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SPEED JOHN.  The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquest of Ye Romans, Saxons, Danes & Normans. Eng. port. frontis & architectural title, decs., pedigrees & text illus. Folio. Old calf. Bookplate of Watts, Abney Hall. 3rd ed., 1650.

Ephemera, Lancashire, Ramsbottom Baptist Church attendance register, 300+pp folio ledger of attendances at monthly services 1891-1916. Lists names, addresses, dates of services attended and reasons for leaving (moved away, died or on one occasion 'excluded for fornication'). Boards and spine worn commensurate with age, contents clean (fair)

Ephemera, Posters, 'Enid Blyton Nature Plates' for schools in original card folio by Eileen A. Soper, 58 out of 60 present, circa 1940. Some trimmed, some with slight damage but most suitable for framing. Attractive images

Books, 6 Folio Society Books to comprise Victoria Finlay Colour, Einstein Relativity, John Buchan Stories, Admiral Lord Cochrane Memoirs Of A Fighting Captain, Mark Twain A Treasury and Robert Burchfield The English Language (vg)

* Italian Aviation. A collection of Italian aviation ephemera etc., comprising a Marchetti S79 brochure, selection of monochrome photograph images and documentation, Mario Massai folio of letters from Balbo to Massai, Shell Aviation Service route map 1933 from Milan-Tunis-Cairo including plans of the aerodromes en route, flying log book 1933-35, log book of 'Aviazione Legionaria' with many entries recording the bombing of Tarragona, Cuistores, Teruel, Castellon, St. Luycena, Zarragozo, Caspe, San Sebastiano, Monte Caballo, Barcellona etc., various Italian aviation mixed photographs and documents, including a folder containing monochrome photographs etc. relating particularly the Aero Club D'Italia conference 27/11/1960 and folder of miscellaneous Ala Littoria photographs and mounted cuttings of pilot biographies, plus log book for I-MISO dated 1961, Nard brochure & related images, RO 57/58 photocopy drawings etc., and Nunzio Proto original log book and flight logs for the period of 1923-51QTY: (a carton)

Special Air Service. SAS War Diary 1941-1945, the Association Edition, London: Extraordinary Editions Ltd., [2011], facsimile with colour and monochrome illustrations printed on thick paper, original blind-stamped light brown leather over bevelled boards with leather strap, large thick folio, contained in original packaging for postage.QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 300/500. The limitation leaf is applied as the front pastedown and made out for 'J.E.E.W.'. Accompanying the book is a generic letter from the purchaser.

* Battle of Britain. A large and varied collection of photographs from the estate of Wing Commander Wilfred 'Wilf' Sizer, DFC & Bar, mostly aerial reconnaissance, including a series of three large format 9 x 10 inches, laid on card, titled British Light Bomber, englarged x 2 original size, Camera Type F/24, taken over El Maou and Dabu-Fuka Road, Egypt showing salvoes of bombs from allied aircraft circa 1942, many loose including Allied Glider Landings South of Syracuse 10th July 1943, 12 x 10 inches, Taormina 9 July 1943, Allied Landings N.E. of Avola, 10th July 43, Attack on Ploesti, Romania, Day and Night Photography, SFAX Tunisia circa 1942, folder titled Interpretation of Night Photographs, containing 44 aerial photographs, all captioned including the Docks and Emden, Hamburg Cologne all 1941, a large folio with views over Kalmaki Airfield, Greece 1943, more of Tunisia 1943, Nose Camera Illustrations by 252 Squadron, including desert runway and Luftwaffe aircraft, other photographs including aerial reconnaissance titled 98 Bomber Group USAAF over Messina, Italy and Bari by 344 Squadron April 1943, plus a wooden box with the lid inscribed R.N. Sizer containing hundreds of loose WWII RAF photographs and some personal family imagesQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:See lots ...

A folio containing a large number of Royal Navy related posters including recruitment, information, etc.

Rupert Shephard, 'London, The Passing Scene' , limited edition folio of ten colour linocuts, each signed by the artist and numbered, to include 'The Bus ', 'The Royal Exchange ', ' Putney Bridge', 'Hyde Park', 'The District Line' , ' The Policeman', 'The River Lea', 'Spring in Kensington', ' A Paddington Church', 'The Serpentine' (D)

'The Rollei Manual' by Alex Pearlman, Fountain Press, 1960 fourth edition, 'The Leica and Leica flex way' by Andrew Matheson, Focal Press Ltd, 1966 seventh edition, 'Leica Instruction Manual , Hove Folio books

'The Book of Martyrs' by the Revd. John Fox A.M, revised and improved by the Revd. John Malham, 1813 edition, folio size in full calf binding

An early 20th century oak folio chest of twelve drawers, each drawer with two anodized brass handles, height 76cm, width 74cm, depth 43cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

A Victorian mahogany folio chest, fitted with nine oak-lined drawers, height 81cm, width 88cm, depth 64cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

A folio of late 19th to early 20th Century sheets of biblical scenes, probably German.

