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Ovidius Naso (Publius). Ovid`s Metamorphosis. Englished, Mythologiz`d and Represented in Figures. An Essay to the Translation of Virgil`s Aeneis by G.S., imprinted at Oxford by John Lichfield, 1632, eng. port. frontis. (lined to both sides with thick tissue), addn. eng. title (with repaired closed-tear), fifteen eng. plts., few closed-tears to margins, some dampstaining, dust-soiling and browning, recent endpapers, contemp. calf, modern reback with blind dec. and morocco title label, board corners repaired, folio. Sabin 57984. (1)

Paris Commune 1871. Les Communeux 1871, Types, Caracters, Costumes par Bertall, 2nd ed., c. 1871, title with coloured vignette, 38 hand-coloured lithographed plates, at least ten with albumen photographs adhered to top right corner of images, some to versos, of some of the principal figures such as Jules Bergeret, Raoul Rigault, Louis Charles Delescluze, La Cecilia, Protot, Adolphe Assi and Theophile Ferre, with four photographs of women, an imprisoned priest and a colonel, manuscript captions, one or two light spots, bookplate, original cloth gilt, head of spine torn, rubbed, folio, together with Reimpression du Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise sous la Commune du 19 Mars au 24 Mai 1871, ed. Bunel, 1871, 655pp., some spotting, contemporary boards, rebacked in red morocco gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, plus The Communists of Paris 1871, Types, Physiognimies, Characters by Bertall, c. 1873, 40 hand-coloured lithographed plates, a few light spots, bookplate of Sir Charles Cayzer, t.e.g., 20th c. red half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, with 27 others, mainly on the Paris Commune including A. de Balathier Bragelonne`s Paris Insurge Histoire Illustraee des Evenements Accomplis du 18 Mars au 28 Mai 1871, Paris, 1872, Les Desastres de Paris 1871 (with 26 coloured plates), Journal de L`Insurrection du 18 Mars, 1871, C. A. Dauban`s Le Fond de la Societe sous la Commune 1873, A.J. Dalseme`s Histoire des Conspirations sous la Commune, 1872, Edmond Villetard`s Histoire de Internationale, 1872 and Etienne Charavay`s Le General la Fayette 1757-1834, 1898, inscribed by the author (30)

Philostratus (Flavius). Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia vita Apollonii Libris VIII..., Leipzig, 1709, title printed in red & black and with woodcut illust., double column text printed in latin and greek, contemp. vellum, folio. Brunet IV.619. (1)

Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Omnium quae Exstant Operum..., 2 vols., Paris, 1624, titles printed in red & black and each with eng. portrait, two eng. port. plts., double column text printed in latin & greek, contemp. vellum with blind arabesque to centre of each board, gilt ownership crest to spine of each, joints to vol. 1 cracked, lacks ties, folio. Brunet IV.733. (2)

Rapin de Thoyras (Paul de). The History of England..., Translated into English with Additional Notes, by N. Tindal, 4 vols. in five, mixed eds., 1732-51, eng. port. frontis. to each (some creased), numerous eng. plts., portraits, folding maps and tables etc., title to vol. 1 repaired to lower outer corner, some minor dampstaining, few marks and tears etc., vols. 1 & 2 in matching contemp. blind panelled calf, remaining vols. in contemp. calf with contrasting labels to spines, joints cracked and some general wear, folio (5)

Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, Fashioning Twelve Morall Vertues, 2 parts in one, 1st folio ed., pub. Mathew Lownes, 1609, titles with large woodcut devices (first title slightly soiled), large woodcut head-and-tail pieces, previous owner signature to title and A2, F3 in Shepheards Calender lower corner torn away, a few minor spots, armorial bookplate of the House of Abercairny, a.e.g., 19th c. green straight-grained morocco, spine with gilt decoration, upper joint with small split, a little rubbed and faded, folio. STC 23083. (1)

Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England`s Arch-Poet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and Carefully Corrected, pub. Mathew Lownes, 1617, first title with oramental woodcut border, second title with large woodcut device, woodcut head-and-tail pieces, 2nd title with marginal hole, some leaves close-trimmed, some annotations, old repairs, light spotting and dampstains, erratic signatures, 18th c. calf, rubbed, small folio. STC 23085. (1)

Thurloe (John). A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq;Secretary, First, to the Council of State, and afterwards to the Two Protectors, Oliver and Richard Cromwell..., 7 vols., 1742, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, joints cracked and some general wear, few spine labels lacking, folio. Armorial bookplates of the Earl of Shelburne (with motto "Virtute non Verbis") and Ham Court. (7)

