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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)

Parliament. The Humble Petition and Advice, Presented unto His Highness the Lord Protector, by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses assembled at the Parliament begun and held at Westminster the 17th day of September 1656..., together with His Highness Consent unto the said Petitions..., London: printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1657, pp.[2],30, occ. scattered spotting and slight browning, disbound folio strengthened to spine edge, together with A Proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament. Whereas the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland, taking into their consideration, the duty incumbent upon them..., Given at Westminster the 26 day of June, 1657, pub. London: printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1657,single sheet broadside printed to one side, woodcut armorial at head trimmed with slight loss, folioThe Proclamation was printed along with the Petition and Advice to be distributed throughout the land in order that all might know the powers of the Lord Protector. (2)

Popish Plot. A Narrative Written by E[lkanah] Settle, 1st ed., 1683, pp.[8],25, title dust-soiled, final leaf torn to lower outer corner (not affecting text), few marks, disbound folio, (Wing S2700), together with A Letter to Mr. Settle, Occasioned by his late Famouse Recanting and Plot-Ridiculing Narrative, 1st ed., 1683, pp.[2],14, disbound folio, (Wing S196), with Harley (Robert), Remarks on the Latin of the Preamble to the Patent of Robert Harley, Lately made Baron of Wigmore, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, 1711, 4pp., frayed and torn to edges, 4to, an The Reasons which induc”d Her Majesty to Create the Right Honourable Robert Harley, Esq; A Peer of Great-Britain, 1711, 8pp., some browning, frayed & torn to edges, 4to, with Committee of Secrecy, Observations on the Report of the Committee of Secrecy, 1st ed., J. Roberts, 1715, pp.[2],26, contemp. ink annotations to margins, stitched as issued, folio, plus other pamhlets etc., including The Case and Memoirs of the Late Rev. Mr James Hackman, and of his Acquaintance with the late Miss Martha Reay, 1779 (10)

Bacon (Francis, Viscount Verulam). Sylva Sylvarum: or, a Naturall History. In Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life..., 7th ed., 1658, eng. port. frontis. and addn. eng. title, some light dampstaining to margins, recent endpapers, 20th c. half calf, spine faded, small folio. Gibson 177a & Wing B328. (1)

Bates (William). The Favourite Songs Sung at Vaux-Hall Gardens &c Composed by William Bates, 1768, 1st ed., pub. J. Longman, [1768], 13pp. of eng. music including eng. title with red ink ownership name stamp for Benjamin Willett, some marks, dampstaining and dust-soiling, strengthened to inner margins, 20th c. half cloth, slim folio, together with Dryden (John), Alexander’s Feast, or, The Power of Musick. Written by Mr. Dryden. To which is added, The Coronation Anthems. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden Set to Musick by Mr. Handel, London: printed for J. and R. Tonson, [1765?], pp.[2],7-18, libretto only, 20th c. wrappers, slim 4to. (2)

Binding. A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches, by N. Brady and N. Tate, 1778, ink ownership signature “Eliz Landor” to front blank, a.e.g., contemp. red morocco with elaborate gilt dec. to spine and boards, black morocco ownership label of “Robert Landor, Liverpool, 1782, Church Warden, St. Pauls” to upper board, spine and extrems. rubbed and slightly worn, 8vo, together with Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldrie..., 5th ed., 1679, numerous woodcut armorials (many with early hand-colouring), incomplete lacking general title, borders ruled in red, annotations to margins, ownership signature of Walter Noble Landor to front free endpaper, initial leaves detached, near contemp. half sheep, upper board detached and binding very worn, small folio, with Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments..., printed by John Baskett, 1739, few leaves loose and contents browned, contemp. sheep, lacks spine and some wear, 4to, plus eight other misc. antiquarian volumes (11)

