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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)

Soviet War News Weekly. Nos. 1-52, 22nd January 1942 to 14th January 1943, each issue with eight pages of four-column text with b&w illusts., mostly from photos, a little spotting, first issue with horizontal crease and some yellowing to first leaf, bound in two vols., cloth, with gilt lettered spines, some soiling and sl. wear, folio. The first 52 issues of this English-language newspaper, which included images of some of the atrocities and influential in changing British public opinion towards the Soviet Union. The newspaper later changed its name to Soviet Weekly and continued publication until December 1991. (2)

Stephens (Frederick J.). Edged Weapons of the Third Reich, Almark Publication, 1st ed., 1972, together with Mollo (Andrew), Daggers of the Third German Reich 1933-1945, pub. Historical Research Unit, 1st ed., 1967, b&w illusts. from photos, both orig. card covers, 8vo/oblong folio (2)

* An Aviation Miscellany. A collection of manufacturer`s official, publicity, military and private photographs from numerous sources, many contained in a modern ring binder, others in a well arranged plastic window album, many postcard size with inscriptions on verso, an album of small format colour and black/white images, a folio devoted to the Vickers `Viking`, `Valetta`, and `Varsity`, and a quantity of others in two boxes, approx. 850 images (2 cartons)

* R.A.F. Ayr. A slim photograph album containing sixty mounted b&w photos, c. 1918/19, the first leaf containing an image of Ayr HQ Staff 1918, and a group photograph on the airfield, captioned No. 1 S.A.F. Ayr NB, May `18, the remaining five leaves containing images of crashed planes in France and cemeteries at Ronchin, near Lille, small snapshot group photos including soldiers in their hut, with two further group portraits on final leaf, one uncaptioned of a group of R.A.F. personnnel in front of a biplane and one larger group of soldiers dated January 1919, images 21 x 16cm and smaller, sparsely captioned, contemp. card wrappers with spine tie, sl. rubbed and soiled, oblong folio. The R.F.C established Aerial Gunnery School No. 1 at Ayr which during its operating years (1917-1919) took on a number of titles including No. 1 School of Aerial Fighting (S.A.F.). (1)

* WWI - 87a Squadriglia Aeroplani. An album of 229 mounted b&w photos, c. 1918 and sl. later, the majority aerial views mounted four to a page on 29 leaves, the first 23 images (approx. 15 x 11cm) relating to Italian aerial bombings of the Asiago plateau region in North Eastern Italy and Libya, the majority of the remaining mostly similar size images being aerial views of Italian towns, buildings and countryside, including Pisa, Venice, Rome, Capo d`Istria, Verona, Bologna, Triest, one image of Quito with a signed presentation inscription from observer Ettore Lodi to his friend Felice Pozzo, dated April 1923, views of the Italian lakes, three images showing the villa of the poet and fighter pilot D`Annunzio near Lake Garda, one leaf with five aerial images of Mount Etna erupting, five images showing the smoking Mount Vesuvius (1922 and 1925), some images with caption codes and dates in the negative, many neatly captioned in white on mounts beneath, contemp. plain stiff wrappers with spine tie, sl. rubbed and soiled, oblong folio. One aerial photo of the Belvedere Piazza and the Principe Ugenio in Vienna is dated 9th August [1]918 in the negative. This would have been taken during the Flight of Vienna, an epic action performed by the Italian poet and nationalist patriot Gabriele D`Annuzio on 9th August 1918. He flew with eleven Ansalto S.V.A. from his team, the 87a Squadron ("La Serenissima") in a round trip of some 750 miles. They dropped 50,000 propaganda leaflets with text written by D`Annuzio himself. Besides the photographs there is one pen and ink plan showing the electric power station at Cavedine with the locations of three bomb strikes marked in red. (1)

* WWII - 134 Squadron. An album of 292 corner-mounted b & w photos, 1940s, mostly small-format snapshots and including a group portrait of "B" Flight, 134 Squadron R.A.F. in Russia 1941, Russian and English pilots, Durban, George Formby at Tocra (two images, one with his wife), German and Italian cemetery at Mersa Matruh, Tunis, 1943, Burma, 1945, views in the Holy Land, photos of tanks and aircraft, prisoner of war camps and German prisoners in Tunisia, crashed aircraft, views in India, images of the Japanese surrender at Kuala Lumpur airfield, Malaya, 1945, the majority approx. 6 x 8cm and similar, mounted as multiples to each page with neat white ink captions to mounts, contemp. cloth, sl. rubbed and upper cover creased, oblong folio (1)

