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Architecture and Interiors Collection of works Valentini, Agostino. I Freschi delle Loggie Vaticane da Raffaele Sanzio... Rome, [n.d.] Folio, 41 plates, original boards;Roth, Alfred. La Nouvelle Architecture... Zurich, 1947. Third edition, oblong 4to, original cloth;Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret. Zurich, 1952-1957. 4 volumes, oblong 4to, original cloth, the first volume in fifth edition, the subsequent three in first or second;Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork. London: H. Greville Montgomery, 1925. Original green cloth gilt;Jourdain, M. English Interiors in Smaller Houses. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., [1923.] Original green cloth gilt;Hayden, Arthur. The Furniture Designs of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton. London: Gibbings and Company, Limited, 1910. Original cloth;Tarbuck, Edward Lance. The Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery. London: J. Hagger, [n.d.] 4to, contemporary half calf gilt;Traité de l'Horologie... Paris: Charles Moette..., 1741. 4to, plates (volume 2 only?);Marmottan, Paul. Le Style Empire... Paris: Chez F. Contet, 1925. Folio, volume 3 only;Koch, Alex. British Competitions in Architecture - Special Number - London County Council Hall, final competition. London: Academy Architecture, 1908. Folio, original boards with adverts;Large scrap album with laid-in views, mostly Italian, attributed to the antiquary and Anglican Bishop of Nottingham, Edward Trollope, c.1800, contemporary green half Morocco;and a quantity of others, sold not subject to return

Buckler, J. and J.C. Views of Eaton Hall in Cheshire The Seat of the Right Honourable Earl Grosvenor. London: William Clarke, 1826. Folio, 20 lithographs, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, armorial bookplate to paste-down endpaper, joints a little weak, some rubbing to covers, some internal foxingNote: Provenance: From the library of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; presumably his library at Kensington Palace.

Scottish topography and antiquarianism Collection of works, 18th to early 20th century Cardonnel, Adam de. Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland. London: for the author, 1788. 2 volumes in 1, 4to, modern quarter calf, 50 etched sepia plates with descriptive letterpressCrawfurd, George. A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew ... Continued to the Present Period, by George Robertson. Paisley: J. Neilson, 1818. 4to, modern quarter cloth, marbled sides, 4 engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured folding maps (one with repaired closed handling tear to inner fold), edges untrimmed, occasional spotting;Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. Warrington: W. Eyres, 1774. Third edition, 4to, modern quarter calf, all engraved plates as called for (several folding), offsetting;Home, Bruce J. Old Houses in Edinburgh: Edinburgh: William J. Hay, c.1905. Folio, contemporary green quarter morocco, 54 tipped-in plates, spine slightly sunned, small stain to rear board;and 14 others, including Benjamin W. Crombie, Modern Athenians, 1882 (one of 1,040 copies, 4to, original quarter morocco, refurbished, colour plates), L. Ingleby Wood, Vanishing Edinburgh and Leith, Edinburgh: William J. Hay, 1903 (4to, modern patterned boards), George Birkbeck Hill, Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, London, 1890 (4to, original half morocco), Muirhead Bone, The Western Front, London: War Office, 1917 (4to, modern quarter morocco), and similar

Crealock, Henry Hope Among the Red Deer, Sketches from Nature in the Forest [and:] The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch Luichart London: George Hogarth Turner, c.1870. 2 works, large folio (53.5 x 36cm), respectively comprising 80 and 41 albumen print photographs from sketches by the artist, pasted to rectos only of 28 and 17 card mounts, most prints with accompanying printed captions, all mounts loose as issued in original cloth portfolios with printed title-leaves each incorporating albumen print photograph mounted to front covers, portfolios somewhat soiled, ties renewed, Among the Red Deer portfolio rebacked and with partial loss of albumen print on front cover and label of the Hon. F. Elphinstone pasted to head, Happy Hunting Grounds portfolio rebacked with original spine laid down, variable soiling to mounts, loss to corner of first mountNote: Note: Very rare: neither work in Schwerdt; Library Hub traces three copies only for Among the Red Deer, Cambridge, Durham and NLS, and a single copy for The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch Luichart, at the NLS, described as having 38 photographs on 16 sheets. A third portfolio, titled In the Forest of Balmacaan, was issued (in two series) in 1873-4. Sale records for The Happy Hunting Grounds variously cite 41 or 55 prints.

Shakespeare, William The Fourth Folio, 1685 [Mr William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio... The Fourth Edition. London: printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.] Folio in sixes, lacking portrait, title-page, all comedies and "Pericles and six other plays added by the publisher", comprising plays: King John (lacking pp.1-2, i.e. Bb1); Henry IV; Henry V; Henry VI; Richard III; Henry VIII; Troilius & Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo & Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello; Anthony & Cleopatra (lacking pp.146-156, i.e. quire Mmm); and Cymbeline (up to p.188 - i.e. Qqq4 - only); this copy collates: 3-328; 145, 157-188 [ESTC R24524 offers a complete collation for the work as: [12], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.e. 253]-272, [2], 328, 303, [1] p. : port. (engraving)], contemporary calf spine over later marbled boards, some edge-wear and slight soiling to initial leaves, a few small tears to text with little or no significant loss to text, Ss5 torn with loss to text of around 1/8 of the leaf, some occasional internal staining, small, neat ownership signature to front free-endpaperNote: Note: The final 17th century collection of Shakespeare’s works to be published, the “Fourth Folio” can also be considered the most comprehensive and widely obtainable edition, although copies are still unusual. The publishers added Pericles and a further six plays to Shakespeare's works for both the third and fourth folios. However, having been published in London between 1663 and 1664, a large amount of the stock of the third folio was lost to the Great Fire of London in 1666. The additional plays comprised: Pericles, The London Prodigal; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The History of Sir John Oldcastle; The Puritan; A Yorkshire Tragedy; The Tragedy of Lochrine. Only Pericles has since been found to have been (partly) written by Shakespeare (all seven of these works are missing from this copy.)

