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Mackenzie, George Observations on the acts of parliament. Edinburgh, 1686, folio, contemporary panelled calf, later red label, ink inscription on title, some slight spotting to title; Ibid The laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal. Edinburgh, 1699, folio, title in red and black, modern quarter calf gilt, title creased, some slight worming [text unaffected] (2) Note: Wing M-184; Wing M-168

Peerage Cases A collection of papers relating to peerage cases before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords mostly brought during the 19th century. 16 volumes, folio, modern legal buckram, red leather labels. (17) Note: An important archive of productions, minutes of evidence, genealogical tables, lists of muniments, facsimiles of charters, etc., mostly printed but some in MS., for many of the major peerage cases of the 19th century, collected by Sheriff Bogie and bound by him. Papers relate to the following claims: Airth, Albermarle, Annandale, Berkeley, Belhaven, Burleigh, Crawfurd, Dingwall, Herries, Kinloss, Lauderdale, Lennox, Lindsay, Mar, Montrose, Marchmont, Mowbray, Newburgh, Polwarth, Ruthven, Southesk, Strange, Wiltes & Winton. Many of these claims extended down the years. Papers relating to claims for the Annandale peerage date from 1876, but it was not finally settled until 1985, largely as a result of research and opinions produced by Sheriff Bogie.

Scots Law - Stair, James Viscount The institutions of the law of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1693, second edition, folio, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, worm to top of title [some text loss], title page creased; Ibid The institutions of the law of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1826, fourth edition, folio, 2 volumes in 1, contemporary calf gilt, with gilt stamp on upper boards, rubbed at edges, hinges cracking, inner hinges tape repaired, bookplate and a another two volume edition in cloth; Erskine, John An institute of the law of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1812, folio, portrait frontsipiece, contemporary calf gilt, some foxing (5)

Skene, Sir John Regiam Majestatem. Edinburgh, 1609, folio, contemporary calf gilt, hinges cracking, title page damaged and repaired [some text loss], staining, last two leaves torn [no text loss]; bookplates; Spotiswoode, John Practicks of the laws of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1706, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, title trimmed at lower edge, stained at outside edges, bookplate; Balfour, Sir James Practicks or a system of the more ancient law of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1754, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, ink inscription on title; Maclaurin, Mr. Arguments and decisions in remarkable cases. Edinburgh, 1774, 4to, modern quarter calf, interior clean; McDouall, Andrew An institute of the laws of Scotland in civil rights. Edinburgh, 1752, folio, 3 volumes, 19th century half calf, red labels and another (8)

Cotgrave, Randle A dictionarie of the French and English tongues. London: printed by Adam Islip, 1632, folio, 2 parts in 1, woodcut titles and decorations, modern calf gilt, 18th and 19th century ink inscriptions to first title, first title chipped at outer edge, some staining to page edges

Wine, French manuscript Manuscript in French on paper announcing the establishment by Charles IV, King of France, of new tax on wine. Folio [no place, ?Paris], 22 September 1565, manuscript in ink on 18 pages, 3 blank leaves, unbound, stitched, folding marks and browning or slight staining, last leaf only with small holes along central fold; and a small group of French autograph letters and documents Note: Following the meeting of the Estates-General at Pontoise where the disastrous state of the royal finances was revealed, the King decided to impose a new tax on all wine entering his kingdom by sea or land for six months. The amount of tax to be paid is detailed and should the tax be unpaid, the wine would be confiscated for the benefit of the crown.