Trials. A Full and Impartial Account of the Tryal of the Reverend Mr. Francis Higgins, Prebendary of Christ-Church in Dublin; Before His Grace the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, Occasion`d by a Presentment of the Grand-Jury of the County of Dublin, 1712, bound with 13 other trials and reports, including A Report From the Committee of Secrecy, Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to Examine Several Books and Papers Laid Before the House, Relating to the Late Negotiations of Peace and Commerce, Reported on the Ninth of June, 1715, by the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, With an Appendix, 1715,92pp; The Whole Proceeding to Judgment Upon the Articles of Impeachment of High Treason Exhibited by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled, in the Name of Themselves and all the Commons of Great Britain, Against James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl of Nithisdale, Robert Earl of Carmwath, William Viscount Kenmure, and William Lord Nairn, in Westminster-Hall, on Thursday the Ninth Day of February, 1715, 1716, 20pp; Severall Speeches Against the Bill for Repealing the Triennial Act: As they were Spoken in the House of Commons, the 24th Day of April, 1716, 16pp; The Several Papers Which were Laid Before the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritualand Temporal in Parliament Assembled, Relating to the Riots at Oxford, on His Royal Highness the Prince`s Birth-Day, 1717, 36pp; The Tryal of Francis Francia, for High Treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily; On Tuesday Jan. 22, 1716, 1717, 68pp; The tryal of Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Upon the Impeachment of the House of Commons, Exhibited Against him for High Trason, and Other High Crimes and Misdeameanours, 1717, 69pp; The defence of Francis, Late Lord Bishop of Rochester, at the Bar of the House of Lords, on Thursday the 9th and Saturday the 11th of May, 1723. Against the Bill then Depending for Inflicting Pains and Penalties on him, 1723, 20pp, some tears, marginal loss to one title, some spotting and soiling, bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, small sticker to upper cover, rubbed, folio (1)

Typotius (Jacobus). Symbola Diuina & Humana Pontificum Imperatorum Regum. Accessit Breuis & Facilis Isagoge & Symbola Uaria Diuersorum Principum Sacronsanc Ecclesiae & Sacri Imperii Romani, 2 parts only (of 3), Prague, 1601-02, two engraved titles, first part with engraved portrait and 59 engraved emblematic plates only (lacking plate 14, first plate reinforced at inner margin), second part with engraved plate, large printer`s device and 41 emblematic illustrations, one or two repairs, some spotting and browning, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, a little rubbed and soiled, small folio (1)

* Beche (Henry Thomas de la, 1796-1855). Autograph document signed as Director of the Geological Survey, Frome, 5 October 1843, notifying that Richard Gibbs is duly authorised to assist on the Ordnance Geological Survey of Great Britain, some light soiling and marks, red wax seal at foot, vertical folds, together with the signed printed certificate dated 2nd October 1845, completed in manuscript appointing Gibbs as general assistant, some soiling and old tape repairs to verso, a little marginal fraying, both folio, together with two pen and ink sketches attributed to de la Beche, one titled `Ye Kilkenny Cattes`, 12 x 18cm, the second smaller a vignette depciting a skein of geese across Swanage Bay dated October 1854, plus a related engraving (5)

Carrington (R.C.). Nine Draft Maps, (printed by the Anastatic process) containing all the stars above the eleventh magnitude situated within nine degrees of the North Pole, laid down for the year 1855, single sheet of explanation with the address of Redhill Observatory, plus all nine maps with handwritten notes contained in printed sleeve with presentation to M. Johnson, some spotting, ex-lib. with ink lib. stamps to sleeve and explanation leaf, together with ten loose charts being Mr. Carrington`s Circumpolar Charts for 1855, some soiling and marginal creasing and fraying, ink lib. stamp to upper margin of first map, oblong folio. Manuel John Johnson (1805-59) was the Radcliffe Observer (1839-59), was awarded the RAS gold medal and was president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1857-58. (2)

Uranometria Argentina Mapas, Publicado por el Observatorio, 1877, fourteen large plts. (approx. 60 x 90cm), a few ex lib. stamps, pict. litho. view to title, loose in orig. printed wrappers (detached, soiled and worn), together with a duplicate copy lacking plt. 9, some dampstaining, volume folded and vertical split through vign. title and lacking upper wrapper, both oblong elephant folio (2)

