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Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of miscellaneous 19th century & modern literature, including The History of England, from the invasion of Julius Caesar, to the revolution in 1688, 8 volumes, by David Hume, London: printed for Richardson & Co., 1820, The History of England, from the revolution to the death of George II, 5 volumes, by T. Smollett, London: printed for Richardson & Co., 1820, bound in contemporary uniform gilt decorated half calf, 8voThe Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation..., 10 volumes, by Richard Hakluyt, London: J. M. dent and Sons, 1927-28, original blue cloth, 8voStories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, 3rd edition, London: Gardner, Darton & Co., 1903, original illustrated cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, & others, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Kodansha International, publisher. Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, 11 volumes, standard edition, Tokyo, 1981-82, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in slipcases, spines slilghtly faded, folio

Shixiang (Wang). Classic Chinese Furniture, Ming and early Qing Dynasties, 1st U.K. edition, London: Han-Shan Tang, 1986, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with:Boynton (Lindsay), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, 1st edition, Royston: The Bloomfield Press, 1995, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plusAntique Collectors' Club, publisher, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, by R. W. Symonds, reprinted, Suffolk, 1980, numerous monochrome illustrations, original gilt decorated velour boards, large 8vo, limited edition 541/1500Christopher Dresser, The People's Designer 1834-1904, by Harry Lyons, 1st edition, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to the head, large 4to, and other modern furniture & antiques reference & related, including auction catalogues by Sotheby's & Christie's, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio QTY: (3 shelves )

Davey (Neil K.). Netsuke, A comprehensive study based on the M. T. Hindson Collection, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber/ Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly rubbed, folio, together with:Hillier (Jack), The Art of the Japanese Book, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sotheby's, 1987, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, folio, plusBloom (Sheila S. & Jonathan M.), The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800, [Pelican History of Art], 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, andJiaqing (Tian), Classic Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, 1st English edition, London: Philip Wilson, 1996, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other Oriental & Middle Eastern art reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, some 'as new' in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves )

Bacon (G. W., publisher). Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs (Revised Edition) with an Alphabetical Index, circa 1910, title page and contents list, 26 double-page and folding social, geographic and industrial maps and a 34-sheet map of Greater London, slight spotting and occasional closed tears, marbled endpapers, publisher's cloth gilt, stained, frayed and worn, folioQTY: (1)

Hoberg (Annegret & Isabelle Jansen). Franz Marc, The Complete Works, Volume 1: The Oil Paintings, 1st edition, London: Philip Wilson, 2004, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, square 4to, together with:Barnett (Vivian Endicott), Kandinsky Aquarelles, Catalogue Raisonné, Premier Volume, 1900-1921, 1st French edition, London: Editions Société Kandinsky, 1992, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, square 4toKandinsky Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, Individual Drawings, 1st edition, London: Philip Wilson, 2006, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, square 4to, plusSwiridoff Verlag, publisher, The Würth Collection, Inside Outside Overview, 2 volumes, Künzelsau, 2002, numerous colour illustrations, original uniform cloth in glassine wrappers & slipcase, folio, and other modern art & sculpture reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, some ' as new' in original plastic wrap, some duplicate copies, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves )

Miscellaneous Reference. A large collection of modern miscellaneous reference, including history, biography, anthropology, all original cloth, many lacking dust jackets, G, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

Matisse (Henri). Jazz, special edition, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1983, colour & monochrome facsimile leaves & plates, disbound in original cloth & paper boards book box in slipcase, folio, together with:Marsh (Edward), Minima, 1st edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1947, signed & inscribed by the author to the front endpaper 'For John with love from Eddie February 1950', some light marginal toning, original gilt decorated green cloth, covers & spine slightly faded & marked, slim 8vo, limited edition 647/1000, plusHolroyd (Michael), Lytton Strachey, a critical biography, 2 volumes, reprinted, London: William Heinemann, 1967, colour frontispieces & monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth, 8vo, and other art reference & related, including Quadrum, 2 volumes (Nos. 4 & 18), 1958-65, in original wrappers, 4to, some original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves )

Edward Eaton Brannan (1886-1957). Studio works (titled M folio), contents of album, approx 9 works.