[Bramston, James]. The Man of Taste. Occasion”d by an Epistle of Mr. Pope’s on that Subject, 1733, engraved frontispiece to verso of half title, 19pp., scattered spotting, later calf-backed boards, spine rubbed, folio, together with The Art of Preaching: In Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry, Printed for R. Dodsley, [1738], 18pp., woodcut vignette to title, occasional light soiling, disbound, folio, plus Advice to a Lady, Printed for Lawton Gilliver, 1733, 8pp., woodcut headpiece and initial, a few light spots, recent buckram-backed boards, folio, with four others: The Temple of Fame. A Poem, 1709 (two copies) and The Art of Politicks, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry, 1729 (two copies) (7)

Bruyn (Abraham De). A collection of sixty-six engraved plates of European costume, from Omnium Poene Gentium Imagines, pub. Cologne, 1577, a collection of engraved plates of male and female costumes of ecclesiastical figures, European heads of state and dignitaries (including Turkey and Greece), military, lay people, etc., mostly four figures to each plate, some with watermark of a Gothic P, some marks and occ. discol., some with minor loss to outer edges, all trimmed to double rule border, and mounted in 17th century full maroon morocco album, marked and stained, covers warped, some prints loose, oblong folio. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Dawson (George). Origo Legum: or, A Treatise of the Origin of Laws and their Obliging Power: as also of their great variety, printed for Richard Chiswell, 1694, half-title, printed title in red and black, badly dampstained to fore-margins, with consequent fraying and paper loss, which encroaches on the ruled border of title, and affects one or two printed marginal notes (but generally without loss of text), contemp. panelled calf, partly split at foot of upper joint, together with three other dampstained folios, all similarly damaged to fore-margins, including Henry Lee, Anti-Scepticism: or, Notes Upon Each Chapter of Mr. Lock’s Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, 1702, all folio, w.a.f. (4)

George III - Royal Coronation. The Form of the Proceedings to the Royal Coronation of their Most Excellent Majesties King George III. and Queen Charlotte. From Westminster-Hall, to the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, at Westminster. On Tuesday the 22 Day of September 1761. Together with a List of the Peers, Peeresses, and Privy-Counsellors, pub. W, Bowyer, 1761, 18pp., occasional neat additional annotation, bound with The Earl Marshal’s Order Concerning the Robes, Coronets &c. Which are to be Worn by the Peeresses at the Coronation of their Most Sacred Majesties King George III. and Queen Charlotte, 1761, 4pp. small illustration of crowns, later half morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio. ESTC T88230; N6961. (1)

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings..., Abstracted from the Folio Edition..., 3rd ed., Dublin, 1768, title marked and slightly frayed to edges, contemp. mottled sheep, lacks lower board, upper joint slightly cracked and rubbed to extrems., 8vo. (1)

Jones (Owen, illust.). A Welcome to Her Royal Higness the Princess of Wales from the Poet Laureate, pub. Day & Son, 1863, chromolithograph title and seven chromo leaves of text within dec. borders, occ. spotting to margins, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt with title to upper board & spine ÒA Welcome to AlexandraÓ, slightly wear to head & foot of spine, lower joint and board corners, small folio (1)

Landor Family. Two manuscript volumes of genealogical information relating to the Landor family, late 19th/early 20th, incl. coats of arms, family trees etc., cloth and leather bound, some wear, folio, together with Landor (Robert Eyres), Selections from his Poetry and Prose with an Introduction Biographical & Critical by Eric Partridge, 1927, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. japanese vellum gilt, 8vo, plus six others related, some with ownership stamp for Walter N. Landor (10)

Middleton (J.). A Celestial Atlas, containing Maps of all the Constellations visible in Great Britain, with Corresponding Blank Maps of the Stars, Systematically Arranged for Communicating a Practical Knowledge of the Heavens, [1842], eng. title, five white-on-black star charts with corresponding hand-col. eng. celestial maps, dampstaining throughout, contents loosely contained in contemp. marbled boards with leather label to upper cover, later crude spine repair, slim oblong folio (1)

