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La Vie Parisienne. A collection of fifty issues, a total of twenty issues from 1922 and thirty issues from 1929/30, colour and b & w illusts. and ads, etc., orig. colour-printed pict. wrappers, a little dust-soiling and minor chipping and creasing, but generally VG, slim folio (50)

*Booth (William, 1829-1912). A group of three documents relating to the lease of a piece of ground and premises at North Road, Camborne as a site for a chapel, the earliest being a lease on vellum, dated 1st February 1882 and signed by William Booth at end, the second being an unsigned attested copy power of attorney from General Booth to William Bramwell Booth, 10th September 1894, the third being an assignment of lease from General Booth to Thomas H. Brooks, 28th November 1894, signed by William Bramwell Booth as power of attorney for General William Booth, final two documents on paper, all folding, a little dust-soiled, folio. These documents relate to property and land in Vyvyan’s Row in Camborne, Cornwall acquired by the Salvation Army in 1882 and subsequently disposed of in 1894. (William) Bramwell Booth (1856-1929) was the second General of the Salvation Army (1912-1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. (3)

*Heraldry. A collection of nine manuscript leaves displaying 159 pen & ink armorials, late 18th/early 19th c., each neatly drawn within red ruled compartment (nine to each page), depicting armorial shield and majority with crest above (all uncaptioned), leaf size 35.5 x 22cm, together with a mounted pen & ink armorial design addressed to Edmund Lodge (1756-1839), Heralds College, London to verso, leaf size approx. 22 x 18cm, plus three other unrelated manuscript letters etc., all loosely contained in 19th c. half morocco binding, folio (1)

*Himmler (Heinrich, 1900-1945). A dossier relating to SS-Standartenfuhrer Rudolf Dilcher, SS Nr. 58264, 1932-1944, a group of forty-seven documents and letters charting Dilcher’s career in the Nazi Party beginning on 8th June 1932, this earliest document noting him as a machine engineer who served in the First World War, the majority of documents printed or typed and with signatures and stamps of Nazi Party officials, including five documents signed by Himmler, the final promotion and an appointment of Commandant of the Reich’s school at Oberehnheim dated 20th November 1943, the final three documents (all somewhat dogeared) are dated 1st July 1944, most documents one or two pages, occ. fraying, the archive contained in chronological order in orig. punch-holed folder, folio. Rudolf Dilcher was born on 13th October 1893, his fate and date of death unknown. He is referenced several times in Jutta Muhlenberg, ‘Das SS-Helferinnenkorps’ (1910). -1

*HMS Hood. A Photographic Record of an Imperial and World Cruise by the Battle Cruiser HMS Hood in 1924, a total of approx. 120 silver print photos mounted as multiples on twenty-three leaves, various sizes, some identified in the negative, first few leaves identified as Sierra Leone, Zanzibar, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, remaining mounts unidentified, contemp. canvas cloth, sl. rubbed, oblong folio. HMS Hood was sunk on 24th May 1941. -1

HMS Resource. A Souvenir of the Launch of HMS Resource from the Naval Construction Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 27th November 1928, twenty arched silver print photos with printed captions to margins beneath, images include building works, ships, submarines and airship R80, images approx. 26 x 32cm and similar, limp morocco with spine tie, a little rubbed, oblong folio, together with four contemp. gelatin silver print press photos of the ship’s launch, 19 x 24cm, plus a printed menu for the occasion, 27th November 1928, 4 pp., a little soiled, slim 8vo (6)

*Hollywood. An autograph album of signed publicity portrait photos of Hollywood stars, c. 1940s/50s, includes signed (and inscribed for Betty or B.J. Poynton) photographs of Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Gail Patrick, Dusty Anderson, Edward Arnold, plus further signed photos of Robert Montgomery, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, Ava Gardner, Lynn Bari, Janis Paige, June Haver, Vivian Blaine, Richard Greene, Carole Landis, Alexis Smith, plus variously coloured printed signatures on photos of Maureen O’Hara, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, James Mason, Tyrone Power, Vivienne Leigh, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Heddy Lamarr, etc., a total of approx. fifty photos, various sizes, contemp. cloth with spine tie, a little wear, oblong folio. The owner of the album is presumed to be Betty J. Poynton, daughter of Dorothy Poynton, double Olympic diving gold medal winner. She started the Dorothy Poynton Aquatic Club in Los Angeles in 1946, and taught children of many film stars of the day to swim. -1

Newspapers. A group of thirty-two original printed newspapers, 1684/1926, including copies of The Observator (30 June 1684), The London Gazetteer (20/23 May 1689), plus 18th century specimens of The Spectator, The Daily Courant, The Caledonian Mercury, The Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser, The North Britain, The Massachusetts Centinel (28 November 1789 with the reports of riots in France), Columbian Centinel (15 October 1794, with details of the fall of Robespierre), The Morning Chronicle, and The Anti-Jacobin, 19th-century titles Evening Mail, North Wales Gazette, Bell’s Weekly Messenger, The Courier, The Times, London News (27 November 1856, noting Dr. Livingstone’s return from Africa), etc., including Napoleonic and Crimean interest, occ. browning and marginal fraying, folio and larger (32)

