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*CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. Macmillan & Co, London, 1876 1st edition. Presented in original publisher’s cloth, decorative boards, aeg. Has the required typing error, Baker instead of Butcher on p83, denoting a first impression copy. [1]Condition report: Some crushing and fraying to head and tail of spine.Provenance: Consigned from a local deceased estate, being descendants of Robert Heath (of Robert Heath & Sons, founders of the Biddulph Valley Colliery and Iron Works) who resided at Biddulph Grange between 1871-1922, and direct descendants of the Earls of Denbigh of Newnham Paddox.

*WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. Horizon Review, London, 1948. True 1st edition. This is the softback true first edition, predating the 1st book edition. The text of this edition differs slightly from the text of the later book. Hard cased in beige cloth with gilt titling to spine. [1]Condition report: Some sunfading to back cover.Staining to original front cover of the review (bound in).Provenance: Consigned from a local deceased estate, being descendants of Robert Heath (of Robert Heath & Sons, founders of the Biddulph Valley Colliery and Iron Works) who resided at Biddulph Grange between 1871-1922, and direct descendants of the Earls of Denbigh of Newnham Paddox.

A varied selection of mostly hardback volumes; including a modern 'Times Concise Atlas of the World', 'Shakespeare's Plays & Poems', illustrated by Charles Knight, 1866, a large hardback volume 'Modern Farriery' by W. J. Miles M.R.C.V.S.L., together with other volumes etc.Shakespeare volume is labelled Oxford Local Examination 1868 Junior Candidate Prize 2nd Division, Manchester Centre. It is quite foxed on the first few pages, it is complete in one volume and is the 9th edition, published by bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street and Covent Garden in 1866. The pages inside look pretty good and the back pages as well are quite foxed also. In terms of the condition of the hardcover around the edges there are some scuffs commensurate with age and some scuffs on the spine itself but overall the gilding looks nice and bright against the red background etc.

Volume : A A Milne 'Now We Are Six', first edition 1927, illustrated by E H Shepperd, published by Methuen & Co, London, red cloth with gilt binding

Factory Records and New Order, a bronzed resin bust designed by Peter Saville from the New Order single Round and Round, marked to the socle base Little Lewey For New Order Round & round & round & round and with artists initials to the back. h.22cm.The first run of these busts were limited to an edition of around 20 and were given out by Factory Records. Condition report: Lots 501 - 591 are from the collection of Jonathan Ruffle, a British writer, director and producer, who has made TV and radio programmes for the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. During his time as a producer of the Radio 1 show from the mid-1980s-90s he collected the majority of the lots on offer here. These include rare vinyl, acetates, and Factory Records promotional items. The majority of the vinyl lots being offered for sale are in Mint or Near-Mint condition – with some having never been played.

The Great War - The Illustrated History of the First World War, Millennium Edition printed 1999, black cloth with silver titles, with dustjackets 6vols - Condition Report

A Royal Old Country Roses teaset, comprising teapot, six teacups, six saucers, six side plates, milk jug, open sucrier, and cake plate, plus a large bowl, jug, pair of jars and covers, pair of photograph frames, 1980 calendar plate marked first edition, and five cloth napkins. - Condition Report

A contemporary Royal Worcester porcelain model of the First Flight of Concorde, 21st January 1976, limited edition numbered 146/750, manufactured in 2005, raised on ebonised base with inset commemorative coin, with certificate of authenticity, length 37cmCondition report: In excellent original condition throughout.No box.

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield, first edition in book form, two volumes, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1850, green cloth with leather spine labels, frontispiece, vignette half title page, thirty-eight plate illustrations by H.K. Browne (as called for), issue points including six-line errata leaf on page xv; Chapter xxvii listed in table contents at p.283, instead of p.282; 'recal' on p.16 line 1 and p.225 line 22; 'chapter ;ut' on p.19, twelve lines from bottom; 'coroboration' on p.387, six lines from bottom; 'screamed' on p.132 line 20, octavo, (spines evenly browned; foxed, affecting most plates; two plates and pp.49-50 and 351-352 detached).

[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. ILLUSTRATED Rackham, Arthur, illustrator, & Wagner, Richard. The Ring of the Niblung (The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie and Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods), translated by Margaret Armour, first edition, Heinemann, London, 1939, blue cloth, forty-eight colour plate illustrations, including frontispieces (as called for), quarto.

[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition in book form, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1857, half leather, frontispiece, engraved title page and a further thirty-seven (of thirty-eight) plate illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, first issue points including 'B2' instead of 'BB2' at foot of page 371, and 'Rigaud' for 'Blandois' in Chapter 17 as per errata on p.xiv, octavo (scuffed; joints cracked; covers loose; lacking spine label; p.625 and rear blanks detached).

[HISTORY]. INDIA The King Emperor and His Dominions. Souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I.M. George V, Delhi, December, 1911, with the compliments of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London, no date [1911], full crimson leather (rubbed), all edges gilt, illustrations, octavo; Coronation Durbar, 1911, being a reprint of articles and telegrams previously published in the Pioneer, second edition, Pioneer Press, Allahabad, 1912, dark green cloth gilt, frontispiece and a further twenty-four plate illustrations (as called for), folding map at end, quarto; Fortescue, John. Narrative of the Visit to India of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary and of the Coronation Durbar Held at Delhi 12th December 1911, first edition, Macmillan, London, 1912, blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece and a further thirty plate illustrations (as called for), folding plan at end, octavo; and two other works, (5).

