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Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands, 2 vols., 1772, portrait frontis. title pages printed in red & black, fifty-one uncoloured double page engraved maps by Robert Morden, nine eng. plts. of coins, occ. slight offsetting, hinges and joints weak, contemp. calf, worn and frayed, folio (2)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands, vol. 1 (of 2), 1772, eng. portrait frontis., title page printed in red & black, nine engraved plts. of coins and thirty-four uncoloured engraved folding maps by Robert Morden, near contemp. sheep with gilt dec. spine, worn and bumped, folio. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Harris (John). The History of Kent, In Five Parts..., vol. 1 [all published], printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719, eng. port. frontis., folding eng. map, thirty-six (of 42) eng. plts. and maps (lacking Chilson Mannor, Chepsted Place, Knowlton Court, Lees Court, Waldershare, Map of the Beacons), some double-page/folding, printed in double-column, occn. browning and spotting, but overall in good condition, marbled endpapers, upper hinge split, a.e.g., 19th c. tan calf, lightly rubbed in places, gilt dec. spine, covers with gilt coat-of-arms of John Frederick, Earl of Cawdor, folio. Upcott, p.354-357. Volume two was never completed or published. A handsome copy. (1)

Havell (Robert). A Series of Picturesque Views of the River Thames from the Drawings of Wm. Havell. Dedicated to the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation by their humble Servant, Robt. Havell, 2nd. ed., pub. Thomas Maclean, 1818, dec. aquatint title, twelve fine hand-coloured aquatint plts. (complete), Abingdon Bridge plate is proof before title with later pencil title added below image, some marginal toning and soiling, occasional minor archival repairs to extremities, interleaved with later cream paper, endpapers renewed, contemp. maroon half morocco gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, marbled sidings renewed, slim folio (58 x 44cm). Abbey Scenery 433; Tooley 255. (1)

Hoare (Richard Colt). The History of Ancient Wiltshire, Part 1 - Stations I-VI, 1st ed., pub. William Miller, 1810, half-title to vol. 1, addn. eng. title to part 1, eng. port. frontis., forty-six eng. plts. and plans (some double-page), pen & ink plan of Amesbury Church, blind library stamps throughout (not touching plt. image), occ. spotting, edges untrimmed, endpapers replaced, library bookplate, contemp. half qtr. morocco gilt by Cedric Chivers, library classification to spines, extrems. slightly rubbed, large folio. Large paper copy. This copy, published shortly before William CunningtonÕs death, contains only one page of Station VI - Evesham. The complete work was published in 1812-1821 originally issued in three parts. (2)

Hoare (Richard Colt). The History of Modern Wiltshire, Old and New Sarum, or Salisbury, 2 vols., 1843, eng. port. frontis., twenty eng. & litho plts. (inc. one chromo), two eng. illusts., occasional minor spotting, free-endpapers creased, hinges repaired, edges untrimmed, 20th c. half morocco, preserving orig. printed boards, folio, together with The History of Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Westbury, 1830, eng. port. frontis., hand-col. eng. map and three eng. plts., bound with The History of Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Warminster, 1831, three eng. plts., occasional spotting, rear endpaper replaced, edges untrimmed, orig. printed boards, rebacked and corners repaired, joints split, folio (3)

Meyrick (Samuel Rush, and Smith, Charles Hamilton). The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Isles, From the Earliest Periods to the Sixth Century; To which is Added, that of the Gothic Nations on the Western Coasts of the Baltic, the Ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes, 1st ed., 1815, additional hand-col. title and twenty-four hand-col. aquatint plates, bound without half title or sub title, some light offsetting and spotting, a.e.g., contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, few marks, some wear to joints and extrems., folio. Abbey Life 427. (1)

Beebe (William). A Monograph of the Pheasants, 4 vols., pub. Witherby & Co., 1918 - 22, addn. half title, slight spotting to f.e.p.s, 90 coloured plates, 88 photogravures and 20 distribution maps, captioned tissue guards, pubs. gilt cloth, spines a little faded,, t.e.g., folio. Limited edition, 497/600 copies. (4)

Birch (George H.). London Churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries..., from the Designs of Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and James Gibbs... , 1896 subscribersÕ list, sixty-four photogravure plts., b & w illusts. to text, some spotting and marginal browning, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, folio, together with Green (Henry, ed.), WhitneyÕs ÒChoice of EmblemesÓ, A Fac-Simile Reprint... , London, Chester & Nantwich, 1866, b & w illusts. throughout, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, spine rubbed and faded, corners bruised, 4to, (1 of 500 copies), plus Colling (James Kellaway), Examples of English Medieval Foliage and Coloured Decoration... , 1st ed., 1874, b & w illusts. and plts. at rear, title heavily browned, gutter-percha perished and contents largely detached, orig. dec. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, plus Butler (Arthur G.), Birds of Great Britain and Ireland... , 2 vols., n.d., 105 col. plts., t.e.g., orig. two-tone cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, plus others on villa, parks and gardens and facsimiles of James Parkinson ÔParadisi in SoleÕ (1904) and a two-vol. facsimile reprint of ÔLivres des Simples MedicinesÕ (1984), ex-libris Anthony Huxley (15)