Vengeur-d`Orsan (Dr. A). Our Satellite, a Selenography according to the present state of science, part one only, 1862, photographically illustrated and including two albumen prints showing magnified portions of the lunar surface adjacent to Tycho and surrounding districts (approx. 18 x 21cm), contents loose in orig. linen-backed litho. pictorial stiff wrappers, ex-lib. with several ink stamps, some soiling and wear, spine frayed, folio (1)

Vitriarius (Johann Jacob, 1679-1745). Notae in Hugonis Grotii de Jure Belli ac Pacis Libros Tres, 18th c. manuscript fair copy of the Notes on Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Bacis, by J. J. Vitriarius, in three parts, separately paginated, 116, 235 & 58 pp. respectively, written in a neat hand throughout in brown ink, edges untrimmed, contemp. calf backed boards, rubbed and soiled with some wear to edges, 4to, together with a German handwritten manuscript on freemasonry, by Christoph Eq. a Lilio Convallium, c. 1780s, consisting of handwritten title and 197 folio leaves, some waterstaining to title, and outer margins throughout, untrimmed, disbound without covers, plus a small pamphlet entitled Uber die Kuldeer, pub. Gorliz, 1805, both loosely contained in 19th c. cloth-backed portfolio, with ties, 4to. Without evidence of authorship as to the copyist. However, a similar bound volume of manuscript containing a copy of J.J Vitriarius, Observationes in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli ac Pacis, dated 1728-29, by Alexander Boswell, the father of the biographer James Boswell, is held at the University of Glasgow. Johann Jacob Vitriarius was professor of law at the famous University of Leiden, then part of the United Provinces. (2)

Bellori (Giovanni Pietro). Veteres Arcus Augustorum Triumphis Insignes Ex Reliquiis quae Romae adhuc supersunt cum Imaginibus Triumphalibus Restituti Antiqus Nummis Notisque Io: Petri Bellorii Illustrati Nunc primum per Io: Jacobum de Rubeis..., Rome, 1690, title torn to lower outer corner and lined to verso, eng. port. (lined to verso), forty-seven eng. plts. on 45 sheets (inc. 23 double-page, lacks plt. 2), two single-page plts. lined to verso, some worming and paper repairs to margins, 19th c. half calf, elaborate gilt dec. spine with morocco title label, slightly rubbed, folio. Leaves 16-19: "Josephi Mariae Suaresii Episcopi olim Vasionensis Apparatus Historicus ad Explicationem Arcus L. Septimii Severi Aug.", Colophon on leaf 19 verso: Rom?, M.DC.XC. Ex typographia Io: Francici de Buagnis. (1)

British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Maps, Charts and Plans, 15 vols., 1967, & Ten-Year Supplement 1965-1974, pub. 1978, all orig. maroon cloth gilt, library bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., stamps to title versos, etc., folio, together with Index of Manuscripts in the British Library, 10 vols., Cambridge, 1984-86, orig. uniform maroon cloth gilt, library bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ink stamps to title versos, etc., large 4to, plus Catalogue of the Newspaper Library Colindale, 8 vols., 1975, library bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ink stamps to title versos, etc., orig. blue cloth gilt, folio, and other similar reference, including The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Microfiche, and a part set of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 34 vols. (of 45), pub. Lawrence & Wishart, 1975-91 (lacking vols. 14, 19, 26-27 & 32-37), 8vo (approx. 85)

Browne (Alexander). Ars Pictoria; Or an Academy Trating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching, 1st ed., 1669, engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 engraved plates (complete), mostly by Arnold de Jode, small library stamps on title and each plate, some light spotting and minor marginal tears, modern calf-backed boards, joints rubbed and scuffed, folio. Alexander Browne (d. 1706) was a miniature painter and auctioneer and one of the first publishers of mezzontints. Wing B5097. (1)

Dufy (Raoul). Ten Colour Collotypes After Watercolours, Selected and with an Introduction by Max Huggler. With a Foreword by Sir John Rothenstein, pub. Oldbourne Press, 1961, ten window-mounted coloured prints, each 13 x 10 in (33 x 25cm), orig. printed boards with linen backstrip, tall folio. Limited edition 74/200. (1)

Flint (Sir William Russell). Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969. A Comparative Review of the Artist`s Signed Limited Edition Prints, by Keith S. Gardner and Nigel D. Clark, oub. Sir William Russell Flint Galleries Ltd., Bristol, 1986, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. publisher`s half morocco gilt, folio. Limited Collectors Edition 780/1500. (1)

