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H. CHARGEBOEUF: A cast bronze sculpture of a child with a scarf wrapped around her head carrying a basket and folio, after the original by Pascall, 8in. high. See illustration

WWI Biographies. The Bond of Sacrifice, A Biographical Record of All British Officers Who Fell in The Great War, vols. 1 & 2 only, August 1914 to June 1915, [1916], double-column text throughout with vign. portraits from b&w photos, near-matching orig. half morocco/cloth over buckram boards, both rubbed and leather spine to vol. 1, slightly frayed at head, folio, together with Graham (Dom Lucius), Downside & The War 1914-1919 ..., 1st ed., 1925, colour frontis., b&w portrait, illusts. from photos, t.e.g., orig. burgundy half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, plus other public school rolls of honour relating to the first world war, including Cheltenham College, Tonbridge, Wellington College, Merchant Taylor’s School, Rugby School, Marlborough College, Dulwich College, Harrow School, Mill Hill School, Eton and Winchester, mostly orig. cloth, some rubbed and soiled, and 4-vol. Winchester set damp-damaged (37)

Bairnsfather (Capt. Bruce, 1888-1959). The Collected Drawings of Bruce Bairnsfather, pub. W. Colston Leigh, Inc., New York, 1931, with orig. lead pencil drawing frontis. by Bairnsfather, signed and titled ‘Once’, t.e.g., orig. mock quarter morocco gilt with glassine d.j., small folio. A remarkable ‘as new’ copy. (1)

Bairnsfather (Capt. Bruce). Fragments, edited by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, vol. 1, nos. 2 & 11, vol. 2, nos. 25-33 & 35-38, 40, 43-45, 47 & 50, b & w illusts., some soiling and damage to edges, small folio, with twenty later issues, all contained in two modern lever arch files, together with a collection of Bairnsfather books and related material (2 cartons)

* French Second Empire Eagle Badge/Insignia. Two large brass French Eagles, one with lightning rods at base, the other with cannons at the base and surmounted by a crown, no visible signs of lugs or fastenings to the reverse, each approx. 14cm tall, together with a commemoration bronze medal for the death of Jean-Sylvain Bailly [1793], obverse with a right-facing bust of Bailly and exergue legend that reads ‘offert a la ville par B. Duvivier’, the reverse with the legend ‘Merite Reconnu’ at upper edge, text concerning Bailly beneath within a floral border, sl. rubbed, 42mm diameter, remains of red, white and blue ribbon still attached, plus two printed French manuscripts with manuscript insertions and wax seals, the first dated 15th July 1757, relating to Le Chevalier du Chatelet & Marechal de Camp, signed by Louis Gabriel, Bailly de Froullay, one page, folio, the second dated 14th February 1801, relating to Alexandre Joseph Pascal and signed by Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, one page, oblong folio (5)

Nuremberg Trials. A group of three cyclostyled bound typescripts relating to the Nuremberg Trials, 1946, formerly belonging to the journalist and head of the Reuters team covering the Trials, Eric Bourne, the three volumes including the Opening Statement of USSR Chief of Counsel, Lieutenant General R. A. Rudenko, Crimes Against Peace by Deputy USSR Chief of Counsel, Colonel W. V. Pokrovsky, Aggression Against the USSR by M. D. Zorya, Organisations - Final Speech [by Maxwell Fyfe], Final Argument for the United States of America by Thomas J. Dodd, Closing Statement for the USA by Telford Taylor et al, with copy documents and footnotes supplied at rear, final statement on the Organisations by R. A. Rudenko, on behalf of the USSR, a total of approx. 500 leaves, printed to rectos only, ownership signature of Eric Bourne to five of the part titles, together with sporadic shorthand notes by Bourne in pen or pencil, plus occ. pencil marks and word corrections, the first volume sl. browned and damp stained at front affecting covers and first few leaves, contemp. linen-backed boards with identification labels to upper covers, first volume damp stained and frayed, the second and third volumes sl. rubbed, all folio. Eric Bourne (1909-99), Foreign Correspondent. Bourne ‘led the Reuters team at the 10-month Nuremberg Trials of Nazi War Criminals. When Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy, was brought in for sentencing, Bourne later described his ‘torrent of gabbled words’ - earlier Hess had refused to speak or accept the Court’s jurisdiction. Bourne recalled getting the entire rant down in shorthand and sending the story to Reuters with ample direct quotes, scooping the other reporters. Once sure his story was through, he shared his notes with the rest’, (Guardian, 18 March 1999). It is not clear from Bourne’s notes in these three volumes when he made them, or what the shorthand says. The closing arguments by the prosecutors at the Trial concluded on 30th August 1946 and the following day the defendants were given a chance to make final statements before the Tribunal. All twenty-one defendants elected to address the Court. The Tribunal was adjourned for one month while the Judges considered their verdicts. On 30th September 1946, the Tribunal began to read out their judgement to a packed courtroom and it is perhaps on this occasion with these volumes as reference that Bourne made some of his notes. On the first page of the first volume the words ‘Rud:’, ‘crowded’ and a few other indistinct non-shorthand words are legible. (3)

