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Rossetti (Christina) Goblin Market, first edition, pictorial title, 12 plates and illustrations by Laurence Housman, endpapers spotted, original richly gilt green decorative cloth, very slightly rubbed at extremities, g.e., a bright copy, 8vo, 1893.⁂ With a gift inscription, which reads 'E. Billson. In Remembrance of dear Anna R. Bramston, one of her books - with best wishes for Christmas 1933, from Juliette Le Roy'. Bramston was founder of St. Swithun's School, Winchester, in 1884. The Le Roy family were benefactors of the school.

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrations by John Tenniel, gift inscription in purple ink to half-title, original pictorial cloth, a minor bumping to corners, a little rubbed, Boston and New York, 1872; The Hunting of the Snark, first edition, illustrations by Henry Holiday, ink ownership stamp to half-title, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, 1876; Euclid. Books I, II, second edition, upper hinge broken, original limp cloth, paper label to upper cover, spine faded, 1883; and 3 others, Carroll, v.s. (6)

Hay (Rev. David) Domestic Servants: Their Interests and Duties, first edition, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, spine slightly faded, 24mo, John Mason, 1852.⁂ Scarce work with only 3 copies recorded by COPAC (BL, Oxford & Cambridge); WorldCat lists those and another in America.

NO RESERVE Wise (Thomas J.).- Partington (Wilfred) Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth, first edition, frontispiece, occasional spotting, original cloth, lightly faded spine, 1946 § Collins (John) The Two Forgers: a Biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1992 § Todd (William B.) Thomas J. Wise: Centenary Studies, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed, small tears to extremities, Austin & Edinburgh, 1959 § Wise (Thomas J.) A Complete Bibliography of the Writings and Prose of John Ruskin, 2 vol., original cloth, dust-jacket, 1974; Two Lake Poets ... William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly faded spine, 1965; and 7 others, on or by Wise, 8vo (13)

Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title, 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners frayed, soiled, [Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John Lyle).

Cookery.- Creole.- Eustis (Célestine) Cooking in old Créole Days. La Cuisine Créole à l'Usage des Petits Ménages, first edition, frontispiece, pictorial title and 7 plates, paper guards with printed music, some pencil markings and spotting, original cloth-backed printed boards, spine spotted, rubbed, New York, 1903; and a first edition of Flexner's Dixie Dishes, and 2nd edition of Wiley and Griffith on the art of mixing, 8vo (3)

NO RESERVE Science Fiction.- Locke (George) A Spectrum of Fantasy: the Bibliography and Biography of a Collection of Fantastic Literature, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 1 from a limited edition of 500, vol. 3 subscriber's copy signed and numbered by author, original cloth, dust-jackets, slight creasing to top edge, Ferret, 1980-2002 § Bleiler (E. F.) The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction, original cloth, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, 1978 § Negley (Glenn) Utopian Literature: a Bibliography, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, Lawrence, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977 § Briggs (Julia) Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1977; and c.24 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

Orphans.- City of London, Court of Common Council. Commune Concilium tent' in Guildhall Civitatis London..., [2], 28, [2], first edition, A1 with large woodcut coat-of-arms of City of London, smaller version above caption title on following leaf, English text in black letter, with final blank, some browning, stitched, first and last leaves soiled, [Wing L2854G], 8vo, by Andrew Clark, 1671.⁂Rare reprint of an act of 1551 against the clandestine marriages of orphans. ESTC cites only 3 copies (BL, 2 copies; and Guildhall Library).

NO RESERVE Education.- Goyder (David George) A Manual: detailing the System of Instruction, pursued at the Infant School, Bristol, first or second edition, folding engraved frontispiece of interior of the school, list of subscribers at end, handsome contemporary panelled calf elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments with back roan label, g.e., 8vo, 1823.⁂ Rare early manual on infant schools by the superintendent of the Bristol Infant School which was established in 1821. The earliest edition listed on COPAC is a single copy of the third edition of 1824 (British Library), plus several copies of the fourth edition of 1825.

Harris (Eileen) British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, small tear to bottom edge, Cambridge, 1990 § Tooley (R. V.) English Books with Coloured Plates 1790 to 1860, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to extremities, 1987 § Clifford (Timothy) Designs of Desire: Architectural and Ornament Prints and Drawings 1500-1850, illustrations, original wrappers, dust-jacket, National Galleries of Scotland, 1999 § Gernsheim (Helmut) and Alsion Gernsheim, The History of Photography, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1969 § Powers (Alan) Eric Ravilious Artist and Designer, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth backed boards, 2013; and others, similar including a collection of Apollo magazines, v.s. (c.90)

NO RESERVE 1890's & Pre-Raphaelites.- Gallatin (A. E.) & L. M. Oliver, A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm, small quantity of related newspaper cuttings loosely inserted, original cloth, one or two spots, dust-jacket, creasing to top edge, 1952 § Suriano (Gregory R.) The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oak Knoll Press, 2000 § McCarthy (Fiona) Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy 1860-1960, illustrations, original boards, 2014 § May (J. Lewis) John Lane and the Nineties, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1936 § Books from the Library of John Lane publisher, original wrappers, upper cover nearly detached, rubbed, Dulau and Company, n.d.; and 34 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (39)

Wise (Thomas J.) A Swinburne Library, first edition, one of 30 copies on English handmade paper, inscribed by author, photogravure portrait frontispiece, strengthened joints, original cloth, lightly faded spine, for private circulation only, 1925; A Bibliography ... of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 2 vol., first edition, one of 125 copies, half-title inscribed and signed by author, plates, rubbed and faded, original boards, vol. 1 lacking spine covering, for private circulation only, 1919; and 8 others, including a 6 vol. 'Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne', 8vo (11)

NO RESERVE Australasia.- Banks (Joseph) The Endeavour Journal 1768-1771, edited by J.C.Beaglehole, 2 vol., vol.1 second edition, vol.2 first edition, Sydney, 1963-62; The Banks Letters, edited by Warren R.Dawson, 3 vol. including 2 supplements, with 1929 Sotheby's sale catalogue of Banks papers (with prices and buyers' names in manuscript) loosely inserted, supplements original wrappers, 1958-65; The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1781-1820, edited by Harold B.Carter, 1979 § Hewson (Helen) Australia. 300 Years of Botanical Illustration, Collingwood, 1999, some illustrations, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, most rubbed and frayed at edges; and c.15 others on Australasia, mostly botany, some pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.20)