Blume (Karl Ludwig). Rumphia, sive Commentationes Botanicae imprimis de plantis Indiae Orientalis, tum penitus incognitis tum quae in libris Rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii, aliorum, recensentur, vols. 3 & 4 (of four) only, Leiden, 1847-48, half-title, uncoloured lithographed portrait by Simonau after Madou, seventy-four lithographed plates (forty-two plates in the first volume, and thirty-two in the second), of which fifty-two are hand-coloured, and twelve are folding, water staining to portrait at front of vol., and to upper and lower margins, mostly throughout, with increasing damp-moulding to upper margins towards rear of vol., a few folding plates slightly frayed to extrems., a.e.g., contemp. gilt-decorated dark green full crushed morocco (by H. Stamper), rubbed and covers damp-discoloured, with a little wear to head of spine, and head of rear joint partly cracked, folio (45 x 28cm) Nissen 178. Pritzel 846. The German-Dutch botanist Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862) was director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden, and spent most of his working life in the Dutch East Indies studying the indigenous flora, especially orchids. Rumphia was published in 4 volumes between 1835 and 1848, and contains, apart from the portraits, a total of 210 fine lithographs. (1)

Folio Society. Tractatus de Herbis, [&] Commentary, facsimile edition, British Library, 2002, colour plates, a.e.g., first mentioned in original dark green morocco for The Folio Society by Smith Settle of Otley, blocked design by David Eccles with leather onlays, second mentioned in original qtr. buckram, contained together in original book box, folio & 8vo. Limited edition 582/1000. (1)

Little (John). Practical Observations on the Improvement and Management of Mountain Sheep, and Sheep Farms: also, Remarks on Stock of Various Kinds, pub. Edinburgh, 1815, dampstaining to margins of initial leaves, some soiling, hinges repaired, contemp. calf, rebacked, 8vo, together with Somerville (John Lord), Facts and Observations Relative to Sheep, Wool, Ploughs, and Oxen: In which the Importance of Improving the Short-Wooled Breeds of Sheep, by a Mixture of the Merino Blood, is Demonstrated from Actual Practice..., 3rd ed., enlarged, 1809, half-title, ten eng. plts. (inc. frontis., 3 plts. folding), some spotting and offsetting, hinges repaired, contemp. speckled calf, neatly rebacked, 8vo, with [Youatt, William], Library of Useful Knowledge. Sheep: their Breeds, Management, and Diseases, to which is added the Mountain ShepherdÕs Manual, 1837, wood eng. illusts., some spotting, contemp. half calf, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 8vo, plus two others related, including An Act for preventing the Depasturing of Forests, Commons, and Open Fields, with Sheep or Lambs with the Scab or Mange..., 1798, 7pp., disbound folio, plus Youatt (William), The Pig: A Treatise on the Breeds, Management, Feeding, and Medical Treatment, of Swine..., 1847, wood eng. frontis. & illusts., orig. cloth, 8vo, plus two volumes relating to the management of poultry (8)

Miller (Philip and Martyn, Thomas). The GardenerÕs and BotanistÕs Dictionary; Containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, and Nursery; of Performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture; of Managing Vineyards, and of Propagating all sorts of Timber Trees, 2 vols. in 4, 1807, nineteen eng. plts. (of 20), occasional toning to few leaves, free endpapers detached, contemp. marbled calf, boards detached, some wear, folio. Henrey 1114. Armorial bookplate of Charles Mackenzie of Kilcoy. (4)

Trechslin (Anne Marie). Roses dÕantan, Berne: Editions le Moulin, 1975, forty mounted colour plates, 51pp. text booklet in orig. printed wrappers, folio, contained together in orig. book box, together with Ariel Press, Fruits & Flowers by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, 1955, numerous col. plts., orig. cloth, price-clipped d.j., with glassine wrapper, folio, with Roses, by Pierre-Joseph Redoute, parts 1 & 2, 1955-56, col. plts., part 1 in orig. boards in frayed wrapper and part 2 in orig. limp boards in wrappers, folio, and The Best of RedouteÕs Roses, 1959, col. plts., orig. limp boards in wrappers, folio, plus others similar, all folio (17)