Plinius Secundus (Gaius). Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII. Quos Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Joannes Harduinus..., Editio altera emendatior & auctior, 2 vols. in three, Paris, 1723, folding eng. map and eleven eng. plts. of coins, small hole to title of vol. 1, contemp. calf, elaborate gilt dec. spines with contrasting morocco labels to spines, joints cracked and slight wear to extrems., folio. Brunet IV, 716. (3)

Sawbridge (Jacob). An Exact Particular and Inventory of all the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Debts, and Personal Estate, of Jacob Sawbridge..., 1721, pp.[13],38, disbound folio, together with East India Affairs, Letters of Mr. John Hutchinson, Descriptive of the Perilous Situation of the Rajah and the Company’s Settlements in the Travancore Country, c.1795, 2pp. printed document, some closed-tears, folio, with Assessed Taxes, Return for the Assessment of the Year 1846, ending 5th April 1847, on Articles kept between 5th April 1845, and 6th April 1846, 4pp. printed document for Sir T. Phillips (not completed, name & address only), folio, with other printed documents & pamphlets including three entitled “Benefit Tickets in the Lottery for 700,000l. for the Year 1751”, torn with loss (8)

Sawyer (Edmund). Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (Chiefly) from the Original Papers of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood... , 3 vols., 1725, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, later half vellum gilt with red morocco labels to spines, covers dampstained, somewhat affecting contents, folio, together with MacLeod (Henry Dunning), The Elements of Political Economy, 1st ed., 1858, later quarter vellum gilt with black morocco lettering piece, 8vo, plus Fraser (Simon), Reports of the Proceedings Before Select Committees of the House of Commons, in the Following Cases of Controverted Elections; viz. Helston, Dorchester, Okehampton, Newark, Pontefract, Orkney and Zetland, 2 vols., 1793, later half vellum gilt, 8vo, with ten other vellum bindings (16)

[Sherlock, William]. A Discourse Concerning a Judge of Controversies in Matters of Religion. Being an Answer to some Papers Asserting the Necessity of such a Judge..., 1686, some light dust soiling, near contemp. qtr. sheep, joints cracked and loss at head & foot of spine, slim 4to, (Wing S3285A), together with Burnet (Gilbert), A Sermon Preached on the Fast-Day, Decemb. 22, 1680, at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, 1681, fore-edge margin of title excised and repaired, final leaf G1 marked and with closed-tear, early 20th c. half calf, slim 4to, (Wing B5874), withHellier (Henry), A Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford December 4, 1687 Concerning the Obligation of Oaths, pub. Oxford, 1688, title torn, dampstained & detached, bound with Sherlock (William), The Charity of Lending without Usury and The True Notion of Usury briefly stated. In a Sermon Preach”d before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at St. Bridget’s Church, on Tuesday in Easter-Week, 1692, pub. 1692, bound with Two Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Saviour’s Church in Dartmouth..., by Humfry Smith, M.A. and Vicar there, pub. 1690, bound with twelve others similar, some light dampstaining and few marks, manuscript notes to endpapers including ÒDaniell Downe his Booke, Bought at an action in 1729/30 price one shilling sixpenceÓ, contemp. boards lacking leather, 4to, plus Sermons, Certain Semons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches, in the time of Queen Elizabeth..., Oxford, 1683, hinges split, contemp. panelled calf, paper library label to upper board, joints cracked and spine worn, folio (4)

Townshend (Heywood). Historical Collections: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of Famous Memory. Wherein is contained the Compleat Journals both of the Lords & Commons, taken from the Original Records of their Houses..., 1680, short closed-tear to lower margin of title & following leaf, contemp. calf, joints slightly cracked, rubbed ans scuffed, folio. Wing T1991. (1)

Zosimus. Zosimi Comitis et Exaduocati Fisci, historiae novae libri VI... Adiecimus & Leonardi Aretini rerum Gothicarum commentarios, de Graecis exscriptos..., Basel, [1576], eng. device on title-page, title creased and with ink stamp, foxed and browned throughout, intermittent water-staining to lower outer blank corners, final few gatherings with corners creased, and last few leaves torn and frayed (paper repairs on verso of final leaf), contemp. vellum, worn and stained, with spine deficient and lower cover missing, folio in 6s, together with a damp and mould-stained copy of Isocrates” Orationes et Epistolae, cum Latina Interpretatione Hier. Wolfii, ab ipso postremum recognita, [Geneva], Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne), 1593, contemp. vellum, worn, folio in 6s. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2)

