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O’Connor (John). Canals, Barges and People, 1st ed. 1950,. colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, d.j., torn with slight loss, 8vo, together with The Wood-engravings of John O’Connor, Whittington Press, 1989,colour and b & w wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 284/350 copies, together with Knipton, a Leicestershire Village, by John O’Connor, 1996, colour wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 43/200 copies, signed in pencil by the artist, plus Twins, by John O’Connor, 1991, colour wood-engraved illustrations, original decorative cloth, small 4to, limited edition, one of 350 copies signed in pencil by the author, with one other illustrated by O’Connor: Departures, by E.L. Grant Watson, 1947 (5)

Sendak (Maurice). The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes, 1st UK ed., Bodley Head, 1981, col. and b & w plts. and illusts., orig. pictorial cloth in printed clear plastic d.j., large oblong 4to, together with In the Night Kitchen, 1st ed., Bodley Head, 1971, col. illusts. throughout, orig. pictorial boards rubbed to extrems., orig. price-clipped d.j. covered in self adhesive transparent plastic, 4to, and Lullabies and Night Songs, Music by Alec Wilder, Pictures by Maurice Sendak, 1st UK ed., 1969, col. illusts. and musical notation, orig. pictorial boards in price-clipped d.j., folio, and Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1st UK ed., Bodley Head, 1984, col. illusts. by Maurice Sendak, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus eighteen others similar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (22)

Brown (George Mackay). In the Margins of a Shakespeare, pub. Old Stile Press, 1991, wood-engravings by Llewellyn Thomas, original boards, slipcase, folio, with 12 proof engravings, each lettered and signed by Llewellyn Thomas, contained in a separate portfolio. Limited edition, lettered ‘R’ of 26 copies, signed by author and artist.. (2)

Deighton (Len). Only When I Larf, privately printed, 1967, title inscribed by the author “To Eric and Romilly, with love and best wishes Len Deighton”, orig. printed comb-bound limp boards featuring an English note on the front and rear covers, upper board inscribed by the cover designer Ray Hawkey “To Brian with best wishes Ray (Hawkey)... with now no fear of Bank of England interference”, lower cover slightly marked, folio. Eric Hiscock was for many years the Book Correspondent of the Evening Standard Newspaper. Limited edition 40/150 privately printed by the author to establish copyright while negotiating the motion picture deal with Paramount Pictures. The first trade edition was published a year later in 1968. (1)

Du Maurier (Daphne). A typewritten copy of a film script entitled ‘The Last Inheritor’, by Daphne du Maurier, August 1963,. title, list of characters, and 130 numbered leaves, orig. paper wrappers with metal fastener, rubbed and two closed tears to upper wrapper, crudely repaired with sellotape, folio. An unusual film script set in Ireland. (1)

Hughes (Ted). Earth Dances. Poems by Ted Hughes Chosen & Decorated by R.J. Lloyd, pub. Old Stile Press, 1994, illustrations by R.J. Lloyd, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio. Limited edition, 188/250 copies signed by R.J. Lloyd and Ted Hughes.. (1)

Spark (Muriel). Harper and Wilton, pub. Colophon Press, 1996, original morocco-backed boards, folio, limited edition, 89/100 copies, signed by the author, together with A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur, by Muriel Spark, pub. Colophon Press, 2001, original wrapper, folio, limited edition, 51/125 copies, signed by the author, plus Death of a Professor, by William Trevor, 1997, original wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 171/200 copies, signed by the author, with other Colophon Press ltd. eds. by Fay Weldon, Bruce Chatwin and William Trevor. (10)

* 2001: A Space Odyssey, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968,. UK quad in folded condition, style B with astronauts on moon, ABC Catford label lower left, some old waterstaining partly visible in lighter areas of image, minor marginal tears, 30 x 40 ins, VG-, together with an original cinema brochure for the film, orig. printed wrappers, oblong narrow folio, plus a 3-D holographic special display showing the astronauts on the moon (6 x 4 ins) (3)

A folio of engravings, prints and photographs

Peter Scott/A folio of nine ornithological photographs in black and white, exhibited for Country Life, March 1950, with a Certificate of Merit/see illustration