Flint (Sir William Russell). Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969. A Comparative Review of the Artist`s Signed Limited Edition Prints, by Keith S. Gardner and Nigel D. Clark, oub. Sir William Russell Flint Galleries Ltd., Bristol, 1986, numerous col. and b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. publisher`s morocco gilt, folio, contained in orig. slipcase. Limited De Luxe Edition 364/500. Ex libris bookplate of Sir William Russell Flint. (1)

Lee (Ronald A.). The Knibb Family, Clockmakers or: Automatopaei Knibb Familiaei, 1st ed., 1964, some colour and numerous b & w plates and illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in rubbed d.j., sl. frayed to edges, with minor loss to lower outer corner of upper wrapper, folio, limited edition 3/1000, together with Lloyd (H. Alan), The English Domestic Clock, its evolution and history, 2nd imp., June 1938, b&w illusts., orig. cloth-backed boards, large slim 8vo, plus The First Twelve Years of the English Pendulum Clock or The Fromanteel Family and their contemporaries 1658-1670, a lone exhibition, Ronald A. Lee, February 1969, b&w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, slim folio, plus two other copies of the same work, and Horological Master Works, English 17th-century Clocks from Private Collections, Antiquarian Horological Society/Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 2003, numerous colour illusts., orig. printed wrappers, 4to, plus seven other related booklets (12)

Swan (Abraham). A Collection of Designs in Architecture, Containing New Plans and Elevations of Houses, for General use..., 2 vols. in one, 1757 [-1758], 123 eng. plts. (of 125, both vol. lack plt. 60), final plt. torn to gutter margin and lined to verso, ink library stamps to verso of title to vol. 1 and final plt., dampstaining throughout, recent endpapers with library bookplates and ink stamps to front endaper, modern library buckram, dust soiled, folio. Archer 326.1. (1)

Folio Society. approx. 80 vols., various, including a 7 vol. set of Austen`s Works, all orig. cloth, in orig. slipcases, 8vo (approx. 80)

Pogany (Willy, illust.). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1st ed., 1910, twenty tipped-in col. plts. (one with a corner creased), numerous illusts. and decs. to text, occn. light foxing, patterned endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed (one or two leaves very sl. frayed to fore-edge), orig. decorated green cloth gilt, bevel-edged, spine rubbed and gilt dulled, some light markings to covers, edges a little frayed in places, folio (1)

[Arnold, Richard]. The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold`s Chronicle; containing, Among Divers Other Matters, the original of the celebrated poem of the Nut-Brown Maid, reprinted from the first edition, with the additions included in the second, 1811, untrimmed, contemp. boards, soiled and worn with backstrip def., 4to, together with Usher (James), A Body of Divinity, or The Sum and Substance of Christian Religion, 6th ed., corrected and much enlarged, 1670, etched portrait frontis. loosely inserted, disbound without covers, folio, plus Deslandes (Andre-Francois), Reflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont mort en plaisantant, nouvelle ed., Amsterdam, 1776, t.e.g., early 20th c., half brown crushed morocco gilt, ex-libris Charles Whibley, with his bookplate and presentation inscription to him dated Christmas 1915, 8vo, and Stieler (Karl, and others), The Rhine, From its Source to the Sea, pub. Bickers and Son, 1878, numerous b&w wood eng. plates and illusts., a.e.g., contemp. gilt-dec. full red morocco, rubbed and some marks, upper joint partly cracked, folio, and other various antiquarian interest, reference, etc., including L`Histoire de Joseph, trans. Lemaistre de Sacy, Paris, 1878, with etched plates by various artists, large folio, Henri Cohen & Seymour de Ricci, Guide de l`Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siecle, 6th ed., enlarged, Paris, 1912, bound in full green morocco, faded to spine, large 8vo, Edward Penfield, Posters in Miniature, 1897, & Herbert Cecil Duce, Poster Advertising, Chicago, 1912, Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, 1825, a group of 20th c. framed silhouette portraits, etc. (a carton)