A Richard Avedon observations, comments by Truman Capote photography / folio book, New York, 1959.  To include photographic illustrations, original board slip-case (damage to spine). The photographer's first book. Measures 38cm x 28cm

FOLIO SOCIETY FOUR VOLUMES BY LEWIS CARROLL INCLUDING 'ALICES' ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND', IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF TWELVE FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES, 'A HISTORY OF ENGLAND', ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF FOUR FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES, 'EMPIRE OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST', IN SLIP CASE ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SIX VARIOUS ANCIENT CIVILISATION FOLIO VOLUMES INCLUDING THE MYCENAEANS AND THE MINOANS ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION, ONE SLIP CASE TORN

FOLIO SOCIETY SIX VOLUME SET, THE MAPP AND LUCIA NOVELS, BY EF BENSON, IN SLIP CASE ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY SHERLOCK HOLMES EIGHT VOLUME SET, ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF EIGHT FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES, 'THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE', BY THOMAS HODGKIN, ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY THREE VOLUME SET, 'ITALIAN CITIES', IN SLIP CASE ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF SIX FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES, 'THE ARABIAN NIGHTS', IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF FIVE FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES- WINSTON S CHURCHILL, 'THE SECOND WORLD WAR', IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF THREE FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES, 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS', ALSO 'THE HOBBIT' PLUS 'THE SILMARILLION', ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF EIGHT FOLIO SOCIETY SHAKESPEARE VOLUMES, THE COMPLETE PLAYS, IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY TWO THREE VOLUME SETS BY E, NESBIT, IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SEVEN FOLIO SOCIETY RUDYARD KIPLING VOLUMES INCLUDING 'THE JUNGLE BOOK', 'JUST SO STORIES', ETC, ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY THREE VOLUME SET, 'THE PEPYS DIARY', IN SLIP CASE ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY THREE VOLUMES, 'THE CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND', ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

SET OF FIVE FOLIO SOCIETY VOLUMES- WINSTON S CHURCHILL, 'THE WORLD CRISIS', IN SLIP CASE ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

TEN VARIOUS FOLIO SOCIETY BRONTE SISTERS RELATED VOLUMES, ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION, SOME SLIP CASES SLIGHTLY WORN

FOLIO SOCIETY SET OF SEVEN JANE AUSTEN NOVELS, PLUS TWO OTHER JANE AUSTEN RELATED VOLUMES, ALL IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION, ONE VOLUME IS SLIGHTLY STAINED

SET OF EIGHT FOLIO SOCIETY EDWARD GIBBON VOLUMES, 'THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE', IN SLIP CASES ALL APPEAR IN REASONABLE USED CONDITION

FOLIO SOCIETY EDITION BOOK BY DYLAN THOMAS

Cartography. Arlott (John, editor), John Speed's England: A coloured facsimile of the first edition, four-part set, London: Phoenix House Limited, 1953-54, original quarter-cloth over papered boards, slipcases en suite, folio, Curtis (Rev. J.), A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, first edition, Ashby-de-la-Zouche: W. Hextall, et al., 1831, hand-coloured double-page map, original publisher's cloth, split and twisted, 8vo, a mid-19th century schoolboy's exercise book, Georgie Peck, October 1859, illustrated with a double-page watercolour panorama of mountains, 13 world maps executed in pen-and-ink or pencil, some of which are tipped-in, further inscribed in manuscript with a historical timeline, original scarlet quarter-roan over marbled boards, worn with some losses, 4to, 1925 Atlas of Finland, original morocco over boards, ex-lib with expected wear and markings, folio, two volumes of Newbolt's Naval Operation Maps, ex-lib, their cloth, 8vo, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer, 1934, 1936-38 issues, original blue cloth, 4to, Aircraft Engineering, volume XI, 1939, ex-lib cloth, folio, (11)