A Camera Portrait Folio of photographs of Peter Scott as a child, taken by Hugh Cecil

after W Von Wright/Svenska Faglar/lithographs in colour/approximately 30 plates/after Lynn Bogue Hunt/a folio of prints of Game Birds of America and four coloured prints of Australian pea flowers by Susan Tinagy

Peter Scott and others, Waterfowl of North America, no. 5 of 50 artist`s proof edition, published by Ducks Unlimited, Canada on the occasion of their 50th Anniversary, each plate signed in pencil by the artist, folio, boxed

A folio of twenty-seven Japanese woodblock prints, 20th Century and sundry prints

A collection of twenty various Folio Society editions, including Conrad (Joseph): Heart of Darkness, 1997, slip case

A collection of eighteen various Folio Society editions, including Melville (Herman): Moby Dick, 1974, slip case

A collection of seventeen various Folio Society editions, including Thomas (Dylan): Under Milk Wood, 1972, slip case

Folio of mid 19th century Watercolours including scenes in Herefordshire, various artists (9)

Folio of 19th century Watercolours Various artists, unsigned, (11)

[Central Asia]. Gemaelde von Wereschagin [so titled on upper cover], pub. J[ohann] B[aptiste] Obernetter, Munich, c. 1880, a total of eighty-six collotypes after paintings and drawings by Vereschagin mounted on twenty-three leaves, four largest collotypes 24 x 18cm and mounted singly, twenty-four collotypes approx. 10.5 x 14.5cm mounted in pairs, one sheet with four collotypes and six with nine (approx. 6.5 x 9.5cm or the reverse), printed details in French, Russian and German, versos blank, all loosely contained as issued in orig. gilt titled red cloth portfolio, some soiling and wear, folio (33 x 49cm) Wasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) whose name appears in various transliterated spellings was a Russian painter. The paintings and drawings reproduced in this volume would all appear to be from an expedition he made to Central Asia and Turkestan in 1867. Most of the paintings are views or local types. The majority of small studies are of the heads of local types. No other copies of this work have been traced and as it is not possible to tell whether this is complete as issued the volume is sold not subject to return. (1)

Crookshank (Lt.-Col. C. de W.). Prints of British Military Operations. A Catalogue Raisonne with Historical Descriptions Covering the Period from the Norman Conquest to the Campaign in Abyssinia, 1921, coloured and b & w plates, Royal Engineers library stamps, previous owner signature, original half cloth, rubbed and faded, 4to, together with The Principles of Strategy Illustrated Mainly from American Campaigns, by John Bigelow, 1891, folding maps, a few spots, bookplate, original cloth, a little faded, folio, with two others: Captain Thuillier’s The Principles of Land Defence and their Application to the Conditions of To-Day, 1902 and J.F.C. Fuller’s The Decisive Battles of the United States, 1942 (4)

Johnston (Alexander Keith). Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1873, title and dedication page, frontis. of folding map of the Arctic, forty-five folding engraved maps with orig. outline colouring (complete as list), a few maps with splits to central fold, occ. marginal finger soiling, a.e.g, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (1)

[Mitchell, John Edward]. Records of the Royal Horse Artillery, from its Formation to the Present Time (being the Revised Edition of ‘The Records of the Horse Brigade’), London, 1888, contents a little loose in orig. gilt-dec. cloth, soiled and some wear to extremities, 4to, together with Abbott (P.E.), Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909, (Being a List, with other Details, of all those who were Awarded the Medal before the Outbreak of the First World War), 2nd ed., 1987, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, slim folio, plus Douglas-Morris (Kenneth), Naval Long Service Medals 1830-1990, privately printed, 1991, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and McInnes (Ian), The Meritorious Service Medal. The Immediate Awards 1916-1928, pub. 1992, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, and others of military, naval and aviation interest, contains a Churchill poster (3 cartons)