Weaver (Lawrence). Houses and Gardens by E.L.Lutyens, pub. ÔCountry LifeÕ, 1913, addn. half title, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, dec. endpapers, ownership signature to verso of frontis., hinges and joints weak, pubs. qtr. cloth with printed label to upper siding, rubbed and worn, folio, together with, Mawson (Thomas H.), The Art & Craft of Garden Making, 2nd. ed., 1901, addn. half title, numerous b & w illusts., upper hinge weak, pubs. dec. gilt cloth, a little stained, 4to., with, Elgood (George & Jekyll Gertrude), Some English Gardens, 3rd. ed., pub. Longmans, Green & Co., 1905, addn half title, numerous col. plts., book plate of Hugh Johnson to f.e.p., pubs. gilt cloth, slight staining, folio, plus, Tipping (H.Avray), English Gardens, pub. Country Life. 1925, addn. half title, numerous b & w illusts., pubs. cloth gilt, faded, a little worn and bumped at extrems., folio, with another eleven volumes similar, mostly folio (15)

*Lysons (Samuel). A collection of thirty-nine engravings, originally published in ÔAn Account of Roman Antiquities Discovered at Woodchester in the County of GloucesterÕ, c.1797, engraved plts., including twenty-eight with contemp. hand colouring (six double page) and eleven uncoloured single page plts. occ. marginal closed tears, some water staining and dust soiling and occ. ink library stamps, not affecting image, folio (39)

*Simpson (William). The Seat of the War in the East, 1855 - 56, title page and fifty tinted litho. plates, occ. duplicates, some plates with marginal fraying, slight dust soiling, each approx. 320 x 500mm, disbound, contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, folio, together with Roberts (David), Sanctuary of the Temple of Abu Simbel, Pyramids of Gezeeh from the Nile [and] Approach to the Temple of Wady Saboua, c.1847, together three hand coloured litho. Ôhalf platesÕ, each approx. 270 x 360mm, mounted. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (4)

Title pages. A large collection of approx. 500 title pages relating to botany, birds, natural history, topography and atlases, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. titles and frontispieces, some duplicates, many folio, various sizes and condition (approx.500)

Manuscript accounts ledger, 18th c., possibly initially kept by John Jenkins, victualler in Chichester, Sussex, mid 18th c., noting receipts and payments, including, ÔOur ship Britannia is arrived from Barbadoes and Mr Steel has paid the owners in full for freight, my quarter part which I have received isÕ, ÔVoyage to Jamaica Dr. to sundriesÕ, ÔMy commission on 490 pounds at 2 and a half per cent comes toÕ, ÔPaid William Sabin, in full [four] van beekÕs billÕ, ÔPaid loss of a wager on a horse race [14 pounds]Õ, ÔSold Edward Turner our five best pipes sherry at 29s per pipeÕ, printed distrainment schedule from 1800 bound in with manuscript insertions, much of the later part of the manuscript taken up with maths questions and answers, seemingly in the hand of John Gething, but possibly further hand or hands from later 18th c. also involved, a total of thirty-two leaves, some browning, soiling and fraying, stitching partly broken, folio -1

Scrap album. A 19th-century scrap album, containing, newspaper cuttings, scraps, engravings and original drawings, including portraits, caricatures, fashion, genre, topography, marimtime and classical, contents shaken and loose with some parts excised, contemp. diced calf, boards detached, lacking spine, partially disbound, folio (1)

Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo). Operum, 11 vols. bound in twelve (including Life and Index), Venice, 1729-34, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, vign. printerÕs device to each title, ex-lib. with circular inkstamps to titles and front endpapers, some spotting, contemp. vellum with leather labels to spines, rubbed and soiled, sl. wear to a few spine ends, some loss to spine of vol. 1, folio (12)

Bernard (of Clairvaux, Saint). Opera ..., edited Jacob Merlo Horstius, Jean Mabillon and Edmond Martene, 3 vols., Venice: Angiolo Pasinello, 1726-27, vign. printerÕs devices to each title, title to vol. 1 printed in red and black, some spotting, circular ink lib. stamp to titles and front endpapers, contemp. vellum, some soiling and sl. wear to spine ends, folio, together with Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Opera, 10 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1783, some spotting, ex-libris. John Taylor Coleridge with his small neat initials to each title and full name to front free endpaper of vol. 1, dated 5th June 1820, with adjacent neat ink presentation inscription in latin from his brother Edward, dated 5th May 1820, and a later presentation inscription from [?] Hector Couch to his grandson C.C. Macharness dated 3 October 1870, contemp. half vellum over marbled boards with black leather labels to spines, circular ink lib. stamps to titles and front endpaers, rubbed and soiled, spines and labels sl. chipped, 4to, plus thirty-four further ex-lib. vellum-bound antiquarian theology and related, including some odd vols., of which 20 vols. are folio and 14 vols. 4to/8vo (47)

