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Richard Kirwan, British b.1969- "Economy of Meaning"; acrylic on canvas, signed and dated 1995 to verso, 180x240cm, (unframed) Note: Kirwan studied and received an MA from Goldsmiths College London, he has been involved in many international solo and group exhibitions including, `Modern Manner, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart` 2007, `Mythomania: Double Use, Nunnery Fine Arts, London` 2008, `51st Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art` 2005, `Folio One, Royal Academy of Arts` 2004. Kirwan`s work employs simple, hard edged motifs using a limited palette of saturated colours and unsettled geometric repetition creating optical after effects, a juxtaposition between physical control and visual chaos (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

* A folio containing various theatrical costume designs including Barkley Sutcilffe, two costumes from Piccadilly Hayride, Prince of Wales Theatre 1946. M. Gyarmathy, Paris, ballet costume designs for the Folies Bergere. H. Schick, The Lisbon Story, London Hippodrome, four peasants costumes. Doris Zinkisen and Phillys Stanley, mostly gouache. (lot)

A Victorian brass folding folio stand. (19.75in) ,20,30

One volume "The Will of Aethelgifu", a tenth century Anglo-Saxon manuscript, translated and examined by Dorothy Whitelock, published for presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 1968, folio size, cloth bound boards with tooled and gilded spine

A limited folio edition of "The Gloucestershire Doomsday Book", three volumes in slip cover including "Introduction and Translation", "Folios" and "Maps", No`d 179/1000, cream cloth spines over brown paper bound boards

AFTER MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1915-2011 ) "Theorama", a set of nine religious prints comprising Islamic, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Vedic and Zoroastrianism, each signed, foreword by Dr L M Singhvi, published by Amas Bank (Switzerland) Limited, contained within original bound folio (ILLUSTRATED)

A folio of assorted watercolours, engravings, maps, etc, to include AFTER JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth", hand-coloured strip map, a further JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth" hand-coloured strip map, HENRY K. BROWNE 04 "On the Wandle, Mitcham", river scene with trees along the bank and buildings in the background, watercolour heightened with white, titled and signed, J. TWIGG "Street scene with mother and child and further figures in the street and church rising in the background", watercolour, signed and dated bottom right and a further selection of other pictures and prints

THREE BOUND VOLUMES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Introduction and Translation, Folios and maps and Domesday Book Studies, together with a folio of twenty reproduction prints from The Russian State Museum

A Victorian ebonised papier mache folio with painted foliate decoration, 30 x .

Arcere (Père Louis-Etienne). Histoire de la Ville de la Rochelle et du Pays d’Aulnis..., 2 vols., pub. La Rochelle, 1756-57, two folding eng. maps (tape repairs to verso of each), contemp. qtr. morocco, gilt, rubbed and some wear, small 4to, together with Couneau (E.), La Rochelle, Disparue, pub. La Rochelle, 1929, num. eng. plts. and illusts., contemp. crushed half morocco gilt, rubbed, folio, plus Vaux de Foletier (Francois de), La Rochelle, d’autrefois et d’a present, pub. La Rochelle, 1923, col. frontis., b&w plts., binding weak, orig. printed card wrappers, head of spine chipped, marks to rear cover, rubbed, small 4to. (4)

Australia. Substance of a Sermon against Drunkenness, Preached to Catholics of Divers Parts of New South Wales, by W. Ullathorne, Sydney: printed by William Jones; London: reprinted with the author’s permission and published by Keating and Brown, 1838, pp.17, [3], includes 2pp. pubs. ads. at rear, disbound slim 12mo, with a detached half-title entitled ‘The Horrors of Transportation’ with a manuscript annotation ‘For the use of the Catholic Congregation, Copsey’, plus Adelaide, South Australia, Form of Application and Regulations for Assisted Passage, c.1873, unused 4pp. application form & regulations printed on blue paper, with central folds, folio. (2)

