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SIMENON (Georges): 'Maigret and the Headless Corpse..': London, Hamilton, 1967: First UK Edition: publishers cloth with dustjacket, 8vo, VG: 'The Strangers in the House': London, 1951: 'Sunday, translated from the French by Nigel Ryan': 1960: 'Across the Street', 1954: together with approx 46 others, mostly by and a few about Simenon, chiefly first UK editions, majority in dustjacket, generally in good condition. (Qty)

MILNE (A A): 'Now we are Six', London, Methuen, 1927: First Edition: 8vo, publisher's red cloth, rubbed with some damp marking round upper corners: together with 12 others, children's/illustrated inc. a second edition of Winnie the Pooh, 1926. (13)

MANSFIELD (Katherine): 'Poems', London, Constable, 1923: First Edition: 8vo, publisher's cloth backed boards retaining upper panel only of dust jacket, teg, minor wear else a good copy: STEPHENS (James) 'Collected Poems', London, Macmillan, 1926: 1 of 500 copies signed, 8vo, pub. vellum backed boards: together with approx 20 others, including 'Chapbook Miscellany 1924' and others similar. (22)

LAWRENCE (T E): 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom..' London, Jonathan Cape, 1935: First Trade Edition: 4to, publisher's brown cloth gilt, light sunning to spine and scattered minor marks, else G-VG. (1)

HERON-ALLEN (E): 'Selsey Bill, Historic and Prehistoric..' London, Duckworth, 1911. First Edition. Large 4to, publisher's plain buckram with printed label, scattered light spots and smudges to boards and light foxing, generally a good clean copy, inscribed to upper flyleaf 'H W Chase a gilt from the author' in pencil. (1)

WYNNE-TYSON (Esme): collection of approx 35 books by or inscribed to Esme Wynne-Tyson or immediate family, to include T W H Crosland 'On Reading the Unpublished Parts of De Profundis', 1912, inscribed from author to W W Wynne: Phyllis Morris 'Dandelion Clocks', lengthy manuscript dedication to E W-T on front endpapers: pocket edition of Clifford Mills 'Where the Rainbow Ends', ink dedication to upper FE 'To dear Esme the most delightful & loveable Rosamund with love & best wishes Clifford Mills', Xmas 1912: first editions of various novels by E W T, inc. 'The Gift', 'Momus', 'Quicksand', 'Security', 'Melody', and others, some in duplicate, most in dustjackets, condition variable. (35)

BEATON (Cecil & TYNAN, Kenneth): 'Persona Grata..', London, Wingate, 1953: First Edition: tall 8vo, publisher's blue cloth with dustjacket, corners rubbed else a good copy: SHAW (Bernard): 'The Intelligent Woman's' Guide to Socialism and Capitalism..', London, Constable, 1928: First Edition, 4to, dustjacket, nicks to edges and with tear round top edge: together with approx 62 other vols, misc 20thc literature/illustrated and juvenile works, inc. titles by Osbert Sitwell, Henry Williamson, etc, various sizes, generally in good condition. (Approx 64, 2 shelves)

WILDE (Oscar): 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C3.3..', London, Leonard Smithers, 1899: 8vo, publisher's buckram backed boards, browned and marked, foxing toward end leaves: BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett) 'Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem', London, Chapman & Hall, 1851: First Edition: 12mo, contemporary brown morocco gilt, rubbed: together with 29 other vols, 19th-early 20thc pocket editions inc. Shakespeare, Carroll, Wilde and Austen. (31)

LITERATURE: STERN (G B): 'The Room': London, Chapman & Hall, 1922: First Edition, inscribed to front endpaper 'To my own Ulop with love from Peter', Esme Wynne-Tyson's copy, publisher's grey cloth, rubbed, 8vo: 'The Shortest Night': London, Heinemann, first reprint 1931: inscribed to upper FE 'For Louis (Golding) to justify his optimism from Peter, May 6th 1932': together with 3 shelves of misc. 20thc literature, including 5 books by Louis Golding, each inscribed to Jon Wynne-Tyson, first and early editions, some in dustjacket, generally in good condition, approx 93 vols. (3 shelves)

LE CARRE (John): 'The Night Manager', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. First Edition, inscribed by author in blue ink to title dated June '93: dustjacket, VG, 8vo. (1)

BAINBRIDGE (George): 'The Flyfisher's Guide, Illustrated by Colour Plates, Representing Upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, Accurately Copied from Nature..', Liverpool, printed for the author by G F Harris's widow and brothers, 1816. First Edition. 8vo, period drab boards with printed label, upper board detached with free endpaper and frontis: complete with hand-coloured frontis and 7 plates. Scarce. (1)

Four Royal Worcester limited edition porcelain figures to include; Father Christmas CW574, First Born At Appleby Fair, I Love Emily CW515 and Forty Winks CW612

Aphex Twin - Classics 2-LP ( RS 95035X ), limited edition blue vinyl, first pressing.G

UK ROYAL MINT 2015 COIN SET THE FITH CIRCULATING COINAGE PORTRAIT FIRST EDITION, 8 COINS IN SET, UNCIRCULATED PACK

First Edition book ' My Horse Warrior' by Lord Mottistone ( General Jack Seely ) illustrated by A.J. Munnings R.A., Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1934, hardback with dust cover, remarkable story of a real 'war horse' of the First World War

Scarce 1934 first edition German publication, ' Das Ehrenbuch der SA', the book is a commemorative history of the S.A. ( Sturm Abteilung) from its formation in 1923 as Hitlers private army under the leadership of Ernst Roehm, ironically the book was released straight after the purge of the S.A. during 'The Night of the Long Knives' in which Roehm and other S.A. leaders were killed, also included are three original photographs by Hitlers personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman, one is of Victor Lutze who succeeded Roehm as head of the S.A. another is of Hitler himself and the third is of S.A. man Horst Wessel, who became a nazi martyr after being shot by communists in 1930, all the photographs have Hoffman's studio stamp on the reverse

Six books including Field Marshal Earl Haig by Brig-Gen John Charteris, Captain Brereton, Under Haig in Flanders first edition 1917 etc. (6).

Books including Queen Victoria leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848-1861 by Arthur Helps first edition and more leaves 1884 first edition, Punch. Mr Punch's History of the Great War 1919, David Jones, A Fusilier at the front other books including Siegfried Sassoon Memoirs of a fox-hunting man, David Bone merchant men at arms illustrated, Royalty books and The Story of the fourth Army in the Battles of Hundred Days 1918.

