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RAFFALD (ELIZABETH)The Experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, House-keepers, Cooks, &c. Wrote purely from Practice, And dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as House-Keeper. Consisting of near 800 Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print.. and a Correct List of Every Thing in Season in Every Month of the Year, FIRST EDITION, signed by the author on A1 as usual, 2 folding engraved plates of bills of fare (one with dampstaining), some light foxing and browning, contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered, 8vo [ESTC T82678; Maclean p.121-124; Oxford p.98; Simon BG 1249, 8vo, Manchester, Printed by J. Harrop, for the author, and sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Anderson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; and by Eliz. Raffald, Confectioner, near the Exchange, 1769Footnotes:'The Delia Smith of the 18th century' (Arley Hall website). After some fifteen years in service with Lady Elizabeth Warburton at Arley Hall in Cheshire, Elizabeth Raffald married the head gardener and they moved to Manchester, where she started a business introducing domestic workers to employers, opened a confectionary shop where she ran a cookery school. She went on to run two inns, founded Salford's first newspaper, and compiled Manchester's first Directory. The Experienced English Housekeeper contains the first recipe for a precursor to the modern wedding cake, and the first appearance of what became known as the Eccles cake.Provenance: Frances Albert, 1770, signatures on title and A1; Liz Seeber, label on rear paste-down.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROOKS (CATHERINE)The Complete English Cook; or Prudent Housewife. Being an Entire New Collection of the Most Genteel, Yet Least Expensive Receipts in Every Branch of Cookery and Good Housewifery... together with the Art of Marketing, and Directions for Placing Dishes on Table for Entertainments, fourth edition, engraved frontispiece, 3 illustrations of place settings, first and last few leaves rather soiled and corners creased, untrimmed and crudely stitched in limp vellum wrappers [ESTC N28254; Maclean p.17; cf. Oxford p.95-6], printed for the Authoress, and sold by J. Cooke, [c.1770]--The Modern Cookery, Written upon the Most Approved and Economic Principles, and in which Every Receipt has stood the Test of Experience. By a Lady, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignette, illustrations of place settings and 2-page table to show which fish are in season, neatly rebacked [Brotherton copy only on Library Hub, with same pagination], Derby, Henry Mozley, 1818--HOLLAND (MARY) The Complete Economical Cook, and Frugal Housewife, ninth edition, 4 engraved plates, some browning and dampstaining to plates, a few leaves with corners creased and some minor worming, rebacked, Thomas Tegg, 1832--HAMMOND (ELIZABETH) Modern Domestic Cookery and Useful Receipt Book, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 4 plates, some spotting, Dean & Munday, [c.1835]--CHILD (LYDIA MARIA) The Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those who are not Ashamed of Economy, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece [Bitting p.86-87], T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832, the last 4 in publisher's printed boards, 12mo (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[RUNDELL (MARIA ELIZA)]Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor: Containing an Account of the best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks... Receipts for Sea-fairing men, Travellers and Children's food... by a Lady, Sion College 'Sold by' stamp on verso of title, untrimmed in contemporary boards, later cloth spine with paper label [Oxford p.162], Longman, Rees, 1827; A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families. By a lady, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, some light browning and offsetting, untrimmed in modern panelled morocco gilt, gilt panelled spine [Simon BG 1322], John Murray, 1822; idem, FIRST EDITION, lacks half-title, frontispiece and final leaf (supplied in facsimile), occasional soiling, outer upper corners chipped, tears to pp.199 and 241 without loss, ownership signature of Catherine ?Barberidge, 1806 on front paste-down, contemporary vellum-backed boards, J. Murray and J. Harding, 1806; The New Family Receipt-Book, containing Seven Hundred Truly Valuable Receipts in Various Branches of Domestic Economy, some mostly light browning and soiling, ownership inscription of J. Scofield, 1811, contemporary calf, worn, split in centre of spine [Oxford p.137, 'By Mrs Rundle, a supplement to 'A New System...''], Squire and Warwick for John Murray, 1810, 8vo and 12mo (4)Footnotes:A quartet of works by Maria Rundell, including the rare first edition of A New System of Domestic Cookery, albeit defective, and the first and only edition of Domestic Economy and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, attributed to her in recent years by the University of Cambridge.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RYLANCE (RALPH)The Epicure's Almanack, or, Calendar of Good Living: Containing a Directory to the Taverns, Coffee-houses, Inns, Eating-houses, and Other Places of Alimentary Resort in the British Metropolis and its Environs..., FIRST EDITION, a little light browning, untrimmed in modern half morocco, Longman, Hurst, 1815--HILL (BENSON E.) The Epicure's Almanac... Containing a Choice and Original Receipt for Every Day in the Year, publisher's patterned cloth, 1841; The Epicure's Almanac for 1842, modern half morocco, 1842, How and Parsons--[TIMBS (JOHN)] Hints for the Table, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, some spotting, publisher's cloth, Simpkin, Marshall, 1838; and 3 others on Dining, Food and Etiquette (7)Footnotes:The first and only edition of Rylance's scarce London tavern, coffee-house and restaurant review book, with sections on waiting, implements, markets, condiments and how English food might be improved.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SMITH (ALICE)The Art of Cookery: or, the Compleat-housewife... to which is added, I. The Cellar-man; or House-keeper's Director for Managing Beer and Ale... II. The Wine-maker Improved..., second edition, some light dampstaining, trimmed with loss of some headlines, catchwords and occasionally text (B4v, I3v, I4r, N2v), modern calf, gilt lettered spine (slightly faded), [cf. Maclean p.133], 8vo, for the Author, 1760Footnotes:Extremely scarce collection of recipes by Alice Smith, 'many years employed in several families', who may have helped Elizabeth Price. This edition is not listed on ESTC, which along with Maclean records a single copy of the first edition of 1758 (New York Public Library). No copies of either edition have been traced in auction records.