Seely (John Edward Bernard, 1868-1947). A draft typescript of Seely’s autobiography Adventure, 2 vols., [1929], 196 & 148 leaves typed to rectos only, author’s pencil corrections and deletions throughout, the first volume with a four-page autograph letter signed ‘Jack Seely’, on White Star Line onboard SS Cedric headed paper, dated Liverpool, 3rd August 1929, to [William] Orpen, ‘I’ve arranged for an uncorrected copy of my adventure book to be sent to you on Monday. Forgive me for not sending you a more tidy copy - still, it is legible, and I hope it may amuse you to read some parts of it - it amused me quite enormously to write it’, and referring to suggestions as to the illustrations that Orpen might care to make, ‘but you will do whatever you think best, and thus put me eternally in your debt - I have not thought of the financial problem which I leave entirely to you - the real thing to me is that you are kind friend. By the way, you will see that there is a gap in my narrative preceeding the great German attack of March 21st 1918 - it is here, that you come into my story: Antoine d’Orleans lunch at Amiens, your painting of my portrait and his in old marquis de Bargumont’s house just before the Germans march into it, as they had done in 1914. I have composed this bit, but there was not time to get it into type’, the two leaves tipped at upper margin onto two separate blank leaves at front of vol., both t.e.g., contemp. calf bound by the Times Book Club, gilt titled spines (The Adventures of Major General John Seely and vol. 2 subtitled European War), both slightly soiled and heavily rubbed, 4to/folio. Seely’s book was published as ‘Adventure’ in one volume by William Heinemann in 1930 with illustrations from portraits by William Orpen and A. J. Munnings. Seely’s account begins with his early years including eduction at Harrow School where he met Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill, the latter becoming a life-long friend. He served with the Imperial Yeomanry in the second Boer War and was mentioned in Dispatches. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924. In 1912, Seely was appointed Secretary of State for War. He had particular involvement in the development of a Flying Corps during World War One, during which time he became a Major General and Commander of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade. He won several medals and merited mention in Dispatches five times. At the time of writing this autobiography which takes his life to the end of the First World War, he was Chairman of the National Savings Committee. (2)

* WWI - American Air Service. A photograph album containing approx. 140 mounted b & w photos on thirty-four leaves, c. 1918, including approx. forty aerial photos of bombing over Germany, c. September to November 1918, many with white reference codes and captions in the negative, approx. 16 x 22cm and sl. smaller, many of these aerial views loose and several chipped or creased at corners, the remaining photographs usually somewhat smaller including many snapshots, approx. 6.5 x 4cm, some of the postcard size and similar photos including images of Richtofen’s wrecked Fokker triplane plus other captured aeroplanes and aeroplane wrecks, the smaller format snapshots including portraits of US servicemen, plus tanks and ruins in France, the majority mounted as multiples to a page and with clear white China ink captions beneath, many of the photos mounted with glued corner hinges of which many have now become detached, album leaves sl. brittle and many leaves detached, contemp. limp cloth with spine tie, rubbed and frayed at extremities, oblong folio (1)

* WWI - Prisoner of War. An album containing approx. seventy-five real photo postcards relating to the Prisoner of War Camp Schloss, Grossau bei Raabs in Austria, c. 1916-18, seemingly compiled by Walter Horwitz, including photos showing the prisoners pursuing gentrified pursuits such as ice skating, tennis, rowing, football and sometimes playing the German guards, a number of group photos including one possibly showing James Joyce’s brother Stanislaus (far right of top photo illustrated), a number of photos with inscriptions to front or verso, plus approx. forty further window-mounted postcards including some related and one addressed to Mr and Mrs Horwitz in Vienna, mounts somewhat brittle and worn, contemp. cloth backed wooden boards, the upper cover with an orig. painted view and titled ‘Souvenir of my captivity, W Horwitz’, rubbed, boards bowed and lower board split, folio. An intriguing album which reveals a stark contrast to the concentration camps of the second world war. Stanislaus Joyce (1884-1) the younger brother of the more famous James. Like James he lived in Trieste but was arrested at the beginning of World War I and interned by the Austrians, initially at Katzenau, near Linz and then later at Schloss Grossau. (1)

