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Speed (John). John Speed’s England. A Coloured Facsimile of the Maps and Text from the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine First Edition, 1611, 4 vols., Edited by John Arlott, pub. Phoenix House Limited, 1953, forty-one colour printed maps, with English text on verso, orig. pubs. half cloth with printed label to upper board, each contained in comtemp. slip case, slight rubbing at extrems., folio (4)

Tanner (Thomas). Notitia Monastica; Or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories and Houses of Friers, Formerly in England and Wales. And Also of all the Colleges and Hospitals Founded Before A.D. MDXL... And Now Reprinted by James Nasmith, Cambridge, 1787, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and remounted), three engraved plates of armorials, scattered light spots, bookplate, a.e.g., early 20th c. full tan morocco by Riviere, covers with panelled rolls enclosed by ornaments and corner tools, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, some light fading, folio. (1)

Thoresby (Ralph). Ducatus Leodiensis: Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York, 1715, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved folding map, eleven engraved plates, some light browning and scattered spots, 20th c. brown full morocco, slightly rubbed, folio. (1)

[Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, Alphabetically Digested, of all the Cities, Market-towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath..., or other Division of each County..., 1690, some browning, modern qtr. calf, folio, together with Miller (Philip), The Gardeners Dictionary..., 3rd ed., 1737, eng. frontis. (torn with loss & lined to verso), two eng. plts., prelims. incomplete and appendix lacks all after D2, some light damp staining and marginal fraying, modern qtr. calf, folio, plus one other. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (3)

Sander (Henry Frederick Conrad). Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, Volume 1, Second Series, St. Albans, 1892, forty-eight chromo. plts. heightened with gum arabic, two plts. with tissue guard adhered, and approx. twelve plts. with small traces of tissue guard adhered, text illusts., half-title, text in English, French, and German, two text leaves and two plates detached (with consequent edge-fraying to former, and a few marginal nicks to one of the plts.), marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. maroon half morocco gilt, rubbed, folio. Nissen 1722. Provenance - see following lot. (1)

Sander (Henry Frederick Conrad). Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, Volume 1, First Series, St. Albans, 1888, forty-eight chromo. plts. heightened with gum arabic, after drawings by Henry G. Moon and others, approx. five plts. with small traces of tissue guard adhered, letterpress illusts., half-title, text in English, French, and German, re-guarded throughout, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. green morocco gilt, some rubbing and marks, folio. Nissen 1722. Inscribed on the dedication leaf: `J. Whillans with compl. from F. Sander’. Provenance: given to the vendor’s great grandfather, Thomas Whillans, while he was Head Gardener for the ninth Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, between 1886 and 1904. Sander’s `Reichenbachia’ (named after celebrated orchidologist Heinreich Gustav Reichenbach) is one of the most celebrated and gloriously illustrated books on orchids ever produced. The care lavished on the project was enormous: Sander had twenty orchid collectors working simultaneously in Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Madagascar, New Guinea, Burma and Malaya; and the blocks for the plates were hand-made from wood, with as many as twenty inks used in the production of the chromolithographs. The overall cost to Sander was said to have been well over £7, 000, and he often remarked in later years that the project nearly ruined him. (1)

Sitwell (Sacheverell, Buchanan, Handasyde, & Fisher, James). Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, pub. Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953, coloured and b & w plates, one or two light spots, original red half morocco, rubbed slipacse, folio. Limited edition, 235/295, signed by the authors.. (1)

London. Rocque (John), An Exact Survey of the City’s of London Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country near ten miles round begun in 1741 & ended in 1745, facsimile ed. pub. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle 1971, ornate title page, introduction by James Howgego, half-title, key map and sixteen b & w map sheets, pubs. orig. printed card wrappers, oblong folio, together with, Ogilby (John), A Large and Accurate map of the City of London, facsimile ed. pub. 1894, twenty-one b & w map sheets, slight dust soiling, each sheet approx. 435 x 560mm, with, Donn (Benjamin), A Map of the County of Devon, 1765, facsimile ed. pub. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1965, numerous b & w map sheets, several folding, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, d.j. frayed and torn, large 4to, with, Bowen (Emanuel & Kitchin Thomas), The Royal English Atlas [1763], facsimile ed. pub. David & Charles, 1971, numerous b & w maps, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, d.j. with small closed tear, folio, with two other facsimile atlases and two large portfolios of reproduction maps of Portsmouth and Southampton, various sizes and condition (8)