Wise (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad (1895-1921), one of 175 copies, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, occasional pencil annotations, related newspaper clipping tipped-in, original boards, rubbed and worn, for private circulation only, 1921 § Gallup (Donald) T. S. Eliot: a Bibliography, original cloth, slight spotting to upper joint, dust-jacket, lightly browned, small loss to spine extremities, 1952 § Green (Richard Lancelyn) and John Michael Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oxford, 1983 § Supino (David) J. Henry James a Bibliographical Catalogue of a Collection of Editions, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, Liverpool, 2006; and others, similar, v.s. (c.100)

NO RESERVE Drugs.- Confessions of an English Hachish-Eater, ?first edition, pp.7-30 misbound, title lightly soiled and short at foot, lacking advertisements at end, original cloth, a little rubbed and faded, George Redway, 1884; and another on De Quincey, 8vo (2)

Zeeman (Pieter) Researches into Magneto-Optics, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to D'Arcy Power to front free endpaper, illustrations, tape residue and light abrasions to pastedowns and endpapers, original cloth, very light fading to spine, 8vo, 1913.⁂ A signed presentation copy from the winner of the 1902 Nobel prize for physics to the prominent surgeon and medical historian.

Banks (Joseph).- Dryander (Jonas) Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks..., 5 vol.,mixed set, vol.2-5 first edition, vol.1 with near contemporary ink signature to head of title and inscription "Edward Forster March 1826" to front free endpaper, lightly browned and with staining to inner margin of final few leaves, bookplate of Norman Douglas Simpson, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper joint split, lower cover detached, vol.2-5 with book-label of Thirkleby Park library, Thirsk and bound in handsome contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red and green roan labels, a little rubbed, vol.5 with slight wear to head of spine, [Ferguson 232], 8vo, William Bulmer, 1798-96-1800.⁂ Scarce and important catalogue of the one of the most complete libraries of natural history books of the time, effectively serving as a bibliography of such works up to that date. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a noted naturalist and botanist who accompanied Cook on his first voyage in 1768-71, collecting many important specimens. He served as President of the Royal Society for over 40 years, developed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and his library and collections are preserved in the British Library and British Museum. The catalogue was compiled by Banks's librarian and curator of his collections, the Swedish botanist Jonas Dryander (1748-1810), who had been a student of Linnaeus and later became librarian of the Royal Society and the first librarian and vice president of the Linnean Society.Thirkleby Hall was an 18th century country house designed by James Wyatt. It was inherited by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey (1848-1916), author of several sporting works on shooting, and demolished in 1927 when the house failed to sell at auction.

Birds.- Sitwell (Sacheverell), Handasyde Buchanan & James Fisher. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, limited edition, Howard Radclyffe's copy with copious detailed annotations in ball-point pen throughout and cuttings & notes tipped in or loosely inserted, also with tipped-in A.L.s. from Sacheverell Sitwell thanking Radclyffe for sending a booklet on Gould "...Really how beautiful the colour plates are! I know them so well but never tire of looking at them!", colour plates, one folding, illustrations, original half buckram, rubbed, folio, 1953.⁂ Howard Radclyffe worked in and later led the Natural History department at Quaritch from 1944 to 1987, specialising in bird books. His greatest coup was buying the library of Captain Vivian Hewitt, the aviation pioneer, which included a complete set of Gould, and a first edition of Audubon's Birds. Mounted on the front pastedown is a reproduction of a photograph of Radclyffe with his manuscript note below, "This plate appeared in Sotheby's 1994 'Celebration of 250 years' publication. Under the title 'Eggcentric' it depicts me in 1971 contemplating the semi-fossilised egg of the extinct Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus) of Madagascar. I had just purchased it for £1000 on behalf of the Dupont Winterthur Museum in America. At the same sale I was the underbidder (again for Dupont) on a stuffed specimen of the Great Auk that realized £9000. It was bought for the Icelandic Government whose national bird the Great Auk is although up to that time there was no good specimen of it in the country. Some years before, when Quaritch purchased the fabulous collection of bird books amassed by Captain Vivian Hewitt...I had been literally begged to make some small offer for his two beautifully mounted specimens of the Great Auk together with several skins of same and a considerable number of the extinct bird's eggs. I declined as I had no idea of their value at that time! Spinks became their lucky recipricant."

NO RESERVE Americas.- Williamson (James A.) The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII, limited edition on Japon, plates and maps, one folding, prospectus loosely inserted at end, original vellum-backed cloth, gilt, uncut, a little damp-stained, Argonaut Press, 1929 § Harding (N.D.) & W.Dodgson Bowman. Bristol and America: A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America 1654-1685, plates, original cloth, n.d. § Ebbutt (Percy G.) Emigrant Life in Kansas, first edition, plates, original pictorial cloth, a little damp-stained, 1886, 4to & 8vo (3)

California and Australia gold rush.- Adventures of a Gold-Finder. Written by Himself, 3 vol., first edition, without half-titles, occasional foxing or soiling, vol. 2 & 3 with some chipping to margins, Cape of Good Hope library stamps to titles, library labels to endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed, [Sabin 476], 8vo, 1850.⁂ A rare and early novel in which the narrator travels to Australia the California in the hopes of making his fortune through gold prospecting, COPAC lists copies in the National Library of Scotland, Oxford and Cambridge only.

Ballistics.- Gray (John) A Treatise of Gunnery, first edition, folding engraved plate, engraved and woodcut illustrations, several letterpress tables within woodcut borders, 1f. publisher's catalogue, ribbon bookmark, Macclesfield bookplate to front pastedown, embossed stamps with Macclesfield coat-of-arms to title and dedication f., ink and pencil accession numbers to front endpapers, a very little faint browning, contemporary speckled calf, spine attractively gilt, rubbed along joints and extremities, 8vo, for William Innys, 1731.

NO RESERVE [Dickens (Charles)] Sketches by Boz...New Edition, Complete, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 plates by George Cruikshank, some light foxing or soiling, contemporary half roan, a little rubbed, [Cohn 234], 1839; The Mudfog Papers, first collected edition, advertisement leaf at end, original red cloth, a little soiled and stained, 1880, 8vo (2)⁂ in the first the plate opposite p.175 'Public Dinners' includes portraits of Dickens, Cruikshank and the publishers Chapman and Hall.

