Modern Firsts, Literature & Thought. Eliot (T.S.) & Bentley (Nicolas, illustrator), Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, first illustrated edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940, original pictorial dustjacket, torn, chipped & stained, over pictorial cloth, 8vo, Woolf (Virginia), Orlando: A Biography, first edition, second impression, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928, frontispiece, original cloth only, 8vo, Whistler (Rex, illustrator), The Traveller’s Companion: A Travel Anthology, first edition thus, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 12mo, Le Carré (John), The Constant Gardener, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, dj, hb, 8vo, Larkin (Philip), The Less Deceived, sixth edition, Hessle: The Marvell Press, May 1966, dj over cloth, 8vo, Russell (Bertrand, F.R.S), What I Believe, first edition, London: Kegan Paul, et al., 1925, rebacked original boards, 8vo, Walkerdine (W.E.), Selected Poems, London: The Favil Press, 1935, original cloth, 8vo, five copies of Horizon, 1945-46, original wrappers, 8vo, Humbert Wolfe’s Copy, Phillpotts (Eden), A Comedy Royal: In Four Acts, London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1925, vellum over boards, 8vo, Waugh (Evelyn), Put Out More Flags, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1942, original ochre cloth only, 8vo, Coleridge (Ernest Hartley), Poems, London: John, The Bodley Head, 1898, original cloth tall 12mo in 6s, Maxwell (W.B.), Time Gathered: Autobiography, first American edition, New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938, dj over cloth, 8vo, Haggard (H. Rider), Pearl-Maiden […], first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1903, original cloth, 8vo, (1); H.E. Bates, The Tinkers of Elstow, second edition, n.d., cloth, 8vo, (1); R.P. Lipster, Nancy Cunard, Stendhal, The Week-end Book 1927, Belloc, H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley, John Betjeman, John Piper, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Graves, John Masefield, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Ransome, The Countryman, The Poetry Review, etc., (approx. 60)
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Modern Firsts, Signed Editions, & Uncorrected Proofs. Crichton (Michael), Jurassic Park, first edition, Century, 1991, dj, hb, 8vo, Rushdie (Salman): The Moor’s Last Sigh, signed, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo, [&] The Satanic Verses, first edition, Verses, 1998, dj, hb, 8vo, a further nineteen signed titles, various authors, including Bill Bryson, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Bragg and Sally Hay Burton on the latter’s biography of her husband Richard Burton, Ian Rankin, Laurie Lee, A.N. Wilson, David Frost, Joanne Harris, a further thirty-one first editions, various authors, including three by Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Sillitoe, Anthony Burgess, two Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Uncorrected Proof Copies, a collection of forty-two, including Heller (Joseph), Good as Gold, London: Jonathan Cape, 1979, original wrappers, 8vo, Hemingway (May Welsh), How it Was, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977, original wrappers, 8vo, Colegate (Isabel), Deceits of Time, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998, original wrappers, 8vo, Kerr (Philip), Esau, London: Chatto & Windus, 1996, original wrappers, 8vo, Bryson (Bill), Mother Tongue: The English Language, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990, original wrappers, 8vo, others, fiction and non-fiction, various, (95).
Natural History, Ornithology. Baker (J.A.), The Peregrine, first edition, first impression, London: Collins, 1967, pictorial dustjacket designed by Charles Raymond, over publisher's black cloth, 8vo, Montagu (George, F.L.S.), Ornithological Dictionary; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, two volumes bound as one, first edition, London: Printed for J. White, 1802, half-titles and errata, colour frontispiece only, contemporary gilt russia boards, rebacked, all edges gilt, 8vo, (2). Baker's Peregrine a crisp copy, the dustjacket with some trifling toning, a crease, and one or two minor chips. Montagu's Dictionary a respectable copy, some toning, occasional stains - mostly not affecting text, lower board soiled.
Natural History. Bewick (Thomas, illustrator), three provincial imprints: A General History of Quadrupeds, first edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, et al., 1790, in-text wood engravings, original publisher's boards, title-page with contemporaneous female ownership inscription: Sarah F***, 8vo, a similar copy, 3rd edition, 1792, contemporary calf gilt (detached covers), pink endpapers, 8vo, History of British Birds, volume II only, first edition, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, 1804, slightly later 19th century green quarter-morocco gilt over boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (3).
Natural History. Scotland, Gordon (Seton, F.Z.S.), The Land of the Hills and the Glens: Wild Life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides, With 57 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author, first edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1920, original cloth, 8vo, Gadow (Hans), Amphibia and Reptiles, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901, original cloth, 8vo, Houghton (Rev. W.), Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children, sole edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869, 7 chromolithographs only (of 8), original cloth, 8vo, Furneaux’s Butterflies and Moths, 1897, publisher’s blind-stamped presentation copy, original cloth, 8vo, Johns (The Rev. C.A.), Flowers of the Field, Elliott’s edition, tenth impression, 1923, colour plates, cloth, 8vo, further ornithology and botany, hunting, (13).
![Natural History. Moore’s British Ferns […], London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866, colour plates, original green cloth gilt](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/a2b738fb-66de-4006-96a0-af7301184a23/468x382.jpg)
Natural History. Moore’s British Ferns […], London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866, colour plates, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Swaysland (W.), Familiar Wild Birds, with Coloured Plates, Series 1-4, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883-[?90], contemporary quarter-calf over moiré boards, 8vo, The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, two-volume set, London: Charles Knight & Co., n.d. [c. 1865], printed in triple-columns, chromolithograph frontispieces, b/w in-text illustrations, contemporary green quarter-roan gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges, crown folio (36cm x 27cm), Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, First Series only, n.d. [c. 1875], original green cloth gilt, 8vo, Dixon’s Rarer Birds, etc., (9).
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Norway, its Archaeology and the Vikings. [Nicolaysen (Nicolay)], A Brief Description of the Ancient Vessel Found Near Sandefjord in Norway. To accompany the Model of the Ship Sent to the International Ship-Model Exhibition in London 1882, first edition, 14pp, original wrappers, 8vo, [&] Excavations at Trondheim, 1971, an album of 41 b/w images, annotated and mounted to card leaves, 20th century buckram ledger, moiré endpapers, (1); 6 loose b/w and sepia photographs of Scandinavian Viking antiquities and architecture, (2).