Bible [Welsh]. Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan, sef yr Hen Destament aÕr Newydd, London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1620, general and New Testament titles present within woodcut dec. borders (general title trimmed, torn with loss & tipped onto front free endpaper), woodcut dec. initials, black letter text, Apocrypha present, occasional manuscript annotations to text and manuscript genealogical entries to endpapers, scattered worm holes to few leaves (inc. NT title), lacking final blank, spotting, toning & marginal dampstaining, dust-soiling and some fraying to margins mostly to first & last few leaves, contemp. reversed blind panelled calf, spine worn at head & foot with loss, leather slightly torn to boards, worn, folio. Darlow & Moule 9585. This edition formed a revision of the 1588 version. It became, and remains the standard edition of the Welsh Bible, though changes to the orthography have been made. (1)

Bonaventura (Saint). Opera, 4 vols., Moguntiae, 1609, vol. 1 with eng. port. frontis. to half title verso, title within decorative eng. border, vols. 2-4 with title vigns., some spotting, ink lib. stamps to titles and endpapers, later calf, some wear and covers det., together with Codex Theodosianus, cum perpetuis commentariis Iacobi Gothofredi ..., ed. Antoin Marville, new edition, edited J. D. Ritter, 6 vols., Leipzig, 1736-45, title vigns., title to vol. 1 printed in red and black, some spotting and browning throughout, ink lib. stamps and marks to titles and endpapers, contemp. panelled calf, some wear, most covers det., and many labels def., vol. 6 rebacked with orig. spine relaid, plus other ex-lib. antiquarian folios including works of Thomas Stapleton (4 vols., 1620), C. G. Daelman (2 vols., 1735) and Saint Ambrose (6 vols. bound in 3, 1875-83), plus numerous odd vols., mostly 19th-century calf/morocco, some wear and covers det., folio (44)

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, London: Printed by Christopher Barker, 1660, title in red and black, with typographic border, early ownership signature and inscription, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms, pub. 1661, double-column black letter text throughout, some fraying to margins, sewing weak, contemp. calf, lacking spine, worn with some loss of leather to boards, lacking clasps, small folio in 4s. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Book of Common Prayer [Welsh]. [Lliver gweddi gyffredin, a gwemdogaeth y sacramentae...], Impinted at London: by Henry Denham, 1567, lacking title, woodcut dec. initials (some excised), black letter text throughout, bound with [Psallwyr neu PsalmaeÕ Dauid..., 1567], lacking title, woodcut dec. initials (some excised), black letter text, early annotations including ÔEdw. Evans oneth this booke and lent it to Rob. lloyd ye 24th Febr. 1682Õ, some dampstaining and soiling throughout, leaves frayed and torn with some loss, contemp. calf over wooden boards, wormed with loss, old repair to spine, folio, together with three other defective 17th c. antiquarian including an incomplete Welsh Book of Common Prayer & Psalms, 1634, bound with Llyfry Psalmau, Wedieu Cyfieithu..., 1638, some soiling and fraying, contemp. calf, brass clasps, 4to. For the first named item see Darlow & Moule 9579. The first Welsh edition of the Prayer Book, translated by Richard Davies, Bishop of St. DavidÕs, assisted by W. Salesbury. Together with the earliest Psalter in Welsh. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (4)

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, 1768, lacking C3, a few small closed tears with old repairs, dutch gilt endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. red gilt dec. morocco, gilt armorial of New College Oxford to centre of each board (the arms incorporating two chevrons sable between three roses & Mitre of a Bishop above, with Order of the Garter), small hole to leather on upper board towards lower edge, neatly repaired at head & foot of spine and to lower outer corners of boards, folio (1)

Book of Common Prayer. [The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1615], woodcut initials, black letter text, lacking title and all before a5, bound with The Psalter or Psalmes of David, After the Translation of the Great Bible, London: Robert Barker, 1615, title within woodcut border, black letter text, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1618, title within woodcut border (cropped at foot), black letter text, worm hole to lower outer corners, some general toning and dust-soiling, later sheep over contemp. boards, joints cracked, leather torn with loss, worn, small folio, together with [The Book of Common Prayer, c.1680s], lacking title, numerous hand-col. eng. plts., red ruled borders, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, 1682, red ruled borders, browning, spotting and dust-soiling, frayed to margins, a.e.g., contemp. elaborate gilt dec. maroon morocco with onlays in black to boards, upper board detached, lower joint weak, worn, 8vo. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2)

Camden (William). Annals, or, the Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queen of England..., 3rd ed., 1635, eng. port. frontis. and addn. eng. title, pages 237-238 omitted in pagination, lacking final blank (Eee6), occasional scattered worm holes, sewing weak and some leaves sprung, contemp. calf, some worm holes and wear, small folio. STC 4501. (1)