Cookery.- Bananas.- Many Ways of Cooking Bananas, colour pictorial title and illustratiosn, original pictorial wrappers, lightly soiled, Elders & Fyffes Ltd, 1910 § Cook (James Henry) Bananas and all about Them, illustrations and advertisements, original printed wrappers, 1907 § Craig (Elizabeth) Banana Dishes, first edition, original dust-jacket, dust-jacket, 1962; and a small quantity of others, banana recipe books and ephemera, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

NO RESERVE English (Harriet) Conversations and Amusing Tales. Offered to the Publick for the Youth of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi after W.Hamilton, 12 hand-tinted oval aquatint plates, 2 engraved sheets of music, list of subscribers at end, old ownership stamp to head of title, some light foxing or soiling, plates offset, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, corners worn, upper cover detached, 4to, for the Author, by Charles Clarke, 1799 § [Victor (Benjamin)] The Widow of the Wood, first edition, issue with woodcut squirrel device on title, "St." in italics in imprint and woodcut bust within scrollwork on p.206, half-title, with final advertisement leaf for the state lottery, C9 with small portion torn away from outer margin, some light soiling, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, lacking label, 12mo, for C.Corbett, 1755, 4to & 12mo (2)⁂ The second is on the intimacy and alleged marriage between Ann Whitby and Sir William Wolseley. "Although it was written in support of Wolseley, it was said to be so offensive to members of the Wolseley family that they destroyed every copy of the narrative that they could obtain, but in the nineteenth century it was still to be found in catalogues of secondhand books." (DNB)One of several issues in the same year ESTC lists only 4 UK copies of this one (BL, National Library of Scotland, Oxford and Bristol).

Moorcroft Ltd Edition Modern Trial Vase - tall style sided floral of tapered form and pleasing appearance. 'White Splendour' anemone flower, designer Nicola Slaney. Dated 2018. Stands 14.75 inches - 37.5 cm tall. RRP £615.00. First quality and mint condition.

Plummer (Ivor, 1927-2018). Euphrosyne Resting, cast bronze sculpture, showing a nude female seated on a block of stone with a further square marble base beneath, 38cm high (Qty: 1)One of the original edition of 10, first exhibited in 1992 and included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition the same year.

δ StikStanding Figure (Red)Offset lithograph printed in colours, 2015, signed in black felt tip, with full margins, sheet 755 x 240mm (30 ½ x 9 ½in) (unframed)The first edition of the book included this print (unsigned), but this lot is one of a number of prints signed in person by STIK upon the book's release at Foyles bookstore in London.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

19th Century & Later Fiction & Non-Fictions and Cloth Bindings - Aunt Judy's May-Day Volume, For Young People, Illustrated, Edited by Mrs Alfred Gatty, composite volumes 2-6, 8 & 12, harlequin contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo, (7); Ewing (Juliana Horatia), Melchoir's Dream and Other Tales [...], Illustrated by Gordon Browne, George Bell and Sons, London 1887, contemporary gilt half-vellum and green cloth, 8vo; further children's and other juvenile works by Erwing, including a boxed set of her works in cloth; The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [...], Otto Schulze & Company, Edinburgh 1902, contemporary red calf, 8vo; Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, Selected and Edited by Frank Sidgwick, three-volumes, A.H. Bullen, London 1903, contemporary red cloth spines, marbled boards, 12mo, (3); Porter (Miss Jane), The Scottish Chiefs, George Routledge and Co., London 1853, contemporary cloth, 16mo; Plaché (J.R.), History of British Costume [...], with Numerous Illustrations [...], C. Cox, London 1847, contemporary blue cloth, 16mo; Carlyle (Thomas), The French Revolution: A History, three-volume set, Chapman and Hall, London [n.d., c. 1900], contemporary gilt leather Queen's College, Taunton, prize binding, 8vo, (3); various imprints of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, all contemporary cloth bindings but various sizes; The Nights of Straparola, Now First Translated into English by W.G. Waters, Illustrated by E.R. Huhes, A.R.W.S., two-volume set, Lawrence and Bullen, London 1894, contemporary moiré boards, 4to, (2); other Medieval Revivalist literature; vellum and part-vellum bindings, various; [Kinglake (Alexander William)], Eothen, fifth edition, John Ollivier, London 1847, gilt pictorial green cloth, 12mo; Poems of Browning; Oscar Wilde; various bindings and sizes; etc

Antiquarianism and History - The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstelet [...], Translated by Thomas Johnes, two-volume set, William Smith, London 1840, chromolithographic title-page, wood engravings with text, contemporary half-calf and silk moiré boards gilt, later 19th century armorial bookplates: Thomas Folliott Powell, large 8vo, (2); Chappell (W, F.S.A.), Popular Music of the Olden Time [...] [with] A Short Account of the Minstrels [...], two-volume set, Cramer, Beale, & Chappell, London [n.d., c. 1859], volume I with chromolithographic frontispiece of Medieval sheet music, other music accompanying text, 19th century half-leather and marbled boards, 4to, (2); The Harleian Mifcellany (sic) [...], volumes I-III & VIII only, Printed for T. Osborne, London 1744-1746, contemporary calf (worn), ex-lib, 4to, (4); Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities edited by Charles Knight, two-volume set, James Sangster and Co, London [n.d., 1844], full-page colour plates, monochrome line engraved vignettes, contemporary quarter-calf and cloth boards, pictorial gilt spines, small folios, (2); Weever (John), Antient (sic) Funeral Monuments [...], Printed by W. Tooke, London 1767, partial-calf and marbled boards (worn, disbound), large 4to; Ellis (George), Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances [...], Henry G. Bohn, London 1848, full-page chromolithographic Medieval frontispiece, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers conforming, 12mo; Thierry (Augustin), Histoire de la Conquête de l'Angleterre par les Normands [...], fifth edition, Just Tessier, Paris 1839, illustrated with full-page plates of the Bayeux Tapestry, contemporary half-calf and marbled board (disbound), oblong 4to; Armorial Bindings, Michel (Francisque), Chroniques Anglo-Normandes [...], volumes I & III only, Édouard Frère, Rouen 1836-1840, contemporary polished calf, each cover centred by the antiquarian Hudson Gurney's crest gilt, within a gilt fillet, six-compartment spines crested in the first, altering lettering and numbering pieces in the second and fourth compartments, raised bands, 8vo, (2); The Statutes at Large [...], volume I only, Printed by Mark Baskett, London 1769, contemporary calf, early 19th century engraved crest bookplate of a member of the Hoare family, later bookplate, 4to; The British Museum: Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles, volume II, Charles Knight, London 1833, contemporary cloth, 12mo; etc

