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Lawrence (T.E.). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, The Complete 1922 Text, 3 vols. (inc. plate vol.), pub. Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, 1997, plate volume containing col. and b & w plts., text vols. in orig. qtr. cloth and plate vol. in orig. limp cloth, all in d.j.s., contained together in orig. slipcase, small folio, (limited ed. 640/752), together with T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926, edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson, vol. 1 (of 3), Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, 2000, b & w port. frontis., t.e.g., orig. cloth in d.j., small folio, (limited ed. of 702 copies printed), plus T.E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Henry Williamson, edited by Peter Wilson, pub. Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, 2000, b & w port. frontis., t.e.g., orig. cloth in d.j. and publisher’s tissue wrapping paper, small folio, (limited ed. 327/702) (5)

Marcoy (Paul). A Journey across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vols., 1874, title and half title, lacking portrait frontis. (?), ten lithographic maps (complete as list), numerous wood engravings to text and throughout, occ. marginal finger soiling, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and frayed at extrems., folio (2)

Martin (R. Montgomery). The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, pub. John Tallis & Company, 1851, eng. frontis. of The Great Exhibition with some staining and spotting, addn. dec. title page and contents list, eighty-one dec. eng. maps with orig. outline colouring and two “comparison” plates of waterfalls, rivers and mountains (complete as list), some marginal finger soiling and occ. spotting throughout, one map (Ireland) and its page of descriptive text with closed tear affecting image, crudely repaired on verso with sellotape, one page of text torn with slight loss, near contemp. owners ink manuscript signature to front paste down, later owners biro manuscript signature and address to first free end paper, contemp. half morocco gilt, worn and rubbed, folio (1)

Ongania (Ferd., editor). Calli e Canali in Venezia, pub. Venice, 1891-92, 100 photogravure plts. of views in Venice (complete), some spotting, staining and marginal fraying, but largely confined to margins, orig. printed paper wrappers and frontispieces with marginal fraying and occ. loss, but contents loose and disbound, folio (100)

Persian Gulf. Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1901-1902, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1902, 118pp., some light browning and occ. scattered spotting, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slightly marked & rubbed, slim folio, together with Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1902-1903, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1903, 57pp., some light browning and small worm holes to upper outer corners, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slightly worn and dampstained, slim folio, with Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1903-1904, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1904, 66pp., some browning and sewing broken, orig. printed upper wrapper, slim folio, with Persian Gulf Gazetteer. Part I., Historical and Political Materials, Precis of Koweit Affairs, 1896-1904, [G. C. Press, Simla, 1904], 112pp., ink library stamp of Govt. of India Foreign Office to title and final leaf, some light browning, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, upper board with ink library stamps of Govt. of India Foreign Office and British Embassy Bagdad and also paper label “Deputy Secretary’s Copy Calcutta and Simla”, cover attachment weak and some wear, slim folio, plus Ingrams (W.H.), Chronology & Genealogies of Zanzibar Rulers, printed by the Government Printer, Zanzibar, 1926, folding pedigrees, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slim folio. The Persian Gulf Reports include trade reports for the Pesian Gulf, Maskat, Mohammerah, Bunder Abbas and Bahrein. (5)

S.D.U.K. Maps of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vols. bound as one, pub. Charles Knight, 1848, title page and contents list, 160 engraved maps with orig. outline colouring (including several double page), some ink staining to first few leaves, several maps with marginal fraying and closed tears, some with crude repairs to verso, occ. water staining and spotting throughout, forty-eight eng. town plans with orig. outline colouring and six star charts with orig. hand colouring, gutta-percha perished, text block loose and broken, hinges and joints broken, contemp. half morocco gilt, worn and frayed, folio. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands, 2 vols., 2nd. ed., [1722], eng. portrait frontis., title pages printed in red & black, ten eng. plts. of antiquities, fifty uncoloured engraved maps, two maps with slight staining, occ. closed tears, slight off-setting to some maps, book plate of Arthur Kelly to front paste down, contemp. panelled calf gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio. Chubb CXV. (2)