[HISTORY] Baker, Sir Richard. A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King James... Whereunto is added The Reign of King Charles the First, with a Continuation of the Chronicle,... To the Coronation of His Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second, fourth edition, for Ranew & Robinson, London, 1665, full leather (re-backed; upper joint partially cracked), engraved title page, folio (ex library; lacking frontispiece; with some marginal annotations).

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Orwell, George. The Road to Wigan Pier, first edition, Left Book Club Edition, Gollancz, London, 1937, original orange limp cloth, thirty-six illustrations, octavo (edges foxed; corners of covers creased and curled; ends of upper joint nicked).

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1933, decorative cloth, octavo; and Waugh, Evelyn. Black Mischief, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1932, decorative cloth (rubbed), map frontispiece, octavo (latter ex library).

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1953, scarlet cloth, dustjacket (non price-clipped), octavo; Waugh, Evelyn. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, A Conversation Piece, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1957, blue cloth, dustjacket (non price-clipped), octavo; Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy, Chapman & Hall, London, no date, blue cloth, dustjacket (non price-clipped), octavo; and Waugh, Evelyn. A Tourist in Africa, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1960, blue boards, dustjacket (non price-clipped), frontispiece and further plate illustrations (as called for), octavo, (4).

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Christie, Agatha. Five Little Pigs, first edition, The Crime Club / Collins, London, 1942, red cloth, dustjacket (price-clipped; chipped at spine ends and peripheries, with some loss; pp.191-2 creased), octavo.

[MODERN FIRST EDITIONS] Christie, Agatha. They Do It With Mirrors, first edition, The Crime Club / Collins, London, 1952, red cloth, dustjacket (non price-clipped; slightly faded along spine), octavo; together with Destination Unknown, first edition, 1954; 4.50 from Paddington, first edition, 1957; Cat Among the Pigeons, first edition, 1959 (dustjacket price-clipped and torn, with loss, around base of spine); The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, first edition, 1960 (ownership inscription to front free endpaper); The Pale Horse, first edition, 1961; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, first edition, 1962; and A Caribbean Mystery, first edition, 1964, all with dustjacket, octavo, (8).

[SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY]. EVOLUTION Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, second issue, two volumes, Murray, London, 1871, original green cloth, text illustrations, both volumes with sixteen-page publisher's list dated January 1871, octavo (vol. 1 with partially split lower hinge; other hinges tender; ownership inscription to front free endpapers).

[TOPOGRAPHY]. EXETER, DEVON Oliver, Rev. George. The History of the City of Exeter, Roberts / Longman et al., Exeter / London, 1861, original dark violet cloth (scuffed; lower joint torn and frayed; spine ends nicked and frayed), folding plan frontispiece, subscribers list, octavo; Worthy, Charles. The History of the Suburbs of Exeter, first edition, Gray / Drayton / Westcott, London / Exeter / Plymouth, 1892, original dark green cloth, octavo (ex club library); and Cossins, James. Reminiscences of Exeter Fifty Years Since, first edition, for the author by Pollard, Exeter, 1877, original bevelled lilac cloth gilt, all edges gilt, octavo (ex club library; spine browned); together with another work of Devon interest, (4).

[TRAVEL]. CENTRAL AMERICA Stephens, John L. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, first British edition, two volumes, Murray, London, 1841, modern quarter leather with marbled boards, folding map, seventy-eight plate and text illustrations, including frontispieces (32 + 46; one more than called for), octavo (foxed).

[TRAVEL]. INDIA Penny, F.E. Southern India, first edition, Black, London, 1914 (20s. Series), decorative orange cloth (slightly stained patch to spine), fifty paper-protected colour plate illustrations by Lady Lawley (including frontispiece, as called for), folding sketch map (at end), two pages of publisher's advertisements, two-page publisher's list, quarto (lower hinge weak).

[TRAVEL]. Fox, Frank. Australia, first edition, Black, London, 1910, decorative blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, seventy-five paper-protected colour plate illustrations by Percy Spence (including frontispiece, as called for), folding sketch map (at end), four-page publisher's list, quarto; together with Koebel, W.H. South America, first edition, Black, London, no date [1912], decorative green-grey cloth, top edges gilt, seventy-five paper-protected colour plate illustrations by A.S. Forrest (including frontispiece, as called for), folding sketch map (at end), two pages of publisher's advertisements, quarto; and three other works from Black's 20s. series, (5).

[MISCELLANEOUS]. ILLUSTRATED Searle, Ronald. Looking at London, first edition, News Chronicle, London, 1953, soft covers, dustjacket; with Merry England, first edition, 1956; From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre, first edition, 1964; Searle's Cats, first edition, 1967; Take One Toad, first edition, 1968; The Great Fur Opera, first edition, 1970; Zoodiac, first U.S. Edition, 1977; and Something in the Cellar, 1986, each with dustjacket, (8).