Bible [Greek. New Testament]. Novum Testamentum Graecum, cum lectionibus variantibus... , edited Ludolf Kuster, Rotterdam: Caspar Fritsch & Michel Bohn, 1710, title printed in red and black with eng. vign., eng. historiated head-pieces, text in Greek with (separately paginated) preliminaries and notes in Latin, some spotting, contemp. panelled calf, joints cracked, worn with some leather loss, folio. In this first edition Kuster supplements the readings in Mill’s edition, published at Oxford in 1707. (1)

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed... , ed. Thomas Speight, 1598, woodcut title supplied in facsimile, three sectional titles all present, black letter text in double column, woodcut initials, eng. plt. of the Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer present (soiled and repaired, relined, with loss to upper inner corner, lacking ten preliminary leaves, bbb1 and final leaf at end, approx. twenty leaves towards front of vol. and six final leaves with some paper repairs to fore-margins with occ. loss of text, modern antique-style full calf, blind- and gilt-decorated, retaining old spine label, folio. STC 5078. (1)

Jewish Law. Mischna sive Totius Hebraeorum Juris, Rituum, Antiquitatum, ac Legum Oralium Systema, cum Clarissimorum Rabbinorum Maimonidis & Bartenorae commentariis integris, ed. Guilielmus Surenhusius, six parts bound in 3 vols., Amsterdam, Gerardus & Jacobus Borstius, 1698-1703, engraved frontis. to each part, titles printed in red and black, with printer’s woodcut device, eight plates, including three folding, contemp. uniform full blindstamped vellum, some soiling and spines darkened, with Glasgow University Library label and withdrawn stamp to front pastedown of each vol., folio (3)

Lequien (Michel). Oriens Christianus, in quatuor patriarchatus digestus; quo exhibentur Ecclesiae, Patriarchae, caeterique praesules totius orientis, 3 vols., Paris, Typographia Regia, 1740, four folding or double-page engraved maps by D’Anville, contemp. uniform calf, gilt dec. spines, some wear with joints cracked and covers and edges scuffed, folio. A history of the Eastern Church, published as a supplement to the Byzantinae Historiae Scriptores published in Paris between 1648 and 1711. -3

Maurice (Major Gen. Sir Frederick). History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, 8 vols. including 4 vols of maps, 1906-1910, numerous folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, fraying to head and foot of spines, 8vo, together with Brackenbury (Henry), The Ashanti War; A Narrative, 2 vols, 1874, facsimile letter, 6 plans including two contained in pocket at rear of vol. two, rebacked with new endpapers, remains of original backstrips relaid, 8vo, and Dennis Edwards (pub.), The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900. An Album of Upwards of Three Hundred Photographic Engravings, Cape Town, [1901], b & w half-tone photo. illusts throughout, patterned cloth endpapers, orig. pictorial buckram, oblong folio, plus other South Africa interest (17)

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World in Five Books, 11th. ed., To which is Prefix’d the Life of the Author. Newly Compil’d...., by Mr Oldys. Also his trial with some Additions Together with a new and more copious Index to the whole work, 2 vols. bound in 1, 1736, title printed in red & black, with later pencil ownership signature, eng. portrait frontis. by G.Vertue, table and index at rear, eight b & w engraved maps bound in at rear, modern blind stamped calf, folio. ‘Before the Oxford edition of 1829 this used to be called the best edition’ (Lowndes. pp. 2039). (1)

Wood (Anthony). Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford ..., 2nd ed., very much corrected and enlarged; with the Addition of above 500 new lives from the author’s original manuscript, 2 vols., 1721, title to each vol. printed in red and black, some minor browning and pale waterstain to lower margins, contemp. panelled calf, worn with joints cracked, and outer corners showing, folio (2)

Barrow (John). A New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Containing not only an Explanation of the Various Terms made use of in the Following Arts and Sciences; but also, Whatever else is requisite to Render those Branches of Literature Themselves..., 1751, eng. frontis., sixty-one eng. plts., marginal staining to a few leaves (affecting one plt.), contemp. reverse calf, some cracking and old repairs to joints, wear to extrems., folio (1)

Ceruti (Benedetto & Chiocco, Andrea). Musaeum Franc. Calceolarii ..., Iuculenter descriptum, & perfectum, in guo multa ad naturalem, moralemq[ue] philiosophia[m] spectantia, non pauca ad rem mediciam pertintia erudite proponuntur, & expicantur ..., 1st ed., Verona: Angelum Tamum, 1622, engraved allegorical title (ownership inscription and signature of J. L. Stubenrauch at foot), forty-three engraved illusts., including eight full page, woodcut initials and decorations, lacks half title and folding eng. frontis. (the latter supplied in old good quality facsimile), a little spotting, later half calf gilt over boards, rubbed, folio (285 x 190mm) One of the earliest cabinets of natural history. Krivatsy 2341; Wellcome I, 1412. (1)