Norman Ackroyd (b.1938)Sound of Sleet, 1987artist's proof, signed, titled, and dated in pencil (in the margin)etching31 x 30cm. Provenance:The collection of Margaret Bailey.Unframed, in original folio paper slip. condition looks very good and the print area is very clear. Some very small black dots appear in the  bottom margin.

A Folio of original designs and drawings Provenance:The collection of Terence Conran (1931-2020).

A quantity of Folio Society books to include Shakespeare box sets, Pepys Diaries in 3 volumes, Elizabeth David cookery books, and others Location:

A group of Folio books on the Middle East and the Culture and Literature to include The Quran, The Baburnama, The Bahagared Gita, The Nile in two volumes by Alan Moorehead, and others Location:

A group of Folio Society books on art and ornithology to include Thomas Bewick - A History of British Birds in two volumes, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in three volumes, and others Location:

A quantity of books to include The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley illus. by Hugh Thomson, The Japanese Fairy Book compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki circa 1903, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass pub. MacMillan & Co 1902, Folio Society collection of books by Patrick O'Brien, and other books Location:

Art books - fine art and photography - Nymph and Naiad, John Everard, published by George Routledge & sons Ltd., London, first edition, 1940; Shimshon Holzman, 8 Aquarelles, folio of prints; The Face of Womankind, folio of prints; Chagall, Gauguin, etc, qty.

Julian Dyson (1936 - 2003), a folio of twenty two graphite studies, Cornwall Claypits, Spoil Heaps, Mining, all signed and dated 1990/91, 30cm x 42cm

Y LATE REGENCY ROSEWOOD FOLIO STAND EARLY 19TH CENTURY the hinged, adjustable sides on twin end supports with scrolled ends, on squared trestle bases joined by a turned stretcher, raised on lobed bun feet with sunken brass castorsDimensions:68.5cm wide, 116cm high, 74cm deepNote: Note: Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit https://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/

* Peck (Gregory, 1916-2003). Typed Letter Signed, 'Greg', 375 North Carolwood Drive, Los Angeles, 10 October 1978, to Walter Gotell in London, thanking him for his kind letter and saying 'I loved your performance; the scene at the dam was a perfect gem', saying that the picture has opened with generally exciting reviews and quoting Sam Goldwyn who once said, '"If the public won't go to the theater, you can't stop em." With our picture, they are going. Lew Grade should be very happy, and I hope it proves to be a boost for British films', a little creasing and splitting along edges of horizontal folds, light brown stain to right margin not affecting text or signature, one page, small folio, plus a Connaught Hotel air mail envelope, addressed by Gregory Peck in green felt tip to Patrick Wheatley and signed 'G. Peck' in the same pen to verso, together with Heston (Charlton, 1923-2008), Typed Letter Signed, 'Charlton Heston', 5 February 1958, to Richard Briggs in Greenwich, London, saying that he is writing to the few of his fan-friends in England whose continuing loyal support he appreciates, thanking him for the birthday card and holiday card before continuing that he's just completed 'The Buccaneer' and prior to that he had been on location in northern California, 'with Greg Peck, in 'The Big Country' film - also with Orson Welles in 'Touch of Evil'. However, Lydia, Fraser and I are highly pleased to tell you that we will be in London in mid-March for a short time, then go to Rome where I will start work in the 'Ben Hur' film... ', signed in blue fountain pen ink, one page letterhead, light creasing, small folio, together with the original envelope postmarked the following day, plus an Autograph Postcard Signed, 'Charlton Heston', Los Angeles, 7 November 1956, also to Briggs, publicity photo (a few small scratches) thanking Briggs for his birthday card and letter, stamped and postmarked QTY: (5)

* Rifle Brigade. A group of 6 albums relating to R.S. Follett, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, and family, c. 1860s-1920s, photographically-illustrated scrap albums with military interest, family photos and acquaintances, holiday scenes, some postcards, programmes and other ephemera including letters tipped or pasted in, the earliest album contemporary calf with brass clasp, hinges broken, worn, 4to, the remaining albums contemporary half roan with Follett's initials or name to upper covers, generally worn, lacking most spines and some covers detached, folio, plus an unrelated album of cabinet card photographsQTY: (7)

* Powell (Eleanor, 1912-1982). A vintage signed and inscribed sepia photograph, head and shoulders portrait in glittery attire, signed and inscribed in blue ink to Jacoba 'Good Luck my friend from your darling Eleanor Powell', partly overwritten date 2/19/39 in lower right corner, short brown mark to blank right margin, 25 x 20 cm, with the original mailing envelope addressed to Jacoba van Herwijnen at Van's Dutch Village Inn, Shanghai, with 2 receipt dates written to verso, 23 August 1938 & 9 March 1939, together with 2 Typed Letters Signed from Powell to Jacoba, 18 February & 21 June [1939], both warm and chatty letters responding directly to Jacoba's own family details, 2 pp. and 1 page, small folio, both with original postmarked envelopesQTY: (6)