Dugdale (William). The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated from Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes and Armes Beautified with Maps, Prospects and Portraictures, 1st. ed., 1656, eng. portrait frontis. title page printed in red & black, both excised, trimmed and laid on later paper, eng. county map with lower margin strengthened on verso, numerous eng. plts. and folding maps throughout, several pages torn with loss, some replaced with crude manuscript facsimile, several pages with crude strengthening to margins, occ. spotting and staining throughout, front end papers water stained, later calf gilt, rubbed and worn, folio. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Small (David). By-Gone Glasgow, Sketches of Vanished Corners in the City and Suburbs, Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1896, forty litho. plts. (complete), b&w illusts. to text, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, with gilt panel to upper cover, slightly rubbed, folio (1)

Wiltshire. Domesday Book Studies. The Wiltshire Domesday, 3 vols., pub. Alecto Historical Editions, 1987-89, large folding map, b & w illusts. and facsimile leaves, orig. qtr. buckram, folio, contained in original book-box, (limited edition 386/1000), together with Victoria County History series, Wiltshire, Oxford University Press, 1975, b & w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, with other Wiltshire and genealogy related etc. including Wiltshire Record Society publications and WANHS journals, plus Domesday Book, Facsimile of the Original Domesday Book..., with Translation by General Plantagenet-Harrison, Middlesex vol., 1876, facsimile leaves, hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, slim folio (approx. 20)

Audubon (John James). The Birds of America. A Selection of Plates, Facsimile, Edition, Ariel Press, 1972, twenty life-size colour plates, two excised for framing and now loosely inserted, minor creasing to title and front endpapers, orig. half cloth over printed boards, some minor soiling and marks, elephant folio. Limited ed., 671/750 from a total edition of 1, 000 copies, signed by the director of Ariel Press. A second volume also containing twenty colour plates was issued the following year. (1)

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very Much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London, printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633, eng. architectural title, numerous botanical woodcut illusts. throughout (one with faint watercolour), woodcut dec. initials, head & tail-pieces, bound without blank at front and rear as often, marbled endpapers with later cloth hinges, 18th diced calf, 20th c. brown morocco reback with gilt title and date to spine, board corners repaired, board edges slightly rubbed, thick folio. A handsome, clean and crisp copy of the 2nd edition of John Gerard’s Herbal, 1st published in 1579. STC 11751. (1)

Hetley (Mrs. Charles). The Native Flowers of New Zealand Illustrated in Colours, 1st ed., 1888, thirty-six full-page chromos. with tissue guards, recent cloth gilt, folio Formerly in the collection of Sir Henry Parkes, and housed in the Chief Secretary’s department of New South Wales until 1956, with unobtrusive circular ink stamp to upper corner of title, dedication leaf and index leaf. (1)

Hill (John). A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World..., 3 vols., 1748-52, half titles, folding letterpress table (minor tear), 56 engraved plates (complete), occasional light spotting and browning, modern half calf, slightly rubbed, folio. Freeman 1672; Nissen 1939. (3)

Houghton (Rev. W.). British Fresh-Water Fishes, 2 vols., pub. William Mackenzie, [1879], forty-one fine chromo. plts., wood engs. to text, contents in clean condition, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, very sl. rubbed, folio (1)

Scott (John). The Sportsman’s Album, Comprising a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports. From Original Paintings by Stubbs, Gilpin. Reinagle, Marshall, and Cooper, c. 1888, half title, additional title (from 1820 edition), 40 b & w plates, a few light spots, t.e.g., original boards, rubbed and discoloured, folio, together with The Life of a Sportsman, by Numrod, 1901, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (2)

Tegetmeier (W.B.). The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breeding and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry... New ed., Routledge, 1873, addn. col. title, frontis., and twenty-eight plts. by Harrison Weir, printed in cols. by Leighton Brothers, contemp. qtr. straight grained morocco, spine strip lacking, rubbed, large 8vo, together with Miles (W. J.), Modern Practical Farriery, a Complete System of the Veterinary Art..., n.d., c. 1870’s, num. col. and b&w illusts., contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear to upper cover, rubbed, folio (2)

Tegetmeier (W.B.). Pheasants for Coverts and Avaries, 1873, inscribed on title page “FW Frohawk from TWB Tegetmeier, 1902”, addn. inscribed across title “The Field, 346, Strand”, 1.5 inch tear to head of title, authors annotations and corrections to text, b&w illusts. throughout, first and last few leaves detached, orig. gilt dec. cloth, worn and dampstained, folio, together with The Natural History of the Cranes, 1881, col. and b&w plts., incl. one folding, small tape repair and split to folds, 20th c. boards gilt, some rubbing, 8vo (2)

