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Delisle, Guillaume Atlas Nouveau Contenant toutes les parties du Monde. Ou sont exactement Remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Etats, Republiques &c., Amsterdam: Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, [c.1745]. Folio, (530 x 330mm.), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, additional engraved title ("Atlas Novum. Atlas Nouveau..."), [vi]. 32, [2 ("liste des cartes")], and 107 double-page or folding maps, hand-coloured in outline, text and maps mounted on original guards throughout (some guards neatly strengthened), finely rebound in period style half calf, marbled sides, spine gilt, raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, occasional light spot, small stain to Saint Domingue map, most maps with light discolouration at centre fold (where attached to guard)Footnote: Note: A handsomely rebound, very good copy of a later Dutch edition of a French atlas. Delisle's map Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi , originally published in 1718, was the first printed map to show Texas. The present map shows New Orleans - "Nouvelle Orleans".

3 works including Feinagle, Gregor von The New Art of Memory London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1812. First edition, 12mo, 5 folding plates, half-title, contemporary half calf, rubbed, lower board detached; Hooper, W. Rational Recreations. London, 1782. Second edition, vols. 3-4 bound in one, 20 + 14 plates (as called for), fine modern half calf gilt, morocco lettering pieces; Ferguson, James. Lectures on Select Subjects. 1799. 9th edition, 8vo, plates 1-6 and 9-23, and Supplementary plates 3-13 only, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked (3)Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

4 volumes, comprising Scott, Sir Walter Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. London: J. Murray, 1830. First edition, 12mo, frontispiece, modern half calf retaining original marbled boards; Forsyth, J.S. Demonologia; or Natural Knowledge Revealed. London: J. Bumpus, 1827. 12mo, half-title, modern green calf, uncut, lacks frontispiece, spine faded; Taylor, Joseph. Apparitions, or the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins and Haunted Houses. London: Lackington &c., 1814. 12mo, modern half calf, lacks frontispiece, somewhat soiled, a few marginal tears; Vyse, Charles. The Key to the Tutor's Guide, or the Arithmetician's Repository. London, 1795, Sixth edition, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked (4)Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Defoe, Daniel A System of Magick or a History of The Black Art. London: J. Roberts, 1727. First edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, upper hinge detached, rubbed, new lettering pieces, [Toole Stott 813]Footnote: Note: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Godwin, William Lives of the Necromancers London: F.J. Mason, 1834. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary diced calf, slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked, [Toole Stott 834]Footnote: Note: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Magic Books, a collection, including Houdini, Harry A Magician among the Spirits. New York, 1924, First edition, plates, original cloth; Whaley, Bart, Gardner, Martin & Jeff Busby . The Man Who was Erdnase. 1991, one of 200 leather bound copies, signed by Whaley, Gardner, Busby and Milton Andrews, blue leather; Hopkins, Albert A . Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions including Trick Photography. New York, 1906, original pictorial cloth, hinges weak, rubbed; Wehman, Henry J. Wehman's Parlor Conjurer. New York, c. 1875, cloth, original wrappers bound in; Herrmann, Alexander. Herrman's Black Art. New York, 1898, modern cloth, slightly browned; Hull, Burling. Rope Ties and Chain Releases. New York: Magnotrix, [1915], cloth, original wrappers bound in; Clark, K. Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks. 1952, original cloth, dustwrapper; Magic Info Mini Mag. Special Issue, Erdnase. a Real Miracle, 1994, cloth, wrappers bound in; The Gardner-Smith Correspondence. 1999, number 243 of 250 copies, cloth, wrappers bound in; Ganson, Lewis. Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig, [n.d.], signed "De Vega" on title, original cloth, dustwrapper; Cruikshank, G. Punch and Judy. 1870, half calf gilt; Hoffmann, Professor. Conjuring Tricks. G. Routledge, [n.d.], title slightly torn and numbered in ink, modern cloth; Bamberg, T. Okito on Magic. Chicago, 1952, dustwrapper; Gardner, Martin. After the Dessert. 1942. Second edition, bound with 3 others, blue cloth; Victor, Edward. Further Magic of the Hands. 1945, signed copy, original cloth; Alfredson, J.B. Magical Ex Libris, a Checklist. 1991, cloth, wrappers bound in; Minch, Stephen. By Forces Unseen. Seattle, 1993, dustwrapper; Kaplan, G.G. The Fine At of Magic. 1948, original cloth, card of J. Demaline glued in, lacks front free endpaper; Koval, F. The Illustrated Houdini Research Diary. 4 parts bound in one, a reprint ?, blue cloth; Ascanio, A. de. The Magic of Ascanio. [n.d.], dustwrapper; McClintock, R. Knuckle Busters, vol. 1-6 bound in one, cloth; Andrews, V. A Gift from the Gods. 1981, dustwrapper; Kay, Ricky. Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. 1987, First British edition, Magic Library of Margaret Yates bookplate, dustwrapperFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Magic Books, a collection, including Holden, John W. A Wizard's Wanderings from China to Peru. 1886, cloth; Heyl, E. A Contribution to Conjuring Bibliography 1580 to 1850, 1963, limited to 300 copies, this copy, one of an edition of 10, is for Jimmy Findlay, quarter leather binding, wrappers bound in; Hoffmann, Professor. Modern Magic. 1891, 8th edition, pictorial cloth, slight wear and soiling to covers, hinges slightly weak; Milner, William, publisher. Endless Amusement... Optical Illusions, Magical Properties of Figures... Halifax, 1835, illus., cloth, some spotting; Dick & Fitzgerald, publishers. Fireside Games. New York, [c.1859], illus., pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked with brown leather gilt; Rowley, Hugh. Puniana. [c.1870], pictorial cloth; Malins, Joseph. Professor Alcoholico. Birmingham, 1876, plates, pictorial boards, rebacked; Coates, James. How to Thought-Read. 10th thousand, [1901], pictorial wrappers bound in De Meglio . Magical Programmes and how to present them. pictorial boards, worn; Stanyon, Ellis. Serial Lessons in Magic, [c.1899], 21 numbers bound in one volume, cloth; Callahan, G.W. Callahan's Easy Method of Ventriloquism. New York, : Wheman, [c.1905], cloth, original wrappers bound in; Goldston, Will. Juggling Secrets. 1911, pictorial boards, rubbed; Bern, C. van . A Whirlwind of Wizardry. 1919, presentation copy signed by von Bern, binding faded; Houdini. Houdini's Paper Magic. 1922, modern cloth; Price, Harry. A Report on the Telekinetic and other Phenomena witnessed through Eleonore Zugun. 1927, extract, cloth; Culpitt, F. Laughter and Legerdemain, 1928, wrappers bound in; Mulholland, J. Story of Magic. New York, 1935; Bobo, J.B. Watch this one!. Oakland, 1947, cloth; Sharpe, Alton. Expert Card Mysteries. 1969, first edition, number 132 of a limited de luxe edition, cloth; Garcia, F. All in a Nutshell. 1974, pictorial boards; Ganson, Lewis. The Magic of Slydini. n.d., dustwrapper; Vernon, Dai. Malini and His Magic. n.d., dustwrapper; Hartman, J.K. Caan Craft. 2010, initialled by the author, cloth; Mulholland, J. The Early Magic Shows. n.d., wrappers bound in; Kaufman, R. Williamson's Wonders. 1989, dustwrapper; Bertram, R. Bertram on Sleight of Hand. 1983, dustwrapper; Vernon, Dai. Revelation. number 17 of an edition limited to 150 copies, dustwrapper, slipcaseFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition [Quinby 5 with endpapers matching Quinby plate I], 16mo, original dark grey boards with circular squirrel motif to upper cover, rebacked with later spine in black paper, hinges repaired and endpapers relaid, a little internal soiling and external rubbing, in black custom-made clamshell box