Charles II. A collection of twelve political speeches and pamphlets, 1679-82, including His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, Together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 6th of March 1678/9, 9pp., bound with The Examination of Edw. Fitzharris, Relating to the Popish Plot, Taken the Tenth day of March, 1680/1, pub. 1681, 18pp., bound with Heads of the Expeditient Proposed in the Parliament at Oxford, in lieu of the former Bill for Excluding the Duke of York, [1681], 20pp., bound with His Majesties Declaration for the Dissolution of His late Privy-Council, and for Constituting a New One, Made in the Council-Chamber at Whitehall, April the Twentieth, 1679, 9pp., bound with His Majesties Most Gracious Speech Together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday the 30th of April, 1679, 7pp., bound with The Speech of the Honourable Willm Williams, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons..., Upon the Electing of him Speaker..., 1680, 7pp., bound with others similar plus a folded broadside entitled ÒA List of the House of Lords, Together with the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, and Barons of the Cinque-Ports, that are Returned to Serve in the Parliament of England to be assembled at Oxford the 21st of March 1681Ó, with repaired closed tear, some spotting and dampstaining throughout volume, contemp. speckled calf, gilt dec. spine, slightly rubbed, slim folio (1)

Costumes. Costumes of British Ladies from the time of William 1st to the Reign of Queen Victoria, pub. Dickinson & Son, n.d., c. 1840, hand-coloured lithographed title, and 49 hand-coloured lithographed plates of historical costumes, each mounted onto backing leaf, with printed descriptive leaf of text to each, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio (1)

Milton (John). The Works of Mr. John Milton, [London], 1697, final leaf torn at head with slight loss of running title and few letters of text, light toning mostly to first & last few leaves, early 20th c. half morocco, upper board near detached, lower joint cracked, folio. Pforzheimer 728; Wing M2086. The first collected edition of prose works. (1)

Rapin de Thoyras (Paul). The History of England...., Translated into English with Additional Notes, by N. Tindal, vols. 1 & 2, 2nd ed., 1732-33, titles in red & black with eng. vignette, four folding eng. maps, eight eng. genealogies & tables (inc. two folding), eng. headpieces, occasional light dampstaining, spotting and few marks, late 19th/early 20th c. half morocco gilt, folio. Volumes 3 and 4 were published in 1747. (2)

Ussher (James). Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a Prima Mundi Origine Deducti, una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum Chronico, a Temporis Historici Principio usque ad extremum templi et Reipublicae Judaicae Excidium Producto..., Geneva: Gabrielem de Tournes et Filios, 1722, half-title present, title in red & black, hinges repaired, Law Society bookplate to upper pastedown, contemp. speckled calf gilt, recent red morocco title label to spine, rebacked preserving orig. spine, corners repaired, gilt armorial of Amersfoort to centre of each board with the motto Ôsic itur ad AstraÕ, folio (1)

Binding. A large French Royal leather portfolio, late 18th c., diced russia, some staining, extrems. worn, remnants of ties, spine divided by gilt scalloped flower roll between double and single rules, compartments with alternating star and rectangular designs, both composed of a profusion of gilt fleurons, and flower, roundel, and volute tools, covers with wide gilt border composed of dolphin and coronet roll, fleur-de-lys and star roll, and fleur-de-lys and fleuron roll, all with double and single fillets between, large central lozenge composed of fleurons, volutes, and stars, with the number 3 within a small decorative lozenge above and below, lower cover with early ms. paper label detailing previous contents, marbled endpapers, folio, 61 x 48cm (24 x 19ins). The dolphin, coronet and fleur-de-lys devices signify ownership of the French Dauphin. (1)

Schlegel (Gustave). Uranographie Chinoise, ou preuves directes que lÕastronomie primitive est originaire de la Chine..., 2 pts Text (bound as one) and Atlas, 1st ed., Hague and Leiden, 1875, folding table at end of first part, seven celestial plans in black and red to Atlas vol., some spotting and dust-soling, ex lib. with marks to front endpapers and pastedowns, Text vol. library half morocco, worn and covers det., Atlas vol. orig. half cloth, soiled and some wear at head and foot of spine, large 8vo/oblong folio (2)

Binyon (Laurence, J.V.S. Wilkinson & Basil Gray). Persian Miniature Painting. Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931, OUP, 1933, colour and b & w illustrations, a few spots, hinges cracking, original cloth, some fading and light stains, folio, together with A Survey of Persian Art, from Prehistoric Times to the Present, ed. Arthur Upham Pope & Phyllis Ackerman, vol. XIV only, OUP, 1967, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, 4to, plus others including The Oxford Guide to Classic Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990Õs, 2 vols., 1993 (7)

