J. Skeet, 1850, marginal repairs to M1-2, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, large 16mo (19.4 x 12 cm), Lewis (William). A Series of Progessive Lessons of the Game of Chess [and:] A Second Series of Lessons on the Game of Chess, 2 works, 2nd and 1st editions, London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833 & 1832, half-title and list of errata to the Second Series, a little marginal damp-staining, bookplates of Aberdeen Chess Club, contemporary red half calf, rubbed and marked, 8vo (21 x 13 cm), Murray (H. J. R.). A History of Chess, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913, 18 plates, ex libris Brighton Public Library with blind-stamp to title-page, first leaf of main text and final leaf of index, ink-stamps to plate versos, label removed from front pastedown, and gilt call number to spine, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, large 8vo Macklin (A.). The Macklin Double-Pocket-Chess-Board, London: Mead & Coy, c.1870, 2 engraved or lithographic chessboards, each printed on 2 sheets of glazed paper pasted into separate original gilt red cloth wallet, pieces printed on tabs inserted via slits into boards, one piece (black bishop) lacking, housed in original red cloth slipcase (faded and chipped), 18.7 x 12.2 cmQty: (7)NOTESESTC T128171 (Greco). No other copy of the Macklin Double-Pocket-Chess-Board traced.

Johnson (Samuel). The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, 1747, pp. [2] 34, contents washed and pressed, all edges gilt, 19th-century tan calf by F. Bedford, rebacked at an early date, French fillet frames gilt to sides, wear to tips, 4to (23.8 x 18 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; thence by descent. Chapman & Hazen p. 130; ESTC T42414; Rothschild 1228-30. In this issue page 1 begins 'My Lord', with Chesterfield's name omitted. 'But if the "Chesterfield" state is accepted as the first, there is yet reason for regarding the "non-Chesterfield" state as "right. For the numbered copies ... are all of this variety, and it seems clear that they were for presentation' (Chapman & Hazen). Rothschild notes that 'non-Chesterfield' are sometimes found on thick paper, which may be the case for our copy. Our copy belongs to the variant with the repeated 'the' on page 34 corrected.

[Kenrick, William]. The Whole Duty of Woman. By a Lady. Written at the Desire of a Noble Lord, 1st edition, London: for R. Baldwin, 1753, half-title, woodcut tailpieces, occasional light spotting and soiling to margins, leaves B6-7 and C1-3 clumsily opened with shallow tears to head of gutter, contemporary ownership inscription 'Ar. Thornhagh' to front pastedown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked, boards marked, tips worn, 8vo (19.4 x 12.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T91229 (six copies in UK libraries). 'In February 1753 Kenrick published his most popular work, The Whole Duty of Woman . Resurrecting a late seventeenth-century title to capitalize on the success of Dodsley's Oeconomy of Human Life , Kenrick's guide to female conduct went through at least five editions in his lifetime and remained popular well into the next century' (ODNB). All editions are rare. We trace one other copy of the first edition in auction records, sold in 1975.

Lullus (Raimundus). Opera ... accessit huic editioni Valerii de Valeriis ... aureum in artem Lulli generalem opus, 3rd edition, Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1617, bound with: Alsted (Johann Heinrich). Clavis artis Lullianae et verae logices duos in libellos tributa, 2nd edition, Strassburg: Lazarus Zeztner heirs, 1633, 2 works in 1 volume, Lullus signatures *8 A-4C8 (4C8=blank), pp. [8] 1109 [22], several errors in pagination, folding tables facing pp. 1, 44 and 219, woodcuts in text, variable browning, closed tear in N1, ink-stamps of Ain Shams university, Cairo to title-page, p. 3 and versos of folding tables, Alsted signatures A-M8, pp. [8] 182 [2], woodcuts in text, heavily browned, holes in G1 and H1, ink-stamp to p. 182, final leaf chipped, later vellum, 8vo (18.1 x 11 cm), and 1 other (Lettres de Mr. De St. André ... au sujet de la magie, des malefices, et des sorciers, 1st edition, Paris, 1725)Qty: (3)NOTESVD17 23:287653F (Lullus), 23:287663N (Alsted); cf. Ferguson II p. 49 for Lullus, 1609 edition. VD17 calls for four folding tables in Lullus's work; a copy in auction record has two volvelles in addition to the four folding tables. This anthology of works by and attributed to Lullus (as well as commentaries by Bruno) was first printed by Zetzner in 1598; another edition appeared in 1609. Alsted's work first appeared in 1609.