Del Rio (Martin Antoine). Disquisitionum Magicarum libri sex, in tres tomos partiti... Nunc secundis curis auctior longe, additionibus multis passim insertis, correctior quoque mendis sublatis, 3 vols. in one, Mainz: Johann Albin, 1603, title with dec. engraved border (short repaired closed tear to upper margin), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, folding table, pp.217/18 and 227/28 lacking and supplied in manuscript facsimile, browning and spotting, 19th c. endpapers, contemp. vellum, old reback, dust-soiled and few marks, folio (1)

Fludd (Robert). Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica Atque Technica Historia, In duo Volumina secundum Cosmi differentiam divisa..., Tomus Primus, [Tractatus Secundus, De Naturae Simia seu Technica Macrocosmi Historia, in Partes Undecim Divisa], 2 parts in one, 1st & 2nd eds., Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry, and Frankfurt: Johann Theodor de Bry, 1617-1624, eng. titles to each (inc. part 2 title by M. Merian), numerous engraved & woodcut diags., one folding eng. plt. only (of 6), part 1 lacks pp.3-6, 9-16, and pages 21/22 bound before pages 19/20, part 2 lacks pp.409-413 and final blank, dampstaining and damp mottling, browning and marginal worm holes & worming, few leaves loose and frayed to margins, 18th c. half calf, joints cracked, marbled paper to boards torn with loss, very worn, folio. Caillet 4042; Duveen 222; Mellon 74 (part I only); Mellon 83 (part II, 1624 edition). Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Fludd (Robert). Kaqolikon Medicorum Katoptron, in quo, quasi Speculo Politissimo morbi praesentes more demonstrativo clarissime indicantur... sive tomi primi, tractatus secundi, sectio secunda, de Morborum Signis..., 3 parts in one, [Frankfurt: Wolfgang Hofmann], 1631, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams and engraved illustrations (1 folded), one eng. plate and one folding table (neatly reattached), title-page partly detached, spotting and browning throughout (some heavy), lower hinge split, 18th c. vellum, dirt soiled, folio. Wellcome I, 2330. This volume forms the second part of Fludd’s Integrum morborum mysterium: sive medicinae catholicae... (1631). Fludd graduated from Oxford in medicine in 1605; however, his views on medicine were not orthodox and his writings were widely criticised. (1)

Helmont (Jan Baptista van). Ortus Medicinae, id est Initia Physicae Inaudita Progressus medicinae nouus, in Morborum Ultionem..., 2 vols. in one, 4th ed., Lyon: Johann Baptist Devenet, 1655, half-title, eng. title to first vol., P4 misbound, lacks final blank, some spotting and marginal dampstaining, modern calf gilt preserving contemp. calf sides to boards, folio (1)

Howard (Henry). A Defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies. Not hither to confured by the Pen of any man, which being grounded, either upon the warrant and Authority of Old painted Bookes, Expositions of Dreams, Oracles, Revelations, Inuocations of damned Spirits, Judicials of Astrologie, or any other kinde of pretended knowedge whatsoever..., now newly revised, W. Jaggard, 1620, title within woodcut border and early signature of Joseph Hill to upper margin, title trimmed to fore-edge and lower margin frayed & torn (lower edge with repair to verso), lacking first & last blanks, some browning and dampstaining, 20th c. half dark terracotta pigskin, folio. STC 13859. (1)

Kircher (Athanasius). Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque exstructio... discribuntur & explicantur, 1st ed., Amsterdam: ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1679, eng. frontis., nine eng. plts. and maps (inc. some folding & double-page), eng. illusts. to text (some full-page), blank fore-edge margins of first three leaves torn and frayed, several plates torn along folds with some loss, lower portion of plate of the Tower of Babel torn away, early signature ‘And. G. Lindebielm’ to title, occasional dampstaining, contemp. vellum, marked and some staining, folio. Cicognara 2055. (1)

Kircher (Athanasius). Obeliscus Pamphilius, hoc est interpretatio nova & hucusque intentata, obelisci hieroglyphici, 1st ed., Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1650, eng. frontis., woodcut armorial of Pope Innocent X to title, five full-page eng. illusts., numerous woodcut illusts. (some full-page), lacking engraved portrait and folding plate of obelisk and last two leaves at rear of volume (4E1 & 4E2), short tear to e4 with slight loss of a few letters, closed tear to F3, Gg3 and Vv4, blank fore-edge of Vvv2 torn, some dampstaining, spotting and browning, some marginal worm holes/worming to first & last few leaves (mostly minor, not affecting text), 18th c. qtr. vellum, upper joint cracked at foot, folio. Cicognara 2526; Schudt 1130. (1)