Campbell (Colen). Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, in Great Britain, with Variety of New Designs... either from the Buildings themselves, or the Original Designs of the Architects, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1715, 1717, 1725, eng. title to vols. 1 & 2, eng. dedication leaf to vol. 1, letterpress title to vol. 3 in red & black, 231 eng. plans & elevations (complete, inc. 54 double-page & folding, comprising individual plate numbers to each leaf), subscribers lists present, title to each with ownership signature & date of Charles Scrase Dickins Jan 1834 to upper margin, vol. 1 leaf C1 and central fold of Blenheim Palace plt. 57/58 with closed tear, some toning to few plts. (mostly in vol. 1), some hinges neatly repaired, contemp. blind panelled calf, rebacked with elaborate gilt dec. spines, rubbed and wear to boards with some leather torn to edges & corners showing, folio. Harris 97 & 99, Archer 32.1 & 33.1. Charles Scrase Dickins (1794-1875) was born in Broadwater, Worcestershire, but later resided at Coolhurst, Horsham, Sussex. He was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex in 1860. He married Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Northampton at St. GeorgeÕs, Hanover Square, London in 1829. The 1st Marquess of NorthamptonÕs residences included Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire and also Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire. Castle Ashby is illustrated in volume 3 of this work (plate 8/9). (3)

Caslon (H.W. & Co., pub.). Specimens of Types & Borders and Illustrated Catalogue of PrintersÕ Joinery and Materials, [1911], col. port. frontis., examples of printing types throughout, orig. cloth, large 4to, together with a small selection of printing related leaflets etc. loosely inserted, plus Printing history, LÕArt du livre a lÕImprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1973, col. and b & w illusts., cloth endpapers, publisherÕs calf, title in blind to upper board and spine, slightly marked, folio (limited ed.115/5000) (2)

Drake (Maurice). A History of English Glass-Painting, with some remarks upon the Swiss Glass Miniatures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1st ed., 1912, colour and b&w plts., occ. light spotting, orig. boards, rubbed, folio, together with Read (Herbert), English Stained Glass, 1st ed., 1926, colour frontis., b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed with tear to foot of spine, 4to, plus Newton (Peter A.), The County of Oxford, A Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain - volume 1), 1st ed., 1979, colour frontis., b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and others related on stained glass, including N.H.J. Westlake, A History of Design in Painted Glass, 4 vols. bound in 2, reprinted Bristol, 2002, Bernard Rackham, The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, 1949 (ex-library copy), Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Windows, reprinted, Thames & Hudson, 1982, etc. (approx. 100)

[Felibien, Jean Francois]. Statues et Bustes Antiques des Maisons Royales, Premiere Partie, Paris: 1679, text to Part 1 only and sixty-one plts. (incl. forty-three from other parts), title trimmed and mounted, text trimmed and window-mounted, plts. trimmed to plate mark and mounted, some toning, red edges, contemp. gilt dec. sprinkled calf, extrems. worn, with spine deficient and edges showing, folio. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Finden (Edward). FindenÕs Gallery of Modern Art: being a Series of Highly Finished Steel Engravings Illustrative of the Character, Beauty and Costume of many Lands, 2 vols., n.d., c.1850, dec. half title to each vol., fifty-six (of 60) eng. plts. some spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt. rubbed and frayed, folio, together with Hall (S.C.). The Baronial Halls and Picturesque Edifices of England, 2 vols., 2nd. ed., n.d. c.1860,seventy-two litho. plts. (complete as list), numerous wood engs. to text, some spotting throughout, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn at extrems., folio (4)

Flaxman (John, illust.). The Iliad of Homer, 1805, forty eng. plts. inc. title, bound with The Odyssey of Homer, 1805, thirty-five eng. plts. inc. title, bound with Compositions from the Works Days and Theology of Hesiod, Designed by John Flaxman, Engraved by William Blake, 1817, thirty-eight eng. plts. inc. title, bound with Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus, Designed by John Flaxman, Engraved by Thomas Piroli and Frank Howard, 1831, thirty-six eng. plts. inc. title, some occasional spotting, front free endpaper loose, gilt leather book label of Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter to upper pastedown, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. dark green morocco by J. Wright, upper joint cracked at head & foot, joints & extrems. rubbed and worn, folio (1)

Kume (Yasuo). The Essence of Japanese Paper, Its History and Habitat, Tokyo, Kodansha, [1975], 100 mounted samples of handmade papers, text in Japanese, with introduction also in English, original decorated boards, with slipcase, folio, VG (1)

Mackley (George). Monica Poole, Wood Engraving, edited with an Introduction by Graham Williams, The Florin Press, 1984, b&w wood engraved illustrations, orig. qtr. brown cloth, with paper label to upper cover, slim folio, limited signed edition 141/300, together with Russell (Judith, ed.), The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, Scholar Press, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., folio, plus Flint (Sir William Russell), Drawings, 1st ed., 1950, colour and tinted illusts., orig. blue cloth, rubbed and some marks and sl. fraying to extrems., folio (3)