* WWI - Prisoners of War. A postcard album containing 179 corner-mounted postcards, mostly c. 1916-18, compiled by Thomas Ennis Matthews of the Border Regiment and dated 1st September 1916 at Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland, a total of approx. seventy real photo postcards, the majority relating to the prisoner of war camp for British captives from Germany, including photos of the bookbinder’s shop, General Pao, Mr Sutherland’s rest, distribution of the ribbon of the 1914 star, the hospital, inspection by General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, arrival of men from Germany December 1917, funeral of General Granet in Berne, interned officers and allied wreaths, British interned gymnastic team and a boxer, the “Irish” footer team (mostly composed of Scotsmen & Cockneys!), the British interned Variety Company, plus ‘artistes’, the Presbyterian Church choir, the marriage of Lance Corporal Sykes, Burthod Band, and others related including funeral of Sergeant Whittington (Royal Irish Rifles), funerals of the Ghurka Redarrah Singh and Perthby Singh, Bairnsfather’s ‘Ole Bill’, plus various portraits of soldiers including two soldiers in gas masks, Scottish regiments and the final leaf with three group portraits of men who held the Menin Gate at Ypres 1914 (creased), Old Contemptibles and one of Matthews’s regiment with a cross identifying himself and a note at foot dated on Armistice Day that he is the only one alive from the above group, the remaining cards including sixteen greeting card silks, plus Bairnsfather cartoons, French and Swiss views, etc., and many franked plain postcards in English and French sent to Matthews, hinges crudely repaired with sellotape, contemp. dec. cloth, frayed, folio, together with a group of approx. 130 postcards, mostly European views, some postally unused but the majority addressed to Thomas Matthews in Charlton on Medlock, Manchester, in the 1920s, plus one original issue of the Swiss Illustrated and English Herald, 2nd December 1916. A remarkable record of this prisoner of war camp in the district of Pays-d’Enhaut, now more famous for skiing and hot air ballooning. (approx. 300)

Grierson (J.M.). Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908, 1909, 47 coloured plates, t.e.g., original green cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, together with Notes on the Dress of the Seventy-First Regiment, Formerly the 73rd Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highland Foot, Presently the 1st Battalion the Highland Light Infantry, 1934, 34 b & w plates, one tissue guard repaired, presentation inscription, original cloth, a few stains, obong folio, plus The History of the Scots Guards. From the Creation of the Regiment to the Eve of the Great War, 2 vols., 1934, coloured and b & w maps and plates, occasional light browning, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (4)

Langridge’s Military Publications. The Dress Distinctions series, 12 vols., 1959-62, all ten publications from this series from no. 1, The Dress Distinctions of the Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) to no. 10, The Dress Distinctions of the 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars, plus two others: The Dress Distinctions of the 3rd Carabiniers. (P.O.W.D.G.), 1962 and The Dress Distinctions of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers, 1962, most with Supplements, b & w illustrations, original mixed cloth and wrappers (upper wrapper from 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards detached), contained in cloth foldover case, cloth ties, oblong folio (12)

May (W.E. & Annis, P.G.W.). Swords for Sea Service, 2 vols., pub. HMSO, 1970, coloured frontispieces, b & w illustrations, original cloth,. d.j.s, light edge wear, contained in original cardboard box, folio, together with Robson (Brian), Swords of the British Army. The Regulations Patterns, 1788-1914, pub. Arms and Armour Press, 1975, b & w illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., 4to, plus Southwick (Leslie), London Silver-Hilted Swords. Their Makers, Suppliers and Allied Traders, with Directory, pub. Royal Armouries, Leeds, 2001, coloured and half-tone illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 4to, with four others including John Wilkinson Latham’s British Military Swords From 1800 to the Present Day, 1966 and British Military Bayonets From 1700 to 1945, 1967 (8)

May (W.E. & Annis, P.G.W.). Swords for Sea Service, 2 vols., pub. HMSO, 1970, coloured frontispieces, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, light edge wear, contained in original cardboard box, folio (2)

Military Uniforms & Tailoring. A military tailor’s notebook with samples, c. 1890-1915, handwritten notebook, approx. 110 pp., containing detailed notes for regimental uniforms, court dress, etc., with numerous mounted cloth samples, handwritten index at front, some soiling and occ. marks, contemp. half plum morocco, rubbed and somewhat worn, small 4to, together with an album of scale drawings for military tailoring in outline produced by W. Christian, Royal Artillery, for the Royal Army Clothing Factory, with signed examination certificate bound in at rear, dated 18th March 1895, contemp. half leather, rubbed and marked, oblong folio, plus two folio volumes entitled to covers Uniform Miscellanea, containing typewritten and handwritten historical notes on military uniforms including original letters, including badges, shoulder straps, photographs, some original drawings, tracings, etc., compiled by Captain D. C. Anderson, and presented to the Royal United Service Institution, c. 1920s-30s, contemp. blue cloth, rubbed and some surface soiling, folio (4)