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SMITH (ROBERT)Court Cookery: or, the Compleat English Cook. Containing the Choicest and Newest Receipts for Making Soops, Pottages, Fricasseys, Harshes, Farces, Ragoos, Cullises, Sauces, Forc'd-Meats and Souses; with Various Ways of Dressing most Sorts of Flesh, Fish and Fowl, Wild and Tame... As Likewise of Pastes, Pies, Pasty, Pattys, Puddings... by R. Smith, Cook (under Mr. Lamb) to King William, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, 4pp. advertisements at end, some browning, soiling and a few old stains, C6 with crease at lower corner affecting a few letters, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked [ESTC T91555; Bitting, p.440; Maclean p.137; Oxford, p.55-56], 8vo, T. Wotton, 1723Footnotes:'It's true, there are several Books of Cookery already extant, but most of 'em very defective and erroneous, and others fill'd with old Receipts, that are impracticable at this Time' (Preface). The author is particularly critical of Patrick Lamb, under whom he had worked and whose Royal Cookery had been published 13 years previously.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[TRUSLER (JOHN)]The Honours of the Table, or, Rules for Behaviour During Meals; with the Whole Art of Carving... for the use of young people, second edition, woodcut arms on verso of title, woodcut illustrations in the text by Bewick, of joints, poultry and fish, slight edge-staining to title and last leaf, bookplate of Edward Jackson Barron ('Citizen and Armourer of London'), contemporary sheep, rebacked, edges worn [ESTC T93149; Bitting p.466; Maclean p.142; Osborne II, p.743; Simon BG 1475], 12mo, for the Author at the Literary-Press, 1791--HAYWARD (ABRAHAM) The Art of Dining: or, Gastronomy and Gastronomers, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY, inscribed 'This copy was annotated by the late Sir Alexander Grant - given me to aid in preparing the second edition. A. Hayward', some cuttings pasted in, book label and inscription of Dr Wyatt Wingrave (first curator of Lyme Regis museum), publisher's cloth, John Murray, 1852, 8vo (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WARNER (RICHARD)Antiquitates Culinariae; or Curious Tracts Relating to the Culinary Affairs of the Old English, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including the folding 'Peacock Feast'), contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, corners worn [ESTC T92345; Bitting p.485; Simon BG 1607; Vicaire 873], 4to, R. Blamire, 1791--A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household... also Receipts in ancient Cookery, ownership signature of Lewis William Brounker, 1795, bookplate of Henry Brounker, contemporary tree calf, rebacked [ESTC T91228], 4to, John Nichols for the Society of Antiquaries, 1790--[COMMISSIONERS OF EXCISE] Instructions for Officers Who Survey Makers of Vinegar and Sweets in the Country, extracted from Instructions for Officers of the London Distillery, Brandy, and Small Dealers in Tea, &c., 18pp., disbound [ESTC T119974, British Library copy only], 4to, 1778--LEMERY (LOUIS) A Treatise of All Sorts of Foods, both Animal and Vegetable; also of Drinkables... Translated by D. Hay, title-page in red and black, approbation leaf, old calf with gilt key pattern border on sides, rebacked [ESTC T107745; cf. Bitting, p.281-2; Maclean, p.89; Oxford p.49; Simon BG 948], 12mo, T. Osborne, 1745--NORFOLK (CRAB AND LOBSTER FISHERY). Copy of Report of the Inspectors... for an Order Restricting the Taking of Crabs and Lobsters on a Portion of the Coast of Norfolk', 6pp., disbound, folio, 24 February 1880--ADMIRALTY. Instructions for the Guidance of Officers When Examining Fresh Meat ...This book has been drawn up by Mr. G.P. Terrett, late Chief Inspector at Smithfield, 9 lithographed plates, publisher's blue cloth [not on Library Hub], 8vo, 1910 (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WILKINSON (MRS.)The Complete Servant Maid; Containing all that is Necessary to be Known to be Qualified for the Following Places, viz. Ladies Maid, Housekeeper, Chamber Maid... Scullery Maid... Together with Instructions how to Manage Poultry, typographical headpiece and initial, advertisement leaf at end, single wormhole in upper outer corners growing into larger trail at end of volume, modern half morocco, gilt lettered spine [ESTC T221810], 8vo, J. Coote, at the King's Arms, opposite Devereux Court in the Strand, 1758Footnotes:Extremely scarce manual for housemaids and kitchen staff, ESTC recording only the St Patrick's College Library copy. ESTC and Maclean both refer to the first edition of the previous year but have not located any copies.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CARTER (CHARLES)The Complete Practical Cook: or, a New System of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery. Being a Select Collection of above Five Hundred Recipes for Dressing, after the most Curious and Elegant Manner (as well Foreign as English) all Kinds of Flesh, Fish, Fowl, &c. As also Directions to Make all Sorts of Excellent Pottages and Soups, Fine Pastry, both Sweet and Savoury, Delicate Puddings, Exquisite Sauces, and Rich Jellies, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 60 engraved plates of table setting (5 folding, one repaired at fold with slight loss, one soiled at fold and with short tears), hole in margin of F3, some spotting, soiling and dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered [ESTC T90930; Bitting p.77; Maclean p.23; ], 4to, W. Meadows, C. Rivington, and R. Hett, 1730Footnotes:'This is a large quarto with fine engravings of the courses at table' (Oxford), including specific dinners for the King as well as 'A Table of Fowl' for each season.Provenance: 'Ann Ruffan, Apriel 13', early ownership inscription on front free endpaper (another name cut from page); Marcus Crahan, bookplate; Marcus and Elizabeth Crahan Collection of Books on Food, Drink and Related Subjects, sale at Sotheby's, 9 October 1984.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WOOLLEY (HANNAH)The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery. Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex. To which is added, A Supplement, Presented to all Ingenious Ladies, and Gentlewomen, 2 parts (and supplement) in 1 vol., third edition, engraved frontispiece incorporating 5 kitchen scenes, with initial licence leaf and advertisement leaf after Part 2, woodcut ornaments and head-pieces, occasional soiling, a few headlines just shaved, nineteenth century diced calf, double gilt filet border on sides, spine with gilt raised bands and red morocco label, slightly rubbed, some spots to upper cover [ESTC R221176; Bitting p.504; Oxford p.35; cf. Simon BG 1628], 12mo, Richard Lowndes, 1675-1674Footnotes:'Hannah Woolley or Woley... was a letter-writer and an industrious woman whose book of recipes, menus and directions to servants is well put together' (Simon). She was possibly the first person to earn a living from books on household management, and sought to address servants for the first time. Woolley introduced unfashionable ingredients such as anchovies, capers and wine into her simplified dishes, and helped bring in pumpkins and molasses from the New World. Included here are recipes for a trifle with cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and mince pies containing meat as well as dried fruits. The book also contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding. The first edition appeared in 1670, and this third edition, with separate title pages to Part 2 and the Supplement both dated 1674, was the first to contain the Supplement.Provenance: Last leaf with old ink inscription 'No. 1060'; Edward Winstanley, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[CAMPBELL (COLEN)]Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect; Containing Plans, Elevations, and Sections; or the Regular Buildings Both Public and Private, in Great Britain... Taken from the Buildings, or Original Designs of Woolfe and Gandon Architects, vol. 4 (of 5). FIRST EDITION, engraved title, dedication leaf, 79 engraved plates (numbered 1-98, including 19 double-page each with 2 numbers), UNTRIMMED WITH WIDE MARGINS, contemporary half calf, gilt red morocco spine label, worn [Harris 945; Fowler 76], folio (585 x 390mm.), [no publisher], 1767This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CARTER (SUSANNAH)The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the Art of Dressing all Sorts of Viands with Cleanliness, Decency and Elegance, is Explained in Five Hundred Approved Receipts... And Making of English Wines... With Various Bills of Fare, one engraved plate (of 2?), 12 woodcut illustrations of bills of fare, some mainly light browning and soiling, corners of title slightly chipped, paper flaw to I1 with loss of blank margin, contemporary sheep, rebacked with red morocco spine label, rubbed, corners restored [cf. Bitting pp.78-79; Maclean pp.23-24; Oxford p.122-123, all describing other editions], 12mo, F. Newbery, [c.1775-1780]Footnotes:UNRECORDED EARLY EDITION OF THIS POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL COOKBOOK, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PUBLICATION. Little is known of Susannah Carter, other than the fact that she hailed from Clerkenwell as mentioned on the title-page. The work was first published in 1765 by Francis Newbery in London, and some two or three years later by James Hoey in Dublin (Maclean located 3 copies of the 1765 edition in America, but none are now listed on ESTC or in auction records). In 1772 the book was reprinted in London and Boston, the American edition being only the second cookbook printed in America, following Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife (Williamsburg, 1742). Carter went on to become extremely well-known across the Atlantic as subsequent editions were expanded and adapted to include American recipes.The date of the present copy is uncertain. The fact that the imprint is that of 'F. Newbery' indicates that it was printed before Francis Newbery's death in 1780, whereupon his widow Elizabeth carried on the business under the imprint 'E. Newbery'. However, the editions prior to and including a Dublin edition of around 1775 comprise 168 or 180 pages, whereas ours, and later editions, were expanded to 192 pages. All of this would tend to suggest that our copy is dated between 1775 and 1780. As no collation has been found, it is not clear if there should be only one plate in this copy but other editions generally have two.Provenance: 'Catherine Jones, her book 1785', inscription on front paste-down; manuscript recipes in a nineteenth century hand below inscription and on rear free endpaper; Cardiff Public Libraries, old ink stamps on paste-downs and on verso of title (with shelf number in ink).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HOPE (THOMAS)Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title and 60 plates by Aiken and Dawe, ink smear to pl.38, contemporary black half morocco, spine gilt with Greek key tools, extremities very lightly rubbed [Abbey Life, 24; Berlin Kat. 1236], folio (465 x 275mm.), T. Bensley for Longman, 1807; Costume of the Ancients, 2 vol., 'new edition', 300 engraved plates, without half-titles, contemporary tree calf, joints cracking, extremities rubbed, 8vo, W. Miller, 1812 (3)Footnotes:Hope's Household Furniture is considered 'the most important English furniture design book of the early nineteenth century' (Musgrave, 1970 facsimile edition). It contains what may be the earliest use of the term 'interior decoration'.Provenance: First work, John Harris, pictorial bookplate; Second work, Hobart, J.B. Bury, and Michael Bury, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LENCKER (HANS)Perspectiva literaria. Das ist ein clerliche fürreyssung wie man alle Buchstaben des gantzen Alphabets... in die Perspectif einer flachen Ebnen bringen mag, FIRST EDITION, 21 (of 22) plates after drawings by Hans Lencker, engraved by Matthias Zündt (initialled on plate 19), ALL COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, plate 14 with an additional variant engraving of the perspective design (a sphere with pyramids emanating, similar in style to the other engavings but numbered 'G.IIII' in upper corner) pasted opposite, Gothic text, some light foxing, short tear to one plate, last leaf near detached, old German inscription in Gothic, in ink, on verso of last leaf (this near detached), modern limp binding using an old sheet of vellum [Thieme-Becker XXIII, 45; VD16 L-1149], folio (307 x 200mm.), Nuremberg, Ulrich Neuber, 1567Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE HAND-COLOURED COPY OF THIS SPECTACULAR GERMAN TREATISE ON PERSPECTIVE - INCLUDING THE FIRST COMPLETE ALPHABET CONCEIVED BY HANS LENCKER. The very elaborate perspective figures were designed by the master goldsmith Hans or Johannes Lencker (1523-1585), and engraved by his colleague Matthias Zündt. Lencker was the eldest of a dynasty of goldsmiths and engravers from Nuremberg. He worked in many fields, including the design of tableware, glass cutting and the art of bookbinding, helping to inspire a whole generation of 'perspective' artists, including the renowned Jamnitzer.The Perspectiva literaria is extremely scarce, only two or three copies recorded as having sold at auction in the post-war period. USTC and World Cat locate a total of 8 copies, all in European institutions, mostly in Germany. The present copy, uniquely hand-coloured, contains 21 plates (of 22, a geometric figure plate is missing), comprising a frontispiece using the letters of the word 'perspectiva', 12 plates of intricate letters of the alphabet in various perspective arrangements, and 8 plates of geometric figures. Some of the latter are very complex, such as a spiral-shaped faceted shell, a cone made of triangular faces, a knot of twisted cylinders, and a hollow cube surrounded by a polyhedron.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NONESUCH PRESS, Homers Odyssey printed in Greek and Latin from the first edition of Pope's Odyssey. 1921, Ltd. Edn. 379/835. 4to. Untrimmed paper, full calf, glt. Tooling, tog.with The Iliad of Homer, Maurice Hewlett, trans. Cresset Press, London, 1928. Ltd. Edn. 737/750. 4to. ½ vellum splits and stains. Plus a facsimile of the Book of Aneirin; old Welsh Test ed. By J. Gwenogbryn Evens. Pwllheli, 1908. Ltd. Edn. 371/600. ½ calf, plus DAMPIER, William, Voyages and Discoveries. Argonaut Press, London, 1931. 4to.1 vol. red cloth, vellum backed. all ex. lib. with stamps and b/ps. 4