Two Royal Crown Derby limited edition paperweights 'Devonian Vixen' and 'Devonian Fox Cub' both signed by Jane James, printed marks to base (first quality)

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby paperweight, A Posie paperweight series, The Spaniel, printed marks to base, first quality; a Royal Crown Derby paperweight, British Bulldog, printed marks to base, silver stopper; a Royal Crown Derby Collectors Guild paperweight, Scruff, first quality; another Puppy (4)

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Lorikeet, printed marks to base, first quality, gold stopper

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Garden Snail, printed marks to base, first quality, gold stopper 186/4,500; A Royal Crown Derby Collectors Guild paperweight, Orchard Hedgehog, gold stopper (2)

A Royal Crown Derby limited edition cabinet plate produced exclusively for Sinclairs decorated with central Chatsworth House motif surrounded by decorative gilded border with intermitted Derbyshire estates including Haddon Hall, Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House, limited number 27/1,000, first edition

Four stamp stock books, loose stamps, First Day covers to include a signed Swindon Town Football Club cover, stamp reference books and others, to include a 28th Edition of Martindale the Extra Pharmacopoeia

Burton (Richard F.). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, and Roberts, 1857, half-titles, 14 lithographic or chromolithographic plates including frontispiece, wood-engraved plate of Arab headdresses, 4 engraved plans of which 3 folding, ink-stamps of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster to half-titles, folding plans with linen tape-repairs verso to inner folds (and Plan of El Medinah with slight loss), comb-marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary tan calf, spines gilt in compartment, maroon labels, spines sunned, joints rubbed, 8vo (18.3 x 11.5 cm), together with: La Roque (Jean de), A Voyage to Arabia the Happy, by the way of the Eastern Ocean, and the Streights of the Red-Sea: performed by the French for the first time, A.D. 1709, 1709, 1710 ... Also, an Account of the Coffee-Tree, and its Fruit, 1st edition in English, London: for G. Strahan, and R. Williamson, 1726, 3 engraved folding plates of the coffee plant, without the folding map, contemporary sprinkled sheep, joints cracked, 12mo (15.8 x 9.5 cm), Palgrave (William Gifford), Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63), 2 volumes, 3rd edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1866, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding lithographic plans, without the folding map, plans browned, contemporary half calf, rubbed, some wear, 8vo (21.2 x 13.2 cm), Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn), Sinai and Palestine, in Connection with their History, New Edition, London: John Murray, 1881, 7 colour-printed lithographic plans (many folding), contemporary morocco-grain tan calf, spine faded and rubbed, 8vo (21.2 x 13.1 cm), and 1 otherQty: (7)NOTESProvenance (Burton): inscribed 'William R. Kennedy, With the best wishes of Cuthbert J. Ottaway, Election 1864' on the initial blank, apparently an Eton College gift inscription from Cuthert John Ottaway (1850-1978), sporting prodigy and captain of the England football team in the first ever international match (against Scotland, in November 1872), to William Rann Kennedy (1846-1915), who became an important judge and classical scholar. Ottaway represented Oxford University in five sports, captained Oxford in the varsity cricket match of 1873, opened the batting with W. G. Grace in the MCC tour of North America in 1872, and played in three successive FA cup finals between 1873 and 1875, leading Oxford to victory over the Royal Engineers in 1874 (the tournament having been inaugurated in 1872). He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven. ESTC T131746 (La Roque); Macro 640 (Burton, first edition, 1855-6), 1427 (La Roque), 1731 (Palgrave, first edition, 1865).

Schumann (Karl). Blühende Kakteen (Iconographia Cactacearum), 3 volumes, 1st edition, Neudamm: J. Neumann, [1900-21], 176 fine hand-finished chromolithographic plates, including 4 double-page (double-numbered, i.e. plates 153/154, 161/162, 166/167 & 175/176), by Toni Gürke, a little minor spotting to one or two text leaves, a few original wrappers bound in at end of each volume, press cutting obituary for Schumann tipped-in at end of volume I, small ink stamp of Leonard Newton at foot of titles, his bookplates, contemporary green cloth, some fading to volumes I & II spines, a couple of corners bumped, 4to, 32 x 25 cm (12.5 x 9.75 in)Qty: (3)NOTESNissen BBI 1818; Strafleu TL2 11.388. One of the most beautifully produced works on cacti and succulents, rarely found complete with the vibrant plates issued in 45 parts over 21 years by German botanist Karl Moritz Schumann (1851-1904). He also founded and was the first chairman of the German Cactus Society in 1892.

* Cartographers. A collection of eight portraits of cartographers, 16th-19th century, including: Galle (Philip). Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orben, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium, Antwerp, circa 1595, hand coloured portrait of Abraham Ortelius, slight spotting to margins, 325 x 220 mm, Latin text on verso, Westermayr (C.). Nicol. Sanson, D. F. Sotzman, Guillaume de L'Isle, Edme Mentelle [and] Gerhard Merkator, circa 1800, five uncoloured engraved oval portraits with title and birth and death dates below image, each approximately 135 x 85 mm, Vinkeles (R.). Petrus Pancius 1790, hand coloured engraved portrait after J. Buys, 150 x 90 mm, and an unattributed uncoloured engraved portrait of Petrus Bertius, 145 x 100 mmQty: (8)NOTESThe first described item is the most famous portrait of Ortelius which appeared in the 1579 edition of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', the first modern Atlas. The text below the image translates as 'By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world, by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, p.14.

Europe. Stumpf (Johann), [Untitled map of Europe], Zurich, circa 1548, uncoloured woodcut map of Europe, orientated to the south so that the map appears to be 'upside down', a rare variant with no title above the map and with the title blocks blank, three small wormholes to image, very slight marginal staining and creasing, 280 x 390 mm,Qty: (1)NOTESOriginally published in the Schweytzer Chronick , the first edition appearing in 1548. It is based on Sebastian Munster's map but is much more decorative with the seas being filled with galleons and fanciful sea creatures. Scarce.

* Middlesex. Ogilby (John), An Actuall Survey of Midlesex, London: George Willdey, circa 1732, hand coloured map, engraved by Walter Binnerman, large title cartouche and dedication, compass rose and two armorial coats of arms, 415 x 525 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESPublished in George Willdey's edition of Christopher Saxton’s atlas, The Shires of England and Wales (1732). John Ogilby is rightly famous for his innovative road atlas Britannia volume the First, published in 1675, and he planned to publish two more atlases: one of town plans and one of county maps. These never came to fruition and only three county maps, Essex, Kent and Middlesex, were ever completed. All are uncommon.