Bayer (Johann). Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa, Ulm, Johannis Gorlini, 1661, hand-coloured eng. allegorical title, fifty-one hand-coloured copper eng. plts. [by Alexander Mair], extensively heightened with opaque watercolour and gold, some browning to edges, blank fore-margins extended throughout, title with archival restrengthening to upper and lower edge, 18th c. tree calf, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, repairs to edges of covers, oblong folio (sheet size 305 x 405mm; 12 x 16 ins) Norman Library 142. A fine copy with hand colouring of Bayer’s Uranometria (first published in 1603), the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere, in fifty-one star charts, including one containing twelve new constellations unknown to Ptolemy. The illustrations are based on Jacob de Gheyn’s designs for the Grotius edition of Aratus, published in Leiden in 1600. Johann Bayer (1572-1625) practised as a lawyer in Augsburg, but his principal interest was in the rapidly developing field of astronomy. His most important innovation was a new system of identifying all stars (prior to the invention of the telescope) by Greek and Roman letters, known today as the Bayer designation. (1)

[Burnet, Thomas]. The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes which it hath already undergone, or is to Undergo till the Consummation of all Things, 2 vols. in one, 3rd ed., 1697, eng. port. frontis. and addn. eng. title, two folding eng. plts. and few eng. illusts. to text, inner outer corner of letterpress title to vol. 1 excised & repaired, ink stain to verso of leaf B2, lower outer corner of leaf O3 excised and leaf 2D1 repaired to lower margin of Vol. 1, modern calf, folio. Comprises four parts concerning the Deluge, Parise, Burning of the World and the New Heavens and New Earth. Wing B5953. (1)

Crocker (H. Radcliffe). Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin in a Series of Illustrations from Original Drawings with Descriptive Letterpress, 8 vols., pub. The Caxton Publishing Co., 1903, ninety-six col. litho. plts. (complete), bound in eight orig. cloth board folios with silk ties, each with printed title to upper board, some rubbing and staining, large folio (8)

Horblit (Harrison D.). One Hundred Books Famous in Science, Based on an Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 1st ed., Grolier Club, New York, 1964, plts. in black and white or black and red, t.e.g., orig. two-tone cloth gilt in orig. slipcase, (one of 1000 copies), 4to, together with Singer (Charles), The Earliest Chemical Industry, an Essay in the Historical Relations of Economics and Technology Illustrated from the Alum Trade, 1st ed., Folio Society, 1948, col. and b & w plts. and illusts., ex-lib. with ink stamps and labels to front endpapers and title, t.e.g., hinges cracked, orig. cloth with lib. classification number to spine, somewhat frayed and soiled, folio, (limited edition 382/1100) (2)

Stirling (William). Some Apostles of Physiology, Being an Account of their Lives and Labours... , privately printed, 1902, b & w plts. and illusts. including port. frontis. of John Hunter, orig. owner name of Harry James Hitchins completed in name place to title, modern buckram with orig. printed label to spine, folio, (G & M 1576), together with Fulton (John F. & Wilson, Leonard G.), Selected Readings in the History of Physiology, 2nd revised and enlarged ed., Springfield, 1966, b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in rubbed d.j., (G & M 1588.2), plus Bick (Edgar M.), Source Book of Orthopedics, augmented facsimile reprint, New York & London, 1968, a few b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. frayed and browned d.j., (G & M 4482), plus LeVay (David), The History of Orthopedics, 1st ed., Carnforth & New Jersey, 1990, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, all large 8vo, plus others on the history of physiology and orthopedics (22)