* Hong Kong. An album containing approximately 100 mounted photographs, c. 1890s, a mixture of albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, including photographs of racing yachts at Hong Kong regatta (1893) and elsewhere, views of the Ladies Recreation Club, the cemetery, a grave and a Royal Engineers Memorial at Happy Valley, Gap Rock, the cricket pavilion, Stonecutters Island army, Praya reclamation, various family photographs featuring members of the Gough family, etc., images 20 x 28 cm and smaller, mounted singly and as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, ink captions to mounts, contemporary half roan, spine deficient, contents largely broken and loose, oblong folioQTY: (1)

Luton Wesleyan Chapel. Four Hymn Partbooks - Air (Melody), Alto, Tenor and Bass, [1852-54], manuscript partbooks with single lines of staff notation, each approximately 145 numbered pages, Bass volume with index leaves (one torn with loss), all contemporary half calf over cloth with leather labels gilt-stamped 'Luton Wesleyan Chapel' and respective part, heavily rubbed and soiled, joints a little cracked and inner hinges partly broken, one cover detached, oblong narrow folio (12 x 30 cm)QTY: (4)NOTE:Luton Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1852. There was initially no organ in the chapel so a small orchestra was used to lead the singing. An organ was installed two years later at a cost of £350 so it is very likely these partbooks date from this early period.

* Australia. An album containing 65 mounted photographs of Australia, early 1890s, including views and scenes in Port Darwin, 4 photographs of Aboriginal Australians including 1 of a group of 4 men spearing a crocodile, views in the Blue Mountains, the Great Zig-Zag, Sydney Harbour (15), Tasmania (12), New Zealand (6), The Jenolan Caves, New South Wales (12), etc., photographers' credits include Kitch & Co., W.H. King, Morris and many uncredited, various sizes, mostly mounted singly or as pairs to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with brief ink captions, plus 2 larger albumen print views at rear showing scenes of the Queen's Birthday Hong Kong 1893 "Waiting for the Governor", 21 x 27 cm, contemporary morocco-backed pictorial lacquered boards with mother-of-pearl and bone onlays, oblong folio, contained in very worn moiré-cloth book boxQTY: (1)

* Japan. An album containing 50 photographs, c. 1880s, colour-tinted albumen prints, mostly views including Nagasaki, Kobe, Fujiyama, Hakone, Dogashima, Kamakura, Yenoshima, Nikko, the final 10 photographs showing female musicians, actors and a samurai, images 20 x 26 cm, mounted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, the majority of views with brief printed captions pasted beneath, contemporary lacquered boards with pictorial designs in gilt and red to covers, lacks spine, contents broken and many leaves detached, oblong folio, together with a smaller similar album with title label to front pastedown, 'Views & Costumes of Japan by Tamamura', Yokohama, c. 1880s, 44 mounted colour-tinted albumen prints on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, many showing occupations, plus some views, a few with printed titles to mounts, images 12.5 x 9 cm, contemporary lacquered boards with pictorial designs in gilt and red to both covers, covers detached, spine deficient, oblong 8voQTY: (2)

* China & the Far East. An album containing approximately 360 photographs of China and the Far East, c. 1934-1936, gelatin silver prints, including over 100 of China, featuring Wei Hai Wei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hancow, Yangtse, Tsingtao, Chingwantao, Amoy and Foochow, as well as photographs of Singapore, Manila, Borneo, Sumatra, Japan, Batavia and Indochina, images mostly small format of postcard-size and smaller, corner-mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of thick paper leaves, captions in white china ink, original padded morocco with pictorial scene to upper cover and gilt-titled 'HMS Kent, China/Japan, 1934-1936', some edge wear and fraying of spine, oblong folioQTY: (1)

Muybridge (Eadweard). Animals in Motion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal progressive movements, 1st edition, London; Chapman & Hall, 1899, portrait frontispiece and black and white plates from photographs, author's ink presentation inscription to half-title, 'Miss Plowsmyth with the warmest esteem of the author, 24 May 1899', archival tissue tear repairs without loss to pp. 89/90 (see images), inner hinges cracked, a little spotting and soiling at front and rear, original burgundy cloth gilt, a little rubbed, oblong folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The recipient is likely Catherine Plow Smyth a grand-niece of his mother. After Muybridge's return to England in 1895 he lived in Kingston with roommates Catherine and George Lawrence, a cousin by marriage.

* Dunlop Rubber. A collection of 90 photographs relating to the construction of a new factory at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, England, mostly c. 1919-21, gelatin silver prints, some with negative numbers and dates printed in the lower margins, over 50 photographs pasted on to rectos and versos of album leaves, the remainder loose, mostly 21.5 x 29 cm but a few smaller including 2 panoramas, contemporary roan-backed buckram, rubbed and soiled, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Fort Dunlop is the common name of the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber in the Erdington district of Birmingham, England. It was established in 1917, and by 1954 the entire factory area employed 10,000 workers. At one time it was the world's largest factory, when it employed 3,200 workers.