[MISCELLANEOUS] Wigram, Edgar. Northern Spain, first edition, Black, London, 1906, decorative dark orange cloth, top edges gilt, seventy-five paper-protected colour plate illustrations by the author, folding sketch map (at end), four-page publisher's list, quarto (hinges weak; one plate detached); Holland, Clive. Wessex, first edition, Black, London, 1906, decorative dark green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, seventy-five paper-protected colour plate illustrations by Walter Tyndale, folding sketch map (at end), quarto (spine with damp stain towards head); and three other titles from Black's 20s series, (5).

[MISCELLANEOUS] Henderson, John. The West Indies, first edition, Black, London, 1905, decorative pale blue cloth (spine evenly browned), top edges gilt, seventy-four paper-protected colour plate illustrations by A.S. Forrest, four-page publisher's list, quarto (upper hinge repaired); Holland, Clive. Warwickshire, first edition, Black, London, 1906, decorative blue cloth, top edges gilt, seventy-five paper-protected colour plate illustrations by Frederick Whitehead, folding sketch map (at end), eight-page publisher's list, quarto; and six other Black titles, (8).

WEBLEY; a ‘Mk I' .22 air pistol, serial no. 36134, length 21cm, and 'Air Pistols', first edition, by D E Hiller (2).Additional InformationWear/rusting/pitting to the barrel. Chipping/wear to the grip. Untested. The book’s spine has been damaged and the book is loose form the spine.

HORNBY; a boxed Limited Edition 'The Royal Mail Great British Railways Collection' SR4-6-0 N15 Class 'Sir Mador de la Port' Locomotive and Tender with certificate of authenticity no.939/1200, souvenir first day cover, DCC unit insulating sleeve and instructions. Additional InformationLight general wear to outer packaging. Internal model and other accessories appear as new.

The exceptional Military Cross, medal group and effects of Corporal David James Hayden R8432726 RAF, the first non-commissioned officer to ever be awarded the Military Cross and recipient of the only Military Cross issued to the RAF for the Iraq campaign.Cpl. Hayden was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding courage and gallantry in 2007 when 1 Squadron RAF Regiment were attacked during a patrol of the village of Al-Waki near Basra in Iraq – this was the first major foot patrol encounter involving the RAF Regiment since UK forces first arrived in Iraq in 2003.  Leading Aircraftman Martin Beard was fatally wounded in the firefight and Corporal Hayden instantly volunteered to rescue Beard, unaware that he had already passed away and regardless of the approximately fifty enemy combatants firing on his position; Hayden then brought Beard’s body back to safety under heavy fire, killing a Taliban soldier en-route. His citation for the honour reads as follows: ‘Without a second thought for his own safety, Hayden volunteered to carry the injured man out of the firefight.  He dashed across open ground under a hail of enemy small arms fire.  Hayden ran fully upright with the man on his shoulders to safety, having been exposed to enemy fire for the whole distance’.And yet, despite this obvious heroism, Hayden was keen to play down his own part: ‘At the end of the day it's all about teamwork. There wasn't just me on the ground that day, there were another 40 blokes who seemingly did as much as I did. There is no I in team, we are one big team and I dedicate this to all the lads in 1 Squadron RAF Regiment’.Martin Beard’s elder sister Victoria paid tribute to Cpl. Hayden: 'God only knows what would have happened to Martin if he hadn't gone out there to get him back.  It really doesn't bear thinking about.   It was entirely thanks to David that we were able to fly Martin home, and I can't thank him enough.  David is an extremely modest man and has said he's no hero, but he is a hero to everyone in our family.'This exceptional group also includes the wristwatch and dog tags (including that given by the Padre when administering the Last Rites to Beard) which Cpl. Hayden wore during the campaign, his RAF No. 1 Ceremonial Dress Uniform in which he received the Military Cross personally from Queen Elizabeth II, his RAF Regiment belt, photographs, letters and clippings relating to the event and Hayden's part in local community projects afterwards, a wooden Squadron Insignia, RAF Leadership An Anthology 2nd Edition (2009) in which Hayden is referenced, a US Army Embedded Training Team Afghan Ministry of Interior Air Interdiction Unit Certificate of Appreciation, a copy of the poem ‘The Battle of Al Waki’ by Willie Downie and a limited edition print titled ‘Al Waki’ depicting Hayden and his fellow troops during the conflict signed by the artist Stuart Brown, Cpl. Hayden and Commandant General Steven Abbot. The medal group comprises in full the Military Cross (and a dress copy which is mounted with the group, the original separate), General Service Medal with ‘Northern Ireland’ and ‘Air Operations Iraq’ clasps, the Afghanistan and Iraq Medals, the For Accumulated Campaign Service Medal and Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.In addition to the above is the medal group of Cpl. Hayden’s father, 24322817 WO1 (RSM) J. C. Hayden Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars comprising Long Service and Good Conduct (‘Regular Army’) Medal, Gulf Medal with ’16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991’ clasp, Saudi Arabian Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait, Kuwaiti Liberation Medal and United Nations Medal and Hussars bullion badge in a framed and glazed display as well as a signed coloured print titled ‘The Basrah Road’ by the celebrated artist Terence Cuneo (no. 220/500) with presentation plaque featuring WO1. Hayden seated in a tank following the 28th February 1991 ceasefire and a summary of events verso. 