Stair, James, Viscount The institutions of the law of Scotland. Edinburgh: G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1759, folio, third edition, contemporary calf, very slightly rubbed; Reynolds, Susannah Frances & W.E. Hall The household book of practical receipts, 1847, 8vo, interleaved copy with a few receipts added, contemporary half calf, rubbed, some light spotting; Goldsmith, O. Dalzieles illustrated Goldsmith, 1865, 4to, green half calf gilt; Wakefield, W.W. & H.P. Marshall Rugger, 1930, 8vo, plates, original cloth; Brook, A.J.S. Old Scottish hall-marks on plate, 1892, 4to, contemporary half morocco, rubbed (5)

Millais, John Guille The natural history of British game birds. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1909, folio, number 128 of 550 copies, 18 coloured plates, all but 4 after Archibald Thorburn, 17 photogravures, 2 illustrations, tissue guards, original buckram-backed cloth, slightly faded

Gutenberg Bible Die Gutenberg-Bibel. Hildesheim, Zurich & New York: G. Olms, 2000, 2 volumes, large folio, facsimile edition, original decorated boards, slipcase

Malaya-Malaysia-Singapore photographs-Kleingrothe, C. J. Malay peninsula. Straits settlements & federated Malay States. Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1907, oblong folio, coloured map and 126 photogravures on 51 (of 63) sheets, loose as issued in original portfolio with photograph on upper cover, some spotting to mounts not affecting images, portfolio worn, joints splitting

Dalton, Richard Antiquities and views in Greece and Egypt with the manners and customs of the inhabitants from drawings made on the spot, A.D. 1749. London: Thomas King and Henry Chapman, 1791, folio, 79 plates on 76 sheets [some folding], contemporary half red morocco gilt, marbled boards, rubbed, some wear to edges, foxing and water staining to edges of some plates Note: In 1749 Dalton was invited to join James Caulfield, the first earl of Charlemont, as a travelling draughtsmen. The party travelled to Malta, Turkey, Egypt and, finally, Greece. Some of the drawings completed by Dalton are the earliest visual records of a number of monuments. The 79 views were published several times after their first appearence in 1751, with the definitive issue published in 1791. [Oxford DNB] Colas 779; Atabey 311

Edinburgh - Shepherd, Thomas Modern Athens! London, 1829, 4to, engraved title, 100 views on 48 plates, contemporary half calf, rebacked, new endpapers, foxing; Arnot, Hugo The history of Edinburgh from the earliest accounts. Edinburgh, 1816, 8vo, folding map [repaired], contemporary calf, rebacked, foxing; Grant, James Old and new Edinburgh. London, [no date], 4to, 3 volumes, illustrated, contemporary tree calf gilt, hinges cracking, interiors clean; Wilson, Daniel Memorials of Edinburgh in the olden time. Edinburgh, 1848, 4to, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt, faded backstrip, foxing, some loose leaves; Heron, Alexander The rise and progress of the company of merchants of the city of Edinburgh 1681-1902. Edinburgh, 1903, 4to, with compliment slip from The Master Treasurer and Assistants of the Edinburgh Merchant Company, modern quarter calf gilt, some foxing; Stevenson, R.H. The chronicles of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, [no date], folding map, modern half calf gilt, some repairs; Stevenson, Robert Louis Edinburgh. London, 1896, 8vo, frontispiece, 8 plates by Hamilton Crawford, modern half morocco gilt, interior clean; Maitland, William The history of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1753, folio, lacking map and plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, new endpapers, browning throughout; Creech, William Edinburgh fugitive pieces. Edinburgh, 1815, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original boards, rebacked, offsetting to title, spotting (12)

Lear, Edward Views in the Seven Ionian Islands. London: Hugh Broadbent, 1979, 2 copies, one number 987 of 1000 copies, other number 775 of 1000 copies, folio, facsimile edition, plates, original cloth, slipcases (2)

Alexandre, Arsene The decorative art of Leon Bakst. London: The Fine Art Society, 1913, folio, coloured plates, original half vellum gilt, t.e.g., others uncut

Daly, Cesar Learchitecture privee au XIXme sicle sous Napoleon III. Nouvelles maisons de Paris et des environs. Paris: A. Morel, 1864, folio, Volume Premier, Tome Premier & Deuxieme, Second volume, Tome Troisieme, engraved titles and 226 engraved plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed board portfolios, corner of a few plates dampstained, bindings a bit worn and soiled; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