Oxford. Storer (J, illustrator), Storer (H.S., illustrator), & Lascelles (Rowley), The University and City of Oxford; Displayed in a Series of Seventy-Two Views [...], Accompanied with A Dialogue, after the Manner of Castiglione, first edition, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821, engravings printed on India paper and press-rolled onto leaves, toned with occasional spots of foxing, the clean impressions of the plates not affected, original publisher's boards repaired and rebacked, 8vo.
Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph, Bart.), Letters to Young Shooters, First-Third Series, mixed editions, London: Longmans, et al., 1914, 1902, & 1896, illustrated, original publisher's green cloth gilt, 8vo, Watson (John), Poachers and Poaching, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1891, frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, others, 19th century and later on further country pursuits, shooting, hunting and fishing, husbandry and agriculture, various, (approx. 88).
Plato & Spens (Harry, D.D., translator), The Republic of Plato. In Ten Books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator, first English edition, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1763, pp: [8], [v]-xl, 430, [2] (publisher's advert), generally crisp, a few toned leaves, spots of foxing - mostly to prelims, occasional light creasing, contemporary calf, disbound, perished spine, 4to, [Gaskell 423] Provenance: 1) Thomas Watson Duncan, printed book label to pastedown, dated Nov. 30 1874 in ink manuscript. 2) J.H. Stuart, 10th May 1941, pencil ownership inscription on title-page.
![Poetry and Provincial Imprints. [Southey (Robert, editor)], The Annual Anthology, volume I only, first edition, Bristol:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/347c0e55-5a8c-4393-8568-af8000b69136/468x382.jpg)
Poetry and Provincial Imprints. [Southey (Robert, editor)], The Annual Anthology, volume I only, first edition, Bristol: Biggs and Co., 1799, typically lacking B8 (i.e. 31-32), contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, lower-cover detached, further wear with losses, 8vo, Lloyd (Charles, [Quaker]), The Duke d'Ormond, a tragedy; and Beritola, a tale, inscribed "With the author's respects", first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1822, leaves [H8]-I defective, original publisher's boards, upper-cover tacked-on at inner-gutter, but now with further movement, some wear and chips, spine perished in places, uncut, 8vo, Hayley (William) & Flaxman (Maria, illustrator), The Triumphs of Temper, thirteenth edition, Chichester: J. Seagrave, 1807, few soiled leaves, torn margin, disbound contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, another copy, twelfth edition, 1803, defective title, original boards, upper-cover almost disbound, 8vo, Percival (Thomas), A Father's Instructions, Gainsborough: H. Mozley, 1802, frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, split, 12mo in 6s, etc., (6). Provenance: William St Clair FBA (1937-2021).
Politics. A collection of twenty-one books, pamphlets and periodicals, including Bradlaugh (Charles), Five Dead Men Whom I Knew When Living [...], ?first edition, London: C. Watts, n.d. [?1877], disbound, 8vo, further socialism and trade unionism, Fabian Society tracts, as well as imperialism, China and Japan, Baynes' bibliography on National Socialism, 1943, etc., mixed bindings and wrappers, various sizes.
![Poultry. De Réaumur [(René Antoine Ferchault)], The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick (sic) Fowls Of all Kinds, At an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/fdd99d61-1deb-4f21-8004-af7300be98cc/468x382.jpg)
Poultry. De Réaumur [(René Antoine Ferchault)], The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick (sic) Fowls Of all Kinds, At any Time of the Year. Either by means of the heat of Hot-Beds, or that of Common Fire, first English edition, London: C. Davis, et al., 1750, half-title, pp: viii, 470, [1] (errata leaf), 15 folding engraved plates (no. 15 repaired and in places supplied in facsimile), engraved in-text vignettes, some stains in places, but an overall respectable copy, 20th century half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Hunting. Somervile (William), The Chace. A Poem, first edition, London: G. Hawkins, and sold by T. Cooper, 1735, pp: [vi], 106, [1] (errata), frontispiece engraved by Gérard Scotin after Hubert-François Gravelot, contemporary Spanish calf (a trifle tired, occasional chip), 4to, (2). Provenance: 2nd: Ex Libris Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), French industrialist and bibliophile, noted for his library devoted to hunting; his water fowl bookplate to recto pastedown; sold at the first of his sales, Sotheby’s Monaco, 28th February 1987, lot 510, loosely-inserted instructions.
Puritanism during the Cromwellian Protectorate. Burroughes (Jeremiah, the late Reverend and painfull (sic) Minister of the Gospel), The Saints Treasury. Being sundry Sermons preached in London, first edition, London: Printed by T.C. for John Wright at the Kings head in the Old-baily (sic), 1654, portrait frontispiece engraved by Thomas Cross, title-page within decorative border, pp: [x], 131, [17] (contents and errata leaf), rounded corners, some marginal blank chips, text split at signatures [L4]/K, recto and verso blanks with contemporaneous ink MS calculations, contemporary calf upper-cover only (detached, with rubbed and chipped losses), 4to, [Wing B6114].
Rousseau (Jean-Jacques), Discours sur l'origine & les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, counterfeit of the true first edition, Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1755, pp: [i], lxxviii, 299, contemporary speckled boards, 12mo, [&] Emile, ou de l'éducation, four-volume set, Francfort [? i.e. London]: s.n. [in part by Strahan], 1762, title-pages printed in red and black, contemporary English speckled calf boards, rebacked to style c. 1900, 12mo, (5).
Royal Provenance. Chaffers (William), The Keramic Gallery, two-volume set, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1872, half-titles, photographically illustrated, contemporary half-morocco over cloth gilt by R. Ingalton Drake, signed, all edges gilt, 'seaweed' endpapers, 8vo, (2). Provenance: Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), the eighth child and the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Shackleton (E.H., C.V.O.), The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, two-volume set, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1909, lacking four plates, volume II lacking three maps from pocket, some pencil annotations attributed to Margery Fisher (née Turner, 1913-1992), original publisher's pictorial cloth boards, later rebacked in blue calf gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, refreshed endpapers, 4to, (2).
Shelley (Percy Bysshe) & (Mary Wollstonecraft), editor), The Poetical Works, four-volume set, first collected edition, London: Edward Moxon, 1839, volume I with portrait frontispiece engraved by Finden, scarce in original publisher's red cloth, spines with varying chips and losses, and joints starting to split in places but holding together well, 8vo, [&] Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men, of Italty, Spain and Portugal, three-volume set, London: Longman, et al., 1835, contemporary cat's paw calf gilt, split and beginning to give, rubbed and chipped with losses, red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (7). Provenance: William St Clair FBA (1937-2021).