* Lockheed. A miscellaneous collection of photographs of various military and civil types, including the P2V `Neptune`, the P-80 `Shooting Star` as supplied to numerous Air Forces, fine air-to-air aircraft portraits, the much admired `Constellation` with details of various liveries, production-line views, drawings and similar, various accident images and documentation, further images of the `Super Constellation`, maintenance in the open, more airline liveries, military versions and others, together with a folio devoted to the L-188 `Electra`, approx. 460 images, contained in a card stock file box (1)

* United States Aircraft Miscellany. A collection of manufacturers publicity, press and other photographs of a variety of aircraft types, including Waco Gliders, other gliders, copy prints of Wright `Flyers`, various press cuttings, and similar material including a folio of images of various aero-engines, approx. 140 images, contained in a card stock file box (1)

* United States Aircraft Miscellany. An interesting and varied collection of press, manufacturers and publicity photographs of Boeing 757 and 767 types, including many fine colour images, aircraft portraits, production line views and similar, together with a folio of images and press releases for the Boeing 733/SST, a folio for the Brewster `Bermuda`, `Buccaneer` and `Buffalo`, other folios for the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. with fine images of the XB-46, `Privateer` and massive XC-99, approx. 240 images, contained in a card stock file box (1)

Buttler (Tony). British Secret Projects. Jet Fighters Since 1950, 1st ed., 2000, Jet Bombers Since 1949, 1st ed., 2003, Fighters & Bombers 1935-1950, 1st ed., 2004, all signed by the author on title, num. b & w illusts. and diags., orig. boards in d.j., folio, together with Thomas (Geoffrey J.), Eyes for the Phoenix. Allied Aerial Photo-Reconnaissance Operations, South-East Asia, 1941-1945, 1st ed., 1999, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., folio, and others of aviation and military interest, mostly recent publications, many in d.j. (3 shelves)

Bowyer (Michael J.F., and others). Action Stations. Military Airfields of the United Kingdom, plus Britain`s Military Airfields, 1939-45, together 11 vols., all 1st eds., 1979-89, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, together with Airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk, nos. 1-7, pub. Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, mixed eds., 1980-92, roneod text, orig. printed wrappers, slim folio, plus Airfield Plans, pub. After the Battle Magazine, c. 1970s, 120 folding plans contained in five orig. black plastic ring binders, plus The Aeroplane Spotter, 3 vols. (complete), 1941-48, Air-Britain publications, Sky Ways - the Journal of the Airplane, 1920-1940, Aircraft Recognition, Inter-Services Journal, etc. (3 cartons)

Lecornu (J.). La Navigation Aerienne. Histoire documentaire et anecdotique, 3rd ed., Paris, 1910, num. b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. pict. cloth, split on rear hinge and corners bumped, folio (1)

Roseberry (C.R.). The Challenging Skies. The Colorful Story of Aviation`s Most Exciting Years, 1919-1939, 1st ed., pub. New York, 1966, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., 4to, together with Yenne (Bill), Seaplanes of the World. A Timeless Collection from Aviation`s Golden Age, pub. California, 1997, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. pict. laminated boards in d.j., folio, with other miscellaneous aviation, including several Concorde flight packs, etc. (2 cartons)

* London-Paris Air Race. First London-Paris Race. L`Entente Air Contest. Hendon to Paris & Back in One Day. £1,000 in Prizes, an original cyclostyled press release issued by the London Aerodrome, Hendon `For Favour of Insertion, Whole or Part` and giving details of `Another wonderful air race is to take place on Saturday July 11th, which besides providing a magnificent display of airmanship, should add another link to the Entente Cordiale ...` and going on to give further details of the race from Hendon Aerodrome to Buc Aerodrome near Paris, a distance of 502 miles, further details of the handicapped starting times, a compulsory one hour`s rest after arriving in France, the route taken in both directions and details of the prize money, printed on one side only of a folio sheet of paper, a little dust soiled and chipped at edges. The race was won by the American William Brock in his Morane at a speed of 71.5 mph and a time of 7:03:06. The other favourite, Lord Carberry in a Bristol Scout, was doing well until his engine quit on the return flight and he landed safely in the English Channel. (1)