Bindings - Literature - James [(George Payne Rainsford)], Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times, first edition, three-volume set, Saunders and Otley, London 1843, contemporary calf spines and marbled boards (worn), 8vo, (3); Rogers (Samuel), Italy, A Poem, Printed for T. Cadell [...], London 1830, illustrated with steel engravings after Turner, 19th century morocco by Deighton & Laughton, Liverpool, stamped, 8vo; Jones (Hannah Maria), The Gipsey (sic) Girl, or The Heir of Hazel Dell, J. & F. Tallis, London [n.d., c. 1845] full-page engraved plates, contemporary black diced calf, 8vo; other 19th century novels; Jerrold (Douglas), Comedies and Dramas, Bradbury and Evans, London 1854, contemporary quarter-calf and cloth, 12mo; Inchbald (Mrs [Elizabeth]), A Simple Story, Richard Bentley, London 1849, contemporary red quarter-roan and marbled boards, 12mo; Ainsworth (W. Harrison), Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Baudry's European Library, Paris 1840, contemporary calf spine gilt and marbled boards, 8vo; Foster (John), Essays in a Series of Letters, thirteenth edition, Samuel Holdsworth, London 1838, contemporary maroon roan gilt, 12mo; Quincey (Thomas De), The English Mail Coach and Other Writings, Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1863, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo; Macaulay (Lord), Lays of Ancient Rome [...], Longmans [...], London 1867, line engravings throughout, contemporary pictorial leather binding, gilt and blind, 12mo; D'Israeli (I), Curiosities of Literature, George Routledge and Sons, London 1871, contemporary half-vellum and marbled boards, 12mo; other part-vellum bindings, various; Ellis [(Sarah Stickney)], The Daughters of England, their Position in Society, Character & Responsibilities, Fisher, Son, & Co., London [n.d., 1854], contemporary crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges, 12mo; Southey (Robert), The Doctor [...], Complete in One Volume, Longman [...], London 1848, 20th century buckram and cloth, 8vo;19th century imprints of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, various; other volumes and bindings, including prose, verse and comedies; qty

China - Macartney ([George], The Earl of) and Staunton (Sir George, Baronet), An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...], first edition, volumes I & II only: lacking plate folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, London 1797, pp: [ii], xxxiv, 518; xx, 626, lacking engraved frontispieces, full-page botanical engraved plate at 614/615: Camellia Sesanqua, engraved tailpiece vignettes as called for, contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, the covers with a triple-fillet border enclosing rolled foliate field, the six-compartment spines lettered in the second and numbered in fifth compartments, alternated with foliate bosses, diaper and scrolls, raised bands, gilt edges, Adamesque paterae dentelles, the text blocks reinforced and strengthened with slightly later crimson calf strips, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: John Deakin Heaton, M.D., (1817-1880, First Chairman of Leeds Council, (1874-1880)), 4to

Comic, Töpffer [(Rodolphe)], Histoire de Mr Jabot, first edition, Genève 1833, illustrated with 52 full-page caricatures, title-page printed on yellow card that has been subsequently relaid, later 19th/early 20th century yellow cloth preserving earlier marbled endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplate: Michael Pepper, Bigods, Essex; Pictorial bookplate: Casilda Ince Anderton, corresponding earlier pencil inscription: Casilda Ince Anderston rom W.H. Colville, September 12, 1877, oblong 8vo; Pictures from Punch, six-volume set, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London 1894-1896, pictorial cloth as issued, 4to, (6); Burns (Robert), The Soldier's Return, Illustrated by John Faed, R.S.A., For the Members of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1837, full-page plates, contemporary red cloth (wear, losses to spine), crown folio; Tyrrell (Henry), The Royal History of England [...], Embellished with a Series of Steel Engravings [...], J.G. Murdoch, London 1877, gilt pictorial leather binding as issued, 4to; Paris Commune 1871, [10]

Continental - Faerni (Gabrielis), [Faerno (Gabriele)], [Aesop's Fables Latinized], Fabulae Centum Ex Antiquis Auctoribus Delectae, carminibufque (sic) explicatae, Quae accefferint (sic) praeterea, indicat Epiftola (sic) ad Lectorem, Josephus Cominus [Giuseppe Comino], Padua 1718, pp: [xx], 113, colophon [i], woodcut vignette to title-page, decorative initials, head and tailpieces, contemporary calf (disbound, rubbed), 18th century and later pencil shelf numberings, 4to; Fables de La Fontaine, Avec Figures Gravées par MM. Simon et Coiny, volumes 2-6 only, Chez Bossange, Masson et Besson, Paris, An IV [1796 ère vulg.], full-page engravings, contemporary French blue straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, later Seal Armorial bookplate of William Lowther, 12mo, Cohen-De Ricci, 554, (5); [Prévost (Abbé Antoine François)], Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut, revision of the 1731 first edition, two-volume set, Aux dépens de La Compagnie, Amsterdam 1753, lacking plates, mid-19th century moirée green silk binding dated 1853, gilt lettered leather labels to spine, 16mo, (2); Mothe-Fénelon (François de Salignac de la), Dialogues des Morts, Anciens et Modernes, Avec Quelques Fables [...], two-volume set, Jacques Estienne, Paris 1718, contemporary calf, gilt lettered spines (volume II expertly rebacked), speckled red edges, 12mo, (2); Élémens de Politesse et de Bienséance [...], F.J. Desoer, Liége 1790, contemporary calf binding, gilt lettered and tooled spine, red-stained edges, 12mo; harlequin volumes of Bibliotheque de Campagne, ou Amusemens de l'Esprit et du Coeur, contemporary calf bindings, 12mo; further 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century works, including Balzac, various sizes and bindings, including leather, half-leather, vellum and cloth; etc