* Italy. An album containing approximately 150 mounted photographs, c. 1870s, including views, architecture and sculpture in Rome, Naples, Assisi, Siena, Venice (including 2 blue-tinted albumen prints), Verona, Milan, etc., occasional portraits including 15 portraits of Italian people in traditional costumes, images mostly 20 x 25 cm and other medium and larger-format sizes, mounted singly and sometimes as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves and interspersed with other uncounted photographs of artworks, ink captions to mounts, contemporary red morocco, rubbed, thick folio (47 x 35 x 12 cm)QTY: (1)

* Canada, France & Italy. An album containing approximately 50 mounted photographs of Canada, France and Italy, late 19th century, mostly albumen plus some gelatin silver prints, including views in Canada (2 of Montreal with credits for William Notman in the negative), plus photographs of Paris, Verona, the Catacombs of Rome, a two-part panorama of Ajaccio, Corsica, Normandy and Brittany, images mostly approximately 20 x 25 cm, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary padded morocco, worn and lacking spine, oblong small folioQTY: (1)

* Yorkshire Mining. A collection of documents, manuscript books & ephemera etc., relating to the development of mining, railways & trade unions, North Yorkshire, 1860-1935, including a manuscript transcription of Cleveland Ironstone Miners Arbitration meeting held at the Zetland Hotel Saltburn-by-the Sea, January 29th 1876, comprising 362 pages of neatly written transcript, with printed iron ore returns for 1874 bound-in at rear, contemporary sheep-backed boards, some wear, folio, together with a manuscript verbatim report of the Court of Arbitration Proceedings May 1877 entitled The Cleveland Ironstone Miners Question, comprising 222 pages of manuscript, contemporary half sheep, worn, folio, with bound printed minutes of the North Yorkshire Miners and Quarrymen's Associattion for the years 1878-1895, 1898-1901 & 1904-05, plus various manuscript documents including, contract between the Rosedale Mine and the North East Railway Company, 1859, an agreement with North Eastern Railway Co., 1886, the statutory declaration regarding the West Rosedale Ironstone Co. Ltd., June 1887, and others similar and related, plus a catalogue of the Rosedale Estate sale including the village of Rosedale Abbey etc., and 8 Micro Methods Ltd. negative reels of documents relating to Rosedale Estate Documents and also the Cleveland Mine 1873-1939 and Cleveland miners & Quarrymens Association Aug 1875- Feb 1936, etc.QTY: (2 cartons)

* Ceylon. A group of 12 photographic views of Ceylon, c. 1860, images 19 x 25 cm and similar, mounted on publisher's original printed leaves with credit of J[ames] Parting, Colombo to lower mount [but actually by S. Slinn Skeen], 7 photographs with printed titles and 5 with pencil captions to lower mounts, all but one tipped on corners to folio album leavesQTY: (12)NOTE:In 1860 William Skeen Sr purchased the photographic studio of James Parting in Colombo, operating firstly as S. Slinn & Co and was managed by Samuel Slinn Skeen (the younger brother of Skeen Sr) and John Edward Wilshaw. Skeen Sr's son, William Louis Henry Skeen (1847-1903) took control of the photographic studio, renaming it W.L.H. Skeen & Co in 1868. The printed mounts would be stationery left over when James Parting sold the business and left Ceylon on 21 June 1860.The titles on the printed captions are The Sally Fort, Colombo; The entrance to the Fort, Main Gate, Colombo; The Race Bungalow, Galle Face, Colombo; Christchurch, (CMS) Galle Face, Colombo; The Bridge of Boats over the Calany Ganga, Colombo; The Wolvendahl Church, Pettah, Colombo; The Flag Staff from Galle Buck, Colombo. The five with pencil captions all depict views of Kandy.

* Manuscript Cookery Book. A late 17th-century manuscript recipe book, comprising 58 pages of recipes written on 29 leaves in manuscript (numbered 15-124 and approximately 45 other unnumbered), and two leaves with few lines of manuscript at head of rectos (one leaf with lower half torn away), with four blank leaves at rear, damp stained at head with consequent fraying and soiling (with some loss of manuscript), original limp vellum covers, rear of upper cover with ownership inscriptions of Eliza Smedley and also John Smedley, both dated 1683, covers soiled, creased, edges torn with some loss, worn, slim folio (leaf size 32 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The manuscript book contains a large quantity of recipes for cakes, puddings, biscuits, cheese, pies, cooking meat, chicken and fish, preserves, pickles and syrups, including To make fritters ye Lady Hush(?) way, To make mackeroons, How to make Jumballs, To make French biskit, A Lumbor pye, To make Quince creame, To make a whypt syllabub, To preserve Cherrys of an excellent color ye Lady Northamptons way, To presserve Orringes whole, To candy cowslips, To make sugar puffs, To make egg shells, To make syrrop of Roses or Gilleflowers or cowslips, To make syrrop of marshmallows..., To make syrrop of Violetts, plus several medicinal or household recipes, including 'The yellow salve good for any soare'.The Derbyshire Hearth Tax Assessments (1662-70) lists a John Smedley living in Ticknall or Calke in 1662, having five hearths. Smedley appears to have been a relatively common name in that part of Derbyshire. The area was home to Lea Mills, specialising in the production of muslin and spinning cotton, which was owned by four generations of the Smedley family, all of which were called John Smedley.

