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Bindings. Florio (John, translator) & Stewart (J.I.M, editor), Montagine's Essays, two-volume set, copy no. 1002, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931, printed by R. & R. Clark on Pannekoek paper, bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company in full brown morocco, the covers with an an oval onlay of green morocco gilt with the author's motto, top-edges gilt, others uncut, slight wear, slipcase en suite, 8vo The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, two-volume set, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905, finely bound in contemporary green three-quarter morocco gilt over cloth by Truslove & Hanson, stamped, top-edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endnapers, 8vo, further part-leather bindings, Folio Society, etc., (19)

Churchill, approx. 175 volumes by and a few about, comprising My Early Life: A Roving Commission, first edition, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930, original publisher's cloth, sunned spine, 8vo, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four-volume set, first edition, London: Cassell, 1956-58, original pictorial dustjackets over cloth, minor wear, 8vo, a further set and other odd volumes, Churchill (Randolph S.) & Gilbert (Martin), Winston S. Churchill, volumes I-V only, with Companion Volume II: Parts I & II, London: Heinemann, 1966-76 & 1969, original dustjackets over red cloth, one torn, all with slight chipping &/or creases, some grime, top edges stained, 8vo, Step By Step 1936-1939, first edition, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939, original cloth, 8vo, The Story of Malakand Field Force, first cheap edition, London: Thomas Nelson & Son, Ltd, April 1916, original blue cloth, 16mo, two odd volumes of The World Crisis, first and second editions, 1923-27, 8vo, The Second World War, six-volume set, Folio Society, 2000, original decorative bindings, slipcases en suite, 8vo, earlier imprints of the same history, various, etc., a handful of works on Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George and similar politicians and politics

Bibles. [Binding] The Holy Bible, with a Complete Commentary [...], Nottingham: Printed & Published by R. Dowson for the Proprietors, 1811, engraved title-page and frontispiece, printed in double-columns, plates, uncollated, mid-20th c black sombre morocco over boards, upper-cover with a crucifix onlay, c. 1811 red-speckled edges, title with ex-lib blind-stamp, otherwise apparently free of other institutional markings, pastedown with mid-20th c ecclesiastical presentation plate, folio (43 x 27cm), further Dowson printed Holy Bibles, all local Nottingham imprints, 1811-1818, unexamined, mixed contemporary bindings with faults, folio, (5)

Classics, Bibliography and Lexicography. Du Fresne (Charles, sieur du Cange), Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ & infimæ græcitatis [...], Lugduni [Lyon]: apud Anissonios, Joan. Pousel, & Claud. Rigaud, 1688, allegorical general title-page engraved by Pierre Giffart, Greek and Latin printing in double-columns, contemporary English calf gilt, raised bands, rubbed with some light losses, lower-joint of upper-cover with in-keeping repair, red-speckled edges, folio (38.1 x 27cm) Provenance: 1) Bibliotheca Backfieldiensis/Pr: £1. 6s. 0d, 18th century MS inscription on ffep. 2) Wakefield School Library, [Yorkshire], early 19th c wood-engraved bookplate to recto pastedown. 3) Eric Gerald Stanley, FBA, (1923-2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor, University of Oxford, his circular bookplate ditto.

De Lassale (Jacques Dubarry), Identifying Marble, first edition, [Paris]: Éditions H. Vial, March 2000, printed on the presses of Mariogros, Turin, 303pp, pictorial dustjacket over terracotta cloth, folio (35.5 x 25cm)