Strype (John), The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, The First Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth [...], London: Printed by John Wyat, 1711, black-ruled title-page printed in black and red, portrait frontispiece engraved by George Vertue, folding plate, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, split and chipped in places, all edges red, refreshed endpapers, folio. Provenance: 1) Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805-1888), Warwickshire antiquary and archaeologist, his book label to each pastedown. 2) By bequest to his alma mater, The Rugby School Library, their armorial bookplates to each pastedown.
![The Bassandyne Bible, the First Bible Printed in Scotland, Geneva Version. The Newe (sic) Testament [...]/Conferred dili](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/09c18452-49fd-448d-8c22-af7300da1879/468x382.jpg)
The Bassandyne Bible, the First Bible Printed in Scotland, Geneva Version. The Newe (sic) Testament [...]/Conferred diligently with the Greke (sic), and best approved translations with divers languages, At Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Bassandyne, 1576, [bound with, as posthumously issued] [The Old Testament, Alexander Arbuthnet, 1579], printed in parallel columns, NT title-page centred by the arms of Scotland, NT collates A-X?, Y²; signatures X onwards with dormant world trails at lower-left gutter/lower-margin, its fore margins repaired, but without loss of marginal notes, upper-right damp-stained throughout yet not affecting legibility of text; OT defective, lacking all before a1, a1 to [b4] repaired, unexamined thereafter, contemporary calf boards repaired and relaid on morocco, traces of blind-tooling and of previous metal mounts, morocco reback with gilt-lettered label, dated foot, crown folio in 6s (32.5cm x 22.5cm), [Herbert 158].
The Blue Max. Hunter (Jack D.), The Blue Max: A Novel of the German Air Force in World War I, first edition, dedicated copy signed and inscribed by the author, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1964, 320pp, sporadic and minor toned foxing, pictorial dustjacket designed by the author (a trifle soiled, rubbed, slight but stable splits and chips), original publisher's cloth over marbled boards, 8vo. Provenance: 'To Gary Hagland, who shares with me the respect for and admiration invoked by these unique men whose manifest qualities are epitomized by Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen - the Red Baron. With my very best wishes, Jack D. Hunter'; title-page with autograph inscription.
The Blue Max. Hunter (Jack D.), The Blue Max: A Novel of the German Air Force in World War I, first UK edition, dedicated copy signed and inscribed by the author, London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1965, 320pp, pictorial dustjacket designed by the author, original publisher's blue cloth, 8vo. Provenance: 'To Gary Hagland, who shares with me the respect for and admiration invoked by these unique men whose manifest qualities are epitomized by Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen - the Red Baron. With my very best wishes, Jack D. Hunter'; title-page with autograph inscription.
![The Enlightenment. [Swediaur (Franz)], The Philosophical Dictionary: or, the Opinions of Modern Philosophers on Metaphysical,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/ed35e6a9-f6fc-45bf-b075-af7300da3518/468x382.jpg)
The Enlightenment. [Swediaur (Franz)], The Philosophical Dictionary: or, the Opinions of Modern Philosophers on Metaphysical, Moral, and Political Subjects, four-volume set, first English edition, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, et al., 1786, uniformly bound in contemporary Neoclassical calf, six-compartment spines tooled in gilt with urns, gilt-lettered labels in the second and third compartments, 12mo in 6s, (4). Provenance: J.G. Smyth, Clk, St Gregory - Norwich, 1790; ink manuscript ownership inscription to volume I pastedown.
The Harewood House-Beeleigh Abbey Copy. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage during his Own Time. Written by Himself, first edition, London: Printed for John Watts for the Author, 1740, large broad-margined copy, portrait frontispiece engraved by Gerard Vandergucht after Jean Baptiste van Loo, some contemporary ink manuscript annotations, partly-rebacked and relaid contemporary calf gilt over later cloth boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to. Provenance: 1) Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), his armorial bookplate as Viscount Lascelles and as the husband of Mary, Princess Royal, 1922-1929. 2) William Foyle (1885-1963), his armorial gilt-tooled morocco bookplate.
The Romantic Poets. Three pirated editions, comprising the Renier-St Clair copies of Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, first edition thus, London: Printed and Published by John Ascham, 1834, lacking final leaf, [&] Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. With Notes. To which is added, A Brief Memoir of the Author, ?first edition thus, London: James Watson, n.d. [c. 1840-1857], 112pp, each disbound, 8vo, [&] [Southey (Robert)], Wat Tyler; A Dramatic Poem, first edition thus, ?second/?third edition overall, London: Printed for W. Hone, 1817, half-title, tipped-in contemporary newspaper/periodical clippings disbound, 12mo, (3). Provenance: 1st & 2nd: 1) Renier, either Fernand Gabriel (1905-1988) or Anne Renier (1911-1988), ink manuscript ownership inscription to verso of each title-page; 2) William St Clair FBA (1937-2021), his inscribed manila sleeves. 3rd: James Cornish, contemporary ink MS inscription.
Theology & the Theatre. Cambridge Platonists, Smith (John, late Fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge) & Patrick (Simon), Select Discourses [...], As also a Sermon preached by Simon Patrick [...] at the Author's Funeral [...], first edition, London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden, 1660, split and loose gatherings, rebacked contemporary calf (chipped), 4to, Chillingworth (William), The Religion of Protestants, A Safe Way to Salvation [...], first edition, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1638, repaired black-ruled title-page, occasional contemporary manuscript manicules, rebacked contemporary calf boards (chipped), 4to, [Patrick (Simon)], A Sermon Preached upon St. Peter's Day [...], first edition, London: Ric. Chiswell, 1687, first two gatherings stained, contemporaneous calf over marbled boards, 4to, Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlasting Rest, divisional titles only, of which the first part and its prelims are repaired and/or defective, the final leaf repaired, otherwise seemingly OK, cropped a trifle close in places, c. 1830 quarter-calf over marbled boards, red-stained edges, square 8vo, Plays, an early 18th century sammelband of four titles, comprising Rowe (Nicholas): The Tragedy of Jane Shore, presumably the first edition, [London, 1715], lacking all before B, [&] Ulysses, first edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1706; Cibber [(Colley)], The Double Gallant, first edition, London: Bernard Lintott, n.d. [1707]; [&] [Boyle (Charles)], As You Find it, first edition, London: R. Parker, 1703, defective, contemporaneous calf over marbled boards, upper-cover and recto pastedown with ink MS. contents, 4to, (5). Provenance: 1st: 1) Richard Dennis Hoblyn, 19th century armorial bookplate; 2) George Goyder, crested bookplate; 3) Peter A. Crofts label. 2nd: Peter A. Crofts, "Briar Patch", Elm, 20th century book label. 4th: Sarah Russell Pearce, 1904, ink MS. ownership inscription. 5th: Langham Rokeby Esqr., of Arthingworth, Northamptonshire, 18th century Chippendale armorial bookplate to pastedown.
