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CASTIGLIONE (BALDESSARE)Il libro del cortegiano, second (first 8vo) edition, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, light old stain to some leaves, early ink marginal note in 2 side-margins, small hole touching woodcut device on title and a couple of letters on leaf Aii, later vellum, retaining original final blank free endpaper with early ownership inscriptions, and binder's waste including 5-lines of an early 15th century illuminated manuscript [Adams C925; Olschki 17581], 8vo, Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, October 1528Footnotes:The scarce second edition of Castiglione's celebrated courtly manual. Giunta's octavo edition was printed in the same year as the Aldus folio edition, and is rare at auction. The work was written from the author's personal experience at the court of Urbino, and his description of the ideal courtier helped it become one of the most influential literary works of the High Renaissance.Provenance: Andrea Balestra, ink ownership inscription on binder's waste at front; Several verses, including 'O sfortunata Ricolina/non saro mai piu contenta', in an early Italian hand on final blank.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

OXFORDRUNDT (CARL) A Walk Round Oxford, lithographed pictorial title, 2 leaves of introductory text (in English and German), 16 tinted lithographed plates, heavy foxing to title, occasional light spotting to plates (mostly marginal), publisher's cloth-backed boards stamped 'Oxford' on the upper cover, soiled, light stains to upper cover [Abbey Scenery 284], oblong folio (285 x 425mm.), [Berlin, printed by Edward Haenel, 1851]Footnotes:Scarce suite of tinted lithographed views of Oxford, dedicated to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, originally printed in four parts but issued here with a pictorial title and titled boards.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NICHOLSON (WILLIAM)An Alphabet, 'The Library edition', title vignette, publisher's device on title, 26 colour lithographed plates after Nicholson, all printed on laid paper tipped-in on brown backing sheets as issued, publisher's pictorial cloth, rebacked, folio (400 x 320mm.), New York, R.H. Russell, 1898This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MOORE (THOMAS)The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley... Nature-printed by Henry Bradbury, half-title, 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, tissue guards, illustrations in the text, occasional light spotting, contemporary green half morocco, g.e. [Nissen BBI 1400; Pritzel 6405; Stafleu & Cowan 6275], folio (550 x 360mm.), Bradbury and Evans, 1855[-1856]Footnotes:The 'first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical sciences' (Preface), the author explaining that previously, in order to convey 'the necessary accuracy, the art of a Talbot or a Daguerre was insufficient, nor could they be represented pictorially until Nature-Printing was brought to its present state of perfection'. The plates were executed by Henry Bradbury (1831-1860), who had learned the process whilst studying under Alois Auer at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna.Provenance: Leonard Daneham Cunliffe, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, and owner of Trelissick House, Cornwall, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WITHER (GEORGE)A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Moderne, 4 parts in 1 vol., separate titles for each part, engraved additional title by William Marshall, engraved portrait of the author and engraved emblems after Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, with the woodcut dials with volvelles, lacks 4 leaves in second book (Q1-Q4), some tears and marginal repairs (occasionally affecting text), irregular paginations (as usual) at the beginning of book 3, p.135-137 loose and torn, final four leaves loose and worn, damp-staining throughout, repairs to margins of one leaf, later tan calf, spine heavily worn with some loss, repairs to covers, hinges cracked, corners bumped [ESTC S118583], folio, Printed by A.M. for John Grismond, 1635Footnotes:The emblems are printed from plates which were originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder (1564-1637) for the Nucleus emblematorum by Gabriel Rollenhagen.Provenance: Judith Weston, ink inscription; George Dillwyn, January 1825, bookplate and ink inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TRADE - NINETEENTH CENTURY BILLS AND EPHEMERA Album of approximately 195 nineteenth century business trade invoices, mostly pictorial, others calligraphic, and 2 broadside advertisements, 28 loose, others mounted mostly between 2 and 4 per page, some full-page, others cut down to show heading only, some manuscript additions (goods, prices, buyers, dates), largest 185 x 230mm., and smaller, nineteenth century maroon morocco album, g.e., worn, folio, [c.1810-1870] Footnotes: Trades include tea dealers, operative chemists, haberdashers and linen drapers, boot and shoe manufacturers, glass manufacturers 'and dealers in China and Staffordshire Ware', silk mercers, hatters and hosiers, farm implements, watch and clock makers, florists and nurserymen, brush manufacturer and coopers, music and musical instrument sellers, pork butchers, and many others, mostly in London but some regional (Scarborough, Leamington Spa, Banbury). The broadsides are 'Directions for Giving Watson's Purging Paste to Horses, Dogs... Mr. Roope's, Druggist, Red Lion Street, Norwich', and 'J. Bernaby... Brush Maker, Turner & Cooper to the Queen. Italian, Oil, Pickle and Fish Sauce Warehouse...'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AMERICA - NEW YORKBROMLEY (GEORGE W., AND CO.) Atlas of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Desk and Library Edition, title, 4pp. street index, 1 leaf block index (pasted inside upper cover), 5 hand-coloured index maps, 191 hand-coloured maps on 96 sheets (printed recto and verso), title creased, 4 leaves of maps repaired at margins with minor losses, modern half morocco, original gilt title panel laid down on upper cover, tears at foot of joints, oblong folio (280 x 405mm.), Philadelphia, G.W. Bromley and Co., 1921This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) and HAYDEN CHURCHArchive of correspondence, interviews and other material assembled by journalist Charles Hayden Church (1878-1956) during a long association with George Bernard Shaw over some twenty years, comprising:i) Articles and questionnaires, typed by Church and annotated with responses and extensive manuscript amendments by Shaw, giving his opinion on a wide variety of topics such as sex education in schools ('...Sex should not be discussed with children, either by parents or school teachers...'), his vegetarianism ('...I eat cheese, butter and eggs but no flesh, no fowl and no fish... I object to a carnivorous diet not only because I feel instinctively that it is abominable but because it involves a prodigious slavery of men to animals...'), prohibition in the US ('...It may be that life is so miserable in America that people cannot bear it without drugging themselves with alcohol...'), the economic future of England ('...If the Big Ship [Civilisation] goes down, England will go down with it...'), women's success in previously male preserves ('...Why shouldn't they? Miss Johnson did not fly to Australia: a machine did; and she hung on to it and steered it... several women had babies yesterday without any help from a machine. Prove to me that a man has achieved that amazing and arduous feat...'), on longevity ('...we die because we do not know how to live, and kill ourselves by lethal habits...'), suggesting future political programmes ('...I am not God Almighty disguised as GBS... I am advising women to demand the Coupled vote – One Couple One Vote... I advise the whole nation to put before every other reform the invention of an alphabet of at least 42 letters capable of indicating every sound in our speech...'), matrimony ('...a woman's right to motherhood should not be conditional on her taking on a husband...'), adding a scene to the film version of Pygmalion ('...the cinema can afford practically unlimited money...'), artificial insemination ('...raises many questions... I can not forsee what will happen...'), his 91st birthday ('...Birthday! Get out. Go. The man who ever utters the word Birthday in my presence is no friend of mine... Good afternoon. Don't come again...'), an amusing account of faking a séance ('...An evening of miracles followed... After that experience I could not discuss the subject with Oliver Lodge grieving for his lost son, nor with the infatuated author of Sherlock Holmes...'), on the partition of Palestine ('...The Jews and Arabs, backed by local Home Rulers and Imperialists, must fight it out until they are tired of bloodshed and financially bankrupt...'), writing ('...A slosher using ready made phrases and ideas and never stopping to think can write several thousand words a day... I can write the dialogue of a long play easily within two months if I stick at it... the stage business is pure drudgery...'), on Shakespeare ('...a volcano from whom plays burst like lava. I am by comparison a tidy old maid...'), inspiration ('...I can sit down without an idea in my head except that I must write a play; and a play comes. A good play too...'), and much else; with a typed article signed and dated ('G. Bernard Shaw/ 19 May 1933') explaining that his initial sympathies with the Nazi movement were soon expelled by Hitler's 'insanity' over the 'Jewish question': '...an epidemic of a very malignant disease... I appeal to Herr Hitler and Captain Goering to bear in mind that Judophobia is not a part of Fascism, but an incomprehensible excrescence on it... May I add that I am not a Jew? I belong to that still naively anti-Jewish nation, the Irish. The Irish do not know that Jesus Christ was a Jew. Probably ninety nine per cent of the Nazis are equally ignorant...', comments in red and black ink and pencil, c.70 pages, 4to and 8vo, [1930's/40's]ii) Autograph and typed letters, memos, and postcards signed ('G. Bernard Shaw', 'G.B.S.'), to Hayden Church, some marked 'Private', with typed letters from Hayden Church to George Bernard Shaw, returned with Shaw's responses, and three from his secretaries, with additional fragments, Shaw's comments mostly written in red ink, c.25 items on various subjects, including an early letter warning Church not to bother his wife ('...Do not exploit Ayot St Lawrence and Mrs Shaw any further... unless you want to have an implacable enemy always at my elbow take note to keep on the right side of her... Pardon the hint...'), his play On the Rocks ('...Provisionally you may call it Piffle...'), death ('...I am a member of the Cremation Society... earth burial should be made illegal. As to my ashes I do not care what becomes of them provided they are inseparably mixed with those of my wife...'), Napoleons inability to procreate ('...Something was too short and the seminal jet did not reach the effective place...'), on Elizabeth II ('...constitutional monarchy is one of the professions for which women are specially fitted...'), etc.; with six autograph envelopes, c.30 pages, 4to and 8vo, Ayot St Lawrence, Whitehall Court, SW1 and Malvern Hotel, Malvern, and elsewhere, [11 September 1930 to 4 August 1950 where dated]iii) Group of nine photographs taken by George Bernard Shaw, all but one annotated on reverse by Shaw in ink or pencil ('Ayot St Lawrence/ Shaw's Villa/ called Shaw's Corner', 'Jehanne la Pucelle/ watching for English soldiers/statue by Claire/ Winston', 'Shaw's mulberry tree/ There is another in Malvern but this is his home one', 'Shaw's favourite statue/ of Shakespeare/ 15' high/ bought by him in Frinton/ for twenty three/ shillings'), each with a typed caption by Church attached, 83 x 135mm. and smaller, [no date]iv) Album of press cuttings kept by Hayden Church ('Property of Hayden Church/ Liberal reward to finder'), including letters from John Galsworthy and George Moore, c.48 leaves, red cloth titled 'Scraps' on front board, worn and stained, binding loose, folio (282 x 225mm.), [1913-1917]; with additional loose cuttings of his articles on Shaw from Sunday Despatch, New York Times Magazine, Evening Standard etc., [1929-1947]; and a photograph of Hayden Church and his wife on camels in Egypt at the press opening to Tutankhamun's tomb, 1923; group of articles, writings and press cuttings relating to Church's other work such as 'The Real Annie Oakley' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Minor'; with a copy of George Bernard Shaw: Eight Interviews by Hayden Church selected by Edward Connery Lathem, The Perpetua Press, 2002, limited edition of 500 copies.v) The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 12 vol., inscribed beneath portrait frontispiece in Saint Joan 'G. Bernard Shaw to Hayden Church/ Ayot St. Lawrence 20th October 1945', publisher's limp blue leather, spines gilt (slightly worn at ends), housed in original hinged box with facsimile signature on lid (this near detached), small 8vo, Constable, 1926Footnotes:'I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ASSUMPTIONS. THE INTERVIEW IS AT AN END. GOODBYE': THE ARCHIVE OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S 'FAVORITE INTERVIEWER'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BLAEU (JOAN) AND MARTINUS MARTINI Novus Atlas Sinensis. Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, engraved hand-coloured allegorical title, 17 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps (16 of China, one of Japan), worming to right margin of title and first map touching text, foxing and some browning throughout, contemporary panelled vellum, gilt-stamped rectangular frames and floral borders encasing a central lozenge-shaped floral ornament, yapp edges, silk ties (some loss), minor repairs, rubbed [Shirley T.BLA1n], folio (540 x 360mm.), Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, [1655] Footnotes: FIRST DUTCH EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN ATLAS OF CHINA. This is the first atlas to include descriptions and geographical coordinates of the fifteen provinces of the Chinese Empire, with the location of the capitals and the precise delineation of the borders. The maps are noteworthy also due to the decorative cartouches featuring vignettes depicting regional dress, activities and animals. The Atlas was based on the travels of Father Martino Martini (1614–1661), a Jesuit missionary in China who made use of 'Chinese materials from a much earlier date, originally an atlas compiled by Chu-Ssu-pên in about 1312' [Shirley p. 241]. The text is Martini's own account of his travels in the Chinese provinces, which took place over a period of roughly ten years. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WADSWORTH (EDWARD)The Black Country. With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett, ONE OF 50 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR AND CONTAINING 'A UNIQUE WOODCUT NOW DESTROYED', this copy number 11, one large original woodcut, 19 collotype plates, tissue guards, 2 illustrations printed in black and red, publisher's prospectuses loosely inserted, publisher's cloth gilt, uneven fading, small folio (350 x 250mm.), Ovid Press, 1920Footnotes:One of only fifty copies 'on Japan Vellum & specially seen through the press by the artist'. These copies, which include a woodcut, 'A Black Country Village (or Northern Roofscape', by Wadsworth were sold at £3.3s.Od.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WORLD WAR I - SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION Album of manuscript and printed ephemera relating to the service career of Major Raymond Oliver Jourdain (1871-1942) of the 23rd (1st Sportsman's) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, from his enlistment in October 1914 to his demobilisation in April 1920, containing some 200 items, including four manuscript maps ('Plan of centre Section of Zr. (Cambrin)', 'Plan of Russell's Keep', 'Plan of Trenches at Givenchy'), manuals ('Some of the Many Questions a Platoon Commander should ask Himself on Taking over a Trench, and at Intervals Afterwards', 'Defensive measures Against Gas Attacks', 'Chilled Feet and Frostbite, Prevention of'), copies of battalion orders ('When a serious bombardment has taken place... you will report to the orderly room by wire'), photographs, concert programmes, certificates, membership cards, receipts, menus, postcards, Christmas cards, newspaper cuttings, medal ribbons and much else, on 30 album leaves, half calf with metal regimental badge on front board, oblong folio (265 x 350mm.), 1914-1920 Footnotes: 'I AM HERE FOR TWO PURPOSES – TO DO AS MUCH DAMAGE AS POSSIBLE TO THE ENEMY AND TO HOLD MY PART OF THE LINE AT ALL COSTS': RECORDS OF AN OFFCER IN THE 'SPORTSMAN'S' BATTALION. The Sportsman's Battalion was one of Kitchener's 'Pals' battalions formed in the early months of the First World War, in this case made up of men up to the age of 45 who had distinguished themselves on the sports field and included in their ranks a number of retired officers, members of the peerage and several professional footballers and first-class cricketers. Raymond Oliver Jourdain joined their ranks at the age of 43. He saw action in the trenches at Cambrin and Givenchy until he was, as material in this album shows, wounded on 11 February 1916 and invalided out. In December he was employed in Directorate of Mobilizations at the War Office. Jourdain was awarded the 'Cavalier' Italian Order of the Crown in 1919, the certificate for which is included in the album. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Norwich Antiquarian Interest A folio containing a collection of c.20 15th - 18th century manuscript vellum and paper documents, grants, petitions etc, some with original wax seals relating to Norwich Cathedral and associated subjects (c20)