British India & the Raj. Reports on Sanitary Measures in India 1873-74, 1874-75, 1875-76, volumes VII, VIII & IX respectively, bound as one, London: George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1875, 1876, & 1877, cloth enclosing original wrappers, folio, Ross (A.), Report on the Settlement of Dehra Doon, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1850], Government Library, Agra, stamp, 130pp, later cloth, 8vo, Auber (Peter), An Analysis of the Constitution of the East-India Company [...], London: Printed for Kingsbury, et al., 1826, disbound, 8vo, Army List 1808, lacking title-page, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, Report of the First Indian Industrial Conference Held at Benares [...], Allahabad: Printed at the Indian Press, 1906, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, original cloth over boards, losses, 8vo, Dutt (Romesh C.), Baroda Administration Report 1902-03 and 1903-04, Bombay [i.e. Mumbai]: The Time Press, 1905, folding map, original papered boards, perished spine, losses, 8vo, A Settlement Manual for the North-Western Provinces, 1868, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, cloth, 8vo, Hughes (A.W.), A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh, London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, defective, perished original cloth, 8vo, Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, 1901, red cloth, 8vo, Who's Who in India, Supplement 1912: Coronation Edition, red cloth, 8vo, municipal law, etc., (15) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Some titles with worming.

Natural History, approx. 50 volumes, 18th c and later, including Hill (John, MD), The British Herbal [...], second edition, London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al., 1756, uncollated, lacking frontispiece and all plates, some movement, contemporary calf, worn and split, folio (41 x 26cm), Pratt's Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [1857], hand-coloured illustrations, marginal stains, original green wrappers, chipped and creased, 4to, idem., Wild Flowers, volume I only, n.d., plates, contemporary morocco over boards, square 4to, The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, volume I only, London: Charles Cox, n.d., unexamined, illustrated, later green-stained calf over cloth, 4to, The Royal Natural History [...], The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d., colour plates, other b/w in-text illustrations, original morocco gilt, split with upper-cover loose, bumped, some further losses, 4to, Maling's Flowers, 1862, hand-coloured frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Thompson's Gardener's Assistant, six volumes, 1900-02, 8vo, Commercial Gardening, four volumes, 1913, 8vo, others, mostly botany or gardening, but including Lubbock, etc., mixed bindings and sizes

Miscellaneous Books & Manuscripts. A Fox-Hunting Poem in the Mid-19th Century. The Captive Fox: a tale founded on fact, written by W.R., illustrated by C.H., 1850, [11]ff card leaves inscribed in ink MS with the narrative verse, and illustrated with 10 sepia wash, pen-and-ink, and/or pencil 'carciatures', each titled within the image, and tipped-in within black-ruled borders, the images and text mentioning an unidentified earl and his hunt, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco (rubbed, some scratches, bumps and chips, but OK), the upper-cover gilt-lettered within rolled borders and fillets, marbled endpapers, oblong royal folio (34.5cm x 49cm), Piety in Regency England. The Psalms, n.d. [early 19th century], an ink manuscript transcript, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco, disbound, marbled endpapers, 4to, Questions in Arithmetic, by Harry Green, Parsonage House Academy, 1866, [80pp] of manuscript, contemporary crimson quarter-roan gilt, 4to, a post-World War Two photograph album, dated 1946-49, b/w snapshots of various trips within the British aisles, annotated, original blue boards, oblong 4to, Stead (William Thomas, editor), Penny Popular Novels, approx. 40 numbers, including Dumas (Alexandre), The Three Musketeers, parts I & V-VII only, Hugo (Victor), Les Misérables, parts II-V only, De Quincey (Thomas), The Mystery of the Masque, Burgin (G.B.), Gascoigne's Ghost, other authors including S. Baring-Gould, Sir Walter Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, Lord Lytton, William Joseph Yeoman, etc., original wrappers, a few detached but present, one or two lacking, 8vo, [&] Thackeray (William Makepeace), The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, eighteen numbers only (of 24), including some duplicates, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-58, full-page plates, in-text illustrations, some adverst, mostly with original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, (62)