Theology. Lightfoot (John, A Members of the Reverend Assembly of Divines), The Harmony of the Foure (sic) Evangelists: Among themselves, and with the Old Testament. The First Part: From the beginning of the Gospels to the Baptisme (sic) of our Saviour. With an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in Language and Sense, first edition, London: Printed by R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, and are to bee (sic) sold at the signe (sic) of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1644, title-page printed within an ornamental woodcut border, pp: [xxvi], 214, [1] (errata), [1]ff contemporary MS index leaf, sporadic foxing, a few signatures stained, toned throughout, contemporary speckled calf, disbound, 4to, [&] Welchman (Edward), [39 Articles of the Church of England], XXXIX Articuli Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ [...], Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1713, interleaved, but only a handful with any manuscript commentary, slightly later 18th century calf over marbled boards, disbound, 8vo, (2). Provenance: 2nd: 1) L. Bagot 1760, ink manuscript inscription. 2) John Sparrow OBE (1906-1992), Warden of All Souls, Oxford (1952-77) and esteemed bibliophile, his book label to pastedown.
Theology. Patrick (Simon), The Parable of the Pilgrim: Written to a Friend, second edition, London: Printed by Robert White for Francis Tyton at the Sign of the three Daggers in Fleetstreet (sic), 1667, complete with imprimatur leaf, pp: [xvi], 527, gutter worm trails from [A1] and diminishing to Ee3, contemporary two-tone gilt-panelled calf, later rebacked, some wear, 4to, Brevint (Daniel), Saul and Samuel at Endor, or the New Waies (sic) of Salvation and Service, Which usually temt (sic) Men to Rome, and detain them there [...], As also A Brief Account of R.F. his [...] Vindication of the Roman Mass, first edition, Oxford: At the Theater, 1674, engraving and imprimatur leaf, pp: [xvi], 413, [1] (errata), split at A2, everything before has been repaired at the gutter, contemporary calf, disbound, 8vo, Newman (John Henry, D.D., of The Oratory), A Letter Addressed to His Grace The Duke of Norfolk on the Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation, first edition, London: B M Pickering, 1875, 131pp, finely bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, all edges gilt, ex-lib bookplate and markings to endpapers, 8vo, (3).
Topography and Antiquarianism. Lord Brocket's Extra-Illustrated/Grangerized Copy, Wharton (Grace) & (Philip), The Wits and Beaux of Society, two-volume set, first edition, London: James Hogg & Sons, n.d. [1860], finely bound in Edwardian morocco gilt, spines a trifle faded and rubbed, rubbed corners, one of which is split, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Cooke's Topographical and Statistical Description of the British Isles, two titles bound as one, Isle of Wight, et al., [&] Berkshire, London, n.d. [c. 1820], Berkshire map, plates, later Hatchards morocco gilt over cloth, stamped, top-edge gilt, 12mo, Wilson (Daniel), Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh, two-volume set, first edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878, plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Moses (Henry, illustrator), a collection of 51 line-engravings of medieval scenes, London: Longmans, 1810, a few stains and spots, otherwise OK-good, publisher's boards, worn, 4to, Fosbroke, Wye Tour, first edition thus, Ross: W. Farror, 1822, later 19th century quarter-calf, 12mo, Strange's Alphabet, 1895, square 8vo, fine binding belonging to the herald Sir Anthony Wagner (1908-1995), Nottingham, (10). Provenance: 1st: 1) Charles Nall-Cain, 1st Baron Brocket (1866-1934), his three consecutive armorial bookplates. 2) Ron Fiske FSA (1938-2018), of Morningthorpe Manor, Norfolk, his sale. 2nd: Captain Frederick J. Osbaldeston Montagu, of Lynford Hall, Norfolk, his bookplate.
Topography and Antiquarianism. Bell (T.), The Ruins of Liveden; with Historical Notices of the Family of Tresham, and its connexion (sic) with The Gunpowder Plot […], To which is added a Legendary Poem, sole edition, London: Whittaker and Co., et al., 1847, lithograph plates, fold-out family pedigree, original cloth (worn, chipped), 4to, Local Interest, including Wylie (William Howie), The Nottingham Hand-Book, and Guide to Places of Interest in the Environs, first edition, Nottingham: C.N. Wright, 1852, fold-out panorama frontispiece, plates, original cloth, 8vo, further Nottingham and Nottinghamshire interest, including Lord Byron and Newstead Abbey, Scotland, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire, Illustrated with Sketches, Historical, Traditional, Narrative and Biographical, Series I & II as one, Ayr: Published for the Editor by John Dick, 1846-47, separate title-pages, original boards (chipped spine), 8vo, others Scottish interest, two volumes of Fosbrooke’s works on Gloucester and Gloucestershire, 1807 & 1819, unexamined, quarter-morocco, 4to, architecture, including learned societies’ reports and papers, some volumes of which are ex-lib, etc., (23).
![Topography, Ireland: (Stuart, A.B.), Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh […], sole edition, Newry: Printed for Alex](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/d87d4720-eb13-4f35-94d5-af730118a4a7/468x382.jpg)
Topography, Ireland: (Stuart, A.B.), Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh […], sole edition, Newry: Printed for Alexander Wilkinson, 1819, engraved plates, last third of the text block with damp-staining and worm trails to lower-margin, but not affecting text, contemporary calf gilt, blue-stained edges, 8vo, other topographical works, including [Barker (Matthew Henry)], Walks Round Nottingham by a Wanderer, first edition, London: Effingham Wilson, 1835, title-page with wood-engraving, lithograph plates, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards (spine defective), label to pastedown: C.W. Briggs (Genuine Antiques), 10 Leicester Rd., Loughboro’, 8vo, White’s Lincolnshire, 1872, cloth, 4to, Finch (Pearl), Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, two-volume set, sole edition, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1901, some repairs, original publisher’s vellum, 4to, Travel, Pfeiffer’s Iceland, second edition, 1853, contemporary green calf, 8vo, etc., (7).