* China & Hong Kong. An album containing 3 photographic panoramas and 44 photographs of Hong Kong and China, early 1890s, albumen prints, the first a 4-part panorama of the Anchorage, Hong Kong Harbour, 21.5 x 111 cm, the second 3-part panorama of Hong Kong looking westwards, 22.5 x 87 cm, the third 2-part panorama of Hong Kong viewed from the Harbour, 22 x 57 cm, the remaining views mounted singly to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with ink captions to mounts, 22 x 29 cm and similar, some vertical creasing to first 2 panoramas, contemporary morocco-backed pictorial lacquered boards with bone and mother-of-pearl onlays, oblong folio, contained in original somewhat soiled and worn moiré-cloth book box with decorative design to upper cover still presentQTY: (1)NOTE:The ink titles of the 44 photographs are: Queen's Road, Outside HK & S Bank; HK & S Bank; Wellington Street, Hong Kong; The Happy Valley during the February Races; Hong Kong Regiment on Parade at Kowloon; 1889-92 - 91st, 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders; Queen's Gardens and Peak; Queen's Gardens from Bowra Road; The Peak Tramway (x2); Tytam Reservoir on south side of Island; The Dam of Tytam Reservoir; Entrance to tunnel by which the water is led from Tytam to Victoria; The filter beds of the Tytam Water; View from Queen's Gardens looking eastwards; View from RE Mess looking north; Houses at the Peak; View from the Peak looking southwards; RA Mess College Gardens; Garrison parade ground; Kowloon Wharves; A Chinese village near Hong Kong, Cap-si-mum; Canton town and river; Canton river houseboats; A Canton street (x2); Passenger junks; Junks in Hong Kong; Guardians of a Chinese temple; More guardians; The family Buddha in the Temple of the Five Hundred Genii, Canton; A Canton street; A Chinese house; Outside a Mandarin's house Canton; Inside the Yamen Canton; A Chinese Guardian; The Tropics. The Peak, January 15th & 16th 1893. Mount Austin's Hotel. 25 Degrees Fahrenheit all trees, grass etc. covered with ice; On the side of the Peak during the Frost; Peak Observatory during the frost; High West in the frost January 1893; Peak Observatory during the frost; Icicles; Peak Garden frozen up; On the hillside, January 15th 1893.

* Free Fronts & Autographs. A large album containing approximately 1,000 free fronts and autograph specimens, mostly early 19th century, the first leaf with cut signatures of Charles II, George I, George II (x2), George III, the album then partly arranged by occupation including Archbishops, Chancellors and Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons, the Prime Ministers Robert Peel, Duke of Wellington and Lord Sidmouth, etc., mostly pasted 10 to a page or in similar numbers and on rectos and versos of paper leaves throughout, autograph letters of Lord Ribblesdale and the Archbishop of York tipped in at rear, plus a ticket for Thomas Lawston to attend the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey, 28 June 1838 and a British Musuem Reading Room ticket, plus 4 envelopes with postage stamps (2 x Penny Red and 2 x two pence Blue), a partial alphabetical index part way through the album, armorial bookplate of Henry Roundell, stitching partly broken and contents loose in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, worn, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The Rev. Henry Roundell (1824-1864) was Vicar of Buckingham from 1854 to 1862. He was married to Laura Frances Cornish in 1881, her signature appearing on the bookplate and dated 1880. Provenance: By direct family descent.Many addresses of the recipients are in Yorkshire as the Roundell home, Gledstone House, was in the deanery of Craven near Skipton, West Yorkshire.

* Europe & Middle East. An album containing approximately 200 mounted photographs, c. 1870s, albumen prints, including views in Gibraltar, Naples, Pompeii, Malta, Venice, Alexandria, Cairo, Suez Canal, Jerusalem and Palestine, a mixture of views, architecture and people, mostly 17 x 24 cm and similar sizes, mounted singly and as pairs to rectos and versos of thin card leaves with ink captions to mounts, contemporary half morocco, worn, folio, together with an unrelated later broken scrap album with photographs, c. 1900-1910, including 8 photographs of the Kingston earthquake of April 1907, 18 x 23 cm, a few European photographs of Bruges, etc., plus ephemera relating to Royal Ascot races 1910, concert programmes with performers including Nellie Melba, Caruso, etc., a programme for a boxing tournament in Le Tourquet, a ticket to the central criminal court for Mr C.F. Gill KC, representing the Crown in the case against Mr Robert S. Sievier in 1908, contemporary half morocco, broken and worn, lacks spine, oblong folioQTY: (2)