Paracelsus (Philip Aureol Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim). Opus Chirurgicum. Warhaffte und Volkhommenne der waren von Gott beschaffenen medicin..., Basel: Pietro Perna, 1581, title in red & black (with ink stamps of Bibliot. Ossolih. and Chirurgische Lesegeselschaft Wagner), woodcut dec. initials throughout, printer’s woodcut device & previous owners ink stamp to verso of final leaf, holes to lower blank margins of title and following leaf, some dampstaining, few marks and soiling, ownership inscription of Joseph Augustin to front endpaper and lower free endpaper with manuscript ‘Epitaphium’ to Paracelsus, early 18th c. vellum with green silk ties (detached & some lacking), upper joint split at head, few small worm holes to boards, folio. Sudhoff 187; VD16 P465. (1)

Paracelsus (Philip Aureol Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim). Chirurgische Bücher und Schrifften..., Jetzt auffs New auss den Originalen, und Theophrasti eygenen Handtschrifften, so viel derselben zu bekommen gewesen, auffs trewlichst und vleissigest wider an tag geben..., (edited by Johann Huser), 4 parts in one, Strassburg: heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1618, general title in red & black and with dec. woodcut border (ink & adhesive stains, long closed tear partly repaired to verso, small faint ink stamp to lower margin), woodcut initials and tailpieces, woodcut illusts., some browning, spotting and dampstaining, bookplate removed, contemp. vellum with yapp fore-edges (partly detaching at fore-edge), marked, folio. Sudhoff 302; Wellcome I, 4812. (1)

Saunders (Richard). Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body..., with the Subject of Dreams made plain: Whereunto is Added the Art of Memory, 3 parts in one, 2nd ed., London: Nathaniel Brook, 1671-1670, woodcut illusts. to title, numerous woodcut illusts. throughout volume including some full-page, , one eng. plt. and one full-page eng. (lacks port. frontis.), manuscript astrological calculation for 1623 drawn to lower blank margin of p.173, and five leaves of late 18th/early 19th c. detailed manuscript at rear of volume “A short definition of Geomancy extracted from Corneilus Aggripas Occult Philosophy”, N1 with repaired closed tear to fore-edge margin, some dust-soiling, spotting & few marks, sewing partly broken, manuscript notes to front endpaper, 18th c. half sheep, spine torn, worn, folio. Wing S755. This is the second and enlarged edition. Richard Saunders (1613-1675), the astrological physician, who was a member of William Lilly’s circle and was physician to Lilly and Elias Ashmole, to whom this edition is dedicated. (1)

[Beunat, Joseph]. Recueil des Dessins d’Ornements d’Architecture de la Manufacture de J. JPH. Heiligenthal et Cie, ? Strasbourg, successeur de M. Beunat. Contenant tout ce qui a rapport ? la Décoration des Appartemens, tels que Panneaux, Dessus de Portes, Dessus de Glaces, Frises, Pilastres ..., [Strasbourg, 1813], eng. title, eighty-five eng. plts., many signed A. P. Giraud in the plate, and dated Strasbourg, 1813, several plts. by Montferrand and Normand fils, light spotting to title, contemp. morocco, rebacked with orig. label to spine, some wear to extrems., folio. A trade catalogue illustrating over 700 decorative designs with details from rosettes to Candelabra, and including full room designs with ground plans. (1)

Butler (A.S.G.). The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, with the Collaboration of George Stewart & Christopher Hussey, 3 vols., Country Life for Antique Collectors’ Club, 1950, numerous b & w plts. and illusts., mostly from photos, orig. green cloth gilt in d.j.s, d.j.s with spines sl. sunned and a few minor marks, but overall a good set, folio. Limited edition 544/1500 copies. (3)

Cescinsky (Herbert, and Gribble, Ernest R.). Early English Furniture & Woodwork, 1st ed., 2 vols. in one, George Routledge, 1922, col. frontispieces, half-tone plts. and illusts, orig. cloth, folio, together with Brooks (S.H.), Designs for Cottage and Villa Architecture; containing Plans, Elevations, Sections, Perspective Views, and Details, for the Erection of Cottages and Villas, Thomas Kelly, [1839], 111 plts., foxed and several plts. at rear water-stained, marbled endpapers, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and marked, corners showing, sm. folio, plus Jourdain (Margaret), English Interior Decoration 1500-1830, 1st ed., B.T. Batsford, 1950, col. frontis., b & w photo. plts., orig. green cloth gilt, a few light marks to rear cover, 4to, plus ten others related (13)

