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NO RESERVE Golding (Henry A.) Horse Power Computer for Steam, Gas & Oil Engines, first edition, 12 pp. explanatory pamphlet together with original instrument, original box, worn, Charles Griffin & Co., 1908; and 13 duplicates, small 4to (14)⁂ An original and complete logarithmic calculator, or Computer, designed for solving the numerous problems connected with the power, size and speed of steam engines of all kinds.

Murdoch (Iris) The Bell, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1958; The Sea, the Sea, 1978; The Unicorn, faint spotting to boards, dust-jacket, short tears and chipping to extremities, tape repairs, 1963; A Severed Head, price-clipped, 1961; The Nice and the Good, 1968; The Italian Girl, dust-jacket, short tears and chipping to extremities, tape repairs, 1964, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 16 others by the same, first editions, 8vo (22)

Hertfordshire.- Clutterbuck (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vol., first edition, 54 engraved maps and plates, 1 map double-page, 2 plates hand-coloured, list of subscriber's, occasional spotting, bookplate, ex-library with labels to front free endpapers, contemporary morocco, gilt, rubbing to corners and extremities, folio, 1815-27.

NO RESERVE Bassani (Giorgio) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, first English edition, translated by Isabel Quigley, original cloth, very slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight browning to spine head, 8vo, 1965.

NO RESERVE Durham.- Raine (Rev. James) The History and Antiquities of North Durham, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 9 plates, 1 map, 2 pedigrees (1 double-page), occasional spotting, ex-library with 1 or 2 discreet ink-stamps, modern cloth, folio, 1852.⁂ With a large section on Holy Island, now known as Lindisfarne.

Beaumont (Francis) and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies..., first collected edition, lacking portrait frontispiece, title, dedication, 3C-3 and final leaf of text, 12ff with loss of text, C4-D3 burnholes causing large loss of text, other ff. with tears affecting text, some tears towards end affecting signatures and catchwords, 8f2-8g with some tears and repairs, last f. largely torn away, browned, bookplate to front pastedown, spotting and staining, later half calf, joints split, worn, [ESTC R22900; Pforzheimer 53; Wing B1581], folio, [for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley], [1647].⁂ Contains 36 previously unpublished plays. Among the poetic elegies to the authors are first printings of poems by Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Lovelace, Shirely and Waller.

Extremely rare and early Synchronome Co. Shortt free pendulum astronomical regulator slave clock previously owned by Admiral Fountaine, the clock, No 24, is of the type used with the free pendulum system, comprising the regulator slave clock, in original 54" high mahogany case,*Formerly supplied to and owned by Admiral Fountaine, and sold with three copies of Electrical Timekeeping annotated by Frank Hope-Jones The astronomical slave clock with invar pendulum and steel bob has a 10" engraved silvered dial signed Synchronome Patent No.187814, with outer minutes ring and inset seconds and twelve hours dials, the original rectangular mahogany case has bevelled glazed trunk door, moulded cornice and leaf carved spandrels around the dial, the NRA plate is stamped 24 Within the case is the complete movement, together with the appropriate panel for connection to the free pendulum, slave and slave dial; the separate accompanying 10" regulator-style dial in 15" round moulded mahogany case is signed Synchronome, London, and also with outer minutes ring enclosing seconds and hours dialsProvenance: The clock offered for sale was first acquired via Sotheby's in April 1972, the lot having been listed as "A Synchronome seconds indicating half minute impulse electric master clock, complete with electrically powered slave dial indicating seconds, hours and minutes, the movement with hit and miss synchroniser indicating that the clock was once a slave to a free pendulum, the invar pendulum, with iron bob, in mahogany wall case, 4'6" high".Sotheby's have reconfirmed to the current vendor that the items were from the estate of Admiral Fountaine (Admiral Fountaine's master clock and vacuum cylinder were sold at the April 1972 sale to a buyer acting on behalf of the Rockford Time Museum, USA, until being sold on closure of the Museum at a Sotheby's sale in the early 2000s)-These complex precision electromechanical pendulum clocks by William Hamilton Shortt in collaboration with Frank Hope Jones were the most accurate pendulum clocks ever produced and became the highest standard for timekeeping between the 1920’s and 1940’s; after which mechanical clocks were superseded by quartz time standards.Admiral C.A. Fountaine R.N. was supplied by the Synchronome Company with several of these astronomical clocks after attending a lecture by Frank Hope-Jones at the Royal Society of Arts. The clocks were installed in the basement of his home, Narford Hall, Norfolk, England and their rates carefully recorded. Admiral Fountaine’s observations were so precise that he identified and recorded a small six-monthly digression and insisted that it was due to nutation (a periodic variation in the precession of the equinoxes caused by the moon’s gravitational pull). This was subsequently confirmed and in 1927 Greenwich announced that they would in future apply the nutation figures as a corrective for their clocks. The clocks were then used worldwide in astronomical observatories, naval observatories, in scientific research, and a primary standard for national time dissemination services. The Shortt Synchronome was the first clock to be a more accurate time keeper than the earth itself; it was used in 1926 by Admiral Fountaine to detect tiny seasonal changes in the earth’s rotation rate. Shortt clocks achieved an accuracy of around 1 second per year, although a recent measurement indicated that they were even more accurate. About 100 were produced between 1922 and 1956.*Admiral Fountaine’s observations with his use of astronomical regulators were so precise that Greenwich Observatory accepted in in 1927 that the clocks were more accurate than the earth’s timekeeping; This was acknowledged also by Hope Jones in the accompanying books. The historical significance of the Clock was also recognised by George Daniels who tried to buy it, ‘for use in my workshop and to be available for examination by students’. There are two letters accompanying the lot from George Daniels that refer and another from Sotheby’s that relates to the Synchronome slave clock which is being sold as lot 1178.  There are images of all these letters attached to the lot in the online catalogues. Three historical copies of Electrical Timekeeping by Frank Hope Jones are included with the items offered for sale:A first edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, including an original  sketch cartoon by Hope-Jones sent in Dec 1935 with his hand written message “My latest free pendulum with best wishes for a Happy Christmas from your faithful slave who gives the impulse & synchronises himself with your kindly thoughts”, signed Hope Jones. The copy is also marked up and annotated throughout in his hand and with additional texts etc eg for additional chapter prepared for his publication of a second edition of the book.A second edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, inscribed by the author to his friend Major Cowan, and also including  his Christmas Card of 1939/40 recording that he had been bombed out and a Christmas 1943 note acknowledging that his free pendulum had been superseded by the Quartz Clock but that he had  “not relinquished the task until the time keeping possibilities of the pendulum were exhausted.”A second edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, given to his friend Mr Fry  (mentioned in the book) and inscribed  “To A R Fry…The champion amateur from the amateur champion, the Author” and signed by Hope Jones.NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LOT 1178, A SYNCHRONOME SLAVE DIAL, WAS USED BY ADMIRAL FOUNTAINE IN CONJUCTION WITH THIS REGULATOR SLAVE CLOCK.  A LETTER TO THIS EFFECT FROM SOTHEBY’S IS ALSO SOLD WITH THIS LOT.  