Willius (Fredrick A. & Keys, Thomas E.). Cardiac Classics, A Collection of Classic Works on the Heart and Circulation with Comprehensive Biographic Accounts of the Authors, 1st ed., 1941, some b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and spine faded, large 8vo, (G & M 3158), together with Willius (Fredrick A. & Dry, Thomas J.), A History of The Heart and of The Circulation, 1st ed., Philadelphia & London, 1948, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo (G & M 3160), plus Lint (J. G. de), Atlas of the History of Medicine, vol. 1, Anatomy, [all pub.], foreword by Charles Singer, 1st ed., 1926, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, folio, plus Wolf-Heidegger (G. & Cetto, Anna Maria), Die anatomiche Sektion in biltlicher Darstellung, 1st ed., Basel & New York, 1967, b&w and some colour illusts. at rear, orig. cloth in rubbed d.j., 4to, (G & M 461.1), plus others on the history of cardiology and the history of anatomy (25)

Art Journal, 3 vols., 1862, 1863 & 1873, num. full-page eng. plts. after old masters, sculpture, etc., num. wood eng., a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear to extrems., 1863 vol. with some loss to leather, folio. The 1862 volumes contains the Catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition. (3)

Auction catalogue. A Catalogue of a Capital Collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Pictures, Consigned from Abroad... Which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, on Friday the 6th, and Saturday the 7th of March, 1772, 4pp., some light soiling and marginal chips, old folds, disbound, folio, together with A Catalogue of a Well-Chosen and Capital Collection of Italian, Flemish, French and Dutch Prints, Books of Prints and Drawings, (Part of which was purchased out of the collection of the late U. Price, Esq;) Paintings in Water Colours, Music, French Horns &c. Belonging to a Nobleman Going Abroad... Which will be Sold at Auction by Mr. Christie, on Monday, April 13, 1772, and the Following Days, 15pp., lower portion of title torn away, affecting text, one or two spots, disbound, 8vo. (1)

The Bookman. A Journal for Book Readers, Book Buyers and Book Sellers, 19 bound vols., a run, 1895-1916, num. b & w illusts., tipped in ports. and col. plts., several Christmas Portfolios present, including Edmund Dulac, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Hugh Thompson, etc., uniform contemp. navy half morocco gilt, folio (19)

Hamilton (Peter). Robert Doisneau. A Photographer’s Life, 1st ed., 1995, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Nickel (Douglas R.), Carleton Watkins. The Art of Perception, with an Introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000, num. sepia illusts. from photos, some folding, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, plus Haworth-Booth (Mark), The Art of Lee Miller, V & A Publications, 2007, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, and others related, mostly G/VG (5 cartons)

Paris Salon Exhibition. 13 vols., pub. Goupil & Co., 1886-92, 1894-97, 1899-1900, col. and b&w photogravures throughout, occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, some boards detached, 1886 vol. lacking spine, rubbed, folio (13)

Raphael Sanzio (da Urbino). Logge del Vaticano, Rome, Niccola de Antoni, circa 1802, eng. title by Giovanni Balzar after Luca Comparini, and thirteen full-page plates by Carlo Lasinio after Raphael, all with fine antique-style hand-colouring, some scattered foxing mostly to margins, light waterstain to upper outer corner of title only, old plain wrappers, soiled and some fraying to edges, large slim folio (620 x 460mm) (1)

Soane (John). Designs in Architecture, Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Temples, Baths, Cassines, Pavilions, Garden-Seats, Obelisks, and other Buildings; for decorating Pleasure Grounds, Parks, Forests &c, printed for I. & J. Taylor, 1789, printed title and thirty-seven copper eng. plts. (numbered I-XXXVIII, with penultimate plate numbered XXXVI & XXXVII), occ. sl. foxing to upper margins (generally a clean copy), contemp. half calf gilt (spine and outer corners renewed), bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley to front pastedown, small folio. Harris 839. (1)