[Charpentier, Francois, Jean Racine, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Jean-Paul Bignon, and others]. Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1723, engraved frontis. by Simonneau after A. Coypel, title with engraved vign. by Sebastien Le Clerc, and engraved border by Simonneau, 12 pp. table of contents, with engraved border to each page, and 318 single-page engraved plates, each with two medals engraved by Cochin pere, and most with an engraved tail-piece by Le Clerc, all with engraved borders by Simonneau, some leaves with very light toning, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, contemp. French red full morocco gilt, with three-line border and French royal coat of arms to centre of each cover, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lys and crowned royal cypher, rubbed and scuffed with some marks and light waterstain to lower edges, folio (45.5 x 30cm) Cohen-de Ricci 695. A handsome copy of the 1723 re-issue, containing 318 plates instead of 289 present in the first edition of 1702. (1)

Chippendale (Thomas). The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director..., Supplement, A Gallery of Chippendale Furniture and a Sketch of Chippendale’s Life and Works by Walter Rendell Storey, New York: Towse Publishing Co., 1938, b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in slightly worn d.j., folio, together with Sheraton (Thomas), Thomas Sheraton’s Complete Furniture Works, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, The Cabinet Dictionary, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer, and General Artist’s Encyclopaedia, Supplement, A Gallery of Sheraton Furniture and A Sketch of Sheraton’s Life and Works by Walter Rendell Storey, [New York: Towse Pub. Co., 1946], b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in slightly worn d.j., folio (2)

Gruner (Lewis). Fresco Decorations and Stuccoes of Churches and Palaces in Italy during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, new ed., largely augmented by numerous plates, plain & coloured, pub. Thomas McLean, 1854, hand-coloured title, fifty-six full-page engraved plates, including nine colour litho. or chromo. plates, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, contemp. red half morocco, gilt dec. spine, heavily rubbed and some wear, with joints partly cracked and edges and corners showing, large folio (63 x 49.5cm) (1)

Le Brun (Charles). La Petite Gallerie du Louvre du Dessein de feu Mr. Le Brun Premier Peintre de Sa Majesté, [Paris], 1695, etched title, and forty-one etched plates by Saint-Andre after Le Brun, including some folding, minor marks to margins, bookplate of R. W. Binns to front pastedown, contemp. mottled full calf, worn with joints cracked and outer corners showing, folio (51 x 38cm). Brunet III, 911. A handsome record of the ceiling and wall paintings executed by Charles Le Brun in 1663 for the redecoration of the Petite Galerie at the Louvre, following a fire. The work was commissioned by the Sun King, Louis XIV, and depicted the passage of the sun represented by the Roman sun god Apollo. Provenance: Early ink inscription to head of title ‘Ex Libris Caroli e Leonorii Aubry’. Inscribed in pencil to front endpaper Merly Library. A copy of this work was sold as lot 442 at the sale of the Merly Library belonging to Ralph Willett sold by Leigh and Sotheby from December 6 1813 onwards for seventeen days. -1

Le Brun (Charles). La Grande Galerie de Versailles, et les deux salons qui l’accompagnent, peints par Charles Le Brun premier peintre de Louis XIV, dessinés par Jean-Baptiste Massé ... et gravés sous ses yeux par les meilleurs Maitres du tems, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1752, engraved portrait frontispiece of Massé by J. G. Wille after Tocqué, preliminary descriptive text with decorative border, fifty-two fine copper engraved plates by J. B. Massé after Le Brun, twenty-one double-page, and two folding, some light soiling and handling marks, some plates lightly browned (mainly to margins), marble endpapers, with bookplate of R. W. Binns to front pasteown, contemp. 19th century half-calf, heavily rubbed and scuffed with minor wear to extrems., large folio (66 x 48cm). Cohen-de Ricci 609. Jean-Baptiste Massé (1687-1767) invested his personal fortune into this major work which describes Le Brun’s paintings and decorations for the Grande Galerie at Versailles, representing the famous actions of Louis XIV. In recompense, the French King made him Keeper of Pictures, and purchased his drawing for 2000 livres (see Benezit). (1)

Raphael (Sanzio ). Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, Parts I, II & III (bound in 2 vols.), Rome, 1772-1777, engraved frontis. by Giovanni Volpato after Pietro Camporese, titles to each part not present, engraved elevation on three sheets, entitled ‘Spaccato per il longo del secondo piano della loggia nel Cortile del Palazzo Vaticano ...’, (some spotting and soiling, with fraying to extreme top edge, and large closed tear), and three series of engravings consisting of: fourteen engraved plates of grottesche decorated bays (numbered 1-14) each on two conjoined sheets, two engraved plates of doorways, each on two conjoined sheets, twelve (of fourteen) further engraved plates of grottesche decorated bays, numbered 1-12, each on two conjoined sheets, and a further thirteen engraved plates of ceiling paintings and decorations (numbered 1-13), each on two conjoined sheets, some soiling, spotting and light waterstains to margins, plate 5 from the first series loose and somewhat soiled, plus duplicate plates loosely inserted at rear of first vol. (both heavily browned and frayed with some staining), early 19th century half calf, worn with covers detached, extra tall folio (111 x 50cm) and large square folio (73 x 65cm). Brunet IV, 1110. The three main parts from the celebrated series of engravings after Raphael’s paintings and decorations to the Loggia (or colonnaded entrance) in the Vatican, engraved by Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato after drawings by Pietro Camporese and Gaetano Savorelli. (2)