Corgi, Corgi First Bus KMB, Hong Kong Bus Kit, Matchbox - 13 boxed diecast vehicles predominately 1:76 scale model buses. Lot includes KMB CM064 Citybus Limited Edition Duple Metsec Bodied Dennis Trident; Hong Kong Bus Kit DGR001; KMB Kung Fu Panda 2 Double Deck Bus and similar. Models appear to be in Mint condition in Very Good - Excellent boxes with some storage imperfections.

First Gear - A boxed diecast First Gear 1:34 scale Limited Edition 1953 White 3000 with Stake Body - Big Red Trucking. Model appears to be in Mint condition in an Excellent box with some storage wear, with inner packaging and is unchecked for completeness.

EIGHT ENID BLYTON BOOKS IN DUSTJACKETS SOME A/F to include first editions of 'Five Have Plenty of Fun' 1955, 'Five On A Hike Together' 1951 and 'The Rat-a-tat Mystery' 1956, also 'The Castle of Adventure' 1954 reprint and 'The Sea of Adventure' 1955 reprint together with two Richmal Crompton 'Just William' books with dustjackets including first edition of 'William and The Masked Ranger' 1966 and six D. F. Bruce 'Dimsie' books three with dustjackets A/F (17)

J. R. R. TOLKIEN - A COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT TOLKIEN, hardbacks and paperbacks, to include "Drawings by Tolkien" Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, "The Hobbit" illustrated by Michael Hague, 1984, "The Silmarillion" first edition 1977, "Unfinished Tales" 1980 etc. (37)

BOOKS BY MARIE STOPES including first editions of "Radiant Motherhood", Putnam's Sons, 1920, "The Human Body", The Gill Publishing Co., 1926, "Sex and the Young", The Gill Publishing Co., 1926, "Roman Catholic Methods of Birth Control", Peter Davies, 1933, "Marriage In My Time", Rich & Cowan, 1935, "Change of Life in Men and Women", Putnam, 1936 together with four bearing the name M. F. Wallis (wife of Sir Barnes Wallis) on the endpaper - "Birth Control To-Day" second edition 1934, "Enduring Passion" 5th edition 1934 "Married Love" 22nd edition 1935 and "Marie Stopes A Biography" by Keith Briant, 1962 (10)

MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES (SIGNED) - "MARRIED LOVE A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties", London: A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn. E.C.4. 1918, first edition in dustjacket with inscription "To the Winged One on his 40th Birthday from The Author" 18 April 1918"Condition Report: Dustjacket has small tears with small losses on corners, is foxed. Book has foxing on endpapers and page ends.

MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES - "MARRIED LOVE A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties", London: A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn. E.C.4. 1918, first editionCondition Report: No dustjacket. Wear on corners and edges, foxing on endpapers.

MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES - "MARRIED LOVE A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties", London: A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn. E.C.4. 1918, first edition with inscription "To my Darling Kath From her loving old Foster Mother. January 30th 1919"Condition Report: No dustjacket. Wear on edges

MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES - "A LETTER TO WORKING MOTHERS On How to Have Healthy Children and Avoid Weakening Pregnancies", 5th edition 1926 annotated on front in Marie Stopes' hand, difficult to read what it says, together with "The First Five Thousand", John Bale 1925, "Preliminary Notes on Various Technical Aspects of the Control of Conception Based on the Analysed data from Ten Thousand cases attending the Pioneer Mothers' Clinic, London, March 1920 and an early copy of "Wise Parenthood", A. C. Fifield, second edition 1919 (4)

MARIE CARMICHAEL (Marie Stopes) - 'LOVE'S CREATION', published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson 1928, first edition of her only novel

A SET OF BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN" includes one 'Love' with an inscription from Barnes Wallis to his wife "M. F. Wallis From one who knows that she knows what the wise know as LOVE. Christmas 1929", also first editions of "Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther" 1907, "The Pastor's Wife" 1914, "Christopher and Columbus" 1919 A/F, "Vera" 1921, "Introduction To Sally" 1926, "Expiation" 1929, "Father" 1931, most have the name M. F. Wallis on the endpapers. "Expiation" has sketches on the endpapers. Also includes various books by F. Anstey, the author of Vice Versa, all with the name M. F. Wallis inside including "The Statement of Stella Maberly", 2nd edition, T. Fisher Unwin 1896, etc. (20)Condition Report: Mostly poor condition

16 Boxed diecast models, mainly buses, featuring code 3 EFE Exclusive First Edition models, Corgi 1/50 ltd edn Rigids CC13516 etc plus a few unboxed examples

Collection of 29 boxed EFE Exclusive First Edition diecast models VG Condition

Signed First edition Stephen Donaldson The Gap Into Conflict The Real Story book, vg condition

A collection of assorted vintage and antique books. To include: 1949 British Film Annual, 1896 first edition of Trilby by George Du Maurier, leather bound copy of The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling and 1908 Atlas Reminiscent.