Bock (Elfried, and Rosenberg, Jakob). Die Niederlodischen Meister, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis SŠmtlicher Zeichnungen mit 220 Lichtdrucktafeln, 2 vols. (text/plts.), Frankfurt, 1931, numerous b&w plts., ex-library with usual marks etc., orig. linen, faintly spotted, lettered in black, plt. vol. additionally lettered on spine in ms., folio, together with Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Pictures of the School of Siena and Examples of the Minor Arts of that City, 1904, forty-seven col. and b&w plts. (as list), orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, rubbed and some marks, folio, plus Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, thirty-six b&w plts., occ. spotting, orig. cloth gilt, label to spine, rubbed, folio, and Bible [Tamil]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, under the auspices of The British and Foreign Bible Society, Madras, 1850, English title creased at gutter and becoming detached, printed in double column, typed letter tipped-in on verso of prelim. blank, pink figured endpapers, free endpapers sometime crudely strengthened at edges with linen, leather bookplate, gilt gauffered edges, contemp. black morocco (bound at the C.K.S. Press, Madras), elaborately gilt dec., rubbed and worn, with remains of crude repairs and spine detached at upper joint, 4to, and others various. Darlow and Moule 9126 (one of 500 copies in 4to) for the Tamil Bible. A revised edition, the result of a revision committee formed at Madras in 1847, acting in conjunction with the Jaffna Auxiliary Society. The bookplate reads: `To the Honorable John Fryer Thomas, Member of the Council of the Presidency of Madras, the Zealous and Constant Friend of Bible-Education for the Natives of India, This Tamil Bible, is presented by a few Hindoo Christians in token of their respect and esteem. March, 1855`. (one carton)

Durer Album. Herausgegeben von W.v. Kaulbach und A. Kreling, Nurnberg, n.d., c. 1870, forty-two b & w plts., contemp. panelled tree calf gilt by Potter & Son, upper hinge cracked, large 4to, together with Salviati (P.), Ricordo di Venezia, n.d., c. 1880s, eighteen albumen prints mounted on thick card, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, some wear to spine, oblong folio, with other miscellaneous books, mostly large-format (2 cartons)

East Africa. East Africa Protectorate. Ordinances and Regulations, 18 vols. in fourteen, Mombasa & Nairobi, 1903-1919, a broken run, mostly contemp. qtr. cloth, slightly worn, folio, plus others related including late 19th c. British Guiana Ordinances etc., mostly ex-lib. (2 cartons)

Mackenna (Stephen). Plotinus: The Ethical Treatises Being the Treatises of the First Ennead with Porphyry`s Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System, Translated from the Greek, 2 vols., pub. Philip Lee Warner/Medici Society, 1917, orig. holland-backed boards, soiled and some minor wear to extremities, 4to (limited edition of 1000 copies), together with Norman (E.R. and St. Joseph, J.K.S.), The Early Development of Irish Society. The Evidence of Aerial Photography, 1st ed., CUP, 1969, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., slim folio, and other miscellaneous books (2 cartons)

Tizac (H. d`Ardenne de). Animals in Chinese Art, a Collection of Examples, with a Preface by Roger Fry, 1923, fifty col. and b & w plts., occn. fox spots, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. maroon cloth gilt, partially faded, extrems. sl. rubbed, folio, (limited edition, 130/250 copies), together with Hyde (J.A. Lloyd), Oriental Lowestoft Chinese Export Porcelain, Porcelaine de la Cie des Indes, with Special Reference to the Trade with China and the Porcelain Decorated for the American Market, 3rd ed., pub. Newport, 1964, numerous col. and b & w plts., ex. lib. with circular ink stamp on verso of title and labels on endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, a few faint adhesive marks, 4to (limited to 1000 copies), plus Sainsbury (Hester, illust.), Eve`s Legend, written in 1824 by Lord Holland, 1928, hand-col. wood eng. plts. and illusts., incl. title-page, untrimmed, orig. patterned boards, extrems. rubbed and some surface wear, printed spine label browned, contained in orig. board slipcase with label on upper side, rubbed, sm. folio, (limited edition 124/300 copies), plus twelve others, Chinese art related and misc. (13)

Jones (W., Private Teacher of Writing, etc.). Poikilographia. Or various Specimens of Ornamental Penmanship, comprising Twenty-Two Different Alphabets, n.d., c. 1830s, port. frontis., eng. title, twenty-one eng. plts. on twenty-one leaves, all protected with tissue guards, some spotting and marginal soiling throughout, later quarter calf gilt with orig. paper label to upper cover, slim folio, together with Sharpe (Edmund), The Mouldings of the Six Periods of British Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, pub. E. & F.M. Spon, n.d., c. 1871, col. and b & w illusts., some folding, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 4to, with other miscellaneous antiquarian, mostly 18th and 19th c. (3 shelves)