Schmidt (Adolf). Bucheinbande aus dem XIV-XIX Jahrhundert in der Landesbibliothek zu Darmstadt, 1st ed., Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1921, half-title, general title printed in red & black, 100 plts. after photos, including many coloured or printed in tone, orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed and some soiling, square folio (1)

Tipping (H. Avray). English Homes of the Early Renaissance, Period II, Vol. I, Early Tudor, 1485-1558, Period III, Vol. I, Late Tudor and Early Stuart, 1558-1649, & Period IV, Vol. I, Late Stuart, 1649-1714, 4 vols., 1st ed. (except 3rd & 4th vols. 2nd eds.), c. 1910-1929, numerous b & w plts. after photos, t.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and spines to second and third vols. somewhat faded, first vol. with some fraying and minor wear to joints and extremities, folio, together with Garner (Thomas & Stratton, Arthur), The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, 3 vols., pub. Batsford, numerous b & w illusts., first two vols. without printed title, orig. cloth-backed boards, rubbed and some wear, with contents shaken, folio, plus Cescinsky (Herbert & Gribble, Ernest R.), Early English Furniture & Woodwork, 2 vols., 1922, col. frontis. to each, numerous b & w illusts. mostly after photos, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, and five others related, including Belcher & Macartney, Later Renaissance Architecture in England, 2 vols., 1901 (worn) (14)

Turner (J.M.W.). The Turner Gallery, A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from the Works of the late J.M.W.Turner R.A., The Descriptive Text by W.Cosmo Monkhouse, 3 vols. in two, n.d., c.1870, addn. dec. half title in vol. 2 and two printed titles, 120 uncoloured engraved plates (complete), occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. elaborate full red morocco gilt, spines a little darkened with wear to extreme foot of spine of vol. 2, folio (2)

Visconti (Giambattista and Ennio Quirino). Il Museo Pio-Clementino, 2 vols., Rome, 1782-84, engraved vignette title to each vol., two full-page engraved portraits of Pius VI, 105 copper engraved plates of statues, antiquities, etc., untrimmed, contemp. plain boards, heavily rubbed and soiled, large folio (65 x 46cm). Cicognara 3467. The first two volumes of this monumental work describing the contents of the Papal collections of Roman statues and antiquities. (2)

Folio Society, 91 vols., c. 1990s-2000s, incl. The Boer War, by Thomas Pakenham, 1999; Hercule Poirot Stories, by Agatha Christie, 3 vols., 2003; Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, by W. H. Auden, 2006, etc., all orig. cloth, in orig. slipcases, 8vo/4to, VG (91)

Folio Society, 162 vols., c. 1990s-2000s, incl. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, 5 vols., 1993; Lives of the Artist, by Giorgio Vasari, 3 vols., 1993; Collected Short Poems, by W. Somerset Maugham, 4 vols., 1998 etc., all orig. cloth, in orig. slipcases, 8vo/4to, VG (162)

Kauffer (E. McKnight, illust.). Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, Nonesuch Press, 1926, colour illustrations, original cloth, d.j., some chips and tears, folio. Limited edition, 1230/1650. together withSendak (Maurice). The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes, pub. New York, 1980, (2 copies), col. and b&w illusts. (some folding), one vol. signed by Sendak to front endpaper, both orig. col. pict. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus Lullabies and Night Songs, Music by Alec Wilder, ed. William Engvick, pub. Bodley Head, c. 1970s, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards in d.j., folio, and The Love for Three Oranges. The Glyndebourne Version, by Frank Corsaro, pub. Bodley Head, 1984, col. illusts. throughout, orig. pict. cloth, large 8vo, plus twenty-six other Sendak related, plus Whistler (Laurence). Engraved Glass, 1952-58, pub. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, b&w illusts. throughout, inscribed by Whistler to half-title, t.e.g., orig. cloth-backed boards gilt in d.j., rubbed, large 8vo, together with The Image on the Glass, 1975, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 8vo, plus Scenes and Signs on Glass, 1985, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., 8vo, (limited edition 907/1200, signed by author), plus twelve other Laurence Whistler related (46)