Signed edition of "Street Dogs" by Harold Riley, signed in pen by the artist, with an individual pen drawing by the artist of a sleeping dog on the first page, published 2000 by the Peak Press Company, featuring a collection of 25 dogs by the artist Harold Riley, with original card slip (one volume).Condition report: The book and slip case are in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. There is a gallery label stuck on the back of the slip case.

DICKENS, CHARLES; 'Bleak House', first edition with illustration by HK Browne, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1853.

DICKENS, CHARLES; 'Bleak House', first edition with illustration by HK Browne, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1853.

DICKENS, CHARLES; 'Little Dorrit', first edition with illustrations by HK Browne, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1857.

Stieg Larsson, Millennium Trilogy, First Edition English translations 2008-, , all hard backs with dust covers, together with another copy of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo', published in Canada, (4)

The Hobbit (1937), first edition, first impression, published George Allen and Unwin, no dust cover, not original binding, fire damage to pages and binding, former Boots library copy, missing Thror's Map and Map of Wilderland

Manchester Utd, a collection of 30 football books, including histories and autobiographes, some first edition noted, books include, Best, Law, Busby, etc

A collection of various football memorabilia to include, a postcard, Buck Up Brompton (Gillingham) are we downhearted? No! dated 1907, plus a postcard from Brighton in 'A Bye', plus a Sheffield Wednesday Baines Card, and a similar from Birdwell FC, in addition a book 'The Cup', 1932 first edition, and a football programme 1958/58 Ballymena v Glenavon

Leeds Utd, Billy Bremner, the 1969 first edition book 'You Get Nowt For Being Second', the autobiography is signed by Billy Bremner on the front flysheet by him, whilst the back 2 pages are signed by 10 of his Leeds team mates including Lorimer, Clarke & Reaney

Oliver Baker, Black Jacks And Leather Bottels1921, First Edition, no dust jacket, signed by the author, No. 62 of a limited edition 

A boxed collection of The World of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1987 and other books to include The Story of Little Black Quibba by Helen Bannerman, 1940s, The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, first edition 1933 and Samba by Herbert Strang, 1906