Rutter, John Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey [An Illustrated History and Description of Fonthill Abbey.] Shaftsbury, 1823. First edition, folio (37 x 30cm, larger than many copies), 14 plates including 3 hand-coloured aquatints and folding lithograph plan of the estate, 3 genealogical tables, original boards with later dark green morocco gilt spine, boards rubbed, joints loose

Scotland Four volumes of railway plans and sections, 19th century Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. Plans and Sections of Proposed Extension from Invergordon to Ardgay near Bonar Bridge. Joseph Mitchell Esqr F.R.S.E., Engineer. Glasgow: Maclure & Macdonald, 1862. Oblong atlas folio (55.5 x 76cm), original printed wrappers (front wrapper inscribed 'Board room copy'), cloth backstrip, lithographic title-page, 14 hand-coloured lithographic plans, wrappers chipped and soiled, a few small chips and closed tears to margins of plans;Inverness and Perth Junction Railway. Plans and Sections of Proposed Deviations. Joseph Mitchell Esqr F.R.S.E. Engineer. Glasgow: Maclure & Macdonald, 1862. Oblong atlas folio (54.5 x 76cm), original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip, 45 lithographic plans (numbered 1-23 and 2-23), wrappers chipped and soiled, repair to head of front wrapper, loss to foot of spine, creasing;Wick and Lybster Light Railway. Light Railway Commission. Plans and Sections of Proposed Light Railway from Wick Station on the Highland Railway to Lybster. William Roberts, Engineer. London: Robert J. Cook & Hammond, 1898. Oblong atlas folio (56 x 76cm), original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip, 4 lithographic plans, wrappers chipped and marked, short closed tears to lower margins of plans;together with another copy of the first item (contemporary maroon half roan, front board detached, uncoloured, light creasing to a few plans)

Macchiavelli, G.G. Italian Etchings Vari Pensieri Inventati, delineati ed incisi da G.G. Macchiavelli Bolognese. [No place], 1786-96. Oblong folio, etched title and 19 unnumbered plates (of more), etched title soiled and frayed; bound withMiscellanea di varie gemme e bassi-rilievi antichi delineati da G.G. Macchiavelli Bolognese. Anno VII Republicano. Oblong folio, etched title and 33 sheets of plates (of more), some with several plates to a sheet, loosely contained in a large green folio morocco gilt folder, initialled G.J.G. on upper cover and a gilt harp on lower cover, rubbed

Scotland History, Literature and Topography Crawfurd, George - George Robertson. A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew... Paisley: J. Neilson, 1818. 4to, 19th century half calf, some dampstaining;Idem. A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew... Paisley: J. Neilson, 1818. 4to, large paper copy, complete, later half calf;Leighton, John M. - Joseph Swan, illustrator. History of the County of Fife. Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1840. 4to, contemporary half calf;Pennant, Thomas. Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland. London, 1780. 4to, later half calf;Beattie, William. Caledonia illustrated... London & New York: George Virtue, [n.d.] 2 volumes, 4to, 19th century black half morocco;Smith, John. Sean Dana; le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &c. / Ancient Poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullin, &c. Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1787. Small folio, contemporary calf;Johnson, Samuel. Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides... New York: The Viking Press, 1936. 8vo, original red quarter cloth;The General Almanack of Scotland and British Register for 1810. Edinburgh: David Ramsay and Son, 1810. 12mo, modern half calf;McNeill, Murdoch. Colonsay, one of the Hebrides. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910. 8vo, original red cloth;Stuart, Robert. Caledonia Romana: a descriptive account of the Roman Antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, 1852. Later cloth;and 47 others, sold not subject to return

Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia [Volume 1:] A Selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia; [Volume 2:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 3:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 5:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia. London: lithographed by R. E. Bowler [volume 5: J. Jankowsky], 1861-66-70-84. Volumes 1-3 and 5 (of 5), large folio (53 x 53cm), non-uniform library bindings (half leather and cloth, each volume with preliminary text and 70 lithographic plates, ex Leeds Public Libraries with plates to front pastedowns (ink-stamped 'duplicate -sold') and blind stamps, toning, a few marks and short tears, volume 3 bound without series-title, volume 5 with repair to pp. 3/4, plates 36-8 misbound, closed tear in plate 57.Together with 3 other works: Austen Henry Layard, Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, from Assyrian Monuments. London: printed by Harrison and Son, sold at the British Museum, 1851 (large folio, 53 x 33cm, later quarter morocco, 6 pp., 98 lithographic plates, blind stamps of Leeds Public Libraries); A. H. Sayce, Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan, London: Alexander Moring, 1906, folio, 27 photographic plates, text and plates loose as issued in original portfolio (front board near detached); and a 1909 edition of volume 5 of Rawlinson's work)

Joubert, Felix Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott Glasgow: [printed for private circulation by] David Robertson & Co., 1924. First edition, one of 100 copies only, signed in the introduction by R. L. Scott, 3 volumes, large folio (45.8 x 31cm), original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 107 tinted photogravure plates, bookplates (Michael Moad), vellum slightly soiled, volume 1 covers lightly scuffed, volumes 1 and 3 endpapers creased;The Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original MS in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. With Introduction and Notes by Viscount Dillon. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Large folio (49 x 32cm), original full japon gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 34 chromolithographic plates (2 folding), photographic plate, pale mottling to spine and rear board, spotting to blanksNote: Note: R. L. Scott (1871-1939) was chairman of his family's successful shipbuilding firm in Greenock from 1915 until his death, overseeing its production of cruisers, destroyers and submarines for the Royal Navy during the Great War the rearmament period. After his death his collection of armour was bequeathed to Glasgow Museums. 'The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and charts some of the most spectacular armour ever made. It is known as the Almain Armourers’ Album after the German armourers employed by Henry VIII from the early 16th century' (V&A).

Machiavelli, Niccolo The Works London: John Starkey, 1675. Folio, later half calf over marbled boards, lacking portrait and 6 leaves including adverts and part of the table, a little internal staining [ESTC R19906]

Hay, John Views of Aberdeen First Series [all published]. Aberdeen: published by John Hay, 1840. First and only edition, folio, 6 tinted lithographic plates, with leaf of calligraphic lithographic text not mentioned in Abbey, all loose as issued in original buff printed paper wrappers, variable spotting [Abbey Scenery 496]Note: Note: Very rare: no other copies traces in auction records; one copy traced in libraries, at the University of Aberdeen.