* Airspeed AS-57 and AS-60 `Ambassador`. A fascinating and important archive relating to the inception, building, production, test flying and entry into service of this highly successful aircraft, the archive includes general correspondence between Major de Havilland and F. G. Miles, employment and staff details including salaries paid and personal reports, principle layout drawings of Military and Civil versions of the AS-60, AS-57 production record, flight-test reports and modification recommendations, B.E.A. flight experience reports, B.E.A. acceptance check folio, original Airspeed/F.G. Miles specification document dated April 30, 1948, de-icing trial reports for G-ALFR and for split-flap performance, a report signed by Mr Errington (test pilot) after the first passenger flight of G-AMAD dated 20-6-51, an `Ambassador` aircraft manual dated 14-6-51 being G. H. Miles`s personal copy with drawings in pencil and a quantity of similar material in original Airspeed file. Historical note: It was a British European Airways Airspeed A5-57 Ambassador that crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Reim Airport, on 6 February 1958, killing 20 of the 44 passengers, including eight of the Manchester United football team players, nicknamed the "Busby Babes". (a lot)

A folio containing thirty-eight early/mid-20th Century lithographs, Theatre Posters including `The Mikado`, `Tom Jones` and `H.M.S. Pinafore`, published by Stafford & Co.

A large quantity of assorted pictures and prints, all unframed. (folio)

May Bateman (20th century), A folio of assorted watercolours and textile designs, all unframed.(qty)

Bowyer (Robert). The Campaign of Waterloo, Illustrated with Engravings..., 1816, four hand coloured aquatints on three sheets including one folding, two uncoloured engravings and one engraved plan, lacking the coloured aquatints of Hougomont and La Haye Saint which were printed on a single sheet, folding plate of the Battle of Waterloo relaid and a little soiled, some other minor spotting and marks, modern half buckram, folio. Abbey Life 355. (1)

Hamilton (John & Lizars Daniel). The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas, n.d., c.1850, title & contents pages, folding table of Mountain Chains with uncoloured engraved comparison plt., fifty seven engraved maps on seventy double page folding sheets, all with original hand colouring (complete as list), occ. spotting and off-setting throughout, one map with closed tear to central fold, contemp. half calf, upper board detached, lacking spine, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (1)

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof, 3rd ed., corrected & enlarged, 1666, imprimatur leaf present, addn. eng. title, letterpress title printed in red & black, four folding eng. maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America (showing California as an Island), lower portion of maps of Europe & Asia dust soiled and frayed, some light dampstaining at rear of volume, front endpapers detached and frayed to edges, contemp. calf, upper board detached and spine torn with slight loss at head, folio. Wing H1691. (1)

Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, pub. W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh and London, 1881, half title and title page, fifty folding engraved maps with orig. outline colouring (complete as list), several maps detached, frayed and dust soiled with closed tears affecting image, upper hinge broken, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (1)

Kennedy (R. F.). Catalogue of Prints in the Africana Museum and in books in the Strange Collection of Africana in the Johannesburg Public Library up to 1870, 2 vols., Johannesburg, Africana Museum, 1975, numerous b&w illusts., orig. maroon cloth gilt, folio, VG, together with Bradlow (Edna and Frank), Thomas Bowler of the Cape of Good Hope. His Life and Works with a Catalogue of Extant Paintings, With a Commentary on the Bowler Prints by A. Gorden Brown, Cape Town, 1955, inscribed to front endpaper by A. Gorden Brown, tipped-in col. and b&w plts., binding a little weak, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus other Africa history and reference, including Pioneer Travellers of South Africa ..., by Vernon S. Forbes, 1965, Pictorial Africana ..., by Alfred Gordon Brown, 1975, Oscar I. Norwich, Maps of Africa, an Illustrated and Annotated Carto-Bibliography, 1st ed., 1983, and and others (27)

Olivier (Guillaume Antoine). Voyage dans L`Empire Othoman, L`Egypte et la Perse, Fait par Ordre du Government, Pendant les Six Premieres Annees de la Republique, 4 vols. including atlas, 1801-07, 50 engraved maps and plates (complete), one or two repaired tears, dampstain and occasional light soiling, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed and stained, 4to and folio. Blackmer 1220: "This is an important work both for its scope and the amount of information it provides, particularly on the Aegean Islands. Olivier was a naturalist and entymologist who was sent on a French government mission to Persia in 1792. He was delayed for some considerable time in Constantinople and then travelled to Egypt via the Archipelago and Asia Minor. He did not reach Persia until 1795. The plates include maps, plans, costumes, plants and animals. Some of the fine natural history plates are by P.J. Redoute". Atabey 886. (4)