Ordnance Survey. Country Around Faringdon, 1887, engraved map with original outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, from Charlbury in the North to Swindon in the South and from Oxford in the East to Cirencester in the West, slight marginal staining, 680 x 980mm, contemp. red morocco gilt boards with gilt title and later label to upper board, together with Dorset, 1811, uncoloured engraved map of the country around Sherbourne, 630 x 795mm, with, Smith (C.), A New Map of the County of Devon Divided into its Hundreds, Jan. 6th. 1804, engraved map sectionalised and laid on linen, original hand colouring, 450 x 495mm, contemp. printers label to end paper, contained in near contemp. card slip case with printed label at foot, with, Hickman and Kinch (pubs.), A Guide to Henley-on-Thames and its Vicinity, 1850, contemp. manuscript ownership inscriptions to front paste down and first free end paper, hinges weak, contemp. cloth gilt, worn and faded, 8vo, with, Rocque (John), A Topographical Map of the County of Berks, by John Rocque, Topographer to his Majesty, 1761, facsimile ed. pub. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, 1973, dec. folding title page, half title, general map of Berkshire with inset town plan of Oxford & eighteen folding map sheets, pubs. cloth boards with printed label to upper board, folio (5)

Oxfordshire. Davis (Richard), A New Map of the County of Oxford from an Actual Survey; on which are Delineated the Course of the Rivers and Roads, the Parks, Gentlemens Seats, Heaths, Woods, Forests, Commons &c. &c., pub. John Cary, 1797, title page signed by Richard Davis and numbered 86 in upper left corner, key map of Oxfordshire with original hand colouring and inset b & w town plan of Oxford, sixteen map sheets (including title page) all with original hand colouring, some water staining and slight off setting, each sheet approx. 690 x 510mm, new end papers, modern half calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, slim folio. All the subscribers copies of this map were signed and numbered by Davies. The highest number recorded is 159 suggesting an initial print run of less than 200 copies. This detailed and accurate map of Oxfordshire with its fine town plan of Oxford is Davis’s only contribution to English cartography, although he was a prolific surveyor of estates in and around Oxfordshire. Surveyed on a scale of 2 inches to 1 mile this map is widely regarded as an important land mark in large scale cartography. Brian Kentish. Large Scale County maps of England and Wales 1705-1832, no.45. (1)

Doyle (John, ÒH.B.Ó). Political Sketches, 9 vols., 1829-47, approx. 850 etched and lithographic caricatures, corner mounted on to album pages, each page with library stamp not affecting image, occ. spotting throughout, some dust soiling, several leaves detached, some fraying to fore edges, contemp. half calf gilt, spines and many boards detached or partially detached, rubbed, worn and frayed, large folio. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (approx.850)

* Russia. Bowyer (R.), Moscow, pub. 1814, fine aquatint engraved view with original hand colouring, slight staining, 300 x 535mm, together with, Csar Nicholas II, pub. Moscow 1896, large chromolitho. of Nicholas II, title in Russian, old folds, 530 x 820mm, with, The Corporation of London, pubs., An Account of the Visit of his Royal Highness The Prince Regent with their Imperial and Royal Majesties The Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia to the Corporation of London, June 1814, aquatint frontis. with orig. hand colouring, title page, one folding eng. b & w plate, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (3)

Engineer. The Engineer, 11 vols., a broken run, 1868-79, numerous wood engs. and diagrams, some folding, occ. disbound leaves, contemp. cloth gilt, some boards detached, spines defective, rubbed and worn, folio, together with, The Scientific American, 3 vols. 1903-05, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, contemp. cloth gilt, spines defective, rubbed, folio (14)

L’Illustration. L’Illustration Noel, A broken run, 16 vols., 1921, 1923, 1925-32, 1934-36, 1938-39, including a duplicate of 1931, numerous b & w and col. illusts. throughout, some tipped in, some vols. lacking spines and with covers detached and torn with some loss, together with, L’Illustration Noel, 1911, periodical with numerous b & w and col. illusts. throughout, bound with parts of 1912 and 1913, library cancellation label to front paste down, near contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed at extrems., folio, with, The Connoisseur, The Connoisseur Christmas Annual, 1914, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, some tipped in, library cancellation label to front paste down, near contemp. half morocco gilt, folio (18)

Vanity Fair Album. vols. 12, 13 & 21, 1874, 1875 & 1879, three half year albums with seventy-seven chromolithographic caricatures, occ. leaves detached, some creasing to images, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. bevel-edged green cloth, extrems. rubbed and worn, public library labels to front paste downs and spines, folio. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (3)