Humphreys, H. Noel Masterpieces of the early printers & engravers, 1870, 4to, 70 plates, original decorative cloth gilt, some spotting, upper joint a little split; Lewis, H.C. A descriptive bibliography of the most important books in the English language relating to the art & history of engraving and the collecting of prints, 1912-13, 2 volumes including supplement, 4to, plates, red morocco-backed cloth, spines gilt; Bryan, M. A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, 1816, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved frontispiece, modern buckram, spines gilt with red morocco lettering pieces; Vervliet, H.D.L. The book through 5000 years, 1972, 4to, dust-jacket, slipcase; Humphreys, H. Noel. A history of the art of printing. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868, second issue, folio, 106 lithographed and chromolithographed plates (including 6 bis plates), original decorative red cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, corners rubbed, surface split to original spine; Malone, Edmond Catalogue of early English poetry... illustrating the British drama, collected by Edmond Malone Esq. and now preserved in the British Library. Oxford: University Press, 1836, folio, nineteenth-century half cloth, rubbed (8)

Italian architecture-Granjean de Montigny, A. & A. Famin Architecture Toscane, ou palais, maisons et autres edifices de la Toscane. Paris: Salmon, 1846, folio, engraved title and 133 engraved plates, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., little light spotting to a few plates, rubbed

Italian architecture-Percier, Charles Palais, maisons et autres edifices modernes, dessines a Rome. Paris: chez Ducamp, 1798, folio, engraved title vignette, 100 engraved plates, extremities rubbed, upper cover detached

Langley, Batty Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration... London: printed for W. and J. Innys, et al, 1726. First edition, folio, 39 [of 40] folding plates, lacking plate 30, plate 14 repaired at crease, other plates creased and browned at folds, title in red and black, modern calf gilt, red morocco label, 18th century owneres ink inscription to title, some slight staining to edges

Macquoid, Percy A history of English furniture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1904-08, 4 volumes, folio, plates, some coloured, original red buckram, t.e.g., uncut, spines very slightly faded and head of two spines very slightly rubbed

Palladio, Andrea The architecture of A. Palladio, in four books... revised, designed and published by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian... the third edition corrected, with notes and remarks of Inigo Jones. London: A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne [& others], 1742, 2 volumes, large folio, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B. Picart after Sebastiano Riccio, engraved portrait of the author by Picart after Paolo Veronese, title in vol.1 printed in red and black, 215 engravings on 207 sheets, 15 double-page, by John Harris, Bernard Picart, Michael Vandergucht and John Cole, contemporary calf, head and tail of spines repaired, joints cracked, a few light spots Note: This edition is the third and best edition of Leonies English edition of Palladio; for the first time it includes notes taken from Inigo Joneses annotated copy which had recently been deposited at Worcester College, Oxford. Harris 685; this edition not in Fowler

The Kokka An illustrated monthly journal of the fine and applied arts of Japan and other eastern countries. Toyko, 1905-1911, 11 volumes [Nos.183, 185, 190, 191, 196, 206, 227, 229, 237, 252, 256], folio, illustrated, original decoratives wrappers, covers bright and interiors clean (11)

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus-William Newton The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio, translated... by W. Newton, architect. London: I. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder &c., 1791, 2 volumes, large folio, engraved frontispiece portrait after Robert Smirke and 46 plates engraved by James Newton, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, spine tooled in gilt and blind, new marbled sides, light dampstaining to extreme lower corner of a few plates, volume 1 bound without the preface (pp. [iii]-viii) found in some copies Note: A very good copy of William Newtones edition. In 1771 Newton published an English version of Vitruviuses De architectura so that - as he explained in the preface - England might not be the only "polished nation" that did not possess Vitruvius in its own tongue. In this copy the plates of Volume I are numbered and there is no alteration slip pasted onto the imprints. Many of the plates have been re-engraved and some of the figures enlarged. This two-volume edition was published by James Newton who states in his notice "To the Public" that all of Volume I and part of Volume II were printed before his brotheres death in 1790. Brunet V, 1331; Cicognara 736; Fowler 428.