Agricola (Georgius). [De re metallica, in German] Bergwerck Buch: Darinnen nicht allein alle Empter, Instrument, Gezeug, und alles so zu disem Handel gehörig mit Figuren vorgebildet und klärlich beschrieben ... Nachmals aber durch den achtbarn und auch hochgelehrten Philippum Bechium ... verteutscht, Basel: Ludwig König, 1621, 2 folding woodcut plates, woodcut vignettes throughout (many full-page), lacking 29 leaves (c4-6, g1-3, g6, h2, h5, l2, l6, m1, s6, z5, A2-3, D5-6, E1-4, F6, G1, M2, P4-5, Q2, Q5), spotting and browning, bookplate (Robert Chambers, motto 'spero'), contemporary vellum, soiled, folio in 6s (32 x 20.5 cm), together with: Mercuriale (Girolamo). Variarum lectionum, in medicinae scriptoribus et aliis, libri sex, Venice: Giunta, 1588, with medial blank R8, occasional tide-marks, C1-2 stained, free endpapers excised, contemporary limp vellum, marked, ties perished, 4to (23.4 x 16.5 cm), Hartsoeker (Nicolas). Conjectures physiques, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1706, engraved folding map including 'Nouvelle Hollande', 2 engraved headpieces, woodcut head-and tailpieces and diagrams throughout, ink-stamps to title-page (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique), a few stains, front free endpaper excised, contemporary sprinkled sheep, joints cracked, extremities worn, 4to (24.6 x 18.5 cm) Cartari (Vincenzo). Imagini delli dei de gl'antichi, Venice: Nicolo Pezzana, 1674, woodcut vignettes throughout, 1 folding plate (of 2), occasional soiling and staining, 19th-century tree calf by Townsend, Greek key roll gilt to sides, 4to (22 x 16 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESAdams M1340 (Mercuriale); VD17 3:623123F (Agricola); cf. Norman 20 & PMM 79 for the first edition of Agricola (1556). De re metallica is 'the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times' (PMM).