Bouvet (Joachim). L’Estat Present de la Chine, en Figures dedie a Monseigneur Le Duc & à Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne, Paris, Chez Pierre Giffart, 1697, forty-two hand-col. eng. plts., heightened with gold, some offsetting and browning, a few minor marginal damp stains, short closed tear to lower margin of plt. entitled ‘Officier de robe Mandarin du 9 Ordre’, with sellotape repair on verso, contemp. gilt-panelled red morocco with central royal crest of King Louis XIV of France, spine with raised bands, compartments with gilt fleur-de-lys tool in centre and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt triple fillet border, inner triple fillet panel with fleur-de-lys tool at each outer corner, enclosing the oval armorial, gilt chevron roll on board edges and turn-ins, minor wear to extremities, folio. Without portrait frontispiece (sometimes present), with 42 plates only (of 43). Rare, only one UK location found (British Library). Father Joachim Bouvet. (1656-1730) was a French Jesuit missionary. He was one of the first Jesuits selected by Louis XIV for the mission in China he and his associates were commissioned by the Academie des Sciences to make astronomical observations, determine geographical positions and to collect various scientific data. The mission arrived in Peking in February, 1688 and were favourably received by the Emperor Khang-hi. So far did they win his esteem and confidence that he gave them a site within the palace enclosure for a Church residence which was finally completed in 1702. For nearly fifty years Father Bouvet shared all the labours of the missionaries and did much to advance the interest in Christianity and to facilitate the entrance and labours of his fellow missionaries. His Chinese name was Petsin. (1)

Bry (Johann Theodor & Johann Israel de). Indiae Orientalis Navigationes, Parts I-IV only, bound in 8 vols., 1st Latin ed., Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter [later Matthaeum Becker], 1598-1601, ninety-four copper engraved plates only, including many views, large engraved coat-of-arms to dedication leaf in first vol., engraved title to fourth part present, lacking engraved titles to parts 1, 2 & 3, engraved title to part 4 present, some closed tears repaired, folding plate of a market in Goa repaired to outer fold with some loss, one or two plates shaved to fore-margin, 19th century renaissance-style uniform blindstamped brown full morocco, rubbed and scuffed to corners and extrems., folio. Church 205, 207, 209 & 211. The first four parts of the series of twelve Petits Voyages by De Bry. The first part contains Pigafetta’s Congo (here lacking the two maps issued on three sheets), the second part Linschoten’s Travels in the East (here lacking the portrait of Linschoten, the three maps and nine of the thirty nine plates, the third part, lacking the three maps and with only twenty-nine of the sixty plates, and the fourth part, containing twenty of the twenty-one plates). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (8)

Chardin (Sir John). The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies. The First Volume [all published], Containing the Author’s Voyage from Paris to Isphahan, 2 parts in one, 1st ed. in English, 1686, engraved portrait, engraved additional title, folding map, seven engraved plates only (i.e. 10 of a total of 16), some mispagination, occasional annotation and light soiling, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio . (1)

Hogarth (Mary & David). Scenes in Athens, drawn and tinted by Mary Hogarth, described by David Hogarth, Oxford University Press, pub. Oxford University Press, n.d., c. 1920s, nineteen (of twenty-seven) colour tinted plates, each with descriptive leaf of text, lacking plates 4, 9, 10, 12-14, 21 & 24, occ. minor marks to sheet edges, contents loosely contained in orig. reversed calf-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, ties broken, large folio. Numbered 3 from an unspecified limitation, signed by Mary Hogarth. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Japan. The Railways of Japan, [Tokyo], c.1910, nine b & w collotype plts., three graphs, and one large folding map, ex. lib. copy with ink stamp on plt. versos, and lib. presentation label on verso of front free endpaper, a.e.g., orig. patterned woven silk cloth, spine sl. frayed to extrems. and with ms. shelfmark label at foot, oblong folio. (1)

Martin (Robert Montgomery). Tallis’s Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, pub. John Tallis, 1851, engraved frontis. of the Great Exhibition, additional engraved title, single-page list of maps, eighty-one single-page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, each with several engraved vignettes and decorative border, two plates of waterfalls and mountains, mostly with good margins (one world map at front of vol. with imprint partly shaved), a.e.g., contemp. diced dark blue full morocco gilt, a littue rubbed and marked, upper joint partly cracked, folio. A good copy. (1)

Morse (Sidney E.). The Cerographic Bible Atlas, pub. Sidney E. Morse & Samuel Breese, New York, 1844, five engraved maps with sparse early hand coloring, some staining, bound with [Cerographic Atlas of the United States, c.1844], thirty two uncoloured engraved maps printed back to back, some staining and spotting, maps of Sebastopol attached to front and rear pastedowns, bound in orig. dec. printed boards for first described item, dust soiled and worn at extrems., slim folio in 4s. (1)

Nieuhoff (Jan). L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L’Empereur de la Chine, Ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, Faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser, 2 parts in one, 1st ed. in French, Leiden, 1665, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, 25 engraved plates only (of 34, also lacking additional engraved title and folding map), numerous engraved illustrations, a few closed tears, waterstains, later calf-backed boards, folio . (1)