Willoughby (Francis). Ornithologiae libri tres: in quibus aves omnes hactenus cognitae in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactae accurate describuntur, ..., ed. John Ray, 1st ed., John Martyn, 1676, imprimatur, title printed in red and black within ruled border, with eng. coat-of-arms, errata leaf, two folding tables and seventy-seven eng. plts. (complete), minor scattered worming to lower blank margin throughout, not affecting text or plates, contents partly broken with one or two leaves loose, occn. minor foxing and marks to margins, contemp. mottled calf, later reback, rubbed and a little wear to extrems., folio (410 x 250mm) Nissen IVB 991; Anker 532, Wing W2879. Zimmer, p. 677. Willoughby’s Ornithological Treatise, “the first systematic classification of the birds of the world” [Wood] was published with the assistance of his friend John Ray, and funded by the author’s widow Emma. This copy is the so-called “widow’s edition”, with Emma Willoughby’s name and her husband’s coat-of-arms printed on the title page. (1)

* Natural History. A collection of approx. 100 chromolithographic plates from The Garden, c. 1880-1900, together approx. 100 chromoplates, all disbound and loose, together with a collection of reproduction colour prints of natural history subjects, mostly published by Ariel Press, 1960s-70s, including Redoute Roses, Gould, tropical birds, etc. (approx. 110 plates in all), plus Birket Foster’s Pictures of English Landscape, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, India Proofs, pub. George Routledge, [1881], orig. parchment gilt, rubbed and some marks, folio, limited ed. 463/1000 (approx. 210)

London Chronicle. Saturday 30th December 1797 to 30th June 1798, nos. 6059-6136 bound as one, triple-column text, ink duty stamps throughout, continuously paginated at head, occ. spotting or browning and a little worming to lower inner margin of leaves at rear, contemp. half sheep, some wear, folio (1)

Britten (Benjamin, 1913-76). Billy Budd, An Opera in Four Acts, Libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville, vocal score by Erwin Stein, pub. Hawkes & Son, c. 1954, 348 pp., with some leaves replaced with revised score in photostat, and pencil annotations and crossings out, inscribed in blue ink by Benjamin Britten to the conductor Paul Reding to title page “For Paul Reding with many thanks & every good wish Camden Theatre Nov. 1960. Benjamin Britten”, orig. printed upper wrapper only (backstrip def. and rear cover missing), folio. Britten’s Billy Budd was first performed at Covent Garden in December 1951, but the work was significantly revised by the composer in 1960, prior to a BBC broadcast. The present score may well be a copy with the revised portions inserted, for use at this time. (1)

Scrap albums. Two 19th century scrap albums, containing numerous pencil drawings, watercolours, engravings, lithographs and etchings, including British and foreign topographical views, domestic animals, genre, classical, sporting, natural history, cartoons and portraits, one album with several images excised, occ. spotting and staining, folio (2)

* Victorian autograph album. An album containing approx. 130 mounted autograph specimens from the 18th and 19th c., signatures include officials and politicians plus landed gentry, a mixture of cut signatures and some letters including third party unsigned letters, mostly 1800 and later, mounted to album leaf rectos only, mostly in multiples of two or three, contemp. buff calf, joints cracked and some wear, folio (1)

Bible [English]. An Illustration of the Holy Bible, Containing the Sacred Texts of the Old Testament, and the New; together with the Apocrypha..., Birmingham: printed by Boden & Adams, 1769, general title with slight loss to fore-edge margin (title repaired and lined to both sides with archival tissue), New Testament title printed in red & black and with imprint ÒBirmingham: printed at the Verulam Press, by N. Boden and T. Appleby, 1770Ó, few eng. plts., endpapers renewed, 20th c. brown morocco with orig. blind panelled calf board leather relaid and orig. red morocco title label to spine, folio (leaf size approx. 42 x 26cm) Herbert 1204 and Darlow & Moule 892. (1)