Gold Proof £2 2016 'First World War - The Army,' edge inscription: 'FOR KING AND COUNTRY,' weight 15.97g, inner alloy .916 yellow gold, outer alloy 916 red gold, rev. design by Tim Sharp; limited edition of 750, with cert, in Royal Mint case of issue, FDC

16 x UK Proof Sets: 1970 - 1981 inclusive, 1986, 1996 (9 coins: 1d to commemorative crown 'Queen's 70th Birthday'), 1998 (10 coins: 1d to £2, a commemorative crown 'Prince of Wales 50th Birthday' & 50p '25 Years Membership of EU') & 2006 (13 coins: 1p to £2 & 5 x commemoratives: crown 'Queen's 80th Birthday,' 2 x £2 'Brunel' & 2 x 50p '150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross,' with certs, in cases of issue, together with 32 x Brilliant Uncirculated sets: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990 - 2005 inclusive, 2007 - 2014 inclusive, 2015 'Annual Coin Set' comprising 13 coins: definitive 1d to £2 & 5 x commemoratives: 2 x £5 '200th Anniversary of Battle of Waterloo' & '50th Anniversary of the Death of Winston Churchill,' 2 x £2 'Magna Carta' & '100th Anniversary of WW1 Royal Navy' & 50p '75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain,' & 2016; lot also includes a combined 'Royal Shield of Arms' & 'Emblems of Britain' set 2008 & a 'Fourth Circulating Coinage Portrait Final Edition' & 'Fifth Circulating Coinage Portrait First edition' both 2015; all with certs, in Royal Mint presentation packs