Norfolk / East Anglia Interest to include a collection of twelve 18th / 19th century coloured maps, two watercolours, six copies of The Norfolk Chronicle or The Norwich Gazette 1808 and assorted printed ephemera, in folio plus three further framed maps including John Speed 'Durham' (quantity)

Murphy, James 'Plans, Elevations, Sections and Views of the Church of Batalha in the Province of Estremadura in Portugal', Taylor, London 1795. Fo. (530 x 370mm) half calf and marbled boards, used condition plus an album of engravings of Florence, Angeli after Emillo Burci, small oblong folio, modern binding (2)

A Folio of mostly 20th Century watercolours and sketches, (q).

Bible; English; Authorised The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament [Amsterdam?: no printer], 1672. Folio in sixes (37.2 x 22cm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf over heavy bevelled boards, spine and covers blind-tooled overall with geometric panelling and floral devices, marbled endpapers, all edges dyed red, [26] 710 248 pp., engraved additional title-page, binding scuffed, engraved title-page soiled and laid down, text with variable light soiling (old finger-marks, ink-splashes and oil-stains), OT with small holes in A2 and S6, NT n4 with repaired closed tear [Darlow & Moule 556; ESTC R30791, tracing 10 copies world-wide; Wing B2285]Note: Note: This rare edition combines the text of the Authorised version with the notes of the Geneva version.

