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Ellsworth (R. H.) Later Chinese Painting... 3 vol., illustrations, many colour, original cloth, g.e., together in cloth drop-back box, small folio, New York, 1987.

Freart-Parallel of the Ancient Architecture 2 parts in 1, title in red and black, full-page engraved illustrations, engraved head- and tail-pieces, marginal water-staining, occasionally affecting text/illustration, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, joints cracking at head of spine, folio, 1733.

Gruz (H) Motifs de Peinture Décorative... chromolithographed additional pictorial title and 60 plates, most chromolithographed and heightened with gold, a few tinted, some mounted, some spotting, mostly marginal, Brussels bookseller`s label pasted over imprint on title, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed and a little stained, folio, Paris, Liege and Berlin, Ch.Clasen, 1860 [but after 1867]. ***Pattern book of Second Empire interior decoration by a painter-decorator who worked for distinguished clients of the day including Lefuel and Viollet-le-Duc. The pictorial title is dated 1860 but the preface refers to work by Gruz up to 1867..

Ibbetson (J.C.) Etchings of Cattle etc 14 etchings on Whatman wove paper, watermarked 1811, each c.225 x 300mm., loose as issued, with publisher`s advertisement, in original printed wrapper, dust-stained, folio, [1816]; with a duplicate set, lacking one plate and the advertisement § Porter (Rev. William Warren) Engravings from Drawings, title, list of subscribers, 8 engraved views on 5 sheets, some spotting, disbound, oblong folio, J. Tyler, 1806; with 2 plates by Edward Radclyffe after David Cox

Lewis (F.C.) Rivers of England & Wales 3 vignette titles and 65 plates, engravings, v.s., marginal damp-stain throughout, occasional minor spotting, titles more affected and with edges frayed, disbound in original boards, worn, 1846 § Lewis (John Frederick) [Domestic Subjects], engraved dedication and 15 etchings (?only), on chine appliqué, surface dirt, spotting and dampstaining, dedication with a tear, loose in a contemporary portfolio, worn, boards detached, 1836, folio(2)

Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege vignette title, portrait and 35 plates, with memoir by Charles Swain and list of plates, mezzotints, some spotting throughout, contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, worn, later cloth spine, [1835]; with another copy, lacking all text, portrait and title coloured § Gems of Art, title, list of plates and 30 mezzotint plates after Gainsborough, Girtin, Poussin, Cuyp, Reynolds and others, surface dust, half-calf, worn, 1823 § [Specimens of Art], 48 mezzotints after Rembrandt, Ostade, Claude, Reynolds and others, surface dirt, a few marginal tears, boards worn, 1830; with an album of engravings by Robert Graves A.R.A., including many proofs, folio & 4to(5)

Moss (Hugh M.) By Imperial Command... 2 vol., one of 1000 copies, colour plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, together in board slip-case, a little soiled, two flaps split, folio, Hong Kong, 1976.

Narazaki (M., editor) Ukiyo-e Masterpieces 14 vol. including index, Japanese text, illustrations, many colour, a few folding, all with English supplement booklet loosely inserted, original cloth, together in 13 original cloth slip-cases, a little soiled, folio, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1988-91.

Roethlisberger.Claude Lorrain: The Drawings 2 vol., Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968 § Angulo (D.) and A.E.Perez Sanchez. A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, vol.1 & 2, 1975-77 § Stampfle (F.) Netherlandish Drawings...in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York & Princeton, N.J., 1991 § Ferrari (E.L.) Goya: His Complete Etchings, Aquatints and Lithographs, New York, n.d. § Hayes (John) The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 vol., 1970 § Johnson (R.F.) Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts..., San Francisco, n.d., illustrations, original cloth, the first four with dust-jackets, the last with slip-case; and c.20 others on art, mostly drawings, 4to & folio(c.30)

Ruskin. Examples of the Architecture of Venice 3 parts, with 16 plates, engravings and lithographs, some partially coloured, loose as issued in printed wrappers, part I dust-stained, folio, 1851.

Sachs.Modern Opera Houses and Theatres 3 vol., subscriber`s copy No.57, plates, some double-page or folding, illustrations, vol.1 with light marginal water-staining, final plate of vol.2 slightly soiled, ?a few plates supplied from another copy, original buckram, gilt, a little rubbed and marked, folio, 1896-1898.

Spilsbury (John) Heads after Rembrandt 24 small etchings, some pale spotting, gilt-tooled green morocco, rubbed, gilt-lettered title on upper board, c.1775 § Every (S.F.) Etchings, 32 plates on 17 sheets, genre scenes and figure studies after Northern European masters, classical Roman ruins and other subjects, etchings, spotting throughout, contemporary cloth, worn, artist and title gilt-lettered on upper board, c.1835, 8vo & folio(2)

Wallis (Robert) [Engravings] 278 proof plates in 5 vol., after Turner, Roberts, Bartlett and others, engravings, most on chine appliqué, proofs, most before letters, some inscribed in pencil, vol. 1 with dedication inscription by Robert Wallis on front free endpaper, uniformly bound in elaborately gilt-tooled red morocco, spines in compartments, sunned, folio, 1863.(5)

BUNYAN, JOHN The Pilgrim`s Progress, illustrated with engravings originally drawn by Henry C. Selous, London: M M Holloway, 1844, oblong folio and The Royal Association of Fine Arts in Scotland, Six Engravings in illustration of the Antiquary for the Members of the Royal Association of the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867 (2)

Bonvoisin (Maurice, pseud. ‘Mars’). Paris Brillant, Paris, c. 1890, coloured and b & w illustrations, a few light spots, front hinge cracking, original boards, a little rubbed and stained, 4to, together with La Vie de Londres. Cotes Riants, Paris, c. 1900, coloured and b & w illustrations, one or two light fingermarks, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, oblong folio, plus Maurois (Andre), The Country of Thirty-Six Thousand Wishes, 1930, 11 coloured plates by D”Adrienne Segur, a few light spots, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, one or two dinks, d.j., losses at spine ends, a little soiled and chipped, 4to, with six others including The Romance of Tristram and Iseult, 1910, and Caran D”Ache the Supreme, 1933 (9)

Struwelpeter. Struweleter of Today, Deans Gold Medal Series No. 53 [cover-title], c.1900, 10pp., col. litho. illusts. throughout, first and final leaves form pastedowns (as issued), text block detached from orig. chromo. pictorial card wrappers, spine rubbed and splitting, upper cover with fore-edge sl. frayed, oblong folio, 246 x 373 mm (9.75 x 14.75 ins), together with The English Struwwelpeter, pub. Griffin, Farran, Browne, early 20th c. Rare. Not listed on COPAC. (2)

* Tute (George William, R.E., R.W.A., b. 1933). A set of illustrations for Country Matters by Duff Hart-Davis, pub. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, together twenty-four orig. pen & ink illustrations on paper (complete), of birds, animals, farming pursuits, deer stalking, etc., twelve illustrating the months of the year (head-pieces), full-page illusts. approx. 210 x 150 mm (8 x 6 ins), head-pieces approx. 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 ins)^, together with a copy of the book in which the illustrations appear, orig. boards in d.j. George Tute is a printmaker, wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at Blackpool School of Art, at the Royal Academy School (under Sir Henry Rushbury), where he won silver and bronze medals for mural painting, and the Courtauld Institute. Tute taught at the York School of Art and then at the University of the West of England where he became Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers and was the first Chairman of the revived Society of Wood Engravers. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Kew Gardens and Newport Art Gallery. He has undertaken many projects as a freelance book illustrator, mainly working with wood engraving and he has worked several times for the Folio Society. He has also worked for the Readers Digest Association, Batsford and Penguin. Work by George Tute is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. (25)

Burne-Jones (Edward). The Beginning of the World, Twenty-Five Pictures by Edward Burne-Jones, Longmans, 1902, b&w illusts., printed at the Chiswick Press, orig. cloth-backed printed boards very sl. rubbed to extrems. (generally in very good condition), slim folio (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. Matthew Flinders” Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798 Preceeded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sidney Cove &c., by Geoffrey Rawson, 1946, illustrations by John Buckland Wright, t.e.g., original green full morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine faded to brown, slipcase, small folio. Limited edition, 78/100. (1)

Matrix. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, vols. 6-10, 12-26, pub. Whittington Press, 1986-2006, numerous illustrations, fine printing and paper samples etc., original stiffened wrappers or boards, d.j.s, folio. Limited editions of between 760 & 975 copies in fine condition. (20)

Whittington Press. A Miscellany of Type, 1990, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 228/530, together with Butcher (David), The Whittington Press, 1996, half-tone plates and illustrations, original buckram-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 200/380, plus Macgregor (Miriam), Whittington. Aspects of a Cotswold Village, 1991, wood-engraved illustrations, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, with a portfolio of 12 of the wood-engravings, initialed in pencil by the artist, 4to, limited edition, XLV/50, signed by the artist (3)

Whittington Press. Knipton. A Leicestershire Village, by John O”Connor, 1996, coloured wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, folio, limited edition, 39/200, signed by the artist, together with Craig (John), Britten’s Aldeburgh, 1997, coloured and b & w illustrations, original boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 277/440, signed by the artist, plus Portraits of Presses, 1997, half-tone plates, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, oblong folio, limited edition, 12/500, with ten others including Margaret Bruce Wells. The Complete Wood-Engravings and Linocuts, Wood Lea Press, 2000, Edward Gordon Craig: The Last Eight Years 1958-1966, 1983 and Poems for Alan Hancox, 1993 (13)

* [Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville]. A family photo album, formerly belonging to John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (1883-1941), the album containing approx. 200 mounted b & w snapshots from 1900 to 1902, showing Wodehouse and his family at the family home at Witton Park, North Walsham in Norfolk, at Eton College, on holiday in Scotland, including photographs of his father Lord Wodehouse (first Labour peer in House of Lords), his grandfather the 1st Earl of Kimberley (Liberal politician and one time Foreign Secretary), his siblings Babe (Lady Isabel), Edward and Philip and his mother, the Eton photographs showing the Eton College Rifle Volunteers, various sports including the Wall Game, Fives, steeplechase and the Field Game, a few images now missing, mostly numbered and neatly captioned on mounts throughout, images mostly approx. 8 x 8 cm, album leaves with some browning and edgewear and several leaves detached, contemp. half morocco, disbound with upper cover present, oblong folio. Lord Wodehouse, 3rd Earl Kimberley, was a cousin of the novelist P.G. Wodehouse and is sometimes cited as the basis for the character of Bertie Wooster. Clearly, P.G. Wodehouse based a lot of his characterisation on his personal experiences and including his many uncles and aunts, this album providing a Wodehouse family snapshot at a time Pelham was enjoying his first publishing successes. (1)

after C & J Greenwood Map of the County of Dorset, London 1826, in a half leather bound folio with marbled boards and a facsimile copy of a Map of the County of Monmouth, 1830 printed by the South Wales Record Office 1985

TRADE CATALOGUES. THE NOTTINGHAM BUILDER`S BRICK CO LTD CATALOGUE OF PATTERNS 1898 two copies; Walter McFarlane & Co, Glasgow, Illustrated Catalogue of McFarlane`s castings, seventh edition, vol 1, section 1, rain-water pipes and connections, ears and heads, folio, with - section one, soil and drainpipes and connections, ventilation pipes, cable pipes (two copies) [c1890], Mellowes & Co Ltd, Sheffield - Metal Windows, colour illustrations [c1920], three others; several Victorian and other 20th century photographs of Nottingham, including a street scene, c1880, mounted albumen and silver prints and a builder`s ms estimate for extensive alterations and additions to the Star Brewery of James Shipstone & Sons Ltd, February 1925, 58 folios (qty)

Jacob Kramer; a collection of eleven limited edition prints, each portrait of a young female, contained in a folio.

HOLMES, Richard R. Naval & Military Trophies & Personal Relics of British Heroes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. Folio (398 x 300mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, 36 chromolithographed plates by William Gibb. Original red pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges (rebacked preserving original spine). OWEN, C. H. & T. L. DAMES. Elementary Lectures on Artillery, Prepared for the Use of the Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military Academy. Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution, 1860. Quarto (280 x 212mm). Plates, some folding, some with hand-colouring, tables (several plates lacking). Contemporary half roan (rubbed). Provenance: Andrew Noble (armorial bookplate and pencil signature on title, "Capt. Noble").. (2)

SALE CATALOGUES - Bank House, Wellesbourne. 1940; Sheffield Park, 1971; The Green Collection. 1976 (2 copies); Europaische Schmiedekunst. Part III. 1981; The Hever Castle Collection … Volume One. Arms and Armour. 1983; Powerscourt, Eniskerry. 1984; A Cabinet of Curiosities: the Property of The Lord McAlpine of West Green. 1994. With Wallis & Wallis Centenary. Some of the Best and Most Interesting. [n.d.]. SEITZ, Heribert. Ein Waffenhistorisches Handbuch. Blankwaffen I [II]. 1965-68. 2 vols; OAKESHOTT, R. Ewart. The Sword in the Age of Chivalry. 1964; OAKESHOTT, R. Ewart. The Archaeology of Weapons. 1960; NORMAN, A.V.B. The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820. 1980. WARING, J.B. Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 … Chromo-Lithographed by and under the Direction of W. R. Tymms, A. Warren, and G. Macculloch, from photographs supplied by the London Photographic and Stereoscopic Company, taken exclusively for this work by Stephen Thompson. London: Day & Son, 1863. Volumes I - II only (of 3). Folio (422 x 290mm). Additional chromolithographed titles, chromolithographed and tinted plates. Original reverse calf elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt edges (rubbed). With J.B. Waring`s Art Treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester … chromo lithographed by F. Bedford … with essays by Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt [etc] (London, 1858), The Art Journal. Illustrated Catalogue. The Industry of All Nations 1851 (London, [1852]) and Tallis`s History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World`s Industry in 1851 (London, [n.d.], vols. I and III only). (qty)

Arrowsmith (Samuel). The Bible Atlas with Ancient and Modern Names, being a Delineation of the Geography and a Chronological Arrangement of the History of the Holy Bible, 1835, calligraphic title page, twenty maps, plans and charts (only?) several with orig. outline colouring, spotted throughout, contemp. half calf with printed label to upper board, upper board near detached, rubbed and worn, slim 4to, together with,Simkin & Marshall, Hamilton Adams & Co. pubs.A Concise Historical, Biographical & Genealogical Atlas of the Principal Events in the Histories of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy, 1851,calligraphic title page, eleven (only?) engraved maps and genealogical tables with orig. hand colouring, occ. spotting, contemp. cloth gilt, lacking spine, slim folio, with Heaphy (Thomas),The Likeness of Christ: Being an Inquiry into the Verisimilitude of the Received Likeness of our Blessed Lord, 1880front free end papers and frontis. detached, title page printed in red & black, twelve litho. plates enhanced with gouache, gilt and bodycolour (complete as list), numerous b & w wood engravings to text, some spotting, contemp. white cloth gilt, stained and bumped at extrems., folio, with two othes similar (5)

Bacon (George W., pub.). Bacon`s Popular Atlas of the World, 1894, fifty colour printed maps (complete as list), three maps with closed tears crudely repaired with sellotape, contemp. cloth gilt, rubbed and worn, crudely re-backed, folio, together with The Times, pubs.The Times Atlas, 1899numerous colour printed maps, mostly double page, occ. marginal spotting, contemp. cloth gilt, rubbed worn and frayed, folio, with another four similar and a collection of fifteen early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, various sizes and condition. Sold as a collection of maps. Not subject to return. (21)

Bankes (Rev. Thomas). A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography..., pub. C. Cooke, [1797?], twenty-one eng. plts. (of 22, inc. 11 folding), eighty-seven eng. plts. only (of 91), title and following leaf torn and creased with loss, majority of folding maps torn, creased and with some loss, one plt. torn with major loss and some other plts. and text leaves torn, bound without title to vol. 1 (continuous pagination throughout), some plts. with juvenile drawings and marks to versos, lacks free endpapers, contemp. reversed calf, joints cracked and some wear, folio. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)

Blackie (W.G., ed.). The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography; An Extensive Series of Maps Embracing the Most Recent Discoveries and the Latest Political Divisions of Territory in all Parts of the World, 1860, 100 engraved maps with original outline colouring (complete as list) but with faulty pagination, water stained throughout, contemp. half morocco gilt, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, folio, together with The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, pub. Blackie & Son, 1883sixty-seven col. printed maps (correct as list) some marginal finger soiling, occ. marginal closed tears, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and worn, folio. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (2)

Blunt (Wilfrid & Stearn, William T.). Captain Cook`s Florilegium, a Selection of the Engravings from the Drawings of Plants Collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook`s First Voyage to the Islands of the Pacific, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973, title printed in gold and black, thirty eng. plts., list of subscribers loosely inserted, orig. black morocco-backed and edged silk boards by Zaehnsdorf, large folio, contained in orig. solander box with a copy of Captain Cook`s Florilegium, a Note on its Production by Joy Law, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1976, orig. morocco-backed buckram, 8vo. Limited editions, 86/100 and 86/175 copies respec. Subscriber number 86 was Bernard Meadows [1915-2005, sculptor]. The thirty engraved plates were printed by hand from the actual plates prepared directly after Captain Cook`s first voyage. The original sketches were made into engravings under Sir Joseph Banks`s supervision on the return of the expedition to England. The plates were never printed until this publication, which took thirteen years to complete. (2)

Bougard (Rene). The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are Clearly Instructed how to Navigate along the Coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily; the Isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, and others in the Straits; and of the Coast of Barbary Enriched with Upwards of One Hundred Appearances of Head-Lands and Light-Houses. Together with Plans of the Principal Harbours ... translated from the French ... with corrections and additions by J. T. Serres, 1st English ed., pub. for the author, by J. T. Debrett, 1801, title with some foxing and vertical crease, inkstamp erased towards inner margin, list of subscribers, nineteen (of twenty) hand-coloured aquatint plates of land profiles, lacking plate 20 (containing strip views of Salerno, Port of Messina and Gulph of Salerno), plates with watermark dated 1796, twenty-four hand-coloured engraved plans of harbours and islands, on twelve leaves, occn. minor foxing, some marks and soiling to margins, one or two short closed marginal tears, modern brown library cloth, rubbed and some marks, folio. Abbey, Life, 344. The first and only English edition translated by Serres, with corrections and additions, of Ren? Bougard`s Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, first published in 1684. (1)

Cassell & Co. (publishers). The Universal Atlas, 1893, title page printed in red & black, 117 colour printed maps (complete as list), many with two maps to one page, hinges and joints broken, contemp. cloth, lacking spine, soiled and worn, folio. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. (1)

Charle (J. B. L.). Nouvel Atlas National de la France par Departemens, Paris, n.d. c.1835, eighty-four b & w engraved maps on seventy-seven sheets (only), heavily water stained throughout, disbound and lacking title pages, index and all prelims., folio. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1850, 34 hand coloured engraved maps, all correct as listed, a.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, sl. rubbed, folio (1)

* Matabeleland. An archive of papers formerly belonging to Sir Frederick Carrington and largely relating the second Matabele Rebellion, 1896, including two printed copies of Proceedings of Summary Court Martials held at the Guai River on 12th June 1896 for the trials of Mazayela and Umtisana, both of whom were found guilty of armed rebellion and sentenced to be shot that evening, both copies signed and dated at foot `True Copy, Robert Baden-Powell Lt. Col. CSO, Buluwayo, 1st July 1896`, each 2 pp., folio, a further similar not signed but with minor corrections by Carrington, the remaining items being largely copy letters including from Coleridge Grove at the war office, Lord Rosmead, Lieutenant Colonel E.A.H. Alderson, Goodenough, Captain F.C. Selous (To Colonel W. Napier, 22nd May 1896), concerning military action, plus some printed items including instructions issued to Sir Frederick Carrington relative to military operations against the Matabele, HMSO, 1896, and a broadside concerning the importation of dogs order of 1897, mostly folio (approx. 25)

* Matabeleland - Trial of Baden-Powell. An archive of printed and manuscript papers relating to a court of inquiry set up to investigate the circumstances connected with the trial by Lieutenant Colonel Baden-Powell, and subsequent execution, of the Maholi Chief Uwini at Uwini`s mountain on 13th September 1896, including an autograph report signed from Gerald H. Upton to Captain P.H. van Niekerk dated 11th September 1896, concerning the build up to and the capture of Chief Uwini, a three page report from the day following signed by Captain van Niekerk giving details of action on the 9th, 10th and 11 September where he had captured Chief Uwini, `I called to the chief to come out promising to spare his life [the last five words underlined in red at a later date] or threatening to shoot him if he refused to do so. He came out shortly afterwards finding he was cornered`, together with the form of proceedings for Field General Court Martial comprising four printed leaves completed in manuscript and five related additional manuscript leaves including a schedule and an order for the assembly of a Field General Court Martial (marked G), various signatures including those of the Court Martial President Major H.M. Ridley, the final page signed by Baden-Powell, plus a four-page carbon copy of an autograph letter by Baden-Powell dated 13th September 1896, reporting `I have taken another step, which I hope you will not disapprove of - viz - trying Uweena by Court Martial. He is the big chief of this part, we have lots of evidence that he instigated rebellion and murders of whites, he is badly wounded, we cannot send him to Buluwayo, and I must be leaving this with some of the senior officers tonight. So if the court find him guilty and sentence him to be shot I shall take on myself the responsibility of confirming it. The effect too should be very good for being carried out promptly and at his own stronghold - and we have a good number of rebels, prisoners and refugees, here to witness it & report it to the remainder. I will send you the proceedings`, plus three manuscript documents marked enclosure A, B, C, the first a two page autograph letter signed from Baden-Powell to Frederick Carrington, also dated 13th September 1896 enclosing the proceedings of the Field General Court Martial and confirming that the sentence of execution by shooting was carried out at sundown, `The moral effect among the natives of this district where Uweena was the chief Induna, will, I think, be all the greater for the sentence being carried out promptly and at the chief`s own stronghold and should save further bloodshed`, the second enclosure an autograph letter from N.D. Fynn, Buluwayo, 1st October, 1896, a long three-page report giving his soundings on the death of Uwini, `There can be no doubt that the action of Colonel Baden-Powell in causing the death of Uwinya has had the very best results in ridding the country of the chief obstacle to the peaceful settlement of the Natives and of a most dangerous and plotting man`, the third enclosure being a letter to Baden-Powell of the same date from Val Gielgud, giving his opinion and good reference for Baden-Powell`s actions, plus a letter from Captain Vyvyan to Baden-Powell dated 25th September 1896, notifying him of the court of inquiry set up to investigate the trial and death of Uwini, one page with integral blank and Baden-Powell`s signed autograph response to verso dated 29th September 1896 in which he acknowledges the letter, gives his current movements and suggestions for a suitable date for the inquiry plus an autograph memorandum from Captain Vyvyan to Lieutenant Colonel Paget and his autograph note reply to the same leaf, plus a series of mimeographed extracts from General Orders and copies of telegrams, plus a few typed carbon copies of covering letters from Paget, Vyvyan and Carrington in November 1896, Paget saying at the end of his report, `The order for the trial was signed by Lt. Col. Baden-Powell, and with that authority I was prepared, when on Active Service, to try anybody I was told to. I did not know Lt. Col. Baden-Powell meant to carry out that sentence without reference to the GOC`, mostly folio sheets. For Baden-Powell`s account of this murky affair see his book `The Matabele Campaign`, 1897, pp. 288 ff. Baden-Powell was Frederick Carrington`s Chief of Staff during the Rebellion and gives his opinion on Baden-Powell`s actions on a duplicate of the proceedings of the court of inquiry (but written in ink in another hand), `I am of opinion that the military exigencies of the circumstances in which Lt. Col. Baden-Powell found himself at the time of Uwini`s capture was such as to call for strong measures and subsequent events have, to my mind, clearly proved that the prompt punishment, at his own stronghold, of Uwini as a powerful and notorious instigator of crime and rebellion exercised a very wholesome influence on the surrounding district and undoubtedly expedited its final pacification`. For his good work in the Matabele campaign, Baden-Powell was promoted to Brevet Colonel. Provenance: By descent from Sir Frederick Carrington. (a folder)

Russia. A Picture of St. Petersburgh, Represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City, the Sledges and the People. Taken on the Spot, at the Twelve Different Months of the Year: and Accompanied with an Historical and Descriptive Account, Printed for Edward Orme, [1815], twenty fine hand-col. aquas., drawn by Mornay, printed captions in English and French, the first twelve plts. having the name of the month within eng. wreath in the centre (a few plts. watermarked H. & S. 1820), some minor scattered spotting, contemp. half morocco, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and scuffed, small portion at foot of spine missing, folio. Abbey, Travel, 226. (1)

Staub (Rudolf). Der Bau der Alpen. Versuch einer Synthese, pub. Berne, 1924, maps and diags. to text, five folding maps and geological sections contained in rear pocket, recent crimson quarter morocco gilt, folio, together with Daubree (A.), Etudes Synthetiques de Geologie Experimentale, 2 vols., Paris, 1879, num. wood-engs. to text, six small mounted col. illusts., double-page map with overlays, recent black half morocco, red morocco labels to spines, tall 8vo, plus Hein (Albert), Geologie der Schweiz, 2 vols. in 3, Leipzig, 1919-22, num. folding maps and diags., b & w illusts. to text, orig. half parchment, gilt lettering to spines, large 8vo, and others related (21)

Switzerland, and the Bavarian Highlands, [1878-79], ninty-six eng. plts. (as list), a.e.g., orig. brown half morocco gilt, cloth dampstained and slightly torn to rear cover, rubbed to extrems., folio (1)

Tunison (Henry Cuthbert). Tunison`s Peerless Universal Atlas of the World, Jacksonville, Illonois, 1892, dec. title page, frayed and torn with slight loss, contents page, maps of the solar system and the world with closed tears, numerous col. printed litho. maps, many printed back-to-back, state maps of Kentucky and Ohio replaced in facsimile, some staining and marginal closed tears throughout, orig. cloth, rubbed and worn, spine partially lacking, folio, together with The Times, pub.ÒThe Times AtlasÓ, 1897,title page printed in red & black, 116 of 118 col. printed maps (lacking the general map of Asia), many with two maps to a page, slight toning throughout, hinges weak, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco with gilt dec. upper board, worn and frayed, folio, with Black Adam & Charles, pub.Encyclopaedia Britannica 10th ed. vol. XXXIV, Maps, 1903,numerous col. printed folding maps, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco, joints weak, frayed and rubbed, large 4to (3)

Camden (William). Camden`s Britannia Newly Translated into English: With large Additions and Improvements, 1st ed., pub. Edmund Gibson, 1695, uncoloured portrait frontis., title page with near contemp. manuscript marginalia and two ink ownership stamps, nine plts. of coins and antiquaries, sixteen (only) b & w engraved folding maps, maps occ. trimmed to strapwork margin, some marginal closed tears, some spotting and staining throughout, later end papers, front paste down with binders manuscript inscription, 19th century blind dec. boards, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. The maps comprise of:- England & Wales, Britannia Saxonica, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire, North Riding of Yorkshire and The Smaller British Islands. (1)

Clutterbuck (Robert). The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1815-27, folding county map (with repaired closed-tears), six maps & plans and forty-seven plts. (inc. 3 hand-col.), additional plt. adhered to verso of one map, list of subscribers to vol.1, occ. minor spotting, some light dampstaining & browning, ink library stamps to titles, leaves off text and verso of plts. & maps etc., library labels to front pastedowns, edges untrimmed, modern half morocco gilt, library classification number at foot of spines, folio (3)

Greenwood (C. & J.). Atlas of the Counties of England from Actual Surveys made from the years 1817 to 1833 by C. & J. Greenwood, Published by the Proprietors, April 1st 1834, calligraphic folding title page with vignette map of England and Wales, dec. genealogical chart of the Kings and Queens of England with orig. hand colouring, forty-six uncoloured engraved maps each with an ecclesiastical vignette, one map (Staffordshire) with small stain, orig. marbled end papers and paste downs, a.e.g., orig. boards with gilt titles to upper & lower boards, later half morocco with gilt dec. spine, two early leather toggle loops to fore edge of upper board, folio. The maps are very clean bright impressions with little if any damage. The toggle loops and dust cover bound into the lower board would possibly indicate that this example was bound for someone who needed it to be easily transportable. The maps are also bound in a series of geographical regions rather than as per the issued parts, which would indicate an atlas factice, bound to order. Chubb CCCCLVIII (b). (1)

Hall (S.C.). The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England. From Drawings by J.D. Harding, G. Cattermole, S. Prout, W. Muller, J. Holland, and Other Eminent Artists., 2 vols., 1881, seventy-one litho. plts (as list), first and last few leaves detached (vol. 2 only), occ. spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, some rubbing, folio (2)

Liverpool. A Report of the Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry into the existing state of the Corporation of Liverpool, held in the Court room in the Sessions House in Chapel Street, pub. J & J Mawdsley, Liverpool, Nov. 1833, folding engraved map of Liverpool docks with orig. hand colouring, laid on to front paste down, four further hand coloured engraved maps and plans (three folding), some closed tears to old folds, text with several closed tears, orig. half morocco gilt, worn and bumped, folio (1)

Maddox (Willes). Views of Lansdown Tower, Bath. The Favourite Edifice of the Late William Beckford Esq., 1844, chromolithographed title with hand-coloured lithographed vignette, six lithographed text illustrations, thirteen fine hand-coloured lithographed plates on twelve sheets, plates clean with marginal fraying and tears, some light spotting and dampstains to text, plates and leaves loose, original morocco-backed boards, wear to spine, folio, with a loose single page manuscript letter, dated January 1846, from Thomas Mclean to John Bruton on a publishing matter relating to the book. Abbey Scenery 420. (1)

North Eastern Coal & Iron District (so titled on spine). A bound volume containing six linen-backed eight-section maps of geological sections, by H.H. Howell, D. Burns, C. Fox-Strangways, G. Barrow and C. Reid, c. 1870s-80s, with manuscript index to front pastedown, `From Great Whittington, Tanfield Colliery, Springwell Colliery, Harton Colliery, Marsden to East Coast`, etc., recent blue half morocco gilt, folio, together with Rayner (D.H. and Hemingway, J.E., editors), The Geology and Mineral Resources of Yorkshire, pub. Yorkshire Geological Society, 1974, col. frontis., b & w illusts. and diags. to text, folding map at rear, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 4to, plus other regional geology including a few maps (2 cartons)

Pryce (William, of Redruth). Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines and Mining, printed for the Author, 1778, eng. port. frontis., seven eng. plts. (3 folding), two folding tables, list of subscribers, occ. minor spotting and one folding plt. with closed-tears & fraying to folds, modern antique style calf with red morocco title label to spine, scuffed, folio (1)

Smith (A.C.). Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles Round Abury, 1st ed. pub. Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1884, b & w plts. and illusts., one double-page map and nineteen mounted sectional maps (inc. 15 double-page), sewing weak, hinges cracked, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, frayed at head & foot of spine and to board edges, folio, together with Map of One Hundred Square Miles Round Abury; Shewing the British and Roman Stone and Earthworks of the Downs of North Wilts, by the Revd. A.C. Smith, M.A. 1884, twenty mounted litho sectional maps (16 double-page, inc. title), orig. cloth gilt, worn at head & foot of spine, folio. Rev A C Smith Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in two volumes (as above) in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed in a fire. (2)

Watney (Vernon J.). Cornbury and the Forest of Wychwood, Privately Printed, Hatchards, 1910, two folding b & w plans, seventy-five photogravure plts., occ. minor spotting, free endpapers darkened to edges, ownership bookplate to front paste-down and ink ownership stamp to front endpaper, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. full morocco by Hatchards, upper joint slightly cracked, slightly rubbed to extrems., folio (1)

Yorkshire. The Earl of Rosse`s Heaton and Shipley Estates, Bradford, Yorkshire, Particulars of Sale, 1911 sixteen folding plans (some fraying to edges of first plan), seven b&w plts., title worn with some loss, binding broken with covers detached, orig. cloth backed printed boards, some wear, folio (1)

Belon du Mans (Pierre). L`Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portraicts retirez du naturel, 1st ed., Paris, Gilles Corrozet, 1555, general title with hand-coloured printer`s woodcut device, and hand-coloured woodcut portrait of the author to verso, six sectional titles with small printer`s woodcut device to each, 160 woodcut illusts. to text, all with attractive early hand-colouring, woodcut initials, two leaves (b3-4) with extreme fore-margin restrengthened, minor foxing, contemp. mottled calf, rubbed and some surface wear to covers and joints, extreme lower outer of upper cover restored, folio. Nissen 86. Anker 9. Ronsil, p. 189, Zimmer, p. 52. One of the earliest books on ornithology, and the first based on the direct observation of nature. Belon`s comparison of human and avian skeletons became the foundation for the science of comparative anatomy. The second section of the work deals with falconry, and includes on page 106 a woodcut of a falconer luring a bird, as well as representations of owls, including the eagle owl, much used in hawking (see Schwerdt I, p. 59). Provenance: Abraham Viell (with ink inscription to title `Cette livre a portait a moy, Abraham Viell, 1621`); Daines Barrington (1727-1800), naturalist and author, and friend of Gilbert White (with his ink signature to head of title); Arthur Paget with his signature and inscription to front blank `Arthur Paget. October 1852. Coloured Plates, rare, sold at Col. Stanley`s sale for £8`, and with bookplate of John Moore Paget to front pastedown. (1)

Hughes (Griffith). The Natural History of Barbados, 1st ed., 1750, subscriber list, double-page eng. map by Thomas Jefferys (plate impression 43 x 36cm), thirty eng. plts., five text illustrations, many initial letter and head and tail-pieces, scattered heavy spotting, bookplate of Kirkleatham Library to front pastedown, contemp. calf with gilt-dec. spine, covers near-detached and spine partly broken, boards rubbed with a little wear to corners, folio (420 x 360mm), preserved in purpose-made modern cloth book box. Large paper copy. Nissen 950; Sabin 33582; Hunt 536; Great Flower Books p. 60. (1)

Humphreys (H. Noel). The Genera and Species of British Butterflies, n.d., c. 1860, additional hand-coloured litho. title and thirty-two plts., some minor spotting and soiling, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, neatly rebacked with orig. spine relaid, small folio (1)

Morandi (Giambattista). Historia Botanico-Practica, seu Plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura, descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptis desumptae, ac aeneis tabulis delineatae, atque ad vivum ex prototypo expressae ..., 1st ed., Milan, Pietro Francisco Malatesta, 1744, hand-coloured additional title (some marks and marginal soiling, two small holes towards top margin, sl. affecting image), title printed in red and black with engraved vign., sixty-eight single-page eng. plts. with contemp. hand-colouring, a few minor marks and small marginal stains to text leaves at front of vol., small dampstain to lower margin of approx. twenty plates at rear of vol., not affecting engraved surface, old inkstamp to engraved and printed titles erased, modern half calf, sl. rubbed, folio. Nissen BBI, 1406. Hunt 522. Stafleu and Cowan 6290. Johnston 404. First edition of Morandi`s herbal, for which the author drew and engraved all the plates, here with contemporary hand-colouring. Morandi worked for Victor Emanuel II of Savoy, as a botanical artist at the Gardens of the Castello Valentino in Turin. (1)

Robinson (B. Fletcher). Sporting Pictures, ed. Savory E. W. pub. Cassell and Company, 1902, title page printed in red and black, photographic col. frontis. and forty-eight col. printed tipped in plates (correct as list), one plate detached, near contemp. faux crocodile cloth, slightly rubbed and worn, folio. Using images by artists such as Archibald Thorburn, George Wright, Maud Earl, Ernest Prate, Thomas Blinks and Lancelot Speed, sports as varied as shooting, fox hunting, sailing, rowing, rugby, fishing, ladies hockey, curling and cricket are depicted. (1)

Somerset - Enclosure Document. Large manuscript copy on vellum of an enclosure award for the parishes of Martock and Muchelney, dated 1826, 123 pp., ink on vellum, inc. 5 large folding maps to rear, some ink signatures, minor sust soiling, contemp. reverse calf with red leather label to upper cover, fraying and wear to spine, large folio (56 x 39cm) The maps include: 1) Map of Common Arable Lands in the Parish of Martock 88 x 74cm. 2) Newmead and Southhay 40.5 x 36cm. 3) Map of Coat Mead / Map of Heaton Mead [on one sheet] 68 x 43cm. 4) Thorney Moor and Common Arable Fields Situate in the Parish of Mulchelney 53 x 43cm. 5) Map of Whetmoor, Lawsham & Case 79 x 90cm. (1)