Wallis (John, 1616-1703). ‘A Collection of Letters and other Papers, intercepted in Cipher, during the late warres in England. Deciphered by John Wallis D. D. Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Being a Transcript of a like Collection presented by him to the Bodleyan Library, in the University of Oxford', 1 July 1653, holograph manuscript in brown and red ink on laid paper (with stylised ‘Pot II’ watermark containing initials ‘EDC’), pp. [24] 1-221 [i.e. 223] + initial blank and 32 rear blanks, with box-rules, pagination and catch-words throughout, old staining to title-page, a little light browning to margins, contemporary mottled calf, twin rules gilt to spine-compartments and covers, extremities rubbed, headcap worn away, front joint cracked but firm, a few abrasions to rear cover, tips showing through, 4to (18.7 x 14 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Wallis, great-great-grandson of John Wallis, inscribed by him ‘I Wm Wallis had this book with some others from Mr Hayes executor to the late Taverner Wallis deceased, April 14 1784’ on the first rear blank. William wrote a lengthy biography of John, printed in the 1791 edition of John Wallis’s Sermons . For the will of Taverner (or Tavernor) Wallis, of Hampstead, Middlesex, see National Archives, Prob 11/1059/24. 2) 'No. 3 MSS of Dr Wallis’ (18th-century inscription to front pastedown). 3) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. 4) Thence by descent. A substantial and highly important document in the history of cryptography, an unpublished holograph manuscript by one of the leading mathematicians of the 17th century, revealing his sui generis contribution to the science of code-breaking and to the parliamentarian cause in the English civil war. Wallis, a clergyman’s son who claimed to be self-taught in mathematics, was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford in 1649, and keeper of the university archives in 1658, remaining in both posts until his death half a century later. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, and his published works, including Arithmetica infinitorum (1655), Mechanica (1670-71), and A Treatise of Algebra (1685) have established his reputation as the most important English mathematician before Newton, on whom his Arithmetica was a major influence. Wallis’s feats in cryptography provoked both hostility and admiration from his contemporaries, on the one side Thomas Hobbes, who accused him of having deciphered the King’s cabinet (captured after the battle of Naseby in 1645), and on the other, Leibniz, who made repeated attempts to persuade Wallis to reveal his methods to the wider world. In the third edition of his Clavis mathematicae (1652) William Oughtred made passing mention of Wallis’s skill in 'explicating secret writing hidden behind the most intricate ciphers', but Wallis himself appears never to have referred to such matters in print until his final years, when he included two examples of deciphered letters in the third volume of his Opera mathematica (1699, pp. 660-72), two years before he became the first to hold the position of official decipherer to the secretary of state. Leibniz saw an affinity between code-breaking and algebra, and modern scholars have identified a close relationship between Wallis’s cryptographic and mathematical techniques, in particular in the ‘ingenious series of interpolations’ in the Arithmetica by which he found an infinite series expressing the value of 4/? (Domenico Bertoloni Meli in ODNB ). Nevertheless it is an aspect of his career entirely ignored by his modern biographer, who remarks that ‘although Wallis’s deciphering activity would be a fascinating story, in the interests of space, it has been left out of this book’ (Rampelt, Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions: The Academic Life of John Wallis (1616-1703) (2009) p. 10). The manuscript begins with a remarkable introduction in which Wallis argues for the importance of ciphers, in particular during civil wars, ‘where the intermingling of opposite parties makes it difficult if not impossible to distinguish friends & foes’ (p. [i]). He outlines the history of his involvement in code-breaking, which began over supper at the residence of his spiritual charge Lady Mary Vere. The following transcriptions of fifty-three coded letters exchanged by royalists between 1640 and 1658 are all accompanied by the deciphered text and a detailed key, except for the last four, which are left unsolved as exercises for aspirant cryptographers. Wallis revealed in an autobiography written towards the end of his life that ‘of such deciphered Letters, there be copies of divers remaining in the Archives of the Bodleyan Library in Oxford ; and many more in my own Custody, and with the Secretaries of State’ (Scriba, ‘The Autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , Volume 25 Number 1, June 1970, p. 38) . His master copy of intercepted civil war letters is now Bodleian MS e Musaeo 203, and is titled ‘A Collection of Letters and Other Papers, which were at severall times intercepted, written in Cipher. Deciphered by John Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Given to the Library there, Anno Domini, 1653’. In addition to our copy Wallis made another transcript which is now Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. e. 475, and which contains a note by Wallis recording its donation to the ‘Savilian mathematical study at Oxford’. Both the Bodleian manuscripts contain fifty-two letters; ours appears to be one he kept back for his own personal use, in light of its provenance to a descendant and the presence of a fifty-third letter evidently added later (‘A Letter from Flanders intercepted in May 1658’, by one Pe[ter] Townesend). The Bodleian holds a further volume by Wallis containing deciphered letters dating from 1669 to 1703 (MS Eng. misc. e. 382) and the annotation 'No. 4. Dr. Wallis's MSS' similar to that in our copy. There is also manuscript in the British Library titled ‘Letter Book of Dr. John Wallis, 1651-1701’ (Add. MS 32499), selections from which have been printed in Smith, ‘John Wallis as a Cryptographer’ ( Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 24, Number 2, 1917, pp. 82-96), some being letters from Wallis containing summaries of deciphered communications, but the coded originals (if any are present in the manuscript) are not included. In the ODNB it is implied that the present work was published by John Davys in An Essay on the Art of Decyphering (1737); in fact Davys included only Wallis’s introduction and the letter from Duke of Buckingham (the fifty-second in our manuscript) originally left unsolved. Further reading: Beeley, ‘Breaking the Code: John Wallis and the Politics of Concealment’, in Li and Noreik, eds, G. W. Leibniz und der Gelehrtenhabitus (2016), pp. 49-81. Please note this is an abridged description: for a full description please see the Dominic Winter website.