Ceylon. A scrap album containing a small selection of sketches, watercolours and prints relating to Ceylon, plus varied other miscellaneous prints, 19th-century, laid or tipped onto approximately 110 leaves, including a watercolour courtroom scene in Ceylon, 27.5 x 40 cm, pen and ink sketch of a Ceylonese family with the family members captioned to lower margin including Mohamad Meydy..., and also captioned 'Ceylon Petition presented to E[dmund]. R[awdon]. Power', 16.5 x 28 cm, 10 large pencil sketches of various views at Scegiri dated 1853, approximately 41.5 x 26 cm (landscape & portrait formats), watercolour of a Ceylonese single mast ship by F. Caley, June 1855, with slightly torn central fold, 31 x 48.5 cm, together with other mounted/tipped-in prints relating to Ceylon including lithograph view of Mawanella Bridge by W. Purser after J. Braybrooke, engraved view of The Cinnamon Gardens near Columbo, plus a Mulready letter sheet addressed to David Power Esq., Sloane St, Knightsbridge, bearing postmark Maidstone May 24 1840, and with numerous other lithographs, engravings, etchings, and few drawings, watercolours, botanical prints, caricatures and humorous prints etc., numerous Victorian scraps and cuttings including many from Punch etc., including 'Birds Eye View of Brighton from the New Church, at the Entrance of the Town. Including the Marine Palace of Her Majesty Victoria the First, drawn, engraved and published by Jno. Bruce, Brighton, Novr. 1839', with contemporary hand-colouring, torn to lower blank margin, 29.5 x 42.5 cm, two humorous etchings by William Heath depicting the Duke of Wellington 'A Sketch of the Row in Parliament Street' and 'Termination of the Row in Parliament Street Plate 2', first plate with slight loss to lower right, both with original hand-colouring, approx. 24 x 35 cm, 19th-century half sheep, worn, large folio (52 x 32 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Edmund Rawdon Power (1837-1860) edited one of the earliest literary periodicals in Ceylon. He originally arrived in Ceylon as Private Secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton and was the first to introduce shorthand to Ceylon. He was also instrumental in starting a quarterly magazine 'The Ceylon Miscellany' which included a series of 'Letters on Colonial Policy' written by the Governor under the nom de plume of 'Philalethes'. Power succeeded Charles Reginald Buller as Government Agent of Kandy, where he proved very popular. He married into a literary family, his wife being the daughter of William Jerdan, Editor of the London Literary Gazette. Power is also known for taking a wager that he would walk from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya, a distance of approximately 50 miles, in 16 consecutive hours. The odds were against him, but he was successful, with an hour and twenty minutes remaining.

* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort of King George VI, The Queen Mother. Document Signed, 'Elizabeth R', St James's, 17 February 1975, a pre-printed pardon with typed insertions, concerning Frances Gardner who was convicted of causing a motor vehicle to wait in the restricted street and fined £4, pardoning him and remitting unto him the fine, signed upper right in black ink and signed by Princess Anne, ('Anne') in blue ink beneath, red wafer seal to upper left corner, 2 pages, folioQTY: (1)

* Italy. An album containing 90 mounted photographs, late 19th and early 20th century, including 60 gelatin silver print photographs of Rome (1 two-part panorama, 60 x 17.5 cm), plus 16 albumen prints of Milan (2 colour tinted) and 14 albumen prints of Certosa di Pavia, images mostly architectural views, some sculptures and artwork, 20 x 25 cm and similar, mounted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with neat calligraphic ink captions in French to mounts, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, a little rubbed, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* Somerset Lead Mining. Manuscript copy of the Harptree Court Mendip Mining Laws, comprising dated 1673, manuscript leaves on paper comprising flyleaf (manuscript to both sides, bearing name George Mathairn?), 2 index leaves (of orders numbered 1-62 only), 15 leaves (orders 1-63), 2 leaves at rear inverted, each leaf (except flyleaf) with manuscript to rectos only, final leaf of orders with the signature John Bates written beneath law no. 63, flyleaf and index leaves torn with loss, some damp-staining, toning, dust-soiling and marks, edges to leaves frayed with some tears, original vellum wrappers of reused 16th/early 17th-century vellum manuscript, soiled and worn, slim folioQTY: (1)NOTE:This manuscript copy of the Harptree Court mining laws comprises code or orders such as Allowance for Workmen, Hearths and cleansing Houses, Fellony how punished by the Law, Minery Courts and Jurys, Burial of Men caught under the earth, For corrupt dealing by Arbitrators and Jurys, Keeping the Sabath, Detainers of Wages duly earned censured, etc.The Mendip lead mining laws were largely established following a 15th-century dispute. Orders or code were compiled at the Mineral Court held by the Bishop of Bath and Wells 21 Sep 1612 and the Royal Charter (28 Mar 1615) to the bishop confirming grants made by King Richard I and King John. An earlier set of mining laws began in 1554 at Chewton, with the Harptree Code commencing in 1633. The last order in the Bishop's code is dated 1675, but the Chewton and Harptree series of laws were maintained until the end of the third quarter of the 18th century, possibly due to favourable mining conditions continuing for longer, but new orders were made less frequently in the 18th-century than previously in the 17th-century. One of the main causes of the decline of lead mining on Medip was the lack of access to retrievable ore near the surface, and the difficulty of reaching deeper deposits owing to the flooding of the pits. Also by the 18th century, miners were searching for various other materials in the area in addition to lead, including calamine, manganese and ochre. Refer to Mendip Mining Laws and Forest Bounds, by J.W. Gough, London: Printed for subscribers only, 1931.