Palladio, Andrea Le Fabbriche e i Disegni di Andrea Palladio raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, opera divisa in quattro tomi. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786-87, Second edition, 3 volumes, folio, text volumes 1-4 bound in two volumes, plate volumes 3-4 only bound in one volume, titles with engraved vignette, 106 plates on 104 sheets [plates 32/33 and 35/36 in vol. 3 each on one sheet], contemporary half calf, a few plates with small marginal stain, slightly rubbed

Holbein, Hans Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII engraved in imitation of the original drawings. London: William Bulmer, 1828, small folio, portrait of Holbein and his wife, and 82 engraved plates on white and pink paper, list of portraits, contemporary red half morocco, g.e., accompanying text description lacking for some plates, rubbed, bookplate of the Glasgow Art ClubProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Cook, Capt. James The Journals of Captain James Cook edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 5 volumes 8vo, and folio "Charts & Views" volume, plates, maps, & charts, original blue cloth, dustwrappers, chart volume in blue cloth with tie and original printed paper wrap-around, with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume I, 1968, 3 copies, 8vo, original wrappers; and Cook and the Russians, an addendum to the Hakluyt Society's edition of the Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1973, 8vo, original wrappers; and 2 copies of the Prospectus of the work

Staffordshire and Derbyshire potteries A collection of works Godden, Geoffrey. Staffordshire Porcelain. London: Granada, 1983. Original cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Schkolne, Myrna. People. Passions, Pastimes and Pleasures. Staffordshire Figures, 1810-1835. Winston Salem: Hot Lane Press, 2006. Original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Falkner, Frank. The Wood Family of Burselm. London: Chapman & Hall Limited, 1912. Original red cloth gilt;Read, Herbert. Staffordshire Pottery Figures. London: Duckworth, 1929. Original blue cloth gilt;Hayden, Arthur. Spode and his Successors. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1925. Original blue cloth git with vase motif, dust-jacket;Jones, Alyn Giles. Catalogue of the Minton Manuscripts. Bangor, 1971-73. Folio, 2 volumes of photocopied work, with a gift inscription from the compiler to Geoffrey Godden, blue cloth gilt;Furnival, William James. Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience, and Mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles... Stone: W.J. Furnival, 1904. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Twitchett, John. Derby Porcelain, 1748-1848, an illustrated guide. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2002. Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Mountford, Arnold R. The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, dust-jacket; and 34 othersProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collector

Impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Maneti) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Edouard Manet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Edouard Manet. Graphic Works. A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. Jean C. Harris. New York: Collectors Editions, 1970. 4to, original cloth;2) Degasi) Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Degas's works;ii) The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections. Theodore Roeff. Newly revised edition. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial boards;iii) Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1918 - Vente I + II. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1918 - Sales I + II. [And:] Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1919 - Ventes III + IV. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1919 - Sales III - IV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original red boards, printed and glassine dust jackets;iv) Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;3) Pissarroi) Wildenstein Institute. Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan: Skir/Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, pictorial slipcase;ii) Camille Pissarro. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) Ludovic Rodo Pissarro et Lionelle Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;4) Moneti) Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothéque des arts [-Wildenstein Institute], 1979-99. Volumes 2-5 of 5, 4to, original cloth, volumes 2-4 with dust jackets and slipcases;ii) Daniel Wildenstein. Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [volumes 2-4: Catalogue raisonné]. Cologne: Taschen/Wildenstein, 1996. 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase, retaining original cardboard packing case with handle;5) Renoiri) Renoir. Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris: Editions Bernheim-jeune, 2007-2010. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... Catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. Edited by Alan Hyman. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (small nick to rear panel);iii) Renoir. Watercolors and Pastels. Selected with an Introduction and Commentaries by François Daulte. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1959. 4to, original quarter cloth, 24 colour plates, acetate dust jacket;6) Othersi) Marie Berhaut. Gustave Caillebotte. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée avec le concours de Sophie Pietrie. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase;ii) Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot 1841-1895. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Montolivet: CERA-nrs éditions, 1997. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) François Daulte. Alfred Sisley. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1959. One of 1,200 copies, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly chipped and toned)Note: Note: Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Lemoisne's definitive catalogue raisonné, originally published in four volumes in 1946-9; the Supplement (volume 5), by Philippe Brame and Theodore and Arlene Reff, is published here for the first time.

Violins - Holloway, Jane and Jennifer Watkins, editors Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù London: Peter Biddulph, 1998. 2 volumes, folio, number 57 of 500 copies, black half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, black cloth sides with embossed violin design, g.e., folding black cloth box, in the original cardboard packaging

Orkney Collection of rare Court of Session rulings, [Edinburgh], 18th century all disbound, 4to or folio, not in ESTC unless otherwise stated, comprising:1. Information for Robert Earl of Morton against James Dunbar, and William Brown and Andrew Ross his Assignes, 22nd January 1718. 25 pp., browning to rear, final leaf near-detached ('The Earl of Orkney and Lordship of Zetland ... were ... given in Wadset to William Earl of Morton ... And its pretended that in 1647 the said Earl gave an Heretable Security to Sir Andrew Dick for the Sum of 100274 Merks ...');2. Information for James Earl of Morton, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Andrew Ross Stewart-depute of Orkney [etc.] against Sir James Stewart of Burray, and Robert Sinclair Son to Alexander Sinclair of Sixpeny, Pursuers, 29 February 1740. 20 pp. ('The Pannels are accused of an unlawful Convocation of the Lieges in Arms, and of invading Sir James Stewart's Property, and unlawfully carrying off his Servant ...') [ESTC N17130: two copies in libraries worldwide, BL and UCLA];3. Answers for James Earl of Morton, and Mr Andrew Ross his Chamberlaine, to the Petition of Thomas Traill of Westove [and others], 3rd June 1745. 31 pp., ('For some Years last past, these six Petitioners, as well as a seventh Gentleman, Sir James Stewart of Burray, have been backward and irregular in their payments');4. Answers for James Earl of Morton, Pursuer; to the Petition of John Trail of Westove, and others, Defenders, 31st May 1750.16 pp., folding table at rear ('Accompt of the Difference betwixt the Prices libelled, and the highest Prices proved'), ('If the Interlocutor shall not be adhered to ... it will be an Example of the most pernicious Consequence upon the Pursuer and his Estate in that remote Country ...');5. Answers for James Earl of Morton, Defender, to the Additional Petition of Alexander Earl of Galloway, James Traill of Hobister, and others, Udalmen of Orkney, 15th June 1752. 3 pp., splits along folds, soiled;6. The Petition of Alexander Earl of Galloway ... and others, Heritors and Udalers of the Islands of Orkney, 3rd January 1750. 28 pp., ('The family of Morton has been in Use of demanding and exacting the Skat which they claim Right to ... whereby the Heritors in those Islands are subjected to a double Land-tax') [ESTC T60810: one copy worldwide, BL];7. Information for John Trail of Westness, Pursuer, against James Fea of Clestran, Defender, 22nd July 1751. 28 pp.;8. Information for James Fea of Clestron, Defender; against John Trail of Westness, Pursuer, 4th December 1751. 17 pp., contemporary annotation to final page;9. Answers for the Lairds of Gairsey and Breakness. To the Memorial dispersed in Name of the Lairds of Burray and Eagleshaw, concerning the Election for the Stewart-ry of Orknay, c.1700. [4] pp., ('The Jesuits impose upon the World, by making a shew of the greatest Sincerity, when they intend to be the most disingenuous, which is very exactly imitated by this Memorial');10. Information for John Sinclair, Son to Robert Sinclair of Quendale Suspender, against Mr William Maxwell Minister of Rutherglen Charger, 10th June 1751. 4 pp., contemporary annotation at foot;11. Information for Mr William Maxwell late Minister of the Gospel of the united Parishes of Dunrossness, Sandwick, Cummingsburgh, and Fair Island, in Zetland, now Minister of the Gospel at Rutherglen, Charger; against John Sinclair younger of Quendale, Suspender, 13th June 1751. 4 pp., ('Mr Maxwell's Distress during these seven Years was such as very few Ministers of the Church of Scotland could have struggled with ... His whole Stipend was payable by Quendale ... But ... this was a Debt which that Gentleman did not willingly chuse to pay');12. Memorial and Abstract of the Proof. Mr John Ballantyne, Minister of the Gospel of the united Parishes of South Ronaldsay and Burray, Pursuer, against Sir James Stuart of Burray, Defender, 5th June 1744. 2 copies, 4 pp., short splits to folds ('Mr Ballantyne ... was deprived ... by the said Defender's violently and oppressively debarring him from his Right to the Glebe and Pertinents in the Island of Burray ... the grass thereof eaten up by the Cattle of the said Sir James Stuart').Together with a group of similar Orkney items, including: a) A True Copy of Sir Alex. Brand's Accompt of Charge and Discharge of the Rents of Orkney and Zetland, 1798 [i.e. 1708]; A True Copy of Sir Alex. Brand's Suspension, laid before the Lords of Treasury and Exchequer in Scotland, and his Account of Charge and Discharge, 1708; Accompt Sir Alexander Brand, of uncontroverted Articles, whereby the Decreet of Exchequer is satisfied and payed, and a great Ballance due to him, [no date]; Attestation by the Gentlemen and Ministers of Orkney of Alex. Brand's Great Service he did ther for His Majestie and Government, during the Tyme he was Steuart, Justificar, and Leasee therof, [no date]. 4 items, folio, 2 pp., 2 pp., 1 p., 2 pp., side-stitched together;b) Autograph letter from Hugh Moare of Boardhouse, Birsay, to P. Neill of Edinburgh, 25 July 1812, concerning George Lowe (1747-1795), Orcadian scholar, with a transcript 'Description of the Tusk' from Low's manuscripts;c) 4 albumen print photographs of Orkney-related deeds;d) 19th- and early-20th century printed ephemera including: The Memorial of the Reverend Francis Liddell contra the Ministers of Kirkwall Messers. Yule & Stalker. Kirkwall?, 1804. 4 pp., unbound; To Orkney by David Vedder, Music by R. Semple, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1880. 4 pp., unbound; approx. 7 others similar; and numerous Orkney-related newspaper cuttings