Poland. Sanson (Nicholas). Estats de la Couronne de Pologne ou sont les Royaume de Pologne, Duches et Provinces de Prusse, Cuiave, Mazovie, Russie Noire &c. Duches of Lithuanie, Volhynie Podolie &c. de L'Ukraine &c., Paris, 1703, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, slight marginal fraying to lower margin, trimmed to just inside upper neatline, 430 x 580 mm, together with: Laurie & Whittle, (publishers). A New Map of the Kingdom of Poland with its Dismembered Provinces and the Kingdm. of Prussia, 1794, engraved with with contemporary outline colouring, some marginal fraying and short closed tears, central fold partially split from the base, slight spotting and staining, 475 x 655 mm, Sanson (Nicholas). La Russie Noire ou Polonoise qui comprend les Provinces de la Russie Rouge, de Volhynie et de Podolie....., Paris, 1706, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, trimmed to neatline along lower margin, several repaired marginal closed tears, old folds, the margins strengthened on verso, the whole backed with archival tissue, 430 x 575 mm, Walch (Johann). Polen nach Seiner ersten und lezten oder gaenzlichen Theilung, 1796, published Augsburg, 1797, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, manuscript ink 'Polen' to verso, 475 x 595 mm, Mollo (Tranquillo). Polen nach den Letzten Friedenschlüssen..., published Vienna, circa 1800, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 390 x 455 mmQty: (5)NOTESThe first and third described items are late 1703 and 1706 editions published some fifty years after the first edition of 1655 and 1675 respectively and well after the death of the cartographer.

Poland. Senex (John), Poland and other the countries belonging to the Crowne according to the newest observations, 1719, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 485 x 555 mmQty: (1)NOTESA detailed map of the Polish empire engraved by John Harris. This is the second edition of this map, the first having been published by Morden and Browne in 1710. The remnants of the earlier legend can just be seen in the cartouche. The map is inscribed to 'The Honble. Collonel Charles Cathcart, Groom of the Bed Chamber to His Royal Highness the Prince'.

[Franklin, Benjamin]. The Political Register, and Impartial Review of New Books, for MDCCLXVIII, volume 2, London: J. Almon, 1768, 12 engraved plates (one folding) including the plate attributed to Benjamin Franklin which warns of the effects of the Stamp Act 'The Colonies Reduced. Its Companion', contemporary half calf, without title label, 8vo, together with: [Canada & American Revolution] , Addresses, Remonstrances, and Petitions, Commencing the 24th of June, 1769: presented to the King and Parliament, from the Court of Common Council, and the Livery in Common Hall assembled, with His Majesty's answers: likewise the speech to the King, made by the late Mr. Alderman Beckford, when Lord Mayor of London, 1st edition, London: Printed by H. Fenwick, [1778], contemporary speckled calf, upper board detached, spine damaged where another work removed from binding, 8vo (Sabin 451)Qty: (2)NOTESThe first work contains an engraved satirical plate warning of the effects of the Stamp Act. The upper part of the engraving, titled 'The Colonies Reduced' published in Britain and attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warned of the consequences of alienating the Colonies through enforcement of the Stamp Act. The image depicts Britannia, surrounded by her amputated limbs, marked Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, as she contemplates the decline of her Empire. Franklin, who was in England representing the colonists' claims, arranged to have the image printed on cards and distributed to members of Parliament as well as including it in the Political Register. The lower part of the engraving, 'Its Companion' shows America rushing into the arms of the King of France. The complete volume of the Political Register for 1768 comprises the twelve monthly parts, each with an engraved frontispiece, most are satirical in nature. One called the 'North Star' has American content. It contains an article published over three issues descriptive of the American Revolution, viz. 'American Intelligence' (pp. 87-93, 138-144 & 354-375), the final section being a continuation with the heading 'Account of the American Controversy'. The second work includes some notice of the Quebec Bill (pp. 52-64), on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution (pp. 65-126).

Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Sea-Pictures, a cycle of five songs for Contralto... Op. 37, full orchestral score, 1st edition, Boosey & Co., 1900, signed presentation inscription from the composer in black ink to title, 'A.J. Jaeger, with much love from Edward Elgar: Dec: 25: 1900 "Waryn Wisdime wynked uppon Mede" [Piers the Plowman]', publisher's purple ink name stamp at foot of title, later ballpoint pen ownership inscription of H.J. Hoyland of Painswick to front free endpaper, dated 1974, printed auction description [Sotheby's New York, 1964] tipped onto endpaper facing, contemporary blue half calf over cloth, gilt-titled spine, rubbed, split at foot of upper joint, slim folioQty: (1)NOTESA fine association copy. August Johannes Jaeger (1860-1909) met Elgar through his employment at the London music publisher Novello, becoming a close friend and advisor. Due to Jaeger's advice Elgar reworked many famous musical passages, including the climax of The Dream of Gerontius and the finale to his Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma Variations) . Jaeger was most notably immortalised in the famous ninth variation "Nimrod" in the last-mentioned work, recalling a conversation on the slow movements of Beethoven (Nimrod was a biblical hunter, a pun on the German word for hunter, Jäger). 'Despite the tireless activity of Jaeger and a dedicated Novello team working on Elgar's behalf, there were many moments of distrust between Elgar and the firm. The first occurred over the Variations, when Novello demanded what Elgar considered an unreasonable fee for an extra orchestral rehearsal at the time of the first performance. He expressed his "disgust". The disagreement was compounded by Elgar's disappointment over the royalty to be paid for the piano version of the work. The immediate result was that Sea Pictures was published by Boosey. They secured also, to the dismay of Jaeger, the Cockaigne overture, and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1 and 2', The Cambridge Companion to Elgar , edited by Daniel M. Grimley & Julian Rushton (Cambridge University Press, 2004) page 28. Dr. H.J. Hoyland was Chairman of the Gloucester Festival and loosely inserted in the book is a typed letter signed to him from Brian Trowell, Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, 14 June 1993. In the letter Trowell discusses the possible meaning of the Piers Plowman quote and suggests, 'The citation underlines Elgar's vision of himself as a humble man of merit whom the great and good passed over, and joins the others from langland that I did manage to discover...'.