Far East Travel Diary. A manuscript travel diary of James Bowman Sharp, 2 volumes, 1862-1912, written in a clear hand in italic script on both sides of approximately 350 leaves, occasional watercolour and or ink vignette illustrations throughout, running heads in red to upper pages, content pages to rear of both volumes, volume 1 (1862-1877) including three years spent in China and possibly witnessing the end of the Taiping Revolution, Sharp makes several comments on the proximity of the Rebels '22 October - Troops left this place to take Kah-ding occupied by the rebels…’, he comments on the storming of the Soochow [Suzhou] 'November1863 – Shoochow taken by the Imperialists – The Zutai(?) appears to have treacherously cut off the heads of 5 rebel wings, who surrendered on condition of being treated as prisoner of war…’, he visits Shanghai which remains dangerous and violent ‘7 March 1864, Lisa(?) was this evening shot in the Maloo (Nanking Road) by a Chinaman. 9 March, Poor Lisa died today… another attack has been made on a policeman who had one of his fingers cut off’, he later comments '18 May Lisa’s murderer was decapitated today near the South Gate of the City…’, Sharp sails for home August 1865, stopping on the return leg in Ceylon, India, Yemen and Egypt, volume 2 (1878-1912) including travels in Algiers, Constantine, Carthage, France, Germany, England, etc., carte-de-visite photograph of Sharp mounted to free front endpaper of volume 1 and bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary half sheep, volume 1 with JBS monogram and date in black ink to upper board, slightly rubbed, small folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Little is known about James Bowman Sharp (1838-1914), who clearly travelled extensively up until 1879, when he married Mary Sharp and started a family.

* Far East. A very large album containing approximately 420 photographic prints, relating to the voyage of HMS Hawkins to China Station, 1919-21, gelatin silver prints with numbers in the negative, images 8 x 12.5 cm, corner-mounted with thread on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with numbered printed captions pasted beneath, covering the journey from Chatham dockyard to Malta, Port Said, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, and China, including Wei-Hei-Wei, numerous images of ships and sea scenes, activities on board and onshore, etc., a few photographs now loose or missing, contemporary gilt-titled lacquered boards with inset oval image of Hawkins to upper cover, spine missing and contents broken with many leaves loose, thick folio (34 x 44 x 17 cm)QTY: (1)

* Milstein (Nathan, 1903-1992). Russian-American violinist. Rare and important Autograph Music Manuscript of an apparently unpublished and undocumented realisation for violin and piano, of the Sonata in D minor Op 2 no 3 by Antonio Vivaldi, written in blue ink on printed music paper, with some autograph corrections in red pen and pencil, the full title, autographed in Milstein’s hand, being ‘Sonata III’ / re minore / Antonio Vivaldi / Realizzazione N. Milstein / 1963’, four movements: Preludio (Andante), Corrente, Adagio and Giga (Allegro), 5 pages on 3 stitched bifolia, folio (35 x 27 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:This highly important manuscript highlights Milstein’s level of musicianship. He is not only outstanding in his understanding of violin technique, but is also adept at ‘realising’ the keyboard part, so vital to the success of baroque sonata composition and performance. Famous for his interpretations of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto - as well as having given the first performance, aged 10, of the Glazunov Violin Concerto with the composer conducting - Milstein’s career lasted 72 years. He wrote a number of transcriptions and realisations throughout his life and this particular one is apparently unpublished and unrecorded. It is not mentioned in any of the available Milstein literature and is specifically not mentioned in Milstein’s autobiography From Russia to the West: The Musical Memoirs and Reminiscences of Nathan Milstein which was co-written with Solomon Volkov.