Pococke (Richard). A Description of the East, and some other Countries, 3 parts in two, 1743-45, eng. illust. to each title, 179 eng. plts. & maps (including 11 folding, one map trimmed to margin & repaired), eng. dedication, closed-tears to few plts. and leaves of text, vol. 1 with some leaves dampsoiled and with consequent minor loss, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines, upper joint of vol. 1 cracked and lower board detached, lacking boards to vol. 2, worn, folio. Bookplate of Simon Wilfrid Blunt. Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323; Brunet IV, 750. (2)

Bacon (George W., pub.). Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles, 1896, sixty five folding col. printed maps (complete as list), a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt title to upper board, spine partially detached, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio, together with Ogilby (John),Britannia, Volume the First: or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, 1675, facsimile ed., pub. Osprey Publications Ltd, 1971,portrait frontis., 100 folding b & w strip maps, pubs. orig cloth gilt, folio, with Philip (George & Son Ltd., pub.),The Readers Reference Atlas of the World, 1911,col. litho. frontis. of flags, title page printed in red & black, 2nd. plt. of flags with closed tear, fifty-four col. printed folding maps (complete as list), some spotting and staining to last few leaves, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt title to upper board, spine partially lacking, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio, together with another, four similar, various sizes and condition (7)

Clarke (James). A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire: Together with an Account, Historical, Topographical and Descriptive of the Adjacent Country. To which is Added a Sketch of the Border Laws and Customs, 2nd. ed., 1789, title page, eleven uncoloured engraved folding maps and plans and two eng. plts., (as called for), one plt. with fraying and dust soiling to fore-edge, occ. closed tears to old folds, some with later repairs to verso of maps, upper board and first free end paper detached, orig. half calf gilt, rubbed, frayed and worn, folio (1)

Jeake (Samuel). Charters of the Cinque Ports, Two Ancient Towns, and their Members..., 1st ed., 1728, list of subscribers, lacks pubs. list at rear, contemp. half calf, spine ends frayed, worn, folio (1)

Leycester (Sir Peter). Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great Brettain and Ireland. The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire, 1673, title printed in red & black, few woodcut armorials to text, lacks map, a.e.g., late 18th/early 19th c. diced calf gilt, neatly rebacked, folio. Wing L1943. (1)

Neale (James). The Abbey Church of Saint Alban, 1877, chromo. title, heightened with gold, numerous litho plts., list of subscribers, some fraying to edges, gutta-percha perished and some leaves detached, ink library stamps to text & plts., orig. qtr. morocco, rubbed and worn, folio, together with John (W.D.), The Nantgarw Porcelain Album, 1st ed., Ceramic Book Company, Newport, Gwent, 1975, col. frontis. and plts., t.e.g., orig. publisher`s gilt dec. maroon morocco, 4to, and A`Beckett (Gilbert), The Comic History of England, 2 vols., c. 1900, plusThe Comic History of Rome, c.1900, hand-col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. to text, occ. scattered spotting, uniform cloth gilt, large 8vo (5)

Philip (George & Son, pub.). Philips` Atlas of the Counties of England, Including Maps of North & South Wales, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, n.d. c.1880, title page printed in red & black, forty-eight colour litho. maps (complete as list), index bound in at rear, contemp. half morocco gilt, joints weak and partially split, rubbed and frayed, folio (1)

Yonge (Charlotte Mary). The Instructive Picture Book. Lessons from the Geographical Distribution of Animals, or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds which Characterise the Principal Divisions of the Globe, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1867, sixty hand-col. plts. (complete), orig. cloth backed pict. boards, spine worn and split, some wear to extrems. small folio, together with Greenwood (James), Wild Sports of the World: A Boy`s Book of Natural History and Adventure, 1862, ten col. plts. and six folding maps (all as list), orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some fading, 8vo (2)