First Edition Volumes 1944 of Romany of the BBC

Monro (Robert). Monro. His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (Called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626 by Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, Colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the Battle of Nerling, to one Company in September 1634 at Wormes in the Paltz, 1st edition, London: William Jones, 1637, woodcut headpiece and initial, lacking final blank, 2M2 misbound after 2M3, small burnhole to 2I1, light soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stain, previous owner signature of Hugh W. Young, bookplate of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone (1766-1848, Lieutenant-Colonel, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards), near contemporary sprinkled calf, spine label chipped, a little rubbed with joints split at ends, corners repaired, folioQty: (1)NOTESCockle 138; ESTC S114933; STC (2nd edition) 18022. "This book has several things to recommend it; it is the first regimental history, it contains a store of information, and it is highly readable." (Cockle). Robert Monro (died 1680) enlisted as Lieutenant in Donald Mackay's Scottish Regiment in 1626, which fought in Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus's army during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and recounts his experiences here during various campaigns. He later commanded the Scottish Covenanters during the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640's.

Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Thomas Kelly, 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured etched plates, frontispiece toned, spotted and offset, occasional spotting to text, top edge gilt, 20th-century blue-green morocco, 4to, together with: ibid., Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Richard Evans, 1815, engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured etched plates, index (5K1-2) bound at front, some light dust-soiling and few marks, ink stain to foot of gutter, expanding towards rear , first plate torn and repaired at lower inner corner, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, front joint splitting at ends, 4to, Evelyn John). Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions ... together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and use of Standing Groves ... with Notes, by A. Hunter, 2 volumes, 4th edition, York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (offset to title with consequent browning), 52 engraved plates, offsetting and browning to text, some spotting, top edge gilt, 20th-century purple calf retaining earlier spine-compartments and labels in black or red roan gilt, 4to, Mitchell (James) , Dendrologia; or, A Treatise of Forest Trees, with Evelyn's Silva Revised, Corrected and Abridged; by a Professional Planter, Keighley: Printed for the Author, by R. Aked, 1827, few wood engraved illustrations, edges untrimmed, original boards, printed paper label to spine, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, and 2 similarQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II

Daniell (William, & Richard Ayton). A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall. With a Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, 8 volumes in 4, London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown and William Daniell, 1814-25, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates and uncoloured aquatint dedication, all mounted on card (no tissue-guards), engraved folding chart, errata leaf to volume 1, occasional generally light spotting to text and plates, volumes 1-4 plates slightly toned, folding chart browned, and with old repairs verso and a couple of shallow splits and tears to folds, aquatint dedication more strongly spotted, volumes 3-4 with stronger spotting to plates including numbers 57-59, 66, 70-71, 75, 77 and 96-101 (Abbey's numbering), volumes 5-6 plates offset onto blank versos of facing plates, a few plates in volumes 7-8 with shallow marginal stains from bleeding of edge-dye and plate number 296 spotted, later 19th-century green half morocco, gilt spines, rubbed in places, imperial 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: Fountaine Walker (1833-1892), of Ness Castle, Inverness (bookplates). Abbey Scenery 16; Prideaux pp. 279-80; Tooley 177. First edition, deluxe issue with the plates mounted on card, of 'the most important colour plate book on British topography' (Tooley). 'Such a succession of beautiful colour plates is scarcely to be found elsewhere, and they are unsurpassed both in deliacy of drawing and tinting' (Prideaux). The standard issue with the plates unmounted was priced at £60, and the deluxe issue at 96 guineas. This copy retains the folding 'Index chart to the Voyage', 'not usually included' according to Tooley, and unmentioned in Abbey.

Grieve (Symington). The Great Auk, or Garefowl. Its History, Archaeology, and Remains, 1st edition, London: Thomas C. Jack, 1885, wood-engraved frontispiece, 3 lithographic plates (of which 2 coloured oological plates), folding map, half-title possibly discarded, private shelfmark label to foot of title-page, publisher's prospectus bound in at front, initial blank inscribed 'With the authors compliments and kind regards, Symington Grieve, 10th July 1885', bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgil, annotations to appendix attributed in a pencilled note to John Hancock, modern green half morocco, 4to (28.2 x 21.6 cm), together with: Mudie (Robert). The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Wittaker & Co, 1834, Baxter-type vignettes to title-pages, 19 hand-coloured engraved plates (including one not listed, 'Blue tit' et al.), 8 + 8 pp. advertisements, volume 2 signatures R5-8 laid in, untrimmed, modern quarter morocco, large 12mo (19.8 x 11.5 cm), Swaysland (Walter). Familiar Wild Birds. First [-Fourth] Series, c.1890, half-titles, 160 chromolithographic plates after Thorburn and others, modern red half morocco, 8vo (18.6 x 12.6 cm), and 5 similar, natural history, 19th and early-20th century, leather bindingsQty: (11)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Mullens & Swann pp. 254 (Grieve), 424 (Mudie, erroneously calling for 21 plates), 570 (Swaysland); Nissen IVB 654 (Mudie), 918 (Swaysland). 'The vignettes on the title-pages [of Mudie 's work] are the first successful specimens of G. Baxter's polychromatic printing. This first edition is therefore sought after by collectors of Baxter-types' (Mullens & Swann).