Miscellaneous Books 9 volumes Burnet, Gilbert. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time. London: T. Ward, 1724. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, rubbed; Sibbald, Sir Robert. The History, Ancient and Modern of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross. Cupar-Fife, 1803. 8vo, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf;Ure, David. The History of Rutherglen and East-Kilbride. Glasgow, 1793. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf, rubbed;Yeats, T.P. Institutions of Entomology, being a translation of Linnaeus's Ordines et Genera Insectorum. London, 1773. 8vo, contemporary half calf; and 4 others, miscellaneous

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 18th century Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748. [Bound with:] Richer, Henri. The Life of Maecenas ... Translated by R. Schomberg. London: for A. Millar, 1748. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary sheep, slightly worn, very small worm-track to lower margins in second half of volume, staining to Warton pp. 181-5 [ESTC T125430 & T120687: 10 copies traced world-wide for the second work];Bishop, Samuel. Feriae poeticae: sive carmina anglicana elegiaci plerumque argumenti Latine reddita. London: printed by D. Leach, to be sold by J. Newbery and J. Walter, 1766. 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, 18th-century ownership inscription of original subscriber Henry Case, later Henry Case-Morewood (c.1747-1825), of Christ's College, Cambridge, clergyman [ESTC T76163: 7 copies in UK libraries];Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry ... The Second Edition, corrected and improved. London: for C. Hitch [and others], 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, 6 engraved plates (of which 4 folding), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Bryan Cooke of Owston (1756-1821), member of parliament for Malton, Yorkshire, title-page with ownership inscription of his wife Frances Puleston (1765-1818), local philanthropist (her portrait painted by George Romney, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), front joint cracked but holding, rear joint cracked at foot, tips worn, uniform moderate browning, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [ESTC T82192];Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. A New Edition, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Ralph Church, M. A. Late Student of Christ Church, Oxon. London: William Faden, 1758-9. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled in compartments, errata leaf to each volume, list of subscribers in volume 4, wear to spine-ends, joints variably cracked but firm [ESTC T135123];and 2 others (Cowel, A Law Dictionary, 1708, folio, covers detached, and Journal of the House of Lords for 1818, large folio)Note: Note: The list of subscribers to Warton's work mentions a 'Mr Johnson', believed to be Samuel Johnson (see Eddy & Fleeman 66), and contemporaries including William Blackstone.

Millais, John Guille The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. 3 volumes, folio, out of series copy of 1025, photogravure, chromolithograph and half-tone plates, original blue cloth gilt, a little light foxing

Scotland - Parliament - Proceedings [Act of Union] Minuts [sic] of the Proceedings in Parliament Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706-1707, Minuts [sic] numbers 1-89, most comprising one leaf, some two, the following Minuts with a folded sheet showing the voting records of the members of Parliament (15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 46,47, 48,52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 62, 65, 68, 82), contemporary half calf, occasional light staining or spotting, rubbed, joints splittingNote: Note: The proposal for the Union of Scotland and England was first debated by the Lords Commissioners during the first half of 1706; their discussions focussed in detail on customs and excise, the legal systems, shipping and the succession to the crown. Once the commissioners had agreed the terms of the treaty, it was the turn of the Scottish Parliament to examine it. The minutes of the proceedings in Parliament from the autumn of 1706 provide an insight into what the politicians were saying. The minutes also state who voted for and against each article.When the draft Treaty of Union was made public in October 1706, there were riots on the streets of Scottish towns and cities. In Edinburgh a 'villanous and outragious mobb' threatened and insulted judges and Members of the Scottish Parliament. The authorities issued a proclamation offering a reward for the capture of the rioters. In November a proclamation was issued 'against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocations of the leidges'. In Glasgow, Dumfries and Lanark people were 'insolently burning the Articles of Treaty betwixt our two Kingdoms'. Sheriffs, baillies and magistrates were authorised to take whatever action necessary to quench the riots. On 12th December 1706, Parliament ordered that a pamphlet entitled 'Queries to the Presbyterian noblemen, barons, burgesses, ministers who are for the schem of an Incorporating Union' be burnt by the hand of the common hangman, at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh.The Scottish Parliament received countless protests against the Union. Yet the authorities issued another proclamation in late December 1706 forbidding 'unwarrantable and seditious convocations and meetings'. Some of the protestors may have been appeased by an Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian church government. This, along with the Act of Union, was passed in January 1707.The Scottish Parliament adjourned on 25th March 1707. The proclamation dissolving the Parliament was published on 28th April and the new Parliament of Great Britain sat for the first time in Westminster on 1st May. The Scottish Parliament did not meet again until 12th May 1999.The Treaty of Union consisted of 25 articles. Most of them dealt with economic matters, but they also discussed new flags, the great seal and coinage for the United Kingdom of Great Britain. More importantly, the succession to the crown was agreed. The Protestant Hanoverian line of succession was confirmed, Papists' (Catholics or Jacobites) were excluded from inheriting the crown, Scotland retained her own legal and education systems and customs and excise charges were to be the same in both parts of the kingdom, though Scotland would receive a different treatment for a number of commodities.An important article concerned a cash payment, called the Equivalent, to Scotland: nearly £400,000 was used to compensate Scotland for sharing the responsibility for England's national debt of £18 million.From October 1706 until January 1707, the Scottish Parliament met to discuss and to vote on each article in turn. The Court (government) Party won the votes. The printed minutes of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament report briefly on its proceedings during the last months of its existence. The most passionate speech against the Union was delivered by John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven, on 2nd November. He begged for an end to 'misunderstandings and fatal divisions'. Belhaven and other nobles such as the Marquis of Annandale and the Duke of Atholl vehemently voiced strong protests in Parliament against the Act, but they were in a minority among their peers. The barons and the burghs were far more evenly divided between those for and those against the Union.Finally on 16th January, the Act ratifying the treaty was passed by 110 votes to 69; the nobility formed the largest pro-Union group. The Scottish Parliament continued to sit until 25th March 1707. The Queen's Commissioner in Scotland, the Duke of Queensberry, ended its proceedings. Minute number 60 records the approval of the Act of Union, and the accompanying folded sheet records the list of Approvers - those voting for the Act - and 'Noes' - those voting against.Bound with Her Majesty's most Gracious Letter to the Parliament of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Anderson, 1706, folio, 8pp.