Atlas-Bowen, Emanuel and Thomas Atlas Anglicanus, or a complete sett of maps of the counties of Great Britain. [London], for T. Kitchin, [c.1760], folio, 4 original parts, engraved title, 4pp. list of subscribers, 2 maps of England and Wales and 10 engraved county maps hand-coloured in outline and with coloured wash border, original blue wrappers, stitched as issued, lettered on upper wrappers in a copperplate hand, wrappers a little frayed, entirely uncut and clean Note: Rarely found stitched as issued in the original wrappers.

Bibliography Catalogue of manuscripts in Al-Khalidiya Library Jerusalem. London, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2001. Folio, publishers cloth, dustwrappers; Handlist of manuscripts in the Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Historiques Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1998 Volumes 4 & 5 only, 8vo., publishers cloth, dustwrappers; Sarajevo. Ghazi Husrev-bey Library. Catalogue of the Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnian manuscripts. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1998-2002. Volumes II (2nd edition), IV, V, VI, 8vo., publishers quarter cloth, printed paper boards; Catalogue of manscripts in Mamma Haidara Library. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2000, 3 volumes, 8vo., publshers cloth; Zeidan, Yousef. Catalogue of manuscripts in Shebeen El-Koom Egypt. London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2000. 8vo., publishers printed paper covers (11)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal Musnad with, Kanz al-eummal by Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi . [S.l., n.p., n.d. ] 2 volumes, small folio, quarter calf, cloth boards, rubbed, slight paper discolouration throughout; Al-Subki. Tabaqat al-shafieiyya. Cairo: Al-matbaeat al-husayniyya, 1324 AH. 6 volumes in 3, 8vo., original cloth, worming at the inner margins of the first few leaves in volume 1, near joints of third volume partly loose (5)

Qurean Arabic text. With the commentary of Abd Allah Baydawi. [Cairo]: Mustafa al-Banani al-Hanbali & his sons, 1344 A.H. Folio, titlepage in red and black within a border of typographical ornaments, text of the Koran printed within ruled borders surrounded by the text of the commentary, contemporary half calf, cloth, rubbed and worn, inner joints cracking, general paper discolouration throughout

Concordance et indices de la tradition musulmane: Les six livres, Le Musnad deAldarimi, Le Muwattae de Malik, Le Musnad de Ahmad ibn Hanbal par A. J. Wensinck [et J.P. Mensing continues par J. Brugeman]. Leiden: Brill, 1936-39. 7 volumes. Folio, publisheres half brown morocco, cloth boards Note: Further volumes appeared in 1988 and 1992.

Classical Arabic prose & poetry A collection of works on classical Arabic prose and poetry, to include: Abu Tammam Al-hamasa. Cairo, 1296 AH. , 4 volumes in 2, 8vo., cloth, rubbed, slight paper discolouration throughout, lower margin of first few pages with worm holes; Al-Jahiz Majmueat rasaei. Cairo, [n.d.] 8vo., cloth, with the signature of Alfred Guillaume; Al-Jahiz Al-bayan wael-tabyin. Cairo, 1926; Al-Jurjani Kitab al-mawaqif. [Cairo], 1325 AH. 4to., 8 parts in 4 folders, cloth; Ibn el-Kalbi Le livre des idoles (Kitab al-asnam): texte arabe publie pour la premiere fois ... par Ahmed Zeki Pacha. Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, 1914. Small folio, quarter calf, cloth boards; Abuel Faraj al-Isfahani Kitab al-aghani. Beirut, 1970. 10 volumes, 8vo., publisheres cloth, and 14 others (23)