Golden Cockerel Press Mabinogion A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. One of 550 copies, folio, original orange half morocco, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-page, full-page wood-engraved illustrations throughout, cloth sides slightly marked, small spot to limitation leaf. Together with 5 others: A. A. Milne, The Secret and Other Stories, New York: The Fountain Press, 1929, one of 742 copies signed by Milne on the half-title; ibid., When We Were Very Young, 1929, sixteenth edition, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1931, eleventh edition, Now We Are Six, 1927, second edition, all in original cloth; and Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 1889, first edition

Folio Society Group of deluxe manuscript facsimiles The Luttrell Psalter, 2006. One of 1480 copies, folio, original blue goatskin over bevelled boards with design from the manuscript blocked to front board in gilt and colours, with commentary volume in original solander box;Liber Bestiarum, 2008. One of 1980 copies, small folio, original orange goatskin over bevelled boards, gilt pictorial blocks to spine-compartments and front board, all edges gilt, with commentary volume in original solander box;The Holkham Bible, 2007. One of 1750 copies, 4to, original blue half goatskin, all edges gilt, with commentary volume in original solander box;The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, 2009. One of 1180 copies, 8vo, original full silk brocade, housed with commentary volume in original solander box.Together with: L'Apocalypse de Jean. Paris: Musée du livre, 1981, one of 3900 copies, folio, original calf richly gilt overall including arabesque centrepieces and spandrels to covers, original leather-entry slipcase, with the commentary volume, folio, original quarter calf, in separate leather-entry slipcase; and one other

Sidney, Sir Philip The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia London: Simon Waterson and R. Young, 1633. Eighth edition, small folio, lacking initial blank, later calf, some foxing [ESTC S117293]

Lorraine, Claude – Frederick Christian Lewis Liber Studiorum of Claude Lorraine [third part] London: F.C. Lewis, 1840. Folio, the third part only (dedicated to the Duke & Duchess of Devonshire), title, plate-list, and the corresponding 20 plates, original maroon gilt portfolio case, ties broken, a little dust-soiling, case soiled and faded

[Burton, Robert] The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and severall Cures of it ... By Democritus Junior ... The Fourth Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1632. Folio (28.5 x 18cm), contemporary calf (possibly French), covers gilt with large arabesque centrepieces, concentric dogtooth frames and floral cornerpieces, allegorical title-page by C. Le Blon, leaf of explanatory letterpress ('The Argument of Frontispiece'), woodcut initials, binding rebacked with original spine laid down and endpapers renewed, crossed-through contemporary ownership inscription to upper margin of engraved title, 'The Argument of the Frontispiece' with loss to upper fore corner probably from ink corrosion, not affecting text, spill-burns to M3, 2R1 and 2Y4, 2C2 with remnants of recent tape-repair to lower fore corner, 2P3 with minor paper disruption in upper margin, pinhole-sized worm-track to head of gutter from quire 2M to end, slowly widening, the text never affected [ESTC S122249; STC 4162]

Orkney 2 works Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of. Views in Orkney and on the North-Eastern Coast of Scotland. [London?: privately printed], 1807. Folio, 20th-century half morocco, edges untrimmed, half-title, etched title-page, 27 pp., 28 etched plates, etched vignettes in text, clipped inscription 'THe RIght Honourable The Speaker, etc. etc, with the Marchioness of Stafford's Compliments' mounted to front pastedown, bookplate of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), sometime Speaker of the House of Commons, reimposed to front pastedown, additional bookplates of Matthew Henry Whitty Devenish and John Davie Manson Robertson, toning, spotting to half-title and title-page;and 1 other (F. W. L. Thomas, Account of some of the Celtic Antiquities of Orkney, 1851, 4to, later half morocco)

Watercolours, sketches and photographs 19th century portfolio, including West Indies and North America interest contents include:'Sketch of the Soufriere Mountain, Island of St Vincent, By Lieut Rob[er]t Hor[ati]o Minty, 1st W.I.R.', watercolour, 46 x 60cm, a few tears around edge, with an accompanying manuscript note in pencil on a single bifolium, including an additional diagram;Panorama probably of Niagara Falls, watercolour, on 2 sheets, backed on linen, 21 x 105cm, some chipping to extremities;7 further watercolour views of various landscapes;'Falls of Nagara and country around from the grand bank, June 1815', pencil and grey wash, on 2 sheets, 21 x 147cm, chipped, a few spots, adhesive staining where sheets conjoined;12 additional pencil sketches including 'Vale of Festiniog', 'Pont Aberglaslyn, North Wales, August 1806', 'Loch Ness, August 1803', 'Carnarvon Castle, August 1806', 'Loch Lomond, August 1804';9 albumen print photographs including views in Caithness and of steam engines;together with an oblong folio photograph album containing 28 albumen print photographs, c.1880, 20 x 27cm, mainly studio photographs of Algiers and environs, and ethnographic 'types', also naval interest (HMS Victory, Golden Jubilee review at Spithead, 1887), 2 group portraits of a Scottish army regiment, etc.Note: Note: Robert Horatio Minty of the 1st West India Regiment of Foot (gazetted captain 6th December 1844) was the father of Robert Horatio George Minty (1831-1906), who was commissioned into the regiment in 1848 and subsequently emigrated to the United States, serving with distinction as a cavalry officer in the Union army in the American Civil War, and later achieving pre-eminence as a railroad executive.

Great Britain – Stamp Office A Table of Stamps London: Stamp-Office, 1795. Oblong folio, contemporary half calf with red morocco gilt label to upper cover, comprising 10 leaves (title and 9 numbered leaves), possibly lacking two initial (blank?) leaves, no records traced on the ESTC [ESTC N43331 lists what appears to be an earlier edition from 1791], covers rubbed, various notes in early hand to endpapers including an illegible gift inscriptionNote: Note: A very rare item, no other copies traced. This volume lists various licenses, certificates and their costs, including the controversial ‘hair powder certificates’ costing £1.1.0. The Duty on Hair Powder Act was introduced in 1795, requiring every citizen who wished to use hair powder to buy a certificate from the stamp office costing one guinea per year. Those who wore hair powder without a certificate could be prosecuted, such as the Reverend Francis Barstow, who was fined £20 for his indiscretion.

Froissart, Jean Histoire et Chronique Memorable... Paris: L'Olivier de Pierre l'Huillier, 1574. Folio in sixes, contemporary calf gilt with later spine, nn5-6 not present but text appears continuous, a little ink staining to final few leaves, some light soiling and very slight marginal dampstaining to title-page, bookplate of W. Priestly, Lightcliffe and early ownership inscription to title-page [USTC 7557]

Gunnery Specifications of Patents of Invention relating to Fire-Arms, Projectiles, etc. [volumes 1-4:] enrolled under the Act 21 James I. From 15th May 1718 to 10th September 1852 [volume 5:] filed under the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c.183. From 1st October 1852 to 31st December 1853. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1854. 5 volumes, folio (28.5 x 17.5cm), contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides, edges untrimmed, each volume containing approximately 80 patents, separately paginated, each with royal arms to head and publisher's imprint at end, profusely illustrated with lithographic plates (most of them folding), title-page to each volume (except volume 4), volumes 1 and 5 with index at front, bindings rubbed, blind stamps (American Institute Library) to title-pages and endpapers, a few closed handling tears to folding plates Note: Note: No other set traced in auction; the Royal Armouries appear to hold three sets (Leeds, Fort Nelson and the Tower of London), their records suggesting that a further two volumes were published.Provenance: Stephen V. Grancsay (1897-1980), curator of arms and armour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (bookplates); Henk Visser (1923-2006), Dutch resistance fighter, businessman and noted collector of arms and amour (bookplates).