Bible [English]. The Bible that is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, [1612], eng. general title (close-trimmed) and letterpress New Testament title present, New Testament title dated 1611 and colophon dated 1612, full-page woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, woodcut illusts. to text, with ÒsheÓ reading in Ruth III, 15, bound with the Genealogies by John Speed, with woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve, woodcut genealogies (with few paper repairs mostly to margins) and double-page map (with short closed-tear to central fold at foot), bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front and incomplete Book of Psalms at rear (both with old paper repairs), some light dust-soiling and occ. dampstaining throughout, old family genealogies to endpapers, 18th c. blind panelled reversed calf, joints slightly cracked and minor wear to extrems., folio. Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, see Herbert 312, with ÒsheÓ reading in Ruth III, 15. (1)

Collins (John). The Chapter of Kings, pub. J. Harris, 1818, thirty-eight eng. leaves, incl. title, each with hand-col. illust., title soiled and laid down (with upper outer corner torn away), first few leaves with some edge-repairs, lightly toned, close-trimmed, just clipping page nos. in places and with loss of imprint on first text leaf, marbled endpapers, modern half calf, with portion of orig. printed wrappers mounted on covers (rubbed), 136 x 115mm (5.25 x 4.5 ins), together with The Nursery Library, containing I. The Travels of the Mole and the Bat. II. Squire Fox Went Out in a Hungry Plight. III. How Three Little Pigs Went to Market. IV. The Bears and the Bees, George Waterston, [1883], numerous col. plts., musical notation, red edges, orig. dec. cloth, dust-soiled, edges sl. rubbed in places, 4to, plus The Prince of Nursery Playmates, containing Seventy Four Nursery Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nursery Songs, Sampson Low, [1880], chromo. title-page (with tip of lower outer corner missing) and numerous full-page illusts. (one with 5Ó closed tear), endpapers renewed, orig. col. pictorial boards, with new cloth spine, covers with some surface loss and edges showing, folio, plus eight others, comprising The Struwwelpeter Alphabet, by Harold Begbie, 1900, five vols. with Kronheim plts., mostly defective, and two Leadenhall Press facsimiles (11)

Cowell (John). A Law Dictionary: Or the Interpreter of Words and Terms, Used in the Common or Statute Laws of Great Britain, and in Tenures and Jocular Customs, 1727, previous owner initials to title, dampstain, endpapers renewed, 20th c. calf-backed boards, slightly rubbed, folio, with a repaired 1815 copy of John Fox’s Book of Martyrs (2)

Froissart (Jean). Histoire et Chronique Memorable de Messire Jehan Froissart. Revev et Corrige sus Divers Exemplaires, et Suivant les bons avteurs, par Denis Sauuage de Fontenailles en Brie, Historiographe du Treschrestien Roy Henry deuxiesme de ce nom., 4 vols. in one, Paris: Michel de Roigny, 1574, printers woodcut device to each title, title to vol. 1 with inscription of the Jesuits at Lyon, 1681, (lined to verso), slight general toning and few marks, lacks front free end paper, hinges cracked, contemp. sheep with gilt dec. spine, joints cracked and weak, some loss of leather at head & foot of spine and to board corners etc., worn, folio. This issue not in Adams. Refer to Adams F1067 & F1068 for Jehan Ruelle and Michel Sonnius issues. (1)

Genebrard (Gilbert). Chronographia in duos libros distincta. Prior est de Rebus veteris Populi: Posterior recentes historias, praesert’mq; Ecclesiasticas complectitur, 2 parts in one, Paris, Martinum Iuuenem, 1567, printer’s woodcut device to each title and final leaf, few woodcut dec. initials, general title with very small hole and also library ink stamp to lower outer corner margin, occ. spotting and few marks mostly to margins, modern paper covered limp boards, slim folio. Adams G395. (1)

Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi libri novem, musarum nominibus inscripti, interprete lauren[totio] Val[la], Cologne, Eucharium Cervicornum, aere & impensa M. Godefridi Hittorpii, 1526, [28], 274 pp., main title with elaborate woodcut border, first leaf of main text with additional woodcut border, some damp marking to margins, mostly to lower inner margins to front and rear, old vellum, rubbed and some soiling and wear, folio. Adams lists only the edition of 1537 by the same publisher (Adams page 400). The woodcut title border depicts scenes from the legend of Hercules. (1)