OKUBI-E - PORTRÄTS IM JAPANISCHEN FARBHOLZSCHNITT. Herkunft: Rose Hempel - Belser Verlag Stuttgart. Datierung: 1988. Meister/Entwerfer: Nr. 143 von 980 Exemplaren. Technik: Vielfarbendruck. Beschreibung: 13 Original- Reproduktionen klassischer Holzschnitte aus Japan. In original Mappe mit Beitext. Groß-Folio. Maße: Blattmaß: 38x28cm. Provenienz:Privatsammlung Rheinland. Asiatische KunstErläuterungen zum Katalog

Various books, Webster's Dictionary, Reports of the Juries 1851, and various others, Folio type, Mamlux, Jerusalem, etc. (5)

QUENTIN BLAKE (BRITISH, B. 1932)Kneeling figuresigned 'Q Blake' (upper left)pastel and wash37 x 50.5cmARRProvenanceAcquired in October 1993;The Estate of Russell HobanFootnoteBlake illustrated a number of Hoban's books, including the Folio Society edition of 'Riddley Walker' (1980)

Stubbs, George, "The Anatomy of the Horse including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands", folio, written and illustrated 1766, printed by J.Purser for the author, containing twenty-one plates, the folio 61cm wide, 51cm high

° ° Hasted, Edward - Maps companion to The History and Topographical survey of the County of Kent, folio, half calf, some fore-edges trimmed, 1778-99. Sold not subject to return.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° [Mavor, William Fordyce] - Martyn, William Frederick] - A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature, 2 vols. in one, folio, calf, with 100 (TO BE VERIFIED) hand-coloured engraved plates, lacking title, front board and early leaves detached, Harrison, London, 1785***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° LINCOLNSHIRE: Wild, Charles - An Illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. plan and 15 other plates, subscribers list; newly rebound cloth and printed label, gauffered edges, folio. published by the Author, 1819***CONDITION REPORT***new e/ps., clean title and text, plan foxed, other plates with foxing, etc. mostly confined to margins (3), iii, 38pp.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° KENT: The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: illustrated by topographical, historical, and critical notes....Kent. pictorial engraved and printed titles, folded map and 64 plates; bound with: (The Same) - Essex volume (by Thomas Wright). pictorial engraved and printed titles, folded map and 52 plates, near contemp. red half morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges and e/ps., folio. 1834***CONDITION REPORT***Kent - engr. title soiled and on some other plts., with others clean; this vol. undated; Essex - some foxing, but plts. mostly clean, but text offsetting; nb. engr. titles as 'Virtues Picturesque Beauties....'; almost all plts. with 2 illus.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° KENT, TUNBRIDGE WELLS: Amsinck, Paul - Tunbridge Wells, and Neighbourhood, illustrated by a series of etchings, and historical descriptions..... 31 plates and 12 text engravings, subscribers list, half title, original paper boards and printed label, later cloth spine, uncut, folio. 1810***CONDITION REPORT***Leather spine label, staining most plt. margins - but surfaces and text mostly good; 1899 ownership on p/down. (12), 184pp. the plts. were engraved by Letitia Byrne (after the author)PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° Johnson, Samuel - A Dictionary of the English Language ... To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar ... 5th edition, 2 vols. titles in red and black; contemp. tree calf, rebacked with panelled spines, preserving the original red and green gilt morocco labels, tall folio***CONDITION REPORT***new e/ps.; intermittent light damp (?) spotting, although leaves mostly crisp; v.1 only sl. marks on title and v.2 inoffensive light stain at edges, v.1 lower margin sm. wormholes, small tracks 12U2-12Z2; v2 - marked spotting upper margin 23E (V), some crease marks at end 30U-31E, markedly final 3 leaves, rh. top. corner crease 24H1; nil after e/ps. before titles / after text, both vols; few scratch marks both vols., vol.1 some cover wear and calf renewals on lower; overall a good and attractive set, complete with the prelims vol.1; d-col. printing.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° KENT: Ramsgate Harbour and Sandwich Haven - 4 Acts of Parliament bound together; 1747, 1761, 1797 and 1810. old morocco, sm.8vo.; Keate, George - Sketches from Nature...in a Journey to Margate... to which is now added, Memoirs of the Life of the Author. 5th edition. pictorial vignette title, 2 plates and text engravings, newly rebound gilt lettered cloth, 12mo.1802; An Act to enable the Pier Wardens of the Town of Margat (sic)...more effectually to recover the ancient and accustomary Droits, for the support and Maintenance of the said Pier. (?1722); bound with: an Act for repairing or rebuilding the Pier adjoining to the Harbour of Broadstairs, in the Isle of Thanet...; later binder's cloth, folio. (?1792); Martin, Capt. Kenneth Beacham - Oral Traditions of the Cinque Ports and their Localities...original printed wrappers. 1832. (4)***CONDITION REPORT***Ramsgate - some spotting but reasonable, upper joint weak; nos. 1 and 2 reprinted 1791 and 1795; Keate - new e/ps., some stains at end, mostly clean, neat archive paper repair to title at gutter and last leaf; Margat - gen. (sessional) titles present, mostly black letter; pp. 79-87 and 1937-1976PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

° ° Thoyras, Rapin de and Tindell, Nicholas (translator) - The History of England, vols 3 and 4 (part 2) only, with folding plates, Knapton, London, 1744-47; White, Kennet - A Complete History of England with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens, 2nd edition, 3 vols, folio, calf, London, 1719 and The Book of Common Prayer and the Administration of the Sacraments…According to the use of the Church of England, folio, calf, front board detached, Thomas Baskett, London, 1754 (6) All sold with all faults, not subject to return.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.