Hulme (F. Edward). Familiar Wild Flowers, First [-Fifth] Series, 5 volumes, 1st editions, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., [-Cassell & Company, Limited], [1877-85], 200 colour plates, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, together with: ibid. Familiar Garden Flowers. Described by Shirley Hibberd. First [-Fifth] Series, 5 volumes, 1st editions, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [-Cassell & Company, Limited], [1879-92], 200 colour plates, a couple of plates in volume 1 incorrectly re-inserted, original pictorial cloth gilt, each with pictorial window inset into front board, 8vo, Adams (H. G & H. B.). The Smaller British Birds, 1st edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, 32 chromoxylographic plates including frontispiece (not in addition to frontispiece as in Nissen), all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, large 8vo, Kingsley (Charles). Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore, 3rd edition ('corrected and enlarged'), Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1858, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by G. B. Sowerby, 2 + 24 pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, and 8 others, all 19th-century illustrated natural history in pictorial clothQty: (20)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Freeman 1822 (Hulme, Familiar Wild Flowers ); Nissen BBI 951 (Hulme, Familiar Wild Flowers ), 952 (Hulme, Familiar Garden Flowers ); Nissen IVB 6 (Adams).

Ibis. The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, London: N Trübner and Co. [and others], 87 volumes, 1861-1958, an extensive run, numerous plates including hand-coloured lithographs by J. G. Keulemans and others, chromolithographs, halftones and three-colour plates, maps (many folding), series 2 volumes IV and V with 3 and 4 plates respectively in facsimile, otherwise most plates apparently present, series 4 volume VI lacking preliminaries, series 3 volume IV, series 5 volume I, series 13 volume I, series 14 volumes III-VI and volumes LXXXV-XCIV (no series numbers) all in 4 quarterly parts in original wrappers as issued, remaining volumes in original cloth or contemporary half morocco, roan or calf, 8vo, together with: A List of British Birds, compiled by a Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union, 1st edition, 1883 and 2nd edition,1915, both in original cloth; and The Ibis series 1 volume VI numbers 21, 23-4 (lacking number 22), series 4 volume IV number 16 (lacking numbers 13-15) and series V numbers 18-20 (lacking number 17), all but series 1 volume VI numbers 23-4 in original wrappersQty: (-)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 219; Nissen IVB 476; Wood pp. 396-7. ' Ibis is not only the oldest British, current magazine devoted to ornithology but it is [also] the premier publication of its kind in the English language; indeed it may be truthfully said that it is now, and long has been, the most practical and the best-edited ornithological periodical in any language' (Wood). 'The periodical has not only been important for the papers which have been published in its columns, but also for the many beautiful plates that have appeared in its considerable number of volumes. The total number of plates [as of 1936] exceeds 1200, the majority of which (between 800 and 900) are coloured' (Anker). Each series comprises six volumes each of four numbers. This set contains: series 1 volumes III-IV; 2 IV-VI; 3 I-V; 4 VI; 5 I-VI; 6 I-III VI; 7 I-VI; 8 I-VI; 9 I III-VI; 10 1-VI; 11 I-VI; 12 I-VI; 13 I-VI; 14 I-VI; volumes 85-100 (series numbers not applicable); Jubilee Supplement and Jubilee Supplement No. 2 (1909-15); and Index of Genera and Species referred to, and an Index to the Plates (First, Second, and Third Series ... Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series ... Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth series), i.e. three volumes (1879, 1897 and 1932). Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.

Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 2nd edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1891-7, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 421 hand-coloured lithographic or chromolithographic plates by Keulemans, Thorburn and others, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs, tissue-guards in volume 6 (one loose), text and plates hand-numbered in pencil, plates occasionally spotted or offset, a few heavily-inked plates with paper residue from facing text-leaves, a few plates toned, top edges gilt, original green half morocco gilt (ink-stamps 'Bound by R. H. Porter' to front free endpapers), spines differentially sunned to tan, large 8vo (25 x 16.5 cm)Qty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: 'Lucy Greene, subscribed for by my dear mother for me' (ownership inscriptions to initial blanks); a Mrs Greene is mentioned in the list of subscribers. Anker 308 (second edition: 'beautiful plates'); Fine Bird Books p. 119; Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann pp. 354-5; Nissen IVB 563; Wood p. 436 (first edition); Zimmer pp. 399-400 (second edition). A handsome set of 'this truly magnificent work' (Wood). The second and first editions are identical except in parts 7-18, in which 'various improvements were made, some of the plates, such as those of the White-tailed or sea-eagle, magpie, golden plover, avocet, oyster-catcher, black-winged stilt, gannet, and spoonbill being much improved' (Mullens & Swann).