Picturesque Europe, 5 vols., pub. Cassell, c. 1870, addn. eng. title to each, num. eng. plts. and illusts., occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. half calf gilt with morocco label to spine of each, head of spine torn to vol. 5, rubbed and wear to extrems., folio. (5)

Sandys (George). Sandys Travels, Containing an History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire: Their Laws, Government, Policy, Military Force, Courts of Justice, and Commerce..., 7th ed., printed for John Williams Junior, 1673, addn. eng. title, folding eng. map, folding eng. plt. (torn and near-detached at blank gutter), numerous letterpress engs., woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, E1 verso and E8 recto unprinted (i.e. blank due to printing error), occn. early ms. marginalia, early calligraphic ms. names on prelim. blank, Rhiwlas Library bookplate on front pastedown, hinges strenghtened, sprinkled edges, contemp. Cambridge pane calf, sl. rubbed, rebacked with orig. label relaid, corners showing (one renewed), sm. folio in 6s. Wing S680. (1)

Titanic. Illustrated London News, 6 Jan - 29 June, 1912, comprising issues 3794 through to 3819, Titanic interest includes a distinctive full-page Vinolia soap advert and numerous articles in issues after 20 April including b & w photos of notable people and passengers, the double-page cross-section illustration of the ship has been re-attached at the fold with adhesive, publisher’s orig. decorated cloth in bright condition, a little shaken with first and last few leaves creased, folio. (1)

Calvert (Frederick). Rural Scenery: Coloured, pub. Hodgson & Co., c. 1825, half-title, hand-coloured pictorial title, contents list and sixteen hand-coloured vign. litho. views, a little soiling throughout, old waterstain to lower outer corner of one leaf not affecting image, orig. half morocco over boards with pictorial upper cover (covers rubbed and soiled), some edge wear, rebacked, oblong folio. Rare. (1)

Camden (William). Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiquitie ..., trans. Philemon Holland .. finely, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry additions by the said author, 2nd ed., George Bishop and John Norton, 1610, additional engraved title by William Hole, trimmed to image and laid down, lacking all the county maps by Saxton & Hole, but with two folding engraved maps of England and Ireland by John Speed added (both worn with some loss to edges and folds, and relined), occ. woodcut illusts. to text, some soilng and occ. minor stains, final two leaves of index frayed and badly creased with some loss, contemp. calf, rubbed and somewhat worn with joints partly cracked, thick folio. Sold with all faults. (1)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands, 2 vols., 3rd. ed., 1753, eng. portrait frontis. to vol. 1, , title pages printed in red & black, ten eng. plts. (mostly of ancient coins), fifty-one folding eng. maps, few eng. illusts., occ. spotting (mostly to text), some light dampstaining at rear of vol. 2, modern half calf gilt, folio. (2)

Chancellor (Frederic). The Ancient Sepulchral Mouments of Essex. A Record of Interesting Tombs in Essex Churches, and Some Account of the Persons and Families Connected with Them..., printed for the Author by C.F. Kell, 1890, num. litho. plts., ms. letter from ‘Wykeham Chancellor’ (the author) and several newspaper clippings mounted/pasted to front blank, 20th c. green cloth gilt, some rubbing, large folio. The letter dated Dec. 15 ‘90 is addressed to a W. Crouch and partly reads ‘the drawings or rather the proof is waiting for you whensoever you may feel “so disposed” to come for it... It has also been illustrated with several unrelated original illustrations. Frederic Wykeham Chancellor was an architect who also became Mayor of Chelmsford on seven occasions between 1888 and 1906. (1)

Cussans (John Edwin). History of Hertfordshire..., Hundred of Cashio, 1881, eng. port. frontis., two litho plts., occ. scattered spotting, verso of front free endpaper signed by the author to W.H. Norris, contemp. half morocco gilt, extrems. slightly rubbed, folio. (The volume also includes a collection of five autograph letter signed from the author to Mr. W.H. Norris of Norris Duval estate agents, researching details of the properties in the hundred of Cassio for his work, including one dated 25th August 1880, ‘After 14 years incessant labour I last night finished my work, except the Addenda & Index. In two months time I hope the Part will be published’. It forms the final part of Cussans’ work to be published separately before publication of the complete history of Hertfordshire in three volumes), together with Gerish (William Blyth). Sir Henry Chauncy, Kt., Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Hertford, Born 1632, Died 1719, Author of the Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire..., A Biography by William Blyth Gerish..., 1907, port. frontis. and b & w plts., upper hinge slightly cracked, orig. pubs. boards with worn and split cloth back strip, rubbed, folio. Limited Large Paper edition, no. 1/50, with label to upper pastedown signed by the author. (2)