Magic, 20th Century, a large collection including 3 limited de luxe copies comprising: Britland, David . The Mind & Magic of David Berglas. 2002; Goldston, W . The Goldston Reader. 1990, no. 267/300 copies, cloth; Conjuror's Monthly Magazine. 1991, 2 vol., cloth, one of 500 copies; Dexter, W . Notes for the Riddle of Chung Ling Soo. Quarter morocco binding; Lyons, P.H . Ibidem, 1993, vol. 1 & 3, slipcase; James S . Stewart James in Print: the first 50 years. 1989, dw; Slaight, A . The James File. 2003, 3 vol. including index; Gardner, M . Martin Gardner Presents. 1993, boards; Leveridge, M . The Master Routine Series. 2004, dw; James, S . The Essential Stewart James. 2007, dw; Kabbala . Vol. 3, Racherbaumer. 1976; Sisti, J . The Magic Menu. 2002, dw; Sisti, J . The Magic Menu, 1995, dw; Regal, D . Approaching Magic, 2008, dw; Craggs, D . ABC of Ventriloquism. [c.1944], wrappers, worn; Houdini, H . Miracle Mongers & Their Methods, wrappers; Skinner, M . Classic Sampler 1996, de luxe Limited edition, no 203, signed, slipcase; Ortiz, D . Cardshark. 1995, number 20/50 de luxe limited edition, signed, slipcase; Fernandes, S . Magic of the Second Millenium. 2000, no. 115/500 copies, signed, dw; Alfredson, J.B . A Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in England 1791-1983, 1986; Cervon, Bruce . Castle Notebooks, volume 2, 2008, number 422/500 copies; Oritz, D . The Annotated Erdnase, 1991, dw; Racherbaumer, J . Card Finesse II. 1992, dw; Racherbaumer, J . Don England’s Gagged to the Hilt, 1993, dw; Racherbaumer, J . Card Fixes. 1990, dw; Leveridge, M . The British Close Up Magic Symposium, 1 st Decade, 2001, dw; Lovell, S . Simon Says. The Close up Magic. 1997, dw; Ouellet, G . The Pass. Card Magic. 1994, dw; Christopher, M . Christopher’s Favourite Routines, 2000; Christopher, M . Houdini, the Untold Story. 1969, dw; Kaufman, R . Close Up Collection. 1982; Kaufman, R . Card Magic. 1979, wrappers; Starke, G . Stars of Magic. 2008; Cannell, J.C . The Secrets of Houdini. 1932; another copy, 1938; Houdini, R . Memoirs, edited by Mackenzie. Philadelphia. 1860, new spine; Houdini, R . Memoirs. 1942; Houdini, H . The Unmasking of Robert Houdin. 1909, rebound; Gresham, W . Houdini, the man who walked through walls. 1959 & 1960; Beaufort, D . Nothing up my Sleeve, 1938; Gibson, W . Houdini’s Escapes and Magic. 1930, rubbed; Gibson, W . Houdini on Magic. 1953; Gibson, W . Houdini’s Escapes. 1931, rubbed; Ernst, B . Houdini and Conan Doyle, 1933, rebound; Kellock, H . Houdini, 1928, rubbed, 2 copies; Hand, C . I was after Money, 1949, presentation copy; Ortiz, D . Designing Miracles, 2006, dw; Ortiz, D . Strong Magic. 1949, dw; Buckley, A . Card Control. 1946; Hobbs, S . Gene Maze and the Art of Bottom Dealing. 1994, dw; Hindle, D . Twice Nightly. 1999, wrappers; all original cloth or boards unless notedFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Potter, Beatrix The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First edition [Quinby 16 with endpapers matching plate VII], 16mo, variant brown boards with rabbit family motif to upper cover, rebacked with modern brown paper spine, hinges repaired and endpapers relaid, a little soiling to endpapers and occasionally internally, in custom made clamshell box

Magic, modern books, including signed editions-de-luxe comprising: Minch, Stephen . Dai Vernon. The Lost Inner Secrets, 2 vol., 1987; More Lost Inner Secrets, 1988; Further Lost Inner Secrets, 1989, and He Fooled Houdini. Dai Vernon , a Magical Life, 1992, all de luxe collector’s editions, respectively numbers 120, 106, 150 and 211, all signed by Dai Vernon, all with slipcases; Lorayne, H . Harry Lorayne’s Personal Collection, all cards. 2001, one of 750 copies, signed, slipcase; Kaufman, R . Jennings ’67. 1997, number 9/60 copies, de luxe edition, signed, slipcase; Sharpe, S . Devant’s Delightful Illusions. 1990, number 442/1000 copies, signed; Fulves, K . The Magical World of Slydini. 1979, leather binding; Fulves, K . The Best of Slydini – and More. 1976, leather binding; Ganson, L . Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic. 1985. De Luxe edition, no. 78, signed copy, slipcase; Ross, F . Early Vernon, 1962; Fitzkee, D . Dai Vernon the First California Lecture, 1976, number 710/1000 copies; 2 works bound together, wrappers bound in; Vernon, Dai . Revelations. 2008, dw; Nathanson, L . Slydini Encores. NY, 1966; Ganson, L ., The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. 1994, dw; Etcheverry, J . The Magic of Acanio. 2006, dw; Lavand, R . 90 Minutes of Magic from the Soul. Dallas, 2006, wrappers bound in; Parrish, R . An Evening with Charlie Miller, 1961, wrappers bound in; Aronson, S . A Stack to Remember, 1979, wrappers bound in; Brahams, A . Karl Norman 40 Years at the Forks. 1995; Nelson, E . Variations Revisited. 2003, dw; International Brotherhood of Magicians . British Ring Coronation and Silver Jubilee Convention, 1953; Lorayne, H . Deck-Sterity. 1967, dw; Lorayne, H . The Himber Wallet Book, 1998, dw; Lorayne, H . Jaw Droppers, 2015, dw; presentation copy, signed; Lorayne, H . Reputation Makers, 1971; Lorayne, H . My Favourite Card Tricks. 1965, wrappers; Lorayne, H . Afterthoughts. 1975; Walton, R . Card Script. 1973, wrappers; Minch, S . Carneycopia. 1991, dw; Carney, J . The Book of Secrets… Conjuring. 2002, presentation copy from author, signed; Ganson, L . The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. [c.1956]; Ganson, L . Dai Vernon’s Inner Secrets of Card Magic, part 1, London, n.d., dw; Ganson, L . Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic. Part 1, London, n.d.; Thayer’s Studio of Magic . Catalogue no 9, vol 3; No 9 vol. 5 and no. 9 vol. 4, and one, unnumbered, wrappers; all original bindings except where notedFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Potter, Beatrix Four first editions, comprising The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition [Quinby 4 with endpapers matching Quinby plate I], 16mo, variant maroon boards with mouse motif to upper cover, some rubbing and fading to covers, hinges split with leaves loose, some adhesion between leaves resulting in a few tears to page edges, in custom clamshell box; [Idem] The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition [Quinby 6, three endpapers matching Quinby Plate II, however one endpaper incorrect and possibly mistakenly applied during rebinding], 16mo, rebound in modern grey paper boards with older rabbit motif pasted to upper cover, in custom clamshell box; [Idem] The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. First edition [Quinby 8, with the endpapers matching Quinby Plate II, however one endpaper appears to be in facsimile], 16mo, rebound in green paper boards with older hedgehog motif to upper cover, in custom clamshell box; [Idem] The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1906. First edition [Quinby 10, with the endpapers matching Quinby Plate II, however one endpaper appears to be in facsimile], 16mo, rebound in red with older frog motif to upper cover, in custom clamshell box (4)