Navy & Army Illustrated. A Magazine Descriptive and Illustrative of Everyday Life in the Defensive Services of the British Empire, vols. I-15, 1895-1903, together with Navy & Army Illustrated, New Series, vols. 1-3, 1914-15, numerous half-tone illustrations, occasional small dampstains, original pictorial cloth, a few vols. a little rubbed and faded with some dampstaining, folio (18)

Poulsom (Lieutenant Colonel N.W.). Buttons of the Indian Army, vols. I-VII (all published), pub. Military Press International, 1998-2000, b & w illustrations, original mixed cloth-backed wrappers and buckram, folio, together with Squire (Gwen), Buttons. A Guide for Collectors, 1972, coloured and b & w plates, original red mock leather, laminated d.j., 4to, plus Livery Buttons. The Pitt Collection, 1976, b & w illustrations, slight marginal yellowing, original mock leather, d.j., a few chips and tears, 4to, with others on buttons including Viviane Beck Ertell’s The Colorful World of Buttons, 1973 (signed by the author), and Button Classics, 1941 (18)

Smitherman (P.H.). Infantry Uniforms of The British Army, 1st-3rd Series, 1660-1790, 1790-1850 & 1850-1960, together 3 vols., 1st eds., 1965-70, colour plates to each, orig. cloth in d.j., a little frayed to edges, together with Uniforms of The Royal Artillery 1716-1966, 1st ed., 1966 (2 copies), Uniforms of The Yeomanry Regiments 1783-1911, 1st ed., 1967, Cavalry Uniforms of The British Army, 1st ed., 1962 & Uniforms of The Scottish Regiments, 1st ed., 1963, colour plates to each, last vol. with some leaves loose, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, tall folio, plus Lawson (Cecil C. P.), A History of The Uniforms of The British Army, 5 vols., reprinted, mixed eds., 1961-67, colour plates, b&w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, a little frayed to edges, large 8vo, and Miller (A. E. Haswell, & Dawnay, N. P.), Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 vols. (Plates/Text), pub. Phaidon, 2nd ed./1st ed., 1970, colour plates, b&w illusts., both orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus others similar on the history of military uniforms, including W. Y. Carman, Indian Army Uniforms, 2 vols. (Cavalry/Infantry), 1968-69, W. Y. Carman, Richard Simkin’s Uniforms of The British Army, 2 vols. (Infantry/Cavalry), 1st eds., 1982/85 respec., Captain R. J. MacDonald, The History of The Dress of The Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1625-1897, reprint ed., pub.Crecy Books, 1985 (2 copies), etc., many in d.j.s, including some large format (approx. 100)

Documentation. A collection of research documentation on military history, compiled by Michael Wilkinson, including a quantity of photocopied facsimiles of scarce published regimental histories, spirally-bound in protective clear wrappers, folio, photographs, cuttings, etc, contained in modern ring binders (3 cartons)

Ponsonby (Sir Frederick). The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918, 1st ed., 3 vols., 1920, seventeen plts. from photos, twenty-four (of 25) b&w maps, some folding, minor spotting, orig. cloth-backed boards, in rubbed and chipped d.j.s, vol. 1 with loss to base of spine, vol. 2 with slight loss to spine ends, 8vo, together with Doyle (Arthur Conan), The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 6 vols., mixed eds., 1917-26, (vols. 3-6 1st eds.), num. folding maps, pubs. ads. to rear of most vols., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, plus Japan’s Fight for Freedom, 3 vols., 1904-1906, no title, lacking folding map, b&w plts. and illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, vol. 2 with splitting to spine, wear to extrems., folio (12)

Smitherman (P.H.). Infantry Uniforms of the British Army, 1st-3rd series, 1660-1790; 1790-1850; 1850-1960, 1st ed., 1965-1970, 60 coloured plates, original cloth, d.j.s, two price-clipped, one or two short tears, one with slight yellowing, folio, with Her Majesty’s Army. Indian and Colonial Forces, by Walter Richards, two divisions, c. 1890, chromolithographed title, fifteen chromolithographed plates, some with marginal dampstains, previous owner signature, a.e.g., original red cloth, some dampstains, 4to, with two others including O.F.G. Hogg’s English Artillery 1326-1716, 1963 (7)