Lloyd (Llewelyn). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an Account of the Seals and Salt-Water Fishes of those Countries, 1st edition, London: Day and Son Limited, 1867, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket (supplied from another copy: pencilled note to front pastedown records map as missing), occasional spotting, half-title discarded, inner hinges strengthened, all edges gilt, original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine-ends consolidated, large 8vo, together with: ibid. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway ... London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1867, half-title, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket, closed tear in Q5, light nibbling to lower fore corners of index leaves, top edge gilt, original green pictorial cloth elaborately gilt, original publisher's name 'Day and Son' to spine, recased, tips slightly bumped and worn, large 8vo, Seebohm (Henry). The Birds of Siberia. A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei, 1st collected edition, London: John Murray, 1901, half-title, folding map, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, very light fraying to spine-ends, 8vo, Harvie-Brown (J. A.). Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, half-titles, 23 halftone plates including frontispieces, 2 coloured plates, 4 maps (of which 3 folding), volume 2 signed by the author on the title-page, bookplates of Thomas Parkin (volume 1) and Oliver H. Wild (volume 2), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, 8vo, and 2 similar worksQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 312 (Lloyd, first edition); Nissen IVB 569 (Lloyd, both editions); Wood p. 439 (Lloyd, first edition), 561 (Seebohm), 379 (Harvie-Brown); Zimmer p. 403 (Lloyd, second edition), 292-3 (Harvie-Brown). The second edition of Lloyd's work is understood to have been published by Frederick Warne in 1867, the same year as the first edition (by Day), but such copies appear to contain an edition statement on the title-page; our copy has no edition statement and is in a more elaborate binding than usually encountered, which also has the name of the original publisher Day and Son on the spine: this may suggest a remboitage or some kind of prize issue. Seebohm's The Birds of Siberia is a collected edition of his Siberia in Europe (1880) and Siberia in Asia (1882).

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title-pages (first issue, retaining the diaresis above 'Meyer', though one point missing in volume 2), 339 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 16 of eggs), one uncoloured lithographic plate, tissue-guards throughout, bound without the list of illustrations in each volume, occasional light spotting, volumes 1-2 title-page creased, Solan gannet plate in volume 4 either a poor contemporary impression or later good-quality facsimile (caption blurred), engraved armorial bookplates (with boar's heads couped and motto 'Nil desperandum'), all edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Oldfield, spines gilt with avian motifs, sides rubbed, possible recolouring and consolidation to joints and extremities, folio (36.4 x 26 cm), together with a set of the octavo edition, 7 volumes in 4, London: G. W. Nickisson [-Simpkin, Marshall and Co.], 1842-50, containing text only, with same bookplates as the folio edition, matching contemporary green half morocco gilt by OldfieldQty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance (folio and octavo editions): 1) J. Ingram Travers the younger (1820-1866), director of Joseph Travers & Sons, London wholesale grocers (ownership inscriptions); 2) Gladys M. Towsey (gift inscription). Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627; Wood p. 462 ('this truly magnificent work') 'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis ' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue', while the second edition (1838-44) contains 317 plates, many redrawn to face left instead of right. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, 7 volumes, mixed editions, London: G. W. Nickisson [George Willis ... Simpkin, Marshall & Co. ... Willis and Sotheran], 1842-57, 427 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 322 of birds, 105 of eggs), 8 uncoloured lithographic plates, errata leaf, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, etched bookplates of H. G. Stephenson to volumes 2 and 4-6 and earlier bookplate of John Cleminson to volume 7, top edges gilt, volumes 1-2 and 4-7 in contemporary green half morocco with gilt spines incorporating avian motifs, volume 3 in modern green half morocco to match, spines sunned (volume 3 spine deliberately coloured thus), rubbed, 8vo (21.7 x 13.5 cm)Qty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 403-4; Nissen IVB 628; Wood p. 462; Zimmer p. 433 (a mixed set). The first octavo edition of Meyer's Illustrations of British Birds (1835-41) was first published in 1842-50, and another edition appeared in 1853-7. The imprints of this mixed set are: volume I, G. W. Nickisson, 1842; II, George Willis, 1853); III Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1846; IV, G. Willis, 1855; V, G. Willis, 1855; VI, Willis & Sotheran, no date; VII, Willis & Sotheran, 1857. According to Wood, the 1853-7 edition has one extra egg plate, but lacks the two uncoloured bird plates found in the second volume of the 1842-50 edition. Such changes make it difficult and perhaps undesirable to ascertain an ideal collation for a mixed set, and there is disagreement even on the collation of unmixed sets. Our set appears nevertheless to contain the maximal number of plates available. For the 1842-50 edition Nissen cites 432 plates of which 102 are of eggs, all being coloured, and 435 plates for the 1853-7 edition, including 105 eggs and 8 uncoloured plates. Wood cites a total of 432 plates for the 1842-50 edition, comprising 330 birds and 102 eggs, while noting that this differs from the Mullens and Swann collation of '432 plates, mostly coloured (322 of birds and 110 of eggs)'; his collation for the 1853-7 edition, by contrast, cites 431 plates, of which 328 are birds and 103 are eggs.

Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pages in red and black, 243 photogravure, colour, chromolithographic or halftone plates after Millais , Thorburn, and others or from photographs, tissue-guards, very occasional light spotting, a few chromolithographic plates with light paper residue from tissue-guards, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spines sunned to tan, a couple of small tears to morocco on backstrip of volume 2, large 4to (34.2 x 30.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen ZBI 2819; Wood p. 464 ('Truly beautiful reproductions of the artist's best work'). First edition, number 548 of 1,025 copies only, this copy with two autograph letters signed from Millais, dated 3 March and 22 June, with pencil annotations by David Wilson dating the letters specifically to 1905 and identifying the recipient as naturalist Charles Oldham (1868-1942); there is also an envelope annotated by Wilson, 'Two autographed letters by author to Charles Oldham, from Oldham's copy bought by Anthony Cheke from Wheldon & Wesley'. In the first letter Millais responds to Oldham's criticism of his description of voles (see volume 2, pp. 234-5); in the second he solicits further advice on voles and acknowledges his use of Oldham's 'excellent notes on the noctule [bat]' (see volume 1 pp. 61-75).

New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney. R J. Berry [and:] British Warblers. Eric Simms, 2 volumes, London: Collins, 1985, British Warblers with faint indentation to foot of first few leaves including title-page, each with spotting to top edges, each bound in original green buckram and with dust jacket retaining clear Duraseal protector, 8voQty: (2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Berhnard & Loe NN70A & 71A. First edition, first state of each work, numbers 70 and 71 and the two rarest titles in the New Naturalist series; 725 copies of each were printed. The Natural History of Orkney is signed by the author on the front free endpaper, and contains a laid-in typed letter signed from the author to David Wilson dated 7 November 1984. British Warblers is signed by jacket designer Robert Gillmor and illustrator Ian Wallace on the dust jacket front flap.

New Naturalists. The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild & Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists [2 copies], 7 volumes, 1st editions, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992-5, each in original green buckram with dust jacket, The Soil, British Larks, Wild & Garden Plants and Ladybirds each also with duplicate first-edition dust jacket, one The New Naturalists jacket faded, the other signed by jacket designer Robert Gillmor on the front flap, 8voQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Bernhard & Loe NN77A-82AA. Numbers 77 to 82 in the New Naturalist series.

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Notes on their Classification and Geographical Distribution, 2nd edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1896, 68 chromolithographic plates of eggs, edges untrimmed, original green cloth, extremities rubbed and bumped, tear to volume 4 headcap, large 8vo, together with: ibid. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, 1st edition, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 60 chromolithographic plates of eggs numbered 1-59, original red cloth gilt, a bright copy, large 8vo, Yarrell (William). A History of British Birds, 3 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, London: John van Voorst, 1839-43, volumes 1 and 2 with half-titles, title-pages and additional text-leaves 268/9, 316/17, 420/1 and 232/3 bound in at rear of volume 3 but with original temporary title-pages (without engraved vignettes) to front and Temporary Index to rear (all as issued), volume 3 with half-title (no temporary title-page issued) and xxxii pp. index, 4 pp. advertisements to volume 1 and 8 pp. advertisements with original wrappers to volume 3, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, engraved armorial bookplates (William Martin), edges untrimmed, original diaper cloth, printed paper spine-labels, large 8vo, ibid. A History of British Birds, 4 volumes, 4th edition ('revised and enlarged by Alfred Newton [-Howard Saunders]'), London: John van Voorst, 1871-85, half-titles to volumes 2-4, errata slips to volumes 1, 3 and 4, wood-engravings throughout, pencilled ownership inscriptions of E. W. H. Blagg dated 1889 to front free endpapers, bookplates of Thomas William Daltry (1832-1904), clergyman and amateur naturalist to front pastedowns ('The Daltry Library, Stoke on Trent 1904'), original wavy-grain blue cloth, spines sunned, headcaps slightly nicked and frayed, 8vo, Gurney (John Henry, junior). The Gannet. A Bird with a History, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1913, map frontispiece, 4 plates (sometimes counted as 5: one plate is double-sided), illustrations throughout (many full-page but counted in pagination), all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, 8voQty: (10)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 456-7 (Seebohm, both works); Mullens & Swann pp. 517-18 (Seebohm, both works), 671 (Yarrell); Nissen IVB 851 (Seebohm, History ), 849 (Seebohm, Coloured Figures ), 1029 (Yarrell), 401 (Gurney); Wood pp. 561 (Seebohm, both works), 639 (Yarrell), 372 (Gurney). This second edition of Seebohm's History comprises a re-issue of the text of the first edition (1883-5), with the plates newly printed in Paris; the work has 'no connection' with his Coloured Figures (Mullens & Swann).

Smythies (Bertram E.) . Birds of Burma, 1st edition, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1940, 31 colour plates after A. M. Hughes including frontispiece, captioned tissue-guards, folding map to rear, corrigenda leaf, without errata slip, shallow marginal loss to plate 5 and pp. 3-10, 95-115, 403-433 and 531-589 (David Wilson's pencilled note 'Nibbled edges attributed to the Marquis of Exeter's parrots' to front free endpaper), finely bound in green crushed half morocco gilt, marbled sides, 8vo (23 x 15 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen IVB 882. According to Smythies's introduction to the second edition (Edinburgh, 1953) the first was printed in a run of 1,000 copies, most of which were 'bought by Europeans living in Burma, and left behind by them when they evacuated before the Japanese invasion in 1942 ... The Japanese collected as many as they could and shipped them off to Tokyo, where they housed them in the library of the Royal Veterinary College, later destroyed in an air raid'.