Dart (John). The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, 1st ed., 1726, title printed in red and black (small repair to inner blank margin), nine eng. plts. of armorials of the subscribers (on 5 leaves), forty-one eng. plts. (inc. 4 double-page), numerous eng. illusts. to text, ink library stamps to verso of title, plts. & lower blank margins of few other leaves, hinges repaired, contemp. blind panelled calf, neatly rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, folio. Upcott p.391-5. Armorial bookplates of Eustachius Strickland & Robert Hovenden. (1)

Enfield (William). An Essay Towards the History of Leverpool, drawn up from Papers left by the Late Mr. George Perry, and from other Materials since Collected .. with views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour and a map of the environs, 2nd ed., with additions, printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774, list of subscribers, nine single-page engraved views, large folding eng. chart of Liverpool harbour, folding eng. map of Liverpool, and folding endgraved map of projections, one or two short closed tears without loss, untrimmed, later brown half morocco, rubbed and heavily scuffed, folio, with a folding lithographic map of Liverpool by Richard Thornton, printed by Joseph Briggs, circa 1831, with outline hand-colouring loosely inserted at front of vol. (1)

Nash (Joseph). The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 2 vols. (only), pub. T.McLean, 1839-41, litho. title pages to each, 50 tinted litho. plts. (only), some water staining and spotting throughout, gutta percha perished, contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, worn, folio, together with Architecture of the Middle Ages, pub. T.MacLean, 1838, litho. title page and twenty-five tinted litho. plts. (complete), some spotting and staining throughout, gutta percha perished, contents shaken and loose, contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, later paper label to upper board, worn at extrems., folio. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (3)

Yorkshire. Vicarial Tithes, Halifax: A true Statement of Facts and Incidents, by Richard Oastler, Halifax: P.K.Holden, 1827, edges untrimmed, orig. wrappers bound-in, armorial bookplate of Charles Travis Clay, modern half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Victoria County Histories, North Riding, 2 vols. (plus index), 1914-25, b & w plts. and plans (some folding), hand-col. armorials to text, orig. cloth, vol. 1 slightly damp marked to upper board, folio, with Ambler (Louis), The Old Halls & Manor Houses of Yorkshire..., [1913], b & w plts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus other Yorkshire related. (20)

Blunt (Wilfrid). Georg Dionysius Ehert (1708-1770), pub. Traylen, 1953, 12 colour plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary red half morocco by Birdsall, spine with green label and gilt decoration, edges lightly rubbed, folio, together with Treasures of Art. Dutch Flower Pieces, pub. The Studio, c. 1950, eight mounted colour plates, some spotting, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, slightly rubbed, folio . (2)

Descole (Horacio Raul). Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum..., vol. 5, parts 1 & 2 only, pub. Buenos Aires, 1954-56, num. col. and b&w plts., inkstamp to limitation leaves, orig. printed wrappers, some loss to spine ends, upper cover of part 2 torn with slight loss, some marks, folio. Limited edition no. 976 of an unspecified number, signed by the author. (2)

Dykes (W.R.). Notes on Tulip Species, edited and illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes, 1st ed., 1930, 54 colour plates, scattered light spotting to text, t.e.g., original green cloth, small split to upper joint, edges rubbed, folio . (1)

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1633, engraved title, numerous woodcut illustrations, lacking front and rear blanks, lacking the Table of Vertues and errata leaves at end of vol. II, one index leaf repaired, some marginal tears, occasional annotation, one illustration hand-coloured, a few minor spots, bookplates, later boards with vellum corners, rebacked, folio (330 x 215 mm). First published in 1597, this second edition was much corrected and expanded by Johnson. Hunt 223; Nissen 698. (2)

Grove (Arthur & Arthur Disbrowe Cotton). A Supplement to Elwes’ Monograph of the Genus Lilium, parts 1-7, 1933-40, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Lilian Snelling, occasional light mainly marginal spotting, t.e.g., contemporary green half morocco, spine with red and tan labels and gilt decoration, folio. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Parts 8 and 9 of the Supplement were issued by W.B. Turrill, 1960-62. Great Flower Book p.94; Nissen 594. (1)