Local Interest. A true copey (sic) out of ye Toll: Book kept for Warsop fair November 6: 1703, [6]ff, two of which are inscribed on one side only, folded and brown, somewhat tatty across the edges, stitched, foolscap folio, An Assingment of the Tolls of the Ilkeston Turnpike Road to Heanor and Shipley by the Trustees, given to John Miller, of Nottingham, framework knitter; for securing him the sum of £100 lent by him upon the credit of the Tolls, dated 15th July 1765, 1pp on vellum, printed and inscribed, signed and sealed, five Nottingham and Ilkeston Turnpike Road broadsides, various printers, dated 1863-70, mixed sizes, a folder of the printed ephemera and manuscripts relating to the Ilkeston Road Trustees, including accounts and statements, further early-late 19th c toll and turnpike road MSS and ephemera, mostly relating to Ilkeston, Derbyshire, including letters, (28)

Binding. Lake (Christopher), European Rulers, 1060-1981: A Cross Reference Genealogy, Bicester: Lairg Limited Editions, 1981, copy no. 5/15 thus, from a total edition of 500, 162pp of manuscript royal pedigrees, hand-scrivened by Robin Litt on mould made paper by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, Charlbury, and [iii], [4]pp of print, ffep embellished with a watercolour and gouache armorial, loosely-inserted pamphlet, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in dark brown morocco, signed, slightly bevelled boards, spine and upper-cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, fleece-lined marble slipcase en suite, oblong folio (32 x 46cm)

Houghton (The Rev. W.) & Lydon (A.F., illustrator), British Fresh-Water Fishes, two-volume set, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1879], red and black titles, colour plates, b/w in-text vignettes, some foxing and further signed of wear, original pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, rubbed and worn in places, all edges gilt, folio (37 x 28cm), (2)

Antiquarianism. [Architecture] Place (George Gordon), Plans, Sections, and Elevations of The Chancel of All Saints' Church, Nottinghamshire, first edition, Cambridge: John Thomas Walters, 5 lithograph plates as called for, all leaves repaired and laid on canvas, former damp and water stains, original wrappers, rebacked, folio (86 x 65cm), [Genealogy] Willoughby (Elizabeth Sophia Heathcote Drummond), Chronicles of the House of Willoughby de Eresby, first edition, London, 1896, institutional quarter-morocco over boards, folio, [&] Gainsford (William Dunn, Esq., editor), Annals of the House of Gainsford, Horncastle: W.K. Morten & Sons, Ltd., 1899, hand-coloured armorial frontispiece, further b/w printed plates, original cloth over printed papered boards, uncut, folio, Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio, volume I only, 1805, late 19th c quarter-calf over cloth, folding plates, folio, British Museum Facsimiles of Autographs, three odd volumes, 1897-99, mixed bindings, folio, The Architectural Association Sketch Book, New Series, volume X, 1890, quarter-calf, 4to, (8) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, London: Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677, defective: lacks title and dedication leaf, 2 leaves of index, and some plates, some leaves re-margined, map present but laid on linen, further discreet repairs, 20th c brown half-morocco over cloth, rubbed, folio (34 x 22.5cm), [Wing T1063]

Illustrated Books. [Private Press], Brett (Simon), Mr Derrick Harris, 1919-1960, one of 280 copies, The Fleece Press, 1998, printed in Modern No. 7 type on Zerkall Paper, original cloth over pictorial boards by Smith Settle, two loosely-inserted folders of engravings and illustrations as issued, folio Solander cloth case en suite, Yorke (Malcom), The artistry of Leslie Cole, one of 500 copies, The Fleece Press, 2010, printed in Miller Display type, original blue quarter-cloth over marbled boards by Louise Brockman at the Fire Book Bindery, Wellingborough, oblong 4to, Hughes-Stanton (Penelope), The Wood Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991, black cloth gilt, 8vo, [&] Yorke (Malcolm), Edward Bawden and his Circle, Antique Collectors' Club, n.d. [2007], pictorial dustjacket over cloth boards, 4to, (4)