Nicolay (Nicolas de, 1517-1583 ). Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales, 2nd issue, Lyon: par Guillaume Rouille, 1568, title printed within elaborate woodcut border incorporating grotesques and figures of Athena and Ares, 55 engraved costume plates (of 61) attributed to Louis Danet, hand coloured by an early hand, two plates cut-round and relaid, two plates remargined, a few other plates with marginal tears and subsequent paper repairs to verso, some minor marks and finger soiling, contemp. ink owners inscription to title, contemp. calf, gilt decorated corners and elaborate central medallion to covers, professionally rebacked and cornered, folio. Copies of the 1568 edition with the plates coloured are very rare. Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83) was made Geographer Ordinary by Henri II and was sent to join Gabriel d’Aramon’s embassy in Constantinople in 1551. The illustrations, designed by Nicolay himself, were hugely influential and were much copied by other authors throughout the 17th century. Blackmer 1196 (1580 edition). (1)

Price (William). Journal of the British Embassy to Persia; Embellished with Numerous Views Taken in India and Persia: also, a Dissertaion upon the Antiquities of Persepolis, vol. 1 [all pub.], 2nd ed., 1825, fifty litho and eng. plts., blind library stamps mostly to fore-edge margins of plts., occ. minor scattered spotting and slight dust soiling, sewing broken and text block split into three parts, disbound, without covers, oblong folio. Wilson p.179. (1)

Wyld (James). An Atlas of the World Comprehending Separate Maps of its various Countries Constructed & drawn from the latest Astronmomical & Geographical Observations, 1870, calligraphic title page with heraldic vignette, four b & w eng. ‘comparative’ plts., forty-four (of 46), engraved maps with original outline colouring, including two folding (lacking France in Provinces & Guatemala), one folding map with long closed tear, contemp. half morocco gilt, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, small folio (1)

Angus (William). The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in Great Britain and Wales in a Collection of Select Views ..., 1787, eng. title and sixty-three plates, some spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and soiled, split along joint and upper cover near det., oblong folio (1)

Boswell (Henry pubs.). Historical Descriptions of New and Elegant Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England and Wales, n.d., c.1786, eng. allegorical frontis., title page & preface, 193 engraved plts. and fifty engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, some fraying and short closed tears to fore-edge, some worming to first few leaves, very occ. spotting, contemp. reverse calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, hinges and joints weak, upper board near detached, rubbed, bumped and frayed, folio. Appears complete although Chubb CCLVII calls for 195 plates. (1)

Britton (John). The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections and Details of various Ancient English Edifices, vols.1 & 4 (only), 1807 & 1814, dec. half titles, 105 eng. plts., some spotting throughout, vol. 1 a.e.g., contemp. dec. blind stamped calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed, worn and frayed, vol. 2 disbound, folio, together with, Hall (S.C.), The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England...., vol. 1 (of 2), pub. Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881, thirty-six tinted litho. plts. (complete as list), occ. spotting throughout, some plates loose and shaken, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and frayed, folio, with, Morris (Rev. F. O.), A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain, vols. 1, 3 (2 copies) & 4 only, n.d., c.1880, numerous chromolitho. plts., occ. spotting, a.e.g, orig. pubs. dec. cloth, rubbed and frayed, vol. IV disbound, 4to, plus approx. 175 loose plts, together with one other similar. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (8)

Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of The County of Dorset, 4 vols. 3rd. ed., 1861 - 70, title pages printed in red & black, numerous eng. plts. some folding, some spotting, hinges strengthened, a.e.g., orig. green gilt dec. morocco, rebacked but preserving orig. ornate gilt dec. spines, a little rubbed at extrems., folio. A handsome set. (4)

Maitland (William). The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time, 2 vols., 1756, 120 eng. plts. and ward plans etc., (inc. frontispieces and 11 folding eng. plts. & plans), some damp soiling and fraying (some plts. and text with occasional loss), few leaves detached, some spotting and few marks etc., ink library stamps to titles, few plt. margins and some leaves of text, contemp. qtr. calf, joints split and spines worn, boards lacks surface coverings, folio (2)