Books and exhibition catalogues relating to North American Indians. Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteratureCooper Square. New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture History, 1972;Per E. Guldbeck. The Care of Historical Collections, 1972;Taschen. The North American Indian, Photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 30 Postcodes, 1997;Lawrence W. Cheek. Santa Fe, 1996;Adolf Hungry Wolf. Traditional Dress, Knowledge and Methods of Traditional Clothings, 1990;Alice Beck Kehoe. America before the European Invasions, 2002;William S. Laughline and Albert B. Harper (Edited by). The First Americans, Origins, Affinities, and Adaptations, 1979;George R. Milner. The Moundbuilders, Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America, 2006;Beatrice Blackwood. The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford, 1970;Colin F. Taylor and William C. Sturtevant (Consultants). The Native Americans, The Indigenous People of North America, 1996;Charles P. Mountford. The Dreamtime, Australian Aboriginal Myths, 1974;Ruth B. Phillips. Trading Identities, The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900, 1998;Barton Wright. Clown of the Hopi, Tradition Keepers and Delight Makers, 1995;The British Museum Bulletin. July 1976;Susan M. Pearce. Redmen of North America, 1974;Edward S. Curtis. Indian Life and Indian Lore In the Land of the Head-Hunters, 1974;Esther Pasztory. Pre-Columbian Art, 1998;Michael Belcher. Exhibitions in Museums, 1992;Sierra Press. Art of the Rocks, A wish you were here postcard book;Bodmer, Catlin, McKenny & Hall. The North American Indian Portfolios from the Library of Congress, 1993;Max Carocci. Ritual & Honour, Warriors of the North American Plains, 2011;Constance Stapleton. Crafts of America, a guide to the finest traditional crafts made in the United States, 1988.Brian M. Fagan. Ancient North America, The Archaeology of a Continent, 1995;Larry J. Zimmerman. Native North America, Belief and Ritual Visionaries, Holy People and Tricksters Spirits of Earth & Sky, 1996;Edward S. Curtis. The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios, 1997;Edward S. Rogers. Indians of the North Pacific Coast, Royal Ontario Museum, 1970;J. Garth Taylor. The Canadian Eskimos, Royal Ontario Museum, 1971;Edward S. Rogers.Algonkians of the Eastern Woodlands, Royal Ontario Museum, 1970;Edward S. Rogers. Indians of the Subarctic, Royal Ontario Museum, 1970;U. Bär Verlag. Edward Sheriff Curtis 1868 – 1952, 1990;Published by the John Judkyn Memorial with the assistance of the United States International Communication Agency. The First Americans, The Art of the North American Indian;J. C. Ewers. Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment, 1985;Karen Duffek. Bill Reid Beyond the Essential Form, 1993;An Aperture book New York. The North American Indians, Photographs by Edward S. Curtis, 1972;Virgil J. Vogel. American Indian Medicine, 1973;Eiteljorg Museum. Six Indian Crafts Cards, 1994;Pomegranate San Francisco. Inuit Art Birds, a book of postcards, 2003;Alvin M. Josephy Jr. The Indian Heritage of America, 1968;Decost Smith. Red Indian Experiences, 1949;Neil Carr. The American Indian;Laurel Phillipson. World Prehistory, 1984;Valerie Fraser & Gordon Brotherston (edited by). The Other America, for the exhibition Native Artifacts of the New World Museum of Mankind 1982;Portraits of Native Americans. Postcards from the Field Museum;Roger G. Kennedy. Hidden Cities, the discovery and loss of ancient North American civilization, 1994;George Wharton James. Indian Blankets & Their Makers, 1974;Shirley Greenway. Exploration of North America, 1998;Fiona MacDonald. Native Americans, 1998;Martin F. Schmitt and Dee Brown. Fighting Indians of the West;Cottie Burland. North American Indian Mythology, 1973;Cottie Burland. North American Indian Mythology, 1985;Dr. Herman Wouters. Peoples and customs of the world, North-America, 1979;Earl H. Swanson, Warwick M. Bray, Ian S. Farrington. The Making of the Past, The New World, 1975;Smithsonian. Identity by Design, First Edition, 2007;Morning Star Gallery, 1996;Fred Harvey. Fine Arts Collection, 1976;Erik Bromberg. The Hopi Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving, 1986;Franc J. Newcomb & Gladys A. Reichard. Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant, 1975;Paul Hamlyn. North American Indian Art, 1967;Bill Mercer. Lená Taku Wasté These Good Things, 1997;Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York. Caring for your Collections, 1992;Sherelyn Ogden (edited by). Caring for American Indian Objects, A Practical and Cultural guide, 2004;Ralph & Lisa Shanks. North American Indian Travel Guide, 1987;Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer (edited by). Native Universe, Voices of the Indian American;Antoine Tzapoff. Natifs d’Amerique, 1992;Susan Bradley (edited by). British Museum Occasional Paper 66, A Guide to the Storage, Exhibition and Handling of Antiquities, Ethnographia and Pictorial Art, 1993;Lar Hothem. North American Indian Artifacts, 1994;Russell E. Lewis. North American Indian Artifacts, 2006;William Healey Dall. Masks, Labrets and certain Aboriginal Customs, 1884;J. C. H. King and Christian F. Feest. Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art, 2007;Preston F. Miller & Carolyn Corey. The Four Winds Guide to Indian Artifacts, 1997;Paula Richardson Fleming & Judith Luskey. The North American Indians in Early Photographs, 1986;Robert H. Rody and John A. Brown. Myron Eells and the Puget Sound of Indians, 1976;Toby Herbst & Joel Kopp. The Flag in American Indian Art, 1993;Gary Allen Hood. The Art of America’s Southwest Indians, 1995;Colin F. Taylor (editorial consultant). The Native Americans The Indigenous People of North America, 1991;Edward Sheriff Curtis. Visions of a Vanishing Race, 1994;(75)