Andreus Divus-Homer Homeri poetarum onmium principis Ilias, Andrea Divi Justinopolita[n]o interprete, ad verbu[m] translata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vita[m] fidelissime continens Conrado Heresbachio interprete. [Homeri poetae clarissimi Odyssea A. Divo interprete, ad vebum translata. Ejusdem Batrachomiomachia ... Aldo Manutio Romano interprete. Eiusdem Hymni Deorum XXXII. Georgio Dartona Cretense interprete.] Venice: J. a Burgofrancho, 1537, 2 volumes in one, 8vo [**8, a12, b-z8, aa-mm8; [title], 8, A-Z8, CC8, DD10, EE-GG8, HH10], first edition of Andreas Divuses translation, presentation copy from the translator, possibly to Pope Paul III, titles within woodcut borders, volume 1 with blanks MM7-MM8, woodcut colophon at end of each volume, contemporary brown Italian morocco, gilt panelled sides incorporating the words on upper cover "Homerus. And. Divi. Munus" within a central gilt tooled circle, and, on the lower cover, the letters P.P. and a gilt shield enclosing a tree, surmounted by a bishopes mitre, spine blindstamped and gilt in compartments, raised bands, gauffered edges, first title slightly wormed in inner margin, minimally touching woodcut border, and two minute wormholes just affecting date, wormhole only affecting lower blank margin of A2, first title lightly dust-soiled, split to part of upper joint extending to spine, slightly worn at foot of spine and corners, a few small womholes to spine Note: A presentation Renaissance binding, the gift of the translator Andreas Divus, blindstamped "Homerus" and "And. Divi. Munus" [Andreas Divi Munus, i.e., the Gift of Andreas Divus], an elaborately tooled brown morocco binding with gauffered gilt edges. The nature and statues of the recipient is indicated by the gilt Bishopes mitre and the initials P.P., standing for "Pastor Pastorum (Shepherd of Shepherds), "Papa Pontifex" or simply "Papa". Although P.P. can signify Bishop, "P.P." generally stands for Pope and may therefore indicate Pope Paul III (Pope 1534-1549). The earliest known inscription of "P.P." refers to the papacy of Marcellinus which lasted from A.D. 296 to 304 (see G.B. de Rossi. Inscriptiones Christianae urbis romae, vol.1, p.115). At some point at attempt has been made to obscrue the mitre and the tree, but both remain clearly visible nevertheless. George Chapman drew on Andreas Divuses translation in his own important translation of the Odyssey, originally published in folio in 1614Ð16. Adams H770

Angelomus of Luxeuil Enarrationes in quatuor libros regum. Cologne: ex officina Eucharii Ceruicorni, 1530, folio, fine woodcut title by Holbein, woodcut initials, with blank r4, later boards Note: Adams A1108 Provenance: Bibliotheca S. Georgii, A.V., early inscription on title; Bibliotheca Prov. Germ. Inferioris, bookplate

Bible - New Testament - Latin & Greek [New Testament] Iesu Christi D.N. Novum testamentum. Cuius Graeco textui respondent interpretationes duae [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1565, folio, edited by Theodorus Beza, Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title, contemporary wooden boards with cords exposed, ?lacking leather binding, dampstained throughout, title frayed with with loss to 3 letters, first gathering loose and frayed Note: D. & M. 4629; Adams B1697

Bizari, Pietro Rerum Persicarum historia ... tempora complectens. Frankfurt: typis Wychelianis apud Claudium Marnium, & heredes Ionannis Aubrii, 1601, folio, printeres pegasus device on title-page, repeated on verso of last, woodcut initials and decorations, contemporary vellum, four compartments on spine, one slightly damaged, gilt title on second from top, title lettered in Gothic on lower edge, early shelfmark annotations on front pastedown and fly, title in contemporary ms. on lower fore-edge, early armorial stamp of a Cardinal on title-page, heavily browned or oxidised throughout. Note: Second and enlarged edition, first printed in 1583, of this rich compendium of texts dealing with the history of Persia. The volume opens with Pietro Bizaries treatise in twelve books on Persian people, costumes, institutions, home and foreign policy.. Next is a brief excerpt from Photiuse summary of Clesiase history of Persia, and a chronological list of the Persian kings. This is followed by Henricus Porsiuse narration of the war between the Turkish king Mvrathem (Murad) III and the Persian king. Mehemetem; an oration to Innocetium VIII on the Turkish war and a history of the Venetian wars against the Turks, both written by Philippus Challimacus, Italian historian of the 15th century; a description of Josephus Barbaruse and Ambrosius Contarenuse travels to Persia; Thoma Minadouse account in nine books of the Turkish-Persian war followed by a short alphabetical list of Ôbarbarian and newe terms and last, an anonymous description of the Persian war up to the year 1588. All these were originally written in Italian, and appear here translated by Jacobus Gevderus. BM STC of 17th century German Books, B150; Brunet I p. 955