Morison (Douglas). Views of Haddon Hall, pub. Henry Graves & Co., 1842, dec. litho. title page, list of subscribers and dedication, twenty-five litho. plts. (complete as list), some spotting throughout, orig. qtr. morocco gilt, bumped and stained, folio, together with, Rayner (S.), The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall, pub. Robert Moseley, Derby, 1836, title page, dedication and list of subscribers, thirty-two litho. plts. on india wove (correct as list), six extra litho. plts. not called for in list bound in at rear, some spotting throughout, contemp. half blind stamped dec. calf, upper board detached, spine loose and partially lacking, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (2)

Wallis (James). Wallis’s New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Travellers Companion in which are carefully laid down all the Direct & Cross Roads, Cities, Townes, Villages, Parks, Seats and Rivers, with a General Map of England i Wales, [1810], calligraphic title page, forty (of 42) engraved maps with orig. hand colouring (lacking Cheshire & Durham), occ. spotting throughout, partially disbound with several maps loose, upper board detached with pubs. label to upper board, contemp. half morocco, rubbed soiled and worn, 12mo, together with, Bacon (George W. pubs.), New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles with Plans of Towns....., n.d., [1883], 101 colour printed lithographic county, regional and town plan maps (complete as list), some marginal dust soiling, gutta percha perished, contents loose and shaken, contemp. cloth gilt, stained and bumped at extrems., folio, with another copy of the same, with two others similar. Sold as a colllection of maps not subject to return. (5)

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). An History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York; together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form the Wapentakes or Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Amunderness, in the Counties of York, Lancaster, and Westmoreland, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1823, eng. port. and forty-four eng. plts., plus twenty-seven genealogical tables (inc. 16 double-page), numerous wood eng. illusts., armorial bookplate of John Plumbe Tempest of Tong Hall Yorkshire to upper pastedowns of each volumes, edges rough-trimmed, late 19th/early 20th c. half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, gilt armorial crest at foot of spines, folio. Boyne CCL. (2)

Heath (Francis George). The Fern Portfolio, 3rd. ed., pub. S.P.C.K., 1885, fifteen chromlithographic plts. (complete as list), upper hinge and joint weak, orig. pubs. gilt dec. cloth, slim folio (1)

Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower-Garden, as also the Physic-Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard..., Abridg’d from the Two Volumes lately Published in Folio, 3 vols., 2nd ed., 1741, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, two eng. plts., eng. 18th c. armorial bookplate of Ambrose Isted to verso of dedicaton leaf in vol. 1 and verso of titles in vols. 2 & 3, hinges cracked, vol. 3 lacks rear free endpaper, contemp. calf, red morocco title labels to spines, joints cracked, rubbed and some wear, 8vo (3)

Redoute (Pierre-Joseph). Fruits and Flowers / Roses / Roses 2, Ariel Press, 1954-56, each containing 24 colour plates, orig. printed wrappers, a little fraying to extrems., together with Urquhart (Beryl Leslie, ed.), The Camelia, 2 vols., 1956/1960, 36 colour plates, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j’s, plus others related incl. ‘Album de Redoute’ (Collins, 1954), ‘Great Flower Books’ by Sitwell & Blunt (Collins 1956) and ‘The Rhododendron’ edited by Urquhart in 2 vols. (1958/62), all folio (9)

Wright (Magnus von). Svenska Faglar Efter Naturen och pa sten Ritade, 3 vols., Stockholm, 1927-29, 364 colour lithographic plts. and 103 b & w photographic illustrations to text, text in Swedish, marbled edges, contemp. gilt dec. calf, contrasting morocco labels to spines, vol. 3 with small chip to spine (but retained), folio (3)

Atlases. A collection of four-part atlases by J.H.Colton and A.J.Johnsson, New York, c.1860, containing approx. ninety single and double page engraved maps with orig. hand colouring, several duplicates, some marginal closed tears, fraying and chipping, largely disbound, folio (approx.90)

* Botany. A mixed collection of approx. ninety engravings and lithographs, 18th & 19th century, including several hand coloured examples, with examples by Twining, Miller and Dillenius, occ. spotting and off setting, various sizes and condition but mostly folio (approx.90)