Local Interest. Miscellaneous manuscripts and some printed ephemera, 18th c and later, including 12 quit notices and 3 corresponding letters relating to John Leacroft's property in Litchurch, Derby, all dated 1796, and before the estate was sold to Joseph Strutt, who later, along with other properties, created the Derby Arboretum there, a 1715 MS poor law examination of Francis Nallson of Bolsolver, Derbyshire, a former solider, examined before and signed by Lord James Cavendish as JP, 1770 Freedom of Perth for a Nottingham merchant, printed and hand-scrivened on vellum, with seal, The Humble Petition of the Innkeepers and Victuallers, of Nottingham, to the House of Commons, Sherborne: Cruttwell & Son, Printers, n.d. [1804], 2pp, folio, a 1776 legal bill of [2]pp of MS, a Victorian schoolboy's manuscript book of verse, Poetry [by] Master William Green, Park House Academy, Nottingham, 1873, [4]ff of MS, loose and loosening leaves, original wrappers, 4to, 1807 Nottingham Academy school bill, a 1788 certificate of bastardy, Sarah Heath of Leek, Staffordshire, signed by John Sneyd as JP, 1842 Royal Hospital Chelsea pensioner's questionnaire, an 1840s Derby Savings' Bank pocket book, split, original calf over printed papered boards, 12mo, 1862 printed and inscribed vellum freedom of the then town of Nottingham, an earlier burgher's certificate dated 1820 conforming, four 19th c indentures, etc

Cartography. A miscellaneous collection of small format maps, early 19th c and later, comprising approx. 30 world maps, some hand-coloured, including Hindoostan (i.e. India) and China, 23 world as well as county maps by W. Edwards, c. 1800, printed in black, 23 British county maps, Ordnance Survey and mid-20th c National Geographic maps and charts, a folio album of Biblical plates, etc

Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677, imprimatur leaf - creased, tatty and loosening, black-ruled title-page printed in red and black, double-column text, pp: [xvi], 507, 8 (coats of arms), [36] (indexes), double-page map and 21 plates, 2 of which are folding and 16 double-page, further in-text illustrations, a respectable copy, 1 folding plate - Newark - repaired with some loss, the contents OK-good with some foxed spots and toning, rarer rust holes with no loss of sense, some creases, 18th c calf boards, rebacked, repaired and the gilding refreshed, all edges gilt, later endpapers, folio (35 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: 1) Christopher Hussey, contemporaneous 17th c dated ink MS inscription to original verso blank: 'Memorandū 10th June 1685 if this book/be returned in two months time from *y date/hereof. I will give two shillings for it witnesses/my hand Christopher Hussey-'. 2) Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton, KCVO (1837-1909), brewing magnate, Liberal politician and philanthropist; his Rangemore Hall, East Staffordshire, bookplate to recto pastedown. 3) Ex Libris Carl J. Fenner, 20th c pictorial bookplate ditto.

Periodicals. The Gardener's Magazine, volume IX, 1866, some in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth, folio, Garden Work 1885, some illustrated adverts, chipped original cloth, folio, The Young Ladies' Journal [...], volume XVIII, 1881, original cloth, worn, folio, needelwork, etc., (7) All unexamined, sold as a collection of prints and as such not subject to return.

Illustrated Books. Russell Flint (Sir William, RA), Brekafast in Périgord, [...] With 60 Illustrations & Devices, copy no. 440/475, signed and numbered by the artist, London: Privately printed by Charles Skilton, 1968, original black morocco gilt over pictorial boards, top-edge gilt, slipcase en suite, folio, Aldin (Cecil, illustrator), " A Dozen Dogs or So", London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928, colour plates, original cloth, 4to, Falké (Pierre, illustrator) & Galtier-Boissière (Jean), La fleur au fusil, copy no. 684, Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Crapoiullot, 1946, original pictorial wrappers, uncut and unopened, glassine wrapper, 4to, various other illustrators, including Birkett Foster, Agnes Miller Parker, Harry Clarke, Ronald King, Violet Brunton, etc., (13)

Antiquarianism. Bayley (John), The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, two-volume set, first edition, London: T. Cadell, 1821, plates, some foxing and mild off-setting, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, split and rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (38 x 28cm), idem., History of the Tower of London, second edition, London, 1830, plates, contemporary red quarter-morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, top-edge gilt, 8vo, Francis (René) & Weirter (Louis, illustrator), The Story of the Tower of London, London, [1915], original cloth, 4to, Richards (Raymond), Old Cheshire Churches, de luxe edition, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1948-49, colour plates, finely bound in original red morocco by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co Ltd, signed, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 4to, Winkles' British Cathedrals, three-volume set, London: Tilt and Bogue, n.d. [1836-42], steel engravings, original publisher's cloth, some wear, 4to, (8)

Fashion. [Fin de siècle] La mode illustrée, 1894, in-text illustrations, some colour, contemporary red roan gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, folio (37.5 x 28cm), La mode du petit jorunal, [fashion] supplénet, 1898, illustrated, further editions of the journal not specifically fashion, 1890, 1895, 1901 & 1920, illustrated, one bound in original pictorial printed boards, folio, others in contemporary marbled boards, others, mixed size folios, (6) All unexamined, sold as a collection of prints and as such not subject to return.