Mornay (Philippe de). Mysterium Iniquitatis sev, Historia Papatus. Quibus Gradibus ad id Fastigii Enisus sit, quamque acriter omni tempore et ubique a piis contra intercessum. Asseruntur etiam jura Imperatorum, Regum, et Principum Christianorum adversus Bellarminum & Baronium Cardinales, Salmurii: Thomam Portaeum, 1611, eng. illust. to title (two small holes to one line of title repaired to verso), eng. port., some browning and spotting, inner hinges cracked, contemp. reddish brown vellum with blind embossed armorial to centre of each board surrounded by blind rollwork decoration, old calf reback, joints cracked and some wear, folio (1)

Papal Bulls. A collection of approx. twenty-five Papal Bulls, pub. 1567-1730, including, Breve Sanctis D.N. Pii V. Super declaratione Ordinum Mendicantium, Rome, 1567, ff.4, full-page woodcut illust., some browning and staining, 4to, bound with Indulgentiae, et Amplissimae Concessiones Perpetuae S.D.N.D. Pii Papapae V. pro omnibus Conventibus constructis, & de nouo construendis ordinis S. Dominici, in Provinciis Indiarum Occidentalium, 30 Oct., 1571, single-sheet broadside printed to one side only, woodcut illusts. at head, two library ink stamps, folio, bound with Santissimi D.N. D. Clementis Divina Providentia Papae X. Bulla Canonizationis S. Ludovici Bertrandi Ordinis Praedicatorum, Rome, 1674, 16pp., woodcut armorial to title and one illust. to text, library ink stamps throughout, 4to, bound with others similar including two in manuscript, mostly with library ink stamps, 18th c. vellum, marked and some wear, folio (1)

Perottus (Nicolaus). Cornucopiae Latinae Linguae. Hoc est, Ditissimum penu: unde omnia, quae in primis ad culturam in literis ingeniorum desyderari possunt, maxima & diligentia, & copia exponuntur, authore Nicolao Perotto..., Basel: Joannis Valderi, 1536, printer’s woodcut device to title and final leaf, dec. woodcut initials, some dampstaining to lower outer corners, near contemp. vellum with yapp fore-edges, folio (1)

Pocock (Edward). A Commentary on the Prophecy of Micah [& Malachi], 2 vols. in one, pub. Oxford, 1677, eng. illust. to title of each, some dampstaining and browning throughout, contemp. calf, upper board near detached, worn, folio (1)

Puysegur (Jacques Francois de Chastenet de). Art de la Guerre, par Principes et par Regles, 2 vols. bound in one, Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1748, fine eng. port. frontis. of the author by J. Daulle after R. Tourniere, first title with eng. vignette, eng. title to second part by Marvye after Babel, (41) folding and double-page eng. plates, several eng. culs-de-lampe after Cochin, a few minor marks (generally in clean condition), 19th c. ownership ink stamp to front blank of F. Veillon Colonel, marbled endpapers, contemp. mottled full calf, gilt dec. spine with large eng. coat of arms to centre of both covers, surmounted with ducal coronet and armorial supported by unicorns to either side, rubbed and some wear to joints and extrems. (upper joint partly split at foot), outer corners showing, large folio (435 x 295mm). Cohen-de Ricci 830. First edition of the Marquis de Puysegur’s important treatise, published posthumously by his son, in which the author expresses his universal theory of successful warfare, partly in opposition to the growing use of firearms. (1)

Helmont (Jan Baptista van). Ortus Medicinae, id est initia physicae inaudita progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem ad vitam longam, edente authoris filio Francisco Mercurio van Helmont, 4th ed., Lyon, Jean Baptiste Devenet, 1655, eng. title page by N. Auroux, text in double column, woodcut headpieces and initials, some damp staining and marks to inner margin, with minor worming at foot, bound with Opuscula Medica Inaudita, Lyon, 1655, some marginal foxing and minor waterstains, contemp. calf, rubbed and some wear, with upper joint partly cracked, folio. Osler 2929. Waller 4307. (1)

Beerbohm (Max). A Book of Caricatures, 1st ed., pub. Methuen, 1907, col. frontis. and forty-eight mounted b&w plates, captioned tissue-guard, contents partly loose (gutta-percha perished), t.e.g., orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and some fading, folio, together with Rothenstein (Will), Oxford Characters, 1896, twenty-four litho. plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some fading, folio. Limited ed. one of 200 copies. (2)