Gatteri (Giuseppe). La storia Veneta espressa in centocinquanta tavole sulla scorta della cronache e delle storie piu riputate e secondo i vari costumi del tempo, incise da Antonio Viviani ed illustrata da scrittore valente, 1st edition, Venice: Antonio Vivani, 1852, [2] 302 [20] pp., etched additional title-page, 150 etched plates, etched title very spotted and damp-stained, variable spotting and marginal damp-staining thereafter, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, worn, joints cracked at feet, front joint tender, wear to extremities, oblong folio (32 x 44 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSeveral plates illustrate events in Cyprus, from the marriage of Caterina Cornaro (1468) to the martyrdom of Marc Antonio Bragadin (1571). Digital Cobham speculates that 'the first edition seems to have been published in 1856 ... though individual plates were likely available as early as 1852'. The explanatory text is by Francesco Zanotto.

* Pope (Alexander, 1688-1744). Contemporary copy of an important letter to Samuel Wesley the Younger, 21 October 1733, single sheet of laid paper (21.8 x 19.2 cm), 25 lines, written in brown ink, addressed 'To the Rev. Mr Wesley at Tiverton Devon', dated 'Twitenham, Oct. 21 1733', toned and slightly spotted, creased where folded, shallow chips and splits to corners and folds, with one small hole in intersection of folds partially obscuring one letter, old repairs verso, mounted to a 19th-century album leaf, 4toQty: (1)NOTESPope discusses the subscribers to one of Wesley's books, echoes his opinion of 'Savage's strange performance, which does not deserve the benefit of the clergy', and elegantly thanks his wife 'for her good wishes in favour of this wretched tabernacle of a body'. The basic text is known to scholarship and included in Sherburn's edition of Pope's correspondence (1956, volume 3, p. 504), but is invariably printed either undated or dated 1735, and without the postscript here present on Butler's Hudibras : 'I am glad you were reduced to reading over Hudibras three times, and I agree with you that it is a great work. I speak this very sincerely'. It was first published in The Gentleman's Magazine (1787, volume 57, p. 589) as one of two letters to Wesley in the collection of contributor 'A. B.', and subsequent transcriptions seem to have relied on that recension. The other letter is from Lord Oxford, who is held to remark: 'I am very glad you was reduced to read over Hudibras three times with care; and I find you are perfectly of my mind that it much wants notes, and that it will be a great work'. If our letter is accurate, 'A. B.' may have borrowed Pope's postscript to flesh out Oxford's encouragement of Wesley's scholarly endeavours; if Wesley was preparing an edition of Hudibras , this was never published, but his work is acknowledged by Zachary Grey in his edition of 1744 (volume 1, p. xxxv). Concerning subscribers, Pope advises Wesley: 'You may depend on the money for the Earl of Peterborow, Mr. Bethel, Dr. Swift and Mr Echersall, which I will pay beforehand and I think you may set down Mr. Delany whom I will write to. I desired my Lord Oxford some months since to tell you this'. Rogers, in The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia (2004, p. 323), identifies the book in question as Dissertationes in librum Jobi , appearing not to realise that the author was in fact Samuel Wesley the Elder, and noting that Pope 'was active in promoting the subscription campaign, as emerged from his letter to Wesley on 21 October 1735 [sic]', while Sherburn claims more plausibly that 'the reference is to subscriptions for Wesley's Poems on Several Occasions , published in 1736 and dedicated to Lord Oxford'. Sherburn also believed 'Savage's strange performance' to refer to Richard Savage's satirical work The Progress of a Divine , published in July 1735. If Pope's reference to 'the benefit of the clergy' suggests an author in holy orders he may have meant Samuel Savage's Sermon on Submission to Divine Chastisement (1732), or another satire, John Savage's Horace to Scaeva (1730).

Graziani (Antonio Maria). Histoire de la guerre de Chypre, écrite en latin. Et traduite en françois par Monsieur Le Peletier, 1st edition in French, Paris: André Pralard, 1685, engraved additional title-page incorporating map of Cyprus, engraved vignette to letterpress title, 5 engraved headpieces and initials, final privilege/errata leaf, worming in gutter of first few quires (a-F) touching image of engraved title-page, damp-staining to top margins of quires a (i.e. title-pages), L, 2R and 3D-E, index browned, a few other marks, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, rubbed, joints cracking at ends, tips worn, 4to (25.4 x 18.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAtabey 523; Cobham-Jeffery p. 24; cf. Blackmer 726. 'One of the basic sources for the Turkish conquest of Cyprus in 1572' (Atabey).

Combe (William). The Tours of Doctor Syntax, 3 vols., mixed eds., 1820-21, comprising The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, 7th edition, [London: R. Ackermann], circa 1820; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation, London: R. Ackermann, 1820; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, London: R. Ackermann, [1821], hand-coloured etched frontispiece to each volume, etched title to first & third volume, 75 hand-coloured etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson, few leaves detached in volumes 1 & 3, repaired closed tear to two leaves in volume 1, occasional spotting, some offsetting from plates to text, uniform contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, morocco title labels, 8voQty: (3)

[English Civil War & Protectorate]. Group of pamphlets, 1642-60, comprising: 1. The Humble Petition of Both Houses of Parliament: presented to His Majesty on the 24th of November. With His Majesty's Gracious Answer thereunto. Also, a Proclamation for the better Government of HIs Majesty's Army, Oxford [i.e. London]: Leonard Lichfield, 1642, 8 pp., type-ornaments, 2 woodcut factotums, later wrappers, 4to (18.2 x 13 cm), 2. The Speech of the Right Honourable the Lord Fiennes, Commissioner of the Great Seal; made before His Highness and Both houses of Parliament, on Wednesday the 20th of January, 1657. Being the first day of their Sitting, 1st edition, London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1657, [2] 26 pp., edges untrimmed, modern boards, 4to (19 x 14.5 cm), 3. A Faithful Remembrance and Advice to the General Council of Officers of the Armies of England, Scotland and Ireland, from Divers in Cornwal and Devon, in Behalf of themselves and sundry hundreds, cordial friends to the blessed Cause of Rightehousness which God hath stated and pleaded with a stretched out Arm, in these (and in the fight of all the) Nations, 1st edition, London: L. Chapman, 1659, [2] 5 [1] pp., paper flaw affecting one letter in title, disbound, 4to (17.5 x 13.7 cm), 4. A Letter of General George Monck's, Dated at Leicester 23 Jan. and directed unto Mr. Rolle to be communicated unto the rest of the Gentry of Devon, London: John Redmayn, 1660, 7 [1] pp., small marginal hole in title, disbound, spine strengthened with clear tape, 4to (19.5 x 14.8 cm), 5. A Letter to General Monck, in Answer to His of the 23th of January, directed to Mr. Rolle, to be communicated to the Gentlemen of the County of Devon. By one of the Excluded Members of Parliament, 1st edition, London: for R. Lowndes, 1659 [i.e. 1660], 8 pp., pp. 5/6 repaired, disbound, 4to (18.1 x 13.8 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESESTC R3653 ('Counterfeit London reprint'), ESTC R202081, R207766 (seven UK copies), R208113, R202935; Wing E1571, F881, F282, A861, M2809.