Cumming (The Revd. J.G., M.A., F.G.S.), The Runic and Other Monumental Remains of the Isle of Man, first edition, Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press [for] Bell and Daldy, London [n.d., 1857], pp: ix, errata slip, 44, [4], 15 full-page lithographic plates, contemporary printed boards and fragmentary gilt lettered calf spine, 4to; Waring (J.B.), Stone Monuments, Tumuli and Ornament of Remote Ages; with Remarks on the Early Architecture of Ireland and Scotland, Printed and Published by John B. Day, London 1870, pp: x, 85, [1], 108 full-page lithographic plates, 87-96, early 20th century quarter green roan and cloth, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, crown folio; Stephens (Dr George, F.S.A.), Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Now First Collected and Deciphered, Williams and Norgate [&] H.H.J. Lynge, London 1884, b/w antiquarian line engravings throughout, 20th century red cloth enclosing original drab paper wrappers, repeated ink MS ownership inscription and dated 1908 to inside paper cover and half-title, small folio, [3]

Dickens (Charles), Bleak House, first edition, with Illustrations by H.K. Browne, Bradbury and Evans, London 1853, contemporary green half-leather and marbled boards (worn, split), conforming marbled endpapers, 8vo; a later copy, Chapman Hall, London [n.d., c. 1870], line engravings, contemporary quarter-leather and cloth, 4to; Dickens (Charles), Master Humphrey's Clock, volumes I & II bound as one, with Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, Chapman and Hall, London 1840-1841, contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards, 4to; other works by or about Dickens, 19th and 20th centuries, various bindings and sizes; The Comic Almanack for 1845, with Twelve Illustrations of the Months by Geo. Cruikshank, David Bogue, London, original pictorial wrappers, 12mo; Cruikshank at Home: A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment [...], First and Second Series, Henry G. Bohn, London 1845, red cloth and pictorial gilt spine as issued, 12mo; John Leech; Punch: 1854, two-volume set, 1855 & volume II only, contemporary cloth spine and marbled boards, (3); etc, [17]

English Literature - Edgeworth (Maria), Comic Dramas, In Three Acts, first edition, Printed for R. Hunter, London 1817, publisher's cloth, 12mo; Anon, [Southey (Robert)], The Doctor, volumes I, II & V only, Longman [...], London 1834-1838, publisher's cloth, 8vo; Provincial Imprints: Tregortha (John), News from the Invisible World; or, Interesting Anecdotes of the Dead [...], Accounts of Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, Dreams and Visions [...], Printed by John Tregortha, Burslem 1810, contemporary reverse calf blind, rebacked and relaid, 8vo; Anon, [Reeve (Clara)], The Old Englifh (sic) Baron: A Gothic Story, Printed by C. & W. Thompson, Sheffield [n.d., c. 1813], title-page woodcut vignette, contemporary reverse calf, 8vo; Milman (The Rev. H.H.), The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem, John Murray, London 1822, contemporary quarter-calf and later boards, 8vo; The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner [...], Printed for T. and J. Allman, London 1825, full-page engravings, original publisher's boards, 8vo; The Percy Anecdotes, Original and Select [...], six-volume set, Printed for T. Boys, London 1820, engraved frontispieces, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, 18mo, (6); The Literary Souvenir, edited by Alaric A. Watts, Longman [...], London 1832, stipple engraved full-page plates, contemporary green roan, all edges gilt, 16mo; Friendship's Offering; and Winter's Wreath [...], Smith, Elder and Co., London 1833, full-page engraved plates, contemporary embossed binding, gilt and blind tooled, all edges gilt, 2ff ink MS contemporary dedication inscription, 16mo; Mitchel (John), The Female Pilgrim [...], third edition, Printed for William Baynes, London [n.d., c. 1807], full-page and fold-out engraved plates, contemporary polished calf gilt, 8vo; Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal, various 19th century imprints, bindings and sizes; Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, various early 19th century and later editions, bindings and sizes, including Liverpool 1808; The Lady's Poetical Magazine [...], Volume IV, 1782, contemporaneous boards, 8vo; Sterne's Works, two harlequin volumes, Dublin 1774, speckled calf, 12mo, (2); qty

Kane (Elisha Kent, M.D., R.N.), Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, [...], first edition, two-volume set, Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, and Trübner & Co., London, 1856, pp: [iv], [1-5], 6-464; [iv], [1-3], 4-467, additional engraved frontispieces and title-pages, full-page plates, 3 maps - 1 of which being fold-out, and wood engraved vignettes throughout, contemporary blind pictorial blue cloth covers, bound by Westleys of London, their ticket to recto pastedown of volume I only, later rebacked preserving gilt lettered spine, 8vo, [2]

Lavater [Johann Kaspar], Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind [....], Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft [...], first English edition, three-volume set bound as six, Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London 1789, illustrated with full-page engraved plates, later 19th century half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo, (6); Physiognomy: or the Corresponding Analogy between the Conformation of the Features, and the Ruling Passions of the Mind: Translated from the Original Work of J.C. Lavater, By Samuel Shaw Esq, Printed for H.D. Symonds, London [n.d., 1792], lacking title-page but engraved frontispiece present, publisher's boards, later spine, 12mo, [7] Condition Report: Spines splitting and losses, evidence of water markings, pages loose/detached

Miscellaneous - Bingley (Rev. W.), Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind [...], with Engravings from Original Drawings, Executed Chiefly by Mr Samuel Howitt, first edition, Printed for Darton and Harvey [...], London 1809, lacking blanks and half-titles, presumably from later rebinding, the text erroneously paginated but apparently complete, 72 full-page monochrome plates (three damaged, a handful with marginal tears), later 19th century half-calf and marbled boards but disbound, 8vo; Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth and Animated Nature [...], two-volume set, Blackie & Son, London 1876, chromolithographic frontispieces, title-page vignettes and full-page plates, further monochrome wood engraved vignettes accompanying text, contemporary half-calf and cloth, blind tooled Gothic Revival spines, marbled edges, 4to, (2); Natural History in Anecdote [...], Arranged and Edited by Alfred H. Miles, second edition, Hutchinson & Co, London [n.d., c. 1900], full-page b/w plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, 12mo; Atkinson (Rev. J.C.), British Birds' Eggs and Nests, Popularly Described, Illustrated W.S. Coleman, George Routledge and Sons, London [n.d., c. 1890], contemporary pictorial red cloth (worn, water damaged), 12mo; Howitt (William), The Book of the Seasons; or the Calendar of Nature, second edition, Richard Bentley, London 1833, wood engraved frontispiece and vignettes, contemporary publisher's cloth, 12mo; [d'Holbach (Baron Paul-Henri Thiry)], The System of Nature [...], third edition, William Hodgson [...], London 1817, contemporary publisher's boards only (loose), 4to; Gregory (Olinthus), Mathematics for Practical Men [...], fourth edition, Lockwood & Co., London 1862, fold-out plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo; etc, [10] Condition Report: the final page number of William Hodgson's System of Nature is 623, there is no portrait of Hodgson as a frontispiee