Scotland. Dalrymple of Stair (Sir James, President of the Session), The Institutions of the Law of Scotland [...], part one only, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, 1681, black-ruled title-page, historiated initials, a1-2 loose and creased, contemporary speckled calf, worn, shelf wear, folio (29.6 x 16cm), idem, third complete edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton, 1759, contemporary calf, some wear, folio (32.5 x 21cm), Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session, From the year 1730 to the year 1752. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1766, contemporary calf, folio (32.5 x 21cm), [&] Select Decisions of the Court of Session, From The Year 1752 to the Year 1768. Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, For John Bell, 1780, contemporary calf over marbled boards, (32.5 x 21cm), etc., (5)    The first edition of Dalrymple's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', an account of the private law of Scotland according to the judgments of the Court of Session, is now considered the foundation of modern Scots law. Provenance: 1st: Joseph Crombie, title-page with 18th c ink MS ownership inscription. 2nd & 3rd: John Orr of Barrowfield (d. 1803), town clerk and commissary of Glasgow, owner of plantations and slaves in the West Indies; title-pages with ink MS ownership inscriptions, engraved armorial bookplates on each recto pastedown.

Six shelves of art history reference and exhibition catalogues, mid-20th c and later, mixed formats and sizes, and Knight (Charles), Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities, two-volume set, Londno: James Sangster and Co., 1845, illustrated, original cloth, folio, etc

Rushworth (John, editor), The Trayl (sic) of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason [...], first edition thus, London: Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and Ricahrd Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1680, portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White, black-ruled, dedication leaf with historiated initial, contemporary panelled calf, some scuffs and minor losses, rebacked preserving some of the original spine with its morocco labels for when bound as part of Rushworth's State Trials, folio (32.2 x 21.5cm), [Wing R2333] Provenance: 1) J: Trelawny, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. Loosening ffep with pencilled provenance attribution to The Reverend Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet (1650-1721), one of the Seven Bishops tried and imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II's orders. 2) Wm Heysham Esq:r/Greenwich in Kent, Jacobean armorial bookplate to pastedown incorporating a maritime anchor. Almost certainly the same William Heysham (1691-1727), MP for Lancaster (1716-1727), described by a Lancaster Quaker as ‘an indolent man and of no service’.

Illustrated Books. Picker (Fred), The Iceland Portfolio, copy no. 539/1,000, signed and numbered by the photographer, original pictorial papered board case, bumped, rubbed and split in places, folio, Bartholomew's and Herbertson's Atlas of Meteorology: A Series of Over Four Hundred Maps, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1899, title leaf chipped and with U.S. Weather Bureau Station Libray stamp, dedication leaf torn with loss, later cloth binding with faults, folio (45.5 x 30.5cm), De Loutherbourg (P.J., RA), The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, copy no. 166/1,000 of the facsimile edition of 1805, Reproduced in Facsimile by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Ilkley: Printed by The Scolar Press, 1979, original green half-morocco over cloth gilt, all edges gilt, tipped-in limitation plates as issued, green cloth Solander box en suite, folio (48 x 34cm), [&] Collyer (Peter), Encompassing Britain, copy no. 243/250, signed and numbered by the artist, Bradford on Avon: Thomas Reed Publications, 2002, faux blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, slip case en suite, 4to, (4)

Wanley (Nathaniel, M.A. and Vicar of Trinity Parish in the City of Coventry), The Wonders of the Little World: Or, a General History of Man [...], first edition, London: T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-street, et al., 1678, black-ruled title-page, printed in black-ruled double-columns, signatures [A1]-2 & [Qqqq1]-2 repaired, a few markings in places, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, refreshed endpapers, folio in 4s (37 x 24.4cm), [Wing W709] [&] [Earle (John)], Microcosmography: or, A Piece of the World Discover'd. In Essays and Characters, London: Printed by E. Say, 1732, title-page apocryphally attributed to Samuel Wesley, and somewhat creased, upper-right margin with former damp-staining, but not affecting legibility, contemporary calf gilt, split and worn, but OK and holding, 12mo in 6s, (2)  Provenance: 1st: The Worshippfull (sic) Edward Hyde Esquire/His Booke (sic) 1696, several dated ink MS inscriptions to verso of signature Pppp, including references to 'supping'. 2nd: 1) The Reverend Timothy Lee (d. 1777), of Ackworth, Yorkshire, his 18th c armorial bookplates to recto pastedown and verso of title-page. 2) David Stather (1940-2022), Yorkshire bibliophile, his ex libris label dated 1981 to ffep.