Topography. London and its Environs Described, six-volume set, first edition, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, 2 folding plans (of 4, lacking London map), engraved named-view plates, uniformly bound in contemporary calf a trifle tired, rubbed, contemporaneous German ink manuscript ownership inscriptions, later German institutional stamps, 8vo, (6).
Trade and the Law. The Compleat Clark (sic), Containing the best Forms, Of all sorts of Presidents (sic), for Conveyances, and Assurances [...], with Alphabetical Tables of the whole Contents of the said Book, second edition, London: Printed by J.S. for H. Twyford, et al., [1664], black-ruled title a trifle tatty, its head with contemporaneous ink manuscript, all to C3 with marginal crease, the first sixth with marginal worm trails, not affecting, lacking plate, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rubbed and with some light worn losses, 4to.
Travel and Ethnography. O'Connor (V.C. Scott, Comptroller of Assam), The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma, two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904, colour plates and other illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, 8vo, Kipling's Beast and Man in India, first edition, 1891, original cloth, faults, 8vo, Inchbold (A.C.), Under the Syrian Sun, two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1906, illustrated, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, 8vo, two copies of Stein's Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, facsimile editions, Mushussu Press, 2000, illustrated, pictorial bindings, 8vo, Phillott (Lieut.-Colonel D.C., translator), Khwab O Khayal, second edition, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and Published by the Author, 1914, original green cloth, 12mo, The Valmiki Ramayana, volumes IV & V only, Oriental Institute, 1965-66, cloth, 4to, further works, including India, Kashmir, Tibet, Mount Everest and mountaineering, Siam, The Silk Road, Arabia, Freya Stark, etc., (40)
Travel and Ethnography, Africa. Smith (Andrew, M.D.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, Invertebrate text volume only, first edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1849, contemporary green half-morocco over cloth boards, rebacked preserving gilt armorial crest, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, contemporary bookseller's ticket to recto pastedown: Thos. Page, Brighton, 4to, Fitzpatrick (Sir Percy), Jock of the Bushveld, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1907, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, tired, with faults, 8vo, Mozambique, Mackay (Wallis), The Prisoner of Chiloane; or, with the Portugese in South-East Africa, first edition, London: Trischer and Co., 1890, original red cloth, 8vo, Boer War, [Robins (William)], The Truth About the Transvaal [...], third edition, London: Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited, 1900, bound in contemporary cloth by Birdsall & Son, signed, and preserving original wrappers, armorial bookplate by H. Soane/1899 to recto pastedown: Sir George John Armytage, [6th] Baronet, F.S.A. (1842-1918), to recto pastedown, 8vo, Joy Adamson, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer, Laurens van der Post, Hogarth Press imprint,Transvaal Boers, South Africa and Zulus, Rhodesia, Moorhead's Nile, Folio Society, etc., (approx. 40)
Travel and Ethnography. Ratzel (Professor Friedrich) & Butler (A.J., translator), The History of Mankind, three-volume set, first English edition, presentation copy (blind-stamp), London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896, with coloured plates, maps, and illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, 8vo, miscellaneous others, including Thor Heyerdahl, Polynesia, the Maoris, Easter Islands, Freya Stark, Arctic and Antarctic exploration, Scott and Shackleton, Central and South America, their civilizations too, etc., (approx. 40). A fair-good copy of the Ratzel: some interior splits, but holding; one or two loose plates; the boards with some movement and stable splits; typical toning, some off-setting.
![Travel and Exploration. Richmond (James Crowe), Reminiscences of a Minister for Native [Maori] Affairs in New Zealand [...] I](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/a9d59d9c-e62a-4668-97f6-af7300f39e36/468x382.jpg)
Travel and Exploration. Richmond (James Crowe), Reminiscences of a Minister for Native [Maori] Affairs in New Zealand [...] In reply to defamatory passages contained in Rusden's "History of New Zealand", Wellington: By authority: George Didsbury, 1888, pamphlet, 12pp, disbound, 8vo, Kennedy (Captain W.R., R.N.), Sporting Adventures in the Pacific, first edition, London: Sampson Low, et al., 1876, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, trifle twisted and rubbed, 8vo, Inglis (James), Our Australian Cousins, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Gammell (William), A History of American Baptist Missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, first edition, Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849, original cloth, some wear and chipped losses, 12mo, Codrington on Gibraltar and Ceuta, 1882, etc., (7).
Travel, Central Asia. Atkinson (Thomas Witlam), Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures [...], with a Map and Numerous Illustrations, first edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858, complete with 20 full-page chromolithographed plates, in-text wood engravings, folding map (repaired), 20th century brown morocco, red-speckled edges, 8vo.
![Travel. Livingstone (David), The Last Journals [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1874, illustra](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/da0fd81a-e47d-4d74-a2cd-af7300dcc77e/468x382.jpg)
Travel. Livingstone (David), The Last Journals [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1874, illustrated with fold-out maps and full-page plates, original publisher's pictorial cloth (split gutters, but holding together), 8vo, Stanley (Henry M.), Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, first American edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874, 2 fold-out maps (of which the largest is torn), illustrated with plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (3).
![Tyndale's Bible, English New Testament. [The newe Testament of our Sauiour Jesu Christe], the first edition of Tyndale's](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/cda464ab-23db-4255-8a44-af7300beb548/468x382.jpg)
Tyndale's Bible, English New Testament. [The newe Testament of our Sauiour Jesu Christe], the first edition of Tyndale's version with Jugge's revisions and the first of the three illustrated quarto editions of Tyndale's version, [London: Richard Jugge], [1552], black letter printing with italic type, 37 lines to a full page, 295ff. only of 340 ff., with 90 in-text woodcut illustrations, 1 map, foliate and historiated initials, a typically incomplete copy of this rarity, as well as later leaves, it also lacks the title-page with its portrait of Edward VI and imprint details, the dedication leaves, other prelims and almanacs, however still conforming to Herbert's criterion, i.e. 37 lines to to a full page, Q7 b 'Beynge accused by their ovvne consicence' (John VIII: 9) printed in roman type, with the marginal note 'This is read in the greke testamente of Stephanus prynte', divisional title composed of ornamental frames of four blocks, reading 'The epistles of Saint Paule [...] The Canonicall Epistles [...] The Reuelation of S. John', and the initials R.I. within a circle inscribed Omnia Desvper, present signatures collating: B8, C-D?, E1, E3, [?E5 or 6], [E8], F-S?, T?, U-Z?, &³, [?Aa1], Aa3-8, Bb-Mm?, Nn1, Nn3-8, Oo-Pp8, Qq2-[7], Rr2-[6], &2-7, of which signatures B8, C1-5, D1-2, F8, I2, I8, N4, S8, T1, T5, Z7, Hh3, Mm1, Mm7, Pp1, Pp8, Rr4, &6-7 are defective, sometimes but not always with loss of text, signatures C1-5, S1, T2, T7, Dd6 and Oo3-4 have been repaired to varying degrees, all of the contents have been cropped with the majority of the running titles, marginal notes and references affected, however in some places only touching with little or no loss, the cropping has left signatures D6, Qq3-4 and Qq6 askew, the contents toned and sometimes soiled, a few leaves with marginal creases, two or three gatherings stained, indistinct contemporaneous ink manuscript ownership inscriptions and some further readers' markings, the Tyndale prefixed by 7 leaves of a 1710 NT, rebacked and relayed early 17th century panelled calf, chipped and rubbed, later 19th century black endpapers contemporary to the aforementioned repairs, split at recto pastedown gutter but holding, 4to (19.5cm x 14cm), [Hebert 99; Fry 29; STC 2867].