Miscellaneous - Jewitt (Llwellynn, F.S.A.), The Ceramics Art of Great Britain [...], Illustrated with Nearly Two Thousand Engravings, first edition, two-volume set, Virtue and Co., London 1878, contemporary pictorial gilt blue cloth, 4to, (2); The Paris Exhibition 1900, The Art Journal Office, London 1901, illustrated, contemporary cloth, small folio; Chambers Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities [...], two-volume set, W. & R. Chambers, London [1869], wood engraved vignettes, contemporary stained green half-calf gilt and cloth boards, marbled edges, 4to, (2); Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, three-volume set, Adam & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne [n.d., c. 1880], contemporary black roan gilt, cloth boards, 4to, (3); 19th century leather and part-leather bound copies of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, various imprints and sizes; The Land We Live In: A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire, three-volume set, Charles Knight, London [n.d., c. 1845], 4to, (3); Holy Land and Christ, various plate books; etc

Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - The Earl of Sefton's Copies: The History of the Campaign of 1796 In Germany and Italy, Translated from the French [...] [&] 1799, In Holland [...], first English editions?, two volumes, Printed by J. Barfield, London 1800-1801, illustrated with 6 fold-out maps, slightly later 19th century half-calf and marbled boards, buff endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: William Philip Earl of Sefton, Croxeth Library, [West Derby, Liverpool], 8vo, (2); The History of the Campaign of 1799 (erroneous?, 1796?), In Germany and Switzerland [...] [&] 1797, In Italy and Germany, second edition, two volumes, Printed by J. Barfield [...], London 1801, 8 fold-out maps and plans, contemporary diced half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo, (2), [4]

Sir Walter Scott - various Waverley, historic novels and other works including: Napoleonic Wars/1815 Battle of Waterloo, Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk, first edition, Printed by James Ballantyne and Co [...], Edinburgh 1816, in-keeping 20th century half-calf and buckram, 8vo; The Abbot, first edition, three-volume set, Printed for Longman [...], Edinburgh 1820, contemporary blue calf spines gilt with Scottish thistles and blue cloth boards, 8vo, (3); Kenilworth; A Romance, first edition, three-volume set, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co [...], Edinburgh 1821, quarter-calf and marbled boards, 8vo, (3); Historical Romances: Ivanhoe, two-volume set, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh 1822, engraved title-page vignettes, contemporary green half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo, (2); The Bridal of Triermain, or The Vale of Saint John, in Three Cantos, fith edition, Printed by James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh 1817, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo; The Pirate, two-volume set, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh 1824, contemporary polished calf, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: L. Ingham Baker, 8vo, (2); The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem, thirteenth edition, Longman, London 1812, contemporary Regency marbled calf gilt, 8vo; Rokeby, fourth edition, 1813; Marmion, fourth edition, 1808; Senior (Nassau W.), Reviews of the Waverley Novels, from Rob Roy to the Chronicles of the Canongate Inclusive, with some Miscellaneous Articles, Extracted from [...] the Quarterly Review, and [...] London Review, [n.d., c. 1825], title-page inscribed and dedicated in ink MS: from the author, 20th century boards, 8vo; Husband (M.F.A.), A Dictionary of the Characters in the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, George Routledge and Sons, London 1910, contemporary cloth, large 8vo; various other works, imprints, binding and sizes; etc

Theology - Saint Irenaeus, First Bishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, Prières et pratiques du séminaire de Saint-Irénée de Lyon, approuvées par Monseigneur l'Archevêque, Pair & Primat de France, Comte de Lyon, second edition, De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé Delaroche, [n.d., 1739], pp: [iv], 268, xxxii, anachronistic woodcut printer's device to title-page, some headers, tacked contemporaneous vellum manuscript palimpsest covers, some inscriptions and various 18th century dates to each pastedown, 16mo (15.3cm x 8.8cm)No copies listed on Copac. Rare but arid.

Travel - Lamartine (Alphonse de), Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land [...], with a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, Published by William and Robert Chambers, Edinburgh 1839, contemporary quarter-calf and cloth boards, later calf spine of raised bands, paper lettering piece in the second compartment, 8vo; China, Li Hung Chang's Scrap-Book, Compiled and Edited by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, with Portrait [...] and Forty-two Illustrations, signed and dedicated copy from the author, first and only? edition, Watts & Co, London 1913, red cloth, 8vo, (some water damage to covers and front flyleaf); Russia, Nansen (Fridtjof), Through Siberia: The Land of the Future [...], Translated by Arthur G. Chater, Illustrated, first English edition, William Heinemann, London 1914, contemporary pictorial cloth as issued, ex-lib University of Keele: The Library but fairly neat cancellations, 4to; [Barthélemy (Abbé Jean-Jacques)], Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce [...], third edition, volume II only, De Bure [...], Paris 1790, relaid contemporary cat's paw calf binding, rebacked spine, 8vo, [4]

Travel - Scandinavia - [Scargill-Bird (Samuel Robert)], One and a Half in Norway: A Chronicle of Small Beer, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London 1885, contemporary blue cloth gilt, 12mo; Bresemann (Frederick) & Jones (William), English and Danish Dialogues [...], second edition, Printed by S. Trier, Copenhagen 1848, contemporary calf back and marbled boards, 8vo; Chaillu (Paul B. Du), The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland, with Map and 235 Illustrations, two-volume set, Harper & Brothers, New York 1882, contemporary pictorial cloth as issued, 8vo, (2); Norway Through the Stereoscope [...], Underwood & Underwood, New York and London, 1900, volume of text only and folding map with case, contemporary cloth, 8vo; Nansen (Fridtjof), The First Crossing of Greeland [...], Longmans [...], London 1897, contemporary cloth, 8vo; other works by/or about Nansen, various; Asnjörnsen (P. Chr.) & Moe (Jörgen), Norwegian Fairy Tales, Iluustrated by Bessie du Val, George Routledge and Sons Limited, London 1895, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo; Nilsson (Sven), The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia [...], signed presentation copy, third edition, Longmans [...], London 1868, blue cloth, 8vo; Shepard (J.S.), Over the Dovrefjelds, with Illustrations, Henry S. King & Co, London 1873, contemporary blue cloth gilt, 8vo; Macgregor (J.), The Rob Roy on the Baltic: A Canoe Cruise [...], second edition, Sampson Low [...], London 1867, green cloth, 8vo; Jurgenson (C), The Land of the Vikings: A Popular Guide to Norway, Walter Scott, London 1889, adverts, red cloth, 8vo; Willson (Thomas B.), The Handy Guide to Norway, with Maps [...], third edition, Edward Stanford, London 1891, contemporary cloth, 12mo; Cook's Guide, third edition, 1897; Beckett (Samuel J.), The Fjords and Folk of Norway [...], second revised edition, Methuen & Co, London 1928; others, all 19th/first-quarter, 20th century