Fielding (Henry). The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 6 volumes, London: for A. Millar, 1749, occasional light spotting and browning, a few leaves faintly creased where dog-eared, volumes 1 and 3 retaining either final blank or free endpaper only (the latter with offsetting from volume 2 title), volume 3 signature M2 torn in lower margin affecting catchword and signature mark recto, R3 with marginal tear not affecting text, old repair to head of R5 affecting headline verso, hole in R7 obscuring a word either side, volume 4 with closed tear through title-page sometime neatly repaired, quire B proud, volume 5 G7 with closed tear touching headline and first line of text, volume 6 F5 with closed marginal tear, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, expertly rebacked to style, 12mo (16.8 x 10 cm)Qty: (6)NOTESProvenance: Robert Parker FSA (contemporary armorial bookplates with elephant's head gorged); 'T Fletcher' (faded contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages). Cross III p. 316 (cf. II p. 122); Rothschild 850-1. First edition, one of 2,000 copies, with the errata leaf (volume I signature c8), the errata uncorrected, volume I p. 21 with catch-word 'lected, volume VI signature B5 unsigned, and the following cancels: I B9-10; II B4-5 and N12; III H8-10 (signed *2-*4; in Rothschild 850 H8-10 are retained as slit cancellanda), M3 and Q11; IV B1; and V N8. The stubs of the cancelled leaves are visible except in the cases of II N12 and IV B1 (though the latter is evidently tipped to the title-leaf [A]1). The second edition is sometimes referred to as the second issue, but Cross argues that Millar distributed the original types, requiring them to be entirely reset.

[Glanvill, Joseph]. Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. The First Part thereof Containing Philosophical Considerations, which Defend their Possibility. Whereunto is added, the true and genuine notion, and consistent explication of the nature of a spirit, for the more full confirmation of the possibility of their existence, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, London: S. Lownds, 1688 [1689], with part titles dated 1688, collation: A3-Z, 2A-2P2 including 7 part titles, lacks the additional engraved main title by William Faithorne, the printed title (A1), and first leaf of the Address to the Reader (A2), D4 (the first part title) has been transposed as a replacement for the main printed title, also lacking is the unnumbered engraved illustration or frontispiece to the title for the second part, and at the end, this copy lacks Pp3 and Pp4 (the latter being a blank), the main text is complete and ends on Pp2, full-page engraved illustration at end, woodcut diagram illustrations, near-contemporary annotations of Arthur and Mary Fox, 1699, previous owner signatures at head of title, occasional light soiling and spotting, a few short closed tears, small Gray's Court library label to front pastedown, later half roan, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with a defective copy of William Drage's A Physical Nosonomy, in two parts, 1665?, first part lacking all before B2 at front, and second part (Daimonomageia. A Small Treatise of Sicknesses and Diseases from Witchcraft) defective or lacking after E4Qty: (2)NOTESESTC R21671; Wing G824. First published in 1681, this collection of seventeenth century tales of witchcraft, ghosts, demons and other paranormal occurrences was Glanvill's attempt at proving these supernatural happenings were real, in order to counter the increasing scepticism at the time and Glanvill's fear that this disbelief will lead ultimately to a rejection of Christianity.Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Hales (Stephen). Vegetable Staticks: Or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables: Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society, 1st edition, London: W. & J. Innys & T. Woodward, 1727, 19 engraved plates by Simon Gribelin, small marginal wormtrack to A4, previous owner inscription of Hugh Davies, 1790 to title, annotations and previous owner signature to front endpaper, bookplate of Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971, US anatomist and embryologist and collector of science books), hinges reinforced, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESDibner 26; Henrey 777; Norman 970; PMM 189a; Waller 11527; Wellcome III, 194. "He studied the movement of sap in plants and discovered what is known now as root pressure... He experimented on gasses and found that they were obtainable from plants by dry distillation. He was the first to realize that carbon dioxide was supplied to plants by the air and formed a vital part of the plant's food supply." (PMM). The second edition of 1731-33 contains his studies on blood pressure, making Hales "one of the founders of modern experimental physiology."

Homer. [Opera] quae extant omnia ... Cum Latina versione ... Jo. Spondani commentariis, Basel: Eusebius Episcopius [ex officina Hervagiana], 1583, woodcut title-device and initials, Greek and Latin text in double column, main Latin text in italic and commentary in roman type, retaining blank S6 and colophon leaf 2L6, toning, title-leaf with slight loss to gutter, mounted on guard, dust-soiled and with early ownership inscription to title-page, old soiling to pp. 360-1, a few other small marks and damp-stains, modern panelled sheep, folio (33.2 x 20.4 cm), together with: Erasmus (Desiderius), Adagiorum chiliades, Basel: ex officina Frobeniana, 1539, woodcut title-device and initials, toning, damp-staining towards front gradually receding, title-leaf with fraying, dust-soiling,contemporary ownership inscriptions and marginal paper-restoration, spill-burn in a6 touching one word verso, final page similarly dust-soiled and with profuse contemporary pen-trials, a few other marks, ownership inscriptions including 'C. S. B. Buckland, Coll Merton Oxon, 22 Feb 1915' to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, restoration to extremities, folio (31.6 x 19.8 cm), Alessandri (Alessandro), Genialium dierum libri sex, varia ac recondita eruditione referti. Paris: Jean Roigny, 1549, woodcut vignette of a printing press to title-page, decorative woodcut initials (several on criblé ground), text framed in red throughout, retaining blank f8 (2H6 probably also blank and present but not identified as such in Adams), B3 with neat closed tear in gutter along frame, O1 trimmed in margin, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, modern half calf, folio (31.5 x 20 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESAdams H767, E439, A721. First edition of Jean de Sponde's annotated bilingual version of Homer. The first Froben edition of Erasmus' Adagia appeared in 1520, and Alessandri's work was first published in 1522.