The Gardeners` Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. 6 annual vols., 1844-45, 1847-48 & 1853-54, b&w wood eng. illusts. to text, contemp. uniform half calf gilt, rubbed and some wear with some joints partly cracked, folio, together with Evans and Ruffy`s Farmers` Journal, and Agricultural Advertiser, 15 vols., a run, vols. X-XXIV, 1817-31, some marks and spotting, contemp. uniform half calf, worn, with most covers det., spines def., large folio, plus two others similar (The Farmers` Herald, A Journal of Practical Agriculture, vol. 3, 1845 & The Cultivator, A Consolidation of Buel`s Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer, Albany, NY, 1842), both folio (23)

Government Reports. First [& Second] Report from the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the State of Agriculture; with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, pub. House of Commons, 4 March & 15 April 1836, extensive marginal annotations in pencil to each vol., orig. printed blue wrappers, rubbed and marked and some wear to spines, (first vol. with spine def.), together with Report from the Select Committee on Agricultural Customs ..., pub. The House of Commons, 3 July 1848, Reports of Poor Law Inspectors on Agricultural Statistics, (England), 1854, pub. H.M.S.O., 1855 & Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Burdens Affecting Real Property ... pub. House of Commons, 19 June 1846, some marks to each vol., all bound in orig. printed blue wrappers, rubbed and some wear, final vol. with some soiling and stains to upper wrapper, plus other 19th century Government Reports on Agriculture, including Agricultural and Dairy Schools, 1888, Minutes of Evidence taken before Her Majesty`s Commissioners on Agriculture, vols. 1 & 3 only, 1881-82, Report from the Select Committee on Labourers` Wages, 4 June 1824, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into Salmon Fisheries, 1861, etc., mostly bound in orig. printed blue wrappers, folio (17)

The Irish Farmers` Gazette, and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 5 vols., a broken run, vols. X-XII & XIV-XV, Dublin, 1851-53 & 55-56, title to each, except final vol. without printed title, numerous b&w wood eng. illusts., contemp. near-uniform half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio, together with Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Departmental Committee on the Irish Flax-Growing Industry, Minutes of Evidence, Appendices and Index, Dublin, 1911, later library cloth, with bookplate to front pastedown, ink stamp to title verso, etc., folio, plus five related pamphlets (First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland, Dublin, 1810, Report ... respecting the Agricultural School of Bannow ... County of Wexford, Dublin, 1823, Second Report of the Royal Agricultural Improvements Society of Ireland, Dublin, 1841, What Science Can Do for the Irish Farmer ... by John F. Hodges, Dublin, 1844, & The Reclamation of Wastelands in Ireland, by Henry Brett, Dublin, 1881), all disbound without wrappers, except for the final title in orig. printed wrappers, slim 8vo (11)

Live Stock Journal, vols. 14-17, 19, 20, 24, 26 & 31, Jul 1881-Jun 1890, half-yearly vols. bound in 7, all contemp. half calf gilt (except final vol. in orig. cloth gilt), worn with some loss to leather, folio (7)

Kuniyoshi (Utagawa, 1797-1861). Colour woodblock print in five sections, depicting various figures, incl. doctors and dentists, with scenes such as extracting teeth and inhaling steam, two sections with artist`s red ink stamp, dusty, small area of worming to one corner on each section, loosely contained in orig. boards, soiled and worn, detached and lacking spine, folio (image size each section approx. 360 x 250 mm) (1)

The Graphic, volume 34, July-Dec 1886, numerous wood engraved illusts. incl. large folding birds-eye view of Birmingham after H.W. Brewer (640 x 790 mm), contemp. half morocco, folio (1)

Illustrated London News, vols. 28 (Jan-June 1856), 36 (Jan-June 1860) & 44 (Jan-June 1864), together three vols., numerous wood engraved illusts., all in good order and apparently complete, contemp. half sheep, some wear to head and foot of spines, folio (3)

Illustrated London News, vols. 40 (Jan-June 1862), 41 (July-Dec 1862) & 42 (Jan-June 1863), together three vols., numerous wood engraved illusts., all in good order and apparently complete including the 1862 Exhibition colour plates, contemp. half sheep, somewhat scuffed with some peeling to extrems., folio (3)

Gregorian Calendar. Printed Act of Parliament, dated January 17th 1750, being the Act which introduced the Gregorian Calendar into Britain, printed black letter, 8pp, together with the printed addendum `The New Calendar Tables and Rules`, disbound, slim folio. The historic Act which brought in the Calendar as we know it today and removed 12 days from the year 1752. (1)