Books relating to North American Indian beadwork and jewellery. (18) Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteratureMonte Smith. The Technique of North American Indian Beadwork, states ‘First Edition’;Monte Smith. The Technique of North American Indian Beadwork;The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, Gloria A. Lomahaftewa (exhibition curator). Glass Tapestry, Plateau Beaded Bags from The Elaine Horwitch Collection, November 1993;Gerry Biron. A Cherished Curiosity, The Souvenir Beaded Bag in Historic Haudenosaunee (Iriquois Art), 2012;W. Ben Hunt and J. F. ‘Buck’ Burshears. American Indian Beadwork, 1973 (2);Kate C. Duncan (written by), Terry P. Dickey & Mary Beth Smetzer (compiled and edited by). Some Warmer Tone, Alaska Athabaskan Bead Embroidery, 1984;Colin F. Taylor, Ph. D. Yupika, The Plains Indian Woman’s Dress, an overview of historical developments and styles, 1997;Kate C. Duncan. Northern Athapaskan Art, A Beadwork Tradition, 1989;Lois Sherr Dubin. The History of Beads, from 30,000 BC to the Present, 1987;Henrietta Lidchi. Surviving Desires, Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest, 2015;Joel Monture. The Complete Guide to the Traditional Native Merican Beadwork, A Definitive Study of the Authentic Tools, Materials, Techniques, and Styles, 1993;Gerry Biron and JoAnne Russo. Made of Thunder, Made of Glass, American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast, 2006;William C. Orchard. Beads and Beadwork of the American Indians, 1975;Robert K. Liu, Ph. D. (preface by) Wendy Weston-Ben (foreword by) Stefani Salkeld (catalog essays by). And the Bead Goes on! 1995;Caroline Crabtree and Pam Stallebrass. Beadwork, A World Guide, 2002;Kate C. Duncan and Eunice Carney. A Special Gift, The Kutchin Beadwork Tradition, 1997;Canada House Cultural Centre Gallery. (An Exhibition/Souvenir guidebook including an exhibition catalogue), Mohawk Micmac Maliseet and other Indian Souvenir Art from the Victorian Canada, an exhibition displaying the June Bedford Collection, 1985;Mary Seyd. Introducing Beads, 1973;(18) 

British Catalogue of Plastics ( first edition 1947 )

Swarovski Crystal Annual Edition 1999 Pierrot (7400/0990000), first piece of the Masquerade Trilogy with display stand, title plaque and paperweight, all pieces boxed with certificate of authenticity (4)

Swarovski Crystal Annual Edition 2002 Isadora (7400/200200), First piece in the Magic of the Dance trilogy, with display stand and title plaque, all boxed with certificate of authenticity (3)

FIRST EDITION "The Satanic Verses" 1988 by Salman Rushdie in original dust jacket

A COPY OF ROALD DAHL THE BFG 1982 IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET TOGETHER WITH FOUR CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS BIGGLES BOOKS COMPRISING OF A FIRST EDITION 'BIGGLES & CO', A FRENCH 'BIGGLES ENTRE EN SCENE' WITH DUST JACKET, 'BIGGLES MAKES ENDS MEET' WITH DUST JACKET AND 'BIGGLES AND THE PIRATE TREASURE' WITH DUST JACKET AND A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND ANNUALS TO INCLUDE MRS BEETON'S AND OOR WULLIE

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 8vo, printed photograph of author stuck to title verso, original pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., rubbed and a little soiled, rebacked retaining spine, hinges repaired; [Idem] The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1895. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., rubbed, spine and hinges repaired (2)

Napier, John Ovverture de tous les secrets de l'Apocalypse La Rochelle: Timothee Iouan, 1602. First edition, 4to, [xiv], folding table, 238, [20], with inscription at head of title "A de vantadour B.B. Arch. de Bourges", title withn typographic border, with letter to Lord Napier relating to the translation, tipped in at end, 19th century blindstamped calf, g.e., bookplate of Lord Napier; bookplate at end of Archbishop of BourgesFootnote: Note: Seeingly unrecorded. COPAC records 2 copies only of what appears to be a variant First edition, with the imprint "La Rochelle: Par Jean Brenouzet, demeurant pres la boucherie Neufue, 1602" : Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds. The work is the French edition of A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John , 1593

Yeats, W.B. Poems London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Fourth edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Idem] The Tower. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1928. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, stamps and withdrawn notes from Great Yarmouth Public Libraries, covers soiled, some foxing; [Idem] The Winding Stair. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1933. First trade edition, 8vo, bookplates and blindstamps from Great Yarmouth Public Libraries, original cloth, a little rubbing and soiling, accession number to spine (3)

Slezer, Captain John Theatrum Scotiae edited by John Jamieson. Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1874. Large folio, one of 250 copies, 68 plates, 32 coloured coats-of-arms tipped in, contemporary brown morocco-backed maroon cloth, rubbed; Wood, John Philip The Antient and Modern State of Cramond. Edinburgh: J. Paterson, 1794. First edition, 4to, presentation copy inscribed "To the Right Honble. Lord Glenbervie, from the author", 11 (of 12) engraved plates & pedigrees (lacking Roystoun House), original boards, uncut, with note on title Purchased at the sale of the Carnsalloch Library Dumfries 1894, bookplate of Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, (2)