* Fahrenkamp (Karl, 1884-1946). Typed letter signed `Dr. Fahrenkamp’, on letterhead, Cannstatt, 6th February 1930, in German, to Jakob Bohnet, a postman, stating that he has examined the body and found no evidence of organic heart disease, two hole punches to left margin, 1 p., folio. Karl Fahrenkamp was a German doctor who worked as a pathologist World War Two, but was moved to research at Belsen concentration camp, carrying out the infamous research on the effect of cold temperatures on injuries, the tests including the subjects being lowered into ice baths. He was indited for war crimes and due to be tried at Nuremberg but hung himself before the trials. (1)

* Hollywood. Two photograph albums compiled by Major Clifford Cole on a 10, 000-mile tour while with the Ack Ack battery in America, 1943, the first album entitled `Our Stay at Camp Davis and a few odds and ends’, with approx. 160 window-mounted b&w photos., the second album entitled `The Tour of American Army Camps and Cities September to December 1943’, with approx. 220 window-mounted b&w photos., the majority neatly captioned on mounts and some on photo versos, photos. include pictures of Major Cole and Army comrades with Hollywood stars, incl. Jimmy Cagney, Greer Garson, Basil Rathbone, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Harpo Marx, Hedy Lamarr, Dame May Whitty, Fred Astaire, Gracie Fields (signed), Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Mary Pickford, etc., some mounts broken and photos. loose, orig. cloth, bindings broken, oblong folio, together with a album of related news cuttings plus some of Major Cole’s original diaries from the tour, and a sheaf of typed draft copies of an unpublished account of the tour by Major Cole, comprising several hundred pages (a carton)

* Plantation Agent’s Ledger. A manuscript ledger of R[obert] Raper, 1776-78, a total of thirty leaves plus two leaves of index at front containing thirty-six names, names include Margaret Colleton, Thomas Boone, Captain George Hooper, Sarah Rutledge, Robert Bruce and Samuel Shoemaker, including entries for rent, bonds, umbrellas, wine casks, empty casks, `to my share of a Prise in the last Lottery of your Letter £50’, rope, salt, `35 pair of negro shoes at 25 shillings’, sail cloth, `paid Doctor Hardcastle for attending all ye Negroes one year to April last £130’ `for a Bridle for plantation use’ `for Negroes £531 6s 8d’, `ordinary Rum for your Negroes’, `paid for advertising Negroe [?] run away’, barrel of pitch for the boat, brown sugar for plantations, carpenter’s tools, millstones, etc., a few entries dated and placed at Charlestown, South Carolina, approx. 90 leaves blank, ownership signature of R Raper dated 1776 to front pastedown, contmep. vellum, rubbed and soiled with Raper’s monogram initials to upper cover, folio (1)

* Scrap albums. An early nineteenth century scrap album, approx. 100 leaves, with numerous engraved views, caricatures, costumes, etc., and a number of original pencil drawings and watercolours, incl. a rare allegorical eng. map `Oxford in Epitome’, 1st ed., printed by W. Baxter for J. Vincent, near Brasenose College, 1819, 232 x 238mm (9 x 9.25ins), with accompanying letterpress key leaf mounted on opposite page; a rare suite of four hand-col. aquatint plts. by John Augustus Atkinson, entitled `The Miser’, `The Virtuoso’, `The Poet’, `The Hypochondriac’, trimmed to edge of image, approx. 220 x 165mm (8.75 x 6.5ins), c.1819; four litho. cartoon-style engs. showing two figures engaged in a game of chess (cut out from a single sheet), entitled `The Challenge - Which hand, right or left?’, `The Struggle - Intense Anxiety’, `The Victory - Check-Mate!’, `The Parting - Triumph & Chagrin’, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son; two watercolours of transforming playing cards, and two cut-out watercolours of card players in a tavern; two small finely executed moonlit seascapes by Galpin; two small costume watercolours entitled `Villageoise de Fribourg’ and `Neufchatel’; several hand-col. cut-out eng. costume plts. (mainly Turkish); hand-col. engs. of Brighton Pavilion, Ripon Minster and Warwick Castle; and two hand-col. cartoon-style engs. from `Life in London’, pub. 1822, by S. Fores, orig. red half roan, rubbed and worn, with spine deficient and upper cover detached, folio, together with another, smaller, scrap album similar, containing pencil drawings, pen & ink sketches, eng. views, eng. costumes, etc., incl. a hand-col. etched plt. of Turkish jesters (with 2Ó closed tear in upper margin), late 18th c., with engravers initials `J.D.H.’ after `B. de G.’, numbered 25 in top left corner, from a collection entitled `Recueil des Vues et Habbillemens en Turquie’, 244 x 164mm (9.5 x 6.5ins), plus seventeen other albums, 19th and 20th c., incl. several crest and monogram albums, albums of chromo. scraps and greetings cards, a photograph album, etc. (19)