Montaigne, Michel de The Essayes or Morall, Politike, and Militarie Discourses. London: M[iles] Flesher, for Richard Royston, 1632. Third edition in English, folio (27.5 x 18cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, engraved additional title-page, binding rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down (later label, probably 18th century), endpapers renewed, engraved title chipped along top edge and extended along fore margin, 18th-century ownership inscription to letterpress title-page, toning, occasional blemishes and marks [STC 18043]Note: Note: John Florio's translation of Montaigne's essays, the first into English, was originally published in 1603. It was 'one of the great translations of the Elizabethan age ... [and] a source of inspiration for such as Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Webster, and Shakespeare' (ODNB).

Gould, John The Birds of Asia. Part XXXI [and:] XXXII London: for the author, 1879. 2 parts in 1 volume, large folio (55.5 x 37cm), contemporary green half morocco, 25 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened in gum arabic, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, original front wrappers bound in (wrapper for part XXXI creased and spotted), spotting to endpapers and blanks, bookplate of the earls of Bradford, plates comprise:1. Broderip's Oriole;2. Elliot's Pitta;3. Bornean Pitta;4. Malaccan Pitta;5. Georgian Black Grouse;6. Crimson-vented Partridge (text-leaf with closed marginal tear);7. Rufous-breasted Bamboo-Partridge;8. Siberian Ruby-throat;9. Himalayan Ruby-throat;10. Mongolian Ruby-throat;11. Pylzoff's Rose Bunting;12. Rosy Grosbeak;13. Legge's Flower-pecker;14. White-winged Red-footed Kestrel;15. Malayan Fairy Bluebird;16. Bornean Fairy Bluebird;17. Koch's Pitta;18. Indian Hoopoe;19. Banded Kingfisher (offset);20. Black-faced Kingfisher (slightly offset);21. Tenasserim Kingfisher;22. Northern Bullfinch (slightly offset);23. Beavan's Bullfinch (slightly offset);24. Elegant Bunting;25. Trumpeter Bullfinch (text-leaf spotted)

Arms and Armour Catalogues and reference works Clarke, C. Purdon. Arms and Armour at Sandringham. London: W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd., 1910. Folio; [and] Griggs, W. Catalogue of the Collection of Indian Arms and Objects of Art presented by the princes and Nobles of India to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales...on the occasion of his visit to India in 1875-1876. Now in the Indian Room at Marlborough House. Folio; volumes in original uniform black quarter morocco with decorative paper covers, bookplates of Michael Moad, some splitting to joints;Egerton, Wilbraham. An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms. London: William C. Allen & Co., 1880. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Brett, Edwin J. Catalogue of the Important Collection of Armour and Arms, many of which have been exhibited at the Tudor, Armada & Vietnam exhibitions... London; Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, Monday March 18th -26th, 1895. 8vo, marked up by Alfred Nielson and inscribed to his friend in August 1895, with two additional bookplates, original paper-covered boards, joints split;Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket, a neat, later, gift inscription;Idem. European Arms and Armour in the University of Oxford. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1912. Original blue cloth gilt;Idem. Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London. London: HMSO, [1916]. 2 volumes, original blue cloth gilt;Idem. The Gun-Founders of England... Cambridge: University Press, 1937. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;Whitelaw, Charles E. European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries... London: Philip Lee Warner, [1923?] Folio, original cloth;Trapp, Oswald, Graf. The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. Out-of-Series edition of 400, original red cloth gilt, torn dust jacket;Wilkinson, Henry. Engines of War... London: Longman, Orme, Brown, and Longmans, 1841. 8vo, original cloth gilt, library stamp; and a proof? copy, 1841, inscribed by Wilkinson to his daughter, withdrawn stamp of the Royal Armouries Library;Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Crossbow. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 4to, original black cloth gilt, inscribed with the author's compliments;Thordeman, Bengt. Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361. Uppsala, 1939. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth;Stone, George Cameron. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor. Portland: The Southworth Press, 1934. 4to, original cloth gilt;Von Kienbusch, Carl Otto. The Kretzschmar Von Kienbusch Collection of Armor and Arms. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1963. 4to, original green cloth gilt, slipcase, bookplate of Michael Moad with signed typed letter to him from the author tipped-in;Hoff, Arne - HD Schepelern and Gudmund Bosen. Royal Arms at Rosenborg. Copenhagen, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to, original wrappers, blue dust-jackets and slipcase;North, C.N. McIntyre. The Book of the Club of the True Highlanders / Leabhar Comunn nam Fion Ghael. London: Richard Smythson, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, 70 plates, North's signature in purple pencil to the introduction to the reader original cloth gilt in Graham and Farquharson tartans, bindings worn with some cloth torn, pages loose;and 9 others: Pollard. A History of Firearms; Clephan. The Defensive Armour and Weapons and Engines of War of Mediaeval Times, and of the "Renaissance"; Clark. Mediaeval Military Architecture in England. 2 volumes; Ffoulkes. Arms and the Tower; Penrose. Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Firearms in the Museum of Applied Science of Victoria; Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, parts 1-3 in two volumes; The Gun Trade Handbook...1906; Illustrated Catalogue of the Historical and World-Renowned Collection of Torture Instruments etc. from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg; De Lacy Lacy. The History of the Spur

Thomson, John The Atlas of Scotland, containing Maps of Each County Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1832. Large folio, hand-coloured double page panorama of Principal Mountains and uncoloured panorama of Principal Rivers, 58 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, hand-coloured index map, later cloth gilt, title-page repaired, title, prelims and index leaves mounted, a few small repairs to upper margins of maps, a little dampstaining