La Vie Parisienne. Fifty-two issues, 7th January to 30th December 1922, colour and b&w illusts., commercial ads., orig. stapled colour pictorial wrappers, a little rubbing and soiling, folio (52)

La Vie Parisienne. Fifty-two issues, 1924, a complete volume, colour and b&w illusts., commercial ads., orig. pictorial wrappers preserved, orig. printed upper wrapper and remains of spine still present, a little minor old waterstaining to outer margins of first and last leaves, folio (1)

* Boer War. A collection of photos, printed and manuscript ephemera contained in two modern scrap albums, a total of approx. eighty vintage b & w photos including snapshots, scenes of the British Army at Jagers Drift, group portraits at Upington, scenes of camps and local terrain, various sizes, tipped in as multiples, many with pencil or photocopied captions pasted beneath, the ephemera including presidential pass, receipts, silver leaves, army notices and flyers including some in Afrikaans, etc., a total of approx. fifty items, both modern boards, 4to/folio (2)

* European Bicycle Tour. A scrap album relating to a cycling tour made by the Reverend Charles A. Roach, to Budapest, the Rhine, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany, 1933, comprising approx. sixteen postcards, most stamped and sent with messages home, approx. twenty other letters and sheets of notes, approx. 100 corner-mounted b&w snapshots, all small format including many approx. 3 x 4cm, many of the photos with Roach’s captions to verso, the snapshots showing views and some showing Roach with Storm Troops and cycling with Nazi soldiers, plus Nazi parades, also containing various youth hostel cards, permits, cuttings, etc., many items det. and album leaves generally loose, contemp. wrappers, oblong small folio, together with two unrelated albums, one containing World War I German Navy photograph interest and one largely a German society snapshot album from the early 1920s, both oblong folio. A cutting at the front of the first album indicates that Roach published his account of the tour in some format for a lecture tour. Several of the news cuttings refer to travelling in Germany and include one letter to The Times penned by Roach, where in spite of the many practical examples of the desire of the German people to gain his friendship (including the hospitality of the Storm Troops) he did nonetheless agree with the Press about the dangers of travelling in Germany at this time. (3)