Scrapbook. A late nineteenth century large scrapbook of lithographs, engravings, original paintings, greetings cards, scraps, etc., incl. three watercolours of flowers, one signed Elizabeth Barry, four landscape watercolours, a number of chromo. scraps, some large format, incl. naval ships, negroes, and Derby winner 1889, a number of miniature Baxter prints, two hand-col. lithos. pub. by A. Park, entitled Old Dog Tray, and Park’s Juvenile Drawing Scraps No.17, three costume/trade lithos. by Macphail, a col. litho. entitled Hagendorf in canton of Lolothurn, by H. Waldow, pub. Jsidor Rocca, Berlin, and a chromo. alphabet, all mounted on twenty-eight linen leaves edged with turquoise silk (worn in places), disbound, folio (approx. 515 x 430mm) (1)

WWI - German Autographs. Deutschlands Gegner im Weltkriege, Verlag fur Nationale Literatur, Stuttgart, c. 1929, eighty tipped-in colour portraits, folding col. map and two pages of printed signatures with two additional pages of tipped-in original autographs (including von Bulow, Hindenburg, Lettow, Ludendorff, et al), orig. morocco gilt in remains of plain d.j. and book box, folio. Limited edition 51/300 (which does not call for the original autographs). (1)

* WWI - Autograph Album. An autograph album entitled A Great War, containing a total of seventy-one autographs on 26 card leaves, mostly clipped signatures mounted above or below b&w portrait photos, a mixture of real photo postcards and magazine reproductions, the majority mounted three-to-a-page with subject details in white on a black background and page captions in gold, British Minister autographs include H. H. Asquith, D. Lloyd George (2 signatures), Edward Grey (authograph letter signed), A. Bonar Law (plus typed letter signed), Edward Carson, Walter Runciman, Augustin Birrell, A. J. Balfour, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Derby (together with a repaired typed letter signed), John Redmond, Arthur Henderson, Lord Milner, Frederick Smith, A. Stanley, Robert Cecil, George Barnes, Lord Rhonnda, Austen Chamberlain (plus brief typed letter signed), George Cave, Herbert Hoover, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Northcliffe, plus European officials, including V. E. Orlando, Maharajah of Bikane, Lewis Botha, A. Millerand, etc., one additional leaf broken and crudely sellotaped in near front with a few other sellotape repairs to inner margins, contemp. cloth with gilt titled red morocco label to upper cover, sl. rubbed, oblong folio (1)

Aesop. Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L’Estrange, 4th ed., corrected and amended, 1704, eng. port. after Kneller (slightly dampstained to uper outer corner) and eng. frontis., some worming to margins of last few leaves, bound without pubs. ad. leaf at rear, contemp. panelled calf, gilt dec. spine with red morocco title label, boards detached, folio (1)

Bible [German] Die Gantze Bibel/das ist alle bucher allts vnnd neuws Testaments, den vrsprunglichen spraachen nach/auffs aller treuwlichest verteutschet. Darzu sind yetzund kommen ein schon vnd volkomen Register oder Zeyger uber die gantzen Bibel. Die jarzal vnd rachnung der zeyten von Adamen biss an Christum/mit sampt gwussen Concordantsen/Argumenten/Zalen vnd figuren, Zurich, Christoffel Froschouer, 1545, ff.[26]+334+315, numerous woodcut illustrations and initial letters, title-page printed in red and black (soiled and trimmed to measure 5 x 5ins and mounted), second woodcut title-page in red and black (preceding Job), soiled, torn, and laid down, contents generally toned and some soiling, a number of tears and repairs (with some text loss), incl: bi with lower outer corner torn away and repaired with subsequent loss of text; Tvi with text portion trimmed and relaid; Aaii torn and repaired with some loss to centre of fore-margin; and final few leaves at rear with several repaired tears and strengthened at gutter, lacking front endpapers, rear free endpaper and binder’s blank with 18th c. ms. notes, contemp. pigskin, occn. wear to extrems., raised bands, covers with a smattering of wormholes, elaborately panelled with numerous blind rolls, lacking furniture (bosses, cornerpieces, and clasps), folio. Not traced in Darlow and Moule. (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 Theater, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms at the West side of the Royal Exchange, London, 1682, woodcut armorial to general and New Testament titles, numerous eng. plts., bound with The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy..., 1682, eng. port. frontis., woodcut armorial to title (with closed-tear to lower margin), numerous eng. plts., bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins..., Printed at the Theatre in Oxford..., 1682, woodcut device to title, ruled in red to all titles and borders throughout volume, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. morocco, slightly cracked to spine and upper joint, folio. Herbert 770. (1)