Thomson (George). Loimotomia: or the Pest Anatomized in these following particulars, viz. 1. The Material Cause, 2. The Efficient Cause, 3. The Subject Part, 4. The Signs of the Pest, 5. An Historical Account of the Dissection of a Pestilential Body by the Author; and the Consequents thereof, 6. Reflections and Observations on the foresaid Dissection, 7. Directions Preservative and Curative Against the Pest, together with the Authors Apology against the Calumnies of the Galenists: and a Word to Mr. Nath: Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae Medicinae, 1st edition, London, Printed for Nath: Crouch, at the Rose and Crown in Exchange-Alley, near Lombard-street, 1666, engraved frontispiece (close-trimmed to fore-edge, just touching engraved area) [xvi] + 189 + [iiii], A-N8, including 3-page publisher's list at end, very small burn mark to page 13, affecting one letter, engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Franceys to front and rear pastedowns, later armorial bookplate of Cunliffe to front endpaper, contemporary calf, with gilt decorated spine and red spine label, rubbed and some marks, upper joint partly cracked and tender, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Probably Alderman Henry Franceys (died 1st January 1747), son of William Franceys (1650-1703), Derby apothecary, who was elected Mayor of Derby for 1747, but died on New Year's Day of that same year. He was educated at Derby School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is believed to have entertained Bonny Prince Charlie during his visit to Derby in 1745. Cunliffe sale, May 26, 1946, lot 862. Wing T1027; Krivatsy 11830. The first account of an autopsy on a plague victim. The physician George Thomson (flourished 1648-1679) was present in London during the outbreak of the Great Plague in 1665. The present work includes an account of his own illness and subsequent recovery.

Digby (Kenelm). Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also Cordial and Distilled Waters and Spirits, Perfumes, and other Curiosities. Collected by the Honorable and Truly Learned Sir Kenelm Digby Kt. Chancellour to her Majesty the Queen Mother. Translated out of several Languages by G[eorge] H[artman], 1st edition, London, printed for the Author, and are to be sold by H. Brome at the Star in Litte-Britain, 1668, [8], 308, [12], with longitudinal half-title, etched portrait by Thomas Cross, title within woodcut decorative border, occasional handling marks and minor water stains to extreme outer edges, early ink annotations to K3 recto and verso, and to index at rear, later endpapers, contemporary calf neat antique-style reback, incorporating old gilt morocco spine label, rubbed to edges, small 8voQty: (1)NOTESWing D1423; Oxford, page 34; Landis European Americana 668/44. The first edition, first issue of this compilation of Kenelm Digby's medical, culinary and chemical recipes by the author's laboratory assistant George Hartman. American recipes include cochineal, sassafras, sarsaparilla, aloes and Peruvian balsam, as well as a 2-page Distillation of Tobacco.

[Hale, Thomas]. An Account of several New Inventions and Improvements now necessary for England, in a Discourse by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to Building of our English Shipping, Planting of Oaken Timber in the Forrests, Apportioning of Taxes, the Conservacy of all our Royal Rivers, in Particular that of the Thames, the Surveys of the Thames, etc. Herewith is also published at large. The Proceedings relating to the Mill'd-Lead-sheathing ... Also a Treatise of Naval Philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty, 1st edition, London: printed for James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson, 1691, imprimatur leaf, 2 folding tables, somewhat tightly bound, light browning, closely trimmed along top edge frequently shaving pagination, and along fore edges of last few leaves not affecting text, a few spots to imprimatur leaf and title-page, small spill-burns in e11, B3 and C8 touching a few letters, the folding tables each with closed handling tears to inner folds (repaired in the first), contemporary ink marginalia to leaves f12 and D12-F1, modern blind-tooled calf to style, red morocco spine-label, 12mo (14.2 x 7.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC R28685; Keynes Petty 39; Kress S.1729; Wing H265.

Huygens (Christian). The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets, Written in Latin, London: for Timothy Childe, 1698, pp. [6] 120, 5 engraved folding plates, title-page browned and with slightly later ownership inscription 'B Barnes' to head, leaves of quire F sometime creased at lower outer corners (now turned back up), a few other trivial marks, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, worn, 8vo (17.2 x 10.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESDSB VI pp. 611-13; ESTC R5990; Wing H3859. First edition in English of one of the first scientific inquiries into the possibility of extra-terrestrial life, first published in Latin earlier the same year as Kosmotheros, sive de terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae . 'Huygens's reasoning is that it is in the creation of life and living beings that the wisdom and providence of God are most manifest. In the Copernican world system ... the earth holds no privilieged position among the other planets. It would therefore be unreasonable to suppose that life shoudl be restricted to earth alone' (DSB).