Australia, Perth Mint Sovereign (100 dollars) 1999, enclosed in a first day stamp & coin cover celebrating 'A Century of the Gold Sovereign;' the sovereign is enclosed in an outer ring of .999 silver giving a total diameter of 32mm & features a special privy mark 'P100' commemorating the centenary of the Perth Mint; the Queen's portrait & Pistrucci rev. are BU on a matte field (reverse frosted finish); the stamp features the obverse & reverse of the sovereign embossed in gold foil; limited edition of 999 covers; BU as struck

Collectables to include a Wedgewood owl, and bird, two 1950's French model poodles, a signed glass paperweight of a seahorse, a Stanley Gibbons First Edition stamp album, old hall paperweight and mid century ceramics, cast metal money box and a Victorian white painted standard lamp

Letters to Vernon Watkins. Thomas (Dylan), published 1957, with dust jacket, Adventures in the Skin Trade, Thomas (Dylan), published 1955, possibly a first edition and a volume on Whittier's Poems (3).

A full set of Britains 137 Army Medical Service lead soldiers, 1905-10, oval base first edition.

Royal Worcester figures 'Thursday's Child', 'Sunday's Child', 'First Dance', number 3629, modelled by F. G. Doughty and 'Best Buddies, Children of the World', Limited edition 280/1000 (4)

Walter Scott, The Pirate, vols 1 to 3, first Edition 1822, Peveril of the Peak, vols 1 to 4, First Edition 1822, the Abbot, vols 1 to 3, First Edition 1820 and The Monastery, vols 1 to 3, Second Edition 1820 (13)

A Second World War Period printed silk escape map, War Office/Air Ministry for Taranto (Italy), sheet K33/12 First Edition 1944, framed, overall frame dimensions 44cm x 57cmSilk of very slightly discoloured but no tears and colours strong, frame in good condition

Rudyard Kipling, a collection of approximately 70 titles including 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, August 1894, 2nd reprint, black and white frontis + full page and in text illustrations as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'The Second Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1895, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Just So Stories', London, Macmillan, 1902, 1st edition, "presentation copy" blindstamp to title page, 22 full page plates + illustrations in text as called for, original pictorial cloth; 'Captains Courageous', London, MAcmillan, 1897, 1st edition, full page and in text illustrations as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'A Song of the English', illustrated W. Heath Robinson, circa 1919, 16 tipped in coloured plates as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt; 'Barrack-Room Ballads', Methuen, 1892, limited edition large paper copy (49/225), publishers signed and numbered slip at front, original polished buckram gilt; 'The Vampire and Other Poems', New York, Street & Smith, c.1899, 1st edition, frontis, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'Sea and Sussex', 1926 and 'Songs of the Sea', 1927, each illustrated Donald Maxwell, each 1st editions in original cloth gilt (first title in dust wrapper); 'Soldier Tales', Macmillan, 1896, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'The Absent Minded Beggar', 1899, one printed folding sheet, plus numerous others of which many 1st editions

A collection of 22 titles relating to George du Maurier, his daughter Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, her dear friend J.M. Barrie and her sons who inspired the creation of his most famous character, Peter Pan, including George du Maurier: 'Trilby', New York, 1894, 1st US edition, autograph letter signed from George du Maurier to Arthur Llewelyn Davies dated Jan 2 1896 tipped in at front, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'The Temple Library - Select Essays of Dr Johnson', 1889, (750), inscribed "Sylvia from May November 1890 Hampstead", ex libris Sylvia du Maurier, from her sister May du Maurier; 'Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple', Griffith & Farran, [1888], presentation inscription on FFEP from Arthur Llewelyn Davies to his wife Sylvia, the 'parents' of Peter Pan; Felix Moschelles & George du Maurier: 'In Bohemia with du Maurier', London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1896], 1st edition, Felix Moschelles signed and inscribed piece tipped in at front, original cloth gilt; J.M. Barrie: 'The Little White Bird', London, 1902, 1st edition, first appearance of Peter Pan, writen for George Llewelyn Davies, the eldest son of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, who was killed in action in WW1, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt; 'The Plays of J.M. Barrie - The Boy David', London, Peter Davies, 1938, 1st edition in play form, J.M. Barrie autograph letter signed to Charles B. Cochran (theatrical producer and writer) laid on to FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus four works by Harley Granville-Barker, all signed and inscribed in initials by him to J.M. Barrie, etc etc