Hexham, Henry The ... Principles of the Art Military ... The Second Edition newly corrected and amended. [In 4 parts, comprising:]i) The First Part of the Principles of the Art Military, practised in the Warres of the United Netherlands, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange our Captaine Generall. For so much as concerned the Duties of a Souldier, and the Officers of a Companie of Foote, as also of a troupe of Horse, and the exercising of them through their severall Motions. Delft: for the lovers of the noble art military, 1642. Engraved volvelles at ²F1r. (partly pasted down as in ESTC), K1v. (slightly rumpled at inner corner), and K2r. (detached but present), engravings throughout the text (many full-page), early ownership inscription of one Henry Osborn to title-page, leaf A1 repaired, quire ²A⁶ ('Briefe Instructions of the Duties of a Horseman') bound at end of part 2[Cockle 136; ESTC R11968, 11 copies world-wide];ii) The Second Part of the Principles of the Art Military ... Consisting of the Severall Formes of Battels, Represented by the Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange ... and His Highnesse Frederick Henry Prince of Orange ... Together with the Order and Forme of Quartering, Encamping, and Approching, in a Warre Offensive and Defensive.Delft: [no printer], 1642.20 engraved plates (all but 2 double-page, several by Hondius), very small worm-track to foot of quires I-N, associated pinhole-sized tracks to foot of a few plates[Cockle 163, with Antony of Heusden imprint; ESTC R234005, 1 one copy only, at Christ Church Oxford, and 9 copies for the Antony of Heusden imprint];iii) The Third Part of the Principles of the Art Military .... Treating of severall Peeces of Ordnance, Carriages, Engines, Quadrants, Morters, Petards, as also Instructions for Master-Gunners, and Canoniers, with Divers Instruments and Materials belonging to a Warre with their severall Uses and Practices.Rotterdam: James Moxon, 1643.3 engraved plates lettered A-C (A double-page, closely trimmed along top edge), engravings in text, I2 and M2 cancelled as usual[Cockle 164; ESTC R26057, 8 copies];iv) An Appendix of the Lawes, Articles, and Ordinances, established for Marshall Discipline, in the Service of the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange. Together with the Articles of Quarter for the Ransoming of Officiers and Souldiers ... Translated out of Dutch into English.The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn, 1643.C1-2 transposed and misbound between B1 and B2[Cockle 137; ESTC R231620, 7 copies].4 parts in 1 volume, folio (35 x 21.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in blind, rebacked, collations as in ESTCNote: Note: Second edition of an acknowledged 'tour de force of English military literature and a veritable catalogue of the Dutch contributions to the transformation of warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries' (David Lawrence, The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 2009, p. 104). Henry Hexham was an English soldier who served in the Netherlands during the climactic decades of the Eighty Years' War, acting as quartermaster to Sir Horace Vere's regiment at the relief of Breda in 1625, the siege of Bois-le-Duc ('s-Hertogenbosch) in 1629, and at the capture of Venloo, Roermond and Strale and the siege of Maastricht in 1631-2. 'After Vere's death he became quartermaster to the regiment of George (afterwards Baron) Goring, with whom he served at the siege of Breda in 1637' (ODNB). The first three parts of the work were respectively published in 1637-38-40, and the appendix also in 1637.

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Works of our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer… London, 1687. Folio, frontispiece portrait, small cancel slip to p.42, contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked retaining contemporary spine, very clean copy with only some very slight marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, bookplate of Payson E. Gates [ESTC R3920]Note: Note: The eighth collected edition of Chaucer’s works, this was the last Gothic script edition to be produced.

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works on science, cookery and other subjects [Medicine] Muhammad A'zam Khan Chishti (1814-1902). Nira-i A'zam ['The Essence of A'zam']. Delhi: Matba' Mustafa, 1909. Folio, 88 pp., in Persian, recent half leatherette[Medicine] Khazanchand Ahuja, LMS [Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery]. Risala-i Tibb, mawsum bi-Khazana-i Hikmat ['Epistle on Medicine, or The Store of Wisdom']. Sialkot: Punjab Press, 1896. 8vo, contemporary half calf (front board detached), 448 pp., in Urdu;[Medicine] Ghulam Jilani. Makhzan al-adwiyah dukturi materia medica bi'l-tasawir ['The Doctor's Store of Medicines, or Materia Medica, Illustrated']. Lahore: Nawal Kishore, 1915. Volume 2 only, 8vo, contemporary cloth, 997-2412 pp., in Persian;[Artillery]. Top Khanekee Kuwaed. Or, Translation of the Manuel of Field Artillery Exercises of 1861. Corrected up to date. Under the Order of His Highness the Maharajah Jeeyajee Rao Saheb Scindia Alejiah Badoor ... Gwalior: printed at the Military Press. By Nazmi Moonshee Luchman Das, 1870. 8vo, recent quarter leather, title-pages in English, Hindi and Urdu, text in Hindi and Urdu, numerous folding tables, chipping especially to outer leaves;[Cookery]. Viyanjan[?] Prakash. Delhi: Matba' Iftikhar, c.1900. 8vo, recent quarter leather, 80 pp., in Urdu, illustrated throughout, annotations in Hindi;[Horsemanship]. Zaynat al-Khayl ['The Beauty of Horses']. [Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1900. Large 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, 218 pp., illustrations in text, binding defective, worming;and 5 similar including: [Hunting] Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, Rahnama-i Shikar, 1932 (4 halftone photographic plates, chipping to outer leaves, crude tape-repair to title-page); a sammelband of cosmographical and 'aja'ib literature; another pharmacopeia (lacking the title-page); and others; collations not fully established and the lot sold as seen

Texier, Charles and Richard Popplewell Pullan Byzantine Architecture Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity with Historical & Archaeological Descriptions. London: Day & Son, 1864. First English edition, folio, chromolithographed additional title and 70 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates, many printed with gold tissue guards, 2 double-page plates and numerous woodcut illustrations, original maroon decorative cloth gilt, gilt edges, binding lightly faded Note: Note: A very good copy of this lavishly illustrated survey of the early Christian architecture of Greece and the Near East. Pullan was architect to the Bodrum Expedition sent to survey the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in 1857 and also carried out various excavations as agent for the Society of Dilettanti. The Lion of Knidos was found in 1858 by Pullan as he walked the cliffs near where he was helping Charles Thomas Newton to excavate the ancient Greek city of Knidos. Royal Engineer Robert Murdoch Smith was given the task of assisting. He was presented with the lion statue that had fallen onto its front face. The limestone core of the monument was still there but the marble cladding and other details had either been stolen or lay around where it had fallen. Smith was able to replace and move each of the remaining stones which allowed the engineer to write a detailed report on the structure. Pullan created an orthographic drawing of the building which is thought to be a good reproduction of what the whole structure would have looked like. The Lion of Knidos was loaded onto the naval ship HMS Supply and shipped to London. It is now in the British Museum.Texier was in Asia Minor much earlier, but the two collaborated to produce this interesting work. Atabey 1213; Blackmer 1647