Bickham (George). [The Musical Entertainer], 2 vols., n.d. c.1737-39 [or later], lacking title pages and subscribers lists, 185 (of 200) engraved sheets of music each with decorative vignette, water stained throughout, occ. closed tears, text block in one volume detached, book plates of Lady Charlotte Schreiber to front paste downs, near contemp. boards, crudely rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio (2)

[Charles II]. An Act for Renouncing and Disanulling the Pretended Title of Charls Stuart, &c. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, Anno Domini 1656, London: printed by Henry ills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1657, pp.[2], 4, lacks final blank, woodcut armorial to title and dec. initial to first leaf of text, disbound folio, strengthened to spine edge (in the variant setting where the signature mark A is under the ÒhÓ of ÒhimÓ. Wing E1064), together with An Act for the Better Observation of the Lords-Day. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656, London: printed by Hen. Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1657, pp[2], 17, woodcut armorial to title and first leaf of text, slight browning, disbound folio with strengthened spine edge (Wing E1094), plus James II, An Act for Granting an Aid to His Majesty by an Imposition on all French Linnens, and all East-India Linnen, and several other Manufactures of India, and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs, and on all Brandies Imported after the First Day of July, One thousand six hundred Eighty five, and before the First Day of July, One thousand six hundred and ninety, reprinted by Charles Bill & Thomas Newcomb, 1690, pp.[2], 43-61, disbound folio, strengthened to spine edge (3)

* Cherubini (Luigi, composer). Troisieme Messe Solennelle a trois parties en choeur, avec accompagnements a grand orchestre, 1st ed., Paris, Chez l’Auteur [1825], eng. title, with stamped author’s counter-signature at foot, 200 eng. pp. of music, plus 6 pp. Marche Religieuse at end, modern half calf, a little rubbed, folio, together with Grisar (Albert), Album d’Albert Grisar, Six Romances, Lithographies de Grenier, Paris, Bernard Lagge, n.d., c. 1840, six b&w litho. plts., eng. title and twelve leaves of eng. music, some light spotting, a.e.g., orig. cloth-backed blindstamped green morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, slim 4to. (2)

Croker (Temple Henry & others). The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 3 vols., 1773-75, engraved frontispiece to vol. I, folding table, three engraved maps (Africa by G. Rollos, two America maps by Robert de Vaugondy), 146 engraved plates, some plates in vol. III bound out of order, duplicate numbers or not sequential, one or two plates cropped with loss, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, folio, with one other. (4)

Customs and Excise. The Report with the Appendix, from the Committee of the House of Commons Appointed to Enquire into the Frauds and Abuses in the Customs, to the Prejudice of Trade, and Diminution of the Revenue, 1st ed., pub. by order of the House of Commons, 1733, 103pp., a few light spots, recent marbled wrappers, folio. A detailed report of the abuses in the British customs service from 1715-33, as far as they affected the colonial and tobacco industry and econimic status of Virginia and Maryland. The report also includes accounts of the smuggling of linen and other household goods, tea, brandy etc. Goldsmiths’ 7107.. (1)

Dalton (Michael). The Country Justice: Containing the Practice, Duty and Power of the Justices of the Peace, as well in as out of their Sessions..., 1727, contemp. calf, joints cracked and slight wear, folio (1)

Dante Alighieri. [Divina Commedia], pub. Rampazetto, Gioambattista, Sessa & Fratelli, Venice, 1578, lacking title and leaf PP8, woodcut illustrations, headpieces and initials, a few leaves cropped at upper margin, just affecting one or two headlines, some marginal wormtracks and light spotting, later grained sheep, rubbed, folio. Adams D108.. (1)

English Civil War. An Act of the Commons in Parliament assembled, for Sale of the Honors, Manors & Lands, Heretofore belonging to the late King, Queen & Prince. Die Martis, 17Julii, 1649, London: Edward Husband, 1649. pp.[2], 359-399 (3R1-3Y2), title with woodcut armorial, some browning & spotting, disbound folio, strengthened to spine edge, together with Excise Duty, A Book of Values of Merchandize Imported, According to which, Excise is to be paid by the First Buyer, London: printed by Henry Hills & John Field, 1657, pp.[2], 19-61, woodcut armorial to title, disbound folio, strengthened to spine edge (2)

Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, Mousquetz et piques, Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, 1608, engraved allegorical title, text in English, French and German in three parts, 117 full-page eng. plts. in all, some embrowning throughout, later vellum (probably 18th century), some marks and soiling, ties partly defective, folio. Lipperheide Qb19. The first French edition of De Gheyn’s famous drill manual, known in English as the Exercises of Arms. The work is based on the drill developed at the end of the 16th century by Count Johann II of Nassau-Siegen (1551-1623) and introduced in the Dutch Army by his cousin Maurits, Prince of Orange (1567-1625). (1)