Collection of Arcadia Press, including Hawkes, Jacquetta Dawn of the Gods. Arcadia Press, 1969. 4to, number 149 of 265 copies signed by the authoress, plates, pale blue morocco gilt by Zaehsndorf, tan and black morocco onlays on upper cover, g.e.g, cream cloth folding box, a few very faint spots to covers; Moorehead , Alan Darwin and the Beagle. Arcadia Press, 1970. 4to, number 149 of 265 copies, signed by the author, plates, brown morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, with orange and black onlays on upper cover, g.e., original cream cloth folding box; Fisher, James & H.R.H . The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Wildlife Crisis. Arcadia Press, 1971. First edition, 4to, number 149 of 265 copies, signed by Prince Philip, plates, blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, coloured onlays, gilt, original folding box; Desroches-Noblecourt , Christine Tutankhamen. Arcadia Press, 1969. 4to, number 149 of 265 copies signed by the authoress, plates, salmon pink morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, green and black morocco onlays on upper cover, g.e., original cream cloth folding box (4)Condition report: Extremely good. Fine Fine

Thompson, Hunter S. Hell's Angels London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1967. First UK edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped but slightly rubbed with a few small nicks and tears

Oughtred, William [The Circles of Proportion] [London: Elias Allen, 1632], First edition, A1 (blank), A3- 4, B1-X4, 3 engraved plates, with three final leaves of diagrams and a final errata leaf with heading "The translator to the readers", [ESTC S11364], 3 engraved plates, with three final leaves of diagrams and a final errata leaf with heading "The translator to the readers", lacking printed and engraved titles, title supplied in an early hand to blank A1, upper corner of first 8 leaves creased and frayed with slight loss of margin, small adhesion affecting running title of A4 verso and adhesion transfer to following plate, some staining and browning to margins; bound with. Oughtred, William. An Addition unto the Use of the Instrument called the Circles of Proportion for the working of nauticall questions. London: Augustine Mathewes, 1633. 4to, A1-B3, seemingly lacking B4 ; [bound with] Oughtred, William. To the English Gentrie and all others Studious of the Mathematics. [London : A. Mathewes, 1634?], A1-D4 (with A2-A3 misbound), final leaf with errata slip pasted to lower part of leaf, adhesion resulting in loss of a few letters, [ESTC S119424], contemporary vellum, soiled and somewhat creased, early ownership signature to first work of James StewartFootnote: Note: The rare first edition of The Circles of Proportion. This copy corresponds exactly (apart from the missing engraved and printed title) to the 1632 copy on EEBO.

Wodehouse, P.G. Mike London: A. & C. Black, 1909. First edition, 8vo, 12 plates, original pictorial cloth, 4 plates and 4 leaves slightly frayed, rubbed, split at head of spineCondition report: plate at p. 84, 144, 228, & 324 slightly frayed; page 129 , 143, 225, 239 slightly frayed

Grieve, Christopher Murray - "Hugh MacDiarmid" Direadh I, II and III Frenich: K. Duval & C.H. Hamilton, 1974. First edition, number 183 of 200 copies signed by the artist, original red pigskin-backed grey boards, uncut, slipcase

Grieve, Christopher Murray - "Hugh MacDiarmid" A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle Verona: Officina Bodoni for Kulgin Duval & Colin Hamilton, Falkland, 1969. First edition, number 50 of 160 copies signed by H. MacDiarmid, Frans Masereel and G. Mardersteig, 8 woodcuts by Frans Masereel, original vellum-backed blue and white decorated boards, t.e.g., uncut, slipcase

Gray, Alasdair A collection of 12 volumes, comprising The Fall of Kevin Walker. 1985, first edition, 2 copies, one signed by author on endpaper, dustwrapper; [with James Kelman] Lean Tales. 1985, first edition, dustwrapper; Lanark. New York, 1985, first American edition, dustwrapper; Mavis Belfrage. 1996, first edition, dustwrapper; Old Negatives. 1989, first edition, number 433 of 500 copies, signed by author, 21.2.1989, dustwrapper; Something Leather. 1990, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, dustwrapper; Poor Things. 1992, first edition, dustwrapper spine faded; Ten Tales Tall & True. New York, 1993, First American edition, dustwrapper; Ten Tales... London, 1993, paperback; Saltire Self-Portraits. Alasdair Gray. 1988. Signed by Gray, original wrappers; McGrotty and Ludmilla. 1990, paperback (12)

Nineteenth century literature in original cloth 21 volumes, comprising, Dickens, Charles Pictures from Italy. 1846, 8vo, original blue cloth, rubbed ; Andersen, Hans Christian. The Improvisatore. R. Bentley, 1847. frontispiece, original cloth, rubbed; Lytton, Sir E. B. Rienzi. 1848, 8vo, original brown blindstamped cloth, spine gilt; Stowe, Harriet Beecher . Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: Thomas Bosworth, 1852., original brown blind-stamped cloth, slightly rubbed, ?new endpapers; Caine, Hall. The Deemster. Chatto & Windus, 1887, 3 volumes, 8vo, 3pp. advertisments at end dated October 1887, original blue cloth, rubbed; Borrow, George. The Romany Rye. 1858, Second edition, 2 volumes, original cloth, rubbed; Shelley, P.B. Relics of Shelley, edited by R. Garnett. 1862. 12mo, original cloth, rubbed; Burnett, Francis Hodgson. That Lass o Lowrie's's. New York, 1877, original black, red and gilt cloth, slightly rubbed; Trollope, Anthony. Can you Forgive Her ? 1866. Second edition, plates, original green cloth gilt, ?lacking half-title or first blank, rubbed; Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1876, First Canadian edition, original cloth, rubbed; Yonge, Charlotte M. Love and Life. 1880. 2 volumes, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed; Du Maurier, G. The Martian. 1898, original pictorial cloth gilt; Du Maurier, G . Peter Ibbetson. 1892, 2 volumes, original cloth; Stevenson, R.L. Island Nights' Entertainments. 1893, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed; Bennett, E. Arnold. A Man from the North. John Lane, 1898. First edition, first issue, with adverts dated 1897, spine slightly faded and slightly rubbed at head; Haggard, H. Rider . Swallow. Longmans, Green, 1899, original blue cloth gilt (21)