Clarke (Harry, illust.). The Year’s at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry, compiled by L.D’O. Walters... with an Introduction by Harold Monro, 1st ed., Harrap, 1920, twenty-four col. and b & w plts., incl. frontis., occn. light foxing to text, orig. dec. beige cloth, short nick in head of spine, in frayed and chipped d.j., spine darkened, and adhesive tape repair to front panel, 4to, together with Rackham (Arthur, illust.), The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire, Dent, 1898, twelve col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., some full-page, half-title present, title-page and following page lightly foxed, pictorial endpapers, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, 8vo, contained in qtr. green morocco bookform slipcase, with raised bands and gilt lettered spine, plus Ambrose (Kay, illust.), The Christmas Box, by Francis Brett Young, Heinemann, [1938], numerous wood eng. illusts., some full-page, orig. black buckram gilt, edges sl. rubbed, 4to, with other misc. books including The Bookman, 24 vols., 1909-1934, tipped-in col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. and ads, all but three being ex-lib. copies with small circular ink stamp to upper corner of the mount of the tipped-in col. plts., occasionally touching image, uniform quarter morocco gilt, some wear, folio, and Sunday at Home, 26 vols., a broken run, 1863-91, lacks only 1869, numerous col. plts., wood-engs. to text, non-matching contemp. half leather bindings, some wear, 4to (5 cartons)

Edwards (Lionel). My Hunting Sketch Book, 2 vols., pub. Eyre and Spottis woode, 1928-30, num. mounted col. plts., light occ. spotting vol. 2 with newspaper clippings tipped-in to verso of frontis., orig. linen with paper label mounted to upper cover of each, 4to, together with Pollard (Hugh B. C.), Wildfowl & Waders. Nature & Sport in the Coastlands, Depicted by the Late Frank Southgate, R.B.A., pub. Country Life, 1928, num. mounted col. plts., b&w illusts., orig. qtr. vellum, 4to, plus Wilson (H. W.), With the Flag to Pretoria, a History of the Boer War of 1899-1900 & After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, 4 vols., 1900-02, b&w illusts. throughout, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, folio, plus thirteen other Natural History, Australian and Indian related (a carton)

Frohawk (F.W.). British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 vols., c.1905, numerous b & w plts. throughout, contemp. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, together with Kirkman (F.R.), The British Bird Book, 11 vols. (of 12), 1910, numerous illusts. throughout, pubs. printed boards, a little rubbed and worn, folio, with Bartholomew (J.G.), The Royal Atlas of England & Wales, pub. George Newnes, c.1900, numerous colour printed litho. maps, contemp. cloth gilt, a little rubbed folio, together with a large collection of approx. 100 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, other maps and similar (4 cartons)

Nesfield (W. Eden). Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture Chiefly Selected from Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France & Italy, 1862, b & w illusts. and ground plans, some spotting of prelims., orig. dec. cloth with morocco backstrip, heavily rubbed, folio, together with A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art, Exhibited at Ironmongers’ Hall, London, in the Month of May, 1851, Compiled by a Committee of the Council of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 2 vols., 1869, numerous illusts., some coloured, t.e.g., contemp. navy half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, and other miscellaneous books, mostly art ref. and related (2 cartons)

Skelton (Joseph). Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, From the Collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, 2 vols., 1854, num. eng. plts., marginal staining to first and last few leaves of vol. 1 only (affecting some plts.), a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, spine ends frayed, worn to extrems., folio, together with Tindal (William), The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borough of Evesham: Compiled Chiefly from MSS. in the British Museum, pub. Evesham, 1794, folding eng. frontis., six eng. plts. (incl. one folding, repaired), contemp. marbled calf gilt, some wear to extrems., 4to, plus fifteen other mostly antiquarian, incl. a worn copy of The Deathless Story of the Titanic, 1st ed., 1912, etc. (a carton)

Stanley (Henry M.). In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 2 vols., 1890, three folding maps (one with large handling tear), num. b&w plts. and illusts., occ. spotting, orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and wear, 8vo, together with Chaucer (Geoffrey), The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others, Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Collected Edition 1532 from the Copy in the British Museum, n.d., c. 1905, num. b&w illusts., orig. two-tone cloth with worn label to spine, rubbed, folio, limited edition of 1000 copies, together with Hamilton (William), Campi Phlegraei. Osservazioni sui Vulcani del Regnodelle Due Sicilie comunicate alla Societa Reale di Londra, pub. Banco di Napoli, 1985, col. plts. throughout, orig. qtr. morocco gilt, folio, together with other miscellaneous, mostly antiquarian (a carton)

Millais (J.G.). British Diving Ducks, 2 vols., 1st. ed. pub. Longmans, Green & Co., 1913, addn. half title to each vol., seventy-four col. and b & w plts. damp stained throughout with staining and adhesion marks to many plts., gutta percha perished, contents shaken and loose, t.e.g., contemp. cloth gilt, stained, faded and soiled, frayed at extrems., folio, limited edition 36/450, together with Bolus (Harry), Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum; or Figures with Descriptions of Extra-Tropical South African Orchids, vol.3 (only), 1913, addn. half title, ninety-nine col. litho. plts and one b & w litho. plt. (complete), contemp. cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to, with Oliphant (Laurence), Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, 58, 59, 2 vols., 2nd. ed., 1860, addn. half title to each vol., four folding b & w litho. maps. numerous wood eng. vignetes to text, slight spotting, pubs. dec. cloth gilt, vol.1 frayed at head of spine, 8vo, with other natural history and related (3 shelves)