Jewels & the Wunderkammer. Hackenbroch (Yvonne), Renaissance Jewellery, first edition, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979, original dj over cloth, folio, Johns (Catherine), The Jewellery of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions, first edition, UCL Press, 1996, dj, cloth, 4to, Habsburg (Géza von), Princely Treasure, first edition Thames & Hudson, 1997, dj, black cloth, folio, Scarisbrick (Diana), Portrait Jewels [...], first edition, Thames & Hudson, 2011, dj, red cloth, oblong 8vo, two further Scarisbrick reference works, including Rings, etc., (7)

A Limited Edition Print Folio 'Tomb Raider: Witchblade', reproducing full size, the art work and covers of The Tomb Raider: Witchblade Comics, each sheet measuring 64 x 42.5cms, all contained in original box, with certificate. This copy numbered 303 from the only edition of 900; together with a 1983 calendar 'Amazon' by Chris Achilleos.

A selection of hardback and other books, primarily literature, titles including: The Tramping Methodist, by Sheila Kaye-Smith; Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson; Mary Barton, by Mrs Gaskell; Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad; The Folio Society’s Grimm’s Folk Tales, in slipcase; The Folio Society’s Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, in slipcase; and others, contained across two boxes.

Richardson (Thomas), Sketches at Shotley Bridge Spa, royal folio, London and Newcastle, 1839; together with Cowen (G. A.), The Braes of Derwent Hunt, 8vo., Northumberland Press Ltd., Gateshead, 1955. (2)

A selection of collectible books, titles including: Punch, vols 41-44, spanning the years 1861-63, 4to., half morocco; Ben-Gal (Avner), Biogenetics, 4to., edited by Yael Bergstein, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011; Chronicles News of the Past: In The Days of the Bible; Knight (Charles), Old England: A Pictorial Museum, vol 1, folio, London; The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 2 vols, 8vo., half calf, London, 1822; Huntington (William), Gleanings of the Vintage, or, Letters to the Spiritual Edification of the Church of Christ, vol 9, London, 1814; and others. (13)

Quantity of vintage and antiquarian books to include Folio Society, Dawnford Yates, The Highland Bridage in the Crimera, etc.

Folio of unframed watercolours by Keith Johnson, Ken Coulson and others

Books: Folio Society Jeeves & Wooster, 3 volumes and others

A box of Folio Society books

A box containing various books to include Folio Society

° ° Society of Country Gentlemen - The Complete Farmer: or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, in all its branches ... frontis and 27 plates; newly rebound half calf and marbled boards, gilt ruled panelled spine, folio. printed for the Authors, 1766

° ° Sclater, Philip Lutley & Salvin, Osbert - Exotic Ornithology, containing Figures and Descriptions of New or Rare Species of American Birds. 100 hand-coloured plates and a few text figures; old red half morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spine, gilt top and marbled e/ps., folio. 1869

° ° Horsfield, Thomas & Moore, Frederic - A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 2 vols. original blind decorated cloth, gilt lettered on spines. 1856-58; Preiss, Paul - Abbildungen hervoragender Nachtschetterlinge aus dem Indo Australischen und Sudamerikanischen Fanngebiet. 12 lithographed plates, old cloth, sm. folio. Coblenz, 1888; together with other older natural history (24)

° ° Cooper, William T. & Forshaw, Joseph M. - The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. num. full-page coloured illus & other text illus.; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, in labelled slipcase, folio, 1977; Smythies, Bertram E. - The Birds of Borneo. 3rd (revised) edition. folded and coloured map, 52 plates (most coloured). Sabah & Kuala Lumpur, 1981; Bannerman, David. A. & W. Mary - History of the Birds of Cape Verde Islands; vol.4: Birds of the Atlantic Islands. num. plates (some coloured) and other illus., folded table; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, 4to. 1968; with other related books (27)