![Wales. Jones (Thomas), Geiriadur saesonaeg a chymraeg. An English and Welsh Dictionary [...], third edition, Clwydian Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/2703cc32-def9-4373-9d42-af7300dd6052/468x382.jpg)
Wales. Jones (Thomas), Geiriadur saesonaeg a chymraeg. An English and Welsh Dictionary [...], third edition, Clwydian Press: Denbigh, Printed and Sold by Thomas Gee, et al., 1826, later 19th century half-calf over marbled boards, 12mo in 6s, Hughes (Robert), Y Gell gymysg, sef Gwaith awenyddawl [...], Albion-wasg: Caernarfon, Argraffwyd gan P. Evans, dros yr Awdwr, n.d. [c. 1820], 172pp, [bound with] Jones (Parch. John Eiddon), Cyfrol goffadwriaethol o weithiau barddonol [...], Blaenau Ffestiniog: Argraffwyd yn Swyddfa'r "Cronicl" Gan Jones & Evans, 1874, mottled calf, enclosing the second title's wrappers, 8vo, three 19th century sammelbands of Welsh titles provincially printed in Wales, another volume similar, Prichard (T. Jeffrey Llewelyn), Welsh Minstrelsy [...], first edition, London: Messrs. John and H.L. Hunt, 1821, later buckram, 8vo, (7).
War Poetry. Arkwright (John Stanhope): two copies, The Supreme Sacrifice, And Other Poems in Times of War, first editions, second impressions, London: Skeffington and Son, Ltd., 1919, illustrated by Bruce Bairnsfather, Wilmot Lunt, Louis Raemaekers, and L. Raven-Hill, one with the dustjacket over original grey cloth, the other green cloth only, 8vo, the Order of Service for the poems' dedicatee, The Right Honourable Viscount Milner, K.G. (1854-1925), Westminster Abbey, Monday, May 18th, 1925, 12 noon, [8]pp, 8vo, a letter to Arkwright from The Manchester & County Bank Limited, enclosing a copy of the order of service for their post-World War One memorial service, in which "The Supreme Sacrifice" was sung, manuscript music scores for "O valiant Hearts" & "The Supreme Sacrifice", the vellum manuscript 'Address Presented to John Hungerford Arkwright, Esquire on the Birth of his Son and Heir John Stanhope Arkwright, 17th September 1872', 1pp, hand-scrivened and illuminated on vellum, 22.5cm x 17cm, loosely-enclosed in a contemporary morocco case, gilt-lettered hinged cover, Times cuttings, etc., (archive collection). Provenance: the Arkwright family of Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.
Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, original cloth, 8vo, the Chapman & Hall and The Book Society first edition, May 1945, fragmentary pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, the first Australian edition, 1946, pictorial dustjacket by Lex Marshall over black cloth, 8vo, (3).
Wells (H.G.), The Time Machine: An Invention, first edition, ?first/?second issue, London: William Heinemann, 1895, pp: [viii], 152pp; 32pp of publisher's advertisements including those for 'The Manxman' but not 'The Naulahka', original publisher's buckram, puce pictorial design and lettering, all edges uncut, 8vo. Provenance: Ex Libris M. Bernard Thorold (?1942-1979); his armorial bookplate to ffep.
Wells (H.G.), When the Sleeper Wakes, with Illustrations, first edition, London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899, original publisher's red cloth gilt, 8vo, The War in the Air, first edition, first impression, London: George Bell and Sons, 1908, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, 8vo, The Way the World is Going, first edition, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928, pictorial dustjacket designed by Mabel Alleyne over brown cloth, 8vo, The Wonderful Visit, first edition, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1895, original publisher's pictorial red cloth gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, other first editions, including In the Days of the Comet, 1906, original cloth, 8vo, Mankind in the Making, 1903, original cloth, 8vo, others in pictorial dustjackets; Smith (David C., editor), The Correspondence of H.G. Wells, four-volume set, London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998, original cloth, 4to, etc., (40).
![Byron. Bull (John) [pseud. Lockhart (J.G.)], Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron, first edition, London: Printed by and for W](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/5b9d5e0a-33b5-4a18-83dd-af730100d0b2/468x382.jpg)
Byron. Bull (John) [pseud. Lockhart (J.G.)], Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron, first edition, London: Printed by and for William Wright, 1821, 64pp, later green cloth, ex-lib, with their labels and markings, 8vo, [Brougham (Henry)], Critique, from the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron's Poems [...], first edition, London: Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1820, 8vo, [?Riddell (Henry)], To the Departed./Stanzas to the Memory of Lord Byron, first edition, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1825, 8vo, wrappers defective, ex-lib, with their plates and stamps, 8vo, Medwin (Thomas), Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron [...], ?first American edition, Baltimore: Etting Mickle, 1825, 20th century institutional buckram, ex-lib stamps and labels, 8vo, Anon, A Spiritual Interview with Lord Byron [...], By Quevedo Redivivus, sole edition, London: Samuel Palmer and Sons, [?1876 or ?1880], institutional boards, ex-lib markings, pamphlet, The Stowe-Byron Controversy, various, further Byron interest, Richardson (G.F.), Sketches in Prose and Verse, first edition, London: James Cochrane, 1835, later institutional morocco gilt over cloth, ex-lib, 8vo, The Reasoner, 1813-1814, multiple parts bound as one, cloth over marbled boards, ex-lib, with plates and their stamps, 8vo, other periodicals/annuals, Fermor (Patrick Leigh), Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, first edition, London: John Murray, 1966, pictorial dustjacket designed by John Craxton, ex-lib, with their institutional plate and stamp, otherwise a crisp copy, 8vo, further travel, Brydges (Sir Egerton, Bart), Recollections of Foreign Travel [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1825, original publisher's boards (faults), ex-lib, their labels and/or stamps, 8vo, Christie's catalogue, The Burdett-Coutts Collection of Pictures & Drawings, May, 1922, illustrated, original boards, 8vo, (25).