Golden Cockerel Press and other private presses Collection of limited editions Golden Cockerel Press. [Six works, comprising:] 1) The Garden of Cyrus ... by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 2) Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial: or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 3) Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne, 1923, one of 115 copies; 4) Jeremy Taylor: a Selection from his Works made by Martin Armstrong, 1923, one of 320 copies; 5) The xi. Bookes of the Golden Ass, containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, 1923; 6) Maxims and Considerations of Chamfort, translated, with an Introduction, by E. Powys Mathers, 1926, one of 550 copies. 6 works, all 4to, original holland-backed boards (except The Garden of Cyrus, recently rebound to style, and Maxims, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum), Golden Asse with slipcase, Maxims with dust jackets, Hydriopathia and Religio Medici with light discolouration to sides, Jeremy Taylor spine-label renewed, The Golden Asse with two faint marks to front board, Maxims dust jackets chipped and spotted; Vale Press. Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other Essays, by Sir Thomas Browne. London: Vale Press, 1902. One of 310 copies, folio, recent holland-backed boards to style, occasional spotting; Idem. Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft ever known. London: Vale Press, 1903. One of 300 copies, folio, recent holland-backed boards to style, similar slipcase, spine toned; Chiswick Press. Pericles and Aspasia by Walter Savage Landor. London: Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, 1903. One of 220 copies of which 20 for presentation, folio, original holland-backed boards; and 4 others (Florence Press, Songs before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1909, one of 650 copies, rebound to style; Illustrations of Britain, Forty-Eight Specially Commissioned Illustrations for the Shell and BP Shilling Guides to Britain, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, 1964, 8vo, cloth-backed patterned boards, 48 colour plates, slipcase; The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker, London: Martin Secker, 1923, one of 500 copies; Verona Society, The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry, 1930, one of 500 copies)

Fife Collection of works Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. First edition, one of 100 copies (according to other records), 3 volumes, 4to, original red quarter morocco gilt by C. S. Smith of Edinburgh, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title-pages, 33 colour lithographic plates reproducing original charters, letters and other documents, wood-engraved illustrations of seals and signatures in text, volume 1 with presentation plate to front pastedown, largely effaced but name of recipient William Blackwood Esq. (presumably the famous publisher) visible, volumes 2-3 with bookplates of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, spines rubbed, peripheral mottling to covers, volume 2 with split to foot of spine;Idem. Illustrations of the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, containing duplicates of the title-pages, colour plates and other illustrations from the Memorials, one copy with bookplate of Innes of Learney to front pastedown and later colour print mounted to front free endpaper, the other with bookplate of Francis James Grant, Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, second copy with wear to spine-ends mottling to covers;Idem. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [colophon:] by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1890. First edition, one of 150 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, rebacked in red morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 41 plates including photogravures or lithographs from portrait paintings (many on india paper, mounted) and colour lithographic facsimiles of historical documents, printed presentation plate addressed in manuscript to Archibald Stirling of Keir to front pastedown of volume 1;Idem. Introductions and Illustrations in the Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1890. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, plates, one copy inscribed by William Fraser to David Chalmers of Redhall (1820-1899), Scottish industrialist, with a letter from Fraser to Chalmers in original envelope mounted to endpaper, and Chalmers's bookplate;Patrick, John (1831-1923). Photographic Views of the Fife Coast, c.1870. 8vo, original green cloth, 13 albumen-print photographs (10.7 x 18cm), on card mounts backed onto continuous sheet of linen folded in leporello format, printed border and captions to mounts, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, modern bookplate to rear, light soiling to mounts, ties detached or gone;Fife Tales by Photo. Part I. Contents. I. The Mother's Fault. II. The Gowks. III. The Minstrel. With a Calotype [sic] of Macduff's Castle. Leven: John Patrick, 1861. 12mo, 74 pp., original glazed yellow printed wrappers, albumen-print photographic frontispiece, wrappers chipped and soiled, attempted adhesive-repair to spine, closed tear in index leaf, occasional soiling to contents;Limekilns. Its Antiquities and Church Landowners, Harbours, Ships, Shipmasters and Shipments, and Passagium Reginae. Compiled under the Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere. Edinburgh: for private circulations, 1929. First edition, one of 215 copies, large folio, original cloth, 20 plates, front free endpaper excised, pen-marks to endpapers, mark to foot of p. 88;Watson, Charles Brodie Boog. Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Founder of A. Cowan & Sons), his Kinsfolk and Connections. Perth: D. Leslie (Watson & Annandale), privately printed, 1915. Folio, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece from a painting, 2 double-page plates, without genealogical tables listed in contents, inscribed by the author, together with a separate issue of the final part ('Some Notes on Moray House'), folio, original cloth, with plates as in the preceding work, inscribed by the author;Mackay, Aeneas J. G. A History of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map, bookplates (R. Y. Pickering, dated 1895, and the Barons Glenconner);and 4 others including William Gifford of Joppa, An Ancient Seaport on the Shores of the Forth, Dunfermline: Journal Printing Works, 1914Note: Note: John Patrick was originally a baker in his native Buckhaven before becoming a commercial photographer, working first in Kirkcaldy and subsequently Edinburgh; his famous images include a portrait of Thomas Carlyle taken during Carlyle's visit to Kirkcaldy in 1874. No other copy of Fife Tales by Photo traced.

Bible; Old Testament; Hebrew Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus. Edidit Benjaminus Kennicott. Oxford: e Typographeo Sheldoniano, 1776-80. 2 volumes, large folio (43.6 x 26cm), contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked with restoration to extremities, xxiii [1] viii 684 [2], [4] 732 129 [7] pp., occasional light browning, volume 1 sig. 7D spotted [ESTC T147508]Note: Note: First edition of a major scholarly recension of the Hebrew Bible, which established its compiler, the Oxford Hebraist Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), as a scholar of international standing in Enlightenment Europe. 'The greater part of [Kennicott's] life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament ... With his formidable knowledge of Syriac, early Latin, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task ... Kennicott's labours culminated in the production of his Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum cum variis lectionibus, the first volume published at Oxford in 1776, the second in 1780. These were two superb folios complete with parallel Samaritan and Hebrew texts and apparatus criticus ... The scale of textual criticism (he had consulted and collated 615 manuscript versions and 52 printed editions) gave Kennicott a European reputation that transcended national and denominational boundaries, his labours constituting a milestone "in a more systematic and comprehensive examination of the formation of the biblical text and canon by subsequent scholars"' (ODNB).