Lewis, Wyndham A collection of 13 volumes, including The Diabolical Principle and the Dithyrambic Spectator. Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition, dustwrapper; Paleface. Chatto & Windus, 1929, 2 copies; The Jews, Are they Human ? George Allen & Unwin, 1939. First edition, Proof copy (rubber stamp "Proof, 3 Feb. 1939, C.T. & Co. Ltd" to blank verso of last leaf), original wrappers, label to upper wrapper; America and Cosmic Man. 1948, dustwrapper price clipped;The Demon of Progress in the Arts. 1954, 2 copies, dustwrappers; The Human Age. Book 2-3. 1955, dustwrapper; Mrs Dukes' Millions. 1980, dustwrapper; An Anthology of his Prose. 1969, dustwrapper; Bridson, D.G. The Filibuster... Wyndham Lewis. 1972, dustwrapper; and 2 others (13)

Poe, Edgar Allan Tales London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. First English edition, 8vo, [iv], 228; half-title, original green blindstamped cloth, pale yellow endpapers, rather spotted and stained, covers slightly marked and faded, head and tale of spine rubbed, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly fadedFootnote: Note: Issued one year later than the American first edition, the first British edition used the sheets of the first printing and a cancel title page. BAL 16146, reissue C.

Corelli, Archangelo Sonate a Tre Due Violini e Violone Col Baso per l'Organo… Opera Prima [-Secunda, Terza & Quarta.] London: Benjamin Cooke, [n.d.but 1735?] First violin, Second violin and Organ parts only in three volumes with this impression [published by Benjamin Cooke with with tag line "…where may be had most of this Authors [sic.] works in the Same Character], 4to (280 x 220mm), portrait in First violin volume, contemporary half calf, two upper covers detached, some wear to covers; [Idem] Sonate a Tre… Opera Prima [-Secunda, Terza & Quarta.] London: Richard Meares, [n.d.] 'New Edition', cello part only, 4to (300 x 240mm), contemporary 18th century half calf, covers detached, some internal spotting; [Idem] Concerti Grossi...Opera Sesta [XII Great Concertos of Sonatas] London: Preston, [n.d. but 1790?] First violin, Second violin, Viola, Cello and Bass parts, with two parts for each First and Second violin, (7 parts in total), folio, disbound in folder, a few chips and tears to leaves with occasional slight loss, some minor soiling and marginal dampstaining, and 9 others (12)

Dixon, James Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, in the Ship Skelton Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1822. First edition, 12mo, half-title, portrait frontispiece, two advertisement leaves, original pink boards with paper label to spine, neat early ownership signature to free-endpaper, a few small, light marks throughout, some slight browning to textFootnote: Provenance: From the library of Kingcausie

Hogarth Press - Woolf, Leonard and Virginia Two Stories Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917. First edition , with ‘Publication No.1’ at head of title, [one of 150 copies ], 8vo, 4 woodcuts by Dora Carrington, sewn, the poet Camilla Doyle’s copy with her inscription on the title, this copy without initial and final blank, ink inscription on title “illustrated by Dora Carrington”, contemporary cloth with part of original yellow paper wrapper bearing title preserved on upper cover, [Woolmer 1; Kirkpatrick A2a] (Qty: 1)Footnote: Note: Two Stories is the first publication produced by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house established by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1917. The title page states ‘Publication No. 1’ in the top-left corner. Entirely written and printed by the Woolfs, it contains the short stories ‘Three Jews’ by Leonard and ‘The Mark on the Wall’ by Virginia. Dora Carrington, a British artist trained at the Slade School of Art, designed the four small yet detailed woodcut illustrations that accompany Two Stories . The 32 pages were sewn together and bound with paper covers by hand. Being bound on an ad-hoc basis, different covers exist: the British Library’s copy is bound in a blue weave-textured material.

Hodgson, James A System of the Mathematics London: Thomas Page and William Fisher Mount, 1723. 2 volumes, first edition, small 4to, complete with 14 folding plates and two in-text illustrations with onlays, contemporary panelled calf, neat ownership signatures to front free-endpapers, one or two plates loose, one plate with a closed tear, [ESTC T111825]Footnote: Provenance: From the library of KingcausieCondition report: See https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_System_of_the_Mathematics.html?id=3xjK9fueAGkC&redir_esc=y & https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_System_of_the_Mathematics.html?id=3rdJAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y for a comparable copy - pagination in the books is a little unconventional, however the books appear to be complete with 4A*5 lacking in both volume 1 here and the online example.