Charles Dickens: 'The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition' [cover-title], parts 1-93 consecutive (of 101) original parts, London, Chapman & Hall, July 1871-May 1879, black and white engraved plates and illustrations to text, original pale blue printed wrappers, most wrappers chipped and/or edge frayed, some with wraps detached (but present). For the Household Edition, the first published after Dickens's death, Chapman & Hall commissioned new illustrations and included Forster's Life of Dickens as the final title. The Household Edition is scarce in monthly parts

Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf", cloth bound, English edition. Dated 1943 by inscription to inside cover. Published by Hurst and Blackette, P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Royal Doulton Millennium Blue Edition Cinderella 2350/4950. P&P group 2 (£18 for the first lot and £3 for subsequent lots)

Boxed Bradford limited edition clock The Night Watch, P&P Group 3 (£25+VAT for the first lot and £5+VAT for subsequent lots)

A FIRST EDITION HARDBACK COPY OF HARRY POTTER & THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE WITH ERROR ON PAGE 99

Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, first edition, five volumes, numerous engraved plates/plans/folding genealogical tables + numerous engravings in the text, folio, volumes I & II in uniform contemporary calf gilt worn, volumes III, IV and V in a different but uniform contemporary calf gilt worn, some boards detached but present (5)

Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, first edition, four volumes (of five, lacks volume 3), numerous engraved plates/plans/folding genealogical tables + numerous engravings in the text, elephant folio, contemporary half calf gilt worn, some boards detached but present (4)

William Marshall: 'The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of Husbandry in that County', London, T. Cadell, 1787, 1st edition, 2 volumes, engraved folding map as called for (''East Norfolk'' & ''Sketch of the County'' on one single folding sheet), contemporary calf git, oxblood gilt leather title labels to spines, armorial bookplates of Rev John Holmes of Gawdy Hall, Harleston, to front pastedowns. An excellent first edition set of an important work.

C.A. Campling: 'The Log of "The Stranger." A Cruise on The Broads of Norfolk', Beccles, 1871, 1st edition, ex Norwich Public Library, Author's signed and inscribed presentation copy, original blindstamped cloth gilt, the first book to deal solely with a cruise on The Broads, scarce, not on Copac

W W Spelman "Luberta": 'A Summer Sojourn on the East Coast', Lowestoft, 1892, 1st edition, rebound modern cloth, one copy only on Copac, plus Ernest Tunbridge: High Jinks A Yarn of the Norfolk Broads', Great Yarmouth, [1891], 1st edition, rebound modern cloth, uniform with first work, not on COPAC, both formerly of the library of Ron Fiske, Morningthorpe Manor (2)

Churchill Babington: 'Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk', Bury st Edmunds, 1884-1886, 1st edition, 2 original printed parts, first part top wrap with inscribed presentation to a Charles Bunbury, and with ownership signature of Bunbury beneath, each original printed wraps (worn), housed together in card box; Charles C. Babington: 'Primitiae florae sarnicae : or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk', London, 1839, 1st edition, old cloth backed boards (worn), printed label to spine; Charles Cardale Babington: 'Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale Babington', Cambridge, 1897, 1st edition, pencil ALS from Babington to W.H. Beeby, 1894, loosely inserted with typed transcript and rlevant typed material, J.E. Lousley's copy with his signature and address to front pastedown, original cloth gilt (3)

Alexander W. M. Clark Kennedy: 'The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire', 1868, 1st edition, 4 hand tinted albumen prints mounted on card leaves as called for, original cloth gilt (slightly worn). The first ornithological book to be published with photographic illustrations

A collection of thirteen titles by the Scottish Naturalist and Photographer Seton Gordon, including 'Birds of the Loch and Mountain', 1907, author's inscribed presentation copy, original pictorial clot gilt, author's first book; 'The Charm of Skye', 1934, 3rd edition, ALS from author loosely inserted, rebound polished buckram; 'The Immortal Isles', 1927, some relevant material loosely inserted, original cloth gilt; 'The Land of the Hills and the Glens', 1920, original cloth gilt; 'Edward Grey of Fallodon and His Birds', 1937, limited edition (202/750), signed, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Days with the Golden Eagle', 1927, inscribed to Jim Vincent, Norfolk Naturalist of Hickling, from "The D of P", original cloth gilt, plus 7 others (13)