Art. Bing (S.), Artistic Japan: Illustrations and Essays, London: Sampson Low, et al., n.d., uncollated folio of monochrome prints, later cloth, Hughes (E.R., ARWS, illustrator) & Waters (W.G., translator), The Nights of Straparola, two-volume set, copy no. 10/210 on Japanese vellum, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1894, later cloth and pictorial endpapers, 4to, Poynter (Sir Edward J., editor), The National Gallery, volumes I & II only, London: Cassell, 1899, illustrated, contemporary full Riviere morocco, slight wear, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray Park, Sussex, 4to others, including Sir Frederic Leighton, two 19th c Art Union illustrated folios, etc,. (9)

Incunabula. Dodu (Jean-Marie, editor & translator), Biblia Sacra Mazarinæa, two volumes, [Paris]: Editions les Incunables/Printed by Berger-Levrault, 1985, double-column, Latin text with English translations, original red cloth, folio (41 x 31.5cm), [&] Die Gutenberg-Bibel, two-volume set, Hildesheim: George Olms, 2000, decorative papered boards, slipcase en suite, folio (43 x 32.5cm), (4)

Jacobite Interest. The Whole Proceeding [...] of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King. In the Court of the King's-Bench at Westminster [...], London: Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner, 1722, imprimatur leaf, black-ruled title, some foxing, ffep loose, contemporary calf, 19th c reback to style, rubbed, corners bumped, folio (35 x 23cm), [&] Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ. The posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt [...], With the Life of the Author. Oxford: Printed at the Theater (sic) for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698, 2 folding pedigrees, infrequent manuscript glosses, foxed, 19th c half-morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, folio (32.2 x 21cm), [Wing S4930], (2)  Provenance: 1st: William Vachell, probably the same WM of Coptfold Hall, Essex; 18th c Chippendale armorial bookplate to pastedown. 2nd: Lincoln's Inn Library, London, their 19th c sold duplicate stamp to verso of title-page.

Colonel Humphrey ‘Dumper’ Watts, OBE (1880-1946), of Haslington Hall, Cheshire, his photograph album of 39 photographs, compiled while a captain in the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, including 11 large format views of Oxford, its colleges and a set of rooms (presumably Watts'), the others, mostly annotated, the officers posed on manoeuvres, including Aldershot 1900, Laffan's Plain 1900, Chelsea 1901, Deganwy 1903, Salisbury Plain 1902, Powys 1905 & 1906, Conway [i.e. Conwy] 1909, Abergavenny 1907 & 1908, School of Musketry at Hythe August 1911, Aberystwyth 1910 (2) & 1911, Carmarthen 1912, some of the British Army camps, etc., contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over cloth boards, the upper-cover monogrammed in gilt: H.W., all-edges gilt, oblong medium folio (32.5cm x 44.5cm)

Female Education. A rare early 19th c Industrial School teacher's specimen portfolio, Isabella Erskine, dated Manchester, June 23rd 1821, recto pastedown with a tacked-on sampler explaining that: The following specimens of needle work were executed by Isabella Erskine, Teacher of Industrial Schools Patronized by Count and Countess De Salis [...], [16]ff of paper with 120 tacked-on samples, mostly annotated, mixed media, various sizes, comprising four needlework samplers, two of which are signed by IE, miniature dresses and smocks, hosiery, darning and knitting, including purses and bags, a pair of miniature cut-card hand screen banners, a needle case, a pen wipe as a butterfly, an embroidered cornucopia, other lacework, penwork, straw work, etc., 8 further specimens now loose, including a needlework picture and collages after source engravings, 3 further textiles tacked-on verso pastedown, contemporary hessian over limp wrappers, folio (44 x 25cm)  Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin. Some of the leaves are tatty, a few with stable chips. The samples with wear, a few with losses, but most good. The binding with some threadbare splits here and there.