Trade Catalogue. Manufacture de Bronzes & dÕAppareils, dÕEclairage, Electricite et Gaz, Ch. Boulanger, Paris, n.d., c. 1890s, 292 b&w plts. of light fittings, including some partly folding, one or two leaves with minor fraying to extrems., orig. gilt decorated blue cloth, rubbed and some fraying to joints and extrems., oblong folio (1)

Dulac (Edmund, illust.). ShakespeareÕs Comedy of The Tempest, [1908], mounted colour plates, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, 4to, together with Pogany (Willy, illust.), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pub. George E. Happap & Co., [1910], tipped-in col. plts., b & w illusts. and dec. borders, pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. green reversed limp calf, spine browned with slight loss at head & foot, yapp edges frayed, folio, with Rackham (Arthur, illust.), The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne, pub. William Heinemann, 1918, col. plts. and b & w illusts., orig. green cloth gilt, slightly marked, 8vo, plus three others similar, including A Midsummer-NightÕs Dream, by William Shakespeare, with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, new impression, 1917 (6)

Folio Society publications, 84 vols., 1970-2000, including The History of the Indians of The United States by Angie Debo, 2003, The History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott, 1994, and Of Gods and Men by Frederic Raphael, 1992, plus others by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, etc., all orig. cloth and in slipcases, 8vo/4to, G/VG (84)

Folio Society publications, 91 vols., 1970-2000, including Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope, translated by Florence A. Gragg, 1988, Chinggis Khan, The Golden History of the Mongols, translated by Urgunge Onon, 1993, and The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, 2001, all orig. cloth, mostly in slipcases, 8vo/4to, G/VG (91)

Folio Society publications, 82 vols., c. 1970-2006, including The Lifted Veil, WomenÕs 19th Century Stories, illustrated by Peter Suart, 2005, together with The Ottoman Empire by Lord Kinross, 2003, and The Brontes, A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker, 2006, etc., all orig. cloth, mostly in slipcases, 8vo/4to, mostly G/VG (82)

Hall (Manly P.). An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, being an interpretation of the secret teachings concealed within the rituals, allegories, and mysteries of all ages, 6th edition, Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society Press, 1936, b&w plts. and illusts. to text, contemp. ink ownership inscription of ÔFrieda Harris, Rolling Stone Orchard, [Chipping] CampdenÕ to front pastedown and marginal pencil annotations believed to be in the same hand to p. 129 (ÔAn Analysis of the Tarot CardsÕ), blue ballpoint pen arabic to roman numeral conversions within pencil columns written to front free endpaper in an unidentified hand (names of authors and book titles), orig. half buckram over boards with cloth label to spine, heavily rubbed with some wear to extremities, and fraying of spine label, folio. Marguerite Frieda Harris (1877-1962) was an artist, and an associate of the occultist Aleister Crowley whom she met in 1937. She is best known for her design of CrowleyÕs Thoth Tarot Deck. It seems likely that Harris used this book for her research for the designs of the Thoth Tarot Deck. Frieda Harris was co-executor of Aleister CrowleyÕs will. (1)

Meggendorfer (Lothar). Comic Actors. A New Movable Toybook, H. Grevel, [1891], [cover-title], eight col. illusts. with movable parts operated by levers, mostly defective and in need of repair, final plt. detached, some toning and marks, lacking title-page, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, folio, together with two other Meggendorfer titles, Always Jolly! and All Alive, both in need of restoration. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (3)

Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The GolliwoggÕs Bicycle Club, 1st ed., Longmans, Green, 1896, full-page col. illusts., title-page browned, a few finger-marks, title-page browned, lacking front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and marked, oblong folio, together with five other Golliwogg titles, Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls (new ed.), The GolliwoggÕs Circus (defective), The African Jungle, and two copies of The GolliwoggÕs Fox-Hunt (6)

Du Cange (Charles du Fresne, Sieur). Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae & Infimae Latinitatis, in quo Latina Vocabula Novatae Significationis, aut usus rarioris, Barbara & Exotica Explicantur, eorum Notiones & Originationes Reteguntur..., 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: impensis Johannis Davidis Zunneri, typis Balthasaris Christophori Wustii, 1681, half-title to each (hole to vol. 1 half-title), addn. eng. title, letterpress general title in red & black, eleven engs. on nine plts., some spotting, later endpapers, contemp. calf, old rebacks & corner repairs, boards to vol. 3 detached, worn, folio, together with Bibliotheca Topographia Britannica, nos. 15, 23 & 27, (Extracts from the MS. Journal of Sir Simonds DÕEwes, the History and Antiquities of Hawsted in the County of Suffolk, History and Antiquities of Lambeth Palace), pub. 1783-85, few eng. plts., edges untrimmed, orig. boards, some detached (one lacking), lacks spines, worn, 4to, with others including Bagot (Lewis), Twelve Discourses on the Prophecies Concerning the First Establishment and Subsequent History of Christianity, Oxford, 1780, contemp. calf, slight wear, 8vo (a carton)

