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Binding.- Old Master Drawings... now blank portfolio scrapbook constructed from boards bound in full French red morocco by Padeloup full gilt decoration with the arms of Louis XV stamped centrally on each cover elaborate gilt boards later reback probably in England folio n.d.

Chippendale (Thomas) 1754 first edition plates onl some staining and fraying modern hessian portfolios; and a similar set of Hepplewhite folio 1754-1789 sold not subject to return.

Duppa (R.) Heads from the pictures of Raffaello i portrait keyplate printed on tissue 12 engraved plates contemporary quarter roan worn large folio 1802

Jones (Owen) The Grammar of Ornament 1868 chromolithographed additional title and 111 plates neat biro inscriptions to title gutta percha perished original pictorial cloth gilt spine faded spine ends frayed folio Bernard Quaritch 1868.

Landseer`s Works 4 vol. [1879] 4 vol. additional engraved vignette title plates and illustrations some leaves loose hinges weak original pictorial cloth gilt g.e. rubbed edges a little frayed vol. 2 paper sticker on upper cover vol. 3 upper cover marked folio [1879].

Richardson (Terry) Hysteric Glamour original black cloth with red lettering on spine dust-jacket [1998] § Vreeland (Diana) Allure New York 1980 photographic illustrations original cloth dust-jackets; and 2 others portraiture 4to & folio (4)

Plaw Sketches for Country Houses 1st 41 (of 42) sepia aquatint plates contemporary ink ownership inscription to title water-stained contemporary half straight-grain morocco spine gilt scuffed 1803 § Rudiments of Ancient Architecture containing an Historical Account of the five Orders.... engraved frontispiece title vignette and plates occasional foxing contemporary speckled calf spine gilt head of spine nicked 1804 § Elmes (James) Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren engraved portrait and plates extra-illustrated with the insertion of a few other views and portraits offsetting occasional foxing original cloth rebacked preserving majority of original spine soiled 1823; and 12 others Architectural History folio et infra(15)

Rosenberg (Marc) Alte und Neue Fächer... 69 plates tissue guards text-illustrations cloth-backed pictorial boards Vienna 1891 § Darcel (Alfred) Les Tapisseries Décoratives du Garde-Meuble 10 plates 4 coloured tissue guards later cloth worn Paris n.d. § Bossert (Helmuth Th.) Ornament in Applied Art 122 colour plates stamps on endpapers original cloth worn hinge broken spine damaged folio New York 1924 § Kardol (P.C.) Siersmeedwerk 40 plates tissue guards loose as issued in cloth-backed board portfolio rubbed & marked Amsterdam [1934] and 16 others mainly art v.s.(20)

Wilhelm (Johann) Architectura Civilis...1705 2 parts engraved additional pictorial titles and 71 plates printed titles in red and black water-stained some damp-staining vol.1 modern half calf vol.2 modern half morocco spine gilt folio Nuremberg Paul Fürstens [1705].

Bloxam (W.) The cyclopaedia of practical surgery 18 (of 24) hand-coloured lithographs each with text some minor wear old boards very worn roughly repaired large folio 1835

Robertson (William) Anatomical studies of the bone portrait of Flaxman 21 lithographed or engraved plates by Henry Landseer after Flaxman some foxing orginal cloth printed label spine worn Nattali 1833; and another medical 8vo and folio(2)

DAVIDSON, Alfred, A History of the Holtes of Aston, Baronets, with a description of the family mansion, Aston Hall, Warwickshire, illus Allen Everitt, pub Birmingham 1854, folio (1)

LYSONS Samuel, A collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, pub London Cadell and Davies, 1st Edit, 1803, illustrated, some plates hand coloured, folio (1)

The M.P. Atlas, A Collection of Maps showing the commercial and political interests of The British Isles and Empire throughout the World pub W & AK Johnston, 1907 (1 plate missing Railways no 11) cloth boards and spine poor, folio (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY, C.S. Lewis, boxed set, 7 vols and Thomas Hardy boxed set, 6 vols (13)

FOLIO SOCIETY, Jane Austen, boxed set, 6 vols, and TOLKIEN, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (9)

BOX: Folio Society publications, various, in slip cases (18)

BOX: Folio Society publications including A.A. Milne, The Complete Winnie The Pooh, J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan, DETMOLD, The Arabian Nights, etc (14)

MORISON, Stanley, Modern Fine Printing, copy No. 287 of 650, large folio, Cambridge 1925, well illustrated, linen backed cloth (1)

MACQUOID, Percy, History of English Furniture, pub W & G Foyle, 1938, folio, illustrated (4)

AUGUSTUS John, fifty two drawings with an introduction by Lord David Cecil, limited edition 128/150, signed by Augustus John and David Cecil, with signed letter to Mr Hornsby folio, half vellum (1)

CLOUET, Three Hundred French Portraits, illus lithographs from the Collection at Castle Howard, 1875, folio, 2 vols, and KNIGHT, Charles, Old England, vol II only (3)

Ten volumes Folio Society including Chaucer, Wordsworth, Tennyson, etc (10)

BOESCH, Gottfried, The Glory of the Rose, illus Lotte Gunthart, pub George Harrap & Co, folio, REDOUTE, P.J., Roses, 1955, ANDERSON, Frank J, Cultivated Flowers, RAINBIRD, George, Italian Painting, LASSAIGNE, Spanish Painting and Leonardo Da Vinci, pub Phaidon Press (6)

ARMOUR G D, An Hunting Alphabet, illustrated colour plates, 1st edit, pub Country Life, 1929, d w with slight tears, folio (1)

RICHARDSON George, A Treatise on the five Orders of Architecture, twenty two engraved plate, explanation in English and French, folio pub London 1778, rebound in green cloth (1)

The Holy Bible with a commentary and evangelical reflections selected from the writings of Revd George Campbell, illus engravings, pub Newcastle upon Tyne, Mackenzie and Dent, 1813, folio, detached boards, CHURCHILL, Winston, S, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, pub Cassell & Co, London 2nd edit, 1956 (6)

Illustrated London News, 2 vols, folio, London Jan-June 1903 and July-Dec 1903, cloth, gilt, and 1 other volume (3)

Waller, J.G. & L.A.B. A Series of Monumental Brasses, from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century, Nichols & Sons, London 1864. Half leather, tinted plate illustrations with some hand-colouring, inscribed `1884 / William, Augustus, Waller, CE / of / Lambeth London / to his son / William, Waller / of / Lambeth London`, folio. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.

FOTHERGILL G.Twenty Sporting Designs 1911 No. 249 of 300 de luxe edition, buckram spine, paper covered boards, signed by author, folio. 1vol

A folio of life sketches, and drawings

Lala Deen Dayal. H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor`s Vis Prince Albert`s Personal Album containing 24 albumen prints" approx. 20 x 27cm. and smaller printed captions pasted below many numbered in the negative mounted on single sides of card leaves contemporary half roan rubbed gilt title (as above) with credit to Dayal on upper cover front free endpaper inscribed in ink `For His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor with Nawab Sir Asman Jah`s compt:s. 28th March 1890` oblong folio 1889. See condition report for full list of captions. ***Nawab Sir Asman was the Prime Minister of Hyderabad state between 1887 and 1894.The album includes a portrait of the Nizam the Nizam and the Prince together Shikar party Asmangurh Saraoonagar Khanabagh (3) Delhi gate (1) Bushir-bagh palace and interiors (6) and tent pegging at Purana Haveli (2)..

A 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN FOLIO OF COLOUR PRINTS ON SILK after the Japanese originals with title booklet (4 prints missing) together with a chromoxylograph by Tetsunosuke Tamura after the original by Kawanabe Kyosai, all contained in silk covered box folio with slip cover.

DALY, Cesar, ` Decorations Exterieures empruntees A Des Edifices Francais` Massin, Paris, Motifs Historiques D`Architecture et de Sculpture D`Ornement. 2 folio folders of Architectural prints. 176 plts.

"Little Red Book" Braille edition printed in Braille" edited by the PLA Central Political Department as transcribed by the Shanghai Municipal Blind Persons` Middle School Printing Company brown cartridge paper sewed contents worked loose from stitching original flexible red vinyl plastic covers with the Chinese title and red star lightly indented on the front heavily soiled and torn some chipping rear cover repaired with brown tape small folio [Shanghai or Beijing] Blind Person`s Monthly Press July 1967; possibly incomplete and sold not subject to return. ***Amongst the rarest "translations" made of Mao`s Little Red Book. The first official date when education was provided to the blind in China is 1874 when the opening of the first school for the blind was started by foreign missionaries though the Guild of Blind Musicians (mainly for the Court) is known to have existed as early as the Han dynasty two thousand years ago. Presumably the embossed Braille alphabet has translated the original Chinese characters into Pinyin for Chinese readers " but it is difficult to verify its full collation since none of the bibliographies of Chairman Mao`s writings pay special attention to this version aside from noting its existence. It appears to collate in gatherings of three leaves + three stubbs; the earliest Braille version of Quotations identified is from May 1966 but only this second edition published one year later was issued in a gigantic red vinyl binding.

People`s Liberation Army 1927-1977 reproducing paintings and scuptures celebrating the achievements of the CCP and the PLA" 102 colour-printed offset lithographs sheet sizes 320 x 380mm. with introductory text in publisher`s gilt-lettered silk-faced chemise oblong folio " 1975.

People`s Liberation Army 1927-1977 rare set from earaly in the history of the People`s Republic" celebrating the New Year 1950/1951 10 colour-printed offset lithographs each c.290 x 365mm. all mounted on bordered and captioned supports these with occasional light spotting and minor handling creases contents leaf in Russian English and French creased in publisher`s patterned-silk portfolio with mounted title label and bone-pegs folio " 1951.

Eternal Glory to...Chairman Mao Tsetung! illustrations" original pictorial wrappers marked folio Peking China Welfare Institute November/December 1976. ***Special Memorial double-issue of the monthly journal China Reconstructs XXV:11/12. Chairman Mao died on 9th September 1976 and although he had been ill for some time his death caused a severe hysteria and national mourning. This journal was regularly used to promote information abroad and produced in separate editions of six different languages. Contains a picture-history of Mao`s life with a record of these solemn ceremonies the memorial speech by Hua Gua-Feng (his chosen successor) &c. Included in the lot are seven official photographs by Xin Hua News Agency (two with stamps on verso dated 1976.12.29) showing Mao entombed underneath a glass-covered casket with long lines of mourners Chairman Hua eulogizing Mao " and the sadness of all China.

People`s Liberation Army 1927-1977 cased set of 60 prints commemorating the 50th anniversary of the PLA" colour-printed offset lithographs sheet sizes 320 x 380mm. with introductory text in publisher`s plain card chemise with mounted title label a short split oblong folio " 1977. ***Each plate illustrates an epsiode or facet of the history of the PLA from its founding at Jingganshan on the Jiangxi/Hunan border in 1927.

* Daily Mirror World Cup Rally - London-Mexico and South America 1970. A comprehensive group of literature and ephemera including Official Programme (also featuring football stars) and Regulations Booklet, route-maps and broadcasting notes relating to all competitors, comprising two loose-leaf pads containing hand-manuscript notes on all individual competitors, also some typescript and other manuscript press information and personal notes, documented for broadcasting and reportage during the event which lasted for two months culminating in conjunction with the World Cup football championships in Mexico, together with telegram to fellow racing journalist Bernard Cahier, plus; a Gulf International Rally programme 1965, London-Sydney Marathon booklet and Kingsway Luncheon Club Dinner Menu in honour of Raymond Baxter May 1954, and a Classique Rallye Monte Carlo folio with programme etc (-)

* Harry Ferguson Research & Development FWD Vehicles. A large folio file relating to the above with regard to BBC promotional film of the revolutionary Four-Wheel-Drive racing car and its application to developing a modern road-vehicle, copious letters & technical data with personal correspondence to Raymond Baxter, some via Tony Rolt (Le Mans winner and test-driver for Ferguson) also including copy-scripts of interviews with political leaders in order to promote international backing for the project to benefit third-world and developing countries, mostly dated c. 1960 (-)

* Lombank RAC Rally 1961, 1962 & 1963. A compilation of memorabilia of successive Rally events including participants enamelled plaque dated 1961 for car No.20 the Rover 3-litre (678 DKX) driven by Baxter and McMillan, together with a folio folder containing competitors pack including diary, official programmes (2), instructions sheets, Dunlop Rally-Service Book, Regulations booklet, individual rally-stage sheets hand-annotated with timings., etc, together with driver`s comments and full post-event analysis by Raymond Baxter; and letter of thanks from Rover Ltd to RB for his competition work, and further correspondence re Bonus & Expenses, also with original programme for the 1963 RAC Rally (-)

* Monte Carlo Rally 1959. A large folio folder of Raymond Baxter`s competitor material including Route and Stage-maps, with hand-annotated timings, etc., original stage-section sheets in official binder folder, distance & mileage information sheets, original programme and with other related paperwork etc (-)

* Monte Carlo Rally 1961, 1962 & 1963. A group of Raymond Baxter`s competitor material, including printed foolscap information sheets and instructions for BMC Works team, Official Classification sheets in folio folder (1963) Rally Route map and hand-annotated notes and related ephemera including congratulatory telegram from Brian & Geoffrey Rootes relating to his fine performance in the Humber Super Snipe (-)

* Monte Carlo Rally 1964. A comprehensive folio folder of Raymond Baxter`s competitor material for the BMC Works-Team entry, comprising large folder containing segmented fold-out sectional route-maps on card-stock backing, instruction sheets, Official Classification results sheets and related paperwork etc (-)

Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur`s Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow, vol. 1, nos. 1-4, vol. 2, nos. 1-4, vol. 3, nos. 1-4, together 12 vols., a run, 1962-65, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards with mounted pict. panel to upper cover, some minor wear to spines, oblong folio, together with Nye (Doug), Autocourse History of the Grand Prix Car 1966-85, 1st ed., 1986, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Gallo (Francesco and Mistrangelo, Angelo), Sironi. 28 Drawings and Sketches for Fiat, 1989, col. plts., orig. boards in d.j., 4to, and others, mostly motor sport interest (43)

* Royal Marines. A manuscript ledger of quarterly and half yearly returns of detachments of the Royal Marines, 1871-78, the double-page forms entirely in manuscript and including name of division (Chatham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, etc.), date of embarkation, company, individual names, details of clothes, remarks, etc., copy tables of embarkation sheets and parchment certificates towards rear of volume, a total of approx. 100 pp. plus num. blanks, a few leaves missing, some related ephemera loosely inserted, contemp. quarter reversed calf, worn, folio, together with two related ledgers used for sundry purposes and one largely blank, both reversed half calf, rubbed, folio (3)

London Underground Railways. Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on London Underground Railways; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, 1901, 435 pp., large folding col. map `London Tube Railways - 1901`, orig. blue printed wrappers, a little soiled and chipped at edges, folio. By 1900 the London Underground railways were burgeoning - the City and South London opened in 1890, the Waterloo & City in 1898 and the Central London in 1900. A dozen more proposed for the 1901 session of parliament are marked on the map. While the problems faced by the Select Committee included the fact that tube railways already existed and they were under the control of different companies. (1)

May (W.E. & Annis, P.G.W.). Swords for Sea Service, 2 vols., 1970, col. frontis. to each, b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j.s., some rubbing to extrems., contained in orig. cardboard book box, folio, together with Kipling (Arthur L.), Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, 1st ed., 1972, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., with some old tape marks to margins, 4to, plus May (Commander W. E., and others), Badges and Insignia of the British Armed Services, 1st ed., 1974, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., split at head of spine, rubbed to extrems., 4to, plus Rowlandson (Thomas, illust.), Loyal Volunteers of London and Environs, Infantry and Cavalry in their Respective Uniforms, 1st ed., 1972, col. illusts. throughout, orig. gilt dec. cloth, in slipcase, together with approx. forty others on uniforms, medals and militaria, etc. (44)

The National Roll of the Great War, 1914-1918, vols. I & III only, pub. National Publishing Company, c. 1920, with two printed awards for gallantry for Private P. H. Clark, 37th Field Ambulance, each signed by the Commanding Officer, loosely inserted, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and first vol. sl. frayed to extrems., 2nd vol. worn with hinges loosened, large 8vo, together with 31 parts from the Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 series, all facsimile eds., mostly orig. printed wrappers, slim 4to, plus Abbott (P. E.), Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909, pub. J. B. Hayward & Son, 1975, orig. cloth gilt, slim folio, and several others related, including List of Etonians who fought in the Great War, Wykehamist War Service Record and Role of Honour, 5 vols. Distinguished Conduct Medal 1914-20 Citations, etc. (43)

Almack (Edward). The History of the Second Dragoons "Royal Scots Greys", 1908, coloured and b & w plates, one or two light spots, t.e.g., original contrasting cloth, a little rubbed and stained, folio, together with A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full Pay and Half-Pay, 52nd ed., 1804, lacking a few index leaves at end, title soiled and loosening, contemporary manuscript Brigadiers list, some annotation, bookplates, a.e.g., contemporary red morocco gilt, lightly rubbed and scuffed, folio, plus Lumley (Captain L.R.), History of the Eleventh Hussars (Prince Albert`s Own) 1908-1934, 1936, half-tone plates, maps, some light spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 4to, with two others (5)

Ashe (E. Oliver). Besieged by the Boers. A Diary of Life and events in Kimerley during the Siege, 1st ed., 1900, b & w frontis. and plts., pencil ownership signature of Frank Rhodes 12.6.00 (believed to be the Cecil Rhodes brother), orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Carter (A.C.R.), The Work of War Artists in South Africa, pub. the Art Jornal, 1900, b & w plts. and illusts., some pages detached, orig. cloth, slim folio, with Rawnsley (H.D.), Ballads of the War, 1st ed., 1900, orig. printed paper wrappers, slightly worn, 8vo, plus other books, mostly related (22)

Holmes (Richard R.). Naval & Military Trophies, and Personal Relics of British Heroes, illust. William Gibb, 1st ed., 1896, thirty-six chromo. plts., a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, folio (1)

Navy & Army Illustrated. A Magazine Descriptive and Illustrative of Everyday Life in the Defensive Services of the British Empire, edited Commander Charles N. Robinson, R.N., vols. 2-6 & 9-13 only, 1896-1901, a few col. plts., num. b & w illusts. from photos, index to each, a.e.g., publisher`s orig. dec. cloth gilt, a few minor marks but generally in fine and bright condition, folio (10)

Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine: England. Band A. Flottenstutzpunckte und Kustenbefestigungen Teil 2. Der Mersey (Liverpool, Manchester) 1 Ausgabe. Geheim. Berlin Januar 1940, nine German detailed target maps, mainly folding, in rear pocket, orig. printed red card covers, very clean condition, title-page with several official red stamps including 9 Fliegerdivisio, book and maps all stamped No. 150, together with a similar example for Die HŠfen der engl. Westkuste und Nordirlands (Nordl. Abschnitt). 1 Ausgabe. Geheim. Berlin Januar 1940, single-page map, printed typeface text, no red covers, numbered 195, folio (2)

* Boer War. An album of approx. 300 mounted mostly small-format b & w photos on nineteen leaves, compiled by a soldier of the Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers, c. 1898-1902, including family snapshots and British views, etc., but also including images in South Africa, including views, camp scenes, electrical engineers, posts, troops and camp life, trains and wrecks, Coronation festivities in Johannesburg, Boers surrendering (3 images), guns and artillery, occ. neat ink captions to mounts and mostly relating to the South African photos, the majority approx. 7 x 10cm and similar, some spotting and soiling, contemp. half cloth, rubbed, together with a related album of approx. 400 mounted b & w photos, c. early 1900s, largely postcard size and smaller and mounted to forty-eight album leaf rectos only, entirely uncaptioned but including more images of South Africa plus British views and many relating to settling in Canada with photos of house building, scenes in the Rockies and the Canadian Pacific Railway, etc., contents of album somewhat loose in contemp. limp morocco, rubbed, both oblong folio (2)

* General Orders. A manuscript ledger of copies of General Orders from 1812 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1846, including regulations circular letters, etc., all written in a neat clerical hand, approx. 500 pp., index at rear, the final leaf of volume a list of soldiers in the First Royal Tower Hamlets Regiment of Militia as at 26th April 1814, under the leadership of Colonel Sir Daniel Williams, contemp. vellum, soiled and some wear with small loss to foot of spine, folio (1)

Japan & China Conflict. A History of the Tsingtao Foreign Volunteer Police Force by A. R. Hogg, Tsingtao, 1938, 65 pp. text, followed by a hand-coloured crest of the T. S. P. mounted with printed white lettering and a silver print photo of Pacific Road, dated December 1937 to verso, the following forty-three pages with seventy-five mounted b&w photos, all with printed white captions to images, including the general concentration committee, with the British author A. R. Hogg with an American, German and Russian, two further group photographs (one slightly creased at corner), plus images of destruction of cotton mills, plus other images relating to the Japan occupation, a few photographs are reproductions from magazine or newspaper articles, orig. cloth with spine ties, the upper cover titled in brown `T.S.P., December 31st 1937-January 10th 1938`, slightly rubbed and soiled, oblong folio. Japan invaded Tsingtao on 10th January 1938. This official souvenir record appears to be unrecorded. (1)

* MI5 - Nazi Germany. A group of five scrap album diaries compiled by (Fitzherbert Charles) Gerald Gough, c. 1923-78, a total of approx. 250 folio leaves filled with manuscript journal entries relating to motoring and walking tours, etc., with diagramatic maps of routes taken, numerous b&w photos including small format snapshots, postcards, newscuttings, plus printed and miscelleaneous ephemera, the first album including documents and photographs relating to the start of Gough`s civil service career as Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Herbert Stanley (1872-1955), the British Administrator and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, one section of nine pages of cuttings, diary notes and photos relating to the visit of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII] in 1925, nine of the photos and snapshots showing the Prince with Herbert Stanley, in a small dugout, meeting the Governor of the Katanga, Belgian Congo, etc., the album also containing trips to France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Uganda and Kenya, the second and third albums seemingly overlapping and slightly mixed in chronology containing similar illustrated diary accounts from c. 1926-33, and including visits to France, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Greece, Kenya, Spain, St. Helena, The Balkans, U.S.A., Canada, Gibraltar, Morocco, Southern Rhodesia, Malta, Germany, and Eastern Europe, etc., typically written-up in a touristic manner but with increasing emphasis on Germany and occasional political insights, `I enjoyed this trip to Germany, especially the last bit, and really found out a good deal and I might tabulate a few impressions thus: 1. It is still a fearfully policed state with Verbotstafeln everywhere and official-sid [?], the official being a tin-god before whom humility is advisable, 2. A worship of athletics seems to have taken the place of religion ... a cult of the simple and bare ... everyone is suffering under the war guilt complex - you get very fed up with talking about the war ... 6. The bitterness of politics is amazing. When I was in Bavaria the Communists-v-the Nazis - the only people who really mattered were not allowed to hold meetings as some people always get killed & injured when they do. I was shown round the Brown House at Munich, the headquarters of the Hitler party, very interesting. The flag was halfmast almost every day because some Nazis had been murdered by Communists. You have to be very careful about announcing stray political opinions to complete strangers. This especially as most Germans take things so seriously. They are wonderfully serious-minded about Things That Matter. Greatly painstaking, they do everything exceedingly thoroughly. About the future who can say at a time like this? Large numbers of people say the trend must be either to Moskow or to Hitler, Communism or military anti-French nationalism. Perhaps the middle party can steer a reasonable course. Though they are very nice to the British the widely believed thesis is that England was jealous of Germany`s growing trade & that Edward VII surrounded her with a ring of enemies who eventually, and on instigation, fell on her & crushed her` (July 1931), the fourth album beginning with a visit to Germany, a photograph of a Concentration Camp near Worms, photos of a Labour Camp in East Prussia, August 1933, one photo with the Marburg Verein Deutschen Studenten, Gough`s touring going to Austria, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, much centred around Musikheim, Frankfurt, photos of visits by Yorkshire miners and Welsh quarrymen, continuing to the start of the War, an entry for 1942-46 beginning, `After I left the Home Office [1940?], I went through a very unhappy period, brought upon me by the stupidity of others, only a kind of wry sense of humour brought me through ... I eventually enlisted in the R.A.F.`, the last part of the albums containing trips to Britain and Europe, and continuing into the fifth album which includes Egypt, France, Mexico, Guatamala, and ending c. 1978 with family photos, all contemp. half morocco, the first three volumes with linen covers, some soiling and wear, oblong folio, together with an illuminated testamonial dated 11th October 1924 given to Gough`s father, Prebendary Alfred William Gough and his wife by the Parish of Holy Trinity, Brompton, plus a folder of notes and cuttings, largely relating to Prebendary Gough`s political campaigning for religious freedom in Russia, plus several photographs of him. Gerald Gough (1899-1986) had his home at Gorse Cliff, Nefyn, in what is now Gwynned. Clearly highly fluent in German it is clear from a signed but undated (prob. late 1940s) typed copy letter to Colonel W. H. Cooke, Room 055 [MI5 HQ] that Gough did work for MI5. Through some misunderstanding or mistake or breach of protocol Gough was released perhaps explaining the gap at the beginning of the Second World War in the diaries and his subsequent career in the R.A.F. The letter begins `I am writing for two reasons, first you asked me where we stood as regards my case, second you asked me who an Italian Fascist was I thought of going to see in 1938. I would be glad if you would attach this to the memorandum I submitted to you. The Italian was Sig. Giuseppe Rinvolucri, St. Francis Grange, Glan Conwy, whom I saw about three times ... The German, to whom the letter was written, I met once, I did not take him to see this Italian, but I thought it an interesting idea as I was suspicious of both. I gave your representative, Mr. Finney, information about the Italian. You accused me of attacking you, but I do not agree. Lord Brabazon, then Minister of Aircraft Production, went to Kinnaird House and Brig. Sam Wilson, formerly Head of the Colonial Office, enquired at Air Ministry, this was very natural as he was one of the signatories of the papers for my commission when you refused it. Since those days my conduct has been on the whole discreet and correct, my great object was to try and convince you that I was not so bad as you obviously thought. The fact that nearly every C.O. I was under in the R.A.F. put me up for a reasonable job, usually Intelligence, should not be put down as an attempt by me to attack you ... you contend that there was nothing against me after the "inquiry" in 1940. The position was that you would not employ me, in spite of all recommendations, because you do not think me suitable ... Your report to U.N.R.R.A. which has just enforced my resignation was pretty severe. You state that I was allowed by you to serve in the R.A.F. on condition no confidential information got into my hands ... what have I done to deserve such statements`. Later in the three-page letter he writes, `When you judge me so hardly you consider none of the plus points like the above, like the fact that I was such an object of hatred and suspicion to the Nazis, who thought that I was in Intelligence. You seem to consider only the minus points - that I had contacts long ago that you consider undesirable [presumably undesirable Germans and contact with anti-semitic organisations] ... I do not blame you for your attitude to me, the whole business is a matter of bad luck. When the Germans showed such suspicion of me that they arrested me the last time I crossed the German frontier (1937). I should have reported it to you, similarly that attack on me in Yorkshire in 1939, though I thought that was up to the police. I have no personal animus against MI5 and to you I am grateful for your friendliness and courtesy` and finishing with a postscript, `I suppose to "clear my name" is an incorrect expression as you tell me my name is clear. I should say to convince you that I am a reliable person`. (a carton)

Raemaekers (Louis, Illust.). Het Toppunt der Beschaving, parts 1-6 (of 7), Amsterdam, 1915-16, each part with twelve full page b&w cartoons with captions in Dutch, French and English, orig. pict. wrappers with colour illust. to upper cover and vign. to lower cover, all somewhat soiled and a little frayed, partly split on spines, slim folio (6)