Meyrick, Samuel Rush A General Inquiry into Antient Armour As it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. [Together with:] Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: printed by G. Schulze, for Robert Jennings [-for J. Skelton], 1824-30. 5 volumes, folio (38 x 27cm), contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt by Howell of Liverpool, top edges gilt, half-title and etched additional title-page to each volume, A General Inquiry (volumes 1-3) with 10 etched plates, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates with tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heighted in gold or silver, errata leaf with directions to the binder on verso, bookplates (Messenger family), etched plates offset, a few aquatint plates offset through tissue-guards, volume 2 quire Y with repaired closed tears in margins, Engraved Illustrations (volumes 4-5) with 2 etched frontispieces, engraved portrait, 150 etched plates, bookplates (R. J. Wiginton and Bramley B. Kent), plates generally spotted, plate 138 repaired in margin

Antiquarian literature Collection of works Daniel, William B. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, engraved frontispieces, 70 plates, a little wear to bindings, plates variably spotted and offset;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, numerous engraved plates;Hume, David. The History of England ... A New Edition, Corrected. Dublin: printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan sheep, red and green morocco labels, slightly rubbed;Calderwood, David. The True History of the Church of Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation, unto the End of the Reigne of King James VI. [Netherlands?: no publisher], 1688. First edition, folio, 19th-century half calf, spine defective at head, bound without index (8 pp.) [ESTC R16833];Macpherson, James. The History of Great Britain, from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hannover. London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary calf, lacking portrait, section excised from each title-page;Spottiswood, John. The History of the Church of Scotland. London: for R. Royston, 1655. First edition, folio, 20th-century half calf, lacking portrait;and 3 others including another copy of Calderwood, the lot sold as seen

Clerk, John, of Eldin A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland With Additional Etchings and Facsimiles from his Drawings. Edinburgh: for the Bannatyne Club, 1855. Large folio (50.5 x 31cm), original maroon quarter roan (rebacked), printed paper label to front board, xxx pp., lithographic portrait frontispiece and additional mezzotint portrait, both on india paper, mounted, 55 etched or tinted lithographic plates (numbered 1-55 but many containing multiple separately printed images), one unnumbered plate, tissue-guards, wear to corners of boards Note: Note: Second edition, greatly enlarged, number 98 in the Bannatyne Club series; it was first published in 1825 with 28 plates only. John Clerk of Eldin (1728-1812), 'a true child of the Enlightenment' (ODNB) is best remembered today for his Essay on Naval Tactics (1790). 'Clerk was an exceptional amateur artist. His wealthy background afforded him the luxury of entertaining numerous careers, including medicine and business, and he also showed a considerable interest in geology. In the 1740s he began sketching alongside his brother-in-law, Robert Adam, and the artist Paul Sandby. Clerk travelled extensively throughout Scotland, recording a wide range of landscapes and ancient buildings. His sketches of Edinburgh and the surrounding areas are highly personal representations of his native countryside' (National Galleries of Scotland, online). The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.Provenance: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), physician and pioneer of chloroform, original subscriber; thence by descent.

Blaeu, Johannes Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, cinquieme partie [Scotland and Ireland] Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1654. Folio (50 x 33cm), [12] 181, 59 pp (rectos of map-sheets not counted in pagination), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, engraved architectonic title-page incorporating arms of Scotland and with letterpress title in French on mounted slip, 55 engraved maps (all but one double-page), containing titles within decorative cartouches, several maps additionally with dedication and mileage charts in similar cartouches (a few dedications also incorporating arms of the dedicatee), maps and title-page with contemporary hand-colour throughout, title-page additionally heightened in gilt, woodcut initials and tailpieces, binding pitted, variable browning and offsetting, occasional spotting, small worm-track to lower margin from front to p. 40 (text and maps never affected), repaired closed tears to text-leaf *1 and map of Lennox ('Levinia'), 'Scotia Regnum' map with old circular stain to upper margin, Lower Clydesdale ('Gottiana Praefectura Inferior') map with Dutch text verso and small hole in image [Skelton 59a; cf. Chubb, 'The Atlases of Scotland' II-III, Dutch and Latin editions]Note: Note: 'The first printed atlas of Scotland' (Skelton), being the fifth volume of Blaeu's 1654 world atlas, this copy from the French-text edition: editions with text in French, Latin, Dutch and German were all published in the same year, with a Spanish edition appearing in 1659; the maps themselves are titled in Latin and English. The work contains 'three general maps and forty-six maps of Scottish counties and regions, engraved at Amsterdam from drawings by Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661) and his son James (c.1615-1686), minister of Rothiemay in Banffshire, together with a general map of Ireland and five maps of Irish provinces, after Mercator and Jansson. The maps by the Gordons incorporate the results of the earliest topographical survey of Scotland, that made by Timothy Pont at undetermined dates, apparently within the last two decades of the 16th and the first decade of the 17th century' (ibid.).

Hooker, Richard Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity London: imprinted...by William Stansby, [n.d.] Small folio in sixes, title-page laid-down and trimmed, dampstaining [ESTC S119096]; [bound with] Idem. Certayne Divine Tractates. London: Henrie Fetherstone, 1618 [but later?]. Small folio in sixes, dampstaining, does not correspond to ESTC records; contemporary calf rebacked; Idem. The Works of...Mr. Richard Hooker... London: John Walthoe et al, 1723. Folio, engraved portrait, additional engraved title, contemporary calf, rebacked with later spine, bookplates including the Library of the Episcopal Theological School Cambridge [ESTC T70803]

A Large collection of De Agostini Star Wars helmets and various spaceships- comes with folio.

Coaching Days of England, text by Anthony Burgess, 1750-1850, published by Paul Elek, 1966, first edition, Landscape folio together with Pageantry of Sport, From The Age of Chivalry to The Age of Victoria by John Arlott and Arthur Daley, published by Paul Elek 1968, first edition

Jane Austen 'The complete Novels' in The Folio Society slip case

Various topographical books including Wales, The Derbyshire Dales, Peak District, Yorkshire etc. map of Wales & Manchester and two folio books

A set of three folio books Domesday Book, The Gloucestershire Domesday Book and Folios and Maps published by Alecto

First edition, second issue folio issue The Antiquities, Natural History, Ruins, and Other Curiosities of Egypt, Nubia, and Thebes, Frederic Lewis Norden, publ. by Edward Jeffery, London 1792, engraved on one hundred and sixty-four plates, with titles in French frontispiece portrait of the author with an allegorical scene after the title page, by Martin Teuscher, leather bound volume with coloured marble design to covers, gilt title on spine. Footnote: Frederic Lewis Norden (1708-1742) was a Danish captain and explorer, who studied drawing and engraving as part of his duties.  It was on the request of King Christian VI of Denmark, that he make the journey through Egypt and down to Nubia in 1737-1738. The drawings and additional notes were taken at each given location and constitutes a wonderful document of the area as found. 