[Davenport, William Henry]. India Pictorial and Descriptive, 1888, numerous wood-engs., a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and somewhat soiled, folio, together with Lodge (Edmund), The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing, 66th ed., revised and enlarged, 1897, numerous crests and armorials to text, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, soiled and some wear, thick 8vo, plus Paton (Chalmers I.), Freemasonry and its Jurisprudence, According to the Ancient Landmarks and Charges..., 1872, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, minor wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books (3 shelves)

Clark (Samuel). The Lives & Deaths of Most of Those Eminent Persons Who by Their Virtue and Valour Obtained the Sirnames of Magni, or the Great... , 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged, 1675, 2 parts in 1, eng. medallion port. to text, a few minor marginal defects, contemp. calf, covers detached, folio, together with [Strype, John], The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverent Father in God, Edmund Crindal, the First Bishop of London, and the Second Archbishop of York and Canterbury... , 1710, eng. port. frontis., contemp. blind-panelled calf, upper cover detached, folio, plus Landseer (Thomas), Characteristic Sketches of Animals, Principally in the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park, with Descriptive and Illustrative Notes by John Henry Barrow, 1832, etched plates, some spotting and browning, orig. cloth, worn on spine, folio, plus Hoare (Sir Richard Colt), The History of Modern Wiltshire. Old and New Sarum, or Salisbury, by Robert Benson and Henry Hatcher, 1843, eng. plts. (lacks plt. at p. 524), orig. printed boards, crudely rebacked, rear cover detached, folio, and other miscellaneous antiquarian etc. (6 shelves & 2 cartons)

Mascetti (Daniela and Triossi, Amanda). Earrings from Antiquity to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 1990, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Gabardi (Melissa), Art Deco Jewellery 1920-1949, 1st ed., Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989, plus Gere (Charlotte and Munn, Geoffrey C.), Artists’ Jewellery. Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, 3rd imp., Antique Collectors’ Club, 1989, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, with other miscellaneous books, mostly recent literature, including Arnold Bennett and Booker Prize shortlisted titles, mostly G/VG (3 shelves)

Sturtivant (Ray). The Anson File, Pither (Tony), The Boeing 707, 720 and C-135, Marson (Peter J.), The Lockheed Twins, all pub. Air-Britain, 1988, 1998 & 2001 respec., col. and b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. laminated boards, folio, with others of civil and military aviation interest, mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (3 shelves)

Ashbee (C.R., editor). Peckover, The Abbotscourt Papers, 1904-1931, Curwen Press/Astolat Press, 1932, five hand-col. single-page illusts. by Reginald Savage, correct as list, orig. vellum-backed boards, a little dust-soiled, folio (limited edition 153/350), together with Crawford (Alan), C.R. Ashbee. Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, Yale University Press, Newhaven & London, 1985, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Larwood (Jacob and Hotten, John Camden), English Inn Signs (Being a Revised and Modernised Version of History of Signboards) with a Chapter on the Modern Inn Sign by Gerald Millar, 1951, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. torn d.j., 4to, with other miscellaneous books, mostly history and related (6 shelves & a carton)

Fox-Davies (Arthur Charles). Armorial Families. A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, 2 vols., 7th ed., 1999, numerous crests and armorials to text, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, minor wear to extremities, thick 4to, together with Westlake (Herbert Francis), Westminster Abbey. The Church, Convent, Cathedral and College of St. Peter, Westminster, 2 vols., 1933, fine paper edition, list of subscribers, collotype plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, folio, plus Smiles (Samuel), The Life of George Stephenson, 5th ed., revised, with additions, 1858, port. frontis., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, mostly history and related (6 shelves & a carton)

Edwards (Lionel, illust.). ‘More Shires & Provinces’ by ‘Sabretache’ [Albert Stewart Barrow], London & New York, 1928, sixteen mounted col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, folio, together with British Hunts and Huntsmen. The South-West of England, Compiled in Conjunction with The Sporting Life, 1908, numerous photogravure portraits and b & w illusts. to text, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., contemp. crimson half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, folio, with other miscellaneous books including history, literature and poetry etc. (6 shelves)

Film Weekly. The National Guide to Films, 3 bound vols., 13 September 1936-12 March 1938, a run, numerous sepia b & w illusts., orig. wrappers retained in later brown cloth gilt, rubbed on spines, folio, with other miscellaneous books, mostly military history (6 shelves)

Davies (Philip). Lost in London 1870-1945, 2009, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., together with Cooper (Nicholas), Houses of the Gentry 1480-1680, pub. Paul Mellon/Yale University Press, 1999, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, pict. endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., and Lloyd (Nathaniel), History of English Brickwork, Antique Collectors’ Club, reprinted, 2003, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, pict. endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to & folio, with other art and antiques reference, etc., mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (6 shelves)

Art reference and related, plus other miscellaneous books including history, literature, Folio Society publications, etc. (6 shelves)