* French Revolution Archive - Camille Desmoulins & Dillon Regiment. Camille Desmoulins and his Wife, Passages from the History of the Dantonists, Translated from the French of Jules Claretie, by Mrs. Cashel Hoey, 1876, extra illustrated with b & w plts., t.e.g., near-contemp. blue half calf gilt, rubbed, together with Desmoulins association items, including a small manuscript copybook belonging to Camille’s wife Lucile and referred to extensively in the printed book (pp. 130-150), ‘It is only a small copybook, with a red cardboard cover; and it consists of twenty-two leaves of thick, rough, yellow paper, only thirteen being written over in Lucile’s hand. It contains verses composed in honour of Madamoiselle Duplessis, or copied by her from the different collections in vogue at the time. Baron de Girardot, to whom the little volume belonged, wrote the following words on the first page: [in translation]: “Written by the hand of Lucile Duplessis, wife of Camille Desmoulins. This book was given to me in Paris, by Lucile’s sister, in 1834, B. de Girardot”. The book is at present the property of M. de Lescure, who kindly permitted me to see it... ‘, contemp. red boards with marbled backstrip, 24mo, also the original autograph letter from General Dillon written to Camille, Madelonettes, 26th July 1793, 7 pm, translated in full on page 252 of the book, asking Camille to see his cousin Fouquier de Tinville, ‘See him, I beg of you; induce him to finish, as he promised. He knows my innocence; my request is worthy of you, my kind and upright defender; only a word from your cousin is wanted. See him very early tomorrow morning; let him say this word, and give back to the republic a man who only aspires to save it from the tyrants who are advancing with rapid strides’, one page with integral address leaf and seal, old ink stamp ‘Papiers Cam. Desmoulins’ at head of letter, 8vo, plus a printed copy of ‘Lettre de Camille Desmoulins, Depute de Paris a la Convention, au General Dillon, en prison aux Madelonettes, Paris’, 1793, uncut, sewn as issued, sl. frayed and soiled first and last leaf, plus ‘Le Vieux Cordelier: Journal’, ed. Camille Desmoulins, 7 issues [complete, Paris, 1793-94], 172 pp., uncut, some soiling and damp staining, all sewn as issued, slim 8vo, plus an interesting group of twenty-six manuscript and six printed items, the majority relating to the Dillon Regimen before, during and after the French Revolution, including two documents signed by the Colonel of the Regiment [Arthur] Dillon, both 13th August 1784, and ‘Abstract pour servir au payement de 8 mois’, 25th August 1797, one page with numerous signatures including Lieutenant Colonel Dillon, three separate bifoliums of receipts and expenses for 1771 and 1772, documents signed by O’Mahony (29th July 1816), Walsh-Serrant (9th March 1787), O’Moran and Gormocan (24th January 1792), a letter signed ‘E. Dillon’, 28th July 1702, writing in French of the death of MacDonogh to Jen [his wife?], documents signed by Macdonald, Clarke, translated copy letter from Dillon to Phillipe de Colloredo [1847?], a letter to Dillon from Tolendal(?) dated 11th September 1847, a document being the award of Croce d’Oro di Devozione to Conte Augusto Enrico Dillon, 9th February 1847, an autograph letter signed from Le Comte de Lally-Tolendal to ‘le Baron’, etc., the majority of manuscript items one or two pages, 4to/folio, two of the printed items being Revolutionary laws relating to Dillon (no. 1691, 11th May 1792 & no. 2193, 20th August 1792) A significant archive. The Dillon Regiment was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon. After the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 the Regiment transferred to the service of the Kings of France under its present name. From 1777 to 1782 the Regiment fought as part of the French expeditionary force in the American Revolution. It remained faithful to France after the French Revolution. The Regiment’s commander at this time Arthur Dillon (1750-1794) was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution, being closely associated with Georges Danton. While awaiting his trial and execution, Desmoulins wrote love letters to his wife Lucile, not knowing that she had been arrested and that these letters would never be received. According to some accounts, he only learned of his wife’s arrest on his way to his own execution along with a group that included Danton (5th April 1794). As he was being led to the guillotine he fought to resist his captors, crying out to his wife and reciting passages from the letters he had written to her. Lucile was herself guillotined eight days after her husband. (a folder and a book)

Historic Newspapers. A group of approx. thirty newspapers and special supplements, 18th/20th c. incl. twelve Napoleonic period English newspapers, Titanic issues of Daily Graphic (20 April 1912), Illustrated London News (27 April 1912, 2 copies), The Sphere and The Graphic (4 May 1912), plus General Strike, funerals, train crashes, etc. some soiling and wear, large folio (approx. 30)

* Photographs and Engravings. An assorted collection of topographical engravings and mounted small albumen prints, 19th century, plus an album containing approx. forty corner mounted gelatin silver print press photos of racehorses by W. A. Rouch, c. 1910, identified to versos or on album pages, approx. 20 x 25cm, a few later reproductions loosely inserted, modern cloth, slightly damp stained, folio, plus a Second World War diary compiled by Mrs. Sheila Stopford, wife of Captain Stopford RN, between 17th June and 20th November 1942, approx. 160 pp., probably written up at a later date, contemp. linen backed boards, 4to (a carton)

* Stephenson (George, 1781-1848). Autograph letter signed ‘Geo Stephenson’, Railway Office, Liverpool, 9th December 1830, to Lawrence Hill (of Hill & Davidson, Glasgow), concerning an urgent request for Stephenson to inspect the ‘Country between Edinburgh & Glasgow, with the view of reporting upon the projected Railway between these two cities, I hope to leave this next Monday or on Tuesday afternoon ..., one page with integral address leaf, various strikes, seal tear, docketed, slightly creased and soiled, 4to, together with a printed shareholder’s report for the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leith Railway, [1832], 2 pp. printed letterpress and integral full-page eng. plan with red route outline, a little damp frayed at foot, folio. An early letter concerning the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, plans for which began soon after the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. Parliament did not give permission for this first early railway in Scotland until 1838. The railway took four years to build and was opened in 1842. (2)