Voltaire, [pseud. Arouet (François-Marie)], [La Henriade], La Ligue, ou Henry le Grand, Poëme Epique, first genuine edition, Chez Jean Mokpap, Geneva, [Viret, Rouen], 1723, pp: [ii], iii-viii, 157, [3], 161-231, woodcut decorative initials, head and tailpieces, contemporary marbled paper covers, red-stained edges, 12mo This epic poem was first published in 1723 as a pirated edition of 216 pages, followed by a genuine first edition of 231 pages such as this lot. In spite of the erroneous imprint, the pirated edition was published in Rouen, at the press of Viret, and not in Geneva by the imaginary Jean Mokpap. La Ligue, later enlarged to become La Henriade, contained what censors deemed heresy. Voltaire lovingly portrayed Henri IV, the French monarch who brought France's Civil Wars to an end. In the poem, Voltaire treats the king as the forerunner of religious toleration, depicting him as a liberal who supported the Protestant cause. Royal censorship demanded suppressions to the poem that Voltaire refused to make. Therefore, he took the manuscript to Rouen where it was printed in secret. Condition Report: Pages complete as description, cover creased and torn in places, the inside pages generally bright, some spotting and minor creases, please see additional images

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntington Library [...], University of California Press, 1981, ochre cloth, slipcased en suite, oblong 4to; Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A facsimile edition prepared by Helge Kökeritz [...], Yale University Press, 1954, h/b, d/j, 4to; Wells (Stanley) and Taylor (Gary), William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987, h/b, d/j, 4to; Facsimiles of the First Folio Text: King Lear and Julius Caesar [...], Printed at the Chiswick Press and published by Faber & Gwyer, London, [n.d., c. 1920], h/b, Caesar d/j only, 4to, (2); Shakespeare's Hamlet: The First Quarto 1603, Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library, Harvard University Press, 1931, panelled brown cloth, 8vo; further Shakespearean facsimile reprints, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602 [...], Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Sonnets 1609, Scolar Press Limited, 1968, p/b, 12mo; Hamlet, Second Quarto, 1605, Scolar Press Limited, 1969, red cloth, 8vo; The Elizabethan Underworld: A collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballds [...], [edited] by A.V. Judges, With 20 Illustrations, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London 1930, blue cloth, 4to; etc

Madman's Drum, a novel in woodcuts by Lynd Ward, First Edition published by Jonathan Cape 1930

The first edition of "Four Little Engines" by Rev W. Awdry - refered to "Thomas The Tank" and a vintage 40s - 50s Mabel Lucie Atwell bathroom plaque.

Charles Darwin - Origin of the Species, published John Murray 1889, 6th edition with 32 page, John Murray catalogue at rear dated January 1889. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, with one folding plate. The 6th edition is the last edition of Darwin's lifetime, he continually made additions to his original work and this edition is the first to mention evolution. Very nice condition. 

CLEMENCE DANE - THE ARROGANT HISTORY OF WHITE BEN first edition 1939 with Cunard White Star Limited stamp on front together with three other books, Leonard R. Gribble - 'The Arsenal Stadium Mystery' 1941, Margot Heinemann 'The Adventurers', proof copy 1960 and Leigh Hunt - 'The Town: Its memorable Characters and Events, 1859 (4)

A COLLECTION OF BOOKS TO INCLUDE - HARRODS ROYAL DESPATCH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1901, CHARLES DICKENS - 'MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT', Chapman & Hall with illustrations by Phiz, first edition but not first issue, MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT - 'THE FOUR MINSTERS ROUND THE WREKIN', Adnitt & Naunton/Simpkin, Marshall & Co. (4)

Perkins (William). A Commentarie or Exposition, upon the Five First Chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians. Now Published for the Benefit of the Church, and Continued with a Supplement upon the Sixt Chapter, by Rafe Cudworth, first edition, Cambridge: John Legat, 1604, printer's woodcut device to title, some spotting and soiling throughout, old stain affecting final leaves, closely trimmed occasionally touching headlines and catchwords, old ink notes and marginalia, leaves S2-T4 possibly from another copy, several early 18th-century ink ownership names to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, worn with loss to spine and corners, 4to, together with [Brown, William, Clerk of the Common Pleas], A Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Recoveries upon Writs of Entry in the Post, and Fines upon Writs of Covenant... , printed by G. Sawbridge et al, 1678, imprimatur leaf before title, part black letter, a little worming slightly affecting some lettering in signatures D-F, old ink ownership names and pen trials, stitching partly broken and many leaves partly detached, front free endpaper frayed and loose, contemporary calf, soiled and slightly worn, 8vo, plus [Johnson, Richard], The Toy-Shop, or Sentimental Preceptor, Containing some Choice Trifles for the Instruction and Amusement of every little Miss and Master, a new edition, carefully revised by E.H. Barker, Swaffham: F. Skill, 1830, woodcut frontispiece and some illustrations to text, 4 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, some occasional heavy browning and soiling, a few leaves detached and a little frayed at margins, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, some edge wear, 12mo, plus four other miscellaneous antiquarian (Qty: 7)

Tasso (Torquato). La Gierusalemme Liberata, Geneva, Girolamo Bartoli, 1590, engraved title, 20 full-page engraved illustrations by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci after Bernardo Castello, woodcut cartouches and ornaments, a few burn marks, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplate of Sir William Burrell (1732-1796, 2nd baronet) pasted to title verso, hinges breaking, all edges green, early 18th century red morocco gilt, lower cover detached, joints cracked, spine and edges rubbed, small folio (Qty: 1)Adams T243; Cicognara 1112. First illustrated edition of Tasso's epic Siege of Jerusalem poem.