Potter, Beatrix The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1906. First edition [Quinby 12] in original wallet binding, green cloth with rabbit motif to upper cover and 28 concertina text and illustration 'pages', neat ownership signature to title, a little soiling to covers; [Idem] Ginger & Pickles. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1909, but probably c.1914]. 8vo, early printing but without date to title-page and without "printed by Edmund Evans Ltd." on p.52, original tan boards (2)

Ozanam, Jacques Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy London: G. Kearsley, 1803. First English edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, translated by Charles Hutton, 97 plates on 96 folding sheets, contemporary half calf, half-titles, slightly rubbed, one joint split, two partly cracked, slightly spotted, armorial bookplate of John Hutton of Marske; [Toole Stott 521]Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Rouse, William The Doctrine of Chances, or the Theory of Gaming London: Lackington, Allen & Co., Printed by Gye & Balne... for the Author, [1814]. First edition, 8vo, engraved title, 2 folding tables neatly repaired on verso at folds (3 tables are depicted on the 2 folding tables), modern quarter calf and marbled boards, uncut, "Reference Library" stamp to title verso, title spotted, a few other minor spots or stains, [Toole Stott 1308]Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Steinmetz, Andrew The Gaming Table: its Votaries and Victims. London: Tinsley, 1870, First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with red moroccoFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

Bindings 56 books, mostly leather bound Walton, Izaac - Charles Cotton - Moses Browne The Compleat Angler. London: Richard and Henry Causton, 1772. Eighth edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, contemporary calf, notes in an early hand to endpapers, joints split; Irving, Washington The Alhambra. London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt; Munro, Robert Notes of a Tour in the East. Kilmarnock, 1875. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt; Harrison, Joseph The Horticultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. London: Whittaker and Co., [1840]. 8vo, volume 8 only, hand-coloured plates, contemporary half-calf; Burns, Robert The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Kilmarnock: James McKie, 1871. 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt; Pope, Alexander The Odyssey of Homer. London: Vernor and Hood, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Scott, Sir Walter Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. New York: Collins & Hannay, 1830. 16mo, first US edition of the work with an inscription from the academic Edgar Johnson to the Scottish author Alistair Mair, dated 1962, cloth wrappers; and a quantity of others (56)

Blaauw, Frans Ernst A Monograph of the Cranes A Monograph of the Cranes. Leiden: E.J. Brill / London: R.H. Porter, 1897. Folio, first edition, out-of-series of 170 produced, 22 chromolithographed plates, original green printed cloth gilt, a little rubbing to cloth, some very minor dampstaining running along the lower margins of plates and text

Thomas, Edward Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt with dust-jacket, gift inscription to flyleaf, tipped in frontispiece, 16pp. adverts at rear, a little foxing and occasional soiling, spillage marks to pp.110-111, spine faded, slight rubbing to covers, dust-jacket slightly chipped and soiled

Darwin, Charles The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex London: John Murray, 1871. 2 volumes, first edition, second issue with 9 works listed on the title-page verso of volume 2 and the half-title verso blank, and 'When' as the first word in volume 1 p.297, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, hinges worn, some internal foxing, some rubbing and bumping to covers, covers of volume 2 detached from text block with some fading and rippling to upper cover [Freeman 246]

[Etruria - Etruscan] Inghirami, Curzio Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta... "Francofurti" [Florence: Giovanni Battista Landini], 1637. First edition, folio (32 x 22cms.)], 4 folding engravings, engravings in text, contemporary calf, retaining some of the original spine, lower corners worn, very small tear at a couple of folds, slight dampstain at head of titleFootnote: Note: "Beautiful and precious edition for the accuracy of the plates engraved on copper and wood... as well as for the elegance of the types and beauty of the paper not common in Germany" (Cicognara 2590)

Lightfoot, Rev. John Flora Scotica or a Systematica Arrangement in the Linnean Method, of the Native Plants of Scotland and of the Hebrides. London: B. White, 1777. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, additional engraved titles, 35 engraved plates, contemporary calf, somewhat spotted, rebacked, plate 2 loose

Millais, John Guille Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches London: H. Sotheran, 1892. Folio, first edition, frontispiece portrait and 16 chromolithograph plates, uncoloured plates, illus., contemporary red half morocco, extremities worn

Modern Bird Books, a collection 14 Books, including Meinertzhagen, R. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1954]. First edition, large 8vo, original tan cloth; Smythies, Bertram E. The Birds of Burma. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1953]. Second edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] and a 1986 third edition, folio with dust-jacket; [Idem] The Birds of Borneo. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [1960]. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Vaurie, Charles Tibet and its Birds. [London:] H. F. & G. Witherby Limited, [1972]. 8vo, original red cloth, dust-jacket; Cheng Tso-Hsin A Synopsis of the Avifauna of China. Beijing: Science Press, 1987. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Ripley, Sidney Dillon, II A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Bombay/Oxford: Bombay Natural History Society/Oxford University Press, [1982]. Second edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Sick, Helmut Birds in Brazil. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [1993]. 4to, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; and 6 others (14)