Collado, Luis. Pratica manuale di artiglieria. Venice: Pietro Dusinelli 1586. First edition, folio, [vi] 92 ll, woodcut architectural titlepage, central arms of the dedicatee ÔDon Carlo deAragonae, 2 woodcut plates, 6 full-page and 29 text woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and ornaments, contemporary limp vellum, some patches of wear, two small wormtrails [one touching a few letters], very slight marginal stains or thumbing, very early small armorial stamp on titlepage, a few marginal annotations in a later Italian hand Note: Luis Collado was engineer of the Spanish army in Italy during the last quarter of the 16th century. First edition of his important work on artillery, according to Cockle Ôthe only edition of the original form of Colladoes famous work.e 126 chapters deal with all aspects of this topic, including: the qualities and duties of gunner generals and other officers; naval artillery; the invention of gunpowder; the casting, possible defects, uses, pieces, proportions, etc., of various types of artillery; how to load and shoot in different conditions (at night, sea, etc.); the making and use of powerful mines; the composition of gunpowder; the making and use of different kinds of projectiles; the writing of secret messages. Images of various types of cannons and diagrams detailing their diameters, proportions, etc. illustrate the text. BM STC It. C16th p. 189. Brunet II p. 132.

Cousin, Jean La vraye science de la pourtraicture descrite et demonstre... Representant par une facile instruction, plusiers plans & figures de toutes les parties separees du corps humain. Paris: chez Guillaume le Be, 1647, oblong 4to, 40 leaves, additional wood engraved title with the title in a large decorative cartouche, 35 full page wood engravings with accompanying text, modern boards ruled in red and lettered in black, marbled endpapers, waterstain to top corner of the last 10 leaves and a few small tissue repairs, mostly marginal but that on folio 30 just into the engraved area Note: Cousines beautiful and celebrated woodcut drawing book was intended for the use draughtsmen and artists. Brunet mentions editions of 1571 and 1589 which cannot be substantiated. The Bibliotheque National printed catalogue cites editions of 1595, 1642, 1647 and 1656. The British Library has only an edition of 1671.

Eusebius Pamphilus Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544 [with] Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545, 2 works in one volume, folio, text in Greek, woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, extremities rubbed, joints cracked. Provenance: Greek library stamps at foot of title-page; Robert Lenkiewicz (1942-2001), artist. Note: Renouard, p.59. Editiones principes. These are also the first works to use the Greek type of Claude Garamond, known as the grecs du roi.

Fabri, Ottavio Leuso del squadra mobile. Venice: Francesco Barilleti, 1598. First edition, 4to., 62 unnumbered leaves, italic letter, engraved title-page within an architectural border supported by two female figures, surmounted by two cherubs with trumpets, instruments of science and learning dependent from the corners, with 26 engraved plates (half or full page) depicting the use of the squadra mobile, most in land or seascapes, richly ornate headpieces and initials, late 18th century quarter vellum over marbled boards, some general discolouration Note: BM STC Italian Books p. 241; Riccardi I 433-4; Not in Adams. Brunetes edition of 1595 is a ghost. First edition of Fabries elegant work on the manufacture, theory and use of the squadra mobile, an adjustable set square, designed for cartographers, architects, surveyors and for the general measurement of distance, height and depth in the open, on land or sea. The instrument, a kind of graphomter, was the invention of MarceAntonio Gandino, whose mathematical genius is lauded in the preface by Guerini. The original edition appears to be rare: Honeyman and Horblitt had only later editions. Occasionally a single unsigned folding plate may be found after folio 15. However, it is not included in the collation and is probably properly found in the 2nd edition.