Goldsmith (Oliver). The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare, 1st ed., issue not stated, 1776, etched portrait frontispiece by Bretherton after Henry Bunbury, upper margin trimmed affecting some pagination, one or two light spots, early 20th c. brown half morocco, lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Vade (James, pub.), The Sentiments. A Poem to the Earl of Danby in the Tower, by a Person of Quality, 1st ed., 1679, pp.11, (1), some marginal dampstaining, modern boards, slim folio, together with D’Urfey (Thomas), The Progress of Honesty: Or, a View of a Court and City. A Pindarique Poem, 1681, modern boards, slim folio, with [Armstrong, John], Of Benevolence: An Epistle to Eumenes, 1st ed., 1751, pp.(iv), 11, modern boards, 4to, plus Courtenay (John), A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson..., 3rd ed., 1786, slight browning and light dust soiling, modern boards, slim 4to. (5)

Helvicus (Christopher). The Historical and Chronological Theatre of Christopher Helvicus ... with an asignation of Empires, Kingdoms, Governments, Kings, Electours, Princes, Roman Popes, Turkish Emperours, and other famous and illustrious men, prophets, divines, lawyers, physicians, philosophers, oratours ..., 1687, title printed in red and black, contemp. calf, later reback, corners strengthened, rubbed, folio, together with Davenant (John), Expositio Epistolae d. Pauli ad Colossenses..., 3rd ed., 1639, some staining, some insect damage to lower outer corner to last quarter of vol., contemp. vellum, spine torn at head with some loss, folio (2)

Luther (Martin). Colloquia Mensalia: or, Dr. Martin Luther’s Divine Discourses at his Table, &c. ... Collected first together by Dr. Antonius Lauterbach, and afterward disposed into certain Common places by John Aurifaber. Translated out of the high Germane into the English Tongue by Capt. Henrie Bell..., 1st English ed., 1652, title printed in red & black, lacks portrait and final leaf, some dustsoiling and marginal dampstaining, contemp. calf, old repairs at head & foot of spine and to board corners, joints slightly cracked at head & foot, folio. Wing L3510. (1)

Montfaucon (Bernard de). Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures, ... translated into English by David Humphreys, vols. II-V (of 5), 1721-22, + Supplement to Antiquity Explained, 5 vols. bound in one, 1725, 350 copper eng. plts., including many folding, occn. light embrowning (contents generally in clean condition), contemp. sprinkled full calf, rubbed and worn with joints cracked, folio (5)

Rymer (Thomas). Foedera Conventiones, Literae, et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae, et alios quosuis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel Communitates..., 10 vols., 3rd ed., Hague, 17[39]-45, titles printed in red & black, few folding eng. plts., contemp. speckled calf, neatly rebacked retaining orig. red morocco title labels, corners repaired, folio (10)

Saxe (Maurice, Comte de). Les Reveries ou Memoires sur L’Art de la Guerre, 1st ed., The Hague, 1756, half title printed in red and black with light spotting, forty eng. plates (twenty-two folding), new end papers, 19th century qtr. morocco gilt, folio. De Saxe’s work is a comprhensive study on the art of war. He claimed to have written it in thirteen nights whilst suffering from a fever which has led to the accusation that it was composed whilst De Saxe was under the influence of opium. Its erratic style certainly does not dissuade one from this argument. Suprisingly uncommon with only three UK locations known.. (1)

Stow (John, and Edmund Howes). The Annales, Or Generall Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreyne, and Domestique, Anncient and Moderne, unto the Ende of this Present Yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, 1615, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut headpieces and initials, one Preface leaf misbound, N1-6, R1-6 & Ee1-3 misbound, Ss4 with tear in text and resulting loss, a few small burnholes and closed marginal tears, scattered minor spots, eighteenth c. diced calf gilt, rebacked, rubbed, folio. Provenance: Henry Huth library (small bookplate). First edition with Shakespeare reference on p. 811. STC 23338.. (1)

Wragg (Jacob). Eighteenth Edition of Wragg’s Improved Flute Preceptor, or the whole Art of playing the German Flute: Rendered perfectly easy to every Capacity. On Principles entirely New... To which are added, A Set of Progressive Lessons, Sixty four Original Duets... & ample Instructions for an Eight Key’d Flute, op. 6, pub. Clementi Collard and Collard, c.1820s, eng. title-page (foxed and stained), 4pp. prelims., and 72pp. engraved musical notation, some finger-soiling, upper hinge split, contemp. half roan, rubbed and scuffed, extrems. worn and spine with sl. loss, slim folio (1)