Terentius Afer (Publius). [Comoediae] cum directorio vocabularum, sententiarum, artis comice, glossa interlineali, commentariis Donato, Guidone, Ascensio, Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger, 12 March 1499, 178 leaves, signatures [a]6 b-c8 d-z6 A-F6, around 150 woodcuts, of which 5 full-page, toning, staining and finger-soiling, closely trimmed along top edge shaving part of title-leaf woodcut and frequent headlines, title-leaf [a]1 tipped-in, browned, soiled, wormed and repaired, similar repairs to gutter of other leaves in quire [a], marginal worming to early leaves (with a couple of small holes in text of [a]2), disappearing by quire f, marginal restoration and repairs to d2, d6 (not visible in woodcut verso), g6, I2, v6, z4 (just touching side-notes recto), F2, quire k misbound, occasional contemporary marginalia, a few woodcuts with early partial colouring (in red only), later vellum, folio (29.7 x 21.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESBSB-Ink-T106; Goff T101; GW M45485; HC 15432*; ISTC it00101000. Second Grüninger edition; the first, printed in 1496, was the second illustrated edition of Terence, after Trechsel's edition of 1493. Grüninger innovatively used interchangeable panels for his woodcuts, and provided a full-page pictorial dramatis personae for each play.

Wingate (Edmund, editor). Britton. The second edition. Faithfully corrected according to divers ancient Manuscripts of the same Booke, London: assignes of John Moore, 1640, woodcut title-device and initials, text mainly in black letter, toning, occasional light spotting and damp-staining, dust-soiling to outer leaves including title-page, title-page nicked along top edge, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, 16mo (14.6 x 8.2 cm), together with: Wingate (Edmund), The Exact Constable, with his Original, and Power in all Cases belonging to his Office ... The fifth edition, whereto is added, the Office of a London Constable, London: for Henry Brome, Thomas Passenger, and Thomas Sawbridge, 1680, damp-staining to outer leaves, 18th-century ownership inscriptions to blanks, contemporary sheep, rebacked and relined, tips worn, 12mo (14.8 x 7.6 cm), ibid., The Body of the Common Law of England ... The second edition corrected and amended, London: for H. Twyford and Roger Wingate, 1655, pp. [4] 90 [2] 76 [46], lacking signature G1, and possibly [superscript 3]C8 (probably blank) if called for (ESTC also calls for [6] leaves between parts 1 and 2, not [2] as here), toning, occasional staining, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, 16mo (14 x 8.2 cm), ibid., Arithmetick ... The seventh edition, very much enlarged ... by John Kersey, London: by S. R. for R. S. and are to be sold by J. Williams, 1678, armorial and Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplates of the earls of Crawford, contemporary calf, rebacked, free endpaper renewed, autograph letter from James Stevens Cox FSA (1910-1997) laid in, 8vo (17.2 x 10.7 cm), ibid., Arithmetick ... The eighth edition, very much enlarged ... by John Kersey, London: by E. H. for J. Williams, 1683, bookplate of William Charles Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943), contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESESTC S106709, R220029 (six copies world-wide), R220028 (four copies in UK libraries), R9795 (Arithmetick, seventh edition), R203214 (Arithmetick, eighth edition); STC 3804 (Britton); Sweet & Maxwell pp. 52.11 (Britton), 236.21 (Exact Constable), 242.46 (Body); Wing W3016 (Exact Constable) W3007 (Body), W3001 (Arithmetick, seventh edition), W3001A (Arithmetick, eighth edition). Britton, ' the first legal treatise in the French of the knightly families who ruled the shires rather than the Latin of the clerks of the king's household' (ODNB), was first published c.1533, and is so named owing to its attribution to the 13th-century bishop and justice John le Breton (d.1275).

Wolf (Hans Kaspar). Gynaeciorum, hoc est, de mulierum tum aliis, tum gravidarum, parientium et puerperarum affectibus et morbis [...] Moschionos peri gunaikeion pathon [graece], id est, Moschionis medici Craeci de morbis muliebribus [sic] liber unus ... nunc primum editus opera ac studio Caspar Vuolphii, 2 parts in 1 volume, Basel: Thomas Guarin, 1566, woodcut title-devices and initials, 16 woodcut illustrations of anatomy and surgical instruments in text, title-leaf repaired in gutter, occasional marginal damp-staining, light intermittent worming to gutter, one consistent worm-track in text, paper-disruption to gutter of quires alpha-beta, closed tear in signature a4, old contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-page, bound with 2 related fragments at rear (Felix Plater, 'De mulierum partibus generationi dicatis', 10 leaves, woodcuts, extracted from Gynaeciorum, 1586-8 or 1597 edition; and Rueff, 'De conceptu et generatione hominis', 42 leaves, numerous woodcuts including foeti in utero, probably from Gynaeciorum, 1597 edition, later calf, gilt spine, endpaper renewed, spine refurbished, 4to (21 x 14.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAdams W243 & M1836; Garrison-Morton 6011; Heirs of Hippocrates 364. First edition of 'the first encyclopaedia of gynaecology' (Heirs of Hippocrates), started by Konrad Gesner and completed after his death by Wolf, who added his own essays as well as excerpts from authorities including the great Arab physician Abu'l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis).

Wordsworth (William, [& Samuel Taylor Coleridge]). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 2 volumes, London: for T. N. Longman and O. Rees by Biggs & Co., Bristol, 1800, a few spots and marks, volume 1 signatures [a]3-4 slightly loose, final line on p. 146 and final two lines on p. 147 faintly printed, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines dry, headcaps worn, and volume 1 upper spine-compartment perished, joints cracked, covers rubbed, tips worn, 8vo (15.9 x 9.5 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Alexander Copland, possibly the noted building contractor (1774-1834), with contemporary engraved bookplates containing arms as described in Burke, Encyclopedia of Heraldry (1844). ESTC T146537; PMM 256; Reed A4; Rothschild 2603 for the second volume. First complete edition, comprising the second edition of volume one, and the first edition of volume two; Wordsworth's famous preface, 'the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets' (PMM), appears here (in volume one) for the first time. In volume one signatures [a]3 and I3-4 are cancels (the new [a]3 being one of two variants, with 'The first Volume' in line 1 recto, some copies having 'The First Volume'); Reed refers to a first state of the first volume, with no cancels, which was 'probably not issued'. Volume two has signatures O1-2 in their uncancelled first state and page 210 consequently with ten lines only; Rothschild describes such copies as first issue. According to Reed there were 750 copies of volume one, and 1,000 of volume two.