° ° Stiles, F. Gary & Skutch, Alexander F. - A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica, coloured plates and other illus.; pbk, thick 8vo. 1989; Raffaele, Herbert & Others - Birds of the West Indies. 86 coloured plates and other illus,; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, 1998; Buller, Sir Walter Lawry - Buller's Birds of New Zealand ... now edited and brought up to day by E.G. Turbot. reproducing (as mounted plates) the original 48 coloured lithographs (by Keulemans); publisher's morocco-backed gilt pictorial cloth, marbled edges, d/wrapper, and in slipcase, folio.1967 (19)

° ° Taylor, Barry & Perlo, Per Van - Rails: a guide to the rails, cranes, gallinules and coots of the World, coloured plates and other illus.; publisher's gilt cloth and d/wrapper, roy. 8vo. 1998; Hancock, James & Elliott, Hugh - The Herons of the World. full-page coloured and other illus.; publisher's gilt cloth and d/wrapper, in slipcase, folio. 1978; together with other related books (16)

Playfair, William - A Newly Invented Chronological Chart of British Nobility. Engraved to accompany & illustrate a Work on British Family Antiquity, folio, half calf, front board detached, with 8 double page hand-coloured charts, London, 1808

° ° John, Augustus - Fifty-Two Drawings, with an introduction by Lord David Cecil, one of 150 signed by Augustus John and David Cecil, folio, photo-litho offset plates, original half vellum by Zaehnsdorf, George Rainsford, London, 1957, in slip case.

TWO BOXES OF BOOKS, LAMPS AND CAMERAS, to include a pair of bedside lamps, a ceramic table lamp with a woven porcelain shade decorated with applied flowers, a Sony Handycam Vision video camera recorder with shop label and case, a boxed Canon digital IXUS 750 camera, a collection of twelve Capt. W.E Johns Biggles series books, to include Biggles and the Black Peril, Biggles and the Pirate Treasure, Biggles of the Camel Squadron, Biggles Flies Again, Biggles in the Jungle, Biggles and the Black Raider, Biggles Learns to Fly, Biggles of the Interpol, Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter, Biggles of 266, Biggles of the Baltic, Biggles Chinese puzzle, together with a collection of 1940's monthly 'The Second Great War- a standard history' magazines edited by Sir John Hammerton, numbers 1-19 in a folio, thirteen Reader's Digest condensed books, etc.

TWO BOXES OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS, containing approximately seventy miscellaneous titles, subjects include classic or contemporary fiction, history, art, religion, encyclopaedia and lexical works, folio society edition etc

Small folio containing pith paper paintings of figures, a blue and white porcelain plate (a/f) and a lacquered box and cover (3)

Six vintage maps and two leather folios: Westmorland & Cumberland (1920 edition); Mid or Medway Division, printed on war substitute paper (1909 edition); Isle of Grain (1931 edition, revision); 2 x Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire (1928 OS edition); Large folding early 20th century (circa 1921) half map edition of areas around Evesham Union to include Beckford, Great Washbourne, Little Washbourne, Alstone and Alderton; 2 x brown-leather folio cases or blotters, one embossed in relief with a galleon under full sail (the larger 38 x 28.5 cm).

An interesting folio of 1932 black-and-white wedding photographs: 1. A hardback folio of five photographs signed in pencil by the society photographer Peter North (Old Burlington Street, W1), (each approx. 30 x 22.5 cm). 2. Five wedding photographs by the press photographer W. Buckingham (Wembley), (each approx. 16 x 11 cm). The marriage of Gilbert Norris Stead to Henrietta 'Joan' Edgar at Christ Church, Mayfair, London.  (Relates to lots 161, 198 and 236)

NO RESERVE Atlases.- Johnston (Alexander Keith) and G. H. Johnston. The Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, folding map frontispiece, 51 double-page maps, bookplate of Spencer Charles Ferguson, additional bookplate of Alan Graham Mutter to front endpaper, a few maps with short tear at central fold but no loss, occasional light soiling, the odd spot, heavier spotting to endpapers, original half morocco, upper cover lightly sunned at head, spine and extremities quite worn, rubbed, g.e., folio, Edinburgh and London, 1903.