Fine, Oronce De rebus mathematicis, hactenus desideratis, libri iiii. Paris: M. Vascosan, 1556, folio, [10] 136, illustrated with diagrams throughout, contemporary limp vellum, ink title on backstrip, inscription cut from front free endpaper [loss of endpaper approx 4cm high by 15cm wide], interior clean Note: BMSTC French, Adams F471 Fine (1494-1555) was professor of mathematics at the College Royale in Paris and is chiefly remembered as the principal initiator of the renaissance in French mathematical studies in the 16th century, "it appears that the goal of his publications, which range in subject from astronomy to instrumental music, was to popularise the university science that he himself had been taught." [Poulle]

Froissart, Jean Histoire et chronique memorable de Messire Jehan Froissart. Reveu et corrige sus divers exemplaires et suivant les bons auteurs, par Denis Sauvage. Paris: a leOlivier de Pierre leHuillier, 1574, folio in 6s, 4 books in one volume, woodcut device on titles, woodcut initials and ornaments, contemporary calf, single gilt fillet to boards and central gilt strapwork cartouche on sides, raised bands, neatly rebacked, some wear at edges and old repairs to corners Note: Sauvage published his (the first) critical edition of Froissart in Lyon in 1559-61; this is the second Sauvage edition. Not in Adams. Provenance: W. Priestley of Lightcliffe, wafer seal and armorial bookplate

Collection of 18th and 19th Century Caricatures, mainly hand coloured engravings, including Cries of London and others, one folio.

Bobbins (Timothy) - Human Passions Delineated, Manchester 1773, folio, early comic caricatures, recto only, includes explanation of each plate, half leather, boards with gilt titles.

Sir David Muirhead Bone 1876-1953- "War Drawings" published: by Authority of the War Office, by Country Life, Ltd, 20, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London W.C and George Newnes, Ltd, Southampton Street, London, W C, MCMXII, full set of ten lithographs signed within the plate, entitled "A Gun Hospital, The Battle of the Somme, Distant view of Ypres, Gordon Highlanders- Officers Mess" and others, eleven loose sheets including contents sheet, contained within a folio, as issued, (10)

*Jean Besancenot (1902-1992). A collection of 18 black and white portrait photographs of the women of Marrakech. Each mounted on card folio singed in pencil bottom right, with title and explanation below the images. All with ink studio stamp 'PHOTO BESANCENOT' to the reverse.

AUSTEN, Jane, A Set of 7 Folio Society edns. in slipcase, 2nd imp. 1978. Tog.with other Folio Society edns. 44

Cromwelliana. A chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged, from the year 1642 to his death 1658. London, 1810, folio, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with engraved portraits and plates from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, contemporary straight grain red morocco gilt, gilt edges, [armorial bookplate of the Right Hon. Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers]

[Cruso, John] Military instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse, collected out of divers forrein authours, ancient and modern: and rectified and supplied, according to the present practise of the Low-Countrey warres. Cambridge, 1644, folio, engraved title, and plates, some folding, (some defective and mounted; incomplete), calf, rebacked (new endpapers), [armorial bookplate of Desmond Seaton Reid]

Sprigge, Joshua. Anglia rediviva; Englands recovery: being the history of the motions, actions, and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments forces in England. London, 1647, folio, frontispiece, folding table, eighteenth century manuscript notes tipped in, (lacking portrait and plate), [signature of William Chapple dated 1772 on title and John Bowring], nineteenth century half calf

Cottingham, Lewis Nockalds. Working drawings for Gothic ornaments selected and composed from the best examples. Consisting of capitals, bases, cornices, friezes, finials, pendants, crockets, cordrels, spandrils, bosses, roses, battlements, doors, windows, various specimens of mouldings and a design for a Gothic mansion. Elephant folio. N. D. [c1840]. Lithographed title page, and 36 lithographic plates; a single sheet (folded) with the letterpress description of the plates, headed 'address' bound in; the original lithographed upper wrapper (described in the address) present. Sadly all the plates are worn and damp stained a few with minor losses to their edges, the verso of the front wrapper has an original pen, ink and wash drawing of a finial and there are other pencil drawings pasted inside the front cover and on the rear end paper. Worn contemporary half calf binding, the backstrip missing, the covers detached.