[Chandler Richard, Nicholas Revett and William Pars] Ionian Antiquities London: T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, 1769 -1797. 2 volumes in one, large folio, 96 plates (33 plates in volume 1 and 63 plates in volume 2), calf gilt, a little light internal soiling in places [ESTC T104763 / ESTC T104764]

Post-impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Seurati) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. Paris: Gründ, 1961. First edition, one of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on papier Arches filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Seurat's works, volume 1 with indentations to spine and front board and damp-staining to rear board, acetate dust jackets;ii) Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1928. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 151 plates tipped to 128 numbered mounts, index leaf to each volume, [16] pp. text including title-page in volume 1, all loose as issued in buckram portfolio, portfolios spotted, toning along edges of mounts;2) Cézannei) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné by Adrien Chappuis. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, slipcase;ii) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné. John Rewald in Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayune Warman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First UK edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iii) Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald. A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iv) Lionelle Venturi. Cézanne: son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, dust jackets (with a few nicks);3) Gauguini) Gauguin par Georges Wildenstein. I. Catalogue [all published]. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, this copy 'imprimé spécialement pour M. Paul Mellon', 4to, original red boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, tipped-in colour frontispiece, label removed from front pastedown, pencil note to preliminary page;ii) Gauguin. A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888). Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2002. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original yellow cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;iii) Gauguin by John Rewald, Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;4) Van Goghi) Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, edited by Leon Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 6 volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase, complete with CD-ROM in pocket mounted to rear pastedown of volume 6;ii) Jan Hulsker. The New Complete Van Gogh Paintings, Drawings Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, 1996. Folio, original boards, dust jacket;and 2 others (Jean Bouin-Luce, Denise Bazetoux. Maximilen Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: Editions JBL, 1986. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets (small tear to rear panel of volume 2 jacket; and one on Seurat)

Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated

Norfolk - Cotman, John Sell 5 works in one volume Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, a Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, additional etched title, etched dedication, 60 etched plates, bound withSpecimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in the County of Norfolk, a Second Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 50 etched plates; bound withSpecimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in the County of Norfolk, a Third Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838, Folio, 50 etched plates;Specimens of Architectural Remains in the Counties of York, Cambridge, Suffolk, Lincoln, Essex and North Wales. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 30 etched plates, bound withLiber Studiorum; a Series of Sketches and Studies... forming the Fifth Series of Etchings. London: H. G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 48 etched plates;5 works in 2 volumes, contemporary green half morocco, blindstamp of Glasgow Art Club Library to title-pages, rubbed; a clean setProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page;2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few text-leaves chipped;3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped;4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling);and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one cornerNote: Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard's mother Alice.

Marine Engineering - Russell, John Scott The Modern System of Naval Architecture London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition, large folio, 3 volumes in 5, the text bound in 2 volumes; folding frontispiece in volume 1 and 168 engraved plates [numbered 1-79, 80-123, 124-165, and 4*, ?26* and 119*], many folding or double-page, (some very large), red half calf retaining original black cloth boards, the five volumes housed in a specially made wooden cabinet, a few plates slightly dampstained, plate 100 dampstained and with tear not affecting image, title of volume 1 creased, slightly soiled and laid downNote: Note: John Scott Russell (1808–1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder. In 1834, while conducting experiments to determine the most efficient design for canal boats, he discovered a phenomenon that he described as the wave of translation. In fluid dynamics the wave is now called Russell's solitary wave. The wave of translation, or solitary wave, gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction. His work is an extensive guide of nineteenth-century naval architecture of iron steamships with 168 plates that include detailed plans for a variety of ocean and river steamers, monitors, and warships. Notably, a foldout lithograph of The Great Eastern, the largest vessel of its era, built by the author, J. S. Russell. The construction and saga of the Great Eastern was chronicled in James Dugan's The Great Iron Ship."...this work naturally divides itself into three great parts, each of which may be said to form an independent treatise. The First Part [Naval architecture] will be devoted to the purely scientific branch of the profession—that which may be called pure naval architecture. In this part the scientific principles which must regulate the construction of the perfect design of a ship will be laid down with such exactness, as to enable the student of naval architecture to frame a design, which shall exactly fulfil the intended purpose...The Second Part of the work [Ship-building] will form a treatise requiring, perhaps, less science than the foregoing, but no less skill, thought, and knowledge...The Third Part of the work [Marine engineering] passes from the consideration of the mere ship, or sailing vessel, driven by the wind, to the self-acting and self-moving steam-ship." - Russell. Marine Engineering. Introduction, p.xxxvi

Scotland including North, Charles McIntyre Leabhar Comunn nain Fior Ghaël. The Book of the Club of True Highlanders. A record of the dress, arms, customs, arts and sciences of the Highlanders. London, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, bound in gilt embossed tartan with tartan swatches to endpapers;Martin, M. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map (some tape repairs to reverse), folding plate, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate;Sherlock, William. A Preservative against Popery... London: William Rogers, 1688. Fifth edition, small 4to, with the ownership inscription 'T. Carlyle 1833' [presumably Thomas Carlyle], 17th century panelled black morocco gilt, bookplate, small hole to F2 slightly affecting text, some marginal dampstaining, joints split

Bible; polyglot Biblia Sacra Polyglotta edited by Samuel Lee. London: S. Bagster, 1831. Large folio, text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, metal clasps, gilt edges, large morocco gilt presentation label to front endpaper "Presented to the Revd. John G. Lorimer, as a tribute of gratitude & esteem from the young ladies who have attended his Congregational Classes, Glasgow, 8th Feb. 1836", upper joint splitting;The Holy Bible. Edinburgh: Mark and Charles Kerr, 1793. 4to, contemporary calf, sewn into a black morocco wrap-around 'chemise', with pencilled note "Pulpit Bible belonging to the Rev. Dr. Campbell - used by him in St. Giles. Given me by her Aunt, Mrs Kerr, 1899. D.C. died 1828. Mrs Kerr died Nov. 1901"

Mearne, Samuel (1624-1683), binder The Works of the Reverend and Learned Divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. Sometime President of Corpus Christi College in Oxon; such as were, and such as never before were printed. London: Andrew Clark [and others], 1683. 3 volumes, folio (32 x 20cm), contemporary red goatskin by Samuel Mearne, binder to Charles II, gilt ciphers of Charles II to spine compartments and to corners of boards, all edges gilt, errata leaf to rear of each volume, [50] 1043 [3], [6] 1-791 794-1104 [p. 1104 misnumbered 1196] [2], [2] 1-280 285-899 [5] 901-980 [22] pp., variable wear to extremities of bindings, rubbing and a few scuffs to covers, light marginal browning, a few quires spotted or browned, spill-burn to in volume 1 4H4 [ESTC R24401]Note: Provenance: William Willis MA (18th-century armorial bookplates to versos of title-pages).

Bindings Set of Bibles and Books of Common Prayer in fine morocco 'sunburst' bindings 1) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Charles Bill, 1706. Folio (31.5 x 20cm), near-contemporary red morocco, spine compartments and covers richly gilt with flower devices, flanged drawer-handle motifs, angels, doves and urns, covers with central sunburst motifs comprising concentric light and dark green morocco onlays within gilt corona, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates, a few light scores to front cover, lacking 3G3-4 (part of Daniel), 3I3-4 (Obadiah to Micah IV), 3S3-4 (part of Apocrypha), 4B3-5 (Matthew), all supplied in early manuscript, also lacking engraved additional title-page and New Testament letterpress title-page, manuscript genealogy (Smith family, St Martin's parish, Ludgate) to initial blanks, front free endpaper excised, old spotting and staining, occasional repairs, one plate (Jepthahs Vow) torn with partial loss of text [ESTC T89302];2) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747. 4to (26 x 19cm), contemporary green morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, covers each with decorative gilt frame enclosing central onlaid red morocco sunburst motif incorporating Christogram and angel-heads, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates and maps from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible ... in above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd by J. Cole from Designs of ye best Masters (London: Richard Ware, c.1725), the engraved title-page to the work also bound in, several of the plates folding, BCP bound in at front (Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747), this extra-illustrated with engraved additional title-page by John Sturt (with imprint of Richard Ware and possibly issued as part of the Two Hundred Historys set), bookplate of J. F. Thomas-Peter, covers refurbished, occasional offsetting and spotting to text-leaves adjacent to plates [Darlow & Moule 1078; ESTC T184184; see ESTC T130293 for The History Part of the Holy Bible, tracing 10 separately bound copies world-wide];3) [The Holy Bible ... Oxford: printed by the University Printer, 1731]. 4to (23.8 x 18cm), contemporary red morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, broad gilt border to covers enclosing central green morocco sunburst motifs incorporating Christogram and angel-head devices, lacking general title-page (New Testament title-page with imprint London: assigns of His Majesty's printer, and Henry Hills deceased), extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible (see above), BCP (Oxford: John Baskett, 1728) bound in at front, itself extra-illustrated with same engraved additional title-page as above and an engraved portrait of George II, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Elizabeth Hamnett and others to initial blanks, covers refurbished, endpapers renewed, text slightly browned, occasional spotting, leaf Q4 repaired [ESTC T81355]4) The Book of Common Prayer. London: Thomas Baskett, 1741. 4to (23.4 x 18cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers incorporating Christogram, Psalms bound in at rear, binding slightly rubbed, gilt faded from edges of text-leaves, tips bumped, spotting and browning, small tear in M4, [ESTC T167430];5) The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768. 12mo (15 x 8.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers, one metal clasp (of two), extra-illustrated with suites of engraved plates by John Sturt (The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn'd with 55 Historical Cuts, London: Richard Ware, no date) including portrait frontispiece of George II and additional title-page, Psalms bound in at rear, rubbing to spine and extremities [ESTC T87229]

India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1903. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), original printed boards, rebacked and recornered, [2] iv 127 pp., 8 folding genealogical tables (counted in pagination), covers marked, wear to fore edges of boards, variable browning, title-page and final leaf heavily washed, title-page also with small hole not affecting text, small stipple of worming to foot of gutter throughout, marginal repair to pp. 1/2, closed tear in pp. 11/12Note: Note: First edition, specified 'confidential' on the title-page, perhaps one of 100 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce (such records as do exist appearing to pertain to a 1991 facsimile reprint published by the government of Meghalaya's directorate of arts and culture). In Khasi culture, eligibility to hold the office of siem (ruler) is passed down by matrilineal descent, though the office-holder is male. The power of the siem is not absolute, with authority dispersed among various ministers, clan chiefs, elders and other figures, and in the case of Khyrim state a high priestess (ka siem-sad).