* Theatre. A scrap album containing approx. eighty theatre programmes for London and the provinces, mostly c. 1910, a few loose but mostly pasted back to back on album leaves, some leaves det., contemp. cloth, together with an album containing twenty-two b & w photo postcards of actors and eighteen clipped theatrical autographs, including Sarah Bernhardt (visiting card, dated 1910], Gertie Millar, Lawrence Grossmith, Arthur Bourchier, Bertram Wallis, Julia Neilson, Marie Tempest, Gertrude Elliott, George Robey, Huntley Wright, Alice Crawford, Irene Vanbrugh, etc., all but the first pasted beside related portrait postcard, contemp. morocco gilt, sl. rubbed and soiled, oblong small folio (2)

Bellori (Giovanni Pietro). Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum Poetarum Rhetorum et Oratorum Imagines Ex Vetustis Nummis, Gemmis, Hermis, , Marmoribus, aliisque Antiquis Monumentis Desumptae, 3 parts in one, Rome, 1685, eng. frontis., eng. part titles, ninety-two eng. plts., slight dampstaining to lower outer margin corners, contemp. qtr. sheep with vellum corners to boards, joints cracked, slight loss of leather at head & foot of spine, slight loss to title label, spine & boards rubbed, folio (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations diligently Compared and Revised, Oxford: printed at the Theatre, 1688, General title and New Testament titles present, woodcut armorial to each, Apocrypha present, occ. minor scattered spotting, early 19th c. calf, joints partly cracked at head & foot, spine & boards rubbed & scuffed, folio. Refer to Darlow & Moule 639 & Herbert 809. (1)

Buonarroti (Filippo). Osservazioni Sopra Alcuni Frammenti di Vasi Antichi di Vetro Ornati di Figure Trovati ne’ Cimiteri di Roma, 1st ed. Florence: Per Jacopo Guiducci, e Santi Franchi, 1716, half-title present, 35 engraved plates including three folding, a few woodcuts to text, contemp. calf, upper board and two blank endpapers detached, folio. Filippo Buonarroti (1661-1733) was a Florentine official and scholar who is best remembered for this work. It is notable in that it asserts admiration for early Christian art, uncommon during at a time when most art scholars were convinced of the primacy of classical art. (1)

Burton (John). The Genuineness of Lord Clarendons’s History of the Rebellion Printed at Oxford Vindicated. Mr. Oldmixon’s Slander Confuted. The True State of the Case Represented..., 1st ed., Oxford, 1744, contemp. calf, lacking title label to spine, joints cracked, leather to corners torn, covers worn, folio (1)

Charles IV (1316-1378). Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. Bulla aurea, 2nd ed., Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1477, 22 (of 26) leaves including the penultimate and pre-penultimate blank leaves, but lacking ff.11, 18, 20 and the final blank, two hand-col. dec. initials (one finished with gold leaf), text printed in black letter, other captial spaces left blank, 19th c. half calf, spine renewed, slim folio. Bookplate of Gerhard Jensen. The Golden Bull issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1356 was very important in German constitutional history. It crystallized the practice of imperial elections, giving the empire a constitution which fixed the number and identity of electors and established majority rule. It also denied the supremacy of the papacy. The Golden Bull also contains provisions regarding the national peace, grants of municipal citizenship to rural residents etc. The first edition of this work was published in Nuremberg in 1474. Hain 4076, BMC II 414, Goff C206. (1)