Sibbald, Robert Scotia Illustrata sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis. Edinburgh: J. Kniblo, J. Solingen and J. Colmar, for the Author, 1684. First edition, folio, woodcut device on title, 22 engraved plates on 11 leaves, without the heraldic plate (as often), dust-soiling to title margins, inscription on endpaper of Jo. Maule, later bookplate of Ferguson of Raith, contemporary quarter calf with marbled sides and vellum corners, uncut, neatly rebacked, raised bands, marbled boards a bit worn

Alphabetum Arabicum Rome, 1592 Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1592. First edition, 8vo, 64pp., woodcut device on title, title restored on verso at corner, some marginal manuscript translations of letters cropped by binder, somewhat dust-soiled, occasional dampstains, inner margin of p.25 and 63 torn, final leaf frayed, corner repaired and small hole with loss of a few letters, title with womhole on title after "Romae" affecting one word on verso, title almost detached, 19th century boards, worn & soiled, stitching weakFootnote: Note: The Medici Oriental Press, the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing books in an Arabic typeface, was founded in Rome in 1584 under the direction of Giovanni Battista Raimondi and the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII.

Hume, David, and others 5 Philosophical Works Burton, John Hill Life and Correspondence of David Hume. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846. 2 volumes, 8vo, first edition, original cloth gilt, a couple of signatures affecting pp.227-238 and front-free endpaper, bookplates, slight chipping to tops of spines; Green, T.H. and T.H. Grose The Philosophical Works of David Hume. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary armorial calf gilt, bookplates; Reid, Thomas An Inquiry into the Human Mind. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1801. Fifth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf with Signet Library gilt stamps to covers and internal library press mark, bookplate, joints cracked; Stewart, Dugald Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1803. 8vo, contemporary calf with red morocco gilt label to spine; Beattie, James An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. Fourth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, slight cracking to hinges (9)

[Mocket, Richard] Tractatus de Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae London: Rob. Clavel, 1683. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt [ESTC R33601]

Churchill, Sir Winston Liberalism and the Social Problem London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, rubbed, joints weak, some minor internal spotting, very faded stamp to p.vii; Balfour, Arthur James Essays Speculative and Political. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1920]. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, with Balfour's signature to the front free-endpaper, alongside another gift inscription (2)

[John Nash] - Greenwood, Jeremy The Wood-Engravings of John Nash Liverpool: The Wood Lea Press, 1987. First edition, number 29 of 61 copies of the special edition, with a suite of 12 plates in envelope, original black morocco-backed floral boards, original green cloth case, in cardboard packaging

Craig, Edward Gordon Woodcuts and Some Words London: J.M. Dent, 1924. First edition, 4to, number 7 of 160 copies signed by the author, plates, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, worn and frayed dustwrapper with substantial loss

Gibbings, Robert 10 volumes, comprising Iorana! A Tahitian Journal. 1932, original green cloth-backed decorated boards, binding lightly marked; Over the Reefs., 1942 2 copies, dustwrapper; Balston, Thomas The Wood-Engravings of Robert Gibbings, 1949, dustwrapper price clipped; Gibbings, Robert Till I end my Song. 1957, proof copy, original wrappers; Lovely is the Lee. 1945, First edition, dustwrapper price clipped; Coming down the Wye. 1942, owner's inscription on endpaper, dustwrapper price clipped; Sweet Thames Run Softly. 1940, dustwrapper; Leslie, R. Alpines I have grown. 1940, dustwrapper frayed; all with wood-engravings by Gibbings; Empson, Patience The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings. 1959. 4to, original black cloth, original plastic dustwrapper lettered in red, in original packaging (10)

Griggs, Frederick Landseer - Michael Gullick Facsimiles of the Drawings in the Watercolour Record The Red Gull Press, 1977. First edition, oblong 4to, one of 50 copies produced, with 7 loosely inserted proof plates, this copy inscribed to and bound for Iain Bain, bound in quarter morocco and tooled with Bain's initials (IB), as well as those of Michael Gullick (MG) and John Parfitt (JP), with a loosely inserted letter from John Parfitt gifting the book to Bain and 2 further letters (one a copy) from Gullick to Bain, enclosing 3 further proof plates

Stopes, Marie Carmichael A collection of works Ancient Plants. London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1910. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth; [Idem] Married Love. London: A.C. Fifield, 1919. Sixth edition, 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt; [Idem] Wise Parenthood. London: A.C. Fifield, 1919. Second edition, 8vo, original paper covered boards, previous ownership signature to half-title; and another copy in fifth edition; [Idem] Radiant Motherhood. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. First edition, 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt; [Idem] The Human Body. New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Idem] Enduring Passion. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition, 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt, dust-jacket chipped and foxed; [Idem] Roman Catholic Methods of Birth Control. London: Peter Davies, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; [Idem] Change of Life in Men and Women. London: Putnam, 1936. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; [Idem] Sleep. London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; and another copy in wrappers; Briant, Keith Marie Stopes, a biography. London: The Hogarth Press, 1962. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (12)

Amundsen, Roald The South Pole London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, 2 maps, original red cloth gilt, a little rubbing and fading to spines, one plate detached, some very slight foxing (2)

Burma [Myanmar] 26 books, including Kelly, R. Talbot Burma, painted ad described. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. 8vo, original decorative maroon cloth gilt; Williams, J.H. Bandoola. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. 8vo, later calf, a little repaired worming; [Idem] Elephant Bill. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1950. 8vo, later calf, title repaired; Evans, G.H. Elephants and their Diseases. Rangoon, 1961. 8vo, later calf; Collins, Maurice Last and First in Burma (1941-1948). London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1956]. 8vo, calf, title repaired; Brown, R. Grant Burma as I Saw it. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [n.d.] 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Yoe, Shway The Burman, his life and notions. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. Third edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Whitehead, George In the Nicobar Islands. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1924. 8vo, original red cloth, cloth varnished, browned; Myint, Ni Ni Burma's Struggle against British Imperialism. Rangoon: The Universities Press, 1983. 8vo, red cloth; Shakespear, L.W. History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, soiled, some repaired worming; and 16 others, sold not subject to return

Byron, John A Voyage Round the World, in his Majesty's Ship the Dolphin London: J. Newbery, 1767. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece & 2 engraved plates, final advertisement leaf, contemporary quarter calf, bookplate and ownership signature of J. Stretton, very slight worming to upper joint not affecting work internally [ESTC T27757]

Headrick, James View of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures and Fisheries of the Island of Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1807. First edition, folding frontispiece map, contemporary calf, spine gilt, red morocco labels, joints splitting