Regional pottery and porcelain Liverpool, Chelsea, Bristol, Leeds, Poole, Swansea, &c. Entwistle, P. Sept-Centenary Anniversary, Liverpool, 1907. Catalogue of Liverpool Pottery & Porcelain, exhibited at the Historical Exhibition. Liverpool: Lee and Nightingale, printers, 1907. 8vo, extra-illustrated with 55 photographs, contemporary green morocco gilt;Bryant, G.E. The Chelsea Porcelain Toys. London & Boston: The Medici Society, 1925. Folio, number 92 of 650 copies, original blue cloth gilt;Mackenna, F. Severne. Chelsea Porcelain. The Gold Anchor wares. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1952. Number 313 of 500 copies signed by the author, original yellow cloth gilt, dust-jacket;[Idem] Another copy, 1951, 121/500, unsigned, without jacket; Hurlbutt, Frank. Chelsea China. London: University Press of Liverpool / Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1937. 8vo, edition de luxe, original blue cloth gilt;King, William. Chelsea Porcelain. London: Benn Brothers, Limited, 1922. Original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Hurlbutt, Frank. Bristol Porcelain. London: The Medici Society, 1928. Original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Kidson, Joseph R. and Frank. Historical Notices of the Leeds Old Pottery. Leeds: J.R. Kidson, 1892. 4to, number 157 of 250 copies, original brown cloth gilt;Watney, Bernard M. Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1997. 4to, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. [n.p., n.d.] 2011. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Towner, Donald. The Leeds Pottery. London: Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., 1963. 8vo, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Haggar, Reginald and Elizabeth Adams. Mason Porcelain and Ironstone 1796-1853. London: Faber and Faber, 1977. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;Spelman, W.W.R. Lowestoft China. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1905. 8vo, out-of-series copy of 500, original blue cloth;Bemrose, William. Longton Hall Porcelain. London: Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., 1906. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Hayward, Leslie - Paul Atterbury, editor. Poole Pottery. Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1995. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket;John, W.D. Swansea Porcelain. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1958. Folio, original blue cloth gilt;[Idem] The Nantgraw Porcelain Album. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1975. Folio, original red morocco gilt;[Idem] Nantgraw Porcelain. Newport: R.H. Johns Ltd., 1948. Folio, original red leather gilt; and 17 othersProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collector

Ottley, William Young The Italian School of Design London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. Large folio, 71 plates, contemporary green half morocco gilt with red morocco gilt label to spine, Glasgow Art Club library stamps to most plates, joints a little wornProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Encyclopédie Méthodique; and other works 16 volumes Encyclopédie Méthodique. Tessier, l'abbé. Agriculture. Paris: Panckoucke, & Liège: Plomteux, 1787-1821. 7 volumes, 4to; Encyclopédie Méthodique. Forets et Bois. Paris: Panckoucke, 1791, volume 1 (2 parts) only;Encyclopédie Méthodique. Art aratoire et du Jardinage. Paris: H. Agasse, an V de la République [1802]. 2 volumes, 4to and folio, 56 engraved plates;Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Amusemens des Science. Mathématiques et Physiques. Paris: Panckoucke, 1792; all contemporary mottled calf, morocco lettering pieces;Deguignes, Joseph. Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols et autres Tartares Occidentaux. Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1756-57, 4 volumes in 5 (vol. 1 part 1 and vol. 1 part 2 being separate volumes), 4to, contemporary calf, worn

Gordon, Alexander Itinerarium Septentrionale or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England London: printed for the author, 1726. First edition, large-paper copy, folio (45.5 x 28.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [19] 12-188 [6] pp., engraved folding map, 66 engraved plates (several double-page), a little wear to binding, small paper flaw to margin of plate 4 [ESTC T133129: 12 copies worldwide]Note: Note: 'Itinerarium septentrionale (1726) is Gordon's lasting memorial in which he not only enshrined the antiquities of Roman Scotland and traced the route of Agricola's campaign but also ensured his own immortality in the fiction of Walter Scott. Gordon's folio is the book which Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary in Scott's novel of that name, unwraps in the Queensferry diligence and which proves his vade-mecum in his studies of the subjects Gordon had made his own' (Iain Gordon Brown in ODNB).

Greece Three works Aligny, Théodore. Views of the most celebrated Sites of Ancient Greece drawn from nature and etched by Théodore Aligny. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 1971. Large folio (70 x 49cm), 10 plates, loose as issued, with text, in grey card folder lettered in black;Bröndsted, Peter Oluf. The Bronzes of Siris. London: The Society of Dilettanti, 1836. Folio, 6 plates, 2 vignettes [title and colophon], original cloth-backed boards, lacking backstrip, boards detached, some spotting;[Mazier de Heaume, Hippolyte] Voyage d'un Jeune Grec à Paris. Paris: F. Louis, 1824. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, half-titles, contemporary calf, spines gilt, some spottingNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.

Government of India Alqabnamah [Title at head:] List showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, etc., having Relations with the Indian Government. Corrected up to the 5th October 1935. New Delhi: printed by the manager, Government of India Press, 1935. Folio, original printed blue paper boards, rebacked and recornered, [4] iii [2] 2-118 pp., updated throughout in manuscript (red and black inks) and with tipped-in printed slips, printed insert tipped to p. 108, covers marked, title-page, pp. 21/2 and 117/18 heavily washed and reinserted, uniform browning to other text-leaves, small abrasion to first page of index from adhesion to facing page, pencilled shelfmark to verso of title-page, Government of India ink-stamp to verso of final blankNote: Note: Marked 'confidential', this is the only edition of the work we have traced, and in institutional terms is present in one other copy, at the British Library (shelfmark IOR/R/15/1/734), with no copies traced in auction records.The work covers the protocols of addressing the ruling princes and chiefs of India, in addition to the rulers of independent states, including Tibet, Nepal and Siam, 'miscellaneous states', including Zanzibar, Muhammerah (modern Iran), Indore, Arcot and Bombay, and protectorate rulers. This last group includes the sultan of Muscat and Oman, the rulers of various sultanates in modern-day Yemen, and the shaykhs of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and of each the Trucial States, that is, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain.Each ruler is listed under seven headings: Name of state or place of residences; Name and address in English; Commencement and conclusion of letter in English and colour of crest; Highest British authority by whom hitherto addressed; Name and address in Persian or Arabic; No. of Guns [for salutes]; Remarks. The profuse additions to this copy (in the form of printed slips and manuscript annotations) both record rulers' deaths and the identities of the successors, and illustrate changes in the status of rulers while still living: the shaykhs of Bahrain and Kuwait are both noted as being promoted from the title of Excellency to Highness, while the raja of even a minor Indian state, Talcher, is recorded as receiving the new title of Raja Bahadur 'as a personal distinction'.