Grove (Arthur & Arthur Disbrowe Cotton). A Supplement to Elwes’ Monograph of the Genus Lilium, parts 1-7, 1933-40, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Lilian Snelling, occasional light spotting, original wrappers, a few stains and frayed edges, folio. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Parts 8 and 9 of the Supplement were issued by W.B. Turrill, 1960-62. “A work of the greatest interest and value to all Lily growers” (Great Flower Books p.94); Nissen 594. (7)

Marsh (Othniel Charles). Dinocerata. A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals, 1st ed. (United States Geological Survey vol. X), Washington, 1884, fifty-six litho. plts. including seven folding, wood-eng. illusts. to text, some light offsetting of plts. to accompanying text leaves, occ. dampstain to lower margins, author’s signed presentation inscription to front f.e.p. ‘Mrs Anna P. Draper, with kind regards of O.C. Marsh’, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. red half morocco, sl. rubbed, soiled and darkened, amateur refurbishing to joints and spine ends coloured to match, folio. This is one of the rare large paper copies printed two years earlier than the standard monograph printing, and was produced at Marsh’s own expense for dignitaries and friends. Mrs Anna Palmer Draper (died 1914) was married to Professor Henry Draper, the noted astronomer, long associated with Harvard University, and the donor of the Draper Memorial to that institution. (1)

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris, 2nd ed., 1656, additional woodcut title of the Garden of Eden, 110 woodcut illustrations, lacking letterpress title, erratic signatures, a few neat repairs, small burnhole to p.397, occasional light spotting, later full calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, upper cover with marginal scuff, folio. Henrey 286; Nissen 1489. (1)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st ed., 1st issue, London: Printed by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, addn. eng. title, letterpress title printed in red & black and with ink ownership of Robert Montgomery, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, leaf 5K1 slightly torn to upper margin (slightly affecting running title), occasional spotting to few leaves (mostly light), some dampstaining mostly to margins, final leaf lined to verso, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, new spine and returns, leather patch to upper board, folio. Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an ‘Index morborum’. Armorial bookplate of Robert Montgomery, Convoy, Co. Donegal. (1)

* Walford (James F.). A Book of Orchid Paintings, pub. Orchid Books, 1972, twenty-four colour plates, orig. vellum backed cloth gilt in sl. frayed and soiled cloth slipcase, tall folio, (signed limited edition 176/525) with inscription for Mr and Mrs G. J. Sandy, together with two related original paintings of orchids by Walford, oils on canvas, monogram lower right of each, framed, 44 x 69 cm and 43 x 34 cm. (3)

Laurence (John). A New System of Agriculture. Being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening .. viz .. Of Forest and Timber Trees, Great and Small; with Ever-Greens and Flow’ring Shrubs, etc., Of the Fruit-Garden, Of the Kitchen-Garden, Of the Flower-Garden, 1st ed., printed for Tho. Woodward, 1726, eng. frontispiece, two single-page engraved plates (facing page 273 and 387), small eng. illust. to text on page 365, two leaves partly untrimmed, some minor marks to frontis. (contents in clean condition), contemp. armorial engraved bookplate of Jolliffe to front pastedown, blind-decorated panelled calf, rubbed and some marks, upper joint cracked, folio. Henrey 945. (1)

Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, as also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard. Abridg’d from the Folio Edition, 2 vols., printed for the author, 1735, engraved frontis. by B. Cole to first vol., one single-page engraved plate to second vol., together with The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be performed Every Month, in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery ..., 14th ed., with a list of the medicinal plants which may be gathered for use each month, 1765, eng. frontis., five folding eng. plts. at rear, contemp. armorial bookplate of Jolliffee to front pastedown, contemp. uniform full calf gilt, rubbed and some marks to spine and wear to joints, both 8vo. (3)

Atlas advertisement. Bowles (Thomas), The World described: or a New and Correct Sett of Maps..., n.d., c.1740, printed broadsheet describing various atlases for sale, some cracking and fraying to printed surface, backed with archival tissue, 400 x 230 mm, together with Baldwin (Richard, pub.), An Exact List of all Their Majesties Forces in Flanders, England, Scotland and Ireland for the Year 1692 and the Charges of each Regiment, 1692, printed broad sheet, near contemp. manuscript signature, slight spotting, staining and creasing, 420 x 290 mm, with one other similar, plus Duval (Pierre), ’Table General de Geographie’, ‘Alphabet et Definition des Termes dont onse sert Geographie’ [and] ‘Introduction a la Geographie’, Paris, c.1669, three engraved descriptive geographical folio sheets, one with sparse contemp. hand colouring, each approx. 405 x 500 mm. (6)