Sudan and the Sahara 30 books, including Dugmore, Major A. Radclyffe The Vast Sudan. London: Arrowsmith, [1926]. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth; Seligman, C.G. Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1932. 8vo, original red cloth; Treatt, Stella Court Sudan Sand. London: George G. Harrap, [1930]. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; Ward, John Our Sudan, its Pyramids and Progress. London: John Murray, 1905. 8vo, original cloth; Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940. 8vo, original cloth; Tothill, J.D., editor Agriculture in the Sudan. London: Oxford University Press, 1948. 8vo, original cloth; 'Ex-Legionnaire 1384' Spies of the Sahara. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth; Molloy, Peter The Cry of the Fish Eagle. London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Briggs, Lloyd Cabot Tribes of the Sahara. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. 8vo, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket; Wellard, James The Great Sahara. London: Hutchison, [1964]. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket, original cloth; and 20 others (30)

Rossini, Gioachino La gazza ladra [a mixed edition] Milan: Ricordi (Naples, Girard and others), c.1817-1822, with Meyerbeer, Mozart, etc, 1820. Comprising a largely complete score of 16 separate numbers arranged for piano solo, including: 1) Gran Sinfonia (first edition, plate no.333); 2) Introduzione, (no.269, Girard?); 3) Cavatina (no.355/554); 5) Cavatina (no.743); 4) Cavatina (no.270); 6) Coro (271); and others, 16 items in one, oblong 4to, title-pages for the Ricordi editions; [together with] 2- and 4-hand arrangements of overtures by Meyerbeer (Emma von Resburgo); Spontini (La vestale); Cherubini; Paer; Handel; Winter; Mozart; and Mercadante (4 numbers from Elisa e Claudio); ballet music by Gallenberg, Carafa, Gioja and Carlini. Naples: Girard; and Viennese waltzes and Ländler. Vienna: Artaria. 4 volumes, oblong 4to, engraved music, contemporary vellum- or calf-backed boards, red and green morocco gilt labels of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire (1788-1845) and his daughters “The Ladies Hill”

Tours and Guides, 16 volumes, comprising Cruttwell, Rev. C. A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain. London, 1801. First edition, 6 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, morocco labels; Thornton, Col. T. A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and great part of the Highlands of Scotland. London, 1804. First edition, 4to, errata leaf, 16 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original spine, slightly spotted; another edition, 1896. 8vo, plates, some chromolithographed, half parchment, slightly rubbed and soiled; Newte, Thomas Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland. London, 1791. 4to, folding map and 23 plates, modern calf-backed cloth; Defoe, Daniel A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain. 1927, 2 volumes, modern cloth-backed marbled boards; Head, Sir George A Home Tour through Various Parts of the United Kingdom. 1838, 8vo, frontispiece, original boards, uncut, worn; Saunders and Otley, publishers Historical and Literary Tour of a Foreigner in England and Scotland. London, 1825, 2 volumes, 8vo, titles browned and laid down, one repaired, later cloth, some spotting; and 2 paperback copies of Defoe's Tour (16)

Travel A collection of 12 books, including Selous, Frederick Courteney Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893. First edition, 8vo, folding map, original orange cloth gilt, binding a little shaken, some soiling and small tears to spine; Livingstone, David and Charles Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries. London: John Murray, 1865. 8vo, folding frontispiece, contemporary half calf, facsimile map in rear pocket; [Idem] Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. 8vo, 2 folding maps, one in facsimile, contemporary red half morocco gilt; Wood, J.T. Discoveries at Ephesus. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1877. 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, bookplate and stamps of Wandsworth Public Library; Humann, Karl & Otto Puchstein Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1890. 4to, contemporary half calf, library withdrawn stamps; Lawrence, Thomas Edward Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Second impression, 8vo, original cloth, ex-library; [Idem] - David Garnett, editor The Letters of T.E. Lawrence. London: Jonathan Cape, [1938]. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt; [Idem] Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, some rubbing; and 4 others, sold not subject to return (12)

Travel 6 volumes, including Montgomery, James Journal of Voyages and Travels. London: Frederick Westley, 1831. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 portraits, 12 plates, 1 leaf of advertisements, original blue cloth gilt with paper labels to spines, neat ownership signatures to free-endpapers, spine of volume ii chipped, a little browning; Nordenskiöld , A.E . The Voyage of the Vega. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. 2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, 11 folding maps and 5 engraved portraits, original green cloth, some maps detached, covers worn and spines weak; Lamont, James Yachting in the Arctic Seas. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. First edition, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 21 plates (including 3 folding), original blue cloth gilt, neat ownership inscription to front free-endpaper, a few small tears to maps; Beccari , Odoardo Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo. London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1904. 8vo, frontispiece, 3 folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, gift inscription to front free-endpaper, hinges weak (6)Footnote: Provenance: From the library of Kingcausie

Holland, James The Battle of Britain London: Bantam Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, number 202 of250 limited edition copies signed by twelve airmen from both sides of the conflict, original blue cloth, slipcase; and another book

Plinius Secundus, Gaius The Historie of the World London: G.B. [George Bishop], 1601. First edition in English, folio, 2 volumes bound as one, slightly later panelled calf, with the ownership inscription of Roger Moodie to the title-page and annotations throughout in an early hand, lacking blanks, several initial and final leaves (also pp.463-4) with marginal wear and tears resulting in loss to text, light but noticeable dampstaining throughout, some worming and rubbing to covers [ESTC S94749]

[Malcolm, David] A Collection of Letters in which the Imperfection of Learning... and a Remedy for it, are hinted, The Usefulness of the Celtick is instanced... A Specimen of a Dictionary, English-Celtick and Celtick-English, is given. Edinburgh, 1739. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked, morocco label

1850's Literature 21 volumes, including Brothers Mayhew The Image of his Father. 1851, additional etched title and plates; Thackeray, W.M. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. 1853; Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1852, third edition; Uncle Tom's Cabin... reprinted verbatim. London: J.P. Edwards, 1852; Stowe, Harriet Beecher Dred. 1856; Stowe, H.B. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1854; Webb, J.B. Idaline. 1854; [Patmore, Coventry] The Angel in the House. 1854, early inscription on title; Locker, F. London Lyrics. 1857. original cloth, title loose; Smith, Alexander City Poems. Cambridge, 1857; Longfellow, H.W. The Golden Legend. 1851; The Song of Hiawatha. 1856, illustrated by John Gilbert; The Courtship of Miles Standish. 1858. First edition, 2nd issue with 227 pages, adverts at end dated Jan. 1858; [Johnson, C.W.] Ionica. 1858, lacks front free endpaper; Graham, Frederica Mary Bingley. 1858, 2 volumes; Kingsley, Charles Miscellanies. 1859. 2 volumes; Tennyson, Alfred Idylls of the King. 1859; 8pp. advertisements at beginning; [Anon.] Ermengarde Sydney, or Home Sketches. 1853; The Times Essays from. 1851, original boards, all but the last original cloth, some rubbing and fading, varying condition (21)