Benjamin of Tudela. Itinerarium Benjaminis, latine redditum opera Const. l'Empereur, Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633, woodcut title device and initials, contemporary vellum, later manuscript spine-title, 24mo (9.3 x 4.1 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire bibliophile and retail chemist (bookplate). Willems 379 (with erroneous collation of 333 rather than 233 pp. for the main text); cf. Blackmer 120. Second edition in Latin of the important Middle Eastern and Mediterranean travel account by Jewish merchant Benjamin of Tudela (1130-1173), 'the first European traveller to go further afield than the ordinary pilgrim' (Blackmer). It was originally printed in Hebrew at Constantinople in 1543; Plantin published the first Latin edition in 1575. In 1633 the Elzevirs also published a bilingual edition and an edition of the Hebrew alone.

Lycophron Chalcidensis . Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis , 2 parts in one, Oxford, 1697, engraved portrait frontispiece with short closed tear to upper blank margin, vignette title with ownership inscription to upper blank margin, title and text in Greek & Latin, contemporary calf, lacking upper board, worn, folio, together with Flavell (John) , The Fountain of Life Opened: or, a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, 1673, engraved portrait frontispiece cropped to image and lined to verso, toning and dust-soiling throughout, late 18th/early 19th century half calf, joints slightly cracked and some wear, 4to, with Hall (Joseph) , Divers Treatises, Written upon severall Occasions, the Third Tome, now first collected into one volume..., 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece, decorative woodcut border to title, light toning and dust-soiing, contemporary mottled calf, spine tord at head with loss, some wear, folio, and Whitelock (Bulstrode) , Memorials of the English Affairs: or, An Historical Account of what passed from the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second His Happy Restauration..., new edition, 1732, signature to title, bookplate of Lady Isabella Anne Brydges to upper pastedown, contemporary diced calf, blind decorated spine and gilt & blind panel decoration to boards, joints cracked and slight wear, folio, plus a wormed and worn copy of Life Eternall or, A Treatise of the knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes. Delivered in XVIII Sermons..., by John Preston, 1631 (Qty: 5)

Scaliger (Julius Caesar). Exotericarum exercitationum liber quintus decimus, 1st edition, Paris: Michael Vascosan, July 1557, title with rectanglar excission to centre of leaf, few woodcut diagrams to text, final blank present, short worm trail to last two leaves of text, light dampstain to margins at rear of volume, inscription to front blank, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Marquess of Tweeddale, Earl of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester, all edges gilt, early 18th century terracotta brown sheep, elaborate gilt decoration incorporating fleur-de-lis motifs to boards and spine compartments, few tiny worm holes at head & foot of spine, board corners neatly repaired, 4to (Qty: 1)Adams S579; Duveen 342; Ferguson II, 324. This work by Scaliger is best known as a philosopher, where he represented the traditional Aristotelian view of science, and in this work set out to refute the findings of Cardan. The full title of the 'Exotericarum exercitationum' implies that the critique is merely the fifteenth book of Scaliger's philosophical exercises (the first fourteen remained unpublished).

Legrenzi (Angelo) . Il pellegrino nell'Asia ... con li ragguagli dello stato della santa citta di Gierusalemme, Bethelemme, Nazareth, ed altri luoghi santi, et citta maritima [volume 2: con li ragguagli dello stato dell'imperio Ottomano, del re di Persia, de Mogori, e gentili loro legge, vita e costumi], 1st edition, Venice: for Domenico Valvasense, 1705, 2 volumes in 1, engraved frontispiece, a few woodcut or typographic illustrations in text, woodcut tailpieces, intermittent faint tide-mark in gutter, loss to a few lower outer corners not affecting text, volume 1 p. 183 imperfectly printed through creasing of paper but all text present, volume 2 leaf G12 partially failed to print verso and with small chip to fore edge affecting text, contemporary vellum-backed carta rustica, manuscript spine-title, 12mo (14.8 x 7.8 cm) (Qty: 1)Not in Atabey, Blackmer or Cobham-Jeffery. Legrenzi (1643-1708), Venetian physician and surgeon, set out for Aleppo after the end of the Cretan War (1645-1669) and spent over 20 years travelling through the Middle East and India. The first volume relates his peregrinations across the Holy Land, including visits to Antioch, Tripoli, Acre, Mount Carmel, Bethany, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and elsewhere; Cyprus is described at pages 17-21. The second volume concerns his subsequent travels through Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and India. It includes descriptions of the cities of Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarebekir, Tikrit, Baghdad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, Surat, Aurangabad, Agra and Delhi; pages 184-191 describe at length the sea route to India via the Persian Gulf ('Della navigatione all'Indie per il seno Persico'). His account has been compared to the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle (1650-63), but is much rarer, and was never reprinted. OCLC traces ten copies in libraries world-wide, of which none in the United Kingdom; no other copy traced in auction records.

Adimari (Alessandro). La Polinnia, overo Cinquanta sonetti fondata sopra Sentezne di G. Cor. Tacito, 1st edition, Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1628, half-title, engraved title-page, quire K misbound, inner hinges cracked (held by endbands), monogram ink-stamps to half-title, contemporary limp vellum, spine worn, later shelfmark label to front cover, 4to (21.8 x 15.8 cm), together with: Platina (Bartolomeo). De Vitis ac Gestis summorum pontificum ad sua usque tempora, Cologne: Jaspar van Gennep, 1551, woodcut title device, woodcut historiated initials, bound without final blank (I6), title-page water-stained, ink-stamp verso, first quire loosening, small hole in g1 costing a few letters, early annotations to front pastedown and free endpaper, front inner hinge reinforced, contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked, craquelure, a few repairs, folio (31.2 x 18.4 cm) (Qty: 2)Adams P1419 (Platina). Copac traces seven copies of Adimari's work in UK libraries. The author (1579-1649) was a Florentine patrician, poet and dramatist; this work is a collection of sonnets based on Tacitus.

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries and Cathedral and Colliegiate Churches, with their dependencies in England and Wales..., a new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and Bulkeley Bandinel, 6 volumes in 8, 1817-30, half titles, additional engraved titles, titles printed in red and black, approximately 240 engraved plates and plans, several double page, occasional light spotting to plates, library ink stamps to printed title versos, shelf number stickers at foot of titles, modern black cloth, red labels to spines, thick folio (Qty: 8)Ther new edition, much expanded from William Dugdale's first edition of 1655 includes many plates of cathedrals, monasteries, priories and other religious buildings as well; as costumes and seals.