Illustrated London News, 42 vols., including 1851 (parts 1 & 2), 1852 (1 & 2), 1853 (1 & 2), 1854 (1 & 2), 1855 (1 & 2), 1860 (1), 1861 (1), 1862 (2), 1863 (1 & 2), 1864 (1), 1865 (1), 1866 (1), 1867 (1 & 2), 1869 (1 & 2), 1877 (2), 1885 (2), 1886 (1), 1890 (2), 1891 (1 & 2), 1892 (1 & 2), 1894 (1), 1895 (1), 1898 (1 & 2), 1899 (2), mixed bindings, some in modern cloth, together with some loose issues in orig. wrappers incl. 1893 (2), 1894 (1 & 2), 1896 (1 & 2), 1897 (1 & 2), 1898 (2), some plates missing incl. all the colour plates, folio. Sold with all faults. (42)

La Vie Parisienne. Fifty-two issues, 1922, a complete run, col. and b & w illusts., commercial ads., orig. col. pict. wrappers, first issue (7 January) dampstained at upper margin throughout, some scattered minor spotting and soiling, slim folio. (52)

Furniss (Harry). Parliamentary Views, pub. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [1884], text printed in brown and red, twenty-eight tipped-in illusts. on japan, each with accompanying printed key leaf, some minor marks, untrimmed, patterned endpapers, orig. pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks, with backstrip deficient, oblong folio. Limited edition of 1000 copies (this copy unnumbered), with original signatures of fourteen figures of the day to limitation leaf at front of volume, including the author, the Punch cartoonists John Tenniel, Charles S. Keene, Linley Sambourne, Gilbert A Beckett, George du Maurier, the publishers Bradbury and Agnew, and others. (1)

* Musical photo album. A lacquered pictorial photo album, c. 1920s, upper cover with a map of Japan and Korea and hand-painted decoration, approx. 25 blank leaves (some with adhesion marks), metal winder to lower cover (plays Beethoven’s Fur Elise!), a few small chips and cracks, oblong folio . (1)

North American Diary. My Diary in America, March 4 to August 30, A.D. 1871, a photographically illustrated diary, written up in a neat fair hand by an unidentified Lancashire (?cotton) merchant, possibly ‘A. Dykes’, with three pages of proposed route, 174 pages of diary on ruled paper (approx. 40,000 words), the diary illustrated with 234 mounted mostly small-format albumen print photos (the majority 7.5 x 7.5 cm and similar, the largest 13.5 x 18.5 cm), the diary ending with four pages of actual route taken and eight pages relating to later Alpine Expeditions made by the same author between 1872 and 1874, the American journey starting with the voyage from Liverpool to New York on boar The Algeria, then from New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Killona, Vicksburg, Jackson, Memphis, Bowling Green, Louisville, Cincinnati, Denver, Georgetown, San Francisco, Calistoga, Modesto, Flornitos, White & Flatch, Yosemite Valley, Coulterville, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Whitehall, Fort William, Saratoga, Albany, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Merrion, Cape May, Long Branch, Newport, Boston, etc., some spotting, a.e.g., contemp. crushed red morocco gilt with gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed, folio (31.5 x 20 cm). The long trip of nearly six months is partly centred on leisure with much socialising, theatre-going, buffalo hunting, and meetings with relatives, friends and fellow British travellers. However, with a series of letters of introduction, the unidentified traveller does get to meet dignitaries, businessmen, librarians, museum curators, senators and even President Ulysses S. Grant himself: ‘Wednesday April 5 : ‘The [Smithsonian Institute] building stands in the centre of a small park, at noon I called upon Judge Barringer who accompanied me to the White House and presented me to the President. General Grant is proverbially a man of few words so that very little passed between us beyond the usual hand shaking process. He welcomed me to the country, hoped I should have pleasant time and I thanked and congratulated him upon the late Republican triumphs in Connecticut to which the sentiment he responded in suitable terms, and I then withdrew, in personal appearance General Grant is a short thick set man, wearing a closely cropped beard & moustache & during our interview was smoking his historical cigar. I called upon Mr Summer and Mr Bayard and in the afternoon I walked up to the Capitol, but as the old Ku Klux story was still going on I remained only a short time. In the evening I dined with Mr Saville…‘. Other incidents described in the early part of the diary include calling upon Mr Victor with a letter from Mr Belcher of Liverpool, calling upon Mr Houghton with a letter from Richardson, Spence & Co. of Liverpool, calling upon Messrs. Lea, his uncle’s agents in New York; going over the print works at Schuylhill; going over his uncle’s mill with Tom at Morristown; going to the Senate and listening to General Blair making a speech on the Ku Klux Klan Bills. While much of the writing is fairly perfunctory, the author occasionally adds in some local colour concerning his thoughts on indigenous people and workers, religion (including Mormons at Salt Lake City), plus architecture, scenery, politics, etc. The photographs are largely taken from life and show views of places mentioned in the text, plus carte-de-visite size portraits of dignitaries and North American natives. (1)