Bible, Latin.- Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata, title within woodcut architectural border, and woodcut vignette of Saint Jerome within similar border, woodcut illustrations, head- & tail-pieces and initials, ink ownership inscriptions, book-label, title slightly trimmed at foot (touching border, with very slight loss) and very small hole and marginal nick, M6 with closed tear to text and ?glue repair with discolouration, 2V7 closed tear to text with partial paper repair at lower margin (small nick), occasional ff. with minor worm holes to margins, occasional scattered light foxing, later vellum, rubbed paper label to spine, extremities rubbed, [Edit 16 CNCE 5797], folio, Venice, heirs Niccolò Bevilacqua and Giacomo Vidali, 1576.⁂ Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.

Campana (Giovanni Pietro) Di Due Sepolcri del secolo di Augusto scoverti tra la via Latina e l'Appia ..., second edition, 14 engraved plates, slight cockling to final 2, heavy neat restoration to title, several marginal tears with expert repairs, faint marginal spotting and water-staining, modern calf, a little rubbed, folio, Rome, 1852.

NO RESERVE Turner (Joseph Mallord William) The Turner Gallery, title in red and black, engraved portrait and 60 plate, tissue-guards, occasional marginal damp-staining and mottling, ex-Nottingham public library with usual label and occasional blind-stamps, later half-morocco, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1875; The Liber Studiorum, 2 vol., frontispieces, plates, ex-Nottingham public library with usual labels and occasional ink-stamps, modern cloth, retaining original upper cover, library paper labels to upper covers, 1899; folio & oblong folio (3).

NO RESERVE Shaw (George Bernard) The Adventures of the Black Girl in Hear Search For God, first edition, half-title, woodcut illustrations, original pictorial boards, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1932; The Political Madhouse in American and Nearer Home, first edition, half-title, original boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1933; The Common Sense of Municipal Trading, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1904; and 5 other first editions by the same, including a duplicate of the first, 8vo & folio (8)

Egypt.- [Hamilton (William)] [Collection of 24 plates and 1 map of Upper and Lower Egypt, from 'Remarks on Several Parts of Turkey'], including 23 soft-ground etched plates, 12 double-page and one folding, mostly by J. Powell, one aquatint plate by T. Abraicca and one engraved map of upper and lower Egypt, various sizes, large printers' crease to map and aquatint, modern cloth, elephant folio, Thomas Payne, 1810.

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., facsimile of the 1755 edition, 2 loosely inserted booklets, both with a few light patches of soiling, original red calf, very lightly rubbed at corners, cloth slipcase with 2 printed paper labels, rubbed and stained, 1 label chipped at lower corner, folio, [1990].

Corbett (Julian S.) A Note on the Drawings in the possession of the Earl of Dartmouth illustrating The Battle of Sole Bay ... and The Battle of the Texel, spotting, original paper wrappers, for the Navy Records Society, 1908, with 10 linen-backed folding plates, loose as issued, together housed in modern cloth portfolio, fabric ties, a little rubbed, folio.

Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, engraved illustrations, occasional faint marginal water-staining, tiny marginal worming not affecting text, one or two small marginal paper defects, not affecting text, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, [Wing S5239], folio, for Thomas Bassett ..., 1687.

Milton (John) Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England, 'out-of-series' copy from an edition of 500, this copy for special presentation by the publisher, original crushed-morocco, t.e.g., original slipcase, a little sunned, folio, Cambridge, 1973.

Decoration & Ornamentation.- Carrier-Belleuse (A.) Application de la Figure Humaine a la Décoration & l'Ornementation Industrielles, lithographed plates laid down on card with printed captions as issues, publisher's blindstamp to head, title with V&A ink library stamp and deaccession stamp to reverse, original boards, with V&A stamp to upper board and some spotting, staining to reverse of upper board and title, spine defective, contents loose, in grey cloth drop-back box, extremities rubbed and spotted, with "table" laid down on inside cover, wearing loose at joints, Paris, 1884, folio.