Vernet (Antoine Charles Horace, called Carle). Campagnes des Francais sous le Consulat & L’Empire Album de Cinquante-Deux Batailles et cent Portraits des Marechaux, Generaux et Personnages les plus Illustres de L’Epoque et le Portrait de Napoleon 1er. n.d. c.1840, engraved portrait frontis. with facsimile signature, title page printed in red & black, fifty- seven uncoloured engraved plates each with paper guard, slight water staining throughout, a.e.g., modern morocco with gilt embossed title to upper board, folio. The plate list calls for a frontispiece as well as a portrait of Napolean. However this example conforms to the description of previous copies sold. It appears that the ‘frontispice’ listed in the ‘Table des Planches’ may refer to the title page. (1)

War Office. Soldiers Died in The Great War, 1914-19, 80 vols. (complete), facsimile reprints, pub. J. B. Hayward & Son, Polstead, Suffolk, 1988-89, orig. cloth in d.j.s, a little rubbed, small folio (80)

Louis Raemaekers, "The Great War in 1916 - A Neutral`s Indicment, being 60 cartoons, within an appreciation by H. Perry Robinson, signed by the artist, limited edition of 1,050, Fine Art Society 1917, folio.

4 Boxes of Misc. Literature, Folio Society, Fox Hunting, Feminism etc.

Two boxes of the Folio Society to include `Stories from the Strand`, Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Paintings

The Bletchley, Northampton & Rugby Railway. A folio containing 1:1250 maps, ditto London & Birmingham, also Midland Railway. Otley & Ilkley extension contract plan 1861 - two folios

"Formula 1, 1970, Italian two folio film poster, 39x 55"

"Dr No, 1962, Italian two folio film poster, 39x 55", re-release, linen backed"

"Demon Seed, 1977, Italian two folio film poster, 39x 55", linen backed"

"Lady In Cement, Frank Sinatra, 1968, Italian two folio poster, 39x 55", "

"The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra, 1955, Italian two folio film poster, 44x 62"

* Martin (John, 1789-1854). [Illustrations of The Bible, pub. Charles Tilt, 1838], twelve (of 20) mezzotint engravings, all proofs, before or with letters, most dated 1831-35, seven with handwritten presentation inscription in ink to lower right corner (generally within plate mark), from the artist John Martin to the editor of the Morning Herald: ‘Editor of the Morning Herald with the Artist’s Compts’, some light foxing, mainly to margins, a few minor marginal stains, with orig. plain wrappers, worn and det., the upper wrapper with mounted paper title inscribed (in a different hand) ‘Mezzotinto Engravings by John Martin. Presented by the Artist to the Editor of the Morning Herald’, oblong folio, sheet size 290 x 425mm. The plates present are The Expulsion, Fall of Babylon, Hall of Ninevah, Psalm CXXXVII, Moses breaketh the Tables, Joshua commanding the sun to stand still, Destruction of Pharaoh’s Host, Fall of the Walls of Jericho, Belshazzar’s Feast, Seventh Plague, The Covenant, and The Deluge. (1)

DAME ETHEL WALKER, A.R.A, N.E.A.C (British, 1861-1951) Man seated on a bench, possibly Chelsea Embankment, circa 1920, stamped `E.W.` lower right, crayon and pencil, inscribed verso `from folio sold at Sotheby`s London, 7th April 1971, lot 7`, 5 1/4" x 10 1/2"

ROBERT KNIGHT A large folio of drawings and watercolours, including drawing books from Cyprus 1955-57

Lear (Edward). Views in the Seven Ionian Islands. A Facsimile of the original Edition Published in 1863 by the artist, pub. Hugh Broadbent, Oldham, 1979, litho. title and twenty litho. plts. (complete as list), manuscript dedication inscription by publisher to first prelim., orig. cloth gilt in clear plastic d.j., folio. Limited edition of 3/1000. (1)

Prout (Samuel). Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany, [1833], title, dedication leaf (with mounted facsimile hand-written note from the author, proposing a companion volume of fifty picturesque subjects, from Geneva to Rome including Venice), 3 pp. subscribers list, fifty full-page litho. plates, printed by Hullmandel, heightened with white, some scattered spotting, contemp. half green morocco, rubbed and some wear, with backstrip def., large folio (1)

Smith (C.). Smith’s New General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States throughout the World Carefully delineated from the best Authorities extant, 1818, eng. calligraphic title page, forty-five hand-col. engraved maps (inc. maps of Western & Eastern Hemisphere), occ. closed tears mostly to inner margins of few leaves and some light dust soiling, contemp. half sheep, worn and lacks spine, folio (1)