1870's Literature 22 volumes, comprising Oliphant, Mrs. At His Gates. 1872. First edition, 3 volumes, original blindstamped cloth; Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. 1870, first edition, 3 volumes, maroon half morocco, g.e.; Erckmann-Chatrian. MM. The Great Invasion of 1813-14. Ward Lock and Tyler, [1870]; Lytton, Robert. Julian Fane. 1871, original green cloth, rubbed; Lytton, Baron. Kenelm Chillingly. 1873, First edition, 3 volumes, original maroon cloth, rubbed, edge of cloth of vol. 2 worn; Topin, Marius. The Man with the Iron Mask. 1870, First English edition, original brown cloth gilt; Swinburgne, A.C. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade. 1876. First edition, original wrappers; [Lawrence, George A.] Silverland. 1873, original green cloth, rubbed, a few margins lightly dampstained; Rossetti, Dante G. Poems. 1870, first edition, original cloth, rubbed, hinges weak; Kingston, W.H.G. The Wanderer. 1876, original red pictorial cloth, rubbed; Lee, Jonathan. The Wreck of the Grosvenor. 1877, first edition, 3 volumes, green half calf, some spotting, "Franklin House Library" stamp to titles, some spotting; Turgenev, I.S. Virgin Soil. 1878, Original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, hinges splitting; another copy, original green cloth, slightly rubbed; Black, William. Macleod of Dare. 1879, original blue cloth gilt, (22)

1890's Literature a collection, including Hope, Anthony The Heart of Princess Osra. 1896, first edition, original cloth, glassine wrapper; Hope, A. Rupert of Hentzau. [1898], first edition, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Hope, A. The Dolly Dialogues. 1896, original maroon cloth; Kipling, Rudyard The Second Jungle Book. Second edition, original cloth gilt; Davidson, John Godfrida. 1898, with A.L.S. to Sir Wemyss from the author tipped in, original pictorial black buckram gilt, uncut; Davidson, J. Miss Armstrong's and Other Circumstances. New York, 1896, original pale green cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Davidson, J. Scaramouch in Naxos. 1890. Second edition, original pink flecked cloth; Davidson, J. Miss Armstrong's and other Circumstances. 1896, first edition, first issue, original red cloth, spine slightly faded; another copy, 1896, original blue cloth, spine slightly faded; Moore, George. Esther Waters. 1894, original cloth; Du Maurier, George Trilby. 1894, 3 volumes, first edition in book form, original pictorial cloth, spines slightly discoloured; Ibsen, Henrik The League of Youth. 1890, original green cloth, slightly rubbed; [Clemens, S.L.] The £1,000,000 Bank-Note. London, 1893, 1st British edition, 1st issue, 32pp. adverts at end dated March 1893, original red pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded; Hueffer, F.M. Ford Madox Brown. 1896. original pictorial cream cloth, t.e.g., lightly soiled; Boothby, Guy In Strange Company. 1894, first edition, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, slightly soiled; Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. 1898, original cloth gilt; Ward, Mrs H. The Story of Bessie Costrell. 1895, original cloth; Stevenson, R.L. Island Nights Entertainments. 1893. First edition, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, slightly soiled; Watson, W. The Prince's Quest. 1893. 12mo, original buckram, t.e.g.; Drummond, Henry The Monkey that would not Kill, 1898, original pictorial cloth, slightly soiled; Jerome, Jerome K. Diary of a Pilgrimage. Bristol, [n.d.], original yellow cloth; Three Men on the Bummel. Bristol, [1900]; The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, [n.d.], original yellow cloth; Le Gallienne, Richard The Quest of the Golden Girl. 1896, second edition, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed; Prose Fancies, 1894-96, 2 volumes, original cloth, second volume faded; George Meredith. 1890, original cloth; The Religion of a Literary Man. 1893, original cloth; Retrospective Reviews. 1896, 2 volumes, original cloth; [Scott, Cyril] Autobiography of a Child. 1899, original cloth, rubbed & somewhat soiled (33)

1920's Literature 24 volumes, some signed, comprising Buchan, John The History of the South African Forces in France. 1920, first edition, original cloth; Caine, Hall The Master of Man. 1921, first English edition, dustwrapper; [Grant, Duncan] Some Contemporary English Artists. 1921, first edition, dustwrapper by Duncan Grant, stitching very weak, lightly soiled; Masefield, John The Dream. [1922], limited to 750 copies, illustrated by Judith Masefield, number 607 signed by John and Judith Masefield, original cloth-backed boards, glassine dustwrapper; Bottomley, Gordon King Lear's Wife. 1922. Second edition, inscribed to J. Craig Annan, original cloth, spine slightly faded; Turner, W.J. Landscape of Cytherea. 1923, number 26 of 99 copies signed by the author, original quarter cloth; Holtby, Winifred Anderby Wold. 1923, First edition, original black cloth; Bennett, Arnold Don Juan de Marana. 1923, Privately Printed, number 740 of 1000 copies signed by the author, original paper-backed boards somewhat stained; Moore, T. Sturge Judas. 1923, first edition, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed; Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Golden Lion. 1924, First British edition, original salmon cloth; Powys, T.F. Mark Only. 1924, First edition, fine dustwrapper; Huxley, Aldous Selected Poems. 1925, original pictorial boards, rubbed; Burnet, I. Compton Pastors and Masters. 1925. First edition, dustwrapper; Hudson, Stephen Myrtle. 1925. First edition, presentation copy inscribed on half-title, original cloth, lacks front free endpaper; Davies, W.H. Later Days. 1925, number 8 of 125 copies signed by the author, original cloth, covers stained; Richardson, Henry H. The Way Home. 1925, first edition, original cloth; Bates, H.E. The Last Bread. 1925, first edition, signed by the author, original wrappers; Wells, H.G. The Open Conspiracy. 1928, 2nd impression, McKnight Kauffer dustwrapper clipped, owner's name and address on endpaper, dustwrapper slightly discoloured; Sitwell, Edith Rustic Elegies. 1927, dustwrapper; Zola, Emile L'Assomoir, translated by Arthur Symons. 1928. number 800 of 1000 copies signed Symons, original paper-backed boards, uncut, boards discoloured, lower joint cracked; Guedalla, Philip Bonnet and Shawl. New York, 1928, signed on half-title, number 152 of 571 copies, slipcase; Galsworthy, John. A Rambling Discourse. 1929, first edition, number 134 of 400 copies signed by the author, original boards, spine faded; Galsworthy, John A Modern Comedy. 1929, number 837 of 1030 copies signed by the author with quote, original white ?pigskin; Galsworthy, J. Forsyte Saga. 1922, first edition, original green cloth (24)