Russia - Crimea - Simpson, William Seat of War in the East London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855. First edition, folio, Series 1 and 2 bound in one volume, pictorial lithographed titles and 79 tinted plates with tissue guards, contemporary green half morocco, the contents sprung, bookplate of Brother Edward Macbean, rubbed, upper joint split at baseProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Pottery The history of ceramics Solon, L.M. The Art of the Old English Potter. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1883. Folio, additional engraved title and 50 engraved plates, original yellow printed cloth, some foxing;Shaw, Simeon. History of the Staffordshire Potteries... Hanley, 1829. 12mo, contemporary calf, several annotations in blue biro;White, William. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire... Sheffield: Printed for the author at the Independent Office, 1851. 8vo, contemporary calf;Shaw, Simeon. The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds, used in the manufacturing of Porcelain, Glass, and Pottery. London: printed for the author by W. Lewis and Son, 1837. 8vo, one of 250 copies, quarter calf neatly rebacked, a couple of leaves loose, some dampstaining;Blacker, J.F. Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art. London: Stanley Paul & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Jewitt, Llewellynn. The Ceramic Art of Great Britain. London: Virtue and Co., 1878. 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth giltProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collector

India - Punjab, Oudh (Awadh) & other regions Group of official reports, 19th century 1) Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1891-2 [1892-3; 1893-4]. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1893-4. 3 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, each with folding hand-coloured diagram showing agricultural produce, reports for 1892-3 and 1893-4 each with large folding lithographic colour map in front packet ('Skeleton Map of the Punjab and Surrounding Countries in 1874 ... With Corrections and Additions to Railways and Canals up to September 1892'), absent in report for 1891-2, ink-stamps of the Hygienische Institute der Koeniglichen Universitaet (withdrawn), 1891-2 and 1892-3 spines variably defective;2) Report on the Working of Municipalities in the Punjab during the Year 1891-2 [and:] 1893-4. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1892 & 1895. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, similar library markings;3) Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh ... by John C. Nesfield. Allahabad: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 132 pp., 4 lithographic plates from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal inserted (3 folding), browning, title-leaf and pp. i-iv (contents) loose, title-leaf chipped at foot, marked in red pencil, with marginal worming and with government copyright notice pasted in upper margin, pp. i/ii with extensive closed tear, light worming to last few leaves, final leaf with closed tear, shelfmark label of Pandid Sundar Lal, Advocate, High Court, North-West Province to front pastedown;4) Oude: Papers relating to. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. Folio, later cloth, 311 pp., original front wrapper bound in, browning, title-page loose and chipped, pencilled marginalia;5) Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India as established by the Resolution dated the 16th January 1902 by the Hon'ble Rai Nihal Chand Bahadur, Landlord of Muzaffarnagar. Mussoorie: "Mussoorie Times" Press, 1903. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 53 pp., shelfmark labels of Pandit Sundar Lal (see above) mounted to title-page and front pastedown, front inner hinge split;6) [Record of the enquiry of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Committee for the United Provinces]. Lucknow: [various printers], 1928-9. 13 parts in 2 volumes, folio, contemporary cloth, the parts comprising unnumbered summary at front (titled 'Report ...' with printed statement 'For private circulation of members only' to retained front wrapper) and 12 numbered parts (concerning Garwhal, Faizabad, Benares, etc.), text in English and Hindi, each part with original front and rear wrappers bound in, 2 related bills bound in at rear, inner hinges splitting, part 6 title-page torn;7) [Volume of House of Commons reports on India], 1850s-70s. 22 works in 1 volume, folio, later cloth, contents concerning currency, vaccination, irrigation, legal reform, Indian Civil Service entry, a petition to recall Lord Canning post-Mutiny, the resignation of Peregrine Maitland as commander-in-chief, Madras, etc. (full list of contents available on request), front inner hinge gone.Full collations not established, the lot sold as seenNote: Note: No other copy of Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India traced.

Blaeu, Joannes [Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland] Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1662. Folio, title-page hand-coloured and heightened in gilt, hand-coloured vignette to volume title-page, 49 hand-coloured Scottish maps and 6 hand-coloured maps of Ireland, original vellum gilt neatly repaired along lower edges, some light marginal dampstaining, predominantly to lower margins, some minor worming to lower margins and a few neat repairs, again to lower margins, some browning to endpapers, presented in custom archival boxNote: Note: This atlas comprises volume five of the six-volume Dutch text edition of Blaeu's Theatrum. Each volume of the work was published separately between 1635 and 1655, in several languages. In its era, the Theatrum was considered to be the most comprehensive and accurate atlas produced, with volume 5 being regarded to this day first atlas of Scotland, using many maps developed by the cartographer, Pont. 49 of the maps are of Scotland and 6 depict Ireland."The publication in 1654 of Volume V of Blaeu's Atlas novus was the result of over 70 years of cartographic, chorographic, and editorial activity, by a dispersed network of people in Scotland and the Low Countries. Through their combined efforts, dogged by war, poverty, copyright restrictions, and only intermittent official support, 'Scotland became one of the best mapped countries in the world' (Stone, 1989)" (C. Fleet: Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, NLS).

Salt, Henry Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt London: William Miller, 1809. Atlas folio (73 x 52cm), contemporary half russia, gilt black morocco label to front board, pictorial hand-coloured aquatint title-page, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (of 24: lacking 'Calcutta' and 'Poonah'), all on thick wove paper, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarks (all dated 1830 where visible, except 'A View near the Roode Sand Pass', 1834), contemporary protective paper guards bound in between plates. Lacking the title-page, bound without the text as usual (Tooley: 'The text is not important and the work is usually to be found without it'), leather on spine worn away with fragments laid in, front board near-detached, wear to corners, spotting to endpapers, front free endpaper torn, occasional light spotting, variable light finger-soiling to plate margins, no guard between title-page and 'Sandy Bay Valley' plate (bound before title-page) and both consequently slightly marked, 'Mosque at Lucknow' with spots above skyline, 'A View within the Fort of Monghyr', 'View of Grand Cairo' and 'Pagodas at Trinchicunum' each with a few spots or marks above skyline, 'Vale of Calaat' with superficial paper disruption along top edge of platemark [Abbey Travel 515; Tooley 440]Note: Note: A near-complete set of Salt's spectacular aquatints in very good condition. Henry Salt (1780-1827) accompanied George Annesley, Viscount Valentia on an eastern tour beginning in 1802. 'He visited India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, and in 1805 was sent by Valentia on a mission into Abyssinia, to the ras of Tigré, whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one of his party, Nathaniel Pearce. The return to England in 1806 was made by way of Egypt, where he first met the pasha, Mehmet Ali' (ODNB).

Fergusson, James Tree and Serpent Worship or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati ... Second Edition, revised, corrected, and in great part re-written. London: India Museum, 1873. 4to (33 x 24cm), original red half morocco gilt, xvi 274 pp., lithographic frontispiece, 101 plates numbered 1-100 (including 10A), albumen print photographs or lithographs, photographs mounted as issued (often one on each side of a single leaf, numbered in all cases as separate plates), publisher's postscript slip, joints cracked with front board remaining attached only via new endpapers, frontispiece, title-page and first leaf of text strengthened in gutter, dust-soiling and a few spots to top edges of mounts, numerical ink-stamp to margin of p. 33, mount for photographic plates 95 and 96 creased across upper fore corner [Gernsheim 419];Malcolm, John. Malcolm's History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with Notes and Dissertations by Lieut.-Colonel M. H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry. Lahore: printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, Lahore, 1888. Folio (32.5 x 20cm), modern half leather, [2] ix [3] 290, title-page slightly nicked and marked and with small annotation to upper inner corner, light marginal soiling elsewhere, last 2 leaves slightly nicked and with damp-staining to corners;Kaye, G. R (editor). The Bakhshali Manuscript. A Study in Medieval Mathematics. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch [volume 2, Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1927-33. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter morocco, photogravure plate (spotted), 47 ?collotype plates, volume 2 spine rubbedNote: Note: James Fergusson travelled to India after leaving school, and within ten years as an indigo planter in Bengal had made a sufficient fortune to dedicate himself to the study of art and architecture. Sanchi, near Bhopal in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, is the oldest Buddhist sanctuary in existence, dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The stupa at Amaravati, in what is now Andhra Pradesh, was founded around 200 BC. Fergusson's account was first published in 1868. The photographs are by W. H. Griggs and James S. Waterhouse; Waterhouse eventually became surveyor-general to the Monumental Photographic Survey of India. The Civil and Military Gazette, publishers of this edition of Malcolm's Persia, was where Rudyard Kipling began his professional life in India, joining as a sub-editor in 1882.