Charlotte D Knox 1852-1945- Ironing; oil on canvas, inscribed verso, 76x56cm: together with a folio of pencil, gouache, watercolour and crayon studies, various subjects, unsigned, by the same hand: Dilwyn Knox, mid-late 20th Century- Figures around a table, oil on board, sign ed, 63x76cm: together with a collection of woodblock prints, each signed and numbered after the same hand, (a lot), (folio), (part unframed). (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

Zero Binding.- H.H.- THE WORKES OF THE REVERENDàMR RICHARD GREENHAMà, bookplate on front pastedown, upper margin of title and first few leaves a little soiled, contemporary fine ?English leather binding, gilt, repairs to spine ends, lacking clasps, gauffered, g.e. but with little gilt remaining, folio, F. Kyngston for R. Dexter, 1601.

Zero Binding.- Ramhoffsky (Jan Jindrich) DREY BESCHREIBUNGENàMARIA THERESIAà, three parts in 1, engraved frontispiece, vignettes, 15 engraved plates, 9 folding panoramas, 6 heraldic with contemporary ink identification labels, some light foxing to text pages, contemporary ornate m orocco binding, gilt with armorial crest, g.e., [Berlin Cat 2135; Ruggieri 993], large folio, [1743]. ***Describes the 1743 festivities in Prague surrounding the coronation of Maria Theresia as Queen of Bohemia & Hungary.

Zero Binding.- Settle (Elkanah) CARMEN HANNONIANIS IMPERIALI CORONAE ANGLIAE SUCCESSORIBUS DICATUM, fine armorial paneled tree calf binding, gilt, top board detached, folio, J. Nutt, 1703.

Zero Zarlino (Gioseffo) ISTITUTIONI HARMONICHEà, ANTONIO SALIERI'S COPY, engraved vignette on title, woodcuts throughout, occasional foxing, light dampstaining, letter from Salieri loosely inserted, contemporary vellum, folio, Venice, F de Francheschi Senese, 1573. ***The letter states that all requests for dedication to the King of Saxony must be directed through the director of the orchestra of the theatre.

Zero OTHER PROPERTIES Binding.- Manuscript.- AL DILETTISIMO LORO PASTORE E BENEFATTORE G. P. NICOL..., numerous examples of caligraphy and hand-written messages throughout, silk endpapers, fine velvet binding tooled in gilt by Vezzoni of Turin, preserved in worn box, oblong folio , 1882.

Zero Clarke (James Stanier) & McArthur (John) THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON K.B...., 2 vol., engraved plates and vignettes, frontispiece vol. 1 foxed, tasteful modern morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, folio, 1809.

Zero Plot (Robert) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE, engraved vignette on title, folding engraved map, lined, 37 engraved plates, 25 folding, a few marginal tears, some skillfully repaired and not affecting image, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine l aid down, folio, Oxford, 1686.

Zero Porcacchi (Thomaso) L'ISOLE PIU FAMOSE DEL MONDO, engraved title, 30 engraved maps in text, light to moderate damp staining, lacking imprimatur leaf, contemporary speckled calf, blind-stamped, folio, Venice, S. Galignani & G. Porro, 1572.

Zero Photography.- Venice.- CALLI E CANALI E ISOLE DELLA LAGUNA, 137 heliogravure plates, some spotting to title, contemporary half morocco, scuffed at extremities, large folio, Venice, n.d. [c.1890].

Folio containing large quantity of various loose prints - Brimham rocks, Yorkshire, and other prints, engravings and watercolours (35)

Folio containing various loose prints - ltd ed 2/60 'Untitled' print by Norman Wade, pencil signed and dated '70; 'Sea birds' by Mary Onsom; ltd ed print 'Durham Cathedral', 21/50 by Norman Wade, pencil signed and dated '70; 'Elvet Bridge, Durham', ltd ed 9/60, pencil signed and dated '71; lithograph by B.M. Pennell, dated 1974; John Piper print; 'Yellow Sunflowers', by Zoe Image, ltd ed 6/25 etc (9)