1930's literature 24 volumes, including Freeman, H.W. Down in the Valley. 1930, number 113 of 132 copies signed by the author, original buckram-backed patterned boards; Davies, Rhys Rings on her Fingers. 1930, number 21 of 175 copies signed by the author, original green cloth, t.e.g., slipcase; Sherriff, R.C. and Vernon Bartlett Journey's End. 1930. Number 79 of 600 copies signed by the author, original quarter vellum, gilt, uncut; Young, Francis Brett Jim Redlake. 1930, limited to 275 copies, signed by the artist, unnumbered, original blue vellum, binding soiled; Black Roses. 1929, number 250 of 525 copies signed by F.B. Young, original vellum, uncut; Mr and Mrs Pennington. 1931, signed by the author, dustwrapper; Hodson, James Lansdale Red Night. 1930, presentation copy, dustwrapper; Cozzens, James G. S.S. San Pedro. 1931, first edition, original cloth, dustwrapper; Bone, A.H. Bowsprit Ashore. 1932, woodcuts by Fred Bone, dustwrapper price clipped; Kaye-Smith, Sheila Shepherds in Sackcloth. 1930, number 208 of 250 copies signed by the author, dustwrapper; Waddell, Helen The Abbé Prévost. 1933, original vellum-backed cloth, dustwrapper, small stain at foot of cloth and wrapper; Young, Andrew Winter Harvest. Nonesuch Press, 1933, first edition, presentation copy with A.L.S. loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, binding faded, wrapper bit soiled; Spender, Stephen Vienna, 1934, original cloth, dustwrapper; Beith, Janet Sand Castle, 1936, illustrated & inscribed by Keith Henderson, dustwrapper; Walpole, Hugh John Cornelius. 1937, one of 175 large paper copies signed by the author, dustwrapper; Bellamy, H.S. Moons, Myths and Man. 1936, dustwrapper price clipped; Mitchison, Naomi We have been warned. 1935, dustwrapper; [Sutor, Allan] Somnolia. Glasgow: Kinnaird Head Press, [1934], first edition, inscribed by the author; Kipling, R. Thy Servant a Dog. 1930, dustwrapper; Cronin, A.J. Hatter's Castle. 1931, dustwrapper; Belloc, H. The Man who made Gold. 1930, dustwrapper; Blane, Fergus Money-Lender in Gloves. 1939, dustwrapper; Sellar, R.J.B. The Macnabs Rampant. 1937, dustwrapper ; Bottrall, Ronald The Turning Path. 1939, first edition, original cloth-backed boards, boards lightly dampstained (24)

1940's Literature 38 volumes, including Betjeman, John English Scottish and Welsh Landscape.. with original photographs by John Piper, 1944, dustwrapper; Young, Francis Brett The Island. 1944, first edition, number 77 of 100 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed marbled boards; Sea Poems, with original lithographs by Mona Moore.1944, dustwrapper; Stewart, Carol Poems of Sleep and Dream, with original lithographs by Robert Colquhoun. 1947, dustwrapper frayed; Sitwell, Osbert Laughter in the Next Room. 1949, first edition, dustwrapper; this and the following 3 volumes presentation copies to Norman Peterkin; Sitwell, O. The True Story of Dick Whittington. 1945; Sitwell, O. Gentle Despair. 1942, dustwrapper; Sitwell, O. Open the Door. New York, 1941, dustwrapper spine faded Davies, Rhys The Trip to London. 1946, inscribed to Biddy Crozier from the author, dustwrapper frayed; Ferber, Edna Saratoga Trunk. 1942, dustwrapper; Bellow, Saul The Victim. 1948, first edition, dustwrapper; Orwell, George The Lion and the Unicorn. 1941, 2 copies, first edition, dustwrappers, one frayed, one price clipped; Llewellyn, Richard None but the Lonely Heart. 1943. Number 202 of 250 copies signed by the author, original buckram, t.e.g.; and 25 others, first editions, from the 1940's in dustwrappers (38)

19th Century American History and Literature 18 volumes, including Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass. Washington, 1872, original green cloth, pencil notes to title, rubbed; Whitman, Walt November Boughs. Philadelphia, 1888, First edition, frontispiece, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed; Emerson, R.W. Representative Men: Seven Lectures. Boston, 1850. Original cloth, slightly spotted, worn; Ford, Thomas A History of Illinois. Chicago, 1854, contemporary calf; Ross, J.D. Scottish Poets in America. New York, 1839, original cloth ; Bush, George Mesmer and Swedenborg. New York, 1847, original cloth; "A Philadelphian" A Hand-book for the Stranger in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1849, 12mo, frontispiece, original cloth; Sawyer, T.J. Review of E.F. Hatfield's Universalism as it is. New York, 1841, 12mo, original cloth, rubbed; Whittier, J.G. Home Ballads and Poems. Boston, 1861, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Kirke, Edmund My Southern Friends. New York, 1863, original cloth; [United States Civil War] Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the hands of the Rebel Authorities. Philadelphia, 1864, First edition, 4 plates, original cloth, head of spine rubbed; Berard, A.B. School History of the United States. Philadelphia, 1868, original calf-backed cloth; Philadelphia The Stranger's Guide in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1865, frontispiece, folding plan, original cloth; Bulkeley, B.R. The Shifting Wind & other Poems. Chicago, 1895, signed by the author, original cloth; Vail, I.N. Alaska. Land of the Nugget. Why ? Pasadena, 1897, original wrappers; [Limton, W.J.] Catoninetales, a domestic epic by Hattie Brown. Printed at the Appledore U.S. Press. Twenty five copies, later cloth, worn; Hawthorne, Nananiel Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. Boston, 1883, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, hinges weak; [Watts, William] The Yahoo; a Satirical Rhapsody. New York: H. Simpson, 1830, later cloth, a few leaves dampstained (18)

5 First editions, comprising Thomas, Edward Collected Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920. First edition, number 71 of 100 copies of Japon paper, 8vo, frontispiece, original grey cloth-backed grey boards, edges of boards very slightly rubbed; Connolly, Cyril Enemies of Promise. London: G. Routledge, 1938. First edition, original cloth, dustwrapper strengthened at folds on verso; Auden, W.H. The Age of Anxiety. Faber & Faber, 1948. First edition, presentation copy inscribed "Wayne with love from Wystan, Nov. 1948", original yellow cloth, dustwrapper with short splits at upper fold and slight loss at head of spine; Wharton, Edith A Son at the Front. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923, First edition, original red cloth, dustwrapper with some loss at head of spine and to lower wrapper ; Sackville West, V. Grey Wethers. W. Heinemann, 1923, first edition, original grey cloth, dustwrapper rather worn and soiled and repair on verso (5)