* Victoria (Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1819-1901). A licence signed, St. James’s, 31st July 1852, allowing William George Tyssen and Daniel Tyssen to henceforth discontinue the surname of Daniel, and to make use of the surname of Amhurst in addition to and after that Tyssen ‘and also bear the arms of Amhurst quarterly with those of Tyssen’, 5 pp. with duty stamp and wafer seal, monarch’s signature at head of first page, spine ties, a little soiling and minor fraying, folded and docketed on final page, dust-soiled, folio. (1)

Antiphonal. Antiphonale pro toto tempore adventus Domini et pro tempore quadragesimale, Low Countries, mid 18th c., a large and impressive folio antiphonal in manuscript on Honig & Villedary paper, watermarked with fleur-de-lys and shield (Churchill 429 & 437), carefully written in large-scale red & black ink throughout, consisting of title leaf and 354 pages, with musical notation on a five line stave in red, few corrections and small paper repairs, a number of leaves blank at end, contemp. full calf over wooden boards, engraved & chased brass corner pieces and central bosses featuring a repeated motif of a stylised dragon, spine with three stout leather strengthening pieces with riveted brass strips to each side (probably contemporary), with clasps (upper clasp defective), rubbed and some minor wear, large folio (50 x 31cm). The manuscript is the work of two female scribes from a Dutch or Belgian religious order, and their names are given on pages 303 and 353 as Vrauw Augustine van der Roer and Vrauw Francoise van Damme. (1)