Gauden (John). Hiera Dakrua. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Size, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: setting forth her former constitution, compared with her present condition; and the visible causes, and possible cures, of her distempers, printed by J. G. for R. Royston, 1659, lacking the additional engraved title page at front, title with booksellerÕs engraved vignette, fine double-page engraving of the Tree of Knowledge, contemp. calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, with joints cracked and upper cover near-detached, folio, together with other misc. antiquarian, mainly 19th century editions of classical authors, mostly leather bound, generally with some wear (3 cartons)

Gibb (William). Naval & Military Trophies & Personal Relics of British Heroes, Descriptive Notes by Richard R. Holmes, John C. Nimmo, 1896, thirty-six chromolithograph plates, a.e.g., orig. publisherÕs gilt-decorated red cloth, a little rubbed and some marks, folio, together with Culver (Henry B.), Contemporary Scale Models of Vessels of the Seventeenth Century, being a collection of illustrations of authentic productions of the model makerÕs art ... Prepared for the Ship Model Society, New York, Payson & Clarke, 1926, sepia plates after photos, minor waterstain to extreme top margin towards rear of vol., original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and some soiling and damp marking, limited edition 133/1000, folio, plus Military Plans for the Marquis of Wellesley History of the Marhatta War, 1804, six mostly folding hand-coloured plans, including extra plan of the Battle of Delhi, original printed wrapper (defective), 4to, with others including Onori e Glorie, 3 vols., 1977-83 (limited edition of 1050) and The Absent-Minded Beggar, by Rudyard Kipling, 1899 (a carton)

Goodwin (Albert). Albert Goodwin R.W.S. 1845-1932, pub. Chris Beetles, Hartlebury, [1986], 200 colour plts., t.e.g., orig. qtr. crushed blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, oblong folio, contained in orig. slipcase, folio (Limited ed. 467/1000), together with Lear (Edward), Views in the Seven Ionian Islands..., a Facsimile of the Original Edition Published in 1863 by the Artist, Oldham: Hugh Broadbent, 1979, sepia title and plts., orig. green cloth gilt, in transparent plastic wrapper, folio, contained in orig. slipcase, (Limited ed. 62/1000), with Dore (Gustave, illust.), Dore Gallery: containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, DanteÕs Inferno..., pub. Cassell & Co., c.1880, numerous wood eng. plts., occasional spotting, contemp. green qtr. morocco, gilt dec. spine, boards damp-mottled, 4to, and Bradshaw (Percy V.), The Art of the Illustrator, 20 orig. parts (complete), 1917, each part contains six col. and b & w plts. mounted on grey paper, each with associated text booklet, all contained in orig. cloth solander box, worn, folio, plus other misc. books, including literature, art reference, ObserverÕs Books series and a few antiquarian (2 cartons)

British Sports and Sportsmen. Cricket and Football/Big Game Hunting and Angling/Hunting, 3 vols., c. 1915/20, photogravure plts., b & w illusts. from photos, old light water staining to lower margins of first vol., a.e.g., orig. red. morocco gilt, rubbed, folio, (limited eds. 275/1000), together with other miscellaneous books including antiquarian (3 cartons)

Reference. Tooley (R.V.), The Mapping of America, 1980, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, together with, CollectorsÕ Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa, 1969,numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, with Printed Maps of Australia, 1970, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, 4to, plus, Printed Maps of Tasmania, 1642 - 1900, pubs. 1975, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, limited edition of 370, signed and dated by author, pubs. cloth gilt, 4to, and Cumming (W.P., Skelton R.A. & Quinn D.B.),The Discovery of North America, 1971, numerous col. and b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., folio, with another ten vols. similar and vols. 19, 21 and 58 of The Map CollectorsÕ Circle (a carton)

Sitwell (Sacheverell & Blunt, Wilfrid). Great Flower Books 1700 - 1900, pub. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1990, numerous colour plts. pubs. gilt cloth. d.j., 4to. together with, Mannering (Eva, ed.), The Best of RedouteÕs Roses, 3rd. ed., pub. The Ariel Press, 1972, twenty-nine col. plts. pubs. limp boards, d.j. price clipped, glacine jacket, small folio, with, Gould (John), John GouldÕs Hummingbirds, pub. Wellfleet, New Jersey, 1990, 418 col. plts., pubs. gilt cloth, d.j., small folio, with others relating to natural history and ornithological subjects (2 cartons)