Darwin, Charles The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex London: John Murray, 1871. Volume 2 only, first edition, first impression with errata to reverse of title-page, the postscript following p.viii, and adverts dated January 1871, original green cloth gilt, some scattered foxing to initial and final leaves, some slight rubbing and a few light marks to covers

Milne, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original pink cloth gilt, dust-jacket with a few chips and tears

Joyce, James. Ulysses Paris: Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, (October) 1922. First edition, 2nd Printing, 4to, number 1979 of 2000 copies, 7pp. errata loosely inserted at beginning, slight discolouration of text, chiefly marginal, original blue wrappers printed in white, uncut, rubbed, upper wrapper virtually detached, some spotting and slight discolouration to wrappersFootnote: Note: Printed in Paris from the first edition plates. It was reported that approximately 500 copies were destroyed by U.S. Customs officials.

Eliot, T.S. Prufrock and other Observations London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original brown wrappers, "A.H. Hannay" inscribed at head of half-title, wrappers somewhat discoloured and lightly dust-soiled, spine worn with some loss at ends, binding detached

Fleming, Ian Dr No London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First edition, 8vo, Gilbert's second state binding with 'Honeychile' silhouette, dust-jacket not price-clipped, a little soiling to dust-jacket with a few small nicks, in custom-made clamshell box [Gilbert A6a, 1.3]

Scottish History, a collection including Grant, W. & Murison, D.D. The Scottish National Dictionary. 1976, 10 volumes, 4to, modern quarter green morocco gilt; [Naval Press Gangs] - Griffiths, Capt. A.J. Impressment Fully Considered, with a View to its Gradual Abolition. Cheltenham: J.W. Norie, for the author, 1826. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter cloth; Hutchinson, J.R. The Press-Gang afloat and ashore. 1913, 8vo, lacks one plate, original cloth, rubbed, title and frontispiece loose, pencil annotations; Mackintosh, W.R. Glimpses of Kirkwall and its People in the Olden Time. Kirkwall, 1887, original blue cloth, dustwrapper pasted in at end, binding somewhat marked (13)

Buchan, John A collection of 17 volumes, comprising The Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane, 1896. First edition, 8vo, title page & 6 etchings by D.Y. Cameron, original cloth-backed pictorial buckram, uncut; Sir Quixhote of the Moors. T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. Second issue, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded; Musa Piscatrix. 1896, 6 etchings by Pimlott, original pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., some spotting; Andrew Jameson Lord Ardwall. 1913, inscribed by Lady Ardwell, original black cloth; The Marquis of Montrose. 1913, original blue buckram, slightly soiled; Salute to Adventures. T. Nelson, [1915], original cloth, lower cover slightly marked; The Power-House. W. Blackwood, 1916. First edition, paper somewhat browned as usual, spine faded; The Battle of Jutland. [1916], original wrappers slightly soiled; The Island of Sheep. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First American edition, 2 copies, original yellow cloth-backed pictorial blue boards, one binding slightly soiled and marked, a small nick to the better copy; Francis and Riversdale Grenfell. T. Nelson, October 1920, plates, original blue cloth; The Causal and the Casual in History. Cambridge, 1929. original boards, dust-jacket; Presbyterianism yesterday, to-day and to-morrow. 1938, original orange wrappers; The Long Traverse. 1941, dust-jacket; and 3 others (17)Condition report: 3 others: another copy of The Causal and the Casual in History, 1929 The Novel and the Fairy Tale. 1931, wrappers; Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon, edited by J.B., W.Scott Publishing, [1894]

Nicolay, Nicolas de, Seigneur d'Arfeville [and Alexander Lyndsay or Lindsay]La Navigation du Roy d'Ecosse Jacques Cinquiesme du Nom, autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d'Alexandre Lyndsay excellent Pilote Escossois, recueille & redigee... par Nicolay d'Arfeville. Paris: Gilles Beys, 1583. First edition, 4to, (224 x 147mm.), ff. [vi], 37, fine large folding map (383x288mm. to plate-mark), with ships, compass rose, and a sea monster, also with a folding scale, and 6 large woodcuts in the text (compass rose, prevailing winds, tides and currents, hazards, aids to direction-finding), inscription on endpaper noting the gift of Claudius Phalempin to Maximilian Noircarmius, contemporary vellum, blue morocco slipcase, the map with 4 small modern slips of paper stuck to the margin captioned "Plate VI", "Nicolay D'Arfeville 1583"; "Collection of D. Alan Stevenson Esq.", "J.B. & S.E.", a few light spots, vellum slightly soiled and with small repairs to spine, lacks ties

Strang, William Spanish Etchings Glasgow: James Maclehose and T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1892. First edition, large folio, title etching and 6 etchings signed by the artist, all loosely hinged onto thick card, loose as issued in original brown half cloth and brown board portfolio, lettered panel to upper cover, light spotting to printed title, the board portfolio, slightly wornCondition report: plates clean, gouge to upper cover, lower portfolio edges somewhat worn

Milne, A.A. Now We Are Six London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket with some tears and loss, ownership signature to half-title