Cobbett (William). A History of the Protestant "Reformation", in England an[d] Ireland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Charles Clement, 1824-27, some light spotting and soiling, bookplates (including author and illustrator Harold B. Pereira), later burgundy half morocco, spine ends slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Hill (Edwin Darley). The Northern Banking Company Limited. An Historical Sketch Commemorating a Century of Banking in Ireland by the First Joint Stock Bank Established in that Country, 1st edition, Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, 1925, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, a few minor spots to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, upper cover with inset illustrations, spine ends a little rubbed, 4to, with a presentation leaf and manuscript inscription to Revd. J.W. Minchin, M.A., with others Ireland related, histories, literature, 20th century, hardbacks and paperbacks etc including William Cobbett's History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, 2 volumes, 1st collected edition?, 1829, William Carleton, J.P. Donleavy et alQty: (approximately 90)

Easton Press. Seven signed first editions, Norwalk, CT, 2002-13, comprising: 1. Angelou (Maya). Letter to my Daughter, 2008, 2. Schwarzenegger (Arnold). Totall Recall, 2002, 3. Moore (Roger). My Word is Bond, 2008, 4. Douglas (Kirk). I Am Spartacus!, 2012, 5. Bacharach (Burt). Anyone Who Had a Heart, 2013, 6. Kasparov (Garry). How Life Imitates Chess, 2007, 7. Turner (Ted). Call Me Ted, 2008, 8. Dukakis (Olympia). Ask Me Again Tomorrow, 2003, all in original leather bindings richly gilt, unopened in original shrink-wrap, 8voQty: (7)NOTESAll works are described as 'signed first edition' on the spine.

Easton Press. Twelve deluxe signed editions of political memoirs, Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002-13, comprising: Thatcher (Margaret). Statecraft, 2002, Kissinger (Henry). Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises, 2003, Kerry (John). A Call to Service, 2003, Rice (Condoleezza). Extraordinary, Ordinary People, 2010, Obama (George Hussein). Homeland, 2010, Cheney (Dick). In My Time, 2011, Maraniss (David). Barack Obama. The Story, 2012, Wiesel (Elie). Hostage, 2012, Rumsfeld (Donald). Rumsfeld's Rules, 2013, Powell (Colin). It Worked for Me, 2013, Buchanan (Patrick J.). The Greatest Comeback, 2014, Greenspan (Alan). The Map and the Territory, 2013, all in original full leather richly gilt, unopened in original shrink-wrap (except Kissinger: shrink-wrap split, laid-in certificate of authenticity signed by the author visible), 8voQty: (12)NOTESAll works are described as 'signed first edition' on the spine, apart from Thatcher and Kissinger, which have 'signed edition' only.

Greene (Graham). Nineteen Stories, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1947, a few minor spots to fore margins, original cloth, dust jacket, spine and folds toned, 8vo, together with Loser Takes All, 1st edition, 1955, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a trifle faded, one or two minor spots, 8vo, plus The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene, 1st edition, 1957, light spotting front and rear, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, light spotting to flaps, 8vo, with 14 other first editions by the author including In Search of a Character, 1961, The Comedians, 1966, Lord Rochester's Monkey, 1974 and an uncorrected proof for The Tenth Man, 1985Qty: (17)

Maugham (William Somerset). Ah King, 1st limited edition, London: Heinemann, 1933, partly unopened, a few minor spots, top edge gilt, original buckram gilt, spine toned, glassine wrapper (torn with losses), slipcase, 8vo, limited signed edition 123/175, together with The Judgement Seat, 1st edition, London: Centaur Press, 1934, wood-engraved frontispiece by Ulrica Hyde, signed by the artist, original black cloth gilt (lacking glassine wrapper), spine faded, lower corners bumped, slim 8vo, limited signed edition 137/150 The Book-Bag, The Lungarno Series No. 9, G. Orioli, Florence, 1932, portrait frontispiece signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, light fading to extremities, dust jacket, rear panel with tear and loss, some light toning, 4to, limited edition 67/725, with other 1st editions by the author including The Painted Veil, 1925, Cakes and Ale, 1930, The Gentleman in the Parlour, 1930, Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular, 1931, Cosmopolitans, 1936, and Liza of Lambeth, Jubilee signed limited edition 883/1000, 1947, all in dust jacketsQty: (25)

The Golden Cockerel Press . Cupid & Psyches, The Most Pleasant & Delectable Tale of Their Marriage, 1934, 3 monochrome illustrations by Lettice Sandford, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, cover slightly toned, spotted & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, limited edition 64/150, The Hansom Cab And The Pigeons, being random reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V, by L. A. G. Strong, 1935, signed by the author to the limitation page, monochrome frontispiece & 14 vignettes, some minor spotting & toning, publishers original blue quarter morocco, spine slightly faded, 8vo, limited edition 25/1000, together with: Welch (Denton) , I Left My Grandfather's House, an account of his first walking tour, Lion & Unicorn Press, 1958, colour & monochrome illustrations by Leslie Jones, publishers original reverse calf spine to illustrated boards, spine rubbed slightly rubbed with minor loss & tears to head & foot, 8vo, limited edition of 200 copies, and Wragg (Arthur) , "Jesus Wept", 1st edition, Selwyn & Blount, 1934, signed by the author to the title page, monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly toned and rubbed with loss to head of the front & the foot of the rear covers, slight loss to head of the spine, 8vo, plus other modern private press & illustrated literature, including Edward Ardizzone, John St. John, John Galsworthy, Osbert Lancaster, Robert Gibbings, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, 8vo/4toQty: (52)

* Waugh (Evelyn, 1903-1966). Two autograph postcards, both initialled 'E.W.', postmarked December 1949 & 29 October 1959, the first to Stanley Salmon of Little Brown & Co., in full, 'No interest in Mr Burnett's "The World's Best [105 Writers]"', the second to Rev. R. Selby Wright DD in Edinburgh, discussing Ronald Knox, 'I agree that interest in RAK will grow and that one day a complete edition will appear of all his letters and writings, probably in America. I am not the man to edit it', each with printed address headers of Piers Court, Dursley and Combe Florey House, Taunton, respectively, both addressed in Waugh's hand, both framed and double glazedQty: (2)NOTESR.A.K. refers to Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957), an English Catholic priest, theologian and author of detective stories, and about whom Waugh published a biography in 1959.