American Literature and History, 20th century a collection, comprising Hecht, Ben A Thousand and one Afternoons in Chicago. 1922, illustrations by Herman Rosse, original pictorial boards; Lewis, Sinclair Our Mr Wrenn. New York: Harper, 1914.First edition, original grey cloth gilt; Green, Anna Katharine The Millionaire Baby. Indianapolis, 1905, January; First edition, original cloth; Stowe, C.E. Rhymes from the Santa Barbara Hills. San Ysidor Ranch, 1920. Presentation copy from the author (the only living child of Harriet Beecher Stowe], original wrappers, spine rubbed; [there is no separate title-page, the upper wrapper seeming to serve as title]; More, Sir Thomas Utopia. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934, number 1438 of 1500 copies, original vellum-backed boards, slipcase; Downes, Williaam H. Bookplates selected from the Works of Edmund H. Garrett. Throus-dale Press, Boston, 1903, original quarter parchment, slightly marked; Drinkwater, John The World's Lincoln. New York: The Bowling Green Press, 1928, one of 800 copies, original quarter parchment, glassine dustwrapper; Parker, Willis L. The Three Cuckolds our of Chaucer. New York: Privately Issued, 1932, original quarter parchment; Prokosch, Frederic Death at Sea. 1940, presentation copy to Arthur Lundkrist, original quarter cloth; Prokosch, F. A Ballad of Love. New York, 1960. First edition, number 23 of 99 copies signed by the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; Wright, S.F. The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, 1949, Presentation copy, dustwrapper; Sinclair, Upton The Jungle. 1920, signed by the author on endpaper, original pictorial cloth, dustwrapper frayed; Sinclair , Upton The Spokesman's Secretary. Pasadena, 1926, original cloth; Naipaul, V.S. The Mystic Masseur. New York, 1959, dustwrapper; Capote, Truman A Christmas Memory. 1956, owner's gift inscription to flyleaf, original quarter cloth, slipcase; Faulkener, William Mirrors of Chartres Street. Minneapolis, 1953, number 536 of 1000 copies, original cloth; Williams, William Carlos. A Fream of Love. Parsippany, 1948, 2 copies, original wrappers; Eddison, E.R. The Worm Ouroboros. New York, 1926, First American edition, dustwrapper slightly frayed; Lovecraft, H.P. The Shunned House. Athol, Mass., 1928. morocco-backed cloth; Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman. New York, Viking Press, 1949. First edition, original pictorial tan cloth, top 20% of free endpaper cut away and with name in ink; Hale, E.E. The Man without a Country. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1979, green morocco gilt; Voltaire, J.F.M.A de Candide. New York: Random House, 1975, 4to, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, original cloth, slipcase; Breton, A. Young Cherry Trees secured against Hares. New York: View Editions, 1946, limited to 1000 copies, original boards, dustwrapper; Franklin, Benjamin The Way to Wealth. New York: Random House, 1930, folio, limited to 390 copies, original cloth, slipcase worn; and several others

Auden, W.H. Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944 Faber & Faber, 1953. First edition, 2nd impression, original blue cloth, dustwrapper, signed and dated by Auden on title, on endpaper "David J. Palmer, New College Essay Prize, Trinity 1956" in ink, dustwrapper lightly rubbed at head of spine and spine a trifle marked

Banks, Iain 17 books, including 10 signed by the author The Steep Approach to Garbadale. Little, Brown and Company, 2007. First edition, 8vo, signed; Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved. Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First edition, 8vo, signed; Walking on Glass. Macmillan, 1985. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to Chris; Espedair Street, 1987. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Angela, from Iain Banks - all the best * - *pretty lame dedication if you ask me"; Canal Dreams. Macmillan, 1989. First edition, 8vo, signed; The Business. Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First edition, 8vo, signed; A Song of Stone. Abacus, 1997. First edition, 8vo, signed; Dead Air. Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First edition, 8vo, signed; A Song of Stone. Abacus, 1997. First edition, 8vo, signed on slip pated to half-title; Stonemouth. Little, Brown and Company, 2012. First edition, 8vo; and first editions of The Wasp Factory; Coplicity; The Bridge; The Quarry; Transition; The Crow Road; and another copy of Espedair Street; all with dust-jackets

Banks, Iain M. 14 books, 6 signed by the author The Hydrogen Sonata, 2012, signed; Matter, 2008, signed; Inversions, 1998, signed; Feersum Endjin, 1994, signed; Surface Detail, 2010, inscribed to Mark; The Algebraist, 2004, signed; Look to Windward, 2000; Excession, 1996; Against Dark Backgrounds, 1993; Use of Weapons, 1990; The State of the Art, 1991; all published by Orion, 8vo, first-editions, dust-jackets; Consider Phlebas. Macmillan, 1987. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket; The Player of Games. Macmillan, 1988. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket; and a first edition paperback copy of Look to Windward (14)

Bibliography 38 volumes, comprising O' Brien, P. T.E. Lawrence, a Bibliography.2000, dustwrapper; Mitham, P.J. Robert W. Service, a Bibliography. 2000, dustwrapper; Jessop, T.E. A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy. 1938, wrappers; Mason, S. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. reprint edition; Tarr, R.L. Thomas Carlyle, a descriptive Bibliography. 1989; Shepherd, R.H. The Bibliography of Coleridge. 1970, limited to 150 copies; Higginson, F.H. A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Graves. 1966; Hoy, P.C. A Checklist of Writings about Edwin Muir. 1971; Mellown, E.W. Bibliography of the Writings of Edwin Muir, 1970; Russell, N. A Bibliography of William Cowper to 1837. 1963; Denson, A. Printed Writings by George W. Russell. 1961; Sagar, K. Ted Hughes, a Bibliography 1946-1980, 1983; Ayling, R. and M.J. Durkan. Sean O'Casey. 1978; d'Arch Smith, T. A Bibliography of the Works of Montague Summers. 1964; Pound, O.S. Wyndham Lewis, a Descriptive Bibliography. 1978; Penzer, N.M. An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Reprint limited to 225 copies; Crane, J.St. C. Robert Frost, a Descriptive Catalogue. 1974; West, R.C. Tolkien Criticism. 1972; Bloomfield, B.C. Philip Larkin, a Bibliography. 1979; Todd, W.B. Bibliography of Edmund Burke. 1982; Handley-Taylor, G. John Masefield, a Bibliography. 1960; Gilcher, E. A Bibliography of George Moore. 1970; Courtney, W.P. A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson. 1984; Wise, T.J. A Bibliography of ... Baron Byron. 1972, 2 volumes, dustwrappers; McKerrow, R.B. An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. 1965; Dyer, I.W. A Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's Writings. 1968; Cutler, B.D. Modern British Authors. their First editions. 1930; Morris, B. John Cleveland, a Bibliography. 1967; Baynes, N.H. Bibliography of the Works of J.B. Bury. 1929, library stamp on title; Maud, R. Dylan Tomas in Print. 1968; Rolph, J.A. Dylan Thomas, a Bibliography. 1956, dustwrapper; Bareham, T. A Bibliography of George Crabbe. 1978; McDonald, E.D. A Bibliography of the Writings of Norman Douglas. 1927, and 6 paperbacks (38)

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