Americana. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori (1762-1829), a prince of Timbuktu, sold into slavery in Federal America, and Henry Inman (1801-1846), the artist who captured his likeness before he returned to Africa. 1pp of ink manuscript, 9 lines of calligraphic script by the amir 'Abd al-Rahman', under which is inscribed and autographed: 'This was written in my presence, and at my request by "Abduhl Rahhaman" with a reed pen. The history of this man's recovery of freedom was the subject of much interest at the time. An engraving was made of his head from a painting in Water Colours by me./H. Inman/N. York. Oct:r 15th 1828', to verso: 'Arabic Writing by them Moorish Prince. N. York. 1828. Presented to R. Gilmor Esq:r by his obliged friend and servant H. Inman, Baltimore July 9th 1833', corner-mounted, among other related papers, the MS. is accompanied by a typed and signed letter from Professor Nabia Abbott (1897-1981), of The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, thanking Dr Pleadwell for the enclosed photostat, one of several included within the lot, and commenting that the author (i.e. Abdul Rahman) 'is barely literate. His phraseology is odd, his spelling and grammar atrocious, and his writing unformed and inferior./ [Abbott then supplies a transcript, where possible:] The phrases, so far as I can make them out read: His name is Abd al-Rahman (ibn) Ibrahim. Allah bless Mohammed, his family, and his companions. The learned sheikh said:- "To Mecca and Medina O Allah and by Allah." Adam (?) went to Mecca...He said...Saturday...In the name of Allah the merciful the compassionate. Praise be to Allah. His name is Abd al-Rahman and...and the man...', the whole within an archive folder, (collection). The fate of Ingram's portrait of the enslaved amir is currently unknown, and it formed the subject of most of Pleadwell's correspondence in this lot, including with Dixton Wecter (1906-1950), "the first professor of American history", while was a research fellow at the Huntington Library; the subject of the amir-slave and his portrait captivated Mark Twain (1835-1910) and his imagination, whose correspondence Wecter edited. The Reverend Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) had told Twain all about it and showed him the portrait, presumably then in his possession, and Pleadwell corresponded with acquaintances of Trumbull's daughters in the dashed hope of locating the original painting. Provenance: Captain Dr Frank Lester Pleadwell (1872-1957), physician, author and editor of medical texts, bibliophile and collector; the mounted life with his collection label, the Pleadwell Collection, Honolulu.
Bindings. A mid-19th century lady's drawing-room album, partially-inscribed in ink manuscript with verse and sentiment, and partially-illustrated with well-executed pencil &/or pen-and-ink drawings, loosely-inserted etching and a botanical watercolour, etc., contemporary green roan (lower-cover beginning to give at joints, some rubbing), ornately block-tooled in gilt extra, all-edges gilt, small 8vo, A Record of The Presentation of a Gold Watch and Chain to John Richard Stephen Arkwright Esq., on his his Twenty First Birthday, January 13th 1928, by The Tenants and Employees of The Kinsham Court Estate as signed within, three-quarters of the contents inscribed, contemporary blue morocco, gilt-ruled single-fillet enclosing the recipient's monogram, rounded flat spine, all edges gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (2). Provenance: the Arkwright family of Hampton Court Castle, and later Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.
Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), eldest son of the great Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). An autograph manuscript poem, in eight-line stanza or octave form, beginning 'The admiration of a self sane star [...]', signed, now in three pieces but complete, [with] Coleridge (Hartley) & [(Derwent, editor)], Essays and Marginalia, two-volume set, [&] Lives of Northern Worthies, three-volume set, London: Edward Moxon, 1851 & 1852, original publisher's cloth, volume I of Essays lacking ffep but with publisher's catalogue, and with a loosely-inserted 2pp MS poem 'Little Eleanor's Hands', attributed to HC, each in their original publisher's cloth, the spines a trifle sunned, some gatherings unopened, the Hayhurst copies, each first volume with his pictorial bookplates, 8vo, (6).
![Music and Ballads. 18th century and later, including 'The Banks of Banna', n.d. [second-half 18th century], 16 lines of manus](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/ee08a071-fb58-46c2-994a-af7f00f49c2c/468x382.jpg)
Music and Ballads. 18th century and later, including 'The Banks of Banna', n.d. [second-half 18th century], 16 lines of manuscript libretto, 'The Dandies', n.d. [contemporary to the broadside ballad in the Bodleian, Norwich, 1780-1830], 25 lines of MS, 'To the Tune of good Queen Bess', n.d. [early 19th century, ?1805-1821], 33 lines, including references to the late "immortal Lord Nelson" and the house of Brunswick, 'Bonnie Jamie./ (For Music)/By E. Willis Fletcher', n.d., the 28 lines of MS probably not in the florist-musician's hand, 'Triumphant Music', by Felicia Hemans, n.d. [first-second quarter 19th century], 34 line manuscript verse in another's hand, Wales, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn Baronet attained his Majority on the 22nd: May 1841/Written and sung at the Public Dinner in Oswestry on the Occasion by T.N.P. Air "Jerry Jones", 2ff, lithograph-printed, mounted, with verse by John Jebb, Bishop of Limerick, transcribed by Mrs Sarah Parker, dated 1837, (6).
Postcards. Approx. 119, early 20th century, collected in two Japanese black lacquer and abalone marquetry albums, each backed in calf, the first album with hand-tinted colour cards of young women with cats, beauties, etc., the second partially-filled and including b/w and colour cards of Sri Lanka, traditional scenes native life when Ceylon, Port Said, Hong Kong, etc., arranged on silk covered card leaves, each painted with landscape vignettes, oblong 4to (27.5cm x 36cm), (2).