Cameron (Sir D.Y., illust.). The District of Menteith, by R.B. Cunninghame Graham, pub. Stirling, 1930, ten reprods. of wash drawings, inscribed by illustrator to front endpaper “To the Prime Minister, from D.Y.C., Christmas 1930”, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. calf gilt, leather label to upper cover, in worn d.j. (lacking spine), folio. Limited edition 228/250, signed by author and artist in ink to verso of half-title, with original signed etching as frontispiece. The British Prime Minster of the time was James Ramsay MacDonald. (1)

Constable (John). English Landscape Scenery: A Series of Forty Mezzotinto Engravings on Steel, by David Lucas, from pictures painted by John Constable, R.A., pub. Henry G. Bohn, 1855, forty b&w mezzotint plates, some scattered spotting to first few plates and occ. elsewhere, mostly to margins, contents partly loose (gutta-percha perished), a.e.g., contemp. red half morocco, gilt dec. spine, rubbed and scuffed with some wear, folio (1)

Raby (Julian & Tanindi, Zeren). Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century, 1st ed., Azimuth Editions on behalf of L”Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 1993, numerous col. plts. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, folio, (limited ed. of 1000 copies printed), together with Westwood (J.O.), The Art of Illuminated Manuscripts..., [facsimile of 1843 ed.], Bracken Books, 1988, numerous col. plts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, with Holme (Charles), The Art of the Book, A review of some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding, [reprint of 1914 ed.], pub. Studio Editions, 1990, b & w plts. and illusts., orig. boards in d.j., folio, with Cunha (George Martin), Conservation of Library Materials..., vol. 1 only, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1971, b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other printing and bookbinding related including The Bookbinder Journal, vols. 1-6, 1987-92 (20)

Wright (John Buckland). Surreal Times, The Abstract Engravings and Wartime Letters of John Buckland Wright, pub. Fleece Press, 2000, sixteen wood engs. from blocks & twelve tipped-in col. and b&w plts. (complete), orig. qtr. cloth gilt, in slipcase, folio (Limited ed. of 210 copies), together with Lee (Brian North), Dearest Joana, A Selection of Joan Hassall’s Lifetime Letters and Art, 2 vols., pub. Fleece Press, 2000, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. qtr. cloth, in slipcase, small folio, plus Smith (Clare Sydney), The Golden Reign, the Story of my Friendship with “Lawrence of Arabia”, pub. Fleece Press, 2004, b&w illusts. from photos throughout, orig. blue cloth, oblong 8vo (4)

Disney (Walt). Treasures of Disney Animation Art, Preface by Robert E. Abrams, Introduction by John Canemaker, New York, Abbeville Press, 1982, col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., oblong folio, together with The Disney Studio Story, by Richard Hollis and Brian Sibley, 1988, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. printed cloth in d.j., folio, plus Walt Disney’s Fantasia, by John Culhane, New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1983, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. print cloth gilt in d.j., folio, plus fifteen other Disney related (18)

Folio Society publications, 89 vols., pub. 1970s-90s, including Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples, Thomas Hardy, novels of the Bronte sisters, etc., mostly in slipcases, generally VG (89)

Folio Society, 68 vols., including History of England, 10 vols., Don Quixote, 2 vols., Democracy in America, The Folio Golden Treasury, Shakespeare, Surtees, Thurber and others, all orig. cloth, some with d.j., many with slipcase, G/VG (241)

Kemp (Dixon). Yacht Designing: A Treatise on the Practical Application of the Scientific Principles upon which is Based the Art of designing Yachts, 1876, half-title with ownership signature at head, numerous b & w plans (many folding), two advert leaves at rear, orig. cloth gilt, joints and extrems. frayed and worn, loss at foot of spine, folio, together with Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of Bodies moving in Water; Propulsion by Steam and Sail; Yacht Designing: and Yacht Building, 3rd ed., 1897, numerous col. and b & w plans (many folding), some fraying to edges, hinges worn and weak, orig. cloth, rubbed to extrems., thick 8vo, with Manual of Yacht & Boat Sailing, plate vol. only, 8th ed., [1895], lacks title-page, numerous b & w folding plans, some fraying to edges, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and slightly worn, folio (3)

Nance (R. Morton). Sailing-Ship Models, a Selection from European and American Collections, 1924, b&w plts and illusts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, folio, together with Chatterton (E. Keble), Steamship Models, 1924, col. and b&w plts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, folio, plus Parker (Captain H. & Bowen, Frank C.), Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century, 1928, col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth, rubbed, folio, plus three others, comprising, Pumps and Pump Motors, by Philip R. Bjorling, 2 vols., 1895 & Sailing Ships of War 1800-1860, by Sir Alan Moore, 1926, all ex-lib. copies with usual marking, ink stamps to plts., lib. marks to spines etc. (6)