Holinshed (Raphael). The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles: comprising 1. The Description and Historie of England, 2. The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3. The Description and Historie of Scotland, first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others, now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others, 2 vols. (of 3) in one, [1587], main title within woodcut border, sl. chipped and soiled, separate titles with woodcut borders to ‘The Irish Historie’, ‘The Description of Scotland’, and ‘The Historie of Scotland’, England, Ireland and Scotland with separate paginations, black letter double column text with some woodcut initials, lacks ‘The Historie of England’ title, ‘The Second Volume of Chronicles’ title, plus blank leaf at front of vol. 1 and end of vol. 2, in vol. 2 2Q3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 421/424, 2R3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 438/431 and 2S2-5 are cancelled by two leaves 443/444 and 445/450, a little spotting and soiling with light old marginal water staining to first few leaves, later reversed calf, worn and joints cracked, folio (350 x 215mm) STC 13569 (with vol. 3: ‘The Third Volume of Chronicles ...’). This second edition is most famously the one used as a key source for the plays of William Shakespeare. Due to the politically sensitive nature of a number of passages in this present edition Elizabeth I ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall work with cancelled pages to be found in volumes 2 and 3. These cancelled leaves were reprinted three times in the 18th century, long before Wikileaks could get there. (1)

Kottenkamp (Franz). History of Chivalry and Ancient Armour, with Descriptions of the Feudal System, the Usages of Knighthood, the Tournament, and Trials by Single Combat, translated from the German..., by the Rev. A. Lowy, 1857, sixty-two hand-col. eng. plts. (inc. frontis., 24 folding), hole to rear free endpaper (free endpapers creased), slight spotting and light dustsoiling, sewing a little weak and few leaves loose, orig. cloth gilt, lacks spine and boards detached, oblong folio (1)

Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2 vols., 14th ed., 1753, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, worming to lower margins of approx. 50pp. at front of vol. 1, contemp. calf gilt, slight wear to joints & extrems., 8vo, together with Burnet (Gilbert), The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 2 parts in one, 1679, addn. eng. title, contemp. calf, upper board near detached and lower board attachment weak, worn, folio, with [McCormick, Charles, edit.], The Secret history of the court and reign of Charles the Second , by a Member of His Privy Council..., 2 vols., 1792, contemp. calf, rebacked with gilt dec. spines, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus seven other misc. antiquarian (13)

Newlands (James). The Carpenter and Joiner’s Assistant, Blackie & Son., c.1850, 100 engraved plates, numerous wood engravings, spotting to endpapers, contemp. black half calf, rubbed, folio, together with Aesop. Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists, vol. 1 only (of 2), 1699, engraved portrait and separate frontispiece, contemp. mottled calf, later reback, folio, and Lemnius (Levinus), Occulta Naturae Miracula, Antwerp: Apud Guilielmum Simonem ad insigne Scuti Basiliensis, 1567, lacking engraved portrait and first 16 pp. including title, contemp. calf with distinctive blind-stamped stag motif to upper and lower covers, 8vo (3)

Scotland - Parliament. The Laws and Acts made in the Sixth Session of the First Parliament of Our most High and Dread Soveraign William..., Holden and Begun at Edinburgh, September 8. 1696. By John Earl o Tullibardine, Viscount of Glen-Almond, Lord Murray; and Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland..., Collected and Extracted from the Registers and Records of Parliament, by Charles Earl of Selkirk, &c. Clerk to His Majesties Council, Exchequer, Registers and Rolls, &c..., Edinburgh, 1696, bound with The Laws and Acts Made in the Seventh Session of the First Parliament of Our High and Dread Soveraign Will;iam..., Holden and Begun at Edinburgh, July 19, 1698..., pub. Edinburgh, 1698, contemp. panelled calf, boards detached, folio, together with Radcliffe (John), Dr. Radcliffe’s Life, and Letters, with a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament, 3rd ed., 1716, few worm trails to text, contemp. panelled calf, upper board near detached, lower joint cracked, 12mo, with Garth (Sir Samuel), The Dispensary: A Poem in Six Canto’s, 3rd ed. corrected by the author, 1699, ink erased signature to title, library bookplate & ink stamp to verso of title, library bookplate to upper pastedown, contemp. panelled calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, rubbed, 8vo, plus other 17th-19th antiquarian and pamphlets, many incomplete (a small carton)

Speed (John). The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, the third edition revised & enlarged, pub. 1650, eng. port. frontis. and eng. title, few woodcut illusts. and eng. genealogies etc., ink library stamp to lower margin of portrait, also to title and few other leaves, library label to front pastedown, contemp. calf gilt, joints cracked and some wear, folio. Wing S4880. (1)