Newton (Isaac). The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, London: Benjamin Motte, 1729, [38], 320; [2], 393, [13], viii, 71, [1 errata] pp., "The Laws of the Moon's Motion" section by John Machin bound at the end of volume 2, with 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 47 engraved folding charts on full aprons, 2 folding tables, other illustrations and tables in text, some occasional spotting and light browning, mostly affecting plates and margins of adjacent text leaves, title and frontispiece to volume 1 browned, upper inner hinges to volume 1 cracked and several leaves starting, 18th-century ink ownership signature of Wm. Mayhew to title of volume 1 and unidentifiable old ink ownership signatures erased from blank upper margins of both titles, armorial bookplates of Henry Robertson Sandbach, contemporary calf, some edge and corner wear, modern amateur calf gilt rebacks with original spine labels preserved, 8vo (190 x 115 mm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Mayhew is possibly a Colchester attorney of that name (1706-1764), whose handwriting appears similar and whose will noted that he had 'old manuscripts, coins and writings'. 2) Henry Robertson Sandbach (1807-1895), Liverpool ship owner and West Indies merchant. First edition of the Principia in English. First published in Latin in 1687, followed by a second edition in 1713, this translation was made by Andrew Motte, the brother of the printer Benjamin Motte and the author of A Treatise of the Mechanical Powers (1727). 'The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying laws' (PMM 161). Babson 20; Gray 23; Norman 1587; Wallis 23.

Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, 1778-79, titles with engraved vignettes, 41 engraved plates, including 13 key plates in outline by Andrew Bell, some offsetting and spotting , small marginal closed tear to first title , later calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, folioQty: (1)NOTESGarrison & Morton 399; Russell (2nd edition) 7. First published in English in 1749, the plates were re-engraved for this present edition, being smaller in size and without the backgrounds to the skeletal figures.

Maclise (Joseph). Surgical Anatomy, 2nd edition, London: John Churchill, 1856, 52 lithographed plates, most with hand-colouring, plate 42 with closed tear, occasional light spotting and soiling, tile and first few leaves a little frayed at fore edges, original cloth, paper label to upper cover, spine torn with losses, some edge wear and stains, folio, together with Ellis (George Viner & G.H. Ford). Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the size of life, representing the dissection of the human body, atlas volume only, 1st edition, 1867, 58 colour lithographed plates, title and front endpaper detached, some spotting, University of Bristol Medical Library label and two small ink stamps, contemporary half calf, lacking most of spine, some wear, folioQty: (2)

Newton (Isaac). Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English, and Illustrated, with a Commentary, by Robert Thorp. The Second Edition, London: by A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, 21 engraved folding plates (of 22: lacking plate 16, replaced with a duplicate of plate 17), damp-staining to quires M-N, S, 2D-2F, 2L-2M, pale damp-staining to plate stubs to very slight effect to a few images, a few plates closely trimmed along fore edges, pencilled gift inscription 'W. H. Freeman from Rev. J. Shuldham, August 1879' to front free endpaper, contemporary tan half calf, front joint cracked, rear joint partially cracked, 4to (27.5 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESGray 29; Wallis 29. Although described as a second edition on the title-page, both Gray and Wallis identify the work as a reissue of the first edition, which appeared in 1777.

Siren (Osvald). Early Chinese Paintings from A.W. Bahr Collection, London: Chiswick Press, 1938, 27 tipped-in plates, a few colour, a few minor spots front and rear, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, a few water stains to upper cover, slipcase (some splits and edge wear), folio, limited edition 145/750, presentation copy, inscribed to half title: 'To my old friend A.E. Cooper, with good wishes A.E. Bahr, London, 10 October 1938', together with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ch'ing Ming Shang Ho. Spring Festival on the River, A Scroll Painting (ex coll. A.W. Bahr) of the Ming Dynasty after a Sung Dynasty Subject reproduced in its entirety and in its original size in a portfolio of twenty-three collotype plates and twelve enlarged details, with an introduction and notes by Alan Priest, curator of Far Eastern Art, New York, 1948, 30 collotype plates and text loosely contained in original cloth-backed portfolio, with cloth tie and bone toggle (spine faded), folio, limited edition of 500, with two presentation inscriptions to Abel William "Billie" Bahr to front pastedown, and two copies of a typescript letter on Metropolitan Museum of Art New York headed paper, dated November 17, 1948, from Marshall B. Davidson, Editor of Publications, announcing the publication of this work, and one other typescript letter to A.W. Bahr from the librarian of the Art Association of Montreal, January 21, 1949, thanking him on behalf of the President, F. Cleveland Morgan for his gift of this publication to the Library of the Association, loosely insertedQty: (2)NOTESFirst work inscribed from Chinese art collector and authority Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) to British artist Alfred Egerton Cooper (1883-1974). Siren's work above illustrates Bahr's collection of Chinese paintings, most of which were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1947.