Women's Suffrage Movement. The Hon. Mrs. Evelina Haverfield (née Scarlett; 1867-1920), British suffragette and humanitarian aid worker, her photograph album, dated from 1895-8, though the pastedown is initially dated West Hall - Sherborne [Dorset]/October 1893, illustrated with approx. 60 monochrome photographs, mostly of Mexico, some American - California and Colorado, including the interior of the British Consulate in Mexico City, the mines of Otzumatlan, a mariachi band, several views of the diplomat Sir Lionel Carden's Chapala house being built, some later of the completed house and its garden, an indoor San Diego swimming pool, a procession through Denver with Native American Indians on horseback, a few portrait photographs, some informal family country house groups, some prints, etc., contemporary late Victorian red quarter-roan over cloth, gilt, chipped and bumped with some light losses, split but holding, folio (37 x 30..5cm)

Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts. Herbert (George), The Temple [...], eleventh edition, London: Printed for R.S. and are to be Sold by Richard Willington, 1695, [bound with] [Harvey (Christopher)], The Synagogue: or the Shadow of The Temple [...], In Imitation of Mr. George Herbert, sixth edition, London: Robert Stephens, 1673, first title split and loose at title-page, both titles uncollated and with defective leaves and further condition points, contemporary panelled calf, chipped and disbound, 12mo, [Shakespeare], Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed (sic) Hot-spur, parts I & II, London: J. Tonson, 1734, Part II defective, but with the sole frontispiece, both parts with some stains, disbound, 12mo, idem., three further plays as one, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, & The Tempest, London: J. Tonson, 1734, the second and third titles with frontispieces that are now loose, disbound, 12mo, Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare, Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham, 1818, lacking ffep, finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo, three early 19th c manuscript hymnals, Richard Brooke, dated 1817-18, inscribed in MS with hymns and musical notation, including Psalms, mixed bindings of calf, sheep and calf over boards, worn in places, oblong 4to & 8vo, another, barely-inscribed by J. Ward, 1826, marbled wrappers, 4to, Murray's History of British India, London: T. Nelson and Son, 1853, map and plates, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, gilt extra, all edges gilt, 8vo, Watson's Theological Tracts, six-volume set, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University, et al., 1785, contemporary mottled calf, worn, chipped and split, but holding, 8vo, Blomfield's Life of Christ, Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809, plates, contemporary mottled calf, 4to, Knight's Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, first edition, 1837, defective contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, The Jolly Angler, seventh edition, n.d. [c. 1850], cloth, 8vo, Stamford's Map of Africa, n.d. [19th c], original cloth boards, British India & the Raj, a photograph album of 10 b/w photographic prints, c. 1935, mostly Delhi, contemporary polychrome-decorated lacquer boards, cloth back, oblong folio, etc

Travel. Willyams (The Rev. Cooper, A.M., et al.), A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, One of the Squadron Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. [...]. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798 [...], first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White, 1802, complete, pp: xxiii, [1] (errata), 309; illustrated with 43 plates as called for, mostly executed in sepia, including an engraved dedication leaf to Admiral Lord St. Vincent (Willyams' patron), a map of the Mediterranean, and a plan of the Battle of the Nile, very good ex-library copy, ink numbers to verso of title and dedication and blind-stamps (inoffensive), mostly marginal but within image of around 18 plates, else generally clean with some occasional spotting or light staining, small repair to inner margin of title, 20th century quarter-calf gilt over cloth, preserving an earlier gilt-lettered label, contemporary marbled edges, royal folio (49cm x 35.5cm), [Abbey, Travel, 196; Blackmer 1813] Provenance: Bath Public Library, The Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles bequest 1920; bookplate to pastedown, their blindstamps within as catalogued.

Horse Racing. Cook (Theodore A.), A History of the English Turf. With Illustrations, three-volume set as six, London: Virtue and Company, 1901, original Art Nouveau pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, folio (31.5 x 26cm), (6)

Phillipps MS 17606: The Tattersall family of Gatton, Surrey, [10]ff of MS legal documents, dated from 1768, and stemming from the contested will of James Maud (d. 1769), a wealthy London wine merchant, whose daughter Mary (d. 1800) married the Rev. John Tattersall (? d. 1768/69), and includes a long opinion by Alexander Wedderburn MP (1733-1805), later Lord Chancellor and created first Earl of Rosslyn, probably in a secretarial hand, 'signed' from Lincolns Inn and dated 16th April 1770, 19th c ?Middle Hill papered boards, chipped, loosening, foolscap folio (34 x 21.5cm), [&] a Victorian Royal Navy officer's minute book, dated 30th April 1870 to 27th November 1880, [26]ff only, with 10 pieces of bound-in connected ephemera, the manuscript being transcripts of directions from the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard, Deptford, and some from the Admiralty, contemporary hessian over reverse calf boards, worn and split, but holding, foolscap folio (32 x 20.6cm), (2) Provenance: 1st: Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliomaniac who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, whose dispersal, following his death, took over 100 years. The first leaf typically inscribed in ink manuscript: Phillipps MS/17606; further numbered 17606 Phi in pencil.