W.J. Broderip: 'Leaves from the Note-book of a Naturalist', London, Parker, 1852, 1st edition, inscribed on half title "The Revd Richard Hooper with the author's kind regards", and also in the hand of Hooper "This book was given to me by my very dear friend the Author, to whom I had given a copy of [?] Fryer-abents Pliny (Franc. 1582 folio) with which he was much pleased. Richard Hooper. Mr Broderip brought this book to me himself, as the first copy from the publishers", plus Reverend Richard Hooper armorial bookplate to front paste down and two other related labels attached to FFEP, original cloth gilt; F.S. Mitchell: The Birds of Lancashire', London, 1885, 1st edition, folding map + 11 plates (of which two coloured of birds after J.G. Keulemans), original cloth gilt; Lieut Col L. Howard Irby: 'British Birds: Key List', 1892, 2nd edition revised and enlarged, bookplate of Philip Gosse (1879-1959) to front paste down, contemporary cloth gilt; plus Charles Dixon, 3 titles: 'Jottings About Birds', 1893, signed and inscribed, coloured frontis, original cloth gilt; 'The Migration of British Birds', 1895, 6 folding maps as called for, original cloth gilt; 'Our Rarer Birds', London, Richard Bentley, 1888, Keulemans frontis + 20 ills as called for, lacks FFEP, original pictorial cloth gilt (6)

A Collection of thirteen titles by he Naturalist and Photographer Oliver G. Pike, including 'Woodland, Field and Shore', 1901, 2nd impression, author Autograph Postcard Signed loosely inserted, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'Rambles in Britain's Birdland', 1930, 1st edition, signed, original cloth; 'Hillside, Rock and Dale', 1902, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; 'In Birdland with Field Glass and Camera', 1900, 2nd impression, original pictorial cloth gilt; plus 9 others all first editions (13)

Francesco Emmanuele Cangiamila, 'Sacra Embryologia, sive de officio sacerdotum, medicorum, et aliorum circa aeternam paruolorum in utero existentium salutem. Libri quatuor... Editio Prima in Germania,' Munich & Ingolstadt, J.F.Cratz, 1764, first German edition, lacks folding engraved plate, text in Latin, woodcut device to title page, 580, 58pp, 4to, contemporary calf worn, top board detached but present

Edward Brailsford Bright: 'The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Civil Engineer, with which is incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies', Archibald Constable, (1899), 1st edition, 2 volumes, portraits and folding tables etc as called for, contemporary half calf gilt 'Institution of Electrical Engineers' binding (worn) (2)

A collection of 5 titles illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley or related, comprising Vincent O'Sullivan: 'A Book of Bargains', Leonard Smithers, 1896, 1st edition, frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley as called for, authors first book, a collection of fin de siecle macabre short stories, rebound quarter morocco gilt, all edges gilt; Oscar Wilde: 'Salome', San Francisco, The Paper Covered Book Store, 1896, pirated edition, 10 illustrations + 2 on covers by Beardsley as called for, 16mo, original printed wraps, housed in custom made box; Symons: 'Aubrey Beardsley', 1898, 1st edition, 6 plates by Beardsley + 3 portrait plates of him as called for, rebound black cloth gilt; A.W. King: 'An Aubrey Beardsley Lecture', 1924, limited edition (81/500), signed and numbered by R.A. Walker (intro), illustrations throughout, original cloth gilt, Haldane McFall designed bookplate to front pastedown; Robert Ross: 'Aubrey Beardsley', 1909, 1st edition, 16 plates as called for, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt (5)

A collection of Poetry, plays etc including Rupert Brooke: 'Collected Poems', Riccardi Press, 1919, wood engraved portrait frontis and title page illustration by Gwen Raverat, full crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, plus Tennessee Williams: 'One Arm and other stories', [1948], limited edition (1,500), original quarter cloth gilt, decorative paper covered boards, plus Hugo Manning: 'Storm Over Eskwadilly', Buenos Aires, Agonia, 1942, 1st edition, original printed wraps and 'The Secret Sea', Trigram Press, 1968, limited edition, manuscript note to limitation page stating this copy sent as a specimen copy of the bookbinders being the first off the press, original cloth, dust wrapper, plus 23 others Louis MacNeice, Harold Pinter, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Boris Pasternak, P.J. Kavanagh, Peter Hardiman Scott, etc, some with Hardiman Scott bookplates (28)