Steadman (Ralph). Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1st ed., MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1972, signed (scribbled) on dedication leaf by the artist, num. b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., folio, together with Sigmund Freud, by Ralph Steadman, 1st ed., Paddington Press, New York & London, 1979, signed on title by the artist, num. b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., 4to, plus Scarfe (Gerald), Drawing Blood. Forty Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored, 1st ed., 2005, signed on half-title by the artist, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., 4to, with five others by Steadman and one by Ronald Searle, G/VG (9)

Tamura (Tsuyoshi). Art of the Landscape Garden in Japan, pub. Tokyo, 1935, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. dec. cloth gilt, in slipcase with printed label to upper cover, large 4to, together with Kuck (Loraine E.), One Hundred Kyoto Gardens, 1935, folding map in rear pocket, tipped-in col. plts., b&w illusts., orig. printed cloth, in later slipcase, 8vo, plus Hillier (Jack), The Art of the Japanese Book, 2 vols., 1987, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth in d.j.s, in orig. slipcase, folio, plus Joly (Henri L. & Tomita, Kumasaku), 1976, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., in orig. slipcase, large 4to, plus approx sixty others incl. books on Japanese gardens, art and architecture and a small quantity of books on shells (65)

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)

Upper & Lower Case Magazine. The International Journal of Typographics, approx. 90 issues, vol. 1, no. 1 - vol. 26, no. 2, pub. International Typeface Corporation, New York, 1977-99, a broken run, b & w and col. illusts., orig. printed wrappers, folio & 4to, inc. some duplicates (a carton)

Alcock (C.W., editor). Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds, [1895], without titles and index, num. b&w illusts. from photos., orig. printed wrappers bound in at rear, retained in orig. cloth gilt, spine faded and slightly split, folio (1)

Crombie (Charles). Laws of Cricket, pub. Perrier, [1907], twelve col. litho. plts., each with Perrier ad. to verso, single ad. leaf at rear, some browning to title and some finger soiling to margins throughout, orig. linen-backed pict. boards, rubbed and slightly dust soiled, oblong folio. Padwick 7012. (1)

Football. Alcock (C.W. & Hill, Rowland), Famous Footballers and Athletes, [1895-1896], 224pp., without title or index, num. b&w illusts. from photos., orig. printed wrappers bound-in at rear, orig. qtr. cloth gilt, rubbed, folio (1)

* Golf. An album of over 300 b&w photos, c. 1912-26, a society album with photographs of Valescure Golf Links (on the Cote d”Azur, France), plus various games in progress, the majority probably relating to the Valescure Golf Club Secretary, Colonel Ronald Brooke, the majority of photos approx. 7 x 10cm and mounted as multiples to each page with ink captions including people’s names and dates to mounts, a few items of ephemera pasted in including a menu on the occasion of the inauguration of the Garros Monument, 19th April 1914, signed by Garros and Jean Aicard, a few larger group photos and cuttings, etc., a total of twenty-six stiff card leaves, some spotting, contemp. cloth, spine def. and covers near det., oblong folio (1)

Boy’s Own Annual, vols. 1, 2, 10, 12-16, 1879-1912, together 9 vols., folding chromo. plts. (several damaged), num. b&w wood eng. illusts., a few leaves loose and frayed, all orig. gilt dec. cloth, head of spine torn to vol. 13, rubbed, folio (9)

Folio Society, approx. 100 vols., c. 1960s-2000, including A Century of Conflict 1848-1948, by A.J.P. Taylor, Empires of the Ancient Near East, The Berlin Diaries of Marie Vassildchikov, Works by the Bronte sisters, Thackeray, and many others, all orig. cloth, mostly with slipcase, G/VG (approx. 100)

Folio Society, 40 vols., c. 1960s-90s, all orig. cloth, mostly with slipcase (40)