Mayerne-Turguet (Sir Theodor). Opera Medica, Complectentia Consilia, Epistolas et Observationes, Pharmacopeam, variasque Medicamentorum Formulas, 2 vols. in 1, London, 1700, half-titles present, eng. port. frontis., some marginal damp stains, particularly affecting final few leaves, contemp. calf, covers detached, folio, together with Symington (Johnson), The Topographical Anatomy of the Child, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1887, fourteen col. litho. plts., wood-engs. to text, ex-lib. copy with unobtrusive circular ink stamp to title and verso of plts., orig. cloth gilt, rebacked, folio, plus Bell (Benjamin), A System of Surgery, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1783, uncol. copperplate engs., later half calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, and others of medical interest (3 shelves)

Zahn (Joanne). Speculae Physico-Mathematico-Historicae Tomus III. Conitines Microcosni sive Hominis Notabilia & Mirabilia scienda... , vol. 3 only, Nuremberg, 1696, addn. eng. frontis., trimmed at foot, three eng. plts., text generally somewhat browned, contemp. calf, worn on spine, folio, together with Carpenter (William B.), Introduction to the Study of Foraminifera, pub. Ray Society, 1862, twenty-two uncol. litho. plts., some minor scattered spotting, orig. linen-backed boards, covers detached, folio, with other miscellaneous antiquarian (3 shelves)

Vesalius (Andreas). On the Fabric of the Human Body. A Translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Book I, The Bones and Cartiledges, by William Frank Richardson, in Collaboration with John Burd Carman, pub. San Francisco, 1998, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Sarjeant (William A.S.), Geologists and the History of Geology. An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978, 5 vols., Arno Press, New York, 1980, orig. cloth, large 8vo, with other history of science reference and similar (3 shelves)

Jarrett (Philip, editor). Aircraft of the Second World War. The Development of the Warplane 1939-45, pub. Putnam, 1997, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, together with Freeman (Roger A. and Anderton, David A.), The B-17 Fortress, B-29 Fortress at War, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. laminated pict. boards in matching d.j., folio, with other aviation, mostly recent hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (3 shelves)

Rackham (Bernard). Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2 vols., CUP, 1935, num. col. plts., orig. cloth in sl. torn d.j.s, folio, together with Rubin (William S.), Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, n.d., c. 1970, num. col. and b & w illusts., some tipped in, orig. printed velour with d.j., thick 4to, with other miscellaneous art and antiques reference, mostly G/VG (3 shelves)

Senefelder (Alois). A Complete Course of Lithography: Containing Clear and Explicit Instructions in all the Different Branches and Manners of that Art... to which is Prefixed a History of Lithography, from its Origin to the Present Time, with a Preface by Frederic von Schlichtegroll, pub. Ackermann, 1819, port. frontis., soiled, recent half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Martineau (Harriet), The History of England During the Thirty Years` Peace: 1816-1846, 2 vols., pub. Charles Knight, 1849, eng. ports., folding maps, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some minor wear to extremities, large 8vo, plus Colvin (Sidney), Early Engraving & Engravers in England (1545-1695). A Critical and Historical Essay, pub. British Museum, 1905, eng. plts., t.e.g., orig. quarter morocco gilt, worn on spine, large folio, with other miscellaneous antiquarian (3 shelves)

Shakespeare Head Press. A School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1930, b & w illusts. and decorations by Thomas Lowinsky, untrimmed and partly unopened, orig. three quarter vellum gilt, a little soiled, folio (475 copies printed), with other miscellaneous books, including topography, literature and poetry, etc. (3 shelves)

Stevens (Edward T.). Flint Chips. A Guide to Pre-Historic Archaeology, as Illustrated by the Collection in the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, 1870, uncol. litho. frontis., b & w illusts. to text, ex-lib. ink stamp on title, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 8vo, together with Woodward (Arthur Smith), The Fossil Fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, pub. Palaeontographical Society, 1916-19, twenty-six uncol. litho. plts., recent cloth, folio, with other natural history and geology, etc. (3 shelves)

Tipping (H. Avray). Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of His Age (1648-1720), pub. Country Life, 1914, numerous b&w illusts. after photos, orig. qtr. cloth, with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and marked, folio, together with Jekyll (Gertrude), Wood and Garden, Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur, 7th impression, 1899, b&w plts., one or two leaves loose, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and spine a little dulled, 8vo, plus Sheppard (Edgar), Memorials of St. James`s Palace, 2 vols., 1894, b&w plts., occn. sl. foxing, t.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, and Pignatorre (Theodore), The Ancient Monuments of Rome, pub. Trefoil, n.d., c. 1930, b&w plts., orig. blue cloth gilt, large 8vo, plus other mostly early 20th c. topographical interest, art reference, etc., including 7 vols. Pelican History of Art series, Mrs. Henry Perrin & Professor Boulger, British Flowering Plants, 4 vols., pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1914, numerous col. plts., t.e.g., orig. uniform white cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, large 4to, Grove`s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5 vols., 3rd ed., 1928, Dante, The Vision of Hell, & The Vison of Pergatory and Paradise, illust. Gustave Dore, 2 vols., pub. Cassell, 1903, etc. (4 shelves)