Cadell (T., pub.). The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits being a Series of Engravings of the most Eminent Persons now Living or Lately Deceased in Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., 1822, title page with library stamp, numerous mixed method engraved portraits, many with library stamps to the verso, occ. spotting throughout, t.e.g. orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, large folio (2)

Chapman (Jake and Dinos). Disasters of War, n.p., n.d., col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. blindstamped cream buckram, oblong folio, together with Emin (Tracey), Exploration of the Soul, Part 1, pub. Counter, 2003, 3 pp. b&w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, small 4to, (signed limited edition, 180/1000, dated 2003) (2)

Henriot (Gabriel). EncyclopŽdie du Luminaire Appareils de toutes les Žpoques et de tous les styles Choix d’Objects de Formes et DŽcors ApparentŽs, Depuis l’AntiquitŽ Jusqu’a 1870, 6 parts in 2 vols., Paris, [1933], numerous b & w plts., loosely contained in printed wrappers, the six parts contained in two orig. cloth-backed printed portfolios with silk ties (one lacking), some minor soiling, extrems. rubbed and frayed in places, folio (2)

Hogarth (William). The Works of William Hogarth from the Original Plates, Restored by James Heath, pub. Baldwin and Craddock, [c.1838] title page with old fold, library stamp to verso, 155 engraved images on 116 plates (including portrait frontis.), correct as list, occ. dust soiling and finger marks to margins, cancelled library ticket to front paste down, a.e.g., hinges weak, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, elephant folio (1)

Langley (Batty). [Ancient Masonry both in Theory and Practice, 1736], lacking title page and all prelims., numerous b & w folding and single page engraved plates, dust soiled, stained and browned throughout, edges frayed, text block detached and split, lacking spine, boards detached, book dealers letter identifying the volume on front paste down, orig. boards, folio. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Roxburgh Club. Jan Huygen Van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia, The Plates and Text of the Itinerario...., with a study by Ernst Van Den Boogaart, facsimile ed., Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1999, portrait frontis, numerous col. plates and maps, orig. pubs. cloth gilt with printed label to upper board, boards a little scuffed, large folio, together with, John Burrel’s Arran Journal, vol. 1, 1766-1773 vol. 2 1776-1782, facsimile ed., Privately Published 1982, facsimile index tipped on to first end paper, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, boards a little scuffed, folio, with, The Wizard Earl’s Advices to his Son, A Facsimile and Transcript from the Manuscripts of Henry Percy Ninth Earl of Northumberland at Petworth House, Edited by Gordon R.Batho and Stephen Clucas, Printed for The Roxburghe Club, 2002, portrait frontis, col. and b & w illusts. throughout, contemp. pubs. cloth gilt, folio, with, James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck 1782-1795, Edited by The Vicountess Eccles Gordon Turnbull, Presented to members of The Roxburghe Club, 1995, portrait frontis, folding map and illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, folio (4)

Ullmann (Anne, ed.). Ravilious at War. The Complete Work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942, pub. Fleece Press, 2002, numerous colour and b & w plts. and illusts., list of subscribers at rear, orig. cloth, oblong folio. 750 copies printed. (1)

Waring (J.B.). Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862, 3 vols., pub. Day & Son, 1863, addn. chromo. title to each vol., 301 full-page chromo. plts. by W. R. Tymms, A. Warren and G. Macculloch, all with library blind stamps just affecting image, a.e.g., full morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, large folio (3)

Disney (Walt). The Walt Disney Annual, Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Co., 1937, eight col. plts., b & w illusts. throughout, browned, most leaves with tears in fore-margin (incl. a few longer tears, chips, and loss to blank margins), free endpapers and final text leaf detached, orig. pictorial boards, rubbed and lacking spine, folio, together with Mickey Mouse Annual, Dean, 1940, lacking frontis., b & w illusts. throughout, toned, pencilled names erased from front endpapers, orig. pictorial boards, rubbed, spine sometime re-attached, with sl. loss at foot, 4to, plus five other Disney items, incl. The Grasshopper and the Ants, Three Little Pigs, and The Little Red Hen, all with 78rpm records contained in pockets (7)

Elgood (George S. and Jekyll, Gertrude). Some English Gardens, 1st ed., Longmans, Green and Co., 1904, fifty col. printed plts., incl. frontis., correct as list, captioned tissue guards, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed (foxed), orig. cloth gilt, damp spotted, folio, together with Elgood (George S.), Italian Gardens, pub. Longmans, Green and Co., 1st ed., 1907, fifty-two col. printed plts., incl. frontis., correct as list, captioned tissue guards, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, damp spotted, spine faded, folio (2)