Wilde (Oscar). Salome, A Tragedy in One Act, translated from the French, with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, John Lane, 1912, b & w plts., 6pp. pubs. ads. at rear, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, darkened spine rubbed at ends and with gilt dulled, 8vo, together with Tom Eckersley, His Graphic Work, 1994, b & w port. frontis., and seventy-three col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, sm. folio, (limited edition of 500 copies, this unnumbered), plus Weber-Dresden (J.M. Erich), Theory and Practice of the Confectioner..., 2nd ed., [1929], half-title, numerous col. and b & w plts. and illusts., with large sheet of template patterns loosely inserted (some closed tears in folds), orig. half morocco, spine faded, extrems. a little rubbed and a few light marks, upper cover gilt lettered, 4to, plus ten others, mostly private press, some duplicates, incl. a deluxe folio of reproductions of brush drawings by a contemp. Japanese artist, pub. 2003, bound in qtr. suede and wooden boards, in linen slipcase (13)

Bedford (Arthur). The Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations, and also by the Year of Jubilee, and the Sabbatical Year Among the Jews: Or, an Account of Time from the Creation of the World, to the Destruction of Jerusalem; as it may be Proved by the Writings of the Old and New Testament, 1730, title printed in red and black, twenty-three maps and engs. (some folding), contemp. sprinkled calf gilt, hinges cracked, folio, together with Caldecott (Randolph), “Graphic” Pictures, Complete Edition, 1891, num. col. and b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, minor wear to extremities, oblong folio (limited edition 358/1250), plus Gibb (William), The Royal House of Stuart, London & New York, 1890, forty chromos., a.e.g., orig. olive green half morocco gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, large 4to, and other miscellaneous antiquarian and bindings (2 cartons)

Betjeman (John and Piper, John, eds.). Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide, 1st ed., 1949, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. dec. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 4to, together with Manuale di Cecima, Pasticceria e Credenza per l”uso di Famiglia. Contenente piu di 4000 ricette e 280 disegni intercaleti nel testo... , Venice, 1910, num. small wood-engs. to text, orig. cloth, rubbed and some wear to spine, thick 8vo, plus Carson (Annette), Flight Fantastic. The Illustrated History of Aerobatics, 1st ed., 1986, 2 copies, one inscribed from the author “To Iona - with thanks for all your help and much love, 9.7.86”, the other inscribed “Iona in appreciation for all your efforts. British Aerobatic Association AGM. 1990”, with nine signatures, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. laminated pict. boards in matching d.j., folio, both VG, and other miscellaneous books, mostly foreign language dictionaries and grammar, including Irish and Russian. Ex libris Iona Radice, aviator and judge at aerobatic meetings. (3 cartons)

British Sports & Sportsmen Past & Present, Compiled and Edited by “The Sportsman”, 2 vols., 1908, num. eng. ports., a.e.g., orig. crimson morocco gilt, a little rubbed and a few scuff marks, folio (limited edition 670/1000), together with The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited Alfred E.T. Watson, 24 vols., a broken run, 1895-1908, num. b & w illusts. from photos, publisher’s orig. Art Nouveau-style pict. cloth bindings, rubbed and some minor wear, some damp stained, large 8vo, plus 7 x Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes series, including Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets & Fives; Cricket (2 copies); Yachting, 2 vols.; Hunting & Shooting, vol. 2 only (3 cartons)

Evelyn (John). The Compleat Gard”ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gradens; with Divers Reflections on Several Parts of Husbandry. In Six Books. By the Famous Monsr. De La Quintinye, Chief Director of all the Gardens of the French-King. To which is Added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons, Omitted in the French Editions. Made English by John Evelyn..., 1st ed., 1693, title printed in red & black, eleven eng. plts. inc. some folding, several leaves provided in facsimile (incl. frontis.), slight insect damage (not affecting text), contemp. calf, spine witn some fraying to head and minor restoration at foot, folio, Wing L-431, together with Wakefield (Priscilla), An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, 9th ed., 1823, nine hand-col. plts., contemp. calf, rebacked anbd corners strengthened, 8vo, plus Hill (Sir John), The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, Which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs..., 1812, fifty-three (of 54), col. plts., starts on title-page, contemp. marbled calf, covers detached with old tape marks, wear to extrems, 8vo, plus eighteen others, mostly gardening related (a carton)