* After Louis Adolphe Hervier 1818-1879- "Bateau de Fêche" (no 26.T) etching printed with tone, anointed presumably by Beraldi and inscribed, ex Alfred Elias Collection, 12x16cm, together with twenty-nine various etchings in presumably varying states by and after the same hand, each anointed and inscribed, the loose sheet(s) hinge mounted and boxed, (30) (box/folio)

* British School circa 1930`s, Silversmiths/Goldsmiths Designs, "Ascot 1930; The Royal Hunt Cup Ascot 1931"; pencil, pen and ink, folio containing various cup, vase, bowl and dish designs, mostly circa 1930s, designs possibly intended for creation, (unframed, folio)

THE HOLY BIBLE, With a Devotional and Practical Commentary by the Rev. R Jamieson & the Rev. E.H. Bickersteth, engraved plates after John Martin and others, one torn, colour map of Palestine, aeg, spotting, full calf gilt binding by William Garrett of Sittingbourne, raised bands, contrasting spine label, marks, upper hinge worn, folio, London: James S. Virtue, nd.

BOER WAR:- Wilkinson (Spenser). THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS RECORD OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR, 1899-1900, colour title, 8 photogravures, original half calf cloth gilt (rebacked, corners restored, some wear), No 116 OF AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF COPIES, signed by the artists R. Caton Woodville, S. Begg and Melton Prior, as well as editor Bruce McGraw, folio, London: Illustrated London News, [nd]; - THE GRAPHIC, Vol LXI, Jan-Mar 1900, half roan (spotting, binding worn), including extensive coverage of the war; with 2 others

Lindenbrog (Friderick) CODEX LEGUM ANTIQUARUM, IN QUO CONTINENTUR, engraved title vignette, engraved ornate initials and section headings, stained edges, paper flaw to N1, approx. 6 letters of text missing from verso of Eeee5, contemporary vellum (marks), later ties, folio (in sixes), Frankfurt: Johannem & Andream Marnios, 1613. Provenance: Alexander Thomson of Banchory (bookplate).

Gerson (Jean) PARS PRIMA ... QUE EST DE IIS POTISSIMU QUE FIDEM ET ECCLESIE CONDITIONE MODERANTUR ... SECUNDA PARS .. DE IIS FERME REBUS QUE AD MORES CONDUCUNT, 2 parts only (of 4) in 1 vol, title printed in red & black and with woodcut device and border, woodcut initials, some annotations in ink, first title soiled and with marginal tears & library stamp, mark affecting text on lii, repaired marginal tear affecting text on eeiiii/v, tear to tail margin of ffv not affecting text, misaligned text on headline and lines 1-15 of the righthand column of mmi recto, light waterstaining to head margin of most leaves, lacks blanks, modern calf, raised bands, contrasting labels, new endpapers, sprinkled edges (spine faded), folio (in 8s), Paris: Le Petit and Regnault, 1521. Provenance: Rudolf Graupner (bookplate).

Calvin (John) LEXICON IURIDICUM IURIS CAESAREI SIMUL, ET CANONICI, title printed in red and white, woodcut device, title soiled and lacking small section from outer margin, soiling to verso of q6, short tear to tail margin of FFF3 not affecting text, some browning/spotting to final leaves, top edges soiled, contemporary blindstamped vellum over later boards, raised bands (marks), folio (in 6s), Cologne: Franciscum Helvidium, 1622. Provenance: John Hoadly (bookplate).

The Sportsman. BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN, 4 volumes: `Past and Present` (2 vols), `Hunting` and `Racing`, NO 57 OF 1,000 NUMBERED SETS, photogravure plates, some marks, publisher`s claret roan gilt (edge wear, marks), marbled endpapers, folio, London: Sports and Sportsmen, Limited, c1920.

Nelson (S.) THE APOCRYPHA AT LARGE, with plates `Engraved for the Universal Bible`, occasional marginal worming/marks, embossed calf, raised bands (worn), folio, London: J. Coote, 1759.