Wheler (Sir George). A Journey into Greece, in Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons ... containing I. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places. III. A Voyage Through the Lesser Asia. IV. A Voyage from Zant, through several parts of Greece to Athens. V. An Account of Athens. VI. Several Journeys from Athens, into Attica, Corinth, Boeotia, &c., 1st ed., 1682, folding eng. map (with neatly repaired short closed-tear), four eng. plts. of coins and three small eng. plts. tipped-in, numerous eng. illusts. to text (including maps, plans, antiquities, costume, natural history), a.e.g., mid 19th calf, gilt dec. spine lacking title label (slightly cracked and rubbed), upper board detached and extrems. slightly rubbed, folio. Wing W1607. Blackmer 1786. Atabey 1328. The first work to attempt a systematic topographical description of Greece, giving an account of Wheler’s Journey to the Levant in the Company of Jacob Spon in 1675-76. (1)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands, 2 vols.. 2nd. ed., Revised Digested and Published with large Additions by Edmund Gibson, 1722, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. 1, titles printed in red & black, fifty-one double-page uncoloured engraved maps by Robert Morden (including two folding), ten engraved plts. of coins and antiquities, very occ. off-setting. contemp. panelled calf, upper board to vol. 1 detached, remaining hinges and joints weak, heavily frayed and worn, folio. The maps are good dark impressions with large margins. (2)

Cooke (John H.). Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter Relating to , Printed or Published in, or Written by Authors Resident in the County of Chester..., pub. Mackie & Co, Warrinton, Northwich & Winsford, 1904, b & w port. frontis. and plts., t.e.g., orig. half vellum gilt, folio. Limited edition of fifty folio copies printed. (1)

Flower (John). Views of Ancient Buildings in the Town and County of Leicester, n.d., c. 1826, litho. title and 24 litho. plts., one plt. with two inch tear to margin some spotting, hinges split, orig. cloth gilt, spine torn and loose with slight loss, rubbed folio, together with Harwood (Thomas). The History and Antiquities of The Church and City of Lichfield: Containing its Ancient and Present State, Civil and Ecclesiastical..., Gloucester, 1806, ten eng. plts., incl. one plan, eng. illusts. to text, newspaper clippings to rear blanks, contemp. calf gilt, label to spine deficient, rear board corners with loss to leather, wear to extrems., 4to. (2)

Great Exhibition. Recollections of the Great Exhibition, 1851, pub. Lloyd Brothers & Co., Sept. 1st. 1851, dec. litho. title page and twenty-three (of twenty-four) tinted lithographs, contents shaken and loose, chipped, spotted and water stained throughout, orig. qtr. morocco with embossed gilt title to upper board, lacking spine, rubbed and worn, folio, together with eight large chromolithographs of china, porcelain and glass loosely inserted inside volume. Abbey Scenery. No.246. (1)

Hunter (Joseph). Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York..., 1st ed., 1819, eng. frontis. (timmed to image & laid down), eight eng. plts., contemp. half calf gilt, spine and extrems. rubbed, folio (1)

Kilby (Rev. Thomas). Scenery in the Vicinity of Wakefield; with a Brief Historical Descriptive Account, published by the author, at the Parsonage, Wakefield, 1843, addn. litho title and fourteen uncol litho plts., list of subscribers at rear, some spotting and finger soiling mostly to margins, few closed tears to leaves of text, some fraying to margins and few leaves loose, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, covers detached and lacks spine, old tape repairs to spine and boards, slim folio (1)

King (Daniel). The Vale-Royal of England or, the County Palatine of Chester Illustrated..., to which is Annexed, an Exact Chronology of all its Rulers and Governors..., also an Excellent Discourse of the Island of Man..., 1st ed., 1656, addn. eng. title, three double-page eng. maps, seventeen eng. plts (inc. 1 folding, 1 double-page and 11 plts. of armorials), few eng. illusts. to text, (all correct as list), extensive neat early manuscript notes to verso of county map, verso of leaf 4H3 and verso of map of Isle of Man, some slight image loss to double-page plt. of Chester Cathedral, later front free endpaper and lower hinge neatly repaired, contemp. calf, modern reback, folio. Armorial bookplate of White Kennett D.D. (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough. Upcott p.61. (1)

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay toward the Natural History of England, 1st ed., Oxford, [1677], imprimatur leaf dated 1676, eng. illust. to title page, sixteen eng. plts., folding map provided in facsimile, some dampstaining to margins, contemp. speckled calf, old reback preserving orig. spine (with recent title label), small folio in 4s. Morocco bookplate of Edward Hailctone and engraved library label of Rossal Hall Library. Wing P2585 and Upcott p.1069-1070. (1)

Prout (Samuel). [Picturesque Delineations in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, pub. T. Palser, 1812], lacks title page at front, twenty-three plates (containing seventy illusts.) in soft-ground etching, mostly picturesque and rustic subjects, including castles, cottages, views in Devon and Cornwall, river scenes, boats and shipping, without letterpress, occn. minor marks and soiling, mostly to margins, short closed tear to fore-margin of final plate, not affecting image, orig. calf backed plain boards, soiled and marked, some wear to edges, large oblong folio (1)