Braine (John) . Room At The Top, 1st edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, minor toning to front & rear endpapers, publishers original cloth in dust jacket with wrap-around band, jacket design by John Minton, covers slightly toned & spotted, tears to head of spine & hinge, 8vo, together with: Smith (Stevie) , The Holiday, 1st edition, Chapman & Hall, 1949, minor toning & spotting, publishers original cloth in dust jacket with torn wrap-around band, spine slightly faded with loss to the foot, minor tears to head of the front cover, 8vo, and Llewllyn (Richard) , How Green was my Valley, 1st edition, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1939, some light spotting, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with small tears to head & foot, minor loss to head of the front cover, 8vo, plus O'Casey (Sean) , Windfalls, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1934, very minor spotting, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other early to mid 20th-century modern first edition fiction, including Aldous Huxley, William Sansom, L. P. Hartley, Sean O'Faoláin, Laurie Lee, Dylan Wood, Osbert Sitwell, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQty: (3 shelves )

Braun (Emily) . Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism, Art and Politics under Fascism, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, colour & black & white illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with: Silver (Kenneth E.) , Espirit De Corps, The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914-1925, 1st edition, Thames and Hudson, 1989, colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, cover lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Gowing (Lawrence) , Lucian Freud, 1st edition, Thames and Hudson, 1982, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original illustrated boards in glassine dust jacket, 4to, plus Lister (Raymond) , George Richmond, A Critical Biography, 1st edition, Robert Garton Ltd., 1981, colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head, 8vo, and other 20th-century art reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )

Wilson (Mona) . The Life Of William Blake, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 24 black & white plates, minor marginal toning, publishers original quarter vellum, boards & spine lightly rubbed & toned, 8vo, limited edition 819/1480, together with: Delaforce (Angela) , The Lost Library of the King of Portugal, 1st edition, Ad Ilissum, 2019, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Smith (Walter E.) , Charles Dickens, a bibliography of his first American editions, Oak Knoll Press, Delaware, 2019 , black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus Usher (Shaun) , Letters of Note, correspondence deserving of a wider audience, 1st edition, Canongate Books Ltd., Edinburgh, 2013, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original boards, 8vo, and other literary reference, letters, biography & fiction, including L. P. Hartley, Joyce Cary, H. E. Bates, Anthony Powell, Vladimir Nabokov, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )

Chorier (Nicolas). Histoire Generale de Dauphiné, Grenoble, Philippes Charuys, 1661, title printed in red and black with large engraved vignette, tables at rear end on V(6B4), engraved bookplate of the Right Honorable Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, dated 1703, to verso of title page, front and rear inner hinge cracked, contemporary full calf, rubbed and marked, with a little wear to extremities, folio, together with:[Challoner. Richard], Britannia Sancta: or The Lives of the Most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints:..., 2 parts bound in 1, printed for Thomas Meighan, 1745, titles printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, somewhat worn, joints cracked with upper cover detached, 4to, plusHearne (Thomas), The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary, 9 volumes, 3rd edition, Oxford, printed for James Fletcher & Joseph Pote, 1770/69, several engraved illustrations to text, uniform patterned full calf, single gilt rule outer border to covers of each volume, rubbed and somewhat worn, with several joints cracked, early 19th century bookplate of John Barratt to front pastedown of first volume, 8vo, and other 17th-19th century antiquarian literature, history, travel, etc., including Henry Ellis, Original Letters illustrative of English History;..., 7 volumes, (First and Second series), 1824-27, John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery, Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755, published from the originals with explanatory notes by John Duncombe, B. White, 1773, Pietro della Valle, Viaggi, Parte Seconda/Parte Terza, Rome, 1658/63, Thomas Roscoe, Life of Lorenzo de Medici, 2 volumes, 6th edition, corrected, 1825, W. Parr Greswell, Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincereus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, and The Amalthei, Manchester, 1805, Lady Morgan, Italy, 3 volumes, new edition, 1821, all leather bound, mostly 8vo (approximately 100 volumes)Qty: (3 shelves)

Meredith (Henry). An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: with a Brief History of the African Company, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812, [4] viii 264 pp., engraved folding map frontispiece (offset), occasional manuscript corrections, contemporary half calf, gilt arms to spine, wear, 8vo (21.4 x 13 cm), together with: Dunraven (Wyndham Thomas Windham-Quin, 4th Earl of), The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874, 1st edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1876, half-title, 15 wood-engraved plates, 2 folding maps, plates damp-stained, maps with linen supports to inner folds, contemporary blue calf gilt, 8vo (21 x 13.4 cm), Williamson (William D.), The History of the State of Maine; from its First Discovery, A.D. 1602, to the Separation, A.D. 1812, Inclusive, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hallowell, ME: Glazier, Masters & Co., 1832, contemporary sheep, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet to covers, 8vo (22.9 x 13.4 cm), Wallace (Alfred Russel), Island Life: or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, 3 maps, half-title and advertisement leaf discarded, ex-library copy with ink-stamps, 20th-century half morocco, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm), and 3 others, including later editions of Baker's Ismailia (1907) and Drinkwater's Siege of Gibraltar (1844), both finely bound (not collated), and Guthrie, An Atlas to Guthrie's Geographical Grammar, 1820, complete with 25 folding engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, engraved plate, soiling and tears, worn and defective binding, 8voQty: (8)NOTESNorman 2179 (Wallace); Sabin 104493 (Williamson: 'according to Joseph Williams, the first edition consisted of 1000 copies'). Meredith's work is uncommon, and does not appear to have been reprinted until a modern edition in 1967.

Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1821, 20 plates and charts (engraved, etched or aquatint, several folding), variably spotted, browned and offset (the aquatint plates more strongly so), short closed handling tear to last folding plan, text-leaves toned, bound with: Sabine (Edward, editor), The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1821, half-title, errata slip for the Journal tipped to first title-page, wood-engraved headpieces throughout, text-leaves toned, 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary engraved bookplate depicting peregrine falcon and with ownership inscription 'Matt. Bell', contemporary tan calf decorated in gilt and blind, rebacked retaining original spine, a few surface-abrasions to covers, corners showing, 4to (27.2 x 21.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESArctic Bibliography 13145 & 12547; Sabin 58864 & 57714.

Robertson (William). L'Histoire de l'Amerique, 4 volumes, 1st French duodecimo edition, Paris: Panckoucke, 1778, half title for volume I only, four folding engraved maps by Benard, folding engraved plate of Aztec chronology, water stain towards end of volume III text, a few small damp stains and spots, small ink stamp at foot of volume I title, contemporary ink note at head of half title, contemporary half calf gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, 12moQty: (4)NOTESSabin 71991. The first French edition in duodecimo of Robertson's History of America, first published in England in 1777. There was in addition a quarto edition in French, also published in 1778.