Paré (Ambroise) WORKES, Second English Edition, engraved title, woodcuts, title laid down and with loss, lacks Mmm1 & Mmm2, Nnn1 & Nnn3, significant marginal damage to upper corners of opening leaves affecting gloss but leaving text largely unaffected, marginal waterstaining in middle leaves, the 3 folding plates in the Spigelius present but defective, ditto the final leaf of corrigenda, contemporary calf, raised bands (worn, repaired), folio, London: Richard Cotes, 1649. With a folio volume comprising leaves s6-y5 of an edition (second folio?) of VESALIUS` `DE HUMANI` and a full set of 33 anatomical plates engraved for PIERRE TARIN and signed `Prevost` or `Defehrt`. Provenance: Charles Noon (inscription). Lot sold not subject to return.

Johnston (Alexander Keith) THE ROYAL ATLAS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY: New Edition, folding frontispiece chart of the North Pole, 50 numbered double-page maps coloured in outline, browning due to bookmarks on head margins of 2 maps, half roan, raised bandds, pebbled cloth boards gilt with cover vignette, large folio, Edinburgh/London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1879. With 13 other volumes, the majority travel.

Leisinger (Hermann) Romanesque bronzes, church portals in mediaeval Europe, 4to, cloth, d-j, plates, 1956; Evans (Joan, ed.) The flowering of the Middle Ages, folio, cloth, d-j, plates (some colour) & illustrations, 1966; Swarenski (H.) Monuments of Romanesque art, the art of church treasures in North-Western Europe, 4to, wrappers, plates, 1974; Mazal (O.) Der Aristoteles des Herzogs von Atri, folio, cloth, d-j, colour plates, illustrations, Graz, 1988, and 1 other (5).

Meek (H.A.) Guarino Guarini and his architecture, 4to, cloth, d-j, plates & illustrations, New Haven & London, 1988; Pommer (R.) Eighteenth-century architecture in Piedmont, 4to, cloth, d-j, plates, New York & London, 1967; Millon (H.A.) and Lampugnani (V.M., editors) The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, the representation of architecture, 4to, cloth, d-j, plates (some colour), New York, 1997; Soleri (P.) Arcology: the city in the image of man, oblong folio, wrappers, illustrations, Cambridge, Mass., & London, 1972, and 5 others (9).

Livre d`or du bibliophile 1926-1927 (1928-1929), 2 vols, 4to, wrappers, uncut, plates (some coloured), Paris, 1927-1929; Porter (E., ed.) Papyrus, revista de bibliofila, nos 1-2, 8vo, wrappers, illustrations, Barcelona, 1936; Naunton (Sir Robert) Fragmenta regalia, or observations on the late Queene Elizabeth, her times and favourites, edited by Professor Roy E. Schreiber, 2 vols, 8vo, cloth, slipcase, plates, printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 2002; New York Public Library, Tesoros de Espana, ten centuries of Spanish books, 4to, wrappers, colour plates, New York, 1985; Linenthal (R.) and Noel (W.) Medieval seal matrices in the Schoyen Collection, folio, cloth, Oslo, 2004, and 15 others (21).

Leibovitz (Annie) Shooting stars, folio, wrappers, illustrations, San Francisco, 1973; Knight (A.W. & G., editors) The Beat Book, 4to, wrappers, illustrations, California, Pennsylvania, 1974; Whole earth epilog, access to tools, folio, wrappers, illustrations, Baltimore, 1974; Miller (J. ed.) The Rolling Stone illustrated history of rock & roll, folio, wrappers, illustrations, New York, 1976; Rolling Stone, the tenth anniversary issue, no. 254, 4to, wrappers, illustrations, 1977, and 3 others (8).

Burgess (Anthony) Coaching Days of England, oblong folio, cloth-backed boards, no d-j, colour frontispiece & plates, illustrations, 1966

Fishing. A printed Letts`s diary for 1899, completed by hand recording for each day the weather, river condition, staff and their tasks, catches, orders, accounts, folio, cloth-backed boards, 1899.

POWERED GEORGE SELBY THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPEDIA LONDINENSIS FOLIO A NEW EDITION VOLS I AND II ONLY (OF III) ENGRAVED PLATES CONTEMPORARY CALF BOOK LABEL OF WILLIAM WEBB 1804 BOARDS DETACHED

Nouvelle Compositions Decoratives (1st Series) by Serge Gladky-A single 1920’s abstract Pochoir print taken from a folio of 48 panels formerly the property of Miss Clarice Cliff, framed and glazed, measures 32 cms by 24 cms.