Roscoe (Thomas). Summer Tour to The Isle of Wight Including Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, The South Western Railway &c., 1843, half title and title page with dec. topographical vignette, fifty-one steel engraved views (including 17 vignettes, complete as list), one engraved folding map with closed tears, spotted throughout, one plate detached, a.e.g., contemp. cloth gilt, worn, 8vo, together with,Ogilby (John),Britannia Volume the First: or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales by a Geographical Description of the Principal Roads thereof, 1675, but facsimile ed. pub. Osprey, [1971],b & w portrait frontis., 100 strip road maps, the last eleven having been hand coloured, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, folio, together with, Robinson (Charles N. Commander R.N.),Britannia’s Bulwarks, The Achievements of our Seamen, The Honours of our Ships, 1901,title page printed in red & black, numerous b & w and coloured plates throughout, hinges weak, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed at extrems., oblong 4to., with,Lever (Darcy),The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor or a Key to the leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship, First Philadelphia from the second London Edition, pub. M.Carey & Sons, [1819],title page with large dec. vignette of warships but torn with loss and strenghtened on verso and recto with archival tissue, lacking all before p.vii (b1), numerous engraved plates, damp stained and spotted throughout, new end papers, modern cloth gilt, stained, 4to. (4)

Smith (Charles Hamilton). Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, out of the Collection in the Possession of the Author, 1st ed., 1814, addn. hand-col. aquatint title, eng. dedication leaf, and sixty fine hand-col. aquatint plts. (complete), ownership signature to title, a.e.g., gilt dec. dentelles, contemp. elaborate gilt dec. straight grain morocco with gothic style blind dec. to boards, upper board near detached and lower joint rubbed, folio. Abbey Life 431. (1)

Wickes (Charles). Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England, 3 vols. in one (including Supplement), pub. Thompson and Co., 1858-59, seventy-two uncol. litho. plates, complete, including tinted litho. frontis. to second part, some scattered spotting throughout, a.e.g., orig. morocco-backed cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, scuffed to spine with some wear to extreme head and foot, large folio (1)

The Gallery of Modern Etchings, Second Series, 10 orig. parts, pub. J. S. Virtue & Co., n.d., c. 1890, fifty etched plts., after Millais, Orchardson, Alma Tadema, Bonheur, Neissonier, Pettie, Fildes, Gerome, Millet, Rajon, Dendy Sadler, Bramley, L”Hermitte, Waterhouse, Lira, Schonn, Aranda, etc., by Rajon, Flameng, Unger, Haig, Murray, Dobie, Slocombe, Macbeth-Raeburn, etc., loose in ten orig. cloth-backed portfolios, some soiling, the first part with some marks and stains, large slim folio, sheet size 53 x 37cm (21 x 14.5 ins) Printed in a limited edition of 750 copies, issued to subscribers. (10)

Scrap album. Large Victorian Scrap album, c.1860, including newspaper cuttings, postal history, fifty-five lithographic cartoons by “HB” (John Doyle), and portraits, boards detached, lacking spine, rubbed and worn, folio (1)

* George III (King of England, 1730-1820). A group of thirteen initialled military memoranda, 1805-07, all concerning appointments, all but one inscribed “approved GR”, one additionally signed “George R” at head, the remaining document signed and initialled but without the word “approved”, all one page (except one document 2 pp.), folio/4to with integral docketed blank, some sl. soiling and browning and one or two small tears, together with an initialled memorandum from King George IV dated 17th July 1823, concerning the relief of Corps in the East Indies, one page with integral docketed blank, sl. soiled, folio, plus a signed memorandum from Queen Victoria, Horseguards, 3rd December 1841, one page with integral docketed blank, some browning and wear to folds, large folio, plus a copy of a King George III memorandum and seven contemp. copies of letters from Prince Frederick as head of the Army, c. 1800-03, some sl. soiling and marginal tears, 4to/folio (23)