Turkey.- Acland (Sir Henry) The Plains of Troy, panorama of the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War, located in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey, etching and aquatint printed in sepia, by F.C. Lewis, sheet 315 x 2120 mm (12 1/4 x 83 1/2 in), dissected into five sections and mounted on linen, edged with green linen, off-setting, browning, surface dirt, folding and presented loose in burgundy half morocco, rebacked, gilt title to label on upper cover, worn, tall folio, Wyatt & Son, 1839⁂ This panorama originally accompanied the text of Acland's brief 48-page description of Troy: The Plains of Troy.

Attersoll (William) A Commentarie upon the Epistle of Saint Paule to Philemon, the second edition, corrected and enlarged, lacking A1 (?blank), occasional pencil underlining and marginal notes, E6 & X1 with tiny rust-holes affecting odd letter, tiny marginal worming, previous owner's ink name stencil to endpapers, later half-calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, by Tho. Cotes. and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, 1633 § The Book of Common Prayer ..., additional engraved title, lacking engraved portrait, engraved initials and head-pieces, Kalendar in red and black, H1 with tear into text, H6 with marginal loss affecting text and odd tear or small hole in text, 2S6 with loss to corner, by John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1680, bound before, The whole Book of Psalms. Collected into English Meeter, H1, L4 & L5 with tears into text, by J.M., 1680, tender edges with occasional small marginal loss, occasional tiny marginal worming, scattered faint soiling, bookplate, near contemporary panelled calf, broken upper joint, rubbed and worn [Wing B3658; B2536A]; folio (2).

Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) The Costume of Great Britain, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette, 60 hand-coloured aquatints, occasional very faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, [Abbey Life 430], folio, 1808.⁂ ?Mixed edition. With the 1808 title-page, but with the plates watermarked 1801 and 1804, and, with all backgrounds hand-coloured.

Painting.- Bellori (Giovanni Pietro) Descrizione delle Immagini Dipinte da Raffaelle d'Urbino, title in red and black with engraved vignette, very small ink ownership inscription to head, woodcut tail pieces, faint spots to title, ?contemporary drab wrappers with later lettering in red ?crayon, folio, Rome, heirs of Gio.[vanni] Lorenzo Barbiellini, 1751⁂ Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.

Heraldry & Genealogy.- Martin (Cornelius) Genealogies des forestiers et contes de Flandres auec brieue histoire de leurs vies..., title within engraved architectural title, whole-page engraved illustrations, ink library stamps to title, ink book-bale to front-endpaper verso, some minor damp-staining and soiling, contemporary vellum, detached, small folio, Antwerp, by Robert Brunaeu for Baptiste Vrient, sold by Plantin, 1612.⁂ Fourth edition; colophon dated 1608.

Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, initial imprimatur f., title in red and black, folding engraved map and 16 plates and plans by Wenceslas Hollar after R. Hall, some double-page or folding, engraved illustrations, some full-page, 8pp. and a slip of coats-of-arms at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription Tho. Staunton to verso of imprimatur, a few instances of early ink correction or marginalia, more frequent to coats-of-arms, two folding plates laid down, double-page plates strengthened at inner margin to verso, a few plates with short tears and tape repairs to verso, with one or two small portions of marginal loss, a few small rust holes within text and a couple of plates, some light foxing or browning, the odd small stain, modern antique-style calf, double morocco labels to spine, light scratches, [Wing T1063], folio, by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677.

Racinet (Auguste) L'Ornement Polychrome. cent planches en couleurs or et argent ..., title in red and black, 100 chromolithographs, illustrations, loose as issued, spotting and staining, mostly marginal, one or two short marginal tears, housed in original cloth chemise, original ties, gilt, rubbed and worn, folio, Paris, c.1885.