Folio Society. Approximately 59 volumes, including Thomas Hardy's works, some Dickens, Perrault's Fairy Tales illustrated by Dulac, 1998, etc., original decorative cloth and part-cloth binding, some slipcases, mixed sizes

The Peninsular War. Papers Relative to Spain and Portugal. [London]: [Printed by Order of the House of Commons], 1810, various pagings, c. 370pp, contemporary russia calf gilt over papered boards, blue-speckled edges, folio (35 x 21.5cm) Provenance: Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), armorial binding, his supralibros blocked in blind on each cover, (Toronto Armorial, Stamp 5)

Local Interest. Deering (Charles, M.D.), Nottinghamia vetus et nova, or an Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham [...], first edition, Nottingham: Printed by and for, George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751, lacking title, otherwise unexamined, contemporary reverse calf, split and repaired, 4to, two Nottingham election Poll Books, Nottingham: R. Sutton, 1830 & 1855, some repairs and institutional stamps, 20th c morocco over cloth, 12mo in 6s, [India & the 1857 Mutiny] Meek (The Rev. Robert, of Sutton Bonington), The Martyr of Allahabad, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1857, portrait frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, some blind-stamps, 8vo, three volumes of Robin Hood's Garlands, 1792, 1800 and n.d. [c. 1800], each chapbook defective &/or repaired, cloth, mixed sizes, Creswell's History of Printing, 1863, original wrappers, repaired, 4to, two of Sir Joseph Bright's scrapbooks of newspaper, journal and periodical clippings, c. 1890, repaired contemporary bindings, 4to, Terrier of the Chamber & Bridge Estates, Corporation of Nottingham, 1871, contemporary floppy roan, oblong folio (33.5 x 44cm), Pendock Barry Barry versus James Butlin, 1836, defective, lacking all prelims, unexamined thereafter, 20th c black cloth, folio (45 x 28.5cm), two volumes of Chaworth's Hunting Songs & Poems, the Belvoir Hunt, Sherwood Gazetteer volume I, some local imprints, etc,. (24) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.

[Bernard of Clairvaux], Sancti Bernardi abbatis primi Clarae-Vallensis Opera [...], six-volume set bound as two, Venetiis: apud Angelum Pasinellum, 1750, volume I with half-title, allegorical title-page vignettes engraved by Zucchi, printed in double-columns, contemporary Venetian vellum over boards, lightly chipped and soiled, but sound, marbled edges, folio (40.2 x 28cm), (2)

Shakespeare. Approximately 120 volumes by or about, 19th c and later, including The Works, twelve-volume set, London: George Newnes, 1896, original cloth, 12mo, ['Miniature Book'], Pocket Portrait Shakespeare, eight-volume set, Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, n.d., original claret limp roan gilt, all edges gilt, worn original case, 16mo, [Binding], Campbell's Shakespeare, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862, finely bound in blue morocco gilt, the covers blocked with the bard's arms, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Macpherson (John, illustrator) & Fleay (Frederick Gard), The Land of Shakespeare, London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited, n.d. [c. 1880/90], lacking all the large format etched plates, original brown morocco gilt, stained and tired, bowed and split, rubbed and other losses, folio (49.5 x 36.5cm), The Norton Facsimile, 1996, faux leather over pictorial boards, folio, Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare, London: Aldine House, 1898, original pictorial cloth, 4to, eight Folio Society imprints of his plays, original decorative cloth, 8vo, Virtue's Shakespeare Gallery, n.d., illustrated with steel engravings, original cloth, rubbed, split and bumped corners, folio (45 x 34cm), 21 Shakespeare's Globe First Folio facsimiles, mixed dates, original faux morocco over black papered boards, gilt, folio, etc

Food and Drink in Early 19th c Yorkshire. The Harrisons of Tibthorpe's manuscript accounts, presumably grocers or provision merchants, dated July 21st, 1827 to April 14th, 1830, approx. [27]ff only, verso with [14]ff of mercantile arithmetic by Master John Harrison of Hull, contemporary vellum, blind-ruled borders, split and loosening, but OK contents, foolscap folio (41.5 x 17cm)