* Hardy (Thomas Masterman, 1769-1839). Autograph letter signed “T.M. Hardy”, 8th May 1836, to Locker writing a reference, “I have no doubt that Mr. John Scott is the son of the late secretary of Lord Nelson, but he has never made application to me for pecuniary aid, altho” he has frequently applied to me to get him a situation in some public office. He was discharged from Somerset House as one of the Clerks, when the reduction took place, his Elder Brother is now a Clerk in the India House. I believe Mr. John Scott to be a very good and deserving young man”, some spotting, 2 pp. with integral blank pasted onto an old album leaf, 8vo, together with two orig. issues of The London Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday 6th November & Wednesday 27th November 1805, the first containing despatches of Vice Admiral Collingwood concerning the death of Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, names and number of guns supplied in neat manuscript in an unidentified hand for the order of the ships on second page, the second paper with more information on the Battle of Trafalgar from Collingwood and others including a return of the names of the officers and petty officers killed and wounded onboard the British ships, the first copy with several small tears along folds, the horizontal centrefold weak with some loss of lettering, the second paper in better condition, both with ink duty stamps to margins, 3 & 4 pp., folio (3)

* Scrap Album. A late Victorian scrap album containing numerous chromo. printed greetings cards, scraps, etc., twenty-seven leaves in total, orig. pictorial boards, worn with backstrip def. and contents partly loose, folio, together with a large collection of miscellaneous ephemera, including early 20th c. photographs of scenery and mining in South Africa, including Stellenbosch, a document signed by Leon Blum (1872-1950), the French Socialist Prime Minister, a map of the Orange River Colony, c. 1900, contained in original card case, autograph letter addressed to Mrs Edward R. Rogers, St. Thomas, Upper Canada, British North America, dated 1850, a partial autograph letter by Lieut. Roderick Adam to his mother dated July 1799, some early to mid 20th century original illustrations, magazines, including Elvis interest, sporting programmes, including the Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race, late 1940s/early 1950s, etc. (2 cartons)

* Charles I (King of England, 1600-49). Printed letter patent signed “Charles R”, Oxford, 14th February 1643, printed document with woodcut initial and manuscript insertion “fforty pounds”, the letter pointing out that the recipient [in this case John Prideaux of Cornwall] has an allegiance to the King and is required to provide military service if asked to do so, but that this is not required at present but instead a sum of money or its equivalent in plate [gold or silver] to the amount of forty pounds was to be paid and which the King promises to repay, the money raised being used to maintain an Army to oppose the Scots, signed at head by the King and at foot by Edward Littleton and Samuel Eure, 2 pp. with integral blank, the latter with wafer seal and address panel, manuscript receipt for the sum of forty pounds dated 30th April 1644 to first leaf verso, a little spotting and soiling, the second leaf with seal tear to upper margin and adhesion remains to centre fold, neither affecting text, folio (31 x 19cm, folded) John Prideaux is probably John Prideaux of Prideaux Place, who married Anne, daughter of Roger Mallock of Cockington, Devon. (1)

Charles II. A Proclamation Concerning His Majesties gracious Pardon, in pursuance of His Majesties former Declaration..., Given at Our Court at Whitehal, the Fifteenth day of June, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign, 1660, London: printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1660, two single sheets printed in black letter text to one side only forming the upper and lower halves of the proclamation, woodcut Royal armorial to top margin of upper half, some closed-tears and fraying slight loss of few words to first line of second half, folio, together with A Proclamation for the observation of the Nine and twentieth day of May instant, as a day of Publick Thanksgiving, according to the late Act of Parliament for that purpose, London: printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1661,single-sheet broadside printed in black letter to one side only, woodcut Royal armorial to upper margin, trimmed and partly re-margined to left & right margins (with slight loss of few letters of text), two short repaired tears (with loss of one letter of text), two old folds strengthened to verso, opening to approx. 630 x 285mm. Wing C3254 and C3498. (3)

Halley’s Comet. The True Protestant Mercury: or, Occurrences Forein and Domestick. [numb. 12], From Tuesday February the I. to Saturday the 5, 1680/1, pp.[2] (being leaf M1), disbound folio, together with The London Chronicle, no.2099, From Saturday, May 20 to Tuesday, May 29, 1770,pp.505-512, disbound 4to. The first item refers to the sighting of a comet (Halley’s comet), ÒStockholm, (the chief City of Sweden). Jan. 8. Yesterday we had several strange signs seen here in the heavens at noon day, viz. 3 Rainbows, 2 of which had as it were a sun in them shining exceeding bright, but very fiery; so that 3 suns were seen at noon day, this held a full hour, and at last plainly appeared the likness of the blazing-star or Comet (which we have seen here in the night for a month) which continued visible above a quarter of hour, with a large tail up the firmament: these things doe much astonish us: indeed they were terrible to beholdÓ. (2)

Parliament. An Act for Sale of the Goods and Personal Estate of the late King, Queen & Prince, Vicesimo sexto Junii, 1649. Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament, That this Act be forthwith printed and published..., London: Edward Husband, 1649, pp.[2],331-346, woodcut armorial to title and dec. initial to first leaf of text, some light dampstaining, disbound folio, strehgthened to spine edge (1)