Indian lithographic printing Shrimad Bhagwat Gita bi'l-tasawir [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated] ... mu'allifuhu [edited by] Rai Bahadur Pandit Janki Nath Sahib. Mathura: Ram Narayan Press, 1930. 8vo, original pink paper wrappers bound in, text in Urdu and Sanskrit, lithographed throughout, 4, 1-178 195-344 pp. (not established if text continuous despite gap in pagination), 16 folding hand-coloured lithographic plates tipped to margins, folding table tipped to endpaper, pp. 211/12 with closed tear, damp-staining from p. 337 to end. Together with 4 others (not collated), illustrated lithographic editions in Urdu, printed by Nawal Kishore (Lucknow), comprising: Shrimad Bhagwat Tarjumah [i.e. 'Bhagavad, translated'], c.1900, 2 editions, both folio, 690 and 688 pp., bindings defective, second copy with crude tape-repairs to title-page and final leaf; Mahabharata Manzum ['The Mahabharata, in verse'], 4to, recent leatherette, 296 pp., loss to outer leaves; Sayyid Fakhr al-Din Husayn Sukhan Dehlavi (Indian Urdu-language poet and writer, ?1839-1900), Sarush-i Sukhan ['The Voice from Heaven'], 1296 AH [1879 CE], 4to, 124 pp., spine incorrectly letteredNote: Note: Mathura, where the lead item in this lot was printed, is believed to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna.

Architecture Folios Art and Literature Gillespie, James. Details of Scottish Domestic Architecture, A Series of Selected Examples From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, of Stonework, Woodwork, Furniture, Plasterwork, & Metalwork. One hundred and twenty-four plates of measured drawings, and six plates of collotype reproductions of photographs. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Architectural Association, 1922. Folio, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering. Provenance: Herbert Louis Honeyman FRIBA (1885-1956);Washington Browne, George. Pugin Studentship Drawings being a selection from Sketches, Measured Drawings, and Details of Domestic and Ecclesiastical Buildings in England and Scotland... Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878. Copy no. 33 of 200, folio, original red buckram cloth slightly faded with gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed insignia on front board, 75 black and white plates, owner inscriptions to free endpaper. Provenance: Andrew Kerr Tasker FRIBA, President of the Northern Architectural Association (early 20th century);Small, John William. Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Measured and Drawn for the Stone. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1878. Copy no. 221 of 500, folio, 100 black and white plates, original yellow cloth cockled, red lettering, boards bumped, pencil inscription to free endpaper;Latham, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture and Adornments of Some of the Most Notable Houses of England Historically Depicted from Photographs. London: Country Life, 1904 and 1907. 2 volumes, folio, black and white photographic illustrations throughout, blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering, g.e.[Adam, Robert and James] The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam. Complete Edition. London: John Tiranti & Co., Architectural Publishers, 1931. Folio, grey paper boards with cloth to spine, black stamped lettering, dustjacket nibbled at edges and dust-stained;Dickens, Charles and George Cruikshank [illustrator]. The Adventures of Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy's Progress. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1895. One of 500 copies, 4to, original illustrative printed boards, brown quarter morocco, gilt lettering to spine, 26 colour plates with tissue guards, edges and corners bumped;Dickens, Charles, Cattermole, George [illustrator] and Hablot Browne [illustrator]. Master Humphrey's Clock. 3 volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. First edition in book form, 8vo, contemporary black half morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering, black and white illustrated text, boards worn with some loss to spines;Hogarth, William, Hanny, James [introductory essay], Trusler, Rev. J. and E.F. Roberts [descriptive letterpress]. The Works of William Hogarth in a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Superb Engravings on Steel, from the Original Pictures. 2 volumes. London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d. [c.1880]. 4to, original maroon half morocco boards, raised bands, blind stamps and gilt lettering to spine, g.e.

India, Aden and Europe Four photograph albums including 4 photographs of St. Petersburg, 5 of Aden, 12 of India, mostly by Burke (Kaibar Pass, 18th Bengal Lancers, 36th Sikhs, Delhi, Darjeeling), and c. 40 of France, 57 of Italy with captions in the negative; 53 of the U.K., 6 of Norway, 8 of the Alps, the photographs mainly loosely inserted at corners into album 'slits'; oblong folio, cloth, worn, 2 covers detached, one lacking spine, photographs from 21 x 29 cm. to 15 x 10cm; late 19th century

Children's and illustrated books Large collection of works Whistler, Rex (illustrator). Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Cobden Sanderson Ltd, 1935. First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the artist on the half-title, 8vo, original cream buckram richly gilt, all edges gilt, wood-engravings throughout;Carroll, Lewis. Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece and text illustrations by Harry Furniss, all edges gilt, spine sunned, a few marks to covers;Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 28 colour plates;Idem. Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1916. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and faded;Idem. The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1912. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 28 colour plates, mark to front board;Idem. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1918. 4to, original cream pictorial cloth, 14 colours plates, inner hinges repaired;Idem. The Masque of Comus. The Poem by John Milton. Cambridge: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. One of 1,500 copies, 8vo, original quarter japon, colour plates, slipcase;Marie, Queen of Romania. The Story of Naughty Kildeen. Illustrated by Job [i.e. Count Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville]. Tours: A. Mame and Sons, c.1922. Folio, original orange pictorial cloth, colour illustrations throughout, covers sprung, spotting to endpapers;Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine rolled, browning to half-title and final blank;Eliot, T. S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Nicolas Bentley drew the Pictures. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, original white pictorial cloth, contemporary ownership inscription, dust jacket repaired, a few nicks and chips;Le Mair, H. Willebeek (illustrator). A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, oblong 4to, original quarter cloth, 12 colour plates;and approx. 50 others, including others illustrated by Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, and similar

[Almon, John] A New Military Dictionary or, the Field of War. Containing a Particular and Circumstantial Account of the most Remarkable Battles, Sieges, Bombardments, and Expeditions, whether by Sea or Land. Such as related to Great Britain and her Dependencies ... By a Military Gentleman. London: J. Cooke, 1760. Folio (36.2 x 22.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, signatures A-5R2, unpaginated, engraved frontispiece, 39 engraved portraits, maps, plans and views, bookplates of William Thornton (?-1840), British army officer, reimposed to pastedowns, plates variably offset, frontispiece spotted [ESTC T110923: 5 copies in UK libraries]Note: Note: Published at the height of the Seven Years' War, the work contains views of Fort Niagara and the city of Montreal, and maps of Canada (including part of New England and New York) and Quebec (showing the disposition of Wolfe's forces during the 1759 siege of Quebec).

Caesar, Julius The Commentaries Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse concerning the Roman Art of War. By William Duncan. Illustrated with Cuts. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1753. Folio (43 x 26cm), civ 335 [20] pp., modern panelled calf to style, richly gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red, 79 engraved plates including frontispiece (plates '3' and '4' in fact one plate), most double-page and 3 (nos. 41, 75 and 78) also folding, 6 folding maps, frontispiece offset onto title-page, title-page additionally somewhat marked, signatures 2A-2B with short closed tear to head, plate 41 (buffalo) with repairs and short closed tears along bottom edge, plate 59 (folding map of Italy) with small repair, plate 75 (elephant) with small tear to intersection of folds and short closed tear to foot [ESTC T136453]Note: Note: First Duncan edition. William Duncan (1717-1760) was professor of philosopher at Marischal College, Aberdeen. The plates, many by Cornelis Huyberts, include depictions of Picts, Britons, and 'Germans', battles including the famous 'Battle with the Elephants' scene, military formations and encampments, aerial city views, and a suite of nine plates after Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar. Remaining in print well into the 19th century, Duncan's translation was influential the 18th-century revival of interest in Britain's Celtic past and helped inspire his pupil James Macpherson in his creation of Ossian, the mythical Scottish bard. Publishing the work a few years after 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Duncan was evidently concerned to present Caesar as a model of leadership, advising his dedicatee the future George III: 'It is likewise well known, that in dangerous domestic seditions ... nothing tends more to confirm the well-affected in their duty, and to check the machinations of the factious, than when a king every was qualified to command, appears in person at the head of his troops'.

Slezer, John Theatrum Scotiae Containing the Prospects of His Majesty's Castles and Palaces, Together with those of the Most Considerable Towns and Colleges; the Ruins of many ancient Abbeys, Churches, Monasteries and Convents. London: D. Browne, J. Senex [&c.], 1718. Folio, title printed in red and black with engraved arms, 12pp. text, folding engraved panorama of Edinburgh (with two tears), and 59 (of 60) double-page etched and engraved plates, late 18th century panelled calf, bookplate of the Glasgow Arts Club, plates 6-7, 13, 16, 17, 43, 56 & 57 cut round and mounted; lacking plate 55 but with 2 different plates [Paisley, & E. side of Bass Rock] numbered 57, a few plates slightly discoloured, binding worn, upper board detachedProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Folio Society The Domesday book in three volumes. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley privately published, 1913 by Frederick Evans, with platinotypes from his collection of original drawings,loose leaf folio,31 x 23.3cm.t

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