British India & the Raj. Papers Relating to the Survey Operations in the Province of Rohilcund, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1850], contemporary quarter-cloth, 8vo, Roe (Arthur Charles) & Rattigan (H.A.B.), Tribal Law in the Punjab [...], Lahore: Printed at the Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1895, original cloth, split, 8vo, Orders of the Government, U.P. of Agra and Oudh, volume II only, Allahabad: United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Government Press, 1902, contemporary quarter-cloth over decorative papered boards, split, 8vo, The Electoral Conest at Lucknow, Lucknow: G.P. Varma & Brother's Press, 1893, original wrappers, 8vo, First Report/Indian Territories (1853), Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, May 1853, some prelims loose, otherwise unexamined, slightly later cloth, original wrappers bound-in, folio, Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Province, Agra: Printed at the Secundra Orphan Press, c. 1865, various parts, defective, cloth, 8vo, Karim (Abdul), Corpus of the Muslim Coins of Bengal (Down to A.D. 1538), Dacca, 1960, original wrappers, 8vo, other Indian imprints, Hindi language, pamphlets, etc., (approx. 18) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Some titles with worming.

Textiles & Fashion. Teacher's Equipment 29406, dated 1914, a working dressmaker's needlework specimen didactic, dated 1914, [4]ff linen-backed and 'illustrated' with 10 tailored clothes samples, annotated with tacked-on manuscript notes, 4 loosely-inserted further textile scraps, further loosely-inserted manuscript diagrams, limp moiré covers, sunned, ties en suite, oblong folio (39 x 51.5cm) Provenance: the collection of Sally Tuffin (b. 1938), "Youthquake" fashion designer of the eponymous Foale and Tuffin.

British India and the Raj. Report on the Scarcity and Relief Operations in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, During the Years 1877-1878 and 1879, sole edition, Allahabad: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1880, original publisher's cloth over printed papered boards, worn, losses, tape repairs, folio, Husain (Chaudhri Wajid, Deputy Collector, Kheri), The Famine Campaign in the United Provinces (1907-1908), Lucknow: Printed by M.L. Bhargava at the Newul Kishore Press, 1909, original publisher's cloth, wormed losses, folio, Selections from the Records of the Government, North-West Provinces. Mr. Thomason's Desptaches, volume I only, Allahabad: Re-Printed at the Government Press, 1868, defective title-page, otherwise unexamined, fragmentary original cloth, 8vo, The Co-Operative Credit Movement in India, [being] Indian Citizen Series No. 1, Calcutta: Rai. M.C. Sarcar Bahadur & Sons, 1914, original wrappers, disbound, 8vo, two Reports of the Operations of the Famine Charitable Relief Fund, for 1908 and 1909 & 1914 and 1915, Allahabad: Pioneer Press, 1909 & 1915, original wrappers, 1909 binding defective and disbound, small folio, Roe's Customary Law of the Multan Distract, volume XVIII, Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1901, original wrappers, worn, 8vo, Bengal Social Science Association, n.d. [c. 1868], lacking title-page and any further imprint details, otherwise unexamined, contemporary cloth, 8vo, Bombay Gazetteer, Volume IX: Part II. Gujarát Population: Musalmans (sic, Muslims) and Parsis, Bomaby: Government Central Press, 1899, contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, (9) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Some titles with worming.

Equatorial Africa, Anthropology and Language. [4]ff of foolscap folio, n.d. [early 20th c; a manuscript note suggests c. 1916], being sheets of translations from English into their equivalent tribal language/dialect, including Maka/Makaa, Njem/Njyem, and other tribes in and around Cameroon, a 1pp typed account of certain customs, a pen-and-ink map, 7.5 x 15cm, etc

[Wood (Anthony à)], Athenæ Oxonienses, An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in The most ancient and famous University of Oxford [...], two-volume set bound as one, first editions, London: Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1691-92, separate black-ruled title-pages printed in red and black, the text in double-columns, each volume with its respective index, volume II with subscription list, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, some losses, reinforced recto and verso gutters, stiffening first and last leaves somewhat, flyleaf and second title with 20th century ink MS ownership inscriptions, folio (41 x 27cm), [Wing W3382 & W3383]