Bernard Rackham. Epistole et Evangelii et Lectioni Volgari in Lingua Toscana. The Woodcuts of the Florentine Edition of July 1495, Reproduced in Facsimile with the Text from a Copy in the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins with Tables and Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard, 1910, engs. to text throughout, tipped-in two page letter to front pastedown to Bernard Rackham from Dyson Perrins, also an inscription to front blank to Bernard Rackham from Dyson Perrins, both dated June 1918, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. morocco backed boards gilt, small folio, together with Stieler (Adolf), Stieler’s Atlas of Modern Geography, 9th ed., 1909, 100 double-page col. maps, inscribed to head of title `Bernard Rackham 1909’, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, folio. Bernard Rackham was born in 1876 and was the third son of Illustrator Arthur Rackham. Bernard was keeper at the Victoria and Albert museum in charge of the ceramics department from 1914 to 1938. He died in 1964 at the age of 87. (2)

Churchill (T.O.). The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c., illustrated by Engravings of it’s Most Striking and Memorable Incidents, 1st ed., 1808, eng. port. frontis. (waterstained), eleven (of twelve) full-page eng. plts. (lacks plate of The Funeral Car facing page 97), several near-contemp. addn. illusts. pasted in at front and rear, untrimmed, contemp. boards, worn with backstrip def., and contents partly loose, folio, together with Wright (Hastings E., and Creeke, A. B.), A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles, pub. Philatelic Society, 1899, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. upper wrapper bound in, with presentation inscription to L.H. Clark from A.B. Creeke, dated 11/9/99, marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. half black morocco gilt, 4to, plus Manfredi (Francesco), Rime, 2nd ed., Florence, 1730, title with eng. vign. and contemp. vellum, 8vo, and Greene (Graham), Travels With My Aunt, a novel, 1st ed., 1969, t.e.g., modern half dark green crushed morocco (by Bayntun-Riviere), 8vo, plus others various (a carton)

Clarke (Francis L.). Letters on Picturesque and Moral Geography; Illustrative of Landscape and Manners in the Various Countries of Europe. Chiefly Designed for the Higher Classes in Schools, and for Minor Students in Literature, 1810, half-title present, contemp. sheep, worn, 12mo, together with Russel (William Augustus), A New and Authentic History of England, from the Most Remote Period of Genuine Historical Evidence, to the Present Important Crisis... , n.d., pub. J. Cooke, c. 1780, num. eng. plts., lacks final leaf of index (disbound), folio, plus other miscellaneous books and prints, etc. (2 cartons)

Harding (J.D.). The Principles and Practice of Art, 1st ed., 1845, eng. plts., some minor marginal spotting, a.e.g., near-contemp. (1860) full green morocco, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed, folio, with other antiquarian and miscellaneous, mostly large-format, including Victorian family bibles, etc. (6 cartons)

Meinertzhagen (Colonel R). Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt, 2 vols., 1930, photogravure port. frontis. to vol. 1, col. plts. and folding maps, occ. spotting, inner hinges strengthened, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, 4to, together with [Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph], Recueil varie de plans et de facades de maisons de ville et de campagne monumens et establissemens publics et particuliers, Paris, [1815], eng. title, frontis. and sixty-two plates, occ. scattered spotting, contemp. half vellum, joints split and some wear, oblong folio, plus Hardie (Martin), Water-Colour Painting in Britain, 3 vols., reprints, 1975/70, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus other miscellaneous books including antiquarian, travel and military (2 cartons)

Fiddes (Richard). The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 1724, seven eng. ports. (correct as list), port. frontis. (detached and frayed at edges), contemp. calf, worn, folio, together with Beattie (William), Caledonia Illustrated, 2 vols., n.d., c. 1840, num. steel-engs. after W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others, some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemp. green half morocco gilt, upper cover of vol. 1 detached, 4to, and other miscellaneous antiquarian and Victorian cloth-bound fiction, etc. (3 shelves)

Klee (Paul). Notebooks: The Thinking Eye/The Nature of Nature, Edited Jurg Spiller, trans. Heinz Norden, 2 vols., reprinted, 1992, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., square 4to, together with Warncke (Carsten-Peter), Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, edited Ingo F. Walther, 2 vols., pub. Taschen, 1992, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j. and slipcase, folio, plus De Vries (Leonard), A Treasury of Illustrated Children’s Books. Early Nineteenth-Century Classics from the Osborne Collection, pub. Abbeville Press, New York, 1989, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and other art reference and related, mostly G/VG (6 shelves)

Sloane (William Milligan). Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 4 vols., New York & London, 1901, num. col. and b & w illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, small folio, with others of Napoleon and Wellington interest (3 shelves)