Edgeworth, Maria Harrington, a Tale, and Ormond, a Tale London: for R. Hunter, 1817. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary half calf, with advertisement leaf at end of vol. 3, lacks half-titles, volume 3 with very slight loss at inner margin of vol. 3 title, slightly rubbed (3)

Carlyle, Thomas Chartism London: James Fraser, 1840 [1839]. First edition, inscribed to Mrs Welsh, London, Jan. 7, 1840, on endpaper, and inscribed after her death to Dr. Russell, Templand, 7 March 1842, 2pp. advertisements at end, original black blindstamped cloth, spine and lower edge of upper board worn

Buchan, John The Thirty-Nine Steps Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1915. First edition, original blue cloth, facsimile dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and very slightly soiled

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing (with the 6 textual variants listed by Broccoli, A 11.1.a), ownership inscription to front endpaper, original green cloth, facsimile dustwrapper, binding rather damp-flecked, lightly rubbedCondition report: a few light spots to title, some spotting of endpapers. paper a little discoloured; occasional light spot to text

Grieve, Christopher Murray - "Hugh MacDiarmid" A collection, including 10 signed or presentation Sangschaw. 1925. First edition, 8vo, dustwrapper slightly discoloured; Penny Wheep. 1926. First edition, 8vo, dustwrapper slightly discoloured; First Hymn to Lenin. Unicorn Press, 1931, number 71 of 450 copies, original black and red cloth, t.e.g., slipcase; Three Hymns to Lenin. [n.d.], signed by the author on endpaper, dustwrapper; The Ministry of Water. 1964. number 72 of 125 copies signed by the author, original wrappers; Annand, J.K. Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid. Akros, 1968, number 22 of 50 numbered copies, signed by Annand and MacDiarmid, original wrappers; another copy. inscribed to Barbara and Earn [Niven], original wrappers; Collected Poems. New York, 1962, presentation copy to Sydney Goodsir Smith, original cloth, dustwrapper slightly frayed; O Wha's been here before me, lass. Blue Moon Poem for Christmas 1931. number 20 of 100 signed copies, folded card; A Lap of Honour. 1967. First edition, presentation copy to Barbara and Earn [Niven] from the author, dustwrapper rubbed and slightly marked; A Clyack-Sheaf. 1969, signed by the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; another copy. Presentation copy to Barbara and Earn [Niven] from the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; Poems of the East-West Synthesis. [Undated], presentation copy to Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, original wrappers; and 26 others (36)

Bukeley, John and John Cummins A Voyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1 London: Jacob Robinson, 1743. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplate [ESTC T142350]Footnote: Provenance: From the library of Kingcausie

Drummond, Charles - Thomas Sturrock & Alexander Aikman Scotland's first Greetings Card & Christmas Two original metal printing plates for a New Year card and a Christmas card, produced by Charles Drummond, bookseller in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1841, each 9 x 6.5cm, with the wooden blocks renewed; [with] two proof cards, one stating 'A GUID NEW YEAR AN' MONY O' THEM', uncoloured, and the second stating 'A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU', coloured and with Drummond's impression details to the lower right corner; alongside various items of ephemera relating to the cards and Charles DrummondFootnote: Provenance: Charles Drummond, Bookseller and Printer, 133 Kirkgate, Leith [Edinburgh]; and thence by descent. An accompanying letter from The Scottish Council (Development and Industry) dated 11th December 1951, thanks Miss Catherine Drummond for the loan of the first greetings card printing plate. Catherine Drummond, the granddaughter of Charles Drummond, frequently wrote into local newspapers, explaining the origins of this greetings card. Several newspaper clippings are included in this lot. These plates have been exhibited at several museums, including the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. Note: The 'invention' of the first commercially marketed Christmas card can be attributed to Sir Henry Cole who, in 1843, produced a Christmas greetings card showing a happily inebriated family celebrating Christmas dinner. However, two years previously, Charles Drummond of Leith produced what is thought to be Scotland's first festive greetings card, celebrating New Year and reading 'A GUID NEW YEAR AND MONY O' THEM' - the Hogmanay and New Year celebrations at the time being a bigger event in Scotland than Christmas. Drummond's card was produced from a design by Thomas Sturrock and engraved by Alexander Aikman - in many ways, the initial idea for the card came from Sturrock, with Drummond turning this into a commercial product. Aikman’s picture shows the grinning face of a rotund boy, missing one tooth, described in a 1934 edition of the Edinburgh Evening News as having: "an expression of such hearty laughter that the happy combination, by the natural infectious process, produced the desired result on the onlooker, who was greeted with the wish of ‘many happy years”. The manufacture of the card followed a tradition which had started centuries earlier with European woodblock printers, such as Master E.S., who would produce prints with religious scenes and greetings such as Ein guot selig ior (“A good and happy year”). However, it was ahead of its time as a published product, with commercially manufactured greetings cards only really becoming popular in the United Kingdom from the 1860s onwards. Curiously, the printing plate for the New Year card is accompanied by another, following the same design, with the inscription 'A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU'. There is little evidence that this design was commercially manufactured as a card, however it does suggest that the idea for a Christmas card may be a Scottish one, predating Cole. A proof copy of this Christmas card, alongside a proof of the New Year card, is included in this lot.