Beatrix Potter, five first editions comprising 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck', London, Frederick Warne, 1908, first edition, half-title, 27 coloured illustrations as called for, pictorial endpapers (front free endpaper with contemporary ownership signature at head), 16mo, original green boards with inset coloured pictorial panel to upper cover, lacks backstrip; 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies', London, Frederick Warne, 1909, first edition, half-title, 27 coloured illustrations as called for, pictorial endpapers, 16mo, original olive green boards, upper cover with inset coloured illustration, spine slightly cocked, early issue, with the Notice Board in the picture on page 14; 'The Tale of Mr Tod', London, Frederick Warne, 1912, first edition, half title, 15 coloured plates as called for, contemporary ownership signature verso of frontispiece at head, pictorial endpapers, 16mo, original grey boards, upper cover with inset coloured illustration, spine slightly cocked; 'The Tale of Pigling Bland', London, Frederick Warne, 1913, first edition, half title, 15 coloured illustrations as called for, pictorial endpapers, contemporary ownership signature at head of front free endpaper, 16mo, original maroon boards, upper cover with inset coloured illustration; 'Ginger and Pickles', London, Frederick Warne, 1909, first edition, half-title, 10 coloured illustrations as called for, pictorial endpapers, contemporary ownership signature at head of front free endpaper, small 4to, original tan boards, upper cover with inset coloured illustration; plus an earlier printing of 'The Pie and the Patty-Pan', London, Frederick Warne, circa 1905/1906, earlier printing, half title, 10 coloured illustrations as called for, decorative lavendar endpapers with pie and patty pan illustrations, small 4to, original blue-grey boards, upper cover with inset coloured illustration (6)

Jane Austen: 'Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park," &c. with a biographical notice of the author.', London, John Murray, 1818, 1st edition, 4 volumes, 12mo, contemporary full calf, retaining the original decorative gilt back strips and black morocco gilt title and volume labels, volume I without half title, leaf A2 "Biographical notice of the author" present, terminal blank O7 present; volume II half title present (bound after title page), without terminal blank; volume III half title and terminal blank N7 present; volume IV half title present (bound after title page), terminal blank P7 present, internally leaves generally VGC with offsetting throughout and some leaves with light foxing, externally corners and edges of boards slightly bumped and worn in places, slight surface wear to boards in places, gilt leather spines and labels with some small surface chips and part losses, slightly rubbed at head and feet of spines and spine edges, volume II central portion of spine lower edge rubbed and worn, else a VGC handsomely bound set of Austen's first novel in order of completion, a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels, published posthumously in December 1817 with Persuasion (4)

A HOTPOINT FIRST EDITION WMA13 WASHER SLIGHT RUSTING, BELIEVED WORKING - SEE BELOW

A HOTPOINT FIRST EDITION WMA22 WASHER

Collection of assorted military ephemera, First and Second World War to include; 'Edition The Manchester Guardian History of the War' dated 1915, various magazine extracts with photographs from the First World War, Che Guevara postcards, sporting photographs, military pamphlets and documents to do with National Service 1914-18, map of prison camps in Germany, Guard Duty Illustrated including garrison duties, arrest and military custody, a pamphlet ' for airmen and women', fire day 1916 commemorative wartime map, various odd photographs, a print of a First World War Tommy after Burt Thomas from the Weekly Dispatch and three souvenir crewel work items Egypt 1943 etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Two 18thC Volumes Bells edition The Poets of Great Britain Milton Prior 2, dated 1777. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Graham Farish N Gauge 371-125K DRS Direct Rail Services Limited Edition 314 of 504 with Cert *DCC DIGITAL FITTED* #10 - Boxed. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Two Dapol tankers for Pendle Forest model railway society "40" anniversary 2004 limited edition of 90, boxed. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Bachmann 39-225K BR MKI pullman car M355 Collectors Club special limited edition. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Football autographs, Manchester United, George Best book 'Blessed' the autobiography, first edition 2001 sold with postcard b/w image of Best with original signature (image later reprint from earlier photo), sold with 'The United Alphabet, A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United' by Garth Dykes, first edition 1994 with two original signatures of Kenny Morgan's & Albert Scanlon (ex) (3)

Stamps, Collection of 10 GB limited edition, unaddressed, first day covers each signed by the artist in excellent condition and housed in a quality leather folder with brass corners.

Sporting Ephemera, a selection of late 19th and early 20thC sporting items to include tickets, advertisements, London Transport 1948 Olympic Games map, letters from the Universal Glaciarium and Ice Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (1884 and 1885), 3 x 'Sandown' playing cards, Derby Day 1937 Gala Dinner Menu, first edition 1934 John Bull Tourist's Guide in cover filled with advertisements, sports represented include archery, badminton, racing, skating, cycling, bathing, boxing (gd) (30+)

Hulme (F. E.), Familiar Wild Flowers, New and Enlarged Edition in pamphlet form, First Series, 27 of 29 Parts, (missing 4 & 12), Cassell & Co Ltd, 1903 and earlier, Price 6d, Parts 1 - 28 with coloured plates, Part 29 (Concluding) with Summary, all with contemporary advertisements, together with an 1813 Holy Bible (Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon), a 19th century engraving of the head of Apollo after Raphael's 'Parnassus' and a late 19th century lithograph of a couple in classical garb (Q)

A MOORCROFT POTTERY LIMITED EDITION YEAR PLATE, 1998, tubelined and hand-painted with the "Summers End" pattern by Nicola Slaney, no. 79/750, impressed and painted marks, first quality. 22cm diameter