The Memory of Puritanism and Presbyterianism in the Reign of George II. A mid-18th century ink manuscript commonplace book, 41ff, comprising three distinct parts: 1) Gearing (William), The Glory of Heaven:The Happiness of the Saints in Glory, 12ff; the first leaves defective, and thus the poem incomplete; 2) Calder (Robert), The Second part of the Succession of the Priesthood in the Old and New Testament [...], 16ff, apparently incomplete extract from the greater work; a few leaves with chipped edges and a loss of text; 3) 11ff of contemporary verse, of a theological nature, commencing at Canto II, 'This Hydra of uncertain birth,/If sprung from hell or sprung from earth [...]', damp-stained and dog-eared margins; 4) 2ff quotes and inscriptions, the MSS dated 1742, disbound, 4to.
Photography. A 19th century family photograph album, mid-Victorian to c. 1914, approx. 120 images, mostly carte de visite and cabinet card formats, mostly studio portraits of gentlemen, ladies, clergymen, children, and a young man in British Army uniform, a First World hospital, others, including ones by Elliott & Fry of Portman Square, a view of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, contemporary sombre black morocco over boards, chased mount and clasp, silvered edges, 4to, & a finely bound contemporary Holy Bible, Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1891, sombre black morocco over boards, all edges gilt, 4to, (2).
![World War Two, RAF. An album of 11 b/w annotated photographs, by F.R. Logan of Birmingham, labelled, n.d. [1939-1945], illust](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/25aad0d5-1fb2-4ece-8384-af8000b81377/468x382.jpg)
World War Two, RAF. An album of 11 b/w annotated photographs, by F.R. Logan of Birmingham, labelled, n.d. [1939-1945], illustrating the production line and output at the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd Cabinet Factory, then requisitioned for the war effort, including the First Consignment of M.A.P. Starter Trailers Ready for Despatch to R.A.F. Stations, Mosquito Bulkheads, Canadian Sitka Spruce Bulks, Laminations Department, Fuselage Assembly Department, etc., the final leaves with two typed lists of the factory's achievements, original paper wrappers, oblong 4to.
The Panorama: or, Traveller’s Instructive Guide; through England and Wales; Exhibiting All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns, Villages, Parks, Canals, &c. Accompanied by a Description of Each County, with the Cities and Principal Towns […], ?first edition, London: Printed by J. Wallis, and Published by W.H. Reid, n.d., [?1820], engraved frontispiece and contents, 1 general map of England & Wales and 52 county maps as called for, hand-coloured engravings, contemporary sheep boards (chipped), later repaired back now split, 12mo.
![[Brydges (Sir Samuel Egerton, Bt)], Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books [...],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/83e4884c-9292-4c18-8994-af7300becc8e/468x382.jpg)
[Brydges (Sir Samuel Egerton, Bt)], Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books [...], ten-volume set, first edition, London: T. Bensley, et al., 1805-09, volume I extra-illustrated with a portrait engraving of the author, repaired original publisher's boards, rebacked to style in 20th century calf gilt-lettered, 8vo, (10). Provenance: B.*.Beard, contemporary ink MS. ownership inscription to each title-page.
![[Digby (Sir Kenelm)], Two Treatises. In the one of which, The Nature of Bodies; In the other, The Nature of Man’s Soule (sic)](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/f397d197-316c-4b72-a9b4-af7300bece20/468x382.jpg)
[Digby (Sir Kenelm)], Two Treatises. In the one of which, The Nature of Bodies; In the other, The Nature of Man’s Soule (sic), is Looked into: In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (sic), second edition, but first edition printed in England, London: Printed for John Williams, and are to be sold at the Crowne in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1645, first treatise: title-page and the next four leaves repaired, ditto signature Ee, lacking portrait frontispiece and final leaf of text, signature K-K2 supplied in facsimile; second treatise: repaired divisional title and A2, unevenly cropped in places throughout with no discernible loss of text, but in places close to the running title, some toning, browning, stains, etc., very occasional and infrequent marginalia, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, 19th century endpapers, 4to, [&] Smith (John, M.D.), The Pourtract of Old Age. Wherein is contained a Sacred Anatomy Both of Soul, and Body, and A Perfect Account of the Infirmities of Age Incident to them Both […], second edition, London: Printed for J. Macock, et al., 1676, title-page lower-margin cropped, A7 supplied in loosely-inserted ink manuscript, folding table detached and now loosely-inserted, contemporary blind-ruled sheep (cracked, split, chipped and rubbed; spine perished, yet holding), marbled edges, 8vo, (2).
![[Lance (Edward Jarman)], The Golden Farmer [...], first edition, London: James Ridgway, 1831, 84pp only (of 86), lacking fron](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/1a948070-b1bc-448e-972c-af7300bed114/468x382.jpg)
[Lance (Edward Jarman)], The Golden Farmer [...], first edition, London: James Ridgway, 1831, 84pp only (of 86), lacking frontispiece, four plates, extra-illustrated with another, later Rothamsted Laboratory Lawes Trust cloth binding, 8vo, Passy (H.), On Large and Small Farms, and their Influence on the Social Economy [...], first edition, London: Arthur Hall & Co., 1848, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, 12mo, Gisborne (Thomas), Essays on Agriculture, first edition thus, London: John Murray, 1854, original wrappers, 8vo, Pusey (Philip), The Improvement of Farming. What ought landlords and farmers to do?, first edition, London: John Murray, 1851, original wrappers, 8vo, The Labourers' Friend, first edition, 1835, original cloth, 8vo, Memoirs of John Grey of Dilston, 1869, 8vo, Lord Stanley of Alderley's Copy, Verney (Lady), How the Peasant Owner Lives [...], first edition, London: Macmillan, 1888, original cloth, 8vo, Large's Secrets of Farming, second edition, 1863, cloth, 8vo, etc., (13).
![[Macintosh (William)], A Treatise Concerning the Manner of Fallowing Ground, Raising of Grass-Seeds, and Training of Lint and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/a83dd17d-6aab-4bd0-b5e0-af7300bed29e/468x382.jpg)
[Macintosh (William)], A Treatise Concerning the Manner of Fallowing Ground, Raising of Grass-Seeds, and Training of Lint and Hemp, for the Increase and Improvement of the Linnen (sic, i.e. Linen) Manufactories in Scotland [...], first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1724, pp: [ii], 3-173, 7 plates, ffep and title-page with inner-gutter crease, contemporary calf, split and chipped, but holding, 8vo. Provenance: 1) Mr Geo: Buchan, contemporary Jacobean armorial bookplate to verso of title-page. 2) Sir George Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baronert FRSE, FSA (1739-1819), Scottish landowner, judge, and agricultural author, his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
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