Bible [Latin]. Biblia; Interprete Sebastiano Castalione. Una cum eiusdem annotationibus.. adiecit ex Flauio Iosepho historiae supplementum..., 2 parts in one, Basel: Joannem Oporinum, [1554], woodcut device to a1 title (lined to verso & detached, lacks all other leaves in gathering a), woodcut dec. initials and few woodcut illusts. to text, leaves e2-e5 with ink stains, some dampstaining mostly at front & rear of volume, leaves Hh5 &Hh6 browned and with faint manuscript annotations, final blank XX6 detached, some peppered worming mostly at rear of volume, lacks free endpapers, 18th c. calf, boards detached and some wear, spine with vertical split, folio. Adams B1048 or B1049. It has not been possible to distinguish between the two editions B1048 and B1049 due to the first gathering being incomplete. B1048 calls for six leaves in the first gathering and B1049 calls for only four. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Oxford: printed at the Theater, Sold by Thomas Guy, 1684, eng. general title, Apocrypha present, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front and incomplete Book of Psalms at rear of volume, some spotting and dust-soiling, occasional light dampstaining, initial leaves creased and frayed to margins, manuscript genealogical entries pasted and loosely contained at front, contemp. blind panelled calf, torn at head & foot of spine, some wear to board edges, folio (Herbert 790) , together with The Holy Bible..., Pub. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, c.1870s, b & w illusts. and chromo plts., a.e.g., contemp. diced calf, gilt dec. spine, joints rubbed, thick 4to, plus The Illustrated National Family Bible, with Commentaries of Scott & Henry..., edited by the Revd. John Eadie, c.1870s, chromo addn. title & plts., b & w plts., a.e.g., orig. morocco gilt, brass corner pieces and clasps, thick 4to, plus one other 19th c. Bible. (4)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Olde Testament and the Newe. Authorised and Appointed to be Read in Churches..., Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1591, mounted incomplete general title with woodcut dec. border (lower half portion present only, with adhered printed paper label ‘William Ingham and Richard Weles bought this booke’ to lower margin), New Testament title present with dec. woodcut border, woodcut dec. initials throughout, large woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (torn with slight loss & repaired), Apocrypha present, black letter text throughout, Almanack/Kalendar leaves torn with some loss (repaired and misbound?), 3pp. of manuscript tables for ‘proper lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayers’ bound-in at front, first leaf of Genesis torn with slight loss and repaired, first & last few leaves frayed, few leaves torn with slight loss & occ. closed tears & repairs etc., few leaves affected by worming to inner and lower margins, some dust-soiling, occ. marginal dampstaining and few marks etc., front free-endpaper with manuscript ownership of John Smeeton dated 1675 and entries for other family members, following blank with printed ownership “John Smeeton, In the Savoy: August 20. 1675”, late 18th c. calf, rebacked and board edges repaired, folio (leaf size 368 x 255mm). Herbert 209. This edition is known as the Bishop’s Bible with the preface by Thomas Cranmer. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues..., printed at London by Robert Barker.. and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1632, general title and New Testament title within dec. woodcut border, Apocrypha present, first leaf of Genesis (A3) torn with loss, Old Testament also lacking leaves 2A7 and 2I4 & 2I5, bound with an incomplete genealogies (lacking one leaf), Book of Common Prayer (lacking leaves A1-A7) and Book of Psalms (lacking the final leaf), few leaves slightly close-trimmed at head, some dirt-soiling, dampstaining and marginal fraying etc. throughout volume, lacking front free endpaper and rear endpaper, contemp. calf, 8vo, together with The Holy Bible..., Oxford: printed by John Baskett, 1723, lacking few plates and some text torn with loss, few old repairs, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. morocco, 4to, plus a mid 19th c. folio Bible. Herbert 469 for first volume listed. The last line of 1 Chron xxix 30 ‘uer all the kingdomes’ and with crown ornament before 2 Chron. The colophon of this volume is dated 1632. (3)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations, Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1769-71, general title and New Testament titles present, eng. frontis. detached frayed with marginal loss and creased, eight other eng. plts. (of nine, lacks plt. facing 10Y2), general title creased & marked, first & last leaves creased, first leaf of Genesis torn to fore-edge margin, some spotting, toning and dust-soiling, contemp. reversed calf, boards detached, spine with loss of leather to upper panel and worn a foot, scuffed and worn, folio. Herbert 1210 and Gaskel 35. (1)

Bible [Polyglot]. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Textus Archetypos, Versionesque Praecipuas ab Ecclesia Antiquitus Receptas..., Accedunt Prolegomena in Textuum Archetyporum Versionumque Antiquarum Crisin Literalem, Autore Samuele Lee, 2 vols., pub. Samuel Bagster, [1869], occ. spotting, t.e.g., contemp. qtr. sheep, torn to spine ends, some wear to extrems., folio, together with Bible, Biblia sacra Mazarinea, 2 vols, 1985, orig. cloth with contrasting labels to spines, folio, plus two others . (6)

Calepino (Ambrogio). Dictionarium .. : adjectae sunt Latinis, dictionibus Hebraeae, Graecae, Gallicae, Italicae, Germanicae, Hispanicae, atque Anglicae..., editio novissima, 2 vols., Lyon, 1647-67, half-title to vol. 1, titles in red & black and with eng. illust., ink library stamps to titles, first & last leaves loose or detached, some spotting, contemp. calf, boards detached and worn to edges, lacks spines (remnants loosely contained in volumes), folio. (2)

Freres (Pauquet). Modes et Costumes Historiques, Paris, c. 1860, 96 hand-finished chromo. plates, scattered light spotting, gutta percha perished, some loose, bookplate, a.e.g., contemporary red morocco gilt, edges rubbed, folio . (1)

Hale (Sir Matthew). The Primitive Origination of Mankind, considered and examined according to the Light of Nature, printed by William Godbid for William Shrowsbery, 1st ed., 1677, eng. port. frontis. (frontis. and title sl. dusty), pencilled underlinings and symbols in margins, hinges repaired, marbled edges, contemp. mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked and recornered, folio. Wing H258. A manuscript note on the front free endpaper reads: ‘Pencilled notes copied from Samuel Johnson’s copy used as citations for dictionary’, and another on the rear free endpaper adds: ‘p.9 S:J’s copy has “subsidiary supposition, that” Pencil glosses copied by me from Dr. Johnson’s own copy. His hand not copied minutely but position of all marks is accurate so that conclusions re method may be drawn from this as well as from the original.’. (1)