Quantity of hardback ballet books, relating to set designs and costume designers of the ballet world, including an autobiography Erté Things I Remember, Reade Brian Ballet Designs and Illustrations (1581-1940), Bentley Toni Costumes by Karinska, Schouvaloff Alexander The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection Set and Costume Designs for Ballet and Theatre, Pablo Picasso Designs for "The Three Cornered Hat" (soft cover), Buckle Richard Modern Ballet Design, Mary Clark and Clement Crisp Design for Ballet, Rhodos Bournonvilleana, The Folio Society Degas Dancers, Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp Ballet in Art From the Renaissance to the Present, Beaumont Cyril Ballet Design Past and Present, Coté Costume Opéra National de Paris, Beaumont Cyril Five Centuries of Ballet Design, Catherine Haill The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Kendall Richard Degas and the Little Dancer, Edmonde Charles-Roux Chanel, and lastly Gran Teatro La Fenice (hard back). 

After William Blake (1757-1827), 'The Book of Job', from an edition of 1000 facsimile copies of the 1826 original, published by J. M. Dent, 1902, consisting of 21 engravings after the artist, image size typically 19 x 15cm, with a folio of engravings after Myles Birket Foster. (2)

Five Folio books including Mark Twain P.G Woodhouse etc Collect only

Folio Society: A group of seventeen publications including Thomas (Dylan), 'Under Milk Wood' and De Quincy (Thomas), 'The English Opium Eater', nine in slip cases, fair condition (17)

The Craven Vale Estate in the Royal County of Berkshire: Sale Plans 1954-1959. Hobbs & Chambers, Farringdon, in green folio plus a bundle of unframed prints, various (qty)

A Folio Album of early 20th century photographs, prints etc., of Italian scenes and works of art. Half green calf plus Heckstall-Smith (B). Yachts and Yachting in Contemporary Art. Studio Ltd 1925 821/1000. Blue cloth. 4to. (2)

A folio containing photographs of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's visit to Venice c.1975, associated Venice posters (quantity).

A folio containing an eclectic group c20 prints and drawings including a pen and ink sketch entitled 'November in Montreal showing the astonishing effects of mud... on it's inhabitants' (200 x 305mm) plus 'Nouvelle Imagerie d'Epinal' 443/445/606 plus eight McLean coloured cartoons etc, mixed condition (c20)

Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)Shelter-Sketch-Book (English Edition A) (Cramer 85) The complete portfolio comprising one lithograph in colours, 1967, on Japon nacré paper, signed and numbered 129/180 in pencil, printed by J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich, co-published by Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and Rembrandt Verlag GmBH, Berlin, the full sheet, loose (as issued), within the paper slipcase, with the title page, justification and 80 facsimile collotypes after the original drawings, additionally signed and numbered '129' in blue ink on the justification page, loose (as issued), within the red linen clamshell boxSheet 368 x 303mm (14 1/2 x 12in)(and similar)(81)Folio 402 x 335 x 55mm (15 3/4 x 13 1/4 x 2 1/4in)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † AR† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Anni Albers (American, 1899-1994)Connections 1925/1983 (Danilowitz 71-79) The complete portfolio comprising nine screenprints in colours, 1984, on Cartiere Miliani of Fabriano Umbria Italia and Fabriano Cotton papers, with introduction by the publisher, each signed, variously dated from 1925-1983 and numbered 50/125 in pencil, additionally numbered 50 in pencil on the justification page, printed by Samuele Villa, Muggiò, published by Fausta Squatriti Editore, Milan, with full margins, the sheets loose (as issued), within the original paper covered portfolio with printed titleSheet 697 x 496mm (27 3/8 x 19 1/2in)(and similar)(10)Folio 703 x 507 x 10mm (27 5/8 x 20 x 3/8in)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Various ArtistsHommage À Domberger The complete portfolio of 16 editions, comprising screenprint, offset lithograph, digital print and collage, 2002, on various papers, variously signed, dated and numbered 25/50 (there were also 20 artist's proofs), with title and justification page additionally numbered 25/50 in pencil, printed and published by Edition Domberger, Filderstadt, each within the mounts with the publisher's blindstamp (as issued), housed within the original blue clamshell boxSheet 365 x 300mm (14 3/8 x 11 7/8in)(16)Folio 522 x 418 x 50mm (20 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 2in)Footnotes:On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the company, as well as of the 90th birthday of its founder Luitpold Domberger, 15 artists designed 16 original prints that were produced by Edition Domberger and compiled in the present portfolio.The portfolio comprises works by the following artists: Elvira Bach (German, born 1951), Werner Berges (German, born 1941), Hellmut Bruch (German, born 1936), Christo (American/Bulgarian, 1935-2020), Richard Estes (American, born 1932), Heinz Gappmayr (Austrian, 1925-2010), Jochen Gerz (German, born 1940), José de Guimarães (Portuguese, born 1939), Hans Karl (Polish, born 1935), Gerald Laing (British, 1936-2011), Robert Mangold (American, born 1937), Ton Mars (Dutch, born 1950), Pietro Sanguineti (German, born 1965), Kenny Scharf (American, born 1968) and Raymond E. Waydelich (German, born 1938).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)Sketchbook 1928 The West Wind Relief (Edition B) (Cramer 573) The complete portfolio comprising one etching and aquatint in colours, 1980, on Arches wove paper, signed and numbered 53/75 in pencil, with full margins, loose (as issued), with the accompanying catalogue and the facsimile, signed in ink and numbered 'B 53/75' in pencil on the artist's label affixed to the inside cover, published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd. for The Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham, within the original green paper-covered Solander box Plate 225 x 300mm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8in)Folio 415 x 330 x 43mm (16 3/8 x 13 x 1 3/4in)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † AR† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

John Baldessari (American, 1931-2020)Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) The complete portfolio of 12 offset lithographs in colours, 1973, on glossy wove paper, signed by the publishers, blindstamped and numbered 532 from the edition of 2000 on the justification, with title page, printed by Arti Grafiche La Monzese, Cologno Monzese, co-published by Edizioni Giampaolo Prearo and Galleria Toselli, Milan, the full sheets, loose (as issued), within the original blue letter-pressed paper folder and navy fabric-covered portfolio caseSheet 243 x 322mm (9 1/2 x 12 5/8in)(12)Folio 269 x 347 x 28mm (10 5/8 x 13 5/8 x 1in)ProvenanceAcquired directly from the publishers by the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993)Canterbury Tales II (Wiseman 58-76) The complete set of 19 etchings with aquatint, 1971-72, on J. Barcham Green paper, with title page and justification, signed and numbered 'C.244' in black ink on the last page (from the boxed unbound edition of 175), printed by White Ink Ltd., some pages with their watermark, published by Leslie Waddington Prints Ltd., London, the full sheets, loose (as issued), within the original green portfolio boxPlate 503 x 342mm (19 3/4 x 13 1/3in)(and similar)(19)Folio 680 x 480 x 90mm (26 3/4 x 19 1/8 x 3 1/2in)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A folio of 19th and 20th Century mostly unframed watercolours, including some prints and a small pair of oils, (q).