Meteyard (Eliza). Wedgwood and His Works. A Selection of Plaques, Cameos, Medallions, Vases, etc. from the Designs of Flaxman and others, 1873, b & w photographic plates, minor foxing, orig. cloth gilt, recased with orig. spine laid down, folio, together with Hodgkin (John Eliot and Edith), Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated, and Inscribed, 1891, col. frontis., tinted illusts. to text, t.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed, large 4to, plus Drake (Maurice), A History of English Glass-Painting, 1912, col. frontis., b & w plts., orig. boards, a little rubbed and marked, folio, and other antiques reference, including Hartshorne, Old English Glasses, Oman, English Church Plate, 597-1830, etc. (a carton)

Heywood (V.H., Brummitt, R.K., and others). Flowering Plant Families of the World, pub. Kew, 2007, num. col. illusts., orig. boards in d.j., folio, together with The Review of Applied Mycology, vols. 1-39, a run, 1922-60, uniform quarter tan morocco with contrasting title label, 8vo, with other miscellaneous books, mostly natural history and botany (6 shelves)

Mezeray (Francois Eudes, Sieur de). A General Chronological History of France..., 3 vols. in one, 1st English ed., 1683, eng. frontis. (with some offsetting to title), continuous pagination throughout, inner margin of title slightly torn, some slight worming to fore-edge margins, contemp. calf with 19th c. marbled paper to boards, joints cracked and weak, some wear, folio, together with Froissart (Jean), Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries..., 13 vols. (inc. plate vol.), 3rd ed., 1808, text vols. with few marks, contemp. calf gilt, some joints cracked, weak and few boards detached, some title labels lacking, 8vo, plate volume with eng. map and fifty-seven aquatint plts. each with closed tears and lined to verso, 19th c. half calf, joints and extrems. rubbed and slightly worn, 4to, and Monstrelet (Enguerrand de), The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet..., 13 vols. (inc. plate vol.), 1810, text vols. in contemp. calf gilt, some labels lacking, some joints cracked and weak etc., 8vo, plate volume contains fifty eng. plts., each with closed-tears and lined to verso, 19th c. half calf, rubbed and some wear, 4to, plus other 17th-19th c. antiquarian. Provenance Pinckney family of Dinton, Wiltshire. (3 shelves)

Folio Society publications, 76 vols., all orig. cloth in slipcase, VG (3 shelves)

Knight (Charles, publisher). The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 2 vols., n.d., [1856-58], col. frontis. to each, num. wood-engs., contemp. half calf gilt, some wear to spines, folio, together with Yarrell (William), A History of British Birds, 4 vols., 4th ed., revised and enlarged by Alfred Newton, 1871-84, num. wood-engs. to text, orig. cloth gilt, minor shelf wear to head and foot of spines, 8vo, with other miscellaneous natural history, including ornithology, fishing, field sports, etc. (6 shelves)

Brinkley (Captain F., ed.). Japan Described and Illustrated, 15 parts (complete), Boston, [1897-98], b & w illusts. from photos, each section with one col. collotype and mounted hand-col. albumen prints, 20 x 25cm, orig. printed wrappers, some wear and several wrappers deficient, folio (15)

* India. A group of twenty-four mounted albumen prints, c. 1870s and later, mostly approx. 20 x 25cm and similar, some mounted back to back, together with an album containing twenty-three mounted gelatin silver print and albumen print views of India and Burma, c. 1890s, many views and scenes in and around Naini Tal, a few family group portraits and one loose leaf with two images of Burmese interest, approx. 15 x 20cm and similar, some spotting and soiling throughout, six photos loosely inserted, contemp. half morocco, covers detached and spine deficient, oblong folio (approx. 30)

* India. An album of mounted albumen prints compiled by F[rederick] Nowell while serving the Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava during their viceregal life in India, 1884-89, a total of 115 photographs mounted in pairs and back to back on twenty-nine leaves, subjects include group portraits of viceregal regal hunting parties with elephants, the viceregal households, interiors and exteriors, street views, etc., all neatly captioned on mounts beneath and including identification of many of the British people including Nowell himself, one photograph of the front hall of the new viceregal residence in Simla, 1888, identified by Nowell as taken by the photographer [James] Craddock (mounted as a single photograph, pencil marks to surface), approx. thirty other photographs with four-digit negative numbers, probably Lala Deen Dayal, and a few with the initials DD and the final photograph in the album of the Begums” Bhopal State elephants signed in the negative, images mostly approx. 20 x 26cm and similar, tones varied but most with some marginal fading, some spotting and occ. brittling of mounts, Nowell’s dated ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco, broken and lacking backstrip, tall folio. Captions include Viceroy and his elephant; Viceroy’s shooting party in Nepaul, Sweepers and ayahs; Lord Beresford and elephant; Sir D. Wallace and elephant; The morning sport; The largest elephant in India; Council group 1886; View of Simla; English mail just starting; Kennedy House, Simla; Cotton and Morris, Simla; Group of native women at Sipi; Sipi fair - Groups of native girls; Viceregal household; Bodyguard; The fete for the Ripon hospital; Delhi fort; The Taj, Agra; Palace, Jeypore; Gold and silver guns, Baroda; Ahamedabad; Street in Bombay; Elephanta Caves, Bombay; Rajah’s Palace at Odeypore; View of Ajmere; Street in Bhurtpore; Carvings on Hindu Temple; Military secretary’s office and hospital staff; Street in Bombay; Cooks and coolies; Bhislies and sweepers.. Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, first Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902) married Hariot Georgina (nee Rowan-Hamilton) (1843-1936) in 1862. Dufferin (diplomatist) was nominated viceroy of India in 1884 on the retirement of Lord Ripon. Lady Dufferin’s journal was published by John Murray in 1889 under the title, “Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from my Journal 1884-1888”. The book is illustrated only with a portrait frontispiece of Lady Dufferin and a map. Dufferin’s correspondence relating to India is held by the British Library, with archives of further material held at the British Library, the Bodleian, Oxford, Public Record Office, etc. See Dictionary of National Biography for further information. (1)

* India. An album containing seventeen albumen prints on twelve leaves, c. 1880s, images captioned on the mount and include images from Bombay of the Yacht Club, a street scene, Victoria Terminus, Fancy Fair, Secretariat, native houses, Maidan, Queen’s Statue, Town Hall, Back Bay (faded and with surface damage), Sailors” Home, and Thalbadavie Road, plus Elephanta Caves, Temples at Nassuk, group portrait of a hill tribe and Bund Gardens in Poona, mostly approx. 20 x 28cm and similar, the album containing a further twelve leaves of mostly European images including ten of similar size relating to Venice, tones variable and some spotting throughout, contemp. half morocco, covers det. and backstrip def., oblong folio (1)

* Japan. An album of forty-eight mounted albumen prints, c. 1890, hand tinted in the negative with numbered English captions in the negative, subjects include temples, building, street scenes and people, 20 x 25cm, some browning and brittling of mounts, contemp. Japanese lacquered boards with leather spine and mother of pearl onlays, some damage, oblong folio (1)

* Japan. A pair of albums containing approx. 100 mounted albumen prints, late 19th c., the majority hand-coloured in the negative and with printed captions to mounts, including buildings and views, approx. 20 x 25cm but including thirty-five small format images including portraits, mounted back to back throughout both albums, contemp. cloth and pictorial lacquered boards, worn, 4to/oblong folio, plus a Japanese book containing b&w colotype views of Japan (3)

* Middle East. An album containing twenty-one mounted studio portraits of Arab men and women, late 19th c., mostly single subject touristic portraits of women, the majority identified as being taken by Arnoux with French captions and negative number, mounted to album rectos, approx. 22 x 28cm or the reverse, plus approx. forty smaller format unrelated images towards rear, contemp. morocco, rubbed and sl. wear, folio (1)

* Middle East. An album containing fifty-four mounted albumen prints, late 19th c., mostly identified as the photographer H. Arnoux in the negative, and including views in Cairo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, and including some views of the pyramids, etc., all somewhat faded, mostly captioned in the negative and identified in English on mounts beneath, approx. 22 x 28cm and similar, mounted back to back on stiff leaves, some spotting throughout, contemp. morocco, rubbed, oblong folio (1)