* Slavery - Grenada (the Fedon Insurrection). Important historic document being an attested contemporary copy of the will of Julien Lussan of Saint George, Grenada, dated 1826, written in a neat chancery hand throughout, with notarial signature attesting that it is a true copy, 12pp, folio. Lussan, a wealthy French merchant originally operating in Gouyave was a close associate of Julien Fedon, the legendary French mulatto leader of the rebellion against slavery and British Rule on the Island in 1795. In the present document Lussan divides his vast property holdings and money amongst his family, and of particular interest are the numerous references to his slaves - directing certain slaves should be `manumitted` and made free, other slaves to be sold, etc., A rather poignant reference is given that his grave should be near that of his little negro boy called Silvain Toussaint. (1)

* University of Oxford. A document signed by the Lords Justices at Whitehall, 19th June 1696, to the keeper of underkeeper of Woodstock Park, requiring him that he `fairly kill & deliver to the bearer hereof a Brace of Fatt Bucks of this Season for the use of the Vice Chancellor of Oxford [Fitzherbert Adams, 1651-1719],`, signed at head Tho. Cantaur, J. Somers, C.S., Pembroke, C.P.S., Devonshire, Shrewsbury and Dorsett, horizontal folds, paper somewhat browned and a little chipped with one vertical crease to lower blank area, 1 p., small folio (1)

Bernard (Saint). Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis, [Speier]: Peter Drach, [after 31 August 1481 but not after 1482], 302 leaves (of 306, lacks A1 and Oo1, blanks, and two leaves of text in signature H), gothic letter, two columns, forty-four lines, large initials supplied by hand in red or blue, a few decorated, rubricated throughout, some old ink marginalia and underscoring in more than one hand, marginal repairs to first leaf (A2) affecting a few letters and to some other early margins, signature H and first leaf of signature I worn and roughly repaired, some leaves stained at top, a few of these repaired in upper margin, old ink inscription and doodles to front free endpaper and final leaf verso (blank), small bookplate of Baron de Bellet to front pastedown, later half calf over stained boards, some wear with loss to head and tail-bands, small folio. Hain 2846; Goff B437; GKW 3942. (1)

Bible [English]. The Bible that is, The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie, [1607], eng. title (trimmed to image with loss of imprint at foot, partly detached and torn at gutter), full-page woodcut illust. (trimmed to edges, excised to lower outer corner with loss and short closed-tear), 18th c. manuscript inscription to verso of New Testament title, some leaves frayed to edges with loss, few closed-tears, some minor dust-soiling and dampstaining, early 19th c. calf, upper joint cracked at foot, corners worn, folio. Ink inscription to upper pastdown "Francis Robinson`s Book. This book was given to him by his Father John Robinson and it was bound by Mr Jackson of South in the year of own Lord 1808 on the 8th of September". Geneva-Thomson-Junius version. Herbert 289. (1)

[Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, Prognostickes & Severall cures of it, 7th ed., 1660, half-title, eng. title, some scattered spotting throughout, final leaf of text (4A4) with small hole and lined to verso, late 19th c. blind panelled calf, blind dec. to spine with red morocco title label, head & foot of spine and upper joint repaired, board corners neatly repaired, small folio. Wing B6183. (1)

Calmet (Augustin). Dictionnaire Historique, Critique, Chronologique, Geographique et Litteral de la Bible, Enrichi de plus de trois cent Figures en taille-douce, qui representent les Antiquetez Judaiques..., 4 vols., Nouvelle Edition, Paris, 1730, eng. frontis. to first vol., 197 plts. (incl. many double-page), seven eng. maps, contemp. calf, gilt dec spines with contrasting morocco labels, some cracking to joints, spine ends chipped, rubbed & scuffed, folio. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (4)

Carcani (Gaetano). Raccolta di Varj Epigrammi Divisa in Sette Libri, 6 vols., Naples, 1788-96, engraved titles to each vol. (except vol. II), text in Greek and Italian, scattered light spotting, Duke of Sussex bookplates, a.e.g., contemporary vellum gilt, upper joints of vols. I & VI split, rubbed, folio. Brunet I, 310: "Tres-